• Vespair@lemm.ee
      39·
      9 months ago

      Is it weird to say that your chicken looks straight gangsta? Like I’d invite that chicken to my smoke circle

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      i just want to thank you for starting a thread of people posting their chickens im the midst of a bunch of debatelords being debatelords.

      the internet is a better place with you in it💗🐔

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    59·
    9 months ago

    God I wish. I live in an American city, so it’s too dangerous to walk along the 4 lane stroad to get to the grocery store a block away

    • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
      2·
      9 months ago

      When I look at those neat American suburb grids and imagine to be a shop owner, I would love to put my store directly into the grid. Is it just not allowed to have a shop in those neighborhoods? Isn’t that anti-capitalist lol?

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        That’s correct, suburbs are the product of the worst housing experiment in the US, in which racists fled from cities to suburbs. They were designed to benefit white people in the aftermath of WW2, because white people were more likely to afford a car. More racism prevented POC from buying in the suburbs or qualifying for housing loans. A second layer of racism came when the Department of Transportation intentionally used Emminent Domain to design the highway network for disrupting and dividing neighborhoods of black people. The whipped topping of this racism pancake came from an unassuming supreme court case, which allowed for municipalities to “preserve the character of the community”, which cemented racist single family zoning into city ordinances and prevents literally anything other than a single family home from being built

  • TxzK@lemmy.zip
    50·
    9 months ago

    Unironically agreed. Suburbs suck and apparently they’re also bad for the environment.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    40·
    9 months ago

    Imagine being able to walk or cycle to a store in a few minutes while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺. Hopefully the US will learn to build better cities someday.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      while also not being in some dense urban hellscape 🇳🇱🇪🇺

      Fun fact: Although Amsterdam (~5,000/km2) fails to match the population density of New York City (~11,000/km2), similarly-human-scale Paris manages to almost double it (~20,000/km2) despite not having skyscrapers. Because of things like progressive setbacks and the need to build parking decks to comply with minimum parking requirements, NYC-style skyscrapers really don’t buy you as much extra living space as you might think, compared to mid-rise apartment buildings that can use the entire city block curb-to-curb.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      That’s already how my life is in the USA. I live in the woods, and I can get to 2 grocery stores within 5-10 minutes.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      1·
      9 months ago

      The most frustrating thing is being in a place with dense outwardly building urban development. Watching more and more copy/pasted strip malls go up with plans for “Subway. Smoke shop. Nails. Maybe gas station.” (Yes, every time)

      Aside from copy-paste labyrinthine housing developments.

      You just wish you could shout loudly enough “You’re doing it all wrong and there’s still a chance to make this better!”

      But it keeps on going.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        The most frustrating thing is being in a place with dense outwardly building urban development. Watching more and more copy/pasted strip malls go up with plans for “Subway. Smoke shop. Nails. Maybe gas station.” (Yes, every time)

        If it’s a strip mall with a surface parking lot (as opposed either having a parking deck, or having very little parking at all because it’s TOD), it categorically doesn’t count as “dense.”

    • SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world
      16·
      9 months ago

      Some of those other issues stem from being a suburbanite. No social interactions, no casual exercise by walking more than the length of their driveway, no easy access to either cultural institutions nor quality green spaces, etc.

      • klemptor@startrek.website
        2·
        9 months ago

        Wat. I know it’s cool to hate on the suburbs but in my view it’s the best of both worlds.

        No social interactions? I go to trivia night every week at a local suburban bar, it’s very social. Or just out and about in my neighborhood you can easily run into folks walking their dog and have a some chitchat.

        No casual exercise? My neighborhood is super walkable with hills and winding roads, and most houses have beautiful landscaping. There’s no HOA so every yard is different, and most people put a lot of work and pride into it. So walking my dog or going for a jog is easy, safe, and pleasant.

        No easy access to cultural institutions? I can easily go to local shows in the suburbs - and not just cover bands, but original music too, by some pretty well-known bands. Just as an example, a few years before covid we saw a double-headline show by The Psychedelic Furs and The Church at a theater 10 minutes from my house. There are also arboretums and preserves that have light shows with music, there are local playhouses, and there are even galleries and museums (though I admit these don’t really compare to the art museum downtown, but it’s rare I would go to one anyway).

        No easy access to green spaces? Like I said, there are several parks, preserves, and arboretums near me. I can get to a small local park on foot - it’s right outside my neighborhood. The closest arboretum is an easy 5-minute drive. I can get to a local farm in 5 minutes. There are a ton of streams (in fact my neighborhood has a sizeable stream in easy walking distance), and because of that, my backyard is filled with nature. The other day we had nine deer in our backyard. There’s a red-tailed hawk that stalks our yard in the summer. We have chipmunks, garter sneks, raccoons, opossums, rabbits, squirrels, foxes, and all sorts of birds.

        And if I need eggs I can walk five minutes to the market right outside my neighborhood, or be there in two via car.

        Maybe I’m lame, or maybe I live in an unusually good area, but I love the suburbs.

        • SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world
          7·
          9 months ago

          Good for you. The meme is about those terrible suburban areas where none of that is true. If you can walk five minutes on a winding footpath through your local park to a small local shop, your street probably doesn’t look like this:

          • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            That is the same thing as Urban Hellscape. They just changed the vertical density to horizontal density.

            Only a moron would buy a house like that with no yard, when there are many rural homes available with far more space for less price.

  • bluewing@lemm.ee
    12·
    9 months ago

    When the store is 100 mile/160 kilometer round trip, you either figure out a substitute or do without. And if you don’t know what else to use, your favorite search engine is only seconds away from helping you with your problem. It ain’t rocket surgery.

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
    7·
    9 months ago

    For the vast majority of my suburban life, whenever I needed eggs mid-recipe I just walked across the street to either the local grocery store or local convenience store to get eggs.

  • MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org
    6·
    9 months ago

    I live in the suburbs and am within walking distance of 3 places that sell eggs. Which is an anomaly, because yes this is one of many problems with suburban sprawl.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
        8·
        9 months ago

        Because America was built for cars, not pedestrians. You’d be surprised how hard it can be to walk just a block or two down sometimes…

        Also in some parts of the country we have ridiculously fast roads right in front of neighborhoods so 3-4 minutes might be at 55mph (88kmh)

      • doingthestuff@lemmy.world
        8·
        9 months ago

        There are no sidewalks, bike lanes or even a shoulder on the road. I walked home from the tire shop next to the store one time last year and four people stopped to offer me a ride because it’s that dangerous.

        Also it’s currently way below freezing here. I would still walk in those temps but not many people will, and not everyone can walk two miles each way (which is more like 1-2 hrs of walking total)

      • doingthestuff@lemmy.world
        6·
        9 months ago

        There are no sidewalks, bike lanes or even a shoulder on the road. I walked home from the tire shop next to the store one time last year and four people stopped to offer me a ride because it’s that dangerous.

        Also it’s currently way below freezing here. I would still walk in those temps but not many people will, and not everyone can walk two miles each way (which is more like 1-2 hrs of walking total)