A tale of Two Cities. r/urbanhell discussing suburbs vs discussing Commie Blocks

Redditors act like forests get clear cut for new housing as if they're not using old farmers fields for subdivisions.

I still hate those new suburbs that put a fat house on an undersized yard. I much prefer older suburbs where you have room for detached garages, big yards you can spread out in and lots of room for boomer activities like tinkering on your lifted '99 Blazer (don't make em like they used to ) and having people over to grill and sit around a fire pit

That said, it's infinitely better than paying rent to a Chinese PE firm that owns your soy box where you have to step over puddles of homeless semen in your entryway and you can't have guests over because you physically don't space for chairs

Its incredible they can't plop a 7-11 in the grid to serve the mayofats . Just one .

Plus those commieblockcels can't math. Even if there was only 1 tree per single family house, they can't seem to do the math that there are about 6 trees per 100 unit apartment building.

!anticommunists !mathematics

That grass looks thirsty as frick

But muh culture!!!!

The american version of commieblocks is... commieblocks

Manhattan, Skid Row, Chicago... they've got a little Hong Kong going on

Soulless corporate apartments IMO

It's literally project housing

I didn't know we had brothers here

re: those projects:

at one point 95 percent of the housing development's 27,000 residents were unemployed and listed public assistance as their only income source,

they literally contribute nothing to society

Wrongf my part of texas is a almost swamp with vast forests

And both sub and full urbancels are subhuman

It's a ruralchads worlt

T. Never lived in a commieblock city.

spaces where a community hall, an auditorium, a library, fountain, park etc can be set up.

Hahahaha the only thing you get is a society of distrust, suspicion and backstabbing.

People dont understand what these blocks do to people psychologically. Its a human cattle farm, there is no feeling of privacy and individuality, you have your pod and dozens of other pods under the same roof, and subconsciously that makes it feel like being roommates with strangers, people you never see and that might as well be ghosts.

But hey, you have your own 4 walls at least, right?

No. All the dozens of other people will meet everyone visiting you, you cant have any privacy. When they come, when they go, all seen by dozens of unseen eyes behind thin doors or curtains.

And what you do in your home is also open to at least the ones living next to/above/below you. Relationship issue? Make-up s*x? Bad news? They know, and that means before long everyone will know.

Oh and that nice window of yours? It looks outside right at the next pod building, where even more unseen eyes are spying on you, intentional or not.

Commie blocks are paychological torture, they're the architectural embodiment of the total surveillance state that were the communist countries and couldnt have been designed better as such if they were made by the KGB.

The commie blocks are prefab copies though. Take the Khrushchevkas, they're concrete paneled buildings. They're great for social housing but not so much if you have a better income, an issue with them is that they were meant to be replaced in the 1990s, so they weren't really meant to last. But then again neither are American McMansions which is why I'm biased towards concrete houses.

I think you would love the Brazilian condominios

They're high-quality and have pools and sportive areas if you enjoy to interact with neighbors. Plus they're located in the middle of major urban centers.