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@deangraves7462

16 күн бұрын

Milkman Conspiracy in Psychonauts.

@xavierpalajeet

15 күн бұрын

commie propaganda got in your head, it's over

@xavierpalajeet

15 күн бұрын

commie

@KuleGuy27

14 күн бұрын

With NordVPN, I can pretend to be in Japan. Now I can tell people that I live in Japan!

@PepperSprayed-bc5de

13 күн бұрын

First, can we scale the "creepy" metric by starting with the AI-generated animated image narrating this video? "Creepy" OFF the meter . . . (And why are its lips glistening wet?) Combining a whole lotta' concepts that don't apply to the thesis, buttressed by pop-psychology and a lack of understanding that America was built as a "car culture" post-World War 2. The can-do country. The better-living-through-chemistry country. New. Shiny. Convenient. Efficient. The whole point of the suburbs was to be away from the hustle, the bustle of the city, the urban areas, where the only sounds you heard on the weekend were your neighbors' lawnmowers and children playing. An oasis away from it all . . . That was the intent. A feature, not a bug. Yes, there is sprawl. But that is changing in many areas. (Not addressed.) This creepy animated narrator also doesn't make any distinction between/among older 'burbs and newer 'burbs, east coast v. west coast. Down with parking lots. Uh, okay . . . Now, we have to convince tens of millions of people to forgo the independence of their own mode of transportation, and trade them in for the noble "efficiency" of more rail (something of which I am in favor, actually.) And....this will be done overnight? Subsidized by the federal, state or local governance? As they say, "It's complicated." I found the example of Japanese "suburbs" precious. Truth be known, there are no genuine SUB-urban areas in Japan. It is a nation of 126-million people in an area the size of the State of Florida. Of course, they're going to be more "connected." They have no choice but to learn to create spaces with more crammed into it. The same can be written about much of Western Europe. They simply do not have the space. We do, in the United States. There are more issues I could counter. Suffice it with this video serving as yet another down-with America polemic, and all of the propaganda therein. Pretty tedious stuff. And, of course, there is never any room for improvement or optimism. Nope. Don't fit da narrative. More doom. More gloom. Aw, shucks . . . In short., not worth any serious consideration. (And I LOVED the jab, "Freedom, right?". Does this ghostly avatar wish to discuss 'conformist culture' in the United States as compared to Asia? Truly? We could be here for days . . . )

It’s also the lack of trees in all of the images you depicted

@auntiegravity7713

12 күн бұрын

THIS!

@josephang9927

12 күн бұрын

exactly. plenty of hoods have trees and diverse plants and look fine

@robertd9850

12 күн бұрын

We have lots of trees in our suburban neighborhood.

@papi654

12 күн бұрын

factsssss

@robertflanagan6168

11 күн бұрын

I live in a subdivision and they cut all the trees along the road because someone scratched their truck 😖 in Ireland there is a tidy towns competition and people take pride in trying to out do other towns by cleaning up, painting and planting flowers etc

Many of these places make me question "is it legal to walk there?".

@noahsev12

16 күн бұрын

i cant drive so i walk most places and it feels like im doing something wrong when im just trying to walk to my dentist appointment 😭

@LolonMatinez

15 күн бұрын

Yes, the police have stopped me a couple of times in these places because they found it suspicious that I was walking

@xavierpalajeet

15 күн бұрын

commie propaganda got in your head, it's over

@michah7214

15 күн бұрын

​@@LolonMatinezin the suburbs?? Lots of people walk and bike ride in suburban neighbors because the streets are wide, there's little to no parking on the road so there's always people walking or jogging.

@michah7214

15 күн бұрын

​@@LolonMatinezin the suburbs? Where?

How can people in USA continue to beleive they live in the most free place in the world.

@Owellywell

Күн бұрын

I think ppl are waking up but corporations dont want them to

@NERO_MYBAND

Күн бұрын

I’m American, and I don’t believe we are free, honestly we are far from it compared to how it was.

@tonyye8680

Күн бұрын

Most american suburbs don't look like this. People choose wherever they wanna live and these suburbs are usually cheap.

@Owellywell

Күн бұрын

@@tonyye8680 cheap? Thats extremely false. Property taxes alone are a fortune.

@adventurefighter7501

Күн бұрын

Fr, literally every thing you “own” is rented. And you can’t even outsmart that statement by for example taking a rock in your backyard claiming it’s yours and hiding it, nah if they really wanna take it from you, they WILL take it from you. It’s not yours. Nothing is.. except your own body and mind.

I grew up in Los Angeles. My parents who are now both over 75 years old said to me that they used to ride streetcars all over Los Angeles, AS CHILDREN, in the early 1950s in the middle of central L.A., but they disappeared... seemingly all at once. I asked my mom, "well, what happened?" She said they were replaced with buses and more highways were built (destroying many vibrant neighborhoods in the process). I later come to find out that the General Motors company had a nationwide conspiracy to get more people into cars and to buy their vehicles, so they bought up streetcar systems all over the U.S. and replaced them with big, gas-guzzling buses. When the buses proved inefficient in your daily life, you needed to buy a car. The car became de-facto "required" as a means of convenience, plus it was aspirational to own one (along with a suburban home, the car was a sign of "making it and part of achieving the American Dream", riding the bus or taking public transit in many towns was then viewed as socially "undesirable" and "inconvenient" -- and in many cases even derelict). Of course, car ownership shot up. However, the U.S. government FINED General Motors and ruled what they did as a conspiracy. But by then it was already too late. Also General Motors was one of the main lobbies behind the Highway Act which built more and more roads throughout America for its vehicles and to drive sales, under the guise of "convenience," "efficiency" and "modernization". Thanks, General Motors. Oh yeah, the U.S. gov't also bailed out this company not too long ago.

@cathylindeboo.9598

2 күн бұрын

That's really depressing!!

@nonamenoname661

Сағат бұрын

You are correct General Motors (Ford) did, as others in the car manufacturers, conspire to bring street cars to their end. They cited reasons such as labour costs, the inflexibility of the system to adapt to growing areas of the community, scheduling of services which provided the ideal excuse to replace them with buses instead of providing an integrated public transport system. The fact is when big business is involved and there is lame efforts by government's to "punish" their friends it is only tokenism and having to "appease the public" the reality is, money and profits, hidden agendas and personal interests which are always political (like winning the next election) will always have priority over any public consultation. The whole process is a sham, be seen to being to the right thing, even though the decision has already been made.

Agreed. I ride my bike to school everyday and it feels so boring tbh. It feels like a desolate wasteland, and also because I'm the ONLY ONE riding a bike. It definitely feels like I'm in a zombie movie or smth. It truly sucks, in no civilized society would you have to drive to a grocery store and not walk there. It seems that the country has been more about making money than putting health first. "Kids, be thankful for your freedom, now get in the car" (I stole this comment)

@spectre3492

15 күн бұрын

i feel the same way about certain suburbs. one thing that makes it much worse is if there aren't a lot of trees around. in order to make a neighborhood feel normal there has to be a lot of trees otherwise its like you're on another planet

@PelosiStockPortfolio

15 күн бұрын

In LA riding your bike to school can become a high speed chase at any moment... very exciting

@cloudy1723

15 күн бұрын

Congrats your the main character, truly

@xavierpalajeet

15 күн бұрын

commie propaganda got in your head it's over

@darrenjackson8854

15 күн бұрын

Seems? Nobody gives a fuck about me or you anymore. (To specify, not literally nobody but. 99% of infrastructure ignores normal citizens now.)

Having grown up in the USA, this video precisely describes how I felt about these places. Its like these places are not places at all like Not Just Bikes says. Being stuck at home feels like being stuck on a remote island surrounded by an inhospitable concrete wasteland. The only practical way to get around is to get in that metal box on wheels. Oh, and you must ask mommy and daddy to take you pretty much anywhere, but to where if everything is just copy-paste chain stores and restaurants.

@diesunddasDE

15 күн бұрын

very much understandable. The only option I guess is to move somewhere else. I believe, there are anyway dozens of places in the US which rather remember you of European or at least more beautiful places.

