Bugs sounding a little tasty tho, ngl
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Don't police stop people that are walking? I heard this from multiple people. It's so unusual to not be in a car they investigate.
I've had people in cars shout at me as they pass by and I've had a cop drive up to me and ask me where I'm headed, dependes from location to location, but walking is just seen as an odd activity in this country for some reason lol
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You ever seen Vivarium?
Yeah I mentioned it in my original comment, nice movies
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I've had people in cars shout at me as they pass by and I've had a cop drive up to me and ask me where I'm headed, dependes from location to location, but walking is just seen as an odd activity in this country for some reason lol
This kind of "societal pressure" for lack of a better term is probably discouraging people. At least for me it would be.
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Yeah I mentioned it in my original comment, nice movies
Oh word. My bad.
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Why are HOA so common? I only read about how annoying and sometimes borderline illegal they act
Also houses with an HOA are worth less money.
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Why are HOA so common? I only read about how annoying and sometimes borderline illegal they act
I think because for most Americans their home is their single largest asset - usually their only one with any resale value. So they jealousy guard against anything that might reduce the value, like a neighbor who does anything out of the blandest, most ordinary things.
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HOAs prevent it with all their micromanagement of how your property should look, and how modifications should be done. Most new build communities come with an HOA now.
So glad that we don't have those here, its your house, you should be able to decorate it as you wish as long as it doesn't get to a point of harming others. Generally that would be health risks or blocking out the sun for others. So no 2m pile of fish guts allowed.
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HOAs prevent it with all their micromanagement of how your property should look, and how modifications should be done. Most new build communities come with an HOA now.
Ah, freedom!
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Don't police stop people that are walking? I heard this from multiple people. It's so unusual to not be in a car they investigate.
I've never heard of this as an arbitrary thing that just "happens." Yes there are neighborhoods that are overly policed and have racial tensions, but if you're in that kind of environment, you go out and stay with groups, you work within the system the best you can, you make planned events working with community organizers. It takes more planning and care, but even in those hostile urban environments, people go out and do things all the time. There is almost no place where you can't just go out and walk somewhere, unless it's such a dangerous area that a curfew is in effect. And really, if you live somewhere like that, you got bigger concerns.
There is a LOT of overhyped media about American neighborhoods, they hype it in both directions. Depending on what side of the political spectrum you connect with best, the algorithm will attempt to make you afraid of going out because you should be scared of police, or scared of the citizens.
In the vast majority of suburban neighborhoods and urban higher-density areas, there are always people walking around, walking their dogs, going to the convenience store, etc. The only time I've EVER been hassled by police was one time many years ago I was taking trash out in my own yard, but I was carrying a big black flashlight, carrying a trash bag and had a dark hoodie, and from a distance I looked just like a potential burglar. The cops asked me what I was up to, I said taking out the trash and they were kinda assholes but then left.
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I've had people in cars shout at me as they pass by and I've had a cop drive up to me and ask me where I'm headed, dependes from location to location, but walking is just seen as an odd activity in this country for some reason lol
wrote on last edited by [email protected]People in cars do sometimes shout nonsense as they pass pedestrians, but that's just noise. Never respond to it, never think about it, never let it bother you. It's the same as leaf-litter. You walk through it, you don't let it even impact your stride. Purge from your memory as it happens like so much ballast.
Now for police, that can vary a LOT depending on where you live and what your skin color is, but there aren't many places where people just can't walk around for fear of police intervention, because at least in America, despite all the media horror and fear, there are millions and millions of people walking their dogs, walking to the store, picking up their kids at the bus stop, carrying groceries, exercising, and so on. The chances of having a serious encounter with law-enforcement isn't zero, but it's probably significantly lower than the chances of developing type-2 diabetes from not going out and exercising.
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People in cars do sometimes shout nonsense as they pass pedestrians, but that's just noise. Never respond to it, never think about it, never let it bother you. It's the same as leaf-litter. You walk through it, you don't let it even impact your stride. Purge from your memory as it happens like so much ballast.
Now for police, that can vary a LOT depending on where you live and what your skin color is, but there aren't many places where people just can't walk around for fear of police intervention, because at least in America, despite all the media horror and fear, there are millions and millions of people walking their dogs, walking to the store, picking up their kids at the bus stop, carrying groceries, exercising, and so on. The chances of having a serious encounter with law-enforcement isn't zero, but it's probably significantly lower than the chances of developing type-2 diabetes from not going out and exercising.
I have darker skin color so I avoid cops like the plague. I was walking home at 1 am in the rain and a single cop drove up to me and asked me where I was going and I wanted a lift, I picked a random apartment complex and said that's my home and just pretended to go in there till he drove away
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I think because for most Americans their home is their single largest asset - usually their only one with any resale value. So they jealousy guard against anything that might reduce the value, like a neighbor who does anything out of the blandest, most ordinary things.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]... or a neighbor who does something that actually reduces resale value in the neighborhood.
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Imagine calling one of those pods a "home"
Seriously? People live their lives in those houses. They sleep, cook, decorate, throw parties, watch movies, raise children. Just because the outside isn't non-conformist enough for your personal tastes, that's not a home?
There's something wrong with that perspective.
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You can't afford the pod and you can't afford the bugs.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Red lobster couldn’t afford the bugs either. Put em out of business.
Well that was the excuse. Thy real reason was because the holding company that bought them out with debt also sold all the locations to a land lord and rented them back at higher rates.
Funny money fucked them.
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Nagle not really.
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Imagine calling a house a pod.
I don't have to imagine it...
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There's something deeply unsettling about American suburbs, rows of identical houses, and not a human being in sight, no noises, just this artifical maze, my Uber took a detour though one once and I looked up from my phone and saw that I didn't realize where I am and it all looked so identical it was disorienting and I freaked out a bit, had to open Google maps to realize where I was. The movie Vivarium captures this feeling well. Why don't y'all get out and go for a walk and talk to your neighbors.
the aetheric monotonous nightmare of commie blocks, with absolutely zero advantages, high cost, and HOA control
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There's something deeply unsettling about American suburbs, rows of identical houses, and not a human being in sight, no noises, just this artifical maze, my Uber took a detour though one once and I looked up from my phone and saw that I didn't realize where I am and it all looked so identical it was disorienting and I freaked out a bit, had to open Google maps to realize where I was. The movie Vivarium captures this feeling well. Why don't y'all get out and go for a walk and talk to your neighbors.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]These types of identical house suburban hellholes are the exception, not the norm. Mostly it's the newer developments being built out in the middle of nowhere that look like this, and presumably so the builders can skimp out on construction costs by making (or attempting to make...) everything the same for each one. Plus the HOA, "but muh resale value!" factor.
I live in an American suburb. All the houses in my neighborhood, and all the others in town, are different. We don't have an insane HOA and I can paint my house whatever color I want. We have quite a few services, shops, and various eateries (to be fair, three of them are fast food joints) well within walking distance. With sidewalks. And in some places, even a bike lane.
This area was built up in the 1940's through the late 1950's in the post-war boom.
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There's something deeply unsettling about American suburbs, rows of identical houses, and not a human being in sight, no noises, just this artifical maze, my Uber took a detour though one once and I looked up from my phone and saw that I didn't realize where I am and it all looked so identical it was disorienting and I freaked out a bit, had to open Google maps to realize where I was. The movie Vivarium captures this feeling well. Why don't y'all get out and go for a walk and talk to your neighbors.
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... or a neighbor who does something that actually reduces resale value in the neighborhood.
I think we're agreeing. I mean, if your neighbor paints their mailbox with a rainbow then that's something that will make your house harder to sell.
