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   Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:16:03 JST Pissed Hippo
   Suburbs aren't all bad, a ton of them are really nice. A ton of them are soul-destroying daylight atrocities though
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     نبي الحيوان (mono@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:18:05 JST نبي الحيوان

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     @sun i like subarus too
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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:20:24 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     @sun Americans championing "individuality" when they live in shit like this. :blobfoxgooglymlem:
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     Mfloppa (xmediumxfloppax@annihilation.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:53:37 JST Mfloppa

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     @tk @sun because one individual property group owns all that for private profit. :gendo_hmm:
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     mothball蛾玉 (西洋巣酸の木) (moth_ball@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:54:22 JST mothball蛾玉 (西洋巣酸の木)

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:
     @tk @sun the worst part is that this is the density despite there being a wasteland in all directions for hundreds of miles
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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 02:07:32 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     • mothball蛾玉 (西洋巣酸の木)

     @moth_ball @sun Whenever I think about that, I’m reminded of this gated community in the fucking middle of nowhere in the Cascade foothills. :blobfoxdisapprove:

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     Account: Politics (union@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 04:36:45 JST Account: Politics

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     @sun Every time you post symptoms of worsening condo-dweller degeneration, I'm going to bring out this:
     
     "But cars didn't shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We're way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy's lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren't forced to surrender, we were able to retreat."
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     Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 04:36:49 JST Pissed Hippo

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     @union I agree with you
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 04:44:58 JST Nudhul

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     @tk @sun never live in a "development"
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:15:45 JST feld

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     @tk @sun
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:21:06 JST feld

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     • mothball蛾玉 (西洋巣酸の木)
     @moth_ball @tk @sun
     
     people like to look at a map of all the empty space in the USA and say "why don't people live there, look at all that empty space!"
     
     No infrastructure.
     
     Someone's gotta build the roads to get there.
     
     Someone's gotta determine that there's a water table that can support the community or they need to pipe in water.
     
     Someone's gotta run electricity out there.
     
     And the communication infra of fiber and cell towers.
     
     The workers kinda need a place to live and eat and sleep when they're building it out way far away from established civilization.
     
     It's just not as straightforward as people think.
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     Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 10:04:32 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @sun The places where I spent most of my formative years are considered suburbs of Los Angeles. It was great: people there had access to anything worth doing or seeing in Los Angeles, without being everyone being crowded into little apartments with no yards. We weren't in some far out place like Mecca or Thermal (both near the Salton Sea, hours of drive time away) or even as far out as San Bernardino and Riverside, but we avoided many of the bad things about cities.
     
     I'd guess that most of the things people blame on "suburbs" are in places so far away from associated urban areas that they would have been called "exburbs". Because there's nothing about any urban area that would make me want to live inside the city rather than in an adjacent suburb. But if the suburb is an exburb that requires hours of commute time each day, I'd rather move closer.