People Who Live In Suburbs: Classy, Icky, or Dudes?

I would be okay with 159 walmarts as long as they were all on staten island

wtf is that bizarre rally? looks really astroturfed

They got good prices on Wranglers though. And the quality of their goods is way above Kmart. Now that's a store with some garbage.

haha it's all the same garbage, kmart is just marginally more defensible

The kmart/sears merger thing still weirds me out

it's like they had sex

Saw Sofia Vergara shilling her product that's sold at K-mart (don't remember what it was) on TV last night, kind of felt sad for her.

Would console

she is a hot Latina Time Lady

Jhess

Chicago kept Wal-Mart out for a long time, and I think we only have one right now, in a poor neighborhood way way out on the edge of town, but they're moving in. One is probably going to occupy the space where Borders used to be, which is 1 block from my apartment - I'll be able to see it from my balcony (balconette). It's going to be a challenge to not shop there, since the other grocery options are a way overpriced, crappy independent grocer and Trader Joe's. If I still live there, I wonder how long I'll hold out.

A wal-Mart "market store" just opened up I'm presidential towers.

In

that's a shame, I didn't hear about them in chicago

Oh wow.

On my bus ride to work this morning I was thinking how Presidential Towers are a blight on the westerly skyline. I hate those buildings, and now they have a Wal-Mart in them.

http://www.cbre.com/NR/rdonlyres/ACC8AB35-3D02-4EDF-843F-07AB48ABE03A/775784/PresidentialTowers4.jpg

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/09/rapid-growth-suburban-poor/190/

will 'suburban' will one day have the connotations that 'inner city' has today?

Probably depends on where in the country.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/last-years-poverty-increase-blame-oil-prices/2011/09/27/gIQAJh7u1K_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein

FUCK THE SUBURBS AND CAR CULTURE BULLSHIT SUBURBAN ANTI PEDESTIAN FUCK WADS

otm

way overpriced, crappy independent grocer

Overpriced compared to what, though

Due to some new bullshit construction to accommodate MORE LANES FOR CARS my walk from the train platform to work just went from 5 mins to 45 minutes FUCK YOU BASTARDS

where do you live?

work and live in nj. use the bus+train everywhere i go.

been wondering if living in a city is worth dying at 52 due to toxic inhalation

the air in the burbs isn't always great either. every summer now i get so angry every time there's an air quality index warning in the maryland burbs saying i shouldn't take my son outside to play.

some dude, Maryland has been subject to those air quality index warnings ever since they came into existence. At least for as long as I can remember.

In many, many cases suburban air is worse than the nearby cities. I'll be moving out to Cumberland or something. Peace.

the air in portland or sf is cleaner than where you live jord

(nyc, la, chicago notsomuch)

oh i know, rif. i just didn't pay attention to them or get actively bummed out about them until i had a kid.

heh, jord doesnt live where u think he lives iatee

haha yeah I checked fb and didn't realize he was in miami atm

which is the only place that apparently beats sf and portland

xxp: yeah, that makes sense. it really isn't as hard to breathe until you have a government man telling you it's hard to breathe.

regardless, air pollution is just another problem that can be easily fixed by making private automobile ownership illegal

but we just saved the us auto industry LOL

It's cool, J0rdan just moved to Chicago, where the air smells like rotting onions.

wait did he?

Yahhh.

oh cool

been wondering if living in a city is worth dying at 52 due to toxic inhalation

― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, September 27, 2011 2:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

even the air in american cities is so so so so so so so much more cleaner than many parts of the world

yeah but generally worse than euro

Side query: how well-traveled are you, iatee?

not super, lived in and seen a good part of europe but never been to east asia/africa/south america. mostly just cause I've never had a lot of money to burn, feel like travel is the best thing you can do if you it.

if you have it*

and you complain about OUR carbon footprints

LOL

Maybe he sailed across the Atlantic.

no I agree plane travel is indefensible and should be taxed to hell

I think you're on a roll but you need to tone it back a little to make it less obvious