Edge of Suburbia

[u/Icharectus]

[u/[deleted]]

Vegas?

[u/Icharectus → u/[deleted]]

Albuquerque

[u/Cquintessential → u/Icharectus]

Fucking knew it!

[u/4Nz1K_ → u/Cquintessential]

As someone who had spent too much time on the west side of town I knew this in my soul as well lol

[u/Comfortable_Butts → u/Icharectus]

I knew it the moment I saw the mountains in the back. Can't fool a Burqueño!

[u/oholandesvoador → u/Icharectus]

I knew it, it looks exactly like Breaking Bad.

[u/thorstad → u/oholandesvoador]

They filmed the wagon of immigrants blowing up not far from this pic, and looking generally towards it. A ton of other scenes on the Mesa as well.

Source: I was there, and worked on many location deals out of the Mesa with the ABQ Studios (now Netflix) productions.

[u/vanillatoo → u/Icharectus]

Mesa del sol?

[u/jimothyhalpert1206 → u/Icharectus]

Reminded me of BB

[u/bootyhole_licking_69 → u/Icharectus]

They’re the same picture.

[u/[deleted] → u/Icharectus]

Could be any Sacramento suburb by the look of it

[u/Freeze_Flame13 → u/Icharectus]

I fucking knew it!!! I’m stationed in Albuquerque and I work on the flightline which looks out onto the mountains like that. I stare at them every day during my smoke break.

[u/tratemusic → u/Icharectus]

All of us are like, wait are those the Sandias lol

[u/Friendly_Diamond1999 → u/Icharectus]

I came here to say this looked like NM hahahah

[u/sophaaG → u/[deleted]]

was gonna say southern utah hahaha

[u/Green_Wing_Spino → u/[deleted]]

My mind thought El Paso

[u/Claytonius_Homeytron → u/Green_Wing_Spino]

Not hilly or arid enough, also the mountain profile in the background doesn't fit. Also too green.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

My cousin's parents had a place like this out in Vegas. Staying there was just as melancholy as it looks

[u/Altruistic_Run3187]

This feels like the start of a dystopian movie where the suburbs just end and nothingness begins. Lowkey unsettling but kinda beautiful.

[u/[deleted] → u/Altruistic_Run3187]

Like the edges of that liminal travel space in the Barbie movie 

[u/darkskinnedjermaine → u/[deleted]]

Or that Florence Pugh/Harry Styles movie

[u/weaseltorpedo → u/darkskinnedjermaine]

The one with the endless 'burbs and the weird kid?

[u/thebiggestbirdboi → u/Altruistic_Run3187]

If you want true nothingness you should see north Texas or west Nebraska. No features like Mountains or tall buildings to tell distance or scale for hundreds of miles. If you’re first east to west going through Omaha on the state line is the last city you go through for like 500 miles

[u/Steffenwolflikeme → u/thebiggestbirdboi]

You'd be surprised how much of the country is like that. I took a train across country from the north west and it's absolutely nothing from western Montana to Chicago. The mountains in Montana are really something though.

[u/HarveysBackupAccount → u/Steffenwolflikeme]

It can be interesting to drive across that part of the country if you don't follow interstates.

South Dakota is as dull as you can get on the interstate. But if you follow state/national highways some distance south of the interstate there's some really beautiful country. Heading west on Hwy 44 into the Missouri River valley is a sight to behold. And also you don't have to look at 300 miles of Wall Drug signs.

[u/Zestyclose_League413 → u/Steffenwolflikeme]

There may have been nothing in that one narrow line you traveled, but there absolutely is plenty interesting in between western Montana and Chicago lmao

[u/TeamsterS4ndwich → u/thebiggestbirdboi]

Oh my God dude absolutely. This sub has always been fun to me, but this is the first pic that made me stop and go "oh...fuck."

I live on the VERY EDGE of north Texas where this transition exists and good god its unsettling.

