LMAO HOLY COPE. Look at these urbanite redditors SEETHING at rural people living reasonably
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They brag about the culture of big cities. Honestly, when I see big cities I see densely packed crowds of people looking like they are miserable breathing in toxic air, paying outrageous prices for everything, and avoiding crime and homelessness.
I prefer fresh air, open spaces, and friendly neighbors. Walking around without fear of being mugged. There’s a sense of peace in small towns and rural communities.
Truly different worlds.
Look at their sports. Pay hundreds of dollars to watch millionaire athletes sleep-walk through children's games.
Look at their art museums. Overrun with insufferably pretentious queers, retarded modern non-art, and comically bad "diversity" exhibits.
Look at their bar scene. Disgusting cesspool of horrible people paying 1000% markups on booze so they can have meaningless sex and catch every STDs.
Look at their cuisine. Pay 5x what you should for nasty food from dirty street stands, or spend 10x what you should for restaurant food that was shipped in from your despised Midwest. You got kebabs and Thai food? Yeah, so do we. Turns out it's not very hard to make any of that shit.
Look at their cultural enrichment. No shared values. No community. No unity. Just sectarian strife. Cultural enclaves everywhere. No patriotism. No nation. And don't forget all the crime, violence, homelessness...
Meanwhile, middle America has low rent, affordable food, the great outdoors, and the same internet as everywhere else. It's a no brainer.
The need for mega cities died with the internet. The only people who still care about NYC, LA, Chicago, etc are the ones who ruined them to begin with. Women have become intentionally ugly and/or money grubbing whores, so that appeal is gone. Most men are better off getting a dog and a house in the suburbs
Truest thing ever. My wife if filipino and looks for Asian food everywhere we go -- she's never had a problem (and we like going to random places).
She still talks about the cambodian place in Sioux Falls, SD a year later. Dodge City, KS also has some pretty authentic asian food (and great pizza, actually).
Urbanites have become the South Park caricature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJoGEqZfFDI
Savage truths.
Keep quiet, we don't need more damnyankees.
My favorite part was "How many of <X> are within a 30 minute commute without owning a car?"
About half.
But here's the thing. I do own a car. I own three. Because I can afford to do so, because my rent isn't $2/sq ft. I have a 3000 sq ft house with a fully finished basement, two car garage, a 300 sq ft storage shed/workshop on an acre of land. I have three dogs and two cats that run around the back yard having fun. I have a wife, three kids, and a widowed mother who live with me and there's plenty of space for all of us.
And my rent isn't rent, it's a mortgage at 2.25% that will be paid off in 12 more years, right as my youngest child is graduating college. And it's still less than $2000 a month for all that. I can afford spectacular health insurance, seven figure life insurance for myself and my wife, have no revolving debt, and put 20% of our income away each month for retirement. My projected income at retirement is higher than my current income.
So yeah, I will sacrifice being able to take a smelly, crowded train to an overpriced restaurant, paying half a week's wages to look at a banana duct taped to a wall in person, and buy $12 cups of coffee while listening to some loser read his shitty poetry that he wrote in some coffee shop because he can't afford his own internet.
Instead, I will drive myself and my family to the local dog park, then go over to a friend's house and enjoy a backyard BBQ, then go home and sit around the fire in our backyard making s'mores and talking about what we're going to do on our campout the next weekend.
So feel free to keep throwing your money away and complaining about your landlord and how you're so poor while still making the decisions that got you there to begin with. I'll be busy managing the wealth I plan to leave to my grandchildren so they can all have their houses paid off by the time they are forty and leave their own grandchildren enough wealth to never have to take a mortgage in the first place.
I'm sure your great-great-grandchildren will still be complaining about how poor they are and have to live in a pod and eat bugs to survive, but it's still totally better than us stupid uncultured suburbanites.
Wait, what am I saying? They won't even exist. You cut your dick off to feel like a real girl.
Literally just left the city when all this "kill whitey" shit started. My life is now the starter version of yours and we couldn't be happier. We're not worried about being mugged, carjacked, or worse any more. I'm not worried about a stray bullet killing my child. We no longer hear sirens, gunshots, or fireworks at 3 AM. When I go to the store I see families, not unwashed loiterers who reek of weed.
And all this for the low low price of way less than we were paying for the "privilege" of living in hell.
Can't have a garden in an apartment. No garage to work on stuff with tools. You have to be quiet so you don't piss off neighbors, including tip toeing around all the time so people down stairs don't hear you walk. You have to deal with neighbors who are loud. No gun ranges.
No thanks
I lived in an apartment for a bit a few years ago. First time learning that it's "rude" to take a bath late at night because running water bothers the neighbours, lol.