@erikmorales17

15 күн бұрын

I’d walk to a 711 near me 😂😂 I’d go out and train ⚽️ everyday 😂😂 I love the suburbs it’s the best. Losers like u stay behind while I get better

@Bob-ze9id

14 күн бұрын

amen. love to drive but hate having to have to drive. suburbs tend to have no souls in part because they have no history and there is little or nothing to individualize them. while there are solid places to live in usa....the primary reason i stayed in montreal quebec having also grownup in the usa is it is a city as a city should be. rare in north america. i have had a car more often than not but its great not being absolutely dependent on it. here there is a time for driving but also a time for walking, subway, cycling etc.

@nilmerg

13 күн бұрын

​@@diesunddasDE the issue is that places with better quality of life are likely more expensive compared to where one is currently living in, making it more difficult to save to reasonably afford a move. there's many aspects that make it ridiculously difficult for many to even begin considering a move.

@nickruscigno3633

13 күн бұрын

It’s better than living in the city with the lost and soul less

Holy shit… this explains why people from the suburbs always act like they’re fearful/vulnerable. Like a mouse in the middle of an open field where there is nowhere to run or hide to

@cassandraknight8804

11 күн бұрын

Good explanation

@nataliekhanyola5669

9 күн бұрын

Pretty much. Plus they're all on xanax.

@juugerjuuger3141

9 күн бұрын

@@nataliekhanyola5669LMOOO reading this while in Xanax

@joylox

9 күн бұрын

This makes me appreciate my area. Our suburbs have trees, gardens, trails, rivers, and small stores and businesses you can walk or bike to, depending on how far the street goes back. It's getting worse, but I'm in a good spot. I've walked along a wooded trail to physio, a local grocery, and pharmacy before. I feel like suburbs on the prairies would be horrible.

@tombailey1059

8 күн бұрын

There's nothing wrong with the suburbs or the people who live there. This is a trope born out of envy.

As someone who lives in suburban Philadelphia I have to say, I cannot relate at all to this video. The town I live definitely has the cookie cutter home style as described in this video, but it does not at all feel “liminal” or “empty” here. The streets are lined with trees and sidewalks, and it is a very active community where I live. People are always walking around outside, walking dogs, riding bikes, etc. There are multiple community parks with biking trails and nature trails within walking distance of my house, as well. We also have state parks that are not too far of a drive away. I guess it’s because the town I live was built before all these zoning laws came into effect is why it feels much different than the places described in this video.

@johna.5150

3 күн бұрын

Yes, there are many great suburbs in America, some very beautiful with trees, and different sorts of architecture, and the majority of Americans live in suburbs, more than rural areas and urban areas combined. and they include many of America's most creative and interesting people, of different ethnicities and occupations. There are also many different sorts of suburbs with different economic classes, ethnic groups, population density, etc. and many of them are not as bland as that youtube seems to believe they are. There is actually in some ways more diversity in some of the suburbs than in some cities or country areas. This youtube has a very limited and ignorant view of the diversity of suburbs. Prejudice against the suburbs is as dumb as ethnic prejudice, or other unnecessary prejudices.

@robs5688

Күн бұрын

The OP is pushing an agenda. He's an in-your-face World Economics Forum agent. He rails against one-family houses, cars, "Everythinbg being spread out" and basically laments people being independent. He's basically promoting the so-called 15-minute city.

@robs5688

Күн бұрын

@@johna.5150 This channel is blatantly pushing an agenda. He's an in-your-face World Economics Forum agent. He rails against one-family houses, cars, "Everything being spread out" and basically laments people being independent. He's basically promoting the so-called 15-minute city, where you will "own nothing and be happy".

its wild when i see rows of homes and they dont even have sidewalks. like, those neighborhoods arent even designed for people.

@shraka

15 күн бұрын

Everything in America is designed for one company or another. Suburbs are designed for the car / oil / tire companies, which in turn helps the large box stores kill off their local competition. Look at almost any bit of design - even stuff that doesn't seem deliberate - and you can find some company that wanted it like that.

@jayeisenhardt1337

14 күн бұрын

Even the ghetto has sidewalks in the US and only time I've seen no sidewalk is way out in the boonies with dirt driveways. Never even met an American who didn't have a sidewalk but sources online say only half of America has them. Half living in the city/suburbia and the other half living in the country so kinda makes sense. It'd be odd for some city people to not have them but not so odd if it's an older city that was used to horses. Ghetto by grandma's house got sidewalks and railroads and the slaughter houses. Much smaller sidewalks but area around there used to be fields and sorta recently that it's now city. 3:16 looked like a german name, then before that the asian place. They got less sidewalk than I've ever seen for a populated area.

@shraka

13 күн бұрын

@@jayeisenhardt1337 80% of Americans live in cities.

@segapena5033

13 күн бұрын

​@@shrakathe 2nd largest city in the country is one massive suburb. The most populated state in the country is one giant suburb. It's not 1930. Most people do not live in "cities" but metro areas which are mostly giant suburbs rather core cities. Actually core city population of the US is probably less than 20%.

@jamesheggs6825

13 күн бұрын

​@@shrakawow!....the real big picture😢

It's so depressing seeing America turn into Corporate America with all its blandness and "productive" aesthetics. Especially how creative everything was back then (I'm 33)

@analyticalhabitrails9857

14 күн бұрын

"Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, were politically engaged populations, legions - everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."

@robertd9850

12 күн бұрын

Demand drives decisions. "Corporate America" makes what people demand. There is no diabolical agenda. Except for tech companies.

@ursulasmith6402

10 күн бұрын

Reagan' BS, he was a complete idiot!

@markstrauss7178

10 күн бұрын

Haha half the houses he filmed are in Canada

@americanegale697

9 күн бұрын

Go to europe and suffer to find a arking spot. This video is dumb af and i grew up in Europe

North American suburbs are worse than most North Americans realize. I grew up in the US, and lived in both semi-rural, and suburban environments, but never realized just how horrible they were until after I moved to Germany then came back to visit the US after several years. Although the German town I live in has only about 40,000 inhabitants, I can still walk out of my home and within 10 minutes and have access to any amenity that I wish: shopping, restaurants, pubs, theaters, outdoor/indoor cafés, bakeries, supermarkets, doctors, train/bus station, etc... just about everything - and that is in this town alone. Most other towns of this size are similar. People are out and about all day and even at night during the warmer months of the year. If I want to visit that next, much larger, town over, I can bike or take a bus, or even drive my car, but I don't have to drive, and prefer not to as driving can be more inconvenient depending on the situation and available parking. Why drive somewhere if you know you might drink a beer? The US is TOTALLY different, and not in a good way. About a year ago I came back to the US to visit my brother who lives in a single home suburb in the Denver area. I was amazed by just the width of the road in front of his house. (Why had I never noticed that before?) It is more than twice the width of the road in front of my home in Germany, which was only built in 2014. One day when my brother was not at home, I figured I would go for a meal in the *closest* nearby restaurant for a hamburger and fries. I figured I may have a beer or two, so I decided to walk rather than drive, which turned out to be a mistake. The walk was nearly an hour in one direction, with a “stroad” and no other pedestrians along the way. On my way home, a nosy cop pulled over along the side of the road and asked me what I was doing walking along the road in the dark. Luckily, he left me alone, but not after admonishing me for not having a way to get home “safely”. It was surely my authentic, yet fake, German accent that got me out of that one. I was in the Denver area again about a month ago, but this time I stayed in a hotel. Looking out my hotel window toward the back of the hotel, all I could see was a huge wall with a highway flyover behind it, and when looking out the front of the hotel from the lobby all one could see was a HUGE parking lot with a strip mall way off in the distance. What does it take to come up with the idea of building a hotel among so much ungodly concrete? This experience was more soul-crushing than the visit to my brother last year. I can now understand why so many Americans unashamedly and casually admit to having “therapists”. I find this all very unfortunate and have decided that I will not be spending the time and money to bring my wife to visit my suburban family members anywhere in the US outside of New York City. Most American cities and towns are just too boring and ugly, and are essentially just huge parking lots. There are plenty of much nicer places to visit here in Europe. If I start feeling nostalgia for America, I can just drive for 20 minutes to Ikea and walk around the parking lot.

@bw2442

7 күн бұрын

It’s all about the money in USA, we have been sold out to corporations by lobbyists and politicians, our new motto is- USA a nation of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations.

@shaunigothictv1003

6 күн бұрын

Excellent analysis@Himmel.

