The F*cking Suburbs

[MissyO]

Anyone else here live in, and hate with a passion, the suburbs? I HATE THE F*CKING BURBS! Say it with me now..........

I can't even buy God damn vegetables without being interrogated about my family. Mind your own business people!

Urban living is teh sh!t.

[Samson The Cat]

I live in a small town - country side, lots of sprouce trees. It's actually nice, but traffic infrastructure sucks big time. I guess this is the only place in Germany, where it takes you 2 hours to travel 50 km by car (there are no other options, public transport is practically dead), no matter what direction you choose. It's not so bad, that there's no highway near my hometown, what gets on my nerves are these darn road works in every effing village and those portable traffic lights that come with them. Everywhere the same picture: a few 100 meters of the street are dug up in spring, in summer the municipalities don't have money for the construction workers to finish the job, so the traffic lights are still present in autumn, when a makeshift paving is applied that lasts exactly one winter before new road works are set up at the exact same spot in spring again. And none of those municipalities nearby learn from the mistakes they make every year.

[MSFixR]

You couldn't pay me to live in the city. Not that I enjoy the commute, but why work if you don't use the proceeds to have a retreat to escape from the noise, pollution and unwashed masses.

[Bill5461]

Originally Posted by MSFixR

You couldn't pay me to live in the city. Not that I enjoy the commute, but why work if you don't use the proceeds to have a retreat to escape from the noise, pollution and unwashed masses.

Ditto

[SilverSpoon]

In Flames - Suburban Me

[Scotty]

I liked it. Wasn't that far out, good public transport etc.

Only took a half hour to get into the city centre with buses and trains leaving every half hour.

Stayed in the city centre for a while gotta say I loved it. Everything, clubs bars, shops, anything you wanted right next door and my mates were living right on the same block. Had the added bonus of having work right down stairs too.

[Jocasta]

I think it depends on the commute; I live in what was once a village but over the last 100 years has become part of the 'burbs... however it's only a 10 minute drive or bus trip into the city centre. So there's lots of green space, countryside is just nearby and school is close too. I guess an hour's commute would make it feel more isolated.
But I did like staying at my sister's flat when she lived in central London... but it's too expensive there to have the standard of living I have now.

[MSFixR]

That's really what it boils down too - your standard of living. The state highway department is about to embark on a 2-3 year rebuilding of a major highway that connects the affluent suburbs with the major metropolitan area here. It is going to wreck havoc with people's standard of living. 150,000 vehicles use that route every week day. Where is that volume of traffic going to go? Some people have already resorted to buying or renting living space in the city. A few have even changed jobs.

[Sk8er gurl]

I've never lived in the suburbs. There aren't really any in Singapore, I mean it takes less than an hour to get from one end of the island to the other

[MissyO]

^ Woah. Trippy. It takes me an hour to get anywhere worthwhile at all.

[Ophelia]

I live in the burbs now and I like it, its nice, clean and safe but albeit a little boring. Although, after living in metro New Orleans for a while...nice, clean and SAFE is fantastic!

yes, the commute is a b!tch, esp. with current gas prices, I spend about 500 bucks a month on gas.

If I were single I would live right smack dab in the middle of a big city.

[MSFixR]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

I live in the burbs now and I like it, its nice, clean and safe but albeit a little boring. Although, after living in metro New Orleans for a while...nice, clean and SAFE is fantastic!

yes, the commute is a b!tch, esp. with current gas prices, I spend about 500 bucks a month on gas.

If I were single I would live right smack dab in the middle of a big city.

$500 a month on gas!?!? At $3 per gallon and 23 MPG that's 3833 miles you're driving. That's a hell of a commute! Does that sound right?

[Jeff]

The Burbs was such a great movie...

[Ophelia]

Originally Posted by MSFixR

$500 a month on gas!?!? At $3 per gallon and 23 MPG that's 3833 miles you're driving. That's a hell of a commute! Does that sound right?

No...er..maybe? I drive a total of 98 miles for my commute m-f, then add on 20 miles to that on mtw for kids soccer practice which is 10 miles away. on weekends i don't know, sometimes i drive alot of places, sometimes I don't. All's I know is for the last 2 months, I have filled up my car at least 10 times a month and it cost $48 bucks to fill. So 500 was a round-up...but its close.

also, here I am paying around 3.25 for reg gas.

oh, and i bought my car in sept with about 10K miles on it and now it has close to 45K.

does that help? math gives me headaches...ask me about literature.

[Wolf]

Originally Posted by MSFixR

That's really what it boils down too - your standard of living. The state highway department is about to embark on a 2-3 year rebuilding of a major highway that connects the affluent suburbs with the major metropolitan area here. It is going to wreck havoc with people's standard of living. 150,000 vehicles use that route every week day. Where is that volume of traffic going to go? Some people have already resorted to buying or renting living space in the city. A few have even changed jobs.

This is where buying private property comes into play.

[MSFixR]

Originally Posted by Ophelia

No...er..maybe? I drive a total of 98 miles for my commute m-f, then add on 20 miles to that on mtw for kids soccer practice which is 10 miles away. on weekends i don't know, sometimes i drive alot of places, sometimes I don't. All's I know is for the last 2 months, I have filled up my car at least 10 times a month and it cost $48 bucks to fill. So 500 was a round-up...but its close.

also, here I am paying around 3.25 for reg gas.

oh, and i bought my car in sept with about 10K miles on it and now it has close to 45K.

does that help? math gives me headaches...ask me about literature.

Ok, ok I believe you, but do you have a locking gas cap on your car/suv/van? When I used to drive to work (I take the bus/train now since the organization I work for pays for the passes), I drove 34 miles round trip. Add to that the running around on the weekends and I was using about 10 gallons of gas per week. Now I'm using 10 gallons every two weeks. Plus I don't have to pay the $83 per month to park. Actually the part about the locking gas cap was no joke.

[Ophelia]

yea..it locks.

Maybe I should quit my job...sigh...it wasn't so bad when gas was 2 bucks a gallon earler this year.

Luckily, we were just told that we can have Fridays off all summer. yay! that will help.

[Val]

I like suburbs for just one reason!
The girls there are not fresh because in the rich places, the girls look at you as a monster and thief.
If a Madam notice me with my suburban brazilian clothes, she will say:

OHHHHH ... look at that beggar ... he will steal my house ...

Disgusting!

[MissyO]

What, like you're not really a thug, Valtinho????