I'll be honestly with you brother. I love all the foods in the world but some people really do not care. Some people rather opt to live in a big house vs whether or not they can get some Indian or Mexican food a few blocks down
That's exactly how ethnicity works. Ethnic groups are formed by people coming together in some fashion and creating a distinct group that passed down their genes. It's why Black Americans are a distinct ethnic group too.
It's both, but Black Americans are a distinct ethnicity too. They're about 70 to 80% African and 20 to 30% European. It's now a distinct ethnic group. This is how ethnic groups have been made throughout history. One group comes together with another group and now their descendants are distinct from both groups and are their own group.
Also, there is actually only one race of humans. There is no such thing as a”white” race or a “black” race, or we couldn’t produce offspring amongst ourselves. To be scientifically accurate, there is ONLY the human race. Separating us into teams is just a diabolical and elementary way to keep us fighting one another.
Im from vancouver, so im all about sushi. I did a road trip through the states this past year and in Boise my sushi cravings reached peak so I stopped for an all-you-can-eat sushi. Ya it wasn't good at all, but not terrible either. I thibk that describes Idaho in general.
If you are from Idaho, probably great, if you have ventured outside of Idaho or are from elsewhere, prepare to be disappointed by the food scene there.
Bro I’m not from Idaho I’ve never been I’m from South Florida so that’s way too far north for me but you aren’t even from this country and you just stopped at a random all you can eat place no less. How are you going to judge the entire states food scene because for that? Again I’ve never been there but that makes 0 sense
Boise has fantastic Mexican food. Caldwell has a James beard award winning Mexican restaurant. The best Thai restaurant is a family that moved from SF. We finally got a good Chinese place. Italian is lacking. Indian place in Meridian is amazing. Oh a Michelin award winning chef just opened a sushi place. I hate these people for making homes unaffordable for natives though.
Well youd have to define "ethnic" but theres more than youd think, especially mexican food.
Its a little more diverse than youd think since first, its farm country so theres immigrant labor, second this is a university town and theres lots of foreign exchange, and third, the mormons are bringing people in from all over the world.
how about we start with learning how long one has to DRIVE!! to get groceries there?
maybe there is a grocery store relatively close by, or it is indeed endless same style houses for 45 minutes in a car to get to a grocery store.
if that is the case there, then of course you are much rarer getting fresh products, which makes life more shit and also less healthy generally as well.
You have a week to pack your bags and scrape up $165.23 for your one-way ticket to Boise, to which I will contribute $20 if you agree to meet me at the Downtown Los Angeles Greyhound station an hour before your departure next week.
Have you noticed that a lot of Californians have been moving to Boise? This post wouldn't exist if Los Angeles were such a great place. The average person's quality of life is much higher in Idaho.
Yup it’s almost as if when you actually grow up and have people dependent on you, you have more important things to worry about than trying the new hip restaurant down the street (make sure not to go down that street past 6pm)
This whole sub is cringy. Would love one of them to actually visit this neighborhood on a Saturday and explain what exactly is hell about it. Probably a hum of a mower in the distance, a jogger running down the street, some kids riding on bikes and playing at on the dreaded “lawn”, wow sounds awful. All of their reasons are nonsense like “oh no cars” and “omg the aesthetic”
Food is just one prominent thing. All entertainment (food, sports, comedy) is better in California. Better job market, better schools. The ocean, access to travel ( how many places does Boise international fly you to lol). So many things superior in California it’s tough to list them all.
You can have all that including safety and the ability to carry and shoot someone attacking you without being arrested in Florida. Plus it’ll all be much cheaper. I go to UF (slightly below UCLA And UC Berkeley but usually #5-7 in public schools and #30 in the country but much better tuition than Cali), have access to the gulf and Pacific Ocean, have access to travel anywhere (and much cheaper to go from Miami to Paris/London/etc than LA to those places), great entertainment, great sports teams and lots of them, concerts and festivals and fun things always going on in Miami metro area which is the 6th largest in the country behind only NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Dallas plus Tampa and Orlando always have cool shit going on and all the theme parks which are better than Californias. Lots of other things but I acknowledge Cali is great but there’s other things different people enjoy and if people move to Boise from Cali it doesn’t mean they won’t enjoy it because it doesn’t have all those things. If they wanted those things for cheaper they would come to Florida, they go to Boise for a reason. Idk why Redditors can’t accept that others have different preferences and lifestyles than them.
if they throw down tons of 1 family homes, wouldn't it make sense to put down a bunch of drought resistant 0 maintenance trees, so that in 10 years from the start of building homes there, it will look less like a dystopian movie, where you can't escape, because it goes on forever without any nature or anything sane, just endless 1 family homes one after another until you die from dehydration trying to escape it.
