I grew up in the burbs. You're lying to yourself. Everyone in my hometown is an abrasive asshole in a way that makes even New York seem friendly, and not only that everyone who isn't old is an addict or trying to leave. There's a reason for that. For real, almost nobody in my high school class who's still alive stayed. They all moved to other parts of the country. Because it's a place that offers you fuckall except a yard with nobody in it, an environment full of strip malls, and a fentanyl overdose at the age of 20. The only people still dumb enough to move into that wasteland are only doing that because they still believe the nonsense that it is a good place to raise kids. Their kids, like (again) everyone I grew up with, will either leave or die young. That or turn into the kind of degen this thread is about, because good luck becoming a functional human being when all their is to do is post on the internet, shoot dope, and wait to die.
Oh and there's hobo shit everywhere in that place the moment you leave the car that makes up half your existence. You just don't notice it because suburbanites don't go outside. And this was, let it be said, a wealthy area that during the summer is actually a tourist destination. Lord fucking knows why.
I can see the charms of a rural existence, I like nature and shooting guns drunkenly from an ATV plenty. But suburbia? Glass all of it, it will be a fucking mercy