What's it like living in the suburbs?

mastamind89 · Dec 8, 2012

ccastro02 said:
I'm from long island and i love it! 45 minutes away from nyc, plenty of malls, 2 outlets, great parks, safe neighborhoods, bike paths everywhere, great pizza, great gyro's, OCEAN BEACHES, hamptons, winery's, clubs. Long island >>>>>> any suburb.

Same here. Where at?
LI is def a different type of suburban experience. I'm about 20 minutes from Queens. It's not a bad drive and I can always take the train to the city which I can walk too. A good mixture of chains and small businesses. Great food out here. Some areas aren't quite. Great place to raise a family, good schools and what not. Never had a neighborhood watch or anything :lol:

but the cops always show up fast :lol:

and they make bank out here too

smangalang · Dec 8, 2012

Moved out of the meighborhood when I was 11 and I'm never looking back. Beef Neck til the END!

waitwut · Dec 9, 2012

AEA18 said:
CJ003 said:

I lived in the burbs for highschool and two years after. I hated every single moment.

-So many white people using the N-word like its fashionable
-Nosey neighbors. I once got a phone call while driving. pulled over on the side of the road to talk, and had the cops roll up on me b/c someone called them on me.
-Cops stayed harassing me
-Physical altercations. This may sound weird, but I always had problems with other minorities who lived in the suburbs. It was like they tried extra hard to prove they were hard. It was so annoying. Compare this to the hood where the general rule is mind your own damn business, and no one will really bother you. Hell I only got into one fight in the city.
-Less sports leagues and in general things that could have kept me occupied after school.
-Lack of culture. I didn't really get into playing music until i was 21, when I moved to the city. Never enjoyed graffiti/art until then. All my culture back then came from BET, which we all know shouldnt happen.
-Like someone mentioned above you have to drive everywhere. You don't run errands real quick b/c all the places you need to go are so far apart. You spend a day running errands. When I go visits my parents I spend so much money on gas.
-there is no spontaneous going out. If you want to go out you need to leave early, have a DD, blah blah.

I'll move back to the burbs when I retire. I will never raise my kids in the burbs, i want them to be more cultured than me. Theres a reason no one visits the suburbs of a city when the go on vacation.

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QFT

Its like if you wanna be so hard take yo *** to the hood and try that BS you won't last an ~~day~~ hour.

thissss :x :x :x :x :x
ive never met so many wanna be gangsters in my life dudes would claim blood or crip when theres really no gang in the burbs i cringe when i see them try hards
dudes would get checked so quick in the hood its not even funny

dauldierce · Dec 9, 2012

yea lol i remember one of my cousins friends was claiming he was a blood. :rofl:

.. dude wore red only every day. he had no gang. i asked him where his gang at. use to put bandanas in his pockets.

AZwildcats · Dec 9, 2012

I grew up on the Eastside of Tucson, AZ. Not a dangerous place, but it is a less then desirable place to live. When we could afford to, we moved out to the suburbs in Pima County, AZ and never looked back. I prefer everything about living out here and the nice thing is Tucson's city limits are only 15min away

twizzi · Dec 9, 2012

i love having a backyard and space not being so congested on the streets i live in L.I

jordan23dotcom · Dec 9, 2012

Y'all do understand that if you live in a suburb you can drive to the city right? I've lived in both and living in the burbs if much better.

ninjahood · Dec 9, 2012

shatterkneesinc said:
i would like to experience the american dream

if its anything like long island, they can have it.

i love stomptin around da concrete jungle.

wawawowee · Dec 9, 2012

jordan23dotcom said:
Y'all do understand that if you live in a suburb you can drive to the city right? I've lived in both and living in the burbs if much better.

Driving is a hassle.

gatzbygordon · Dec 9, 2012

AZwildcats said:
I grew up on the Eastside of Tucson, AZ. Not a dangerous place, but it is a less then desirable place to live. When we could afford to, we moved out to the suburbs in Pima County, AZ and never looked back. I prefer everything about living out here and the nice thing is Tucson's city limits are only 15min away

at least you werent around all those crappy places like mesa and tempe..i had family out there and my cousin would take me out with his friends, and all they did for fun

is cause trouble..

jbcreese · Dec 9, 2012

GatzbyGordon said:
at least you werent around all those crappy places like mesa and tempe..i had family out there and my cousin would take me out with his friends, and all they did for fun

is cause trouble..