@gibbyjibby0

4 күн бұрын

Your first mistake was living in a suburb in the West

@thunderbird1921

3 күн бұрын

Have you been to some of the smaller, old-fashioned US rural towns? The difference from the suburbs is unbelievable with some of them, a lot of stuff is much better connected and they clearly designed stuff with more people in mind (sidewalks, mixed zoning areas, etc.).

@VictorSanchez11

3 күн бұрын

America was not made for pedestrians AT ALL

i live in a small Texas town, and there are legit NO SIDEWALKS. if you walk anywhere, ppl will look at you from their cars and be like “why are they walking to _____?” because it’s so denormalized here. i used to live in the bay area, where walking anywhere was completely normal because there were actual sidewalks, smaller roads, and smaller parking lots. it’s actually wild how society functions in some places.

Fun fact: even though American suburbs are so sprawl they are actually in total taking less space then parking lots in America - which BTW is another alarming statistics. In total there are 8 parking spaces for each car registered in America. In Europe on avarage there's 0.8 parking space for each car registered.

@baronvonjo1929

15 күн бұрын

And yet I still struggle to find parking sometimes lol. If the car is my only means of getting around then you're going to need parking spaces. If you want to get rid of parking then have reasonable, practical solutions that can be used by people all over the suburban sprawl and not be limited to certain areas.

@ImieNazwiskoOK

15 күн бұрын

@@baronvonjo1929 2 things: -Get rid of needless zoning laws so the layouts of suburbs can improve in future -Public transportation (bike lanes could also be used to for example get to bus stops)

@enjoystraveling

15 күн бұрын

Why is this a fun fact, why isn’t it just a fact?

@ImieNazwiskoOK

15 күн бұрын

@@baronvonjo1929 Re-reading your message in a way you even said it yourself: "If the car is my only means of getting around then you're going to need parking spaces."

@SurfinTheKaliYuga

14 күн бұрын

So less than one…? That sounds woefully below what it should be. We have so many parking spaces because basically everyone here is prosperous enough to be able to afford a vehicle… in part, because our government isn’t taxing 50%+ of our income. Europe isn’t a good place to live. Any of it.

My suburban neighborhood had an internal sidewalk and a community clubhouse and pool that kids can easily get to and use without being exposed to the risk of cars or needing adult supervision. Had it not been for that, I would have been much more miserable growing up.

@laurie7689

12 күн бұрын

I'm sure that your parents paid for that privilege, too, of using the clubhouse and pool.

@ziqi92

12 күн бұрын

@@laurie7689 came included with the HOA fee

@Coffeepanda294

12 күн бұрын

We had a community swimming pool when I lived in Houston, too. I seem to recall we kids in my family basically lived there during summer break. It was a godsend on hot days.

@laurie7689

11 күн бұрын

@@ziqi92 An HOA is not the type of subdivision that I'm ever willing to live in. Those of us that don't live in them, don't have access to clubhouses and community pools, etc. We wouldn't be willing to pay for those amenities either as a community. We'd prefer to have our own individual pools in our own individual yards.

@lovingsunshine3515

10 күн бұрын

And how much is your HOA though? Our friend’s HOA just went from $700 to $1200 a year and that will just keep going up and there is nothing anyone can do about it. In some expensive areas, it’s hundreds of dollars a month 😬 I love my neighborhood. Even though we don’t have a sidewalk, people are very respectful. We drive slow since we have people constantly going for a walk with their dogs and children visiting their friends in the neighborhood and we don’t have HOA. Property tax is only $750 a year. We talk to our neighbors, share vegetables, and tools or whatever we need for fixing something in our house.

Yes I'm so glad I grew up in the 70's and 80's where tons of kids on Bikes roamed all around, each house had kids playing outside.. families barbecuing outside, everyone minding their own business to an extent... There were never any HOA's...so everyone had their thing going. One yard had cars on it with people working on them, customizing them...the next had older people gardening... there were always kids everywhere. People back then values freedom and individuality over conformity. They also valued vigilance, and weren't always distracted by the hand held phone. There were block parties.. people went for walks in the afternoon and evening. Kids turned vacant lots into baseball diamonds, or BMX tracks... it was a very fun time. Now I'm completely shocked to hear that some parents get arrested for letting their kids play outside... what a disgusting world we live in!!!

@michaellockhart6632

4 күн бұрын

In the 70's and 80's there were no cell phones and no YT.

@r.guerreiro140

3 күн бұрын

Excuseme, but what is a HOA?

@sekovittol3124

3 күн бұрын

I'm 55, it used to be like that in my old hood, now it's like a ghost town. Kids play in front of the monitor these days. And adults are too divided or too busy.

@marlak4203

2 күн бұрын

thank youuuuuu. THIS is the America NONE of these channels talk about. All they talk about are other countries and how America needs to be that way instead of saying things like it should go BACK to how it USED to be. Some of the statements they make i always shake my head because i too remember back in the 80's and 90's how it used to be just like they complain about now. And there were cars during all of these periods so the problem is NOT cars. Its other things that have been going on.

@sekovittol3124

2 күн бұрын

@@r.guerreiro140 'Home Owners Association' I believe.

My current neighborhood was built in the 80s and I love it! Every house is built differently, the lawns all have the homeowners unique decorations, trees and foliage all over the place, people walking and super friendly; HOWEVER it also has a street that connects it to a suburban neighborhood that was just recently built. That neighborhood is like what was described here. Eerily empty and devoid of people, no trees, cookie cutter houses, no character or uniqueness because it's an HOA; Its like a night and day difference. The fact that the HOA neighborhood is more expensive to live in, despite having no character or charm blows me away.

@lovingsunshine3515

10 күн бұрын

It sounds like we have similar neighborhood. The houses on my street were built in the late 1970s. Majority of us are on a half acre with some large trees but no sidewalks. A lot of my neighbors have lived here for 20+ years and they look out for each other. My neighbor puts my trash can back in the driveway close to our garage if we’re out of town after trash day. Also, gives me fruits and vegetables in the summer time. I love it and it’s rare to find a neighborhood now where there’s an actual community feeling where you look out for one another.

@robs5688

Күн бұрын

@@lovingsunshine3515 This channel is blatantly pushing an agenda. He's an in-your-face World Economics Forum agent. He rails against one-family houses, cars, "Everything being spread out" and basically laments people being independent. He's basically promoting the so-called 15-minute city, where you will "own nothing and be happy".

Fact is, if the street is barely wider than two cars, you actually a) need to know how to drive, b) drive slowly and c) be undistracted. Three things many US-citizens seem to be allergic against. Edit: Because some people in the replies think I'm endorsing that, no, it's obviously pathetic.

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

Narrower streets will be safer for the people because it'll take shorter time to cross, and less exposure to sunlight while doing so.

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

Street and road are different words. The whole purpose of a street is as some kind of open air, outdoor public space for people to socialize while walking to certain place. It makes sense to ban any motor vehicles from our streets,

@Betweoxwitegan

16 күн бұрын

​@@selflesssamaritan6417Narrow streets also make drivers focus more, subconsciously drive slower, etc. Narrow streets are just superior, look at The Netherlands for example. The problem with The USA comes down to its sheer size, they haven't had to adapt to optimal efficiency because there's so much space, whereas in places like The Netherlands, (a small nation) they were forced to use space optimally.

@Alias_Anybody

16 күн бұрын

@@selflesssamaritan6417 Suburban streets will always be of mixed use. Should there be side streets with no cars? Sure, but drivers have to be able to drive in a peaceful fashion too.

@kailahmann1823

16 күн бұрын

And it's not just the street (as the asphalt) itself, it's also the front lawns with NOTHING on them - at very best a few cars are parked here and there. So you often have 40 meters of total emptiness, where it feels safe to drive as fast as your car can go. Pretty sure, most race tracks are narrower between solid obstacles… For comparison a tiny residential street in Germany is 5 meters with a fence right next to it (no sidewalk, as traffic is limited to walking speed) and another 5 meter of front garden on each side and then come's the building.

Dude my dreams are full of creepy, empty suburban areas. They aren't quite nightmares but they aren't good dreams either. So glad I live in a community that has biking trails throughout town and a historic downtown with personality. Helps combat that liminal/hopeless feeling.

