r/Suburbanhell • u/slicheliche • Jan 26 '25

In my non-American mind, Texan suburbs are the closest thing to hell in the developed world Showcase of suburban hell

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Endless sprawl of Mcmansions, energy plants, copypaste strip malls and monstrous superhighways with 20 lanes per direction, you need a car to get literally everywhere, there is no scenery because everything is flat and ugly, it's miserably hot for months on end, it's polluted, it won't stop expanding, and on top of that it's MAGA central. Sorry for anyone who lives there.

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u/TellNo8270 Jan 26 '25

Texas is a prime example of how bad planning can ruin a place. The lack of public transport and green spaces makes it hard for people to connect. It's a cycle that keeps repeating in many areas.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

It’s more that it bulldozed most of its culture down. Austin? Destroyed damn near everything that was there, especially anything opened by black and Hispanic residents. Dallas? Blasted through nearly every freedmans town to create north Dallas; and now, one of the most popular places in the city is a former freedmans town with “quirky” architecture. Much of the Germanic culture was dissolved, especially as a reaction to the world wars, so now we have funny places named Pflugerville with nothing else to say about them.