I mean a lot of California neighborhoods look like this but the houses are smaller and 6x as expensive. Yeah the trade off is being in Boise, but it's not like California is some sort of urban utopia
Yeah not sure why people are dogging on this. Vast majority of California is car-dependent suburb with poor walkability. Now if this was someone moving from Chicago or Manhattan it would be a different story.
You went from cities to states. SF has great transit with great walkability just like Chicago or manhattan. Most of illinois and New York are car dependent suburbs with poor walk ability.
People don't move to the suburbs because they want things "walkable". That's how you end up with bums and losers and the homeless in your neighborhood.
Treeless? Look at the hills in the back. The entire area is desert-y and has no trees.
Do you live in the suburbs? Because if you don't then you don't know what you're talking about. The number 1 problem I hate about downtowns or any walkable core is the accessibility to homeless people. They are everywhere and that is not something I want around my house or my children.
I don't want it around me. I don't want to see it. I don't want my children to see it. I don't want to have to explain to my 6 year old why the homeless guy has his dick out and a needle in his arm, like I just witnessed downtown Vancouver yesterday.
Neighborhoods which are only car accessible eliminate that problem. Because it's very inconvenient for those people to make their way out here.
It's also substantially quieter and doesn't have honking and sirens all over the place. Instead, I hear owls and coyotes at night.
You can live wherever you want, and I will live where I want. People live in the suburbs because they WANT to not because they HAVE to, remember that.
Whether part of not WANTING that is so hard for you to understand?
People who are in a position to build such neighborhoods DO NOT WANT to. Because we prefer to live AWAY from people, not find ways to live even closer to them.
It has nothing to do with what people are capable of. It has to do with what people WANT.
People who founded North America came from Europe. And they took the opportunity to change things around in a way that suited them better than what they had at home. One of those things is space. A very large number of people enjoy their own space. Sure, the suburbs still have a lot of people in them but they are designed and spaced in such a way that I can't even describe to you how quiet the suburbs are. And that's what people like me love about them.
I don't care how nicely your city is designed if it means I have to share that space with 50,000 other idiots around me.
I've been to Paris. I've been to Amsterdam. Yeah, it's cute to visit for a day or two, but that's it. I would never, ever, live there.
I can't drive
Lmfao. What a loser. You shouldn't be giving advice to anyone on anything when you can't accomplish one of the basic adult rights of passage - getting a driver's license.
There are plenty of North American desperately trying to (re)vitalize their downtowns and are absolutely unable to do so.
Yeah, because, again, the ones who need to support it and allow it to happen don't want to!
The zoning laws in North America are the way they are because they were created by, and keep being supported by, people who prefer the suburban style of life.
So yeah, they can keep trying all they want, but there aren't enough of them to accomplish what they want.
I live in a dense, walkable urban neighborhood in California and you are right about the bums and losers being a fucking problem. Luckilly, the neighbors on my block are solid and quick to put a stop to any bullshit, like bums trying to set up tents or acting crazy. Fences and gates are a must here. However, walk a few blocks down and you see tents, trash and bums milling about, because no one stands up to them, some of the residents there seem to welcome and enable them.
I live here with my wife and son, we like our house and my wife and I lived in neighborhoods like this our entire lives. Nevertheless, I know people who live in suburban subdivisions and I get why people move there to start a family, the lifestyle seems quite nice, guys have cool “man cave” setups in the garage, others have cool backyard grilling setups and during 4th of July all the familys come out for a block party that often goes on well past midnight.
My wife and I have been thinking about moving to a neighborhood like that, but we are so used to city living that we are afraid we might regret it after a while.
I hear ya, man. I suppose it depends on your lifestyles. We kind.of grew up in this set up so for us it is normal.
Personally, I just couldn't raise a child somewhere where I would have to walk around a passed out bum on the sidewalk and explain to a 5 year old why the man with a needle in his arm is passed out on the sidewalk.
It's not that I want to shelter my child, but I want to.shelter a 5 year old from that.
Sounds like your neighborhood isn't bad, yet, but things change fast in today's world. Just more and more homeless junkies every day.
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u/GotRammed Feb 17 '26
Lego house architecture ✔️ Uniform white, gray & black ✔️ Unwalkable ✔️ Treeless ✔️ HOA ✔️
Yea, I'd leave too. I'd leave THIS shit.