I grew up in Mesa/Gilbert, definitely know what you mean by people having nothing to do besides cause trouble, but luckily the people that I hung out always found better things to do with our time.

melo0115 · Dec 9, 2012

A lot of truth in this thread, been living in the burbs all my life, I'm trying to move out to the city for some experience and more activity. I think of boredom as always finding a way to be distracted, and theres a lot of that going on in the burbs... Internet, video games, cell phone, tv on the internet, friends wanting to chill and just play drinking games or whatever

powerballin · Dec 9, 2012

ninjahood said:
shatterkneesinc said:

i would like to experience the american dream

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if its anything like long island, they can have it.

i love stomptin around da concrete jungle.

expected nothing less

sir charles · Dec 9, 2012

Not finished growing up in the burbs :lol:

Its one of those things where it has it's moments, but can be really boring at times.

chez · Dec 9, 2012

Benny Bugatti said:
Grew up in Carol City. Same stuff that went down in the city, went down in the burbs. In Dade County the gullyness doesn't stop on 79th street, but that's city limits.

Same thing in Chicago. Harvey, Markham, Blue Island, Dolton, Calumet City, Maywood, Forest Park, etc. are just as grimey as the Chi.

I came in to say this...

I think there are different kinds of Suburb living... I'm from Chicago, so living in Maywood or Bellwood is a totally different suburban experience than living in say Oak Brook or Naperville.... My parents moved us from the city to the western suburbs when I was 11, but we only moved 7 miles outside of the city so it was nothing for my fam or friends to come out there and bring the City to the Burbs, or vice versa lol...

powerballin · Dec 9, 2012

Chez said:
Benny Bugatti said:

Grew up in Carol City. Same stuff that went down in the city, went down in the burbs. In Dade County the gullyness doesn't stop on 79th street, but that's city limits.

Same thing in Chicago. Harvey, Markham, Blue Island, Dolton, Calumet City, Maywood, Forest Park, etc. are just as grimey as the Chi.

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I came in to say this...

I think there are different kinds of Suburb living... I'm from Chicago, so living in Maywood or Bellwood is a totally different suburban experience than living in say Oak Brook or Naperville.... My parents moved us from the city to the western suburbs when I was 11, but we only moved 7 miles outside of the city so it was nothing for my fam or friends to come out there and bring the City to the Burbs, or vice versa lol...

'Very true there are alot of "suburban hoods" out there. Theres a difference.

sonunox34 · Dec 10, 2012

I've experienced all sorts

Grew up in mid-sized white Minnesota town
Went to college with a million suburban kids
Now live in NE MPLS, work downtown, work part-time at a ratchet liquor store south of DT

They're all good in different areas. I'm glad that I developed in the way and order that I did.

One thing I will definitely say is that the drug scene is weeeeeird out in those suburbs. I went to college with a lot of kids that came out of the most expensive private schools and had you name it: coke, pills, ex, shrooms, acid, etc... anyone on NT from the Twin Cities, I went to SMU and met so many 2.1 GPA burnouts from T-G and Hill-Murray, sometimes Cretin or Holy Family, it was like they all got shipped there by their parents who were just praying they could make it through a semester (they never would).

And then the worst thing my buddies from southside Chicago grew up around were cheap weed blunts or maybe a weird uncle that hit the pipe. I remember my friend from Maywood (west Chicago) had never even seen a bowl before college. And their parents made damb sure they didn't touch crack, and so they didn't. But the rich white kids, who were under little supervision, were the ones messing up their lives getting addicted to oxycodin and failing out of school left and right. Their parents had enough money but couldn't keep track of their kids at all.

sonunox34 · Dec 10, 2012

Chez said:
Benny Bugatti said:

Grew up in Carol City. Same stuff that went down in the city, went down in the burbs. In Dade County the gullyness doesn't stop on 79th street, but that's city limits.

Same thing in Chicago. Harvey, Markham, Blue Island, Dolton, Calumet City, Maywood, Forest Park, etc. are just as grimey as the Chi.

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I came in to say this...

I think there are different kinds of Suburb living... I'm from Chicago, so living in Maywood or Bellwood is a totally different suburban experience than living in say Oak Brook or Naperville.... My parents moved us from the city to the western suburbs when I was 11, but we only moved 7 miles outside of the city so it was nothing for my fam or friends to come out there and bring the City to the Burbs, or vice versa lol...

Didn't even notice someone up above me talking about the Chicago suburbs. Had a friend from Harvey talking about running around in 8th grade with a pack of friends robbing people that were alone just for fun :smh:

Also heard reckless stories from kids that went to Proviso, had a friend from Maywood that had a dead body show up on his doorstep when he was 8 years old, was a message to his crackhead uncle who owed money :x I was like "are you sure these are suburbs?"