@auntiegravity7713

12 күн бұрын

I live in SE Europe (and previously NL) but grew up in the burbs. I'm so glad to hear that there are places that aren't so damn depressing and isolating. (In North America)

@medina__anidem

12 күн бұрын

You don’t like it than leave simple as that. But since you don’t have a car and have to walk Asia would be perfect place for you leave.

@xavierpalajeet

10 күн бұрын

you are free to go to china and live there.

@kstrofi

9 күн бұрын

@@medina__anidemWoah, what’s with the defensiveness? Lmao

@SRBOMBONICA86

8 күн бұрын

Walking is good ​@@medina__anidem

Idk what suburbs ya’ll live in, but the ones I’ve lived in and seen (south east) are full of trees, sidewalks, and reasonably sized roads. I feel like most of the images shown in this video are mid west/west coast suburbs.

@robs5688

Күн бұрын

This channel is blatantly pushing an agenda. He's an in-your-face World Economics Forum agent. He rails against one-family houses, cars, "Everything being spread out" and basically laments people being independent. He's basically promoting the so-called 15-minute city, where you will "own nothing and be happy".

I've always said I hate the suburbs without knowing quite why. Thanks for your clear and insightful analysis. American suburbs are SO depressing. I've always felt that I want to live either right downtown where I can step out of my building onto a sidewalk with people walking by. Or live in the countryside where there is land and nature and a sense of life doing its various cycles!

Man, the suburbs can be quite a miserable place for teenagers. Literally all of my close friends live outside of my neighborhood, so I rarely, if ever, get invited to the fun things they do. This past winter was really rough. I was planning to learn to snowboard this winter, and possibly go to a ski resort with my best friend, but the cost was too expensive. So while everyone else was having fun during the winter with their friends, I was basically stuck at home. This lead me to borderline addiction to a mobile video game called Clash Of Clans. On some weekends, I’d spend hours and hours raiding people’s villages and earning massive amounts of resources and trophies. I’ve gotten more passive about the game now, but man, was that game my lifeline. Living in the suburbs as a teenager with most fun places being either expensive, too far away, or lonely, is hard. 😔

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

A boring, isolating place where you cannot access places that entertain you accessible by foot for a short time. Suburbs also ruined childhood by making them reliant for parents to drive them if they want to go somewhere interesting. A perfect place for strict, manipulative parents.

@micosstar

16 күн бұрын

@@selflesssamaritan6417 the environment practically encourages abusive parents... because when it comes to transportation, they are you lifeline until you are 16.

@kingvonfrom63rd000

16 күн бұрын

⁠@@selflesssamaritan6417nawhh ur trippin 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ they just want you to grow up in a safe environment

@arsteel2388

16 күн бұрын

I ended up biking places I wanted to go as a teen, despite my mother being against it because she thought it was too unsafe. Ended up biking 5.5 miles one way to go play Magic the Gathering a few times a week. That still is only feasible if you're within like 5-7 miles of where you want to go, though. 10-12 miles if you have an electric bike. That's a decent range, though.

@reckonerwheel5336

16 күн бұрын

@@kingvonfrom63rd000 These parents err deeply on the side of caution while doing so, and believe a child just going to school fulfills all their needs for socialization and development of independence.

the suburbs feel like even if a slasher invades into your home and you scream help there will be no one to save you

@MrTrevortxeartxe

15 күн бұрын

You can get mugged on the side of the three lane road in America and literally everyone will drive right past you like its not even happening.

@katydid2877

15 күн бұрын

@@MrTrevortxeartxe And record it on their phone.

@katydid2877

15 күн бұрын

Lots of people in suburbs can defend themselves, and it just increases the farther away from crime filled cities you get. You don’t want to mess around in a small town.

@bibby3027

14 күн бұрын

ironic because that literally happens in american cities

@jayeisenhardt1337

14 күн бұрын

@@bibby3027 City life is wild. Cat fight, dude walks up and shoots one of the women. everyone stops looking and turns to NPC that had their aggro set to zero, oblivion music stops they just calmly walk around to do whatever they were gonna do before monkey "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"

When I was in the inner city sure you had to deal with the crime and poverty but the sense of community in the inner city was something that could NOT be ignored. The amount of neighbors who knew each other and had each others backs with block parties, side shows, many neighborhood events it was crazy. I live in the suburbs now and I miss that sense of community

This is why Rush Subdivisions is one of the best songs of all time.

@TheOtherPath1

2 күн бұрын

"Conform or be cast out." Rush was always ahead of its time. Also blame neighbourhood groups that form even in area where HOAs are not present. Even in a high-crime city like LA, the camera situation contributes to gossip, suspicion and general "hills have eyes." Then it forces you to adopt the same attitude. If you don't become part of the group discussion or attend community meetings, you are the one being talked about! :) The desire for California real estate allows people to weaponize these cameras on you as well. Greed makes people do strange things to others.

i clean some pools in alot of subdivisions and let me say. its insane how desolate some of these places are. theres subdivisions within subdivisions. no trees at all, some have gates that lock everything down after a certain time. these people make good money, and they choose to live in a arguably nice house. but barely any yard or freedom to do anything. some of these houses are literally just a house. enough room in the backyard for a pool. and then a fence that seperates the lots. and these people are paying like $2000-$4000 a month. just to be told you cant have flowers in your yard or paint your house a different color. fuck that

@katydid2877

15 күн бұрын

Aren’t you glad you can choose to not live there? And they can live there if they want?

@moriyamakyon1067

14 күн бұрын

"Freedom" and many people like that, just looking by 0 protests against that. It's amazes me that someone lives on such a plain street at pretty hot places like most of US, no trees, nothing to catch eye on etc. no wonder no one is oustide because there is nothing to do + hot af because there is no shadows

@katydid2877

14 күн бұрын

@@moriyamakyon1067 Would it be hot af in the winter in Denver? Or Minneapolis? And it’s “shade”, not “shadows”. People in America have thousands of options on styles of living and different weather types, and it’s fucking awesome. If you don’t like it, don’t live there, instead of acting all superior and condescending. It’s very Euro-trash.

@KaitouKaiju

13 күн бұрын

​@@katydid2877The problem is most of the residential property is zoned that way and there are plenty of people who literally have nowhere to live because of it.

@katydid2877

13 күн бұрын

@@KaitouKaiju People could live in inner cities if they weren’t filled with crime and murder and filth that the leaders of those cities don’t seem to mind happening. Maybe if they hadn’t ruined the city, people wouldn’t be wandering out into the suburbs looking for another place to ruin. America is a huge country. There are many more affordable places to live than LA or Chicago or NYC.

I recommend watching Vivarium which truly makes the suburbs look extra liminal

@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943

15 күн бұрын

Creepy ass setting

@vilagistene2939

9 күн бұрын

But here was in the video. Here was pictures from that Movie.

I grew up in the suburbs and there’s nature trails that intersect the suburb with parks and creeks and little wooded paths and I love it it’s peaceful

This video is much needed without even knowing it. Thank you for articulating what we all seem to have intuitively felt.

It's like the new Australian suburbs that are built like an unorganised soulless dystopian nightmare minus the parking and big enough roads. Where the mansions are for the rich people the roads are in much better conditions and the parks are very dreamy. Every immigrant I met always complains how empty the streets are and there is no community

@josephang9927

15 күн бұрын

Some cultures are more reserved than others. Japanese cities are very walkable, and yet a huge percent of them don't even leave their room if they don't have to. Meanwhile, Americans may have boring suburbs, but also they have many social events in family for Christmas and other holydays.

@user-gu9yq5sj7c

15 күн бұрын

@@josephang9927 At least those Japanese people have walkability if they want it. It's harder to change the city design. Introverts and extroverts can live in walkable places.

@evgeny7039

11 күн бұрын

Immigrants ARE the main problem why there's no sense of community. Comes from an immigrant btw. But I am honest about it.

@ACDZ123

11 күн бұрын

Immigrants in Australia complaining?? Tell them they could always go back

@josephang9927

11 күн бұрын

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c I get your concern, blaming suburbs or countryside for cities being too expensive, specially for people who would benefit the most with walkability, is kind of a stretch.

