Suburban/Rural
hybrid towns that boomed in the 21st Century but are never depicted in media. Sometimes referred to as the Exurbs. Movies pretend these places
don’
t exist because filming here would depress the director.
A type of town that looks rural from a plane but looks suburban-inspired up close, like a suburb that gave up half-way.
The final boss of
car-dependent city planning.
Nothing is walkable or connected. Everything is near everything, yet unreachable without a
car.
Too many fields, overgrown ditches, empty lots, & dying buildings to be suburban — but too many gas stations,
big intersections, chain stores, & commercial strips to be rural.
The Final Boss of
car-dependent sprawl where you get the traffic of a major city without the jobs, walkability,
basic amenities, nightlife, or human interaction. You have plenty of neighbors but you'll never meet them.
A great place to live if you hate
people & love driving in heavy traffic. A worse place to live than Norilsk if you wish to date or have a social life.
Dude I live in
Sub-Rural Texas, we
don't have nightlife here.
In the wake of urban decay, many well-off city folks are headed out to new sub-rural developments.
The movies still think we all live in Time
Square, most of
us live in Sub-Rural sprawl these days. Imagine if they actually filmed their movies in a Sub-Rural town.
In my Sub-Rural town, everything you want to buy is a drive to another town. All we have here is gasoline, soda, & tire shops.