"there's no bar nearby so i'm gonna turn this into a bar" literally changed my life, it's such a concise way to explain how integrated cars are into peoples lives, their home has to be everything because they're scared and isolated from everything
Yes! Where am I going to put my home office, my home cafe/third space, my storage for once-per-year items that I can't just rent, my home grocery store, my home bakery, my home mass-produced meal revolutionarily called "Meal Prep", my home gym, my home guest room because there's no hotels nearby...
Since coming across this channel I've been getting more and more into urbanization. I bought an ebike to get myself around, been dreaming of moving to the Netherlands one day, and I cannot wait to visit this summer.
This channel definitely needed overblown sound design and more whip transitions- you should make every single video this way. It's awesome to see you finally reveal your true self- no more explainers, please.
Yeah! I owe Strong Towns a huge favour. Without you, I never would have figured out that suburbia is the most subsidized way to live. You guys saved me a fortune! 👍
It looks awful, the wide avenues feel like a highway crossing the town. Living there must actually suck, so much noise, smog and you will not be able to walk anywhere. It feels depressing just to imagine a daily life where I cannot walk to uni, work and the nearby park.
You deserve it, Jason! This is a brave and refreshing new direction you're taking this TH-cam channel. I think I speak for everyone when I say we want more content about homeowner's associations.
Yeah man, for sure!! Hit me up if you're in town some time and we'll head out to the trails! I won't be riding a bike, as those are only for children, but we can take the truck down the hill (as long as it doesn't get muddy; I've got an image to maintain).
Almost had me fooled, but you can tell this is a joke because at 12:28 he uses his turn signal to signal a lane change, which we all know real Dodge Ram drivers never do.
Dodge is typically the least consistent along with toyota and Nissan. Bmw is surprisingly very good, audi not so much. Chevy, gmc always Anything actually expensive, typically. Anything clapped 70% Anything that's clearly bought at jd byrider or some pre owned used dealer. Never.
@@LeonidJP92well you can just prevent GM kidnapping the entire US economic structure in the 50s and give Eisenhower more power over the design of the interstates so he’d make them go around cities instead of going thru them as he intended in the first place when he signed that federal funding bill.
MY KING!!! The only climate man can change is the one inside a big big truck. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HIT THE GAS AND THE BRAKE AT THE SAME TIME?!!??
I saw the empty parking lot and the way he parked, following the box line would be a better view angles, but I remember he did it for the authentic experience!
@@Scoti17which is what I used to do. I've never understood huge open spaces for car parks. In stoke on trent. They built the Tesco's store on top of the parking structure. But you could equally have the store on the ground/first floor & put the parking structure on top
Yeah, and when you then have to occasionally spend some time with lots of strangers, you feel like only a gun in your pocket can make you feel secure and normal again...
There's a very subtle joke here that's really great that not many people will spot unless they're familiar with the area: all the suburbia clips are a mishmash of several different towns in and around York Region north of Toronto which I'm pretty sure is a deliberate jab at the fact that all of suburbia looks like the same featureless glop no matter where you go. 0:00 is obviously in Aurora 3:48 Bayview & Major Mack is in Richmond Hill 5:04 I'm like 90% sure this is Hwy 404 at Hwy 407 which is in Markham 6:11 The 401 is in North York 7:04 Weston Road is in Vaughan, VMC in the background 11:54 This bit of Stouffville Rd I think might technically be in Stouffville I'm not 100% sure (suburban Stouffville is a little out of the way but it also looks like everywhere featured) 14:18 Davis Drive is in Newmarket (which would indeed be 3 hours away from downtown Toronto by transit.) 15:20 The spaghetti junction at Pearson airport I'm p sure is just within Mississauga Also shoutout to the continuity error at 15:08 where NJB is on a viva bus to Finch station but then it cuts to Pioneer Village station on the other side of line 1. Just shows how wildly varied he travelled for this video.
I thought it was Whitby @ 3:41, but then again, I haven't been to the spot I thought it was for a while now, and they all look the same anyway 😅. As for the cut to TTC subway station, I didn't even realize that it's not Finch station until someone else in the comment said how "clean and modern" it is, which made me went back and look. And lo-and-behold, "York University" logo 😂.
11:54 is here: www.google.com/maps/place/Bayview+Ave+%26+Stouffville+Rd,+Richmond+Hill,+ON+L4E+3S3/@43.9323161,-79.4274218,1732m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x882ad5a11baf9b1f:0x7409c074a688cc54!8m2!3d43.9311277!4d-79.4286372!16s%2Fg%2F11f3gc017t?entry=ttu
Can we all just take a moment and acknowledge the fact that this man willingly took the trouble to drive on the 401 to film this for his subscribers? Now that's dedication!
Drove the 401 in a truck that he possibly could've had issues driving due to how bloated and non-maneuverable it is, even if you drive (more reasonable) cars often.
this channel has really helped me articulate the vague unease ive always had around my hometown, and why pedestrianized areas always felt more comfortable. i can put specific vocabulary to specific problems now. its great to know im not being weird about this, or picky, or uppity. there are serious genuine problems here and the solutions would help Everyone
It’s a frustrating and sobering realization I’ve been coming to about the US. Capitalism is good for profit, but the effects and consequences of such actions is not beneficial when we don’t address the root cause of why transportation is such an issue. Now we’re looking at 3D roads since we’ve plateaued on 2D designs from a public transportation infrastructure issue yet there is no pressure or regulation for automobile companies to fucking serve and help the public. Public vs private interests is what is on display here as to why we’ve become victims of our greed. I could only imagine how much better we could do if these companies and their interest started making an effort to address urbanization and carbon emission issues. Wow…..
" helped me articulate the vague unease ive always had around.... " That is a phrase I will borrow for so many things. Lately, Ive found to have "ideas" that I was not able to get my head around and I think this phrase is accurate when find what was missing to properly develop. I hope you don't mind me using it hehe.
@@v0xl did you know that stockholm syndrome was complete nonsense made up by people trying to disparage women? the history of it is pretty grim, but also fascinating
@@TheNewChevyRoll48 I'd take a smooth and quiet 3 cylinder hybrid or electric over either of those things. How's driving a bigger engine anything to "act like" lmao.
I dont usually comment on your videos but when the train lady said “het volgende station” I actually started to tear up. I grew up in Florida in a suburban night mare. My first time taking the train from Schiphol was one of the most life changing experiences of my life. It really felt like e waking up from a horrible nightmare. Just seeing that having a life that doesn’t revolve around cars can exist.Now I’m about to start at the University of Groningen to study Spatial Planning and Design. I always wanted to study urban planning but there were no real options for me to do so in Florida. Thanks for your content, it has been life changing and influential for me.
Just wanna note my appreciation for the "calling all your friends desperate to hang out but no one will come over because it takes three hours to get to your house" bit. I went from living in a big city in college where all of my friends were
Congrats on moving to paradise my man! All the conveniences you could ever want, just 30 minutes in any direction. 😎 And look at all the exercise you're getting from jumping into the cab! 💪 Suck it Big Bicycle!
