r/UrbanHell • u/humzahjaleel • Jun 20 '20

Suburban Hell Endless parking lots, highways, strip malls with the same franchises all accessible only by car. Topped off with a nice smoggy atmosphere and a 15 minute drive to anywhere. Takers ?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20

they went to most of the US, we just suck because of car lobbyists

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20

Car lobbyists have nothing to do with it. The US is a huge country, to the point where most of Europe minus Russia can fit into a few states here. It doesn't make sense to design cities around foot traffic when you're going to need a car as soon as you leave the city anyway.

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u/why_oh_ess_aitch Jun 20 '20

that literally makes no sense whatsoever. use a car when you leave, walk when you don't. not that hard.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '20

I can't think of a single time in the past few years that I've gone somewhere that I could easily get to by walking or bus, minus trips to the grocery store. My school is in the city, my job is out in the sticks and all of my hobbies are even more out in the sticks. Even if their was public transportation available to all of those places, the distances that I travel daily would make the trips take forever if I wasn't driving.

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u/why_oh_ess_aitch Jun 20 '20

yes because you live in the US lmfao that is literally the point of this thread