A neighbor traded places with a city friend for a weekend. I chatted with the friend outside for fifteen minutes. In that span, she asked me three times if it was always this quiet or if something was wrong. Urbanites aren't human.
I'm not.
I don't.
I don't.
I definitely don't.
Every 'perk' they listed is degeneration.
imagine living in a cage just for the privilege of paying even more to see splashes of paint on canvases up close, eat 9x overpriced food, have muhammad snort out the contents of his nose in your general direction and drink shitty, also overpriced beer
i swear these people actually know what they're doing is retarded, they're just blinded by completely internalized sunk cost fallacy (i have a bed and a job and am not starving this is fine i cant give up now)
Right? It's like they think we simply don't understand what we're missing out on.
I've been to New York. I've been to Toronto. I've been to London. Every minute that you're in one of these increasingly identical shitholes, surrounded by filth and chaos and being asked to pay a premium for it, you just want to get the hell out.
I don't need to go to an art gallery or watch a live performance. I have fucking internet connection and more screens than rooms in my house. These globohomo cities offer me less than nothing. They disgust me.
I think anywhere with over a million inhabitants would disgust me. Even 500,000 is bad.
London USE TO be awesome back in the early 00's but now it sucks hadji ass. Recommend Osaka and Busan over ANY western city at this point.
Like, I don't even get this point. I love food that tastes good, I don't need food served on a shovel head just because the lazy art hoe that owns the place thinks it's a smart thing to do to look "artsy". You can find great food everywhere if you look for it.
I don't get it either.
I've eaten some fantastic food at some fantastic venues. I've also eaten some fantastic food in a fucking Denny's. Or my aunt's house.
Shit, there's dude who sells baked potatoes out of a van near me in my shitty, small, unimportant, oft-ridiculed city, and they're the best god damn baked potatoes I've ever encountered anywhere on earth.
I definitely don't need to eat at some place reviewed by some ponce from a major newspaper in order to enjoy my food.
Now I want to know what these van baked potatoes are like.
It’s even cheaper to cook your own great food.
If you have a kitchen.
I live in what these bugmen consider past the middle of nowhere. We're walking distance from multiple restaurants I'd put in my top five for their respective type of cuisine. Hop in the car for fifteen minutes tops - far less than a subway or bus ride in any given city - and I have access to another several.
There is exactly one type of food you can't get outside the city, and that's special food that requires special equipment and multiple spices from different continents to make. But that food comes at a very steep price, and in my experience is so rich that it makes you sick if you have it more than once a week anyway. I'm not really into dropping 200 bucks for a meal on the regular, so not living walking distance from those places affects me none.
Looks like an illegal sublet/division of an already small apartment. Stupid fucking New Yorkers. This is why their shithole is a shithole, they want it to be.
this. happens all the time. landlords do shit like this all the time when rent control perverts pricing. look at that stupid fucking sheet. that's the entryway to the apartment, not a bedroom.
visited some friends in DC which is notorious for the same bullshit... a lot of those rowhouses are only 2 or 3 bedrooms. and because some are in historical areas, they can't really be renovated to increase the density legally. so landlords "split" them into 6 or 7 bedrooms with hacks like this. not joking, one of the guys was literally living in the walk-in closet of another bedroom. or they use those japanese style dividers down the middle of the room and call it a "suite".
the market only bears what people are willing to pay for. if you're willing to live in a shithole, they'll make you pay out your ass for a shithole.
Which is why the Pod people are a thing. There's people living in SF and other notorious lefty havens in fucking shared bedrooms, people are fucking stupid, they will probably be fine with little caged rooms 2x3 meters because they love the "bar and art scene".
Those people you cannot help, just be vigilant that apartments outside of the big city won't turn into this shit.
yeah, after undergrad, i've always lived in semi-metro apartments/condos. living literally downtown is always a fucking dumpsterfire. the downtown area of my city is practically all 17-20 year olds with fake IDs and homeless people pissing/shitting on themselves. i'm almost 40... what the fuck do i want that shit for?
The argument about attractions is retarded. If you want to see it, you can travel with the money you saved. Once you've seen it, that's it. I've never wanted to go see the same thing twice.
Plus how much do you want to bet this faggot hasn’t been to a museum, art gallery, or play in the last ten years?
Whenever people like this talk about how much there is to do in the city they pretty much always just mean restaurants.
Definitely can't afford it. lol
Yea, I live as close to a big city as I can stand. The stuff the green commenter listed are all things you do (and I did) once and then you're over it because you've either seen it already or it's overpriced.