The funny thing is, I feel like this is one of the smaller trucks compared to what I see around me here in Indiana. Walking home with the kids we had to walk behind a running truck (grocery getter wankpanzer not a work truck) that was so tall I had to stand on tip toes to look in the back window to see if they were getting ready to back out. And I'm 6 feet tall! The kids didn't even come up to the bumper. Of course, I couldn't see anyway because of their black out tinting 😔
Dam straight. Climate change is a hoax put on by the solar panel companies to sell more solar panels. Massive truck drivers need to rise up against this evil!
This is genuinely a masterpiece of a video, probably the best you've ever made. The sheer dedication to the bit, the editing, and show not tell jokes are really a magnum opus of critiques on suburban life. The sheer difference in the last several minutes genuinely made me emotional, and was such an incredible climax to the video. You absolutely deserve 1 million subscribers.
The whole thing just made me so sad I'm trapped in suburbia, but even the closest city doesn't have transit setup for wheelchair users. We've got sidewalks though! Just can't use them bc state laws place more importance on the free flow of car traffic so about half the driveways are so full the cars have to park blocking the sidewalks and then the cars drive too fast to see me in time to avoid clipping me. A side mirror to the arm at 25mph is really painful so I just have to drive to the playground 2blocks away...where can I get some of that copium?
I just got back from a trip to Amsterdam, and traveling there with my toddler made me feel shame for how we Americans don’t really prioritize spaces for little people. Bikes and transit too, yes; but in the Netherlands they invest in beautiful play spaces that are everywhere. No need for everyone to have a yard and terrible, home-mart play set. Please, do a video on these spaces and show the world what community play spaces could be.
I remember these subjects being covered in past videos, not sure if it ever showed up in one single video as a dedicated topic. If it didn't it'd certainly be worth making!
How dare you say that America doesn't prioritize spaces for little people! We have shopping malls and megastores! Big, beautiful retail spaces where the little ones can learn to be good consumers. After all, gotta start 'em young! Nothing says happy playtime like learning to buy too much stuff and taking on debt! 'Merica, baby!
These spaces go hand in hand with prioritizing bikes and public transit. In a car-dominant space you can't build space for children because it isn't safe. So if you like the one you must also advocate for the other (which imho is a no-brainer, don't want to even make head space for understanding why on earth someone would prefer carcentric planning)
Of all the things that matter about bike-friendly cities designed around public transport, you managed to capture what makes them so special: peacefulness, and socialisation. The contrast between the first part of the video with a constant noise and grey surroundings, against the second with a sudden silence and lively environment was a poetic way to put all this. Kudos!
It's kind of ironic or counter-intuitive that the most dense places are quieter than the suburbs. People go to the suburbs because they think they can have peace there but to have peace they need to stay inside their houses which is depressing. While in the Netherlands you can have peace inside and outside and that's what makes a place worth living in.
TBF he did edit the sound to make the public transport quiet/silent. But yea suburbs are surprisingly loud and there's always the hum of traffic in the background even when the highway or stroad isn't close.
The random interactions I get with people while not driving a car are so precious. I was once biking down a road and a local construction company truck drove by. The kid in the passenger seat leaned out the window and asked me how I was doing. That made my day right there.
@@TheDoomSheep It is a matter of scale, though. Public transport ends up a lot less noisy simply because you need fewer wheels to move people. An individual bus makes more noise than a small personal car (not a Dodge Ram or some "sporty Mustang", though)... but far less noise than 20 cars. And it fits a lot more people than 20 cars. I find it hilarious that a few years back my city outlawed trams from ringing their bells because "it's too noisy" (it's actually quite a relaxing sound, honestly, and rather important)... but the incessant constant noise from the car traffic is apparently just fine. The volume of car traffic is a huge problem. We don't really get to experience silence outside anymore (and I'm not living in North America :D ). There's a huge difference between hearing a bus or tram passing by once in a few minutes and the unending noise of car traffic. We've talked about how you can almost never hear birds singing in the city anymore recently; and you know, when you actually _try_ , you can hear them. It's just that the notoriously loud bird singing some people always loved to complain about is absolutely drowned out in the car noise. The animals didn't disappear (though again, Europe) - you just can't really hear them anymore most of the time. I'm not surprised North Americans don't want to walk anywhere anymore; who would, in that concrete hellscape? When I was in Bahrain, people never even considered walking anywhere - everyone looked at me like I was completely crazy, and yeah, there were no sidewalks, no pedestrian crossings, no trees or bushes, just concrete, asphalt and sand (of course, like most noveau-riche, they love copying "rich" countries, so they adopted the US style wholesale).
I love how quiet suburbia is. When nobody's mowing their massive lawn, or leafblowing, and there's no emergency vehicles on the 30 roads within hearing distance of my house, and also no normal vehicles either, and no cars driving by my house with their music turned up to loud, really just a wonderful place to get some peace and quiet
Yeah, you’d need a VERY energy-efficient house to pull that off. I could definitely see this character pulling out his insulation and putting in single-pane windows to make the libs cry.
Maybe he got European-style noise proof windows installed. Like we have - 92 mm deep with triple windows. Considered an upper standard here in Czechia for new windows.
you're right!!! the most realistic response would be to go complain that the neighbors were causing too much noise by doing yard work. followed by calling the police. 🤡
My pet hate is my neighbour pressure washing everything his walls his driveway and everything in between continually for two or three days straight and then whinging and whining if I start my motorbike
As a Scandinavian who just recently visited family in California, this felt way too real. I'm almost 2 meters tall and still had to jump to get into my in-laws car, and "just outside LA" meant an hour drive. If we weren't able to borrow a car we were basically locked inside the house.
Similar vibes when I visited friends in Michigian from where I live in the UK. I tried to walk to a gas station from our hotel, only a 10 minute walk but cars are zooming by at 60mph endlessly, no trees, destroyed sidewalk, giant signs. It felt like I was really out of place, like the sidewalk was an afterthought. Was nice to be back in the UK, we're not extremely 'walkable', but compared to the US? We look great for walkability!
You know what I found weird about California? Everyone has a porch and a lawn, and it's a safe, clean neighbourhood, but there's nobody on the sidewalk, nobody on the lawn, and nobody on the porch. It feels like everyone is either sitting at work, sitting in traffic, or sitting on the couch. No life to the neighbourhood. Like, no kids screwing around on the road, even.
Ya our HOA forcefully removed ALL the trees on our property due to "Not fitting the look and feel of the neighbor hood". We conduct our gardening to look like the front page of a magazine. Now we are on the hook for the tree removal and stump removal services for 14 trees. Our current theory is that our HOA didn't like how much more beautiful our gardening was compared to the bare grass and lawn chairs of the surrounding houses. We were just about carbon neutral with 90% of the trees being high-carbon capture trees like American chestnut trees. Now thats practically impossible to get back too.
