Opinion of people who live in suburbs and never go to the city

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Living in a suburb is bad enough. But this is just mind boggingly ridiculous. Why on Earth would anyone do this? How do you not go bored out of your mind?

(Thinking of a rival Ingress player who 1-is a total douchebag and 2-basically never leaves Apple Valley. He's gone to St. Paul before but only to the State Fairgrounds so that doesn't really count.)

[DC Al Fine]

I like my family.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

How did I know this would be you?

[opebo]

What I don't get is how they get their required weekly intake of Indian food... or Vietnamese/Thai/'real Mexican' for that matter..

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

What I don't get is how they get their required weekly intake of Indian food... or Vietnamese/Thai/'real Mexican' for that matter..

Opeob, consider that in many Pittsburgh burbs, they have all of those kinds of food places.  My good self, living 5 miles from the downtown and 2 miles from the city limits finds it more convenient to go into the city to find those kinds of places, but the well built up burbs have this stuff a plenty.

[Хahar 🤔]

Aside from driving through once, I haven't been to DC all semester.

[opebo]

What I don't get is how they get their required weekly intake of Indian food... or Vietnamese/Thai/'real Mexican' for that matter..

Opeob, consider that in many Pittsburgh burbs, they have all of those kinds of food places.  My good self, living 5 miles from the downtown and 2 miles from the city limits finds it more convenient to go into the city to find those kinds of places, but the well built up burbs have this stuff a plenty.

Hmm.. real Mexican?  I must admit, you're quite right, back in St. Louis, the best Indian places are in fact in relatively prosperous 'inner' suburbs and certainly not in the urban core.. though still 45 minute drive from my very far-flung exurban upbringing.  Vietnamese however tends to be a lot better in the urban center, and the only places I know to get really authentic Mexican/Latin food are in really quite dangerous areas (we don't have a lot of Latinos in Missouri).

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

What I don't get is how they get their required weekly intake of Indian food... or Vietnamese/Thai/'real Mexican' for that matter..

Opeob, consider that in many Pittsburgh burbs, they have all of those kinds of food places.  My good self, living 5 miles from the downtown and 2 miles from the city limits finds it more convenient to go into the city to find those kinds of places, but the well built up burbs have this stuff a plenty.

Hmm.. real Mexican?  I must admit, you're quite right, back in St. Louis, the best Indian places are in fact in relatively prosperous 'inner' suburbs and certainly not in the urban core.. though still 45 minute drive from my very far-flung exurban upbringing.  Vietnamese however tends to be a lot better in the urban center, and the only places I know to get really authentic Mexican/Latin food are in really quite dangerous areas (we don't have a lot of Latinos in Missouri).

The Vietnamese/Thai/Indian places I frequent are in the ethnic Pittsburgh city neighborhoods of Lawrenceville and Bloomfield (they border each other) , not in the hard core downtown, for sure.

[Хahar 🤔]

What I don't get is how they get their required weekly intake of Indian food... or Vietnamese/Thai/'real Mexican' for that matter..

Opeob, consider that in many Pittsburgh burbs, they have all of those kinds of food places.  My good self, living 5 miles from the downtown and 2 miles from the city limits finds it more convenient to go into the city to find those kinds of places, but the well built up burbs have this stuff a plenty.

Hmm.. real Mexican?  I must admit, you're quite right, back in St. Louis, the best Indian places are in fact in relatively prosperous 'inner' suburbs and certainly not in the urban core.. though still 45 minute drive from my very far-flung exurban upbringing.  Vietnamese however tends to be a lot better in the urban center, and the only places I know to get really authentic Mexican/Latin food are in really quite dangerous areas (we don't have a lot of Latinos in Missouri).

This nondescript intersection in Mountain View, California is the best place I know of for Mexican food.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Horrible. I could not imagine what life would be like not going into Philly.

[ilikeverin]

Define "never"?  It's not like growing up my family drove in to Minneapolis every weekend, but we'd journey in for things like the Science Museum, the Minnesota Orchestra, the State Fair, etc.

