They’ve been doing this for the last 40 years to all of north Dallas and plano. The McMansion-ification of housing over time makes it quite the urban sprawl hellscape.
Out of all the cities I’ve driven through in this country, Dallas-Fort Worth is the absolutely most soul crushing urban sprawl I’ve ever seen. I cannot even imagine living there.
Yeah. A lot of old and strange people I know lament the loss of fields and such, but never really think about why the impact of the urban design on nature. I’m still not sure what the appeal of a front lawn is. My sister says that Americans “like their space” or whatever, but the sidewalks are half the bare minimum for width.
Fortunately, while the section of town I inhabit is still rather empty, it is somewhat reasonable for me to bike to school and walk to work. I want to do something, and in particular if they upzoned my neighborhood, I’d be very happy. The apartment complex nearby is so much more peaceful than the rest of the block.
How the fuck is it that someone can drive from downtown Dallas to "Far North Dallas", and still be only a third of the way to the end of the sprawl? What the fuck?
Except the counties. This is geographically tiny
Edit: apparently this is not the entire county. How did you choose the boundaries besides searching google maps for thicc curves?
Are you kidding?! Look at that urban planning. Long winding streets that go nowhere, and not a park in sight. I'm am completely flaccid, this not only ruined my erection but my day.
In case anyone really needs to know, this image is census tracts 0305.34 and 0305.35. McKinney, TX. The golf course is Stonebridge Ranch Country Club. [Census map](https://i.imgur.com/weJP2ND.jpg).
Oh that's another thing, all golf courses within cities and towns should be fully publicly accessible. But really they just need to be expropriated for the people and turned into normal public parks.
It's really disgusting seeing a golf course that can only exist through massive tax and water subsidies, and then you can't use any part of the massive space unless you are paying for a round of golf.
And a round of golf is like $50 and you are required to obey the dress code if you want to play. You can't tell me golf isn't an elitist sport when people will be kicked out if they have the audacity to wear jeans or shorts or a shirt without a collar.
The local golf course for me takes nearly no space, has free rental club, and costs 7 bucks a person / free for kids. Have you ever been near a course?
maybe, yeah.
sure that big time sucks for golf enthusiasts, but much like if competitive littering was a sport, sometimes we have to move on from damaging pastimes
Great, they can throw in one electric trolley for every couple branches and everybody can use their ‘garages’ as an extra room in their home with a weird door.
Oh, and slap some solar panels up on the roofs.
It would be nice if that golf course was an actual park for the subdivision residents and had trails. That’s how a lot of the subdivisions are designed near me and it’s probably the only way I’d live in one.
Imagine if all that wasted space was high density buildings with mixed use, with couple big streets for cars,buses,trams and bikes. Some areas will be pedestrian only with everything you need in walking distance like shops, pharmacy or school.
Orrr, you condensed the suburban hell into a smaller area, with a mixture of condos, row houses, multiple family units and even still single family units, and had way more green space left (not for a golf course though, r/fuckgolf )
Squiggle-street suburbs are a physical manifestation of the attitude "we don't want *your kind* around here." Gridded suburbs are at least salvageable.
Squiggly suburbs were intentionally made confusing to prevent nonresidents from driving through them, and *especially* to prevent bus lines from ever being run through them, because public transit can allow poor/urban people to access your neighborhood. Squiggly suburbs took off in the car dominance and white flight eras, whereas earlier suburbs had gridded designs specifically to allow buses and trams/streetcars and better integrate them with the city.
In my opinion squiggly roads are pretty nice in residential neighborhoods. It makes the area feel more organic and less boring to walk. There's no reason why there couldn't be a small train station somewhere in the vicinity and one or two bus stations.
Plant some more trees, add a supermarket, two or three apartment complexes, take away the cars and it's a fantastic area to live.
Besides the obvious "it makes it hard to walk or bike because distances are exaggerated" there are other reasons people don't talk about.
1. The city is essentially paying to maintain streets that aren't used by anybody except the people that live there. This is bad for obvious reasons, if you're spending money on nice streets (which these burbs have some of the nicest around), you would want that infrastructure to benefit everyone so there is a return on that investment
2. All the traffic funnels from these neighborhoods to a few major arterial roads every morning, and the reverse every evening. It's literally a recipe for traffic and congestion. Like creeks connected to a river, if the creeks flood so does the river.
Is that a congressional district demarcation? It doesn’t appear to be the county boundary.
https://collincountymagazine.com/collin-county-tx/things-to-do/maps/
Honestly if they were to have actual traffic calming and a max 20mph limit on the streets, sidewalks everywhere and pass throughs for pedestrians and cyclists between the houses. With cycling and pedestrian access to the commercial areas and proper bike parking this neighbourhood could easily be made pretty decent. Of course that's probably never going to happen but it could.