Congrats! Finding your channel a year ago led me down a rabbit hole that ended in me selling my car and moving to a walkable city. I am happier now! Keep changing lives :)
Pro tip, my friend: back at the Walmart, when you were taking up 2 parking spaces, you coulda grabbed at least 6 with just a little creative effort. Show those priusoids what you think of their "reserved for compact car" spaces. Keep living the dream, man!
Huge congrats, man. I know this is just a starter home, but after your next million you can totally upgrade to something a little bigger and farther away from the city (too much noise!!). Love the truck! Have you considered a lift kit??
Thanks so much! Yeah, this is just the beginning! My ultimate goal is to get a Hummer and to live in a rural area ... as long as I can also have paved roads, municipal water & sewage, regular garbage pickup, highspeed Internet, lots of freeways ... and low taxes, of course! 👍
Should have gotten the Ferd F-450 Cool Ranch Platuimn Boot Licking Edition instead, that dodge doesn't have enough towing capacity for the youtuber yacht
nah brother, you need to go up to at LEAST the 550. if you're driving a 450 they might still let you have it insured as a personal vehicle (like a globehead prius pansy). You've gotta drive the 550 or bigger so that you are legally required to insure it as a commercial vehicle! If you drive a truck with less than 6 axles, you've been duped into buying a useless wokemobile that'll get stuck in the smallest of snow drifts or potholes. you NEED that 6x6 power. I'd also recommend the cow-catcher grill for maximum lethality on impact with any dangerous persons who might be trying to infringe on your rights and personal space. BUT!!! do not be tempted by the snow-plow blade attachment. it might seem like the perfect way to further weaponize your vehicle, but keep in mind that plowing the roads is the GOVERNMENT's job!!!!! if you attach a plow or crane or horseshoe hitch you'd be degrading your beautiful symbol of FREEDOM and LIBERTY to little more than an ugly utility truck!!!!!
I think about this a lot. I'm in my 30's now, and I think about how much more meaningful my life and relationships could've been if I lived in a place that was designed with real life in mind. So many friendships fizzled out because they lived in the same town but were a 45 minute drive. You miss enough of someone's life and you just don't really know them anymore, and vice versa. That's real love between people that just dries out and drifts away, it's starved out. I don't feel like a person in this country. Everything in my world is built to extract wealth from me. I exist from one parking lot to the next, only welcome as long as I'm spending money, and forcefully unwelcome if I'm not. Even public institutions that are supposed to be about helping people have been taken over by MBA's whose entire pathetic life is built around dumping their grift onto everyone else with buzzword salad and soul-stifling "metrics". I hate it here so much.
You really hit that one on the head. I spent my life in suburbia because that's where I grew up and where my gf/wife wanted to live and work. I've always hated it, but I didn't realize how much until 5 years ago when I had a taste of a real city. What a soulless environment to live in. 75 000 people, yet you're always alone in your f... car or home. And like you said, everything is about money, and appearances. I'm going to salvage what's left of my life and move to a good city and it won't be in North America.
I grew up in Europe and lived in North America (in the burbs) for a bit. And lemme tell you friends don't just magically appear in more densely populated places/downtown either. Friendships fizzle out too. The suburbs I lived in in NA were amazing. Right next to a lake, a forest, lots of amazing neighbors, I walked over to my friends houses every day... suburbs can make for a much tighter knit community than an anonymous city street. Heck, I was better friends with my suburb neighbors in a two block radius than I am with the people who live in my own building currently. I've never even seen most of them, never mind talked or be friends with them. Everything is not suburbia's fault and urbanism isn't the solution to all problems. If zoning laws are slightly amended and mom&pop type stores and maybe a café or two are added to a suburb, plus public transportation, you can drastically improve them with very little money&time spent. OTOH I wouldn't know how to ever fix the anonymity of a big city, of a 50 unit building, people being so sick of other people because they're surrounded by them day and night that they don't stop and talk to you but just scurry by. Suburbs have a lot of untapped potential imo. All it takes is a shift in priorities, the right policies - which I am certain will happen - and they can turn into something great and sustainable.
@@heidi5346 the thing you described with suburbs being able to have shops and public transport would just make that a town at that point. I never thought about apartments in that way though, that’s good insight.
@@zephyrdreamer "the thing you described with suburbs being able to have shops and public transport would just make that a town at that point." exactly! a self sustaining, livable, walkable/bikeable town. that was my point. all it takes is tweaking zoning laws (and a change of mind) and you can turn lifeless suburbs into actual functioning towns.
They are the worst of both worlds. I grew up in the country and spent most of my adult life in the city. The occasional times I had to live in Suburbs was just depressing. You get none of the space and nature of the country and also miss out of all the amenities and public transport of the city. On top of that you loose any sense of community you can find in either a village or the city. (In a village obviously everyone knows everyone and in the city you have places like your local grocer where you bump into neighbours or the pub down the road where you can hang out) If I live somewhere it has to be either the city or a village in the countryside, anything in between is just hell.
@@boomerix Totally agree. The suburbs were promoted as the best of both worlds but in reality are the worst of both. You'll notice in the comments sections of these videos too that usually the people who are defending "the suburbs", when describing their own situation, are not even from the types of suburbs these videos are discussing. They are generally talking about more semi-rural living.
Key word: "**Actual**" country people. Most true rural people just don't give a damn what's happening over there. What's modern is to cosplay as one while you live in one of the millions of McMansions or some derivative.
@@JesusManera Hit the nail on the head there, I love my rural community back home and also love being in the big city but British suburbia (while much better than American suburbia) is mind numbingly boring and tasteless.
@@boomerix Yeah the suburbs are quite bad. Theyre not even particularly quiet since cars pass through all the time. And one guy in a suped up Subaru or something deciding to rev his engine breaks the supposed peace and quiet.
As some basic fork operator I'm now of the opinion that if your truck can't easily load a pallet of concrete then you don't need a truck. Also if you ain't hauling shit for your job then you ain't in the need of a truck either. Love the video!!
I once hauled a bunch of cardboard boxes in a tiny electric car, the Dacia Spring. It legit had more room than the bed of this pickup truck. It blocked my sight a bit but it got the job done better than any pickup would. Checkmate.
All irony aside, I got _weirdly_ emotional during the entire montage after the orange pill. Over the course of the pandemic, NJB slowly opened my eyes to issues I never even knew my country (🇵🇭) had, and now I can never unsee them. Congrats on 1M, Jason, the international positive influence of this channel cannot be overstated.
at the very least, we filipinos have the tricycle 😈 so we aren’t completely stranded without cars. i live in the suburbs and yet i use tricycles more often than my cars. tho im not sure if other suburbs allow this.
Same. While this video was showing that Americans are so car centric, as an Indian, all I could see was that they're all at least staying in their lanes and not cutting corners.
@@glowdean9446 _Taga Marikina ako,_ I'm from Marikina, admittedly one of the better cities here for walking and cycling. One of the mayors' campaigns was even "A walkable city is a healthy city." Here, tricycles are widely used even in my village (for the foreigners here, it's like a good mixed-use suburb). The problem lies in other Metro Manila suburbs like Whiteplains, Wackwack, Corinthian Gardens, and worst of all Ayala Alabang. Good grief I hate Ayala Alabang. SIX LANE STROAD THROUGH A RESIDENTIAL AREA I hate it.