[Torie]

Perhaps because they are not cosmopolitans, who enjoy the artistic and other events the downtown area offers to take the time and expense to go there very often? Everybody has different tastes and priorities, and hobbies. This one size fits all mentality is what leads, or can lead, to an excessive interest in regulating and critiquing other people's lives. So in protest over something that is nether good nor bad, FF.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

My family lives in "the country" and his little reason to visit Detroit but for, say, sports games and to visit me, and the only reason my family's gone into Pontiac is either because of my mom's work (no longer employed there) or to see me do shows. That said, I could be reasonably entertained last summer by watching TV, eating food from local takeout places, and going on kayak outings with my friends. I figure a similar adaptation could be made for one who lives in the suburbs, though they would of course lack the scenery I'm exposed to (several of the folks I hung out with were in "the suburbs").

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

FF; I live in a suburb of West Palm and have been there twice in 2013. And I have been to Miami only two or three times as well. I hate the cities around here.

[ElectionsGuy]

Seriously?

[PJ]

Are we stereotyping random groups of people again?

[angus]

What I don't get is how they get their required weekly intake of Indian food... or Vietnamese/Thai/'real Mexican' for that matter..

There's a vietnamese place about a mile from my house, run by and frequented by a vietnamese population.  Indian food is much closer than downtown as well.  Thai, alas, requires a trip to the city.

Real Mexican requires a two-thousand mile journey, and it's one that I make almost as regularly as I make the journey into the city.  In fact, I'd rather drive to Mexico than drive downtown.

FF.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Define "never"?  It's not like growing up my family drove in to Minneapolis every weekend, but we'd journey in for things like the Science Museum, the Minnesota Orchestra, the State Fair, etc.

The guy I'm thinking of lives in Apple Valley. He works part time at a Sprint store and is apparently a trust fund kiddie (no way anyone would be able to afford his house working even full time at a Sprint store as well.) He basically obsessively defends Apple Valley as his little personal fiefdom and heads out whenever anyone attacks his portals, aggressively chases people around the block, blocks traffic, and made one of our players afraid he was about to be carjacked due to his aggressive cornering of him while on a motorized scooter. He basically never goes anywhere out of Apple Valley except to Eagan and sometimes Edina to stock up on gear, and at one point started mocking me on comm for living in "the hood".

[DINGO Joe]

Define "never"?  It's not like growing up my family drove in to Minneapolis every weekend, but we'd journey in for things like the Science Museum, the Minnesota Orchestra, the State Fair, etc.

The guy I'm thinking of lives in Apple Valley. He works part time at a Sprint store and is apparently a trust fund kiddie (no way anyone would be able to afford his house working even full time at a Sprint store as well.) He basically obsessively defends Apple Valley as his little personal fiefdom and heads out whenever anyone attacks his portals, aggressively chases people around the block, blocks traffic, and made one of our players afraid he was about to be carjacked due to his aggressive cornering of him while on a motorized scooter. He basically never goes anywhere out of Apple Valley except to Eagan and sometimes Edina to stock up on gear, and at one point started mocking me on comm for living in "the hood".

You should put a cap in his buttock.

As for the topic, I think suburbanites who never go into the city are kind of like Indiana--boring. 

[All Along The Watchtower]

The whole concept of American suburbia was built on the paranoia of white people.

[badgate]

How did I know this would be you?

The "Started by" column

[MasterJedi]

It's neither a good thing or a bad thing.

[bedstuy]

I hate seeing B&T people crowd into Manhattan on weekends.  If they would keep their guido haircuts and drunken antics back in New Jersey and Long Island, I would be happy.  So, I can't really complain about the suburbanites who never come into the city.

[memphis]

I hate seeing B&T people crowd into Manhattan on weekends.  If they would keep their guido haircuts and drunken antics back in New Jersey and Long Island, I would be happy.  So, I can't really complain about the suburbanites who never come into the city.

Guy whose name is a Brooklyn neighborhood complains about B&T people?

[bedstuy]

I hate seeing B&T people crowd into Manhattan on weekends.  If they would keep their guido haircuts and drunken antics back in New Jersey and Long Island, I would be happy.  So, I can't really complain about the suburbanites who never come into the city.

Guy whose name is a Brooklyn neighborhood complains about B&T people?

The nice parts of Brooklyn can complain about B&T people.  People who live in Morningside Heights aren't lording it over people in Williamsburg, right?