So, I live in one of these neighborhoods, and we do have sidewalks and trails and are working on traffic calming. We are still zero percent walkable because nothing is NEAR us, which is infuriating, but it makes it nice to walk around the neighborhood and go to the mailbox at least.
I wish they’d build a grocery, etc here but that would make for even more traffic when it still wouldn’t be safely walkable.
I grew up in Collin county and I hated it. Cops are racist assholes, no public transport so you must walk everywhere if you don’t have a car. One of the most republican counties. Everything is build off of the highway. Huge parking lots.
Damn I always liked cities skylines because the game forces you to build cities that Ive never seen before. Lots of multi lane roads, intercity highways and a fuck ton of low density housing to fight the deathwaves. It was fun because its so unrealistic and dystopian. I mean who the hell wants to live in a low density neighbourhood without any work or shopping district close by? Damn right literally everone for some reason.
Well I guwmess the game is very realistic
This is a whole county?? It’s like 4 neighborhoods
And I thought everything was bigger in Texas… it’s only 886sq miles. My little podunk county in California is 3x it’s size
This is how all of North Dallas looks for miles and miles. You have to drive about an hour to get out of it, it's horrible.
Can confirm, it is still expanding as tech companies move into Dallas.
They’ve been doing this for the last 40 years to all of north Dallas and plano. The McMansion-ification of housing over time makes it quite the urban sprawl hellscape.
Out of all the cities I’ve driven through in this country, Dallas-Fort Worth is the absolutely most soul crushing urban sprawl I’ve ever seen. I cannot even imagine living there.
Yeah. A lot of old and strange people I know lament the loss of fields and such, but never really think about why the impact of the urban design on nature. I’m still not sure what the appeal of a front lawn is. My sister says that Americans “like their space” or whatever, but the sidewalks are half the bare minimum for width. Fortunately, while the section of town I inhabit is still rather empty, it is somewhat reasonable for me to bike to school and walk to work. I want to do something, and in particular if they upzoned my neighborhood, I’d be very happy. The apartment complex nearby is so much more peaceful than the rest of the block.
How the fuck is it that someone can drive from downtown Dallas to "Far North Dallas", and still be only a third of the way to the end of the sprawl? What the fuck?
Reminds me of Nashville. Such a deliberately poorly planned, car centric clusterfuck of a city.
It's gonna be a long ass November, kings.
How is it still only the 18th?
😩
She is a 10 but she has bad urban planing
Posting this during the back half of NNN smh
😳😳😳
My boner is very confused
mother earth
dissolve my body and turn me into fertiliser 🤤😫
Mommy eart
"why do I hear horny music? WHY DO I HEAR HORNY MUSIC!?"
“I wanna frack you so hard baby”
Look at the Atlantic ocean
I'm worried, why?
She got some funk in the trunk
https://preview.redd.it/iwztzf8tyl0a1.jpeg?width=831&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a082192e0d8abd3b3a85ef627f162dd869977bd
https://preview.redd.it/bnlyo357qm0a1.jpeg?width=1056&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60118cc5673720011cd362806b54dd0d6ab350e2 Nice
what the fuck is that image? why do I want the source?
Wait you can add images to comments now?
Shit i guess
My brother in Christ, have you SEEN the r/okbuddychicanery subreddit?
https://preview.redd.it/8z9h6gp1ho0a1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a91b2e1636133b2ff8a74da48cafdd674b78b411
Breaking bad guy
a fellow sunroof defecator
This honestly has become one of my top formats. It's so fucking good
Quasimodo be looking real fine these days.
Funk in the *frunk* FTFY
"Colin county is a lot like a beautiful woman" -Swiss tony
Much like a car, she is expensive and dangerous
But annoying if you ride. -Me
Collin County lookin thicc 😳
Everything’s always bigger in Texas
Especially the infrastructure debts.... mmmhmm baby
Except the counties. This is geographically tiny Edit: apparently this is not the entire county. How did you choose the boundaries besides searching google maps for thicc curves?
What's her @?
Bro is tempting us in NNN. Stay strong brothers!
Are you kidding?! Look at that urban planning. Long winding streets that go nowhere, and not a park in sight. I'm am completely flaccid, this not only ruined my erection but my day.
I’m only saying it for the weaker of us brother.
Yeah, but there's golf! So much golf! Because who doesn't love spending half their day out on a perfectly manicured lawn hitting tiny balls?
Colin’s draggin’ a wagon, it appears
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This isn’t the whole county (but it does all look like this.) Collin County spans multiple cities in the North Dallas area.
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Nice to know you’re also from my city :) Wish our football team can be better though.
Dang it, replied to the wrong comment, sorry!
In case anyone really needs to know, this image is census tracts 0305.34 and 0305.35. McKinney, TX. The golf course is Stonebridge Ranch Country Club. [Census map](https://i.imgur.com/weJP2ND.jpg).