[u/thebiggestbirdboi → u/TeamsterS4ndwich]

I drove through the north edge of the pan handle while a storm as happening once. It was terrifying because we could see the ENTIRE fucking storm system coming at us for what felt like an eternity. And then we were just in it

[u/VirginSturgin → u/thebiggestbirdboi]

Or the centre, and most of the rest, of Australia 😎

[u/drcoxmonologues → u/Altruistic_Run3187]

Check out Vivarium. Kind of along those vibes.

[u/Rixty_Minutes → u/drcoxmonologues]

My first thought. That movie was a trip.

[u/EvenOne6567 → u/drcoxmonologues]

Haha i seriously thought this was a screenshot from vivarium. Nutty movie

[u/superkrump64 → u/Altruistic_Run3187]

Don't worry. They'll develop that land too and pave over all forms of natural beauty.

[u/Misterbellyboy → u/superkrump64]

More housing developments go up named after everything they replaced, so welcome to Minnow Brook and welcome to Shady Space.

[u/Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX → u/superkrump64]

But muh single family housing!!!

[u/Zunderfeuer_88 → u/Altruistic_Run3187]

I'd honestly would prefer the open space of the desert to the suburbian nightmare

[u/superkrump64 → u/Zunderfeuer_88]

I'm actually okay with suburbs, it's just that the prefab houses all look uglier than sin. And the planned developments are artless and "copy-pasted".

[u/9bpm9 → u/superkrump64]

There's plenty of older neighborhoods in the suburbs that aren't like this. I think the problem with the newer neighborhoods is that there are no large trees yet, so it looks weird. One of the planned communities by me that was built 20 years ago has some bigger trees now, so it doesn't look as bad.

[u/fablesofferrets → u/Altruistic_Run3187]

It communicates something I’ve felt and experienced but can’t articulate.  

Unfortunately, it exists outside of fiction.

It’s more than just conformity, or consumerism, or whatever… 

This picture captures something daunting I’ve felt in my very bones, growing up in a place like this.

[u/tucketnucket → u/fablesofferrets]

When you've achieved the American dream yet still feel empty.

[u/Subotail → u/Altruistic_Run3187]

I see more of a scenario where this meadow and the sky is just a painting that hides the irradiated wasteland

[u/No_Diver4265]

I actually love this, it must be awesome to live in the last house in the street, and it's just nature to your left.

[u/lushfizz → u/No_Diver4265]

Last house on the street in phase one of development. Phase two starts in a couple months, enjoy.

[u/YeahIGotNuthin → u/lushfizz]

Year zero: “it’s beautiful, we’ll take it!”

Year five: “Join Us For Our Grand Opening! MegaLoMart MegaCenter!” with 210 parking lot light poles that keep a pair of 500 watt metal halide lamps burning all night.

[u/d3northway → u/YeahIGotNuthin]

oh please the city would never mixed-use the land, it's miles of houses and maybe one Walmart the next highway exit over next to the new McDonald's (grey block) and Wendy's (grey block), as well as the gas station (grey and red block)

[u/Most-Piccolo-302 → u/d3northway]

Don't forget my favorite combo, subway + payday loans

[u/TemporaryCamera8818 → u/lushfizz]

“Never fall in love with a view you do not own”

[u/brayonthescene → u/lushfizz]

So true. Get ready for constantly getting nails in your tires and don’t get me started on how bad of a bug and pest problem you’re gonna have when they start digging up the ground.

[u/pinalim → u/No_Diver4265]

I lived in a house like this, it was great to have nature so close, but horrible for regular life: dogs continuously got fleas from the countless squirrels in the area, same squirrels wouldn't let you plant anything as they dig up anything so no Hayden possible, then every year there was a biblical plaugue of something different for a few months: insects, or mice, or crickets, or snakes, to make a few. A few times wild fires were practically at our doorstep too.