Every day we get a little closer to being like the Borg... I never liked suburbs like that. I grew up in rural U.S.A. in a house in the woods with just a few neighbors through the trees, way outside of town. My only source of socializing my family members, because we were too far away from everything to walk, and there weren't many good places to even go to. It really is mostly chains of gas stations and stores and fast food restaurants. It's horribly ugly and repetitive and unappealing and car centric. I grew up very lonely and isolated. People wonder why kids and teens are on phones and playing video games so much nowadays... just look around. So many of them live in copy and paste suburbs like these, and can't drive until they're 16, and even then fun things cost money they may not have. What else are they supposed to do? There is nothing to do outside. The only entertainment available is digital, and their phones are the only way to talk to their friends because they can't get to them in person. Phones aren't the cause, they're a symptom, of restrictive capitalism-driven bad urban design. Great video.

@umerthegoat

15 күн бұрын

well said

@TheLandon8806

15 күн бұрын

Funny you blame capitalism for the government zoning you bitch about. Also. Hey when I was kid in the old days. Go outside and play in the dirt or climb a tree or go for hike. What you talking about digital is only source of entertainment??? That digital phone probably costs a lot more than real life hobbies. Maybe start a garden. Ride bikes. Get creative. Instead of bitching someone else’s fault for your boredom

@auntiegravity7713

12 күн бұрын

Very well said. I used to think that I would always want to live in a larger city. (I was born and raised in a suburb of Chicago in the 70's and 80's) Now I live in a small Bosnian town. I'm used to much less strict zoning laws.. I can walk to the store and run errands easily on foot. (Unless I need to buy something larger, I don't need a car) My backyard is a HUGE pasture with trees on it. I feel very fortunate. I'm also lucky because I don't need to travel far to get a big city experience. I can get a very cheap flight to London, for example. Also because of the pandemic and remote work (I build websites and automations for small businesses) I can work from anywhere. Getting back to your point.. I would now definitely choose to live in a rural area in the US, without HOA's. I've lived in places where you can grow food on your own property and where people don't have a weird aversion to hanging laundry to dry in the sun. Americans think that we have less freedom in Europe.. but you do have organizations that operated pretty much like a mafia.. HOA's,. that severely restrict basic freedoms, autonomy, and quality of life. But if I ever moved back to the US.. I might avoid areas very prone to tornadoes.. :)

@platinumfalconm3891

11 күн бұрын

The first "Wrinkle in Time" movie 2003, nailed it.

@vilagistene2939

10 күн бұрын

@@auntiegravity7713Nobody belive that in U.S has any freedom.

I grew up in a city, moved to rural area as an older teen, moved back to city, then moved up to the suburbs. I am now living near my parents in a cookie cutter neighborhood in what was rural 25 years ago. I love it. My grill is in the front and everyone has a dog. We are alive & well here.

nailed it. everything is just a drink through. never feels like theres a place to stop. just a place that feels empty and sad.

As someone born and raised in the suburbs words can’t describe how tired I am of them.

@MrJacksspleen

15 күн бұрын

You're young. You'll get older and find them desirable again after living in the city for a few decades. These places exist in a free market because there is demand. There isn't a government centrally planning where they want people to live. This video is propaganda trying to convince you that population density is good.

@tommybotts

13 күн бұрын

Move to the nearest big city then!! Experience the poverty, crime and homelessness first hand. Experience waiting 45 minutes for a cop after you've called 911. Live in a closed in soviet style housing unit. It's a great way to grow up in America.

@erosgritti5171

13 күн бұрын

@@tommybotts much better to stay away from reality and your fellow men in difficulty...

@The_Stockfather

12 күн бұрын

@@tommybottssmall towns and rural communities all over America. I’m in Kansas, not in a big city and not in a suburb.

@auntiegravity7713

12 күн бұрын

You said it perfectly, though

speaking on behalf of south korea, I think that walkable cities only work there because they have the foundation of a good public transportation system + the country is small, so housing is typically built upwards. It would be difficult to implement a similar format into a country such as the U.S. given its size and its lack of reliable public transport

@kaiparker1756

15 күн бұрын

Apartment housing is just as dystopian and liminal. You have tens of people living on top of you and under you. Your apartment is tiny, but costs a fortune to even live there. To even get outside or to your apartment you have to either climb or descend how many flights of stairs, or use an elevator. Apartment living and suburbia are both comparable to hell for me. It seems so claustrophobic and dehumanising and I’m not even a claustrophobic person.

@edpoe1108

15 күн бұрын

I appreciate that you pointed out the size difference between the nations. All too often people make one-to-one comparisons between countries, cities, etc. without considering scale-whether it be that of geographical size, population density, demographics, or any other important distinction.

@josephang9927

15 күн бұрын

There is reliable and cheap public transport in NYC and Chicago and many other big cities... it is just full of criminals and junkies.

@adam1984pl

15 күн бұрын

@@kaiparker1756 I live in Apartment housing in small town in Poland.Its really good,its close to visit friends,shops,church,park.

@umerthegoat

15 күн бұрын

We don't travel the country on a daily basis or even leave our area. This is a terrible excuse for not having good cities.

Driving through suburbs in Massachusetts feels like this. Endless neighborhoods, no open space, suffocating.

Suburbs are clean and safe. I like that.

My neighborhood has been lived in for a about 40 years. 15 minute walk to a downtown area with beautiful streets, lots of stores and restaurants. My street always has kids playing on it. Its also so safe the kids leave their bikes and lawnmowers out and none have ever beeen stolen.

@auntiegravity7713

12 күн бұрын

It's good to see that there is hope..

I would like to know why in the United States it is illegal to have businesses within neighborhoods. I am from Argentina and literally the neighborhood stores are small but efficient compared to the large supermarkets. Because for example, I just need to buy a drink or buy something for dinner, I just walk 1 or 2 blocks and I'm already shopping. The total time is at most 10 minutes round trip walking.

@eclipticsonata1313

15 күн бұрын

In the U.S. supermarket chains had the money to undercut the small neighborhood stores and eventually put them out of business. Most of those buildings are still there, but are vacant. When designing new suburbs they got rid of the zoning that allowed for those small neighborhood stores, because supermarkets already won.

@TheMariemarie16

14 күн бұрын

Zoning laws are supposed to prevent incompatible land uses such as having a nightclub next to a beautiful suburban neighborhood which would lower those people's property values and disturb their peace. We don't have many small shops here unless it's in certain huge cities such as New York or LA. Most shops are regulated to require many parking spots per square foot of store space so this is another reason. It's not safe to have kids walking home from school next to a huge parking lot. There's like hundreds of reasons that the cities considered zoning laws to add to beauty, safety and organization. We don't have that European or Argentine lifestyle.

@cut419ram

14 күн бұрын

In most neighborhoods where I currently live, there are gas stations and small convience item shops nearer to the homes then the big stores. As well as restarants.

@TheMariemarie16

14 күн бұрын

Yes as another person said we usually will have a gas station/ convenience store in the Neighborhood but honestly it's not right inside the neighborhood. You would still have to walk quite a bit. Several of my friends live in communities where there is honestly nothing which can be walked to in a reasonable time frame.

@Coffeepanda294

12 күн бұрын

Xenophobia and the oil/car industry. And, more recently, an insular population ignorant about alternatives. A lot of Americans seem to think their way is the only possible way to build suburbs.

Oni love video essays about stuff like liminal spaces! This is really good!

@Slapbattler666

10 күн бұрын

I meant i love

I grew up in a suburb. When I was in my early 20’s. When I gone outside to go to this one store it felt liked a ghost town. Adults working and even children at school. For the longest time it was the only suburb and in the early 90’s to early 2000’s lots of homes went up near the suburb that grew up in.

You- you mean Americans can play Backrooms just by going out the door?

@josephang9927

15 күн бұрын

These Suburbs can be found in every developed country outside of Europe and Japan. Australia, Canada and USA. If they are rich enough to have cars and cities were build when cars existed, then cities are built this way.

@Coffeepanda294

15 күн бұрын

@@josephang9927 "Every developed country outside US/Europe" (lists three countries)

@ImieNazwiskoOK

15 күн бұрын

@@josephang9927 So... every developed country aka 3 countries? Really? And the rest of developed countries doesn't matter? "If they are rich enough to have cars and cities were build when cars existed, then cities are built this way." Man, seems like suburbs just kill thinking of anything outside of them.

@josephang9927

15 күн бұрын

@@Coffeepanda294 yes, developed countries are the minority. Surprise.

