solarpunk memes

Change the picture to a normal suburban playground but set it on fire and have an old hag calling the cops on the kids for having the audacity to enjoy life and it'll be thousand times more accurate.

Okay. I hear what you're saying, but, given that everyone "needs" to be in the office and the office is in a major city, very few people live in the suburbs in the current workforce.

Most of the suburbs are owned by people either soon to be, or already retired.

When those houses get handed down to the person's progeny, generally the place is liquidated, bought by either a flipper or a landlord, and either ruined, run into the ground or otherwise trashed and taken off the market, possibly to be replaced with either a condo building, a "luxury" rental that nobody can afford, or something similarly terrible, like the house being renovated into single room "suites" for rent....

New developments are no longer an arm and a leg, but rather: both arms, both legs and at least one kidney, just for the down payment.

New "homes" are still being made and those that aren't snapped up by someone looking to make it into an "income property" are either going to rich folks from out of town that moved to the area because it's cheaper, and they sold their home in (insert large city name here) for millions of dollars.

There's a lot wrong with the housing market, and bluntly, neighborhoods have gone to shit. Parks are frequently unmaintained, and I never see anyone using any parks anymore, so many of them are getting omitted from new developments, so the number of local parks is shrinking. Add that to the growing number of people forced to live in the city where they work because commuting is a nightmare and they simply are not allowed to work from home because the boss doesn't want them to, and I'm sure we're getting more and more kids growing up in this kind of urban landscape.

The older generation can only blame themselves for doing it too... Which is likely not you, I'm talking about the people who started their career in a union, then when they decided to start their own business, got in there to union bust.

There's a lot of capitalists that drove entire markets into the dirt so they could have a bit more.

I blame reality TV

It's depressing to think that you're right. 40 years ago it looked like this, and now it looks like this too. We have civil engineers and research all around the world that shows how to build better, more human infrastructure and transportation, but America decides that this is what it needs to be. 🙃

I like urban centers even when they're relatively devoid of nature. What I don't like is when nature is pointlessly absent. A bunch of tall buildings providing living, working and recreational space efficiently to lots of people? Excellent. Asphalt to the horizon so that people can drive to Walmart and then drive to Applebee's? Soul-crushing.

In the US, compare a city like Houston, TX to a city like Portland, OR. Seems like two different planets.

bruh same. everytime i have to ride through suburbs im just like damn this is so depressing and ugly

I live in Norway. Growing up, some days in school were reserved for diverse activities. Some of my friends and I decided to bike to the swimming park in the city ~20 miles away. We didn't have to bike on car roads at all to get there, as bike lanes and good side paths lead us the whole way. Being able to get anywhere with a bike at the age of 14 is an amazing level of freedom.

Yeah, it's called america. Unless you zoom in on a liscense plate, you don't know WHAT state that is.

Well.....I guess it's not Hawaii. Besides that though.....

I'm sure there's some Geoguessr player who can tell you where there's a Subway by a Hertz rental car across from a Speedway gas station, but a stroad with nationally available brands along it doesn't narrow things down much.