@@PurooRoy I can relate heavily. It's made even worse by the fact that our road-based public transportation options (Jeepneys, Taxis, and these minibuses called FXs) are often LESS disciplined than ordinary drivers. I cycle to get to college some days and the worst offenders when it comes to being unhinged on the road are the motorcyclists. They CAN and WILL use the bike lane even when it is ILLEGAL. It's the wild west (east?) out there.
I think you meant "can not be overstated". Because if you say "can not be understated" you're saying "the value the channel provides is so low that I can't give a number low enough to be less than the value it provides." Unless that's what you meant to say!
Happy to see you finally escaping that socialist hellhole. I wish I could afford to leave Europe, but I spend too much money paying for your gas on Patreon
This is true, unironically. The more important you are, the more money you make, the more space you can afford. Wealthy people always buy more space, even in places where it's customary living in a 200sqft studio.
@@mariusvanc Yep. Basically people living in NA suburban McMansions are pretending to be like they're well-off and important even though they're NOT. Money wasted on trying to live like Jones next door. Putting mortgage aside, homeowners pay insurances and taxes on vehicles and other expenses to upkeep the house. It's very inefficient way of living for regular people who work as someone's employee. If you work under someone, you're always vulnerable to possible layoff by your employer when economy goes down. If you can't find job right away, suburban life is just illusion ready to be snuff out. I live close to wealthy neighborhood in San Francisco and they pay top dollar for small houses in the city simply because of conveniences and amenities in the city. pretty much everything is in walking distance and they have better selection of everything than usual Walmart and box stores.
Good thing I found this awesome pro-car channel amidst all these pesky left-wing green "climate change" doomers. Finally someone who understands what's really important to us! Can't wait for your next video. We really need more media that caters to the last few remaining car enthusiasts out there.
Wow finally! As a Dutch person I was so confused by this channel for so long! Why would someone from infrastructure paradise come live here? Glad you were able to finally get such a sweet ride, in a place where that's a bit more affordable!
As an European, I gotta say thank you a lot, I had ultra romanticized suburbia (even thinking to move to USA), you know, movies, etc. The thing is that you actually demonstrate that this is all fake, thank you and congrats for the million!
@@AlexSchwartzATV I can see that owning property in germany for example, even if desired, is straight up impossible for many people at least in urban areas.
It's literally exactly as shown in this video. I live about an hour and a half north of where this was shot and it's no joke. The newer half of my city looks identical to this. Endless rows of houses, flanked by 6 lane commercial districts of limitless parking lots and Walmarts. That end of town is depressing. No trees. Hardly even sidewalks. Just cars.
@@AlexSchwartzATV Being a Dutchy myself, I am always kind of jealous of USA housing/Suburbia portrayal in movies. I mean, you guys have SUCH BIG houses, and gardens, and vast stretches of wild nature in the country. Meanwhile owning (not renting) a house here in the Netherlands is kind of a life goal (once you own a house, you're set), and houses the size of USA houses would definitely place you in the top 1% of the population (ignoring mortgages for now). Of course it is not really comparable (building quality, ease of access to facilities, taxes, etc.), but man, having the space for like three to four bedrooms, multiple bathrooms, a garden, garage, multiple living rooms (is this actually a thing?!)? Crazy luxurious.
Your comment reminded me of how the video game "The Sims" was designed to reflect that romanticized suburbia idea, the creator of the game called it "American Television Culture", just to show how this idea is incredibly prevalent across the world.
As horrible as suburban/freeway traffic is, this video didn't even show the worst of it. The worst part isn't sitting in traffic jams. It's fighting your way across all those lanes to either reach your exit or avoid getting "scooped" into a direction you don't want to go when the freeway splits, while everybody else is doing the same. Having one or more close brushes with anything from hundreds to thousands of dollars in economic damage (pay that deductible plus increased insurance rates to get your truck/SUV fixed) to ending up maimed or dead every time you go to and from work or any other destination.
I feel your pain. There are ten lane changes in my commute 5 of them are in one freeway split/merge and 4 of them are in another. I am expected to dive across this traffic or be spat out in the opposite direction off the highway. Lane changes are the most dangerous part of highway driving and some 60s or 70s engineer decided to stuff all of them into a half mile. Twice.
For real, the stress of other idiots in cars getting close to your bumper when they almost miss exits or want to overtake in the right lane. It's trash. We deal with those stresses all the time on the 401.
Now, as someone stuck in suburban hell myself, I will tell you that the "responsible" way to handle it is to miss your exit and just reroute, if you're cutting across more than one or two lanes. But we all know that that isn't how it works.
Traveling around Toronto you really need a SatNav that gives you lane indicators. With SO many lanes in each section you really need to get lines up in the correct one or two lanes before an exit we’ll in advance. I’ve been living just across the border on the US side since 1985. Those roads used to be nearly empty. Now going to the airport (to catch a flight to visit the home land of the Netherlands), traffic is bad from Burlington all the way to the airport is 50 km of slow traffic almost all day long. There is the expensive 407 toll road ($18 each way for a 25 km by-pass), but the last stretch is pretty much stop and go. I love visiting (downtown) Toronto, but traffic in and around the city … not so much.
Absolutely loved your sarcasm! And the fact you didnt only critique your regular topics but also took mental health and relationships into account was the cherry on top!
You really changed my perception of North America. I always thought of wide parking spots, huge cars and minivans, big suburban houses, wide roads and highways as an opportunity which the rest of the world is deprived of. I'm really thankful that you completely changed my vision.
Having grown in a suburb, I had more than my fair share of angry drivers screaming at me in my teenage years. A bike was my only way of transportation in a place where not at all designed for anything else than motorized vehicles (and where the closest convenient store is km away). For some people it is like a national sport being angry / screeming at random cyclists regardless of how little trafic is being impeded. Needless to say that I moved as soon as i was able to. Moved to Montréal and, even with all its flaws, never regretted it.
This is so insanely on point. I deliver food to these people all the time, and the ultra rich as well (who always tip like GARBAGE, btw) with their massive estates, some of them living on literal islands in the middle of suburbia. It's Suburbiaception. I will never understand it.
I do understand it in the case of the ultra rich, though. They don't need to go to the grocery store and they do have bars, cinemas etc inside their own house so they don't really need to leave except for going on vacation because they can work from their own studio in their house.