@Coffeepanda294

15 күн бұрын

@@ImieNazwiskoOK I don't know if he even knows of other developed countries. Also love the 'but their cities were built for the car' myth.

It's not just that it's empty and feels strange that nobody is there, the proportions and details are wrong. There are so many European streets that looks absolutely beautiful even when they're empty.

@Coffeepanda294

15 күн бұрын

True. The way too wide roads makes everything look... uncanny. The oversized cars make it even worse, they just make everything seem so hostile.

@railroadforest30

12 күн бұрын

Exactly because they are built for pedestrians streets in America are built for cars people are an afterthought

@lastswordfighter

9 күн бұрын

Liberals: Waah car bad. Waah private property bad. Waah suburbs bad.

@shraka

9 күн бұрын

@@lastswordfighter Dunno about the others but I’m not a liberal.

@lastswordfighter

9 күн бұрын

You a liberal aka a godless communist.

Whenever I see suburban development houses it just feels weird driving through the neighborhood. 90% of the houses look the same, they’re all that ugly tan color, and most of the time there’s no trees around which means you have no privacy in your backyard, and then there’s those HOAs with strict rules. It just feels like I’m driving through a prison yard. I’ll happily keep living in my 1960s house with trees all around, privacy, no HOA, the houses on my street all look different and have different styles and vibrant colors, and best of all I don’t feel imprisoned in my own house.

i always wanna live in that kind of area when i was a child, looks so empty an quiet which is so good for me who didn't like crowd and noisy places

I live in Fresno California and this had ALWAYS been an issue growing up. The suburbs are dead quiet which can be nice at night when youre trying to sleep but in the middle of the day it felt like i was the only human in a dystopia. No one wanted to go out because even going to the nearest grocery store was a 10 minute drive through winding neighborhoods and copy-paste houses. It was practically completely unwalkable and left me a complete homebody. When I travelled I noticed how walkable everywhere else was. In my hometown you almost NEVER see people walking around.

@Ratnavina-ht6xq

10 күн бұрын

A little horible thing..

@lastswordfighter

6 күн бұрын

Commiefornication liberals: Waah car bad. Waah private property bad. Waah suburbs bad.

@entertainmentconsultants

23 сағат бұрын

209 Here. Nees/ Woodward

I didn't grow up in a suburb so I have always found them super creepy. It's wrong and alien and flat and empty and inhuman. And now I made my skin crawl by thinking about it too hard.

@timothyknight2236

15 күн бұрын

I bet you are a liberal........................

@katydid2877

15 күн бұрын

Isn’t it awesome you are free to not live there?

@johnmendoza5907

14 күн бұрын

Agree. I live in Donna, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. What I've notice is the same apartment complexes literally everywhere. We used to have our own style because the majority of us here are of Mexican Americans. Literally same city same stores. The unique taqueria shops, tortilla shops are small and few to find.

@Vaquix000

13 күн бұрын

An ordinary suburb freaks you out? I guess you're the type that finds almost everything scary.

@laurie7689

12 күн бұрын

My suburb is far from flat. My entire small city is built into the hills. The suburbs here are built on the hillsides and the hilltops. No matter which way you look, you can't see most of the housing because they follow the terrain. I agree that suburbs in flat areas, particularly without trees, look strange, but most of the suburbs East of the Mississippi River have more character.

You've put into words what I've always felt but never knew why. Thanks.

Man, coming from a country where everything is compact and walkable, I used to love suburbs when I first came to America, it was something about the aesthetics. But after I started to slowly understand how wrong they are and how unhealthy they feel… It’s like one of those dreams where you want to run but you are stuck in the same place. It is impossible to think about a life without a vehicle. Luckily I moved to the only place in this country where walking it’s actually an option and there is everything you need in less than a square mile! I feel like I will never leave this place.

@PointNemo9

3 күн бұрын

Everything is walkable? Are you from Singapore, Monaco or Hong Kong? Because those are the only countries where everything is walkable

@mdog1070

3 күн бұрын

@@PointNemo9 I’m from Argentina, where you have hospitals, schools, universities, businesses, supermarkets, minimarkets, clubs, gyms, centers, buses, parks and everything I need within 1 square mile 😉 I have never had a car in 22 years until I moved to US

@PointNemo9

3 күн бұрын

@@mdog1070 That's only true if you live in a city though, try living in somewhere more rural like Pozo de los Indios

Middle class punk rock bands from California be like: I had difficult childhood growing up in the hood The “hood” they grew up in:

@GordonSlamsay

14 күн бұрын

Most of those bands are from the Mid West but okay

@georgelucas2571

14 күн бұрын

@@GordonSlamsay Doesn’t change my point.

@medina__anidem

12 күн бұрын

I rather live in hood that overpopulated Asia

@themustafagoldenboy9008

12 күн бұрын

LOL

@Mkmcco

11 күн бұрын

What

Suburbanites make fun on city dwellers regarding how out-of-touch they are from nature. Yet they settled on wide open, sprawling settlements that consumed a lot of wild habitat. While dense and compact urban development (especially with green space as the pollution-absorbing third place), even for biggest and busiest cities - will definitely save nature and farmland.

@Betweoxwitegan

16 күн бұрын

In cities you typically have parks or pitches to use, hopefully in a walkable timeframe or via good public transit Infrastructure whilst in American suburbs you might be surrounded by nature but that nature is completely inaccessible, cities are just better.

@kailahmann1823

16 күн бұрын

what exactly is "nature" about a 3 inch lawn with no other plants allowed?

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

@@kailahmann1823 "Nature is when boring grass manicured with various harmful pesticides." /s

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

@@Betweoxwitegan In the suburbs, most of the "parks" are privately-owned yards where the respective privileged homeowner always try to threaten young folks who accidentally "trespass" there - due to lack of third places.

@Betweoxwitegan

16 күн бұрын

@@selflesssamaritan6417 I'm not surprised, tbh a good business would literally just be creating a privatised coffee/garden business in every wealthy American suburb, like the coffee shops they have in Asia, where there's a garden out back which you get access to if you buy something or pay specifically for garden entrance, you could also create a subscription based membership card. If you think about it this one business would be the only hang out spot in the whole community effectively. I'm not sure if this is even possible with the zoning laws in The US though.

I live in Moscow suburbs, and honestly, love it. All houses are different, it's super-green, and we have a forest park nearby. I lived in a burb in Long Island many years back, and it was a very nice, architecturally varied and green place too. I guess its the new burbs that have these feelings as they're built on empty flat land.

I doordash with my bf sometimes and some of the new suburbs.... it didnt have a SINGLE CAR IN SIGHT. ANYWHERE. No garden hoses tucked away, no porch items or yard decor... just mild 'landscaping' and maybe a doormat or wreathy decor thing on the door, tastefully. It was so creepy...... we turned the corner and we were in a normal neighborhood again, with cars parked in the driveways and streets, some kind of yard/porch decoration and signs that someone lived there....

I always thought I was directionally challenged, but now I know it’s because everything looks the same!!

Are you familiar with the author James Howard Kunstler? He wrote two books about suburbanization called "The Geography of Nowhere" and "Home from Nowhere."

@davidprice2182

14 күн бұрын

This made me think of Kunstler too!

Man, thanks so much for the work you're doing. I agree with you 100% and would love to see future videos about solutions to this. Have you heard about some of these "mixed use" communities springing up within suburbs? There's one in Cedar Park, TX called the Bell District where they are building a "downtown" with 3rd spaces like a library, park, and some restaurants, etc. all within walking distance to a few neighborhoods.

As a european who loves visiting the US I would take your oversized car parks and estates any day over our small albeit quaint infrastructure. The only thing I do miss when I'm in the US is the ability to walk to shops - a car is a must.

Where I live we don’t really have huge suburbs like that so when I saw those photos I legit got scared

@djdigital3806

12 күн бұрын

Las Vegas is a giant suburb.

I love how cars have made it so the design of the neighborhoods are implanted into our brains.

Great info. Thank you!

So much appreciation towards the choice of music and sound effects ❤❤❤❤

He should make a video about asian suburbs. Who agrees?

@pianistguy

16 күн бұрын

as an asian myself i completely agree!