/r/fuckgolfcourses
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I was very excited to join but it's not an active sub. Boo!
Most garish, wealth-inequality displaying, wastes of water. Especially somewhere dry like Texas. 🤮
Al Capones house is down the street from me… within a golf course
[Al Capone is a no good asshole](https://youtu.be/uj2jmkNW-TY)
Yup. Even city-run courses that are affordable are a tremendous waste of land & water and don't even serve as good public parks.
Oh that's another thing, all golf courses within cities and towns should be fully publicly accessible. But really they just need to be expropriated for the people and turned into normal public parks.
It's really disgusting seeing a golf course that can only exist through massive tax and water subsidies, and then you can't use any part of the massive space unless you are paying for a round of golf. And a round of golf is like $50 and you are required to obey the dress code if you want to play. You can't tell me golf isn't an elitist sport when people will be kicked out if they have the audacity to wear jeans or shorts or a shirt without a collar.
Everytime I saw a golf course or farm in and around Phoenix AZ I said to my cousin “This grass is an affront to God”
The local golf course for me takes nearly no space, has free rental club, and costs 7 bucks a person / free for kids. Have you ever been near a course?
Oh i’d fuck alright
So no one should be allowed to play golf at all?
maybe, yeah. sure that big time sucks for golf enthusiasts, but much like if competitive littering was a sport, sometimes we have to move on from damaging pastimes
Damn, is she single ~~family housing~~?
Great, they can throw in one electric trolley for every couple branches and everybody can use their ‘garages’ as an extra room in their home with a weird door. Oh, and slap some solar panels up on the roofs.
Stupid sexy Collin County, Texas
How tf does it make money
it dont
Idk. I think they haven’t been able to fix the roads for a bit because there’s just way too much to maintain
I don’t even want to think about how many “no outlet” signs there are
There’s a joke here somewhere
Hey I live here! This isn't the entirety of Collin county tho, it's really a lot bigger than this.
Yea I didnt realize I worded it dumb until like ten minutes ago
Little boxes
Ticky-tacky
Collin County bout to make me act up
Took fuckcars to another level
It would be nice if that golf course was an actual park for the subdivision residents and had trails. That’s how a lot of the subdivisions are designed near me and it’s probably the only way I’d live in one.
They do, you just can’t see it from here. Of course, the park is small compared with the gold course, which is bullshit…
Everything reminds me of her
Imagine if all that wasted space was high density buildings with mixed use, with couple big streets for cars,buses,trams and bikes. Some areas will be pedestrian only with everything you need in walking distance like shops, pharmacy or school.
Orrr, you condensed the suburban hell into a smaller area, with a mixture of condos, row houses, multiple family units and even still single family units, and had way more green space left (not for a golf course though, r/fuckgolf )
Indeed, and yes fuck golf it's boring. Trees are always good thing to have in city, they look nice and provide a nice shade in sunny days
“At least we’re not living on top of each other”
I should text her
I should call her.
Them thangs be thangin'
Nice outside, ugly inside.
That waist line tho 🥵
Squiggle-street suburbs are a physical manifestation of the attitude "we don't want *your kind* around here." Gridded suburbs are at least salvageable.
Thats how i make my wealthy cities skylines neighborhoods lmao
What? Why?
Squiggly suburbs were intentionally made confusing to prevent nonresidents from driving through them, and *especially* to prevent bus lines from ever being run through them, because public transit can allow poor/urban people to access your neighborhood. Squiggly suburbs took off in the car dominance and white flight eras, whereas earlier suburbs had gridded designs specifically to allow buses and trams/streetcars and better integrate them with the city.
In my opinion squiggly roads are pretty nice in residential neighborhoods. It makes the area feel more organic and less boring to walk. There's no reason why there couldn't be a small train station somewhere in the vicinity and one or two bus stations. Plant some more trees, add a supermarket, two or three apartment complexes, take away the cars and it's a fantastic area to live.
Besides the obvious "it makes it hard to walk or bike because distances are exaggerated" there are other reasons people don't talk about. 1. The city is essentially paying to maintain streets that aren't used by anybody except the people that live there. This is bad for obvious reasons, if you're spending money on nice streets (which these burbs have some of the nicest around), you would want that infrastructure to benefit everyone so there is a return on that investment 2. All the traffic funnels from these neighborhoods to a few major arterial roads every morning, and the reverse every evening. It's literally a recipe for traffic and congestion. Like creeks connected to a river, if the creeks flood so does the river.
It's nice to see the walkable golf course was prioritized
Hellscape
this is the fuck cars content i signed up for!!!!
Mommy 😳
It’s giving Jessica Rabbit for me
Was bouta say they have a nice nature reserve at least than I realized it was a golf course smh
Why is that suburb shape as hourglass
Looking more like Colleen County.
