/r/fuckcars can't stop talking about sex:
First of all, that's only a small part of Collin County, which should be obvious (the small shaded area with a red outline is the
census tract (archive) shown in the OP):
Or not:
A county is huge, how can anyone look at that picture of a single neighborhood and think it is an entire county?
Also, I didn't know it was possible to be this coombrained.
Apparently /r/fuckgolfcourses (actually /r/FuckGolf) is a thing:
Dallas-Fort Worth doesn't have a water shortage, and not every golf course is a billionaire's country club:
Now onto an analysis of the
neighborhood, since this was posted on /r/fuckcars to showcase how terrible it is. I'm using the fact that the census tract boundaries are arbitrary and not representative of the area as a whole as an excuse to show how /r/fuckcars is full of crap when they claim that kids in suburban neighborhoods are trapped at home with nothing to do because they need their parents to drive them everywhere.
If only they'd thought of that... Hilariously, all the local roads have speed limits of 30 mph and half the neighborhood is a school zone with a speed limit of 20 mph (the main roads are 40 when not in a school zone). The golf course is full of cut through trails, and every road has a sidewalk:
Every kid in the neighborhood is within walking distance of a school, and no one cares if people bike on the sidewalk as long as they yield to pedestrians.
The stores in the corner of the OP are a 30 minute walk/9 minute bike ride/4 minute drive away from the center of the neighborhood:
Within a half-an-hour walk, there are many golf courses, multiple non-golf course parks, many lakes, over a dozen restaurants, a ice cream parlor, coffee shops, three large grocery stores, a gym, multiple pharmacies, multiple banks, multiple dentist office, a pediatric clinic, a vet, an urgent care clinic (and many more health clinics), a jeweler, eyelash salon, spa, shoe store, multiple kickboxing/martial arts gyms, a pet groomer, musical instrument store, UPS store, post office, a public library, several churches, several of the aforementioned schools (there are more schools on the north side and inside the neighboring neighborhoods). A little farther out (but within easy biking distance) is a large YMCA type facility with a small water park, 10 baseball fields, 11 tennis courts, Olympic pool, indoor basketball, soccer, volleyball courts, and more:
Activities offered at one of the "YMCA" buildings
The other building contains an indoor pool with an American Ninja Warrior-style obstacle course, as well as a weight room and indoor track:
Also within biking distance is a trampoline park.
In the top left corner near the schools, there is a massive mixed-use apartment complex:
And that's just the stuff within biking/long walk distance.
Within a 15-20 minute drive there is too much stuff to even mention.
Now, the vast majority of the people who live in this neighborhood
will drive to things. But if you're a /r/fuckcars member who lives in your suburban boomer parents' basement, you could easily walk/bike to a large number of things to do. If you're a kid and bored in this neighborhood, you are boring. Yes, there is less stuff to walk to than there is in Midtown Manhattan or Zone 1 in London, but there is more than enough to do. Since there are so many schools in the neighborhood, it is likely that all of your friends live close by.
Oh never mind, there's nothing to do:
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