@Epicgamer23158

16 күн бұрын

​@@pianistguy thanks for agreeing with me and I hope that flurf sees this coment

@psyraxx43

16 күн бұрын

As an Asian myself I think American suburbs = Backrooms but Tokyo = vaporwave, and Vietnam’s suburbs would be like a Roblox lobby (they’re wild)

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

The so-called suburbs in Southeast Asia are divided into two types: A cluster of sprawling same-looking small houses subsidized by the government for lower-income people. Second one are those suburbs for richer folks. The worst thing about it is some kind of a HOA-esque rule that prohibits running small business in one's house. Albeit smaller land use, I still consider them bad because they still facilitate private automobile ownership and use to access all the amenities in the city, despite government campaign to encourage transit use. All of them mostly do not have direct access to mass transit. If the respective government use their 100% of brain capacity, they should've just build affordable apartments in the city instead of suburban homes. Vertical housing is also a great way to house all the poor people impacted from demolition of their filthy, unsanitary urban slums.

@inkajoo

16 күн бұрын

Ugh yes I wanted to live in Shenmue

Where I live, we have suburbs that were built in the early 2000s (and a new suburb build last year) and the differences are CRAZY. The new suburb looks exactly like the ones shown in the video (large samey houses, small properites, liminal as hell) and is connected to one built in the 2000s (small but unique houses, bigger properties, much more pleasing visually). The roads in the older neighborhood are worse for wear, there's a big pothole near the entrance :(( It's unfortunate that they decided to connect the two neighborhoods but not invest any money to fix up the road a little

@tristanridley1601

15 күн бұрын

Fixing the roads for a suburb costs more than the suburb provides in property taxes. Older suburbs will always look poorly maintained unless seriously subsidized by other areas.

@michah7214

15 күн бұрын

@@tristanridley1601 NO OTHER CITY PAYS FOR ANOTHER CITY, what the hell are you talking about? Name a SINGLE instance!! You can't!! Suburbs are NOT paid for by property taxes, they are paid for by the commercial part of the suburban town and those businesses pay income taxes etc. And Costco makes a lot of money, a lot more than some seedy corner store. That's not a subsidy!! That's the DESIGN. People wanted the commercial and residential separate. I just can't stand this regurgitated 'strong towns" nonsense that doesn't even make sense in the US.

@josephang9927

15 күн бұрын

It takes time for houses to differentiate and get their identity, if there is no HOA.

@michah7214

15 күн бұрын

@@josephang9927 exactly, HOAs are terrible, but they're the only thing keeping these urbanists from ruining the suburbs. It's an impossible situation. I wish they'd just lead us the hell alone. We're freaking happy, they don't want us to be, they want to say we aren't but we are. They never stop. And I think behind them are wealthy people who want our meager homes to make millions forcing everyone into rent slavery.

@QuantumVoid-ro3hi

15 күн бұрын

Yeah, really what he's talking about are corporate-owned tract homes.

This is actually very TRUE!!! I was sent to silicon valley for a training and I'm from Philippines, it felt so scary walking on the empty sidewalk. And on very wide parking lot it seems that if someone kidnap or attack you, no one would notice. Also houses don't have fences, its very uncomfortable to sleep near the window knowing someone could be there.

This Kenopsia thing reminded me of a video I saw recently in which the guy visited several multiplayer games that are now empty. He commented on the design of the places, but there was a lot of his comments about how he was feeling being there too.

This just made me understand why I find subdivisions so creepy

Don't forget the ever-present No Loitering! sign.

@muhammad-bin-american

12 күн бұрын

LOL! You're so right.

@medina__anidem

12 күн бұрын

No littering or loitering this is Not CHINA, INDIA , PAKISTAN AND Bangladesh. We have hygiene and quiet

@muhammad-bin-american

12 күн бұрын

@@medina__anidem Yeah but still there is a better way to do it.

@zhiqiandu3110

12 күн бұрын

@@medina__anidemLMAO so angry defending. Yeah you come to the right place hope you enjoy

@railroadforest30

12 күн бұрын

The No trespassing signs are worse

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Well done

I grew up and still live in some of the older, more walkable suburbs outside Chicago. Many of them either feel like neighborhoods of the city with their own government, or smaller towns with an almost rural feel. They often have a lot to offer, multiple public transportation options that are adequate at worst, are easy to get around in on your bike or on foot, and will often feel like a true sense of community. Whenever I have to go into what I call "true suburbia", it's astonishing how much more sterile and miserable it feels. I can wrap my head around living in a small town or the middle of nowhere, but I cannot fathom actually wanting to live in an HOA-controlled suburban cul-de-sac.

I’m so glad that I live in a small city that’s very constricted by land. Even though I live on one of the the east most part of the city, I can still hang out with my friends from the west most neighbourhoods because of decent bike paths and a downtown smack dab in the middle of the city.

It's not a suburbia/urbanites difference. The uniformity comes from the same builders using the same plans. I live in a suburbia with many different custom builds and it is full of soul.

I never thought of this, this video was pretty good. I live in Brazil so I can't relate to everything shown, but still we have pretty much the same dynamic going on in big cities. Makes you think how we believe we are free when really, we aren't.

I live in Fort Lauderdale in my neighborhood sometimes i wanted to go out for a walk when i step outside the outside feels and look so boring and depressing than the inside

As someone who’s lived in the hood their entire life and is currently living in the projects - yet also just got accepted into nursing school for this fall, trying to get myself through school so I can make it to a decent suburban neighborhood one day.. this is just insane to me seeing thing’s from the other side and how it isn’t ideal in the suburbs either. Still, the quietness would be better than constant fighting and gunshots lmaoo

@AustinMathias

14 күн бұрын

There is nothing wrong with living in a nice neighborhood. People will find anything to complain about. Most the people talking down on suburbs most likely can't even afford a house. So you keep doing you and do what makes you happy. People will always have something negative to say.

@djdigital3806

12 күн бұрын

Get a RV trailer like me at 60 years old!🤗

@thorpower1015

12 күн бұрын

Well said bless you and your family, you will do it I know you are a good person and deserve it.

@railroadforest30

12 күн бұрын

Quiet neighborhoods don’t have to be built like these suburbs

@Ayverie4

11 күн бұрын

I live in a neighborhood in a small town that's been around for a couple hundred years and grew organically over time. No weird copy/paste subdivisions. There's options

Whenever the topic of the USA comes up in conversation I always have to mention how hideous I find my country to be. It slips out without fail every single time. "Extremely unsettling consumerist cultures" is such a good way to describe the aesthetics of the states. I've always looked at other countries architecture and building placements with awe, but also despair bc America is literally going to turn into the Idiocracy movie IRL, it's been in effect since that movie released lmao.

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

The suburbs were designed to facilitate consumerism. Being far away from the cities without mass transit access force people to buy a personal automobile and waste his/her monthly income on it, large houses so people will buy stuff they do not need in their lives to fill it, swaths of lawn so people will waste money on buying polluting lawn mowers and harmful chemicals (pesticide and synthetic fertilizer).

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

The suburbs were designed to facilitate consumerism. > Being far away from job or school without mass transit access force people to buy a personal automobile and waste his/her monthly income on it, > Large houses so people will buy stuff they do not need in their lives to fill it > Swaths of lawn so people will waste money on buying polluting lawn mowers and harmful chemicals (pesticide and synthetic fertilizer).

@michah7214

15 күн бұрын

So you're one of those Americans for Europe pick me s ... 🙄🙄

@josephang9927

15 күн бұрын

@@michah7214 They are the worse. I hate the most those who move to Europe but get all benefits of American citizens and then they shit on America, even when many Europeans are struggling with even heating their small apartments.

@user-gu9yq5sj7c

15 күн бұрын

@@selflesssamaritan6417 Also, if you watch Not Just Bikes on box stores and food waste, the car centric design tends to make it that there's mostly just big corporate stores and Americans buying in bulk. Which is more consumerism and waste of food and money. They're also incentivized to buy in bulk cause driving far to one area is a chore and cost so much gas. Versus being able to walk and casually drop by close quaint and diverse small businesses.

American suburbs are very different so don’t say that they creepy. They are for different people and different lifestyles. Everyone can find a neighborhood that they would love to live in or neighborhood that they hate.

@robs5688

Күн бұрын

This channel is blatantly pushing an agenda. He's an in-your-face World Economics Forum agent. He rails against one-family houses, cars, "Everything being spread out" and basically laments people being independent. He's basically promoting the so-called 15-minute city, where you will "own nothing and be happy".