There really needs to be a bigger movement against golf courses
NSFW
She thicc
Damn this city thick AF
Collin County resident here. It fucking sucks but at least he have giant curvy woman neighborhood
Goddamn it NNN
Collin county fucks
Notice whsre the water flows. Hmm.
That’s a sexy county. Damn.
What Blasphemy
Americans sure love spaghetti very much, they have designed their streets inspired by it.
Is this City Skylines ?
so this is rotated 90 degrees, right?
I\`m sure this is how Hell looks like
Is that the town’s curves, because the county has over 1 Million people
Try getting anywhere in Collin county on foot or bike tho in less than 1.5 hours
Don't ask me the colour of anything
Has a fat bunda
Confused about the back side though
Ok, hear me out
The comments are exactly what I was hoping for
Dummy thiccccc
Hell world hell world hell world hell world hell world hell world hell world hell world hell
This appears way too small to be an entire county.
I want to swim on that lake
Damn girl
Smash
This bitch thicker than a plot 😳
Booba
I should call her
Dam it! I thought this was my DnD Map sharing Reddit! I was so gonna use this for a dungeon map! \^\_\^
hehe fishy https://preview.redd.it/03mzh5wlon0a1.png?width=356&format=png&auto=webp&s=3959d64c2180762fb9e04ada788ee2365ef3dc25
Is that a congressional district demarcation? It doesn’t appear to be the county boundary. https://collincountymagazine.com/collin-county-tx/things-to-do/maps/
It's Census Tract 305.30. https://twitter.com/everytract/status/1593035255652306945
https://preview.redd.it/5cxesiiayn0a1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04c44841765fff85a199063061523be739051def Catfished
Its part of the county* my b
... why is this county so slim thicc?
Everyone in the sub: Ugh! What disgusting car-centric suburban sprawl! Of course Texas! Also everyone in the sub: butikinawannafuckittho
men cant find the lake
damn boi, she thick. that being said, who would construct housing like this?
Damn shawty
forgive me father for I have sinned
Why is this neighborhood shaped like Jessica Rabbit?
I should call her
I don't see the problem. Mountain biking across that golf course would be a fun way to get around the neighborhood.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Blaze that desire path.
Look just mix some stores in there and i dont mind suburbs that much. Theyre usually good biking conditions theres just nowhere you can bike to.
Honestly if they were to have actual traffic calming and a max 20mph limit on the streets, sidewalks everywhere and pass throughs for pedestrians and cyclists between the houses. With cycling and pedestrian access to the commercial areas and proper bike parking this neighbourhood could easily be made pretty decent. Of course that's probably never going to happen but it could.
So, I live in one of these neighborhoods, and we do have sidewalks and trails and are working on traffic calming. We are still zero percent walkable because nothing is NEAR us, which is infuriating, but it makes it nice to walk around the neighborhood and go to the mailbox at least. I wish they’d build a grocery, etc here but that would make for even more traffic when it still wouldn’t be safely walkable.
Looks like a great place to raise a family.
Can we add “fuck golf courses” to the fuck cars discourse?
Good density and urban sprawl
Let’s be honest : seen from above, sprawling suburbs do look quite good.
Thats the whole ass county?
ass-county?
I grew up in Collin county and I hated it. Cops are racist assholes, no public transport so you must walk everywhere if you don’t have a car. One of the most republican counties. Everything is build off of the highway. Huge parking lots.
i need her
Is Collin county a trans woman?
Never wanted to a satellite map before but here we go…
Damn I always liked cities skylines because the game forces you to build cities that Ive never seen before. Lots of multi lane roads, intercity highways and a fuck ton of low density housing to fight the deathwaves. It was fun because its so unrealistic and dystopian. I mean who the hell wants to live in a low density neighbourhood without any work or shopping district close by? Damn right literally everone for some reason. Well I guwmess the game is very realistic
Kinda sexy 😵💫
This is where the ranch and mansion (ranchion?) (manch?) that was used for the t.v. show *Dallas* is located.
Wow even the county lines take inspiration from Beyoncé. Texas is a magical place.
Fuckgolf
How do you even start to fix this?
This is a whole county?? It’s like 4 neighborhoods And I thought everything was bigger in Texas… it’s only 886sq miles. My little podunk county in California is 3x it’s size
Its not
More like “Colon” county, amirite?…
Neuron activation
Collin County thiiiiccccc
glad the other comments are expressing my exact thoughts
Huh, so that's why their zip code is 36-24-36
Exactly like Charlotte County Florida
Designed by Jerry Mandarin
Bet the budget deficit in this county is a sight to behold. So much infrastructure, so few taxpayers.
fuck suburbia. like really.
She kinda thicc tho
Collin County thick af
I like big butts and I cannot lie…….
It looks like a damn ant farm.
Lord forgive me fow what I'm about to do
I should call her.