In my country some of our inner suburbs are like that too as residential areas nearer to downtown tend to be more expensive (though other inner suburbs are poorer & have older public housing built earlier in our history before outer suburbs had been developed). Embassies of nearby or big power countries tend to be like that too. Quite ironic that Switzerland, known for its public transport, has its embassy in my country located almost 1 mile from the nearest bus stop/train station, or ~1/2h walk, in a country where car taxes are ~200+%
I just wanted to share this story because I felt like it: I live in a big european city (population >2 million) and three weeks ago I had the urge to watch the movie Suzume. I looked it up in the Internet and found a really small theater (60 seats) that aired it for the last time. The theater is ~6 km away from my home. I called them and made sure that there are still tickets available then busted out the folding bike I bought especially for errands in a 3-10 km radius. I rode there through small side streets, a park and so on. The bike infrastructure is not that good but it is available so no problems. When I arrived I bought my ticket and asked the clerk if they provide some snacks and beverages. He said that I can just go to the attached vegan bar (or better yet it is a vegan bar with an attached theater) and ask there. So I went there and bought two bottles of beer and bretzels (served in a small porcelain bowl, never had this before). I then proceeded to get seated and a few more people came in. A mother came in with her two teenage daughters and all three of them had a glass of red wine from the bar which they drank during the movie (even in europe this is not an everyday sight). There were two students constantly making notes (probably for an analysis) and some elderly people who had tears in their eyes for the whole movie. I have never in my entire life witnessed such a pure, calm and harm-free atmosphere in my life. It was mesmerizing. After the movie I brought back my bowl and bottles, had a little smalltalk with two elderly women about the movie who came with their folding bikes as well and went back home. I took the same way back, it was like 18°C with a nice calming wind. In the park you could hear the birds chirp, some people jogged around, a young girl cried because she didn't want to go home because it's still nice outside (it was half past 10 though and dark, lol). And after watching this video I thought to myself: damn, with this kind of living, this kind of suburban structure, this kind of transportation I would've never had the joy that I had on that evening. It was nothing special but it just clicked. Riding home a little bit tipsy and for practically no money at all was a nice bonus. Can't have that with a car.
Should have gone out and bought a 15000 lb truck and hauled home a 85 inch tv in the 2.75 sq ft truck bed and rented the movie on netflix for $14.99 and drank 2 or 3 cases of beer. Could have been just like a North American!
Dude I'm like, the biggest car guy EVER, and I am so with you with your content. I wouldnt mind having cars as toys for special tracks only in exchange for walkable cities for everyone, the american logic is beyond absurd.
The U.S. and Canada will never change. This is why Notyjustbikes left. Most of our cities are designed for automobiles. Even where I live in Canada they have tried building some LRT, but it sucks. I think it is close to $2billion. I even live close to a station and to get to the end takes about 1 hour. I can drive to the end in 20 minutes. You cannot just lay some rail and expect a walkable transit oriented community. Especially when council keeps approving single family suburbia with box shops and winding roads. @@luisdietsch52
I live in Germany and this makes me depressed thinking there is literally a few hundred million living like this, and then still holding onto it as if it was something good.
When I visited Munich I felt so peaceful, welcomed, and fascinated. I wish I never had to leave. When I go to big American cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, I feel unsafe, anxious, and alien. I just want to leave them as soon as possible. -American Suburbanite
This is unrelated to this video, but I wanted to share a little thing here. A little over a year ago I bought an electric scooter, and I told everyone in my family “this is just to bridge the way to getting a car.” All of my siblings (I’m the youngest of 4) took out loans for cars, or received hand-me-down cars as gifts from elders in the family. I on the other hand have been saddled with paying 5$ a day for bus passes on a transit system that’s awful and inconsistent, resulting in the once a week-ish required 15$ Uber to get home from work. How could I save up for a car when so much money is lost just to be *able* to work, right? The scooter was part of a bigger plan to eliminate as many costs as I could so I could just brute force saving up for a car. But then something changed! I started to like riding the scooter! And one of my sisters who doesn’t currently have a car even became a bit jealous of my ability to just come and go as I please (within a reasonable distance lol) The scooter became my favorite thing I own! Months passed and the idea of getting a car started to sound worse and worse. I always dreaded the idea of *needing* a car, because the bills my brother tells me about sound horrible. And the entirely unpredictable lethality of someone else not being as responsible as you are was scary to me, but before the scooter I just assumed that was just part of being an adult. I started to think about “wouldn’t it be nice to live somewhere walkable?” Needless to say, simple research on a whim led me down the rabbit hole of transportation infrastructure in America, and how awful it is for absolutely no good reason. Yadda yadda, one two three, I found this channel and binged almost every video in about 2 weeks (love the content btw) My attachment for my scooter only grew stronger, and my hatred for what car-dependence has done to the roads became more cemented. Now it’s something I think about on a daily basis. And wouldn’t you know it… I was hit by a damn car. Just went out to get a snack at a gas station, and got hit by a car as tall as me when crossing a yield turn. Thank goodness they weren’t going too fast, but they sure weren’t paying attention either. I sustained a broken fibula, lucky me that’s actually best case scenario. I just can’t walk for 4 weeks - 3 months but it will heal for sure. My scooter on the other hand… the front wheel turned so hard it’s now oriented horizontally with the handlebars. It’s probably unsalvageable. And I can’t even really bother to try and work on fixing it on account of the broken leg. I was proud that I was the only one who never needed to take a loan or borrow money in my family for the sake of a car. Go figure, now I have, and i didn’t get a car for it… I got a broken leg. You might ask “wouldn’t your insurance cover hospital costs?” I don’t have insurance “What about the driver who hit you?” Get this - I was *hit by a goddamn car*. I was on the floor, writhing in pain. Bleeding, unable to walk, barely able to focus. And I’ve never ever ever been in a situation like this, and i don’t like drama lol. Which is such a silly thing to say on the topic of getting car smashed. But the point is, I let the guy go. He was nice enough to help me off the road, and help my scooter off the road too just in case it *is* salvageable. But he had places to be, and I let him go. And if I had the peace of mind to go back and rope the guy into this all without being in a knockout daze, I still don’t think I would. I value my life and don’t take it lightly, yet at the same time I hate the idea of ruining someone else’s life over something so dumb. I’m in debt now, I’ll need a new scooter to get to work but before *that* I’ll have to take crappy bus rides again, and before *that* I need to finish recovering (it’s been about 3 weeks since the incident, I’m no longer in pain, just unable to walk) Now, where am I going with all this? It was an accident. But it was at a yield turn, technically I burden like- maybe 5% of the fault too for not fully paying attention to him either, but good lord. Could you imagine? This whole situation is like an unlucky lucky miracle. I survived and I *can* deal with the costs. But if you tweak any minor detail about the story? I’d probably be dead. A whole ended life, just because I wanted a snack one day. Cars are goddamn scary, and I think I can say with confidence now that I’m not gonna save up for one, even when I’m free of debt.
If you get a bicycle they offer pretty cheap bicycle insurance that can extend to medical bills. $10,000 in medical coverage for ~$500 a year depending on your zip code and bike price. Look into it.
@@75Tades Definitely not free everywhere, but a broken bone is not something that financially impacts you a lot, and all days you're in hospital you just get off of work, fully paid. In western europe, car liability insurance is also mandatory so you get the spot value of your scooter refunded (or the driver will just pay you a wad of cash to avoid getting his insurance dinged) Sadly, the EU as a whole is making it harder and harder for immigrants to come here.