I'd rather spend the time and money I'd waste on eating out in expensive restaurants to cook for myself. Cooking is a life skill. Wasting money and being a pretentious hipster isn't.
I just love the hustle and bustle of the big city! 💩💉🔫👳🏿♂️🏃🏿🏃🏿🏃🏿
Sadly this is exactly the same in my fairly remote corner of the Antipodes, and not even in a “big” city…
It is literally, word for word, the same…
Amazing.
And they’ve even moved on to ruining the regional towns, now. No joke. These same freaks STILL refuse to live in the suburbs, but they quite happily move to the small towns and fucking ruin them, turning even a town of a couple of thousand people into another generic hipster shithole, exactly as described…
Grrr… I fucking hate that this copypasta literally exactly describes these fucking freaks, and their hollow, vapid but very transferable ideology… 😑
Wow that person is pretentious. Shows they have never been anywhere but their big city
Funny thing is that the "cultural enrich' he wants are people exactly like him in everyway except brown or gayer, while also not starting any conversation with anyone do to his "anxiety issues".
I hate living in big cities with a passion but it is not like I do not go to big cities, especially to see museums. The difference is that I like history and I'm not doing it to post on twitter and show off how culturally enrich I am. Food for thought, the same people who are ok with tearing down statues, including removing ancient Roman statues and complain that classical music is to white are lecturing about art and how enriched they are.
THIS. Revolving sushi bars outside of Japan are utter garbage, this guy ISN'T going out to fancy Michelin star resturant (probably never been to one) and just orders greasy ass pizza and Americanized Chinese via Uber Eats daily.
Uber Eats is on its way to becoming as expensive as a Michelin star restaurant, too!
Tell me about it. Order from them so I can work through a lunch break and it basically cost what I made through lunch.
I'm the weirdo who decided that because there is no japanese restaurant in my backwoods village, I can just make my own gyoza from scratch, skin included.
It can be done, super cheap and tasty. Takes time and effort, though. Which is a nono for them.
Even so, I've seen that stuff in the frozen foods section of relatively smaller-town (~1800 or so) grocery stores.
As shown here, cities are full of the mentally ill.
I remember a thread about NYC being unfriendly where all the locals were telling everyone to fuck off if they didn't like it. Way to prove the point, retards.
Sounds exactly like Australians…
Legit. 😑
Oh, except now we can’t even leave, if we wanted to, if you’re “unvaxxed”, lolololol…
That is kinda the duty of locals everywhere. "Fuck off, we're full" is pretty important too. The problem isn't locals trying to keep their way of life, the problem is city retards trying to force their way of life on everyone else. Fuck cities.
Imagine thinking it's worth $1000 a month to live in a coffin, with no bathroom, so you can pay to see art and be "culturally enriched". That might be the douchiest post I've ever seen, and despite their high-and-mighty routine, I'd wager that person is a bottom rung on the social ladder.
They do it just for bragging rights that they live in NYC to "impress" their smooth brain circle. Same with the clowns in SF. You couldn't pay me enough to go to either place.
but the diversity!
M U H M U S E U M S
I'm an art fag. Full stop. You want museums and galleries? There are small local museums and galleries that local artists participate in. Truly their work is as good as anything you would see in the louvre, or in the new York --rich assholes in grey clothes jacking eachother off 150/ticket wear your mask and passport arrest your children if they cough-- bullshit city museum.
Not just those artists but those galleries are in need of support. You want real artwork craft and fellowship? Support your local places. You want "diversity"?? Support local artists. Many of them are native based, due to the actual native communities there (Liz Warrens need not apply). You want overpriced stuffy bullshit with no parking go to a city that smells like piss
The rents so high where is your money for muh museum, freshman?
It's the same with all the things they mentioned.
Sports? You can play sports with your community. You can be part of the local old boys football team, for example. My neighbour does that. That's still more sport than watching some serial wife beater dindu pretend he is a slave while he has gold teeth and Lambos, kneeling because a dealer got popped.
Food? You can cook if you have a proper kitchen. Hell, you can buy local ingredients, forage, have your own garden. Fish or hunt. In a lot of small communities like mine people still give each other gifts back and forth regularly. My mother's friend recently showed up with 20 eggs. Next time I'm making scones or brownies or whatever, she will get some because I know she loves cake.
In spring we have wild garlic in the mountain near us. You can bet your ass we are making biscuits with those in them.
A bunch of other stuff is happening as well. Maybe our local yoga class is not fancy hot yoga taught by some bitch who likes posting about her chakras being alighned on Instagram.
But the women who go there stay after class to trade jam recipes and lend each other mystery books.
Our farmers' market only comes like once every two weeks, but we have one with actual local people and it's nice. It's not based on hipset veganoids virtue signalling.