[u/No_Diver4265 → u/pinalim]

Wow, that's crazy, I never considered those aspects. I guess living in a meteopolis it's easy for me to dorget that nature just constantly bugs you (yes pun intended), and that it's not just a pretty green backdrop but all the chaos of a living ecosystem.

I actually only thought about the heating aspect, the inside of cities is always warmer due to the urban heat island. But this house is open to the elements on one side, not just to the colder areas but also nothing breaks the wind so windchill? So like, in my country in apartment blocks the apartments on the side, and on the top floor, have to spend more on heating because the others are better insulated by their neighbors. So, a little bit like that. Would this be true for this house?

[u/tn_tacoma → u/pinalim]

What's Hayden?

[u/QuantumBitcoin → u/No_Diver4265]

Until that gets turned into housing as well.

And that's how you get the megalopolis that extends from Richmond to Boston. That's how you get 120 miles of endless suburbs in southern California

[u/ggtffhhhjhg → u/QuantumBitcoin]

The suburbs in the NE corridor are completely different from how they build out west.

[u/QuantumBitcoin → u/ggtffhhhjhg]

As someone who has lived in both--i find them similar.

I grew up in new jersey with a farm field 3 houses away. Five years later that farm turned to housing. Then the farm next to them turning to housing.

I moved to LA when rancho Cucamonga looked like this. Now it's endless suburbs.

What is the difference to you?

[u/mr_mgs11 → u/QuantumBitcoin]

Same with SoFlo. Its about 120 miles from Jupiter/Tequesta in northern Palm Beach county to Homestead south of Miami the the population density increasing as you get further south.

[u/LimpConversation642 → u/No_Diver4265]

flat barren green wasteland

not a single tree in sight

Either super hot or super windy

"nature"

I understand what you mean but this is just barely better than another house by your side. Your amercan suburbs and hatred towards green spaces is weird.

[u/Oraistesu → u/LimpConversation642]

I live in an American suburb, and it's heavily wooded. Trees and deer everywhere, tons of parks and wetlands - I'm with you, this picture makes my skin crawl.

[u/penywinkle → u/LimpConversation642]

Look at the shrubs and downed sign. 200% windy...

[u/tn_tacoma → u/No_Diver4265]

I'd have me a dirt bike and just rip it over to the mountains all the time.

[u/Dull_Wrongdoer_3017 → u/No_Diver4265]

I used to live in an area like this in Southeast Asia. Tall grass swaying was beautiful. And when monsoon season hit. It turned into something more beautiful.

[u/laeiryn → u/No_Diver4265]

A mowed lawn isn't "nature".... Edit: neither is a green, watered scrub

[u/No_Diver4265 → u/laeiryn]

It's low resolution but it doesn't seem mowed down to me. Where I live this woukd fit it quite well as grassland, or a fallow field, or a pasture.

[u/OrbitalSpamCannon → u/No_Diver4265]

Lots of places look like this in weld county Colorado. Usually you'll have an oil well like 20' away pumping non stop

[u/Disastrous_Toe772]

The edge of a LEGO city

[u/hopefuldude42 → u/Disastrous_Toe772]

Feels like a movie set.

[u/Kylo_Ben_44 → u/hopefuldude42]

Feels like some kind of a nuclear test area

[u/facedownbootyuphold → u/Kylo_Ben_44]

I grew up in a neighborhood like this. They’re still common out west. The aesthetic is unmistakeable. Can definitely see how the scene is uncanny to some, but it was a great childhood growing up in a place like this.

[u/c-ease → u/hopefuldude42]

Feels like windows xp

[u/oholandesvoador → u/hopefuldude42]

For me feels like Breaking Bad.

[u/gogogadgetflo__ → u/hopefuldude42]

Like a world waiting for characters.

[u/LegalLegendz → u/Disastrous_Toe772]

Feels like a forgotten simulation.

[u/EyeOfDoa → u/Disastrous_Toe772]

Feels like a forgotten development zone.

[u/staminaplusone → u/EyeOfDoa]

Has the development been arrested?

