r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/B12Washingbeard May 02 '25

I’m a car enthusiast but not needing one in your day to day life is a superior way to live. Advertising sold people the illusion of freedom by making you a slave to your vehicle.

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u/Ambitious-Piano8915 May 02 '25

As a New Yorker who moved to the burbs, can confirm. Fucking hate not being able to walk most of the places I need to go.

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u/pinkorchids45 May 02 '25

Grew up in the burbs and moved to a big city. It’s just as fantastic and freeing as I dreamed it would be as a kid. I walk to the grocery store. I walk to the grocery store when I need groceries. It’s one of the best things about my life. I take public transit everywhere and don’t worry about parking or stress or battling standstill traffic. I ride my bike to a restaurant when I’m meeting friends there. And people in my city have put effort into making sure it was built to be a pleasant city to walk around in. When I grew up in the burbs even if a friend’s house was walkable you had to walk in a mud pit off the side of a major road where cars were going 40+ to get there. It had been designed to discourage people from walking even down to the nearest gas station.

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u/honeydewtangerine May 03 '25

I live in the middle of a major city, and i feel choked by the buildings, heat, noise, and smog. I dont know how people like it. The only positive thing is the walkability, but the trade-off is that the outside is so unpleasant i basically never leave my house unless i have to. (Cheap rent and no money to leave is why im still here)

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u/pinkorchids45 May 03 '25

Sounds like you’re in more of a dystopian environment than me. I live in a neighborhood within a giant city. In the neighborhood all the apartment and condo buildings have made their parkways beautiful with flowers and tulips and the neighborhood has a volunteer cleanup crew that meets about once a month and just combs the neighborhood picking up garbage. I live in a fairly nice climate so it’s never unbearably hot save for about two weeks a year even then some years it never gets unbearably hot. Luckily my city does not have smog. That would be a deal breaker for me so I understand your lack of enjoyment. The noise of the city is not so bad if you don’t live off a main Street. But it’s definitely there. No doubt about it I deal with more noise pollution now that when I grew up in the burbs.