These urbanites never go to these places, and just gloat that they are near them. Not like they could afford some of them anyway.
There are problems with suburbs, one of the biggest is that there's not enough entertainment for the kids and young-adults, because the towns built around the developments are basically for the mothers to shop in, and the fathers to golf in. There's not a genuine diversity of interests, and it's a real problem that causes kids to flee to big cities, get abused for a decade, then move away to a suburb, to repeat the process again.
"Cuisine" keeps being a thing that these urbanites bring up as if there's something that can't be found outside of high-density high-rise living. That's wrong. In fact, one of the biggest reason's it's wrong is because you aren't eating "home cooked" or even "ethnic" food because there is no family that lives there making the food. It's just a name on a store front. The actual family restaurants can't afford big cities. How do I know I'm eating home-cooked family food at the Chinese food place I go to? Because Dad's on the grill, Mom's in the freezer, and their 9 year old kid just ran my debit card through the cash register.
That some harsh living for the kid, to lose both of the parents at the same place at the same time.
Who do you think did the slaughterin' and butcherin'?
It was Butcher Pete!
>:(
Dammit biomeat!
Live in the pod, eat the bugs. You will own nothing, and you’ll be a pretentious asshole about how great it is.
I get the urge to live in a big city at a certain stage in your life, but if you've done it for a few years, and haven't got sick of it, I have to question your mental well being. I've lived in cities, or bordering on cities, for years now, and all I want is to go back to my roots; to live below a mountain, with lakes and beaches near by. City living can never compare to living near the purest of nature, as it's where we've all came from.
World class museums and universities lol. How many people actually take advantage of living next to a museum? When the High Museum of Art has an exhibition I wanna see I just drive downtown (free for vets btw)
On the other-hand I live next to a state park and I go to it nearly every day.
also,
Says the people who supports banning subs and platforming people that has different views than yours on reddit, even in subs you don't go to -_-
Everyone hates you in a city. Your mere existence is a hinderance to them: you are more traffic. you are someone in their way on the sidewalk. you are someone taking their spot in a packed theatre or coffee shop. They will never see you again. Being an asshole to you is without a doubt the default mode.
Cities smell. For instance, most of Seattle smells like urine. All of San Francisco smells like shit. All of New York smells like rotting trash.
City people. A few questions. How many foxes have you seen? How many stars can you see when you look up at night? How often do you go fishing to catch dinner? Have you ever seen a baby fawn nipping at leaves as it sat waiting for it's mother, 15 feet from your favorite relaxation chair near the back window?
Enjoy your international pigshit slop and "Arts" though. Try not to cry yourself to sleep every night.
Heck, I live in a pretty well developed suburb and even I see rabbits and the occasional deer. I could do without the skunk and raccoon though.
I can see art museums and shit all I want on the internet.
I stopped caring about coffee shops when they banned smoking in them, I care less about them now with your covid nonsense.
I'm 100% against halal and kosher slaughter. If your god can't handle humane bolting, fuck him and you, too.
I can cook. Was raised by a depression-era grandmother who told me all about making do during TWO bouts of wartime rationing.
Artistes are all filthy faggots. Hitler fancied himself an "artiste" too good to wash dishes, so take it from there, art-lover. :P
I don't want to look at a rich person's money laundering portfolio
I really don't want to go to the theater's you psycho's prostrate yourselves and scream in. You literally do not understand the concept of theater. You're just freaks.
Why do they have to be 15 minutes away?
Why would I want to go to a pretentious, fuck-hole, antifa hangout that sells over-priced "coffee"?
It's down the street and is family owned and operated. This is because families can't afford to run a business in your urban shitholes.
I mean, this really is all "diversity" is to you, isn't it? Diversity just means "access to sushi" to you, and that's it, right?
No, and thank God. Universities absolutely hollow out communities. Everyone who lives in the neighborhood leaves and rents out their old property, or sells the property to a rental agency. Then the kids & frats basically wreck the place, smash bottles on the street, and cause a fuck ton of ruckus every thursday, friday, saturday, and sunday night. The mornings are filled with girls walking 'home' in the walk of shame, a dumb kid passed out on lawn/roof/gutter, and homeless people collecting all the cans.
Universities should be banned from whole areas unless they are small.
None, we do real work. People who do real work all day go home because they are tired. You and you're idiot friends who blew $60,000 on student loan debt for an arts degree made terrible life choices, which is why you are constantly auditioning to be useful so that you can have an income to eat food.
When sunk cost meets virtue signaling.
Underrated comment.
