Your Cities Suburbs

[lilcamo 0]

Show pics of your cities typical housing, and suburbs.

Ill start off

Melbourne australia





Your turn

[jugioh1012 2]

I'm going to take pictures of the suburbs right now!

[hamsterTK 93]

Never been there, but from Google Earth it seems like in Australia that the suburbs are just as prevalent as in the US and Canada, however, the downtowns of cities don't seem "bombed out" as are do here.

I guess only America, can you have a shiny 60 story tower next door to a cracked up parking lot and dilapadated wooden houses and really crummy transit in a city with millions of people.

[crazyyaya 4]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK Never been there, but from Google Earth it seems like in Australia that the suburbs are just as prevalent as in the US and Canada, however, the downtowns of cities don't seem "bombed out" as are do here.

I guess only America, can you have a shiny 60 story tower next door to a cracked up parking lot and dilapadated wooden houses and really crummy transit in a city with millions of people.quote>

 

That's the American way. 

I actually really hate suburbs, particarly in North America, they bring so many social and environmental problems, it can get really terrible.

[lilcamo 0]

These pictures are from leopold an outer suburb of meblourne ( there taken from my phone ) everywhere is really dry due to water restrictions.

[Ratieya455 1]

The Fargo, North Dakota suburb of West Fargo looks like this:

Nothing but awful developments featuring beige vinyl-clad split-entries, some of which are twin homes. These are usually 1200-1500 finished square feet and run about $140k, which is why they keep building them. The rest of Fargo isn't that bad, some of the neighborhoods from the 1930's and earlier are gorgeous.

[Ace_F15 16]

I feel kind of the same way about the European transit system. Especially this one year I went to France. And I kind of like that feeling in a suburb, it's not so crowded it's just old and has that rustic kind of feeling.

[____----____ 37]

Originally posted by: crazyyaya

Originally posted by: hamsterTK Never been there, but from Google Earth it seems like in Australia that the suburbs are just as prevalent as in the US and Canada, however, the downtowns of cities don't seem "bombed out" as are do here.

I guess only America, can you have a shiny 60 story tower next door to a cracked up parking lot and dilapadated wooden houses and really crummy transit in a city with millions of people.quote>

 

That's the American way. 

I actually really hate suburbs, particarly in North America, they bring so many social and environmental problems, it can get really terrible.quote>

 

Evanston (chicago suburb)

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

I hate suburbs, but I live in one anyway. My suburb:

Right around my neighborhood:

The Hospital.

The Town Center.

High School.

Not much to see

[Godzillaman 21]

Looks like a rich place......looks like maxis' R$$$ housing...

[skyliner22 16]

Dang now thats Wealthy! At least theres a nice looking lake there to do things doesn't seem as bad as the suburbs here, next to farmlands and its usually dry an hot!

[panthersimcity4 162]

ilikehotdogsalot: that's awesome... I love those canals

I live in Mesa, Arizona, which is a suburb of Phoenix. I don't have any actual pics as of now... here's my gated community on Google maps though (My internet connection is all poopy so I can't use Google Earth):

This is the only pic I could find of my high school of 2,500 students:

This is Superstition mountain, from my neighborhood it looks close but it's really pretty far away. They have a Ghost town nearby... but it's a really tacky tourist trap

By the way this isn't actually my picture... I "borrowed" it 

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: panthersimcity4 I live in Mesa, Arizona, which is a suburb of Phoenix. I don't have any actual pics as of now... here's my gated community on Google maps thoughquote>

You know, given the image, and having been told what city it was in, it took me less than 5 minutes to go to Google maps and find that exact spot. Might wanna be more careful with what you post. Or at least be aware that you're telling people where you live when you do that.

[GreekMan 246]

i agree with duke

be careful

[tomdapom 79]

Well here are some pics of my 'suburb' in Christchurch, NZ (more of a neighborhood, really, but still). 

I see that my suburban neighborhood (St. Martins Valley) is one of the best in the city. It's proximity to downtown, parks, schools, and the countryside makes it one of Christchurch's fastly-growing dense neighborhoods. This is a shot from my driveway, looking over at Rapaki hill.

Another view from my driveway, facing south, towards the Port Hills. 

The view down my street. 

And the view up my street.

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

A beautiful place to live, tomdapom! It looks so tranquil, quiet, and it's very beautiful with those houses hanging on the hills. You lucky!

