For these damn channels, they have a strange hate-boner for the prospect of living in a detached home with fair amounts of land. Not Just Bikes had some video where he said he would never raise a kid in a suburb and that if he had kids he would only raise them in an apartment in a big city. As someone who personally lived in both cities and suburbs in his youth, HOLY SHIT: city life hard as a kid. You can't play sports in the streets or sidewalks, and the only playgrounds nearby were small and often had thugs and homeless guys loitering. Meanwhile when I lived in a suburb with backyards, the neighbor kids and I thrived. We could play anywhere, we had huge empty spaces of grass to run around and play kickball, we could ride bikes anywhere and not have to worry about getting run over, and the crime was practically non-existent.
These channels lie by omission by arguing that kids in suburbs are all "sheltered" from outside sources and aren't able to socialize with other kids. Bull fucking shit. In the city, it was difficult as fuck to socialize with other kids outside of school, but in the suburbs the world was our oyster, so to speak. Your mileage may vary depending on location, but what these bughive channels fail to point out is that a lot of American cities tend to be very ghetto and have lots of inner city gang violence. This isn't fucking Sesame Street where American cities are these happy cultural hubs of vintage prewar townhouses and kids of all races playing in the street with fucking puppets -- no, this is fucking Camden, Newark, Philly, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, East St. Louis, Gary, Memphis, Cincinnati, and a thousand others. Our cities are complete shitholes, and this is coming from first-hand experience.
A big powerlevel here, but I lived mostly in a working class suburban housing development of townhouses and condos. As a kid and teen, we had a front yard, a backyard, ample spaces to play, and even "muh diversity" -- because despite living in a predominantly white suburb, most of my friends were working class Latinos who lived in our neighborhood. My brothers and I mostly hung out with the Puerto Rican kids across the street and rode bikes around the neighborhood. We had parks, we had fields, we played sports, we rode bikes, we had diversity -- and no one ever got shot in drug deals gone wrong.
