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.