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I've written a previous thread discussing the importance of finding or creating an optimal environment for yourself, but it's only now that I've fully realized how large of a component that your environment and surroundings* play in affecting your state of mind. Cities are literally designed to break you down and destroy your soul. In practice, one can establish their own little sanctuary among the barrens but it would be a difficult experience when your surroundings are not conducive to your needs and is working against you over time. I would highly recommend relocation as a course of action, especially if you are living in a particularly shitty urban environment.



*In this theory, I distinguish between the terms 'environment' and 'surroundings' where the former is your active, working and immediate environment, eg. Your living space; and the latter being the terrain and infrastructure around you.
 
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I've written a previous thread discussing the importance of finding or creating an optimal environment for yourself, but it's only now that I've fully realized how large of a component that your environment and surroundings* play in affecting your state of mind. Cities are literally designed to break down and destroy your soul. In practice, one can establish their own little sanctuary among the barrens but it would be a difficult experience when your surroundings are not conducive to your needs and is working against you over time. I would highly recommend relocation as a course of action, especially if you are living in a particularly shitty urban environment.



*In this theory, I distinguish between the terms 'environment' and 'surroundings' where the former is your active, working and immediate environment, eg. Your living space; and the latter being the terrain and infrastructure around you.
I feel like no matter what path we try to take, we're always going to need cities/urban areas to technologically/economically progress as a society.
 
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I feel like no matter what path we try to take, we're always going to need cities/urban areas to technologically/economically progress as a society.
Living an amish lifestyle is nice until you start missing the luxuries of living in a city.
 
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Not the american goy suburbs but a suburban area with sort of dutch infrastructure planning.
Sounds like a utopia ngl, I mean maybe vacationing to a rural town to live in for like 2 weeks sounds nice or vacationing to a mega-city but I'd wanna live in a well-designed and planned suburb.
 
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I feel like no matter what path we try to take, we're always going to need cities/urban areas to technologically/economically progress as a society.
Yes, but it doesn't mean that you as an individual can't distance yourself away from them.
Living an amish lifestyle is nice until you start missing the luxuries of living in a city.
I think it's a matter of habit and dependency tbh. You won't know until you've tried and become accustomed to it. After all we've lived that kind of lifestyle for hundreds of years until fairly recently.
 
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Sounds like a utopia ngl, I mean maybe vacationing to a rural town to live in for like 2 weeks sounds nice or vacationing to a mega-city but I'd wanna live in a well-designed and planned suburb.
Totally up to your preferences as an individual but I'm speaking more to those people who are adversely affected by these kinds of conditions, myself included.
 
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Yes, but it doesn't mean that you as an individual can't distance yourself away from them.

I think it's a matter of habit and dependency tbh. You won't know until you've tried and become accustomed to it. After all we've lived that kind of lifestyle for hundreds of years until fairly recently.
True but it's inevitable that some people won't get accustomed to that new lifestyle and go back to the urban lifestyle, and while it might seem unrealistic and unlikely that society just packs itself up and decides to fully switch back to an agrarian lifestyle, I still think not everyone gets the privilege of getting to live away from mainstream society.
 
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Not the american goy suburbs but a suburban area with sort of dutch infrastructure planning.
I'd like to add, it's not just the suburbs, but nearly the entirety of America.


Most NEW American suburbs wind up looking like this hellscape below:
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No amenities nearby, as well as identical dystopian-looking homes.
While suburbs that I've lived in don't look 100% like this, and there is usually a variety in house designs. Lots of them lack any sense of culture and aesthetic. Their soul purpose is to be minimalist, and make profit.
The city is the same way. This was old Boston. The buildings had character, and reflected the culture of English settlers.
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Fast forward to today (I'll use Boston's City Hall as an example), the city is moving toward soulless looking buildings, even knocking down old historic buildings in replacement. You can now only visit a small, sectioned off part of the city to see the older buildings.

Back to the lack of amenities nearby, a lot of this can be chalked up to car-dependency. In European suburbs/urban areas, local markets are usually IN the community. In the US, you have to drive miles away to the biggest corporate-chain for your shopping. This isn't exclusive to suburbs either. This is how it is in urban and rural areas in America (excluding older cities like Boston, Philadelphia, NYC, etc. which are still walkable). You'll have sidewalks that just randomly end like this since private owners are expected to build sidewalks:
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People are unable to go outside and enjoy their environment without loud cars and lack of parks nearby, or even being hit by cars because of the lack of walkable suburbs/cities.

Continuing on about driving miles to corporate chains, take a drive down a busy road in the US, and you'll come across something like this:
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(The highway in the back was on the cherry on top. If you wanted to get to that building in the background by walking, it'd quickly turn into a 5 mile walk instead of a less than half a mile walk since you have to get around the highway!)
There is a lack of small businesses thanks to big-corporations out competing everyone. But when you do run into a small business, they'll usually be in these shitty looking strip malls. Again, they're not meant to be aesthetically pleasing in the slightest. They're supposed to look minimalistic, and nearly identical to every other strip mall in America.

While I don't see this ever happening in America (largely due to the lack of culture there is in America. Thanks multiculturalism!), suburban and rural areas need to use European villages as examples and change their infrastructure/architecture to something like this:
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This is Gruyères, Switzerland. Most European villages look somewhat similar, but everything is easily accessible by foot. It's aesthetically pleasing, and not filled with corporate chains everywhere the eye can see. You can leave this main street, and be surrounded by nature. While I suppose rural America is surrounded by nature, you still have to drive everywhere since supermarkets aren't always nearby
 
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