I'm only a minute and a half in, and this topic is extremely interesting to me. And I just wanted to point something out that stuck out to me (as I'm sure there will be many more) : You said ''when you take these environments away from their contexts [...]'' I found that interesting, because logically, it would seem to me that the context would be much easier to remove from its environment, than the reverse. Perhaps that's a philosophical argument, or pure semantics. But I'd love to get some kind of a response! (which, for some reason, I sometimes, but seldom, do).

Totally agree! Exactly what I was thinking. 👍👏👏👏

I find overuse of the word creepy to be excessively creepy.

@User1975-

15 күн бұрын

It’s every Gen Zed s default setting!

@michaellundphotography

14 күн бұрын

Right? I don’t think any of these neighborhoods look creepy… boring sure but creepy is a stretch

@MeemahSN

14 күн бұрын

I'd describe them as less creepy and more uninviting.

@lastswordfighter

14 күн бұрын

No the video uploader is a whiny leftwing millenial. The entire video is this: Leftwing Millenial: Waah private property bad. Waah cars bad.

@bigbud8182

13 күн бұрын

Flurfdesign: having only Single family zoning is a problem. You: That’s communism and nothing should change the status quo because everything is great for everyone so shut the fuck up about it

I work in all areas of San Antonio TX, every time I have to go to the suburbs I feel like Dennis from it’s always sunny!

I think to some degree it's also because towns / cities were often been built using vernacular materials. Nowadays, however, it's more than likely than not that materials to be used in construction are shipped from far and wide

Supermarkets just started opening 24 hours in my city and I went to one to purchase something at 2 am Walking into a completely empty store and I mean completely empty, no security guard at the door, no cashiers, no cleaning personnel, nobody filling the shelves, nobody shopping was every as fuck. I could have grabbed anything and walked out

@michah7214

15 күн бұрын

so?

@TheLandon8806

15 күн бұрын

So you live in a high trust area. Is that something to complain about?

@katydid2877

15 күн бұрын

@@TheLandon8806 Sure doesn’t sound like NYC.

@SunsetAssassin

15 күн бұрын

Sounds like you went at a good time, buy your things and leave, why are surprised that nobody is at the store at 2am😂 Any store workers or security working at the store would be chilling somewhere or sleeping because of how slow the store is.

@TheLandon8806

15 күн бұрын

@@katydid2877 I didn’t bring up NYC

Please. Nothing’s more creepy than Kensington in Philly.

You're spot on. As a european, i think the US is very ugly and depressing, and the suburbs reminded me of how Sims 2 looks. No trees, flat and only lawns and no people in sight.

@zuzanazuscinova5209

8 күн бұрын

Sims 2 is beautiful

@georgelucas2571

8 күн бұрын

It’s very ignorant of you to judge the entire US by just the suburbs. This country and its states are far larger than most European countries, and not every state is just endless suburban towns. Then again, you’re from Europe, and we know you have nothing better to do than find new ways to shit on the U.S.

@murraywiles

8 күн бұрын

Hi beautiful

@SRBOMBONICA86

8 күн бұрын

Disgusting

@georgelucas2571

8 күн бұрын

It’s very ignorant of you to judge the entirety of the US by just the suburbs. This country is larger and more diverse than most European countries, and not every state is just endless suburban towns. Then again, you’re from Europe where hating on the US is your favorite pastime. ☕️

I found it weird flying over the USA. I don't find suburbs are that bad in the parts of Canada I've been to. We have sidewalks, bus stops, corner stores and cafes, and a trail to make it easy to walk or bike to the nearest shopping district. But a lot of the sameness has gone into the newer streets, and it's so bad. Cheaply made just to take advantage of the housing market and new stores. I'm fortunate that I'm in an older part, built by my great grandfather, and still has his garden plot where I grow fresh veggies. I can walk to my physiotherapist, pharmacy, and a local grocer, as well as some food places. My house is a very unique design that I've made fit my needs. I just wish more people realized why these older suburban streets worked, instead of just a hill full of copy-paste duplexes and townhouses that stretches so far up the hill that you can't easily walk to the places nearby.

my mom just moved to a newly created suburbia neighborhood and i literally hate it.. it's too sterile and all the home have no character or uniqueness. it makes me sad for her. i would have chosen a home in a more lived in area

2:31 whats intersting about this town (keokuk, iowa on the littke dip on the bottom right of the state), is you can see the original downtown that was built on one side, then the otherside where its strip malls put in presumably after the 50s, where there were older buildings like the one on the left. they were demolished to widen the road. and it was for nothing because keokuk is a dying town.

This was actually a really good and concise analysis!

As someone who grew up in a general urban area, the lack of walkability could not be ignored when I went to a friend’s house in the suburbs. Some friends lived in “older” suburbs that had parks and sidewalk, though. I didn’t mind that at all.

another stellar piece, copy paste housing

@selflesssamaritan6417

16 күн бұрын

It's more repetitive than Soviet-style apartments.

@josephang9927

15 күн бұрын

Remove HOA and houses get their own identity. There are great historical suburbs in USA.

@selflesssamaritan6417

15 күн бұрын

@@josephang9927 Yes, especially the streetcar suburbs which are more compact and human-scaled.

@ImieNazwiskoOK

15 күн бұрын

@@selflesssamaritan6417 As much as they suck the large empty walls can be turned into nice paintings

@benedekhalda-kiss9737

5 күн бұрын

​@@selflesssamaritan6417Yes some suburbs can be amazing. Just not copy paste prefab wood houses.

The human/car scale is the most annoying, it's bad for everyone because buildings look like straight concrete and ugly square. and if you are a human, not a car, you can't even look at the signs without leaning your head to the point where all you can see is the universe at night

@lastswordfighter

9 күн бұрын

Liberal: Waaah car bad. Waaah private property bad. Waaah suburbs bad.

In the 20th century growing up there were at least kids playing outside and riding bikes to friend’s places and going on adventures. Now, if you go outside, it’s basically empty and vast land of emptiness. In fact it feels very weird walking around since it’s so far from everything and basically no one is outside walking.

and when you do see someone walking, especially on those stroads, it feels weird. "why are you walking there, aren't you uncomfortable ?"

Great vid!

We are forced to have preservatives put into our foods because the supermarkets are miles away, going shopping every day makes little sense. We shop maybe once on the weekend and get everything we need. Food like bread and cheese has to last awhile since you don't make frequent trips to the store. Thus food get filled with preservatives. If you live in Paris, you pick up bread and cheese every day as you walk past the bakery on your street while coming home. No need to put a bunch chemical in it to keep it from spoiling for 2 weeks.

@jayeisenhardt1337

14 күн бұрын

oof paris lol

@ahogQ

14 күн бұрын

I live in Europe and I do shopping once a week. In fact, most people I know have similar habits. Personally I prefer the American way, Europe is sometimes too claustrophobic for me. Houses are built so tight that you can hear your neighbours snoring at night. I would much rather live in the American suburbs.

@rexx9496

14 күн бұрын

@@ahogQ then why not just move to a rural area?

@ahogQ

14 күн бұрын

@rexx9496 I live in England now and the rural areas don't have roads designed for cars. They are way too narrow with curves and very limited visibility. I find driving in large cities less stressful than driving the countryside.

@SincerelyFromStephen

12 күн бұрын

@@ahogQmost country roads, at least in the eastern half of the U.S., aren’t wide arterials. They’re going to be just as winding and narrow. Especially around the mountainous areas

As a introvert this is heaven for me 😂.. when i first visited the US back in 07.. i love the open spaces and not a single person for miles. I live in the Philippines and it is congested af here..

My older sister's family used to live in the suburbs. When I used to visit her, I would be playing ball outside with my nephews.The neighbors didn't like that and told my sister about it.Since then when I visited her we weren't allowed to play outside.

An empty school at night always gets me...

The music from the ghost tower in Pokemon, very apropos.

@MisterFakeGinger

16 күн бұрын

Haha thought I was the only one!

Very interesting, I had to go into a mall last year around the holidays, & it was so creepy. Everything all white tiling, elevator music, & barely any people. In a mall before the holidays! I thought I was just feeling sad nostalgia over how different malls were in the 80s & 90s, & I'm sure that was part of it, but maybe it was also what you're saying as well.