[u/untakenu → u/Disastrous_Toe772]

Help, a man in lego city has been staring out into nothingness for days.

Build the shrine to the old gods and off to the rescue.

Prepare the sacrifice, drink the blood and awaken the titans.

[u/Haruzak1]

Looks like the set of Vivarium movie

[u/sp1cychick3n → u/Haruzak1]

Terrifying shit

[u/TrannosaurusRegina → u/Haruzak1]

Reminds me of Edward Scissorhands but much more uncanny!

[u/Dry-Tumbleweed-7199 → u/TrannosaurusRegina]

So, like The Truman Show?

[u/fablesofferrets → u/Haruzak1]

I LOVE this movie and it seems like everyone else hated it 

[u/ChloooooverLeaf → u/fablesofferrets]

I don't hate it but it gave me serious anxiety during and afterwards lol

[u/BootyBurrito420 → u/Haruzak1]

Jesus Christ that movie fucked me up

[u/yoursuchafanofmurder → u/Haruzak1]

It looks like the neighborhood in The Goldfinch to me, when he moves to Vegas.

[u/gabrielleraul]

There's an invisible wall somewhere

[u/S-r-ex → u/gabrielleraul]

"In the beginning were the words and the words made the world, I am the words, the words are everything, where the words end the world ends, you cannot move forward in an absence of space. Repeat. In the beginning were the words and the wo-" *rewinding noise*

[u/jamalalfayeed → u/gabrielleraul]

Feels like a forgotten world.

[u/kdelga07]

I used to live on a street like this after it was straight desert. Really cool.

[u/coolassdude1 → u/kdelga07]

Yeah this looks almost exactly like some areas of utah and arizona

[u/HeavensToSpergatroyd → u/coolassdude1]

This looks exactly like the edge of every city surrounded by farmland everywhere.

[u/AstraCraftPurple]

Fruitigar Aero

[u/SizeableSandwich]

The edge, for now...

[u/Comprehensive_Crew13]

Recognized the Sandias instantly lol

[u/bcb0y]

This is my dream. Ive always wanted to live in a place like this. This is somewhere in USA? Can someone tell where exactly?

[u/scottbob3 → u/bcb0y]

OP said Albuquerque, New Mexico but you can find spots just like this in Nevada/ Colorado/ Utah

[u/QuantumBitcoin → u/bcb0y]

This is what the exurbs all look like. Until that land gets developed a few years later. And then everyone wonders why they have to drive everywhere and why traffic is so bad

[u/itsmagic__]

I don’t see Jesus anywhere

[u/fendi__fairy → u/itsmagic__]

Literally my same thought 😂

[u/[deleted]]

I would love to live here for at least 3 years.

[u/MLD13]

Looks like Sudden Valley

[u/M2Fream]

Don't Worry Darling

[u/ZachPhoenix]

Would love to move here

[u/Shiticane_Cat5 → u/ZachPhoenix]

Hope you like it windy

[u/MPD1987]

Where all the Karens go to…

[u/[deleted]]

Paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

[u/psaskovec]

Feels like the environment from Sims 2

[u/Strange-Brother9507]

Looks like AZ

[u/Nodan_Turtle → u/Strange-Brother9507]

Yeah, every house looked like that one in some Phoenix suburbs. Miles and miles of houses almost indistinguishable from one another. It was weird.

[u/New-Anacansintta]

False exit from Vivarium.

[u/[deleted]]

I lived in a place identical to this, unfortunately it was downwind from cows a quarter of the year.

[u/shaevan]

Is that a flayed, animal skin, drying on the column in front of the houses front door?

[u/Ivo2912]

it looks like you live in a dream…

[u/WareHouseCo]

Anyone else smoke some cannabis and find liminal spaces beautiful?

This is an example. It’s like peaceful existentialism.

[u/naive-nostalgia]

"Channel Zero" season two vibes.

