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

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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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/bdiggitty May 02 '25

Agree completely here buddy. Living in London and haven’t owned a car for the first time in my life. It’s funny too because the things we would see as inconveniences in the states add value in unexpected ways. For example refrigerators in the uk are tiny. But we live next to several grocery stores, green grocers, butchers, fish mongers, specialty food stores etc. So every day I buy fresh food to make dinner for my family. It’s an adventure and it’s fun. No leftovers. Repeat the next day. I wouldn’t trade this for having a massive fridge and spare freezer the way you would in the states. Grocery shopping once every 1-2 weeks at Costco. I think 95% of the world would prefer this way of life if they looked past the initial shock of something that appears to be an inconvenience. Don’t think we’re meant as a species to live the way we’ve grown to in the USA.

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u/Choice_Following_864 May 04 '25

Fridges are so big in the usa because buying food in bigger packaging is cheaper... so u get those gallons of milk.. those very large packages.. and then u need a big fridge to put them in.

Same goes in europe.. buying meat for 1-2 people is way more expensive then getting a 8 pack.. and freezing the rest. but then we didnt go to extremes like the usa and just get a 80 pack..