I mean, modern suburban planning is definitely not helping, but I was going house to house in the suburbs in the 90s and 00s. It's not like land development was radically different back then.
In a lot of these goofy ass suburbs, everyone is either afraid of or hates their neighbors. Shit like Nextdoor and the myriad of doorbell surveillance devices poison the fuck out of people's brains and makes them paranoid. Step into the Nextdoor division of a suburb full of mayos and it will be flooded with busybodies calling out every non-white person they see in the neighborhood like they're about to do a home invasion. Additionally, a lot of these same people have their paranoia stoked by ghouls in the media that will take one anecdotal story and treat it as though it's endemic.
One of my Fox-pilled boomer relatives is like that. He lives in a tiny town of ~5K people that's 95%+ white and fucking conceal carries a handgun to the church he attends inside of a gated community in the most affluent suburb in the entire town. He thinks that a fucking antifa trans immigrant is going to march into the building, play the knock out game on everyone, and declare communism or some shit (based, if true). Dude's nuts.
A street my mom used to live on installed a speed bump in front of her house and she was convinced it increased the chances of being robbed because people would now be driving by real slow, wondering what she had in there.
When I was in high school she didn't want me in that same lower middle class area in the middle of the day to meet some people for a concert because she thought I may get shanked.
I mean, modern suburban planning is definitely not helping, but I was going house to house in the suburbs in the 90s and 00s. It's not like land development was radically different back then.
In a lot of these goofy ass suburbs, everyone is either afraid of or hates their neighbors. Shit like Nextdoor and the myriad of doorbell surveillance devices poison the fuck out of people's brains and makes them paranoid. Step into the Nextdoor division of a suburb full of mayos and it will be flooded with busybodies calling out every non-white person they see in the neighborhood like they're about to do a home invasion. Additionally, a lot of these same people have their paranoia stoked by ghouls in the media that will take one anecdotal story and treat it as though it's endemic.
One of my Fox-pilled boomer relatives is like that. He lives in a tiny town of ~5K people that's 95%+ white and fucking conceal carries a handgun to the church he attends inside of a gated community in the most affluent suburb in the entire town. He thinks that a fucking antifa trans immigrant is going to march into the building, play the knock out game on everyone, and declare communism or some shit (based, if true). Dude's nuts.
Dude's nightmare is my best dream
A street my mom used to live on installed a speed bump in front of her house and she was convinced it increased the chances of being robbed because people would now be driving by real slow, wondering what she had in there. When I was in high school she didn't want me in that same lower middle class area in the middle of the day to meet some people for a concert because she thought I may get shanked.