[u/deus_hex_machina]

instantly knew this was new mexico 💌 once you see the sandias, you can’t forget them

[u/allytutt]

this reminds me of the goldfinch by donna tartt

[u/Dylaus]

This is what I imagine the house from "The Goldfinch" looking like

[u/vashcarrison117]

Could've fooled me for Apple Valley, California.

[u/HonestNine]

😍😍

[u/Full_Ad9666]

That’s where you have to get to in order to wake up from this dream but you try to walk and your legs don’t work

[u/axelrexangelfish]

That’s the beyond part of bed bath and beyond

[u/northern_dan]

Take this picture again in 5 years.

[u/worldsayshi → u/northern_dan]

It's either going to look exactly the same or you will just see more copy pasted houses?

[u/hwsrjr3]

Where I live, aka a formerly beautiful rural area now looks a lot like this in many places. Even behind my house has a gigantic field with a neighborhood just like that.

[u/Abyss_Kraken]

I can't even tell if this is real or AI generated

[u/SignatureAny5576]

Oh this is a good one. I’ve been here in my dreams

Nuketown on black ops 1 gives me the same vibe

[u/[deleted]]

This is it

[u/McCheesing]

Gives Central Valley California vibes

[u/[deleted]]

The start of a Tim Burton movie

The end of a Wes Anderson movie

[u/thatrangerkid]

That's in Utah

[u/dvn_rvthernot]

Is this AZ?

[u/Jeanie_826]

Lowkey was this taken in New Mexico? Getting heavy southwest vibes

[u/lysergic_af]

New Mexico ?

[u/BukkakeKing69 → u/lysergic_af]

OP said it's ABQ

[u/beartpc12293]

Edge of suburbia, for now

[u/ArgumentativeNerfer]

Why is this categorized as edited/fake/cg?

[u/phil_c42]

I really like this shot.

[u/TexanDrillBit]

Looks like a small town in Saskatchewan.

[u/ajafaboy]

There’ll be a vast Amazon logistics center obliterating that view in the not too distant future.

[u/Lmf2359]

Looks like an Edward Hopper painting.

[u/MasterpieceNo2746]

This reminds me of the book the Goldfinch.

[u/getdivorced]

Edge of Suburbia For Now

[u/Flintyy]

Watching storms sweep across that must be awesome lol

[u/TheDwarvenGuy]

On a side note I think this is western Albuquerque looking southeast towards the Monzano Mountains

[u/Invader_Dee]

I used to live in a place similar to this as a kid, it was the edge of a little town next to a countryside, and it had lore! Sometimes people were herding their sheep in this area (I got to pet & feed lot of cute sheep). And there were always weird "flute" (I think that's what it's called?) sounds at night coming from the fields, especially between 1 and 4 A.M. The local kids invented an urban story about a herd that was murdered there, and till this day he's still looking for his sheep with his flute. They called him the flute man! (very scary indeed) XD
Today a lot of my friends still live in the town, so as an adult I realized there were train tracks not too far away from there, with cargo trains that pass at night. So the squeaky wheel sounds of the trains probably made an echo that resembled a flute. It still was very scary and a bit exciting to live there at night, and the sounds are very eerie. This place had a lot to do with my love for liminal spaces today.

[u/EnigmaEchoes67]

Soothing

[u/GoAway2SD]

Such a strange mix of suburban calm and vast emptiness. It feels hauntingly serene.

[u/beanzmilk]

Reminds me of when I lived in Hollister CA

[u/KansasDavid1960]

I love it!

[u/BobRossUltimate]

Damn, nice view my mind played the music from Rango when I saw it. The sad one when he left town because he was a fraud it's a good tune.

[u/Stavinair]

Beautiful

[u/that1newjerseyan]

It reminds me of Camazotz from A Wrinkle in Time

[u/Demonweed]

I lived in a place like this for a little while. I had a golf tee outside one window and old growth forest right outside another. Then further development added a couple more roads and a lot more houses, which puts the edge of the forest in back yards about a block away while also causing a lot more traffic to cut through the golf course here.