[adg123 0]

Southeast Aurora, CO

I love living out there

[hamsterTK 93]

I stayed in a house like that in Florida for a while. It backed up to a man-made waterway like that and it had a screened-in swimming pool.

Stupid frogs were really noisy on those summer nights and kept me up at night lol

[GreekMan 246]

l live in a suburb of San Diego called Tierrasanta.

I commute to school everyday in Carmel Valley!

Yahoo!

[jayo 44]

Croydon:

whitechapple/wapping:

Docklands:

Shoreditch:

Woolwhich:

[montrouge 2]

Whitechapple or Shoreditch suburbs ?

Are you crazy ?

Even if it is in city limit I could understand for Croydon or Docklands but no way Shoreditch.

[masssc4 3]

Originally posted by: ilikehotdogsalot I hate suburbs, but I live in one anyway. My suburb:

Right around my neighborhood:

quote>

 

To me thats just bad planning building for two reasons. 1 what if the people have kids "Don't go outside you might fall in the 'canal'" 2 it looks like all it has to do is have a good sized thunderstorm and there all flooded! seriously, who allowed that neighboorhood built?

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

Well, if you fall into the canal, which is probably is highly unlikely, you can probably walk out of it, it's not that deep. Most people with children put fences around the canal behind their homes too. Also, the whole city is built like this, not just a neighborhood, and there are numerous canal systems throughout the city that transfer the excess rainwater into the ocean and the everglades. My town rarely gets flooded, even during a hurricane no houses are flooded because of the canal systems.

[gurrgkud 2]

Originally posted by: ilikehotdogsalot I hate suburbs, but I live in one anyway. My suburb:

Right around my neighborhood:

The Hospital.

The Town Center.

High School.

Not much to see quote>

Omg I know exactly where you live !! I grew up around there.

[toxicpiano 125]

Originally posted by: montrouge Whitechapple or Shoreditch suburbs ?

Are you crazy ?

Even if it is in city limit I could understand for Croydon or Docklands but no way Shoreditch.quote>

I agree. They are pretty urban areas I would think.

Most of where I live looks like this:

If you want to see more, search for gascooker on the STEX

[Huggkruka 0]

The NZ pics makes me pine for going back there. I used to live in the suburb Papamoa, my first real encounter with an American style suburb(suburbs in Sweden is roughly equivalent to the projects in the US). Here are some pics:

Look at the poorly planned roads running paralell to the beach, you can live a hundred meters from it but you still have to walk for ten minutes to reach it...

Lots of fancy houses, Pacific and McMansion mix in a rather interesting way.

Random street view.

In closing, it's a really poorly planned rich people's suburb with no centre or purpose, but it makes it all up by being the sunniest place in New Zealand and a surfer community.

[UrbanSprawl 5]

Suburbs in the Dallas area.

Las Colinas area in Irving.

No suburb is complete without a mall.  This one is in Grapevine

Typical new development.  Rockwall County

Arlington, Dallas' largest suburb.  over 350,000 people live in Arlington. Largest city in the US without public transportation.

US-75/I-635 Freeway junction - "high five".  Freeways are the lifeblood of the suburbs.

Cedar Hill

new development in Duncanville. 

Lake Ridge

Southlake

[masssc4 3]

Originally posted by: ilikehotdogsalot Well, if you fall into the canal, which is probably is highly unlikely, you can probably walk out of it, it's not that deep. Most people with children put fences around the canal behind their homes too. Also, the whole city is built like this, not just a neighborhood, and there are numerous canal systems throughout the city that transfer the excess rainwater into the ocean and the everglades. My town rarely gets flooded, even during a hurricane no houses are flooded because of the canal systems.quote>

 

Still it looks extremely odd to me because it looks as if the land just falls into the water with no vegetation on the edges or anything. Here in MA we have trees and no water in your backyard unless you live on a lake. Guess it's just where you live and what your used to.

[Darkslayer32 0]

My City and suburbs

City

Pic 1

Pic 2 ( Local Beach Glenelg)

[saltandsauce 0]

the houses nearby http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marshallandkayfamily/Scotland/clerkSt.houses.JPG

these are not single houses. the top story is accessed by a stairwell at the back although originally was a single house

and in the nearest city http://www.leedsstreetlight.co.uk/EDINBURGH06.jpg

these are the norm for city dwellers