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I know it makes a nice clean narrative that's especially appealing to the kind of people who would be in these comments but it probably wasn't suburbs that did

I know it makes a nice clean narrative that's especially appealing to the kind of people who would be in these comments but it probably wasn't suburbs that did this. That sort of community existed and probably still exits the most in places where the population is the least dense. I'm not gonna speculate on what other things could have been more responsible but I have my suspicions.

pixl97 1y ago
>That sort of community existed and probably still exits the most in places where the population is the least dense. I think you misunderstand suburbanism... In those places where the population is not dense the number of people that move commonly is not that high. Again, neighborhoods tend to have longer and deeper roots. Suburbia has little to no community these days.
- potato3732842 1y ago
  You're getting at what I was hinting at. It's not the literal distance between houses (or lack thereof) that cause this. It's the people and what they think and how they act.
  - phil21 1y ago
    Suburbs have a self-selection bias for antisocial behavior and folks who lean that way. It’s not a 100% thing, but I’ve noticed a strong correlation having lived in a number of suburbs and in city cores. I’ve also spent a decent amount of time in rural parts of America and I totally get what you’re saying. The average rural person likely has a much larger local support network (aka community) than the average suburbanite.
pavel_lishin 1y ago
It also exists where the population is very dense; poor people live in cities, too, and form these kinds of relationships and networks as well. I'm not poor, but I had more of this sort of network in the city than I do now in the burbs.
- arjie 1y ago
  Yes, same. Online I hear people bemoan how things are these days and stuff like that and then my SOMA high rise works well in the form that I want civil interactions to be. https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-10-09/Community https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-10-09/Community

pixl97 1y ago

>That sort of community existed and probably still exits the most in places where the population is the least dense. I think you misunderstand suburbanism... In those places where the population is not dense the number of people that move commonly is not that high. Again, neighborhoods tend to have longer and deeper roots. Suburbia has little to no community these days.

potato3732842 1y ago
You're getting at what I was hinting at. It's not the literal distance between houses (or lack thereof) that cause this. It's the people and what they think and how they act.
- phil21 1y ago
  Suburbs have a self-selection bias for antisocial behavior and folks who lean that way. It’s not a 100% thing, but I’ve noticed a strong correlation having lived in a number of suburbs and in city cores. I’ve also spent a decent amount of time in rural parts of America and I totally get what you’re saying. The average rural person likely has a much larger local support network (aka community) than the average suburbanite.

pavel_lishin 1y ago

It also exists where the population is very dense; poor people live in cities, too, and form these kinds of relationships and networks as well. I'm not poor, but I had more of this sort of network in the city than I do now in the burbs.

arjie 1y ago
Yes, same. Online I hear people bemoan how things are these days and stuff like that and then my SOMA high rise works well in the form that I want civil interactions to be. https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-10-09/Community https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Blog/2025-10-09/Community