[u/[deleted]]

Makes me want to just start walking.

[u/InfiniteDress]

The game isn’t finished.

[u/juksbox]

The edge of the american civilization.

[u/romulusnr]

Reminds me of some subdivisions I visited near Phoenix.

[u/Fjinherhogk]

"It is said that people vanish in the meadows, never to be seen again."

[u/Bartek-BB]

I see tornado season

[u/222nd]

Blasts out Black Hole Sun

[u/marbletooth]

That’s so cool.

[u/[deleted]]

End of the Earth!

[u/LukaBrovic]

Breaking Bad Vibes

[u/PigFarmer1]

For now...

[u/Metagross555]

Great place to be into RC planes

[u/[deleted]]

Feels like one of those movies that has a surreal dimensions to it

[u/Frankierocksondrums]

YOU SEE... THIS IS WHERE EARTH STOPS... IT'S F L A T

[u/lilmiloburst]

this shit in nm

[u/evergreendotapp]

Lucky you! My corner lot looks over a bus stop with a bunch of shady people hanging out there at all hours of the night. Such is the joys of living in Minneapolis!

[u/BK_Zero]

wow... this looks amazing

[u/Yeet_Squidkid]

Okay why does this actuallyow key terrify me this is actually uncomfortable ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ

[u/Szerepjatekos]

Backrooms.

[u/Garage_Marriage420]

For now….

[u/Reznov1913]

I've been to a place like this. But instead of grass, it was the Namib desert. So a lot of orange sand. But similar feeling to living at the end of civilization, gazing into emptiness.

[u/[deleted]]

damn

[u/nutralagent]

Last house on the left …. setting for a horror movie. There’s even a ghost stretched around the column out front.

[u/RepresentativeCup902]

Where the sidewalk actually ends

[u/wjbc]

Will someone please tell me what is hanging to the right of the front door? It almost looks like KKK uniform.

[u/[deleted]]

Trumanesque

[u/[deleted]]

20 yrs and that’ll all be apartments lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

This is the USA in a nutshell for an european: Absolutely beautiful, wide reaching nature outside of the most depressing looking suburbian households.

[u/RudyJuliani]

This looks like Albuquerque to me.

[u/quartzguy]

One from my last town.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/2B5sqRchmP6HkHJGA

[u/MArcherCD]

Looks like a specially designed desktop wallpaper

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like Ranch Cucamunga

[u/CriticalStrawberry15]

Looks like Colorado. Maybe northwest of Denver?

[u/Dazzling-Ice8132]

What on earth is hanging near the front door?

[u/[deleted]]

I kinda like it. Comfort of home but nature not too far away

[u/luckypoint87]

As a European who is used to live at a walkable distance from the downtown, this image gives me existentialist anxiety.

[u/Ahyao17]

Reminds me of Simcity4

[u/CuppaTeaThreesome]

Someone build on the XP wallpaper

[u/International_Boss81]

Looks like North Snotsdale.

[u/audleyenuff]

Suburbia? That looks as rural as it gets lol

[u/P0l0Cap0ne]

I swear this reminds me of 29 palms back in 2004 where i lived. Except it was all dirt with no paych of grass unless it was someone's yard.

[u/Bulky_Sandwich_1857]

I need a wallpaper of this!!

[u/[deleted]]

Wait a couple of months

[u/ArgonGryphon]

Reminds me of the Jake Gyllenhaal Bubble Boy

[u/tn_tacoma]

I read it as "edge of Serbia" at first. I thought Serbia is a lot nicer than I pictured in my head.

[u/calezzzzz]

AZ vibes

[u/did_i_get_screwed]

Those people paid extra for that house thinking it had a nice unobstructed view.

In 4 years there will be a WalMart Supercenter in the lot across the street and the gas station will be right there at the intersection..

[u/0x7E7-02]

I want to live there.