So, instead of saving for a scooter, you have decided to move to The Netherlands (I want to discourage you from going to Amsterdam. Rotterdam or Utrecht are nice too) and buy a bike??? Here we all have a health-ensurence starting less than 130 euro's/month, the cardriver is (almost) always the guilty party en if you're ill your employer must still pay. Beterschap!
I've driven on the 401 once during a coast to coast road trip. Never again, what an absolute ordeal, easily the worst highway in Canada, and ranks among the worst in North America.
I work on vehicles for a living and that scene where you struggled to open the hood on the RAM and then blatantly called it a 5.7 L Hemi engine when we were clearly looking at the 3.6 L V6 had me rolling on the floor. In a real truck review, stuff like that would be unforgivable but here it just added to the sense that you just don't give a crap about trucks. Absolutely glorious satire.
Ram is a Stellantis brand. There is also a 3 L V6 diesel available, eventually only for the European market, and eventually it's a Mercedes OM 642 engine from the DaimlerChrysler aera which also was in the Mercedes/Dodge/Freightliner Sprinters. The typical Stellantis used 3 L diesel is a Sofim 4 cylinder from Iveco, which was in the Ram ProMaster.
this actually made me feel deeply sad for people who have to live in america. the level of calmness that you managed to contrast with as soon as you got on transit was phenomenal. well done!
Sick, man! Yeah, you can get the cover for the bed. It makes the bed basically useless for carrying anything higher than about a foot and a half, but that's a small price to pay to look like a real man!
I’m from Mexico and I can’t explain with words how greatful I am with you for all your videos. You change my life and I will work all my life trying to make a difference in my city because things can change and will change. Thanks a lot Thank you for all, with your TH-cam videos you make a big difference showing the world how things can be better. ❤
“extra bright halogen lights guaranteed to blind any Prius driver within 600 yards” - as a Prius driver in North America. I FELT that 😂😂😂 Congrats on 1M!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Actually had someone in town running for council on basically this agenda. Except Big Bicycle was the incumbent council. Who mostly got reelected, thankfully.
@@Bustermachine The war on Crhistmas is actually real though. Of course the people warring on Christmas are the ones that want to monetize every single aspect of it so that it loses everything that made Christmas special.
Good call on the home gym, those are great for showing off when you give house tours. From my suburban living experience, I recommend one big, impressive looking machine for the centerpiece, then weight racks and smaller machines tastefully arranged along the walls. Remember to dust thoroughly before guests arrive. Do not use your gym for extra storage; that's what dining rooms are for. On that note, get some covers on all that dining room furniture! You want to preserve everything so it looks nice if you decide to use it some day. Eventually.
Oh, no, don't store things in the dining room! You gotta put all the junk in the garage, so that you have to park that $60K monstrosity of an SUV outside to rust and get leaf blower dust all over it! lol.
Excellent point. I forgot NJB is new to suburbing. I assumed his garage, attic, and unfinished basement were already filled with years of accumulated random junk.
This was soooo awesome. Just came back from Denmark, Spain and Sweden. Spaces are so much better allocated and transit everywhere. We did not have to look at a schedule in Copenhagen as a Metro was coming every 3 minutes or less. It was so great seeing all these people out and enjoying themselves, such a great contrast to USA. I wonder for myself why we want to live like this?
The montage at the end of the video really made me emotional. The idea that someone could go from a bland suburb in Canada all the way to downtown Amsterdam without taking a car is quite remarkable. Life could be so much better than what we currently have in most of North America.
The 2 bits about socializing are what hit me most. Friends and family being far away, and the reduced serendipitous encounters with friends and acquaintances which, even if you did notice while in your vehicle, you couldn't interact with. And you certainly couldn't go for that beer if you're driving.
Totally! We used to joke when I lived in LA that if you moved more than 10 miles you'd be dead to your friends, but it was true. One night you'd be at a party and ask, where's so-and-so been? Oh, didn't you hear? They moved to Santa Monica.
@@scullystie4389 I just visited my friend in LA and it was hilarious how bad traffic was (and city life). Most of my local friends live 50+ miles away and that's like 40 mins travel time in a car in my state. Though I'll admit I still love suburbia so I can have my own gym, bar, and library in my home and don't have to deal with other people. Why would people even go to a bar and pay $3 for a single beer when you can get a 24 pack of Bud Lite for $3.
Funny: I really felt relieved when you flew back to Amsterdam (even if it was clear from the beginning that it was satire). Even just watching the first part was mental torture. I'm so happy to think 1M people are interested in your videos. Congratulations! Let's hope the community keeps growing.
Me too! I think it has something to do with Amsterdam just being more human-centric. Car-centric places are (by definition) de-humanising. It's actually astonishing that some cultures strive to be de-humanising.
Except that commuter on rails is not what it's like in NYC or Chicago when more and more ppl start to travel/commute like that. Then you get muggings and thugs punching women in the face and strangulations and mass shootings. Then we all get to share the same cold/flu for months. Ask me how I know.
This is a perfect depiction of what it's like to live in North America. I live in Houston, the epitome of urban sprawl. This is what everyday life is like to a T. It's even worse when you realize that kids grow up in this and are totally, 100% reliant on their parents for transportation and even just the ability to see friends until they either get their own car and driver's license at 16 or move out. I'm not even 18 yet and this is what I see every day. It's so monotonous... I'm an optimist at heart, but I really don't see a way that I can keep living here without going crazy first. Hopefully things will change, but I think I'm just going to have to move elsewhere. We're so brainwashed to think that this is the only way to live that most people don't even want change. All of his copium throughout the video are actual things that have been said to me when I say I think we need walkable cities and public transport.
It is monotonous. I live in a sprawl too, and I appreciate my oldest son for wanting to use public transport. However it only runs from 9am to 9pm mon-sat. He gets off work at 10pm. :( My daughter didnt even have the option of public transport to her job until recently.
For what it's worth, that tram audio is NOT edited. None of the montage audio is edited. And the sound of the stroad at the bus stop is with the same camera at the same volume levels.
@@NotJustBikes Yeah it really depend on the tram/metro concerned. I used to travel from France to other, place, which mean reaching Paris then use the metro/tram lines to get to the other train-station from which depart international trains. Depending which, some are completely silent, others you can hear the roll and brakes all the way.
I found myself getting emotional as I watched this. As a parent of a young child I dream of a better world for them. People in the US are so asleep to what their communities could be. Yet they call themselves family friendly. Everyone should watch this video. *wiping away tears*
As someone who loves cars and has lived his entire life in a urbanistic city in an European country, I would love so much to have a house in a US suburbia, having to drive everywhere, getting my kids a car at 16 and doing all that cool Homeowner stuff like mowing the grass and blowing leaves. I'm not even joking.
The post-orange pill montage got me all choked up. I'm so glad there's places where people can actually *live* even if I'll never experience them. Hoping your channel and others like it inspires more proper development so in the future nobody has to suffer the suburbs again.
