Sahil

illinoisairship:

I will never ever move to the suburbs. I plan on having kids someday and there is no way I’d ever let my kids be brought up there. Some people say they’ve moved to the suburbs because it’s a better place to raise kids. Bullshit. I think parents move to the suburbs because it’s an EASIER place to raise kids. The schools are better and there’s less crime due to their gated-ness and remote location. I’d rather raise my kids around crackheads and speeding traffic than make them attend a school with a two-thousand strong student body. When you get a large enough group of suburban kids together it can turn into some Lord of the Flies shit real quick.

Why?

Boredom. These kids are fuckin’ bored. The craziest dudes I knew who did the most insane amounts of whatever they could get their hands on and had the most depraved sex at the youngest age were always from the suburbs because their entire growing-up period was some weird larval stage in which their world was some culturally unstimulating morass of a city constructed to be idyllic (gasping for breath). Like some Pleasantville type shit.

Parents might get nostalgic about the times when the only place for them to hang out in their town was the local burger joint, but it’s a different time now and kids have an alternative to being bored without having to drive three counties over to where someone discovered a rock outcropping that looked like a pair of breasts.

And then there’s the cruelty. Sure, kids are cruel no matter where you go, but when your school is your entire world with no actual big-city-real-life situations around you, I think it can make you myopic to point that you actually believe school is all there is. Like it will go on forever. I think that’s why kids sometimes think they need that “dominant male monkey motherfucker” attitude to survive what doesn’t even amount to five years of their lives. There should be signs posted everywhere reminding people that nobodys social standing will carry over into college although everyone will be getting laid there. I think that would do some good.

I could raise my kids in the city, country or any country around the world, but I feel that they’d get a better understanding of the real world going to school on the fuckin’ moon than in the suburbs.

I’m not saying if you were raised in a suburb that you’re a sex-crazed drug addict who hates on kids weaker than you. I’m just saying I wouldn’t raise my kids there. And that you’re a sex-crazed drug addict. No, seriously, I’m sure you’re very cool.

I’ve thought about this very thing on more than one occasion. My view changed when I realized that cities aren’t as claustrophobic as I once believed them to be. There is wayyy more shit to do when you can just walk every where.