But I guess Chicago is pretty much a model of "urban gentrification," where the "white flight" from the city to the burbs in the 60s/70s is now turned into a migration back to the city, where rich folk are buying up blocks and popping up condos. Not sure MPLS is a big enough area for that to really happen, but it sure is happening in Chicago.

dauldierce · Dec 10, 2012

One thing positive though for the burbs is that peaceful, you can walk witrhout worrying about getting robbed, jumped, etc. you can walk arond with a iPad if u want. White girls will love you if your black/hispanic. I mean loveeeeee.

I mean few more positives. but the negatives overweigh it imo if your under 30.

shoelyesses · Dec 10, 2012

WaitWut said:
thissss

ive never met so many wanna be gangsters in my life dudes would claim blood or crip when theres really no gang in the burbs i cringe when i see them try hards
dudes would get checked so quick in the hood its not even funny

lol man this is too much... cause its soo soo true... that and i find that a see alot of minorities esp... blacks the older ones atleast try so so hard to be pet negroes.... i mean i get trying to a certain extent fitting in etc... and wanting the man to give you an occasional good boy pat on the head... but i mean they be o'ding on it...

I mean i hate to use the term white washed but thats bout the best i can do... then they kids are like the exact opposite.... like they on some i wanna be hood im so hard projects etc.... im like dude we in the middle of nowhere basically in a secluded hood in covington, ga... half of use got 4 car garages dude... And another ive notice is how iuno i guess im the official urbanite hoodcyclopedia.... and i have my white neighbors often times looking to me as like a reference point to all things not middle upper class white.

on another note i have been reading those lil black spade threads and i seriously think this white lady is on some ****old type steez.... iuno she kinda gives me this vibe....

mplsdunk · Dec 10, 2012

sonunox34 said:
Chez said:

Benny Bugatti said:

Grew up in Carol City. Same stuff that went down in the city, went down in the burbs. In Dade County the gullyness doesn't stop on 79th street, but that's city limits.

Same thing in Chicago. Harvey, Markham, Blue Island, Dolton, Calumet City, Maywood, Forest Park, etc. are just as grimey as the Chi.

Click to expand...

I came in to say this...

I think there are different kinds of Suburb living... I'm from Chicago, so living in Maywood or Bellwood is a totally different suburban experience than living in say Oak Brook or Naperville.... My parents moved us from the city to the western suburbs when I was 11, but we only moved 7 miles outside of the city so it was nothing for my fam or friends to come out there and bring the City to the Burbs, or vice versa lol...

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Didn't even notice someone up above me talking about the Chicago suburbs. Had a friend from Harvey talking about running around in 8th grade with a pack of friends robbing people that were alone just for fun Also heard reckless stories from kids that went to Proviso, had a friend from Maywood that had a dead body show up on his doorstep when he was 8 years old, was a message to his crackhead uncle who owed money :x I was like "are you sure these are suburbs?"

But I guess Chicago is pretty much a model of "urban gentrification," where the "white flight" from the city to the burbs in the 60s/70s is now turned into a migration back to the city, where rich folk are buying up blocks and popping up condos. Not sure MPLS is a big enough area for that to really happen, but it sure is happening in Chicago.

it has chicago and lake used to be gutter as hell, then they put global market is or whatever it's called and some other stuff and it's no where near what it used to be.

they are trying their hardest with the north side too. trying to put new condos in all over. it's not to the extent of chicago tearing down project row. i think it's def happened a little bit though.

nineteen92 · Dec 10, 2012

Coming from someone that's young, it kind of sucks. The public transportation here is lacking, and the atmosphere isn't as exciting as city life.

If I was older, I could see it being somewhere that I want to live. But as a 20 year old, I don't like being out here.

bdeazy · Dec 10, 2012

Watch out for Section 8 renters. They will rain on your parade.

Section 8 :x

$tacy · Dec 10, 2012

I grew up in the hood bros and im telling u moving to dem burbz was the best choice I ever made. Born n raises in detroit, michigan n at 15 my fam moved to a suburb called southfield and now at 23 I haven't looked back since. (dem burbz yambs>)

1criollo · Dec 10, 2012

Boring. I've lived in both the hood and the suburbs. Once pops got a good job, we banged out. That being said, I'll take the suburbs all day long.

Kinda want to try living in the city tho.

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