Same here. I got teary eyed... Yes, I do live in a suburb, although not in the US and only 30min away from downtown but maaaaaaaaaaan... this was a rude awakening video.
Hey, Jason. I've been a fan of your videos for a long time now and I shared a lot of these perspectives with my dad who was skeptical about how important urbanism can be to the physical and mental health of communities. My dad and I were able to do a trip to Amsterdam together last November and he had so much fun riding the trains, street cars, and bikes all over town and being able to go to late night concerts, museums, and bars so easily. It was both our first time in the Netherlands and we had so much fun just walking around and enjoying a safe, beautiful, and quiet city. Also there's a really great Jazz scene! All that said, I wouldn't have ever thought to do a trip to the Netherlands with my dad if not for your videos. Thanks for opening our eyes to the possibilities of beautiful healthy places. Cheers.
The Netherlands has a jazz scene? Man just when I thought there couldn't be any more great reasons why I should visit one day! I wonder how easy gigging musicians have it there when taking transit to get to their venues.
Woah....are you me? I literally did this exact same thing. My Dad said on the trip "I can't believe I'm sharing your passion for this stuff, but this place is amazing"
I plan to visit one day, and I'd love to move there. The USA is not exactly a nice place to live in, and the political situation is declining fast. Amsterdam looks like an amazing place to live one day.
@@ambiarock590 I'm also looking to move from USA to Netherlands, even if for a few years as a student. But be warned that Amsterdam apartment rents practically rival those of Manhattan. Nowhere is affordable in the Netherlands to the point that international students are homeless while hunting for an apartment. Still worth the high costs though
@@AssBlasster there's other amazing cities in the netherlands doesn't have to be amsterdam. rotterdam, the hague, even utrecht or groningen are all very cool and very livable (and slightly more affordable) cities with much of the same infrastructure amsterdam has
I'm an Australian and this video makes me ashamed to own my truck. It works every day of its life as a trade and towing vehicle, it gets the work it deserves but good lord is it huge, and thats as a comparatively small Australian ute. I was honestly tearing up watching this, it made me miss my (comparitively) little 05' Forester. Im lucky to live in the relatively mixed suburbs of a midsized Australian town so i can still walk to local restaurants, my younger sister can walk to school, and public transport is juuuuust good enough to get my university friends out and about but I dont know what I'd do without a car. I was in Japan recently for holiday and their cities are amazing. Tokyo had an incredible density of 7-11s, grocery stores, and restaurants. Nobody drives trucks, I saw one the entire time I was there and it was near the American military base. They know better than us. Hopefully we'll figure it out eventually. Until then, I can only hope that it doesnt get worse.
Everyone knows how important truck owners like you are. This is why we all understand that you don't have time to put away your shopping cart. Look at the truck you're paying off for 5 more years. You ain't no chump!
Funny, he filmed this whole thing in the town I grew up in. And that town is considered to be quite decent in terms of suberbia madness (lots of green space, good town services, and you are within walking distance to most things - depending on the part of town your in). That being said, transit was always a nightmare, I remember when certain routes got Saturday service...it was a big deal. But then they decided to consolidate routes, so the bus that would take 10 minutes to get you to the town center now took 35 minutes...it was literally faster to walk. Now, I've lived in a few suberbia towns and it was definitely one of the better ones, but the sad reality is that he's sooooo right. After I've experienced living in a well planned urban area, it was eye-opening.
Wow it was only after your comment that I realized that this video is depicting middle class life. I can only imagine what working class people suffer through to even enable this lifestyle. Forgive my ignorance since I don't know much about America (and a lot of tv shows like Friends and Modern Family are unrealistic) but I hear there's like full villages of people living in trailer parks. My siblings visited the country and said there were homeless everywhere and of course there's millions in prisons. It seems like there's so much suffering endured to uphold a broken system.
@@ummmmmmmmmmmnmmmm Ya man thats pretty much how it is. Personally i think its an age based problem. My parents generation had a vested interest in denigrating people with issues. The premise is that "personal responsibility" excuses anyone from helping anyone else. This was often used simultaneously to dismiss social issues and to inflate personal value through perspective of being better than those desperate people. It kept alot of america happy taking a low wage for a long time.
Man I just love those beautiful illegible blue license plates, so that the bikers and pedestrians can't identify your plate when you commit a hit and run! Ontario just keeps getting better every day, thanks Doug
I just love how you tell the story in your videos. Comedic and informative. for this one I could literally listen to the audio and still have a rough picture of what you are talking about.
the radio part 😂 Also I felt physical relief once you were in the safe, comfy, quiet Netherlands with modern public transit. I grew up in california and now live in switzerland, so I know the pain all too well and am so grateful to live in a city with fast, reliable, and frequent public transit
The "Look why don't you just let me know next time you're downtown and we can meet up or something" got me a pretty good chuckle as I say that to all my suburban friends.
Wait don't you support small bikable cities and hate big trucks
Wait is this satire
This is a cinematic masterpiece
Lol the character development
You didn't watch till the end did you ?
I love this comment
"there's no bar nearby so i'm gonna turn this into a bar" literally changed my life, it's such a concise way to explain how integrated cars are into peoples lives, their home has to be everything because they're scared and isolated from everything
Yes! Where am I going to put my home office, my home cafe/third space, my storage for once-per-year items that I can't just rent, my home grocery store, my home bakery, my home mass-produced meal revolutionarily called "Meal Prep", my home gym, my home guest room because there's no hotels nearby...
makes me think: why were these people so mad with quarantine.?
@@13AndreFalcao666 Cause they can't ''lose'' their freedom...
Since coming across this channel I've been getting more and more into urbanization. I bought an ebike to get myself around, been dreaming of moving to the Netherlands one day, and I cannot wait to visit this summer.
The best part is that the bar in your basement was actually a thing in the USA as far as i know.
Yes bro!!! That front grille was voted best skull mincer in my paediatric emergency department!! Awesome choice!!!
Peace out - Dr Kyle Xtreem 🤘
Yeah, sucks for any kid that gets in the way but that's just survival of the fittest, the way Darwin intended, right?
Doc I need a resupply on copium
@@georgekarnezis4311 me too, doc, running low
You too!?
Can I get some more copium too? My vial ran out on day 1.
This channel definitely needed overblown sound design and more whip transitions- you should make every single video this way. It's awesome to see you finally reveal your true self- no more explainers, please.
Yeah! I owe Strong Towns a huge favour. Without you, I never would have figured out that suburbia is the most subsidized way to live. You guys saved me a fortune! 👍
@@NotJustBikes someone needs to merge the word suburbia and subsidized. Its hilarious cause its true
Tryin'a turn this channel into Johnny Test.
@@Amir-jn5mo subsidisedia
@@Amir-jn5mo Suburbidized
for viewers who have never experienced suburban USA, every scene in this video is accurate and true.
painfully accurate
Walking in suburbia is so dull and forgettable. The most memorable parts is when you reach a six lane stroad you have to cross
It looks awful, the wide avenues feel like a highway crossing the town. Living there must actually suck, so much noise, smog and you will not be able to walk anywhere. It feels depressing just to imagine a daily life where I cannot walk to uni, work and the nearby park.