Right, so I can go pay a to get into a place where there's 100% markup on alcohol, I get snubbed by people who think they're better than me if I try to start a conversation, and get to stumble home at the end of the night? Hard pass
What, so I can go see Hamilton for the millionth time? I can go to an art museum where 3/4ths of the work there is indecipherable modern bullshit that looks like someone gave themselves a paint enema and then shat it onto the canvas? I can go get overcharged for the price of a concert ticket so I can sit in the nosebleed seats and look at the postage-stamp sized supergroup on stage or effectively watch them on TV on the Jumbotron? Or maybe I should be hitting the trendy dive venues so I can stand in a cramped butts-to-nuts room and listen to some pretentious indie group navel-gaze for their entire set? Fuck that noise.
Besides, you can't do any of that anymore without being quadruple-vaxxed and showing your PAPERS PLEASE at the door. Miss me with that shit.
Again, why should I pay for an overpriced ticket to go watch overpaid millionaire crybabies play what amounts to children's playground games? Screw them and the culture they represent.
Overpriced, pretentious "molecular gastronomy"? Frou-frou gastropub fare? Bitch, please. Give me a cookbook with those recipes in them and I can make that stuff at home for a quarter of the cost you're paying for it in the city.
Nope, don't give a damn about that. I did my traveling earlier in my life, lived in a bigger city, and saw different people and different cultures, and I really didn't care to deal with having them around me. Despite the "melting pot" that the USA is supposed to be, most of them didn't give two shits about trying to meld themselves into American culture. If they're not going to try to learn to be like my culture, why the hell should I try to learn to be like theirs?
All in all I don't give two shits about being able to find a food cart that's open at 4 AM, because if my ass is up at 4 AM it's because I had to get up that early to do something, not because I'm stumbling home from the bar so I can no-sleep it through my shift at work the next day. I don't give a tinker's dam about there being shows and museums within 15 minutes, because once you've seen the show or been to the exhibit then there's no need to go back until the show changes. Internationally acclaimed universities only matter if you're attending classes, and them not being near me is why dorms exist.
I wouldn't trade my Midwest semi-rural life for anything. Anyone trying to convince me that city life is the epitome of living needs to get their head checked.
A lot of the "ethnic" food they love is literally based on home cooking by people of a different colour.
Maybe you need some ingredients and tools, but once you got them, you are good. A bottle of oyster sauce or a wok go a long way and tadam, you can make the things.
I know they try to tell us all us white people are not allowed to make enchiladas and yakisoba and whatever else, but fuck them. I do make things and it's good.
Word. I do Tex-Mex, full-Mex, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Indian, and just about any other nationality under the sun's food all from the comfort of my own kitchen. Sure, it sucks having to special-order spices and the like from online vendors when I can't get them locally, but that's the joy of the Internet. The "cultural appropriation" crowd can get bent.
How is being in walking distance of a museum a selling point?
Do people go to any museum often enough that the fact they need to use the parking lot or perhaps commute in is some significant demerit?
I want to go to a museum? I take a train and a subway. Takes an hour or so, sure, but it's not like you go to a museum on your lunch break at work.
The "not having restaurants" bit confuses me, though. I find suburbs tend to have much better dining options than major city cores, by virtue of the fact with money actually live in those areas to make a market for it.
Pretty much all that shit they listed off (that a poor that has to live in a pod like this can't afford anyway) is shut down because of the covid shit innit? lmao
Looks like that person's trying to justify their lifestyle to themselves more than anything.
I love that her response to someone suggesting the suburbs is to listen a bunch of stuff you could drive in from the suburbs to do. It's clear people like this live in cities because its a status symbol, not for any functional reason. They really do see the world like this.
My first place was a $1200/mo. 3 br/2.5 bath with a den, fenced in back yard, and a game room, utilities paid.
Good. Let the bugmen stay in their bug hives and suffer.
Contrary to the popular belief, leftoids will indeed be happy to live in a pod
Omg no not the singing auditions and revolving sushi bars. How will I live without them.
I cooked "arabic meatball soup" from a recipe my wife found the other day. Ground lamb, turmeric, mint, salt/pepper, cumin, cinnamon for the meatballs. Spinach leaves, cilantro, and onion with a chicken broth base for the rest. Super delicious, super healthy, and all of the ingredients can be bought at any major grocery store. We've also made Indian curry, Mexican dishes, etc.
Turns out that you can cook food from other parts of the world if you put in a little effort.
Have you ever tried Japanese curry? It's really not that complicated and I have a super good recipe that doesn't need those curry cube things, but actual ingredients and spices.
Cope and dilate, cityfags. I hope you HUSTLE and BUSTLE to death.
Shame all that shit is shut down thanks to your commie mayors and governors.