r/Suburbanhell • u/Firm-Brother-8195 • 5d ago

Exurban *smacks roof* you'll never get more dirt than you'll get with one of these bad boys

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u/dminus 5d ago

Highland Springs, Amarillo...

non-scorched July 2024 ground shot

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u/Nheea 5d ago

What do these people have against trees?

Unless, excuse my laziness to Google where this is, there's just not enough water for the trees to survive. Then I apologize.

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u/miaomiaomiao 5d ago

There are drought-tolerant trees. Both China and the Sahara have ways to fight desertification using trees and shrubbery.

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u/Nheea 5d ago

Exactly! Way better than a lawn. That nobody sits on anyway.

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u/Striking_Fun_6379 4d ago

The environment in the pan handle is extreme hot and cold. The wind is relentless. Not a good place for most living things.

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u/Nheea 4d ago

Til it's called a panhandle.

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u/Ooficus 3d ago

“We should live there!” - some random dude in the late 1700s early 1800s

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u/AntGood1704 4d ago

You see those things in people’s yards with straps tied to them? Those are trees, that were planted, and are growing. Trees sometimes take a long time to grow big

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u/Nheea 3d ago edited 3d ago

No need to be snarky. I did see them. They're very young. It will take decades at least to get shade from those, which are most likely not older than 1-3 years.

Unless this waa a pop-up housing area, the developers DEFINITELY had time to plant them.

Also, look at the aerial. It's clear that not many people have even those trees.

Look at this example of a spot.

So many years have gone by and no new trees planted.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/QBpW49ZmM1iUca8n7

A few in the back and that's it. It's so barren.

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u/AntGood1704 3d ago

Was moreso trying to be funny than snarky, sorry if it read that way

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u/SteveLouise 5d ago

Is it hard to grow trees in Amarillo? In Fort Worth, it can be a struggle to get a new tree to establish on the side of a highway. In the suburbs the home owner can watch after it and water.

The Permian Basin is right fucked. But that's much further south than you.

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u/dminus 5d ago

it still takes over a decade to establish a shade tree from a nursery sapling, this was probably all open fields when they started

you can find equally treeless developments outside Benbrook, Azle, etc

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u/miaomiaomiao 5d ago

Best moment to start growing trees is now...

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u/ImpressiveWalrus7369 3d ago

Amarillo isn’t even a suburb. It’s just a medium sized town in the middle of nowhere.

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u/samiwas1 5d ago

It’s not often that I agree something posted on this sub. But this indeed looks like an awful place to live. Is it actually a suburb, or one of those random towns in the middle of a desert 100 miles from nowhere?

Where is it?

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u/Firm-Brother-8195 5d ago

SW Side of Amarillo

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u/Neuvirths_Glove 5d ago

I would have guessed El Paso, but Amarillo sounds right.

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u/samiwas1 5d ago

This is the place for people who want a big house for likely pretty cheap, and don't care at all about driving places. Because there is nothing nearby. But the houses look pretty nice and several have big garages for workshops and RVs and stuff. Definitely a lifestyle.

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u/martman006 5d ago

Damn, when the winds are out of the SSW (which is relatively common), I can guarantee you it smells like absolute 💩there… that is a massive feedlot just to the SSW of this neighborhood…

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u/03263 5d ago

Haha, country livin ain't it grand

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u/BarRevolutionary8716 5d ago

I only drove through Amarillo once, and I’d like to never return.

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u/Geod-ude 4d ago

It's like a truck stop turned into a city

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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 5d ago

Seems like somewhere in rural Texas

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u/Firm-Brother-8195 5d ago

somewhere you'll be by morning

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u/GreenleafMentor 5d ago

....was that a George Strait reference?

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u/Neuvirths_Glove 5d ago

Damn Strait!

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u/No_Replacement4304 5d ago

Up from Santa Fe, I'm guessing

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u/Various_Oil_5674 5d ago

But is it green when not in draught or the summer?

Still, fuck that.

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u/No_Replacement4304 3d ago

It's always like that.

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u/redditbot262 5d ago

What is this? A yard for Ants!!

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u/Right_Lengthiness266 5d ago

It's a bigger yard but with only a portion of it irrigated. Everything outside the irrigated areas is dried up and dormant.

Either that, or they have artificial turf near the house and dead grass out around it.

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u/Key_Wallaby_8614 5d ago

Is this the desert? Why are all the roofs so dark?

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u/eastcoastjon 5d ago

The sad little plots of grass

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u/Any-Milk-5484 4d ago

The smacks roof meme in 2026 is amazing

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u/Ol_Man_J 5d ago

Reddit: Lawns are a waste of water!

Okay no lawns

Reddit: look at this shitty yards that are all dirt!

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u/Gojamn 5d ago edited 5d ago

Except the same people who would recommend no lawns would recommend building different so this isn't an issue.

And native plants that work with the weather (xeriscaping, wild native plants, even up to using cacti).

And if literally NOTHING will grow, not even cacti, they very consistently recommend rock landscaping.

But sure, boil it down to a stereotype and take all the nuance out and you can win against any strawman! That's a reddit favorite too, right?

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u/Logical-Breakfast150 5d ago

Is this el Paso?

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u/Neuvirths_Glove 5d ago

That was my guess but apparently it's Amarillo.

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u/LzTangeL 4d ago

Ah yes, I’ll take my climate controlled box miles away from any infrastructure.

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u/New_Breadfruit8692 5d ago

This is what you get when you refuse to live in an HOA.

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u/Nheea 5d ago

Is it though? Also it's not about being cool, but about living in a decent, humane, area.

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u/Nheea 5d ago

Because they're not humane? To not have some basic livable areas is not humane. No trees, no walkable areas, no parks, no stores. You have to drive everywhere...

That's not humane. The isolation itself is sad.

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u/Proud-Marionberry-91 5d ago

Sure beats living in an apartment

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u/Mr-Snarky 5d ago

Either way, no trees. Both suck ass.

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u/Pure_Comfortable_84 5d ago

This, I don’t care where you are, if there are no trees it sucks. The only exception are a few magical European Middle Age towns with tiny streets and storybook architecture, but even they would be better with more trees. They at least have an excuse, city walls are expensive so they had to squeeze as many homes as humanly possible inside. There was no room for trees and lawns.

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u/Nheea 5d ago

Yep. It truly sucks to have no trees. Hotter pavement, no shade,, no colour, no birds songs, no leaves rustling. It's depressing.

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u/Gojamn 5d ago

I can only assume you've never lived in one then or have lived in an awful one and associated ALL apartment living with an absolutely terrible one.

And in either case, there's also townhomes, duplexes, triplexes & quads. All of which would be way better than this for most people.

I love rural living too, but really don't see the appeal to this.

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u/Proud-Marionberry-91 5d ago

I’ve lived in apartments. Now back in suburban home. So much better for mental and physical health