This goes for Canada too, since this video was filmed near Toronto
@@eliburrowes938 correct, i know exactly where this is filmed.
You deserve it, Jason! This is a brave and refreshing new direction you're taking this TH-cam channel. I think I speak for everyone when I say we want more content about homeowner's associations.
Yeah man, for sure!! Hit me up if you're in town some time and we'll head out to the trails! I won't be riding a bike, as those are only for children, but we can take the truck down the hill (as long as it doesn't get muddy; I've got an image to maintain).
Woah. My favorite channels combine
Lol
WOAH WHERE DID YOU COEM FROM
Seth’s here?
Living the dream! You don’t even need a map to find your new house, all you need to do is follow the traffic. Congrats, dude!!
Yeah!! Traffic can be rough, but as soon as we get rid of the bike lanes traffic should clear right up! 👍
LOL
Too good
Instructions unclear, I am now in an eternal loop circling a ring road.
love your videos neo
Almost had me fooled, but you can tell this is a joke because at 12:28 he uses his turn signal to signal a lane change, which we all know real Dodge Ram drivers never do.
Plus he was sober.
@@webchimp on that much copium are you really sober
@@webchimp He also didn't honk his horn.
Dodge is typically the least consistent along with toyota and Nissan.
Bmw is surprisingly very good, audi not so much. Chevy, gmc always
Anything actually expensive, typically.
Anything clapped 70%
Anything that's clearly bought at jd byrider or some pre owned used dealer. Never.
@@webchimp He was stoned out of his mind... on copium!
Time traveller: moves a chair slightly
The timeline:
😭😭
Holy shit I'm rolling😂😂
@@LeonidJP92well you can just prevent GM kidnapping the entire US economic structure in the 50s and give Eisenhower more power over the design of the interstates so he’d make them go around cities instead of going thru them as he intended in the first place when he signed that federal funding bill.
#jealous. Gotta get me one of those. Good for you Jason!
Thanks, man! I hope you're able to buy such an epic vehicle some day. You'll finally escape your walkable city and never look back! 🚷
His truck is okay, but I really think you could do better and get an 8 inch suspension lift and some 40 inch super swampers.
After watching this, all the memories come flooding back. You're living the dream man! That's it, back to Winnipeg for me!
Glad I could help you see the light!
@@NotJustBikes Dang, now I actually watched to the end and I'm wondering how much for an orange pill? Where's the link to the merch store?
The American Nightmare
@@antekpaztek Or, in this case, Canadian nightmare. But when it comes to suburbia, the two are quite similar.
NOOO DUDE NOT WINNIPEG
I LIVE HERE DONT COME
I FUCKING HATE IT HERE
DONT COME
DONT GET SUCKED IN
Hell yeah brother! Anything less than a Dodge Ram and an eight bedroom house is communism!
Yeah! Now the world will know I'm the ultimate libertarian! I believe in low taxes and lots of free roads!
Nah, the Russians are ok, it could be leftist socialist Jewish stuff. 😅
But once I get my electric Hummer, all problems will be solved ✊
But damn man why is housing so expensive? We gotta stop building those damn luxury apartments!
@@seanedging6543 I would be fine with them if they were actually luxury, but most of the time they seem to be built with the cheapest of materials.
The funniest part of this comment is that dodge probably makes the most unreliable trucks on the market
The fact that the ram was parked sideways into three spaces is fucking genius
MY KING!!! The only climate man can change is the one inside a big big truck. PLEASE TELL ME WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HIT THE GAS AND THE BRAKE AT THE SAME TIME?!!??
That triggers the rolling coal! 💨🚳
@@NotJustBikes Yessir! Dust those darned traffic-causing cyclists!
@@NotJustBikes noit takes a screenshot
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
It takes a screenshot. 😂
When I saw the truck was parked horizontally across 3 parking spaces, that's when I knew this channel really made sure to get the details perfect.
I saw the empty parking lot and the way he parked, following the box line would be a better view angles, but I remember he did it for the authentic experience!
But he had the option to use 6 parking spaces.
@@Scoti17 and diagonally yes
@@Scoti17which is what I used to do.
I've never understood huge open spaces for car parks. In stoke on trent. They built the Tesco's store on top of the parking structure. But you could equally have the store on the ground/first floor & put the parking structure on top
I noticed the attention to detail when he pushed the shopping cart into the middle of the lot. Beautiful.
I think the scariest part about the suburbs is how much time you spend alone despite being around so many people
While biking places, I love the random interactions I get. Waving at passerby's really puts a smile on my face.
Yeah, and we're not talking the kind of solitude you choose, we're talking about the loneliness you have no choice in.
@@bramvanduijn8086 US suburbs are kinda solitary confinement sadly
Joke's on you, I live in the city and am still alone 😭
Yeah, and when you then have to occasionally spend some time with lots of strangers, you feel like only a gun in your pocket can make you feel secure and normal again...
Congratulations on 1 million!
holy crap... Louis is here too.. Big fan.. appreciate your public service..
wasn't expecting you here. kinda cool to see you here.
fancy seeing you here
There's a very subtle joke here that's really great that not many people will spot unless they're familiar with the area: all the suburbia clips are a mishmash of several different towns in and around York Region north of Toronto which I'm pretty sure is a deliberate jab at the fact that all of suburbia looks like the same featureless glop no matter where you go.
0:00 is obviously in Aurora
3:48 Bayview & Major Mack is in Richmond Hill
5:04 I'm like 90% sure this is Hwy 404 at Hwy 407 which is in Markham
6:11 The 401 is in North York
7:04 Weston Road is in Vaughan, VMC in the background
11:54 This bit of Stouffville Rd I think might technically be in Stouffville I'm not 100% sure (suburban Stouffville is a little out of the way but it also looks like everywhere featured)
14:18 Davis Drive is in Newmarket (which would indeed be 3 hours away from downtown Toronto by transit.)
15:20 The spaghetti junction at Pearson airport I'm p sure is just within Mississauga
Also shoutout to the continuity error at 15:08 where NJB is on a viva bus to Finch station but then it cuts to Pioneer Village station on the other side of line 1. Just shows how wildly varied he travelled for this video.
I thought it was Whitby @ 3:41, but then again, I haven't been to the spot I thought it was for a while now, and they all look the same anyway 😅.
As for the cut to TTC subway station, I didn't even realize that it's not Finch station until someone else in the comment said how "clean and modern" it is, which made me went back and look. And lo-and-behold, "York University" logo 😂.
it all looks exactly the same to me legit would have never noticed
11:54 is in Oak Ridges, part of Richmond Hill
Im more surprised you're able to recognize all the featureless globs
11:54 is here: www.google.com/maps/place/Bayview+Ave+%26+Stouffville+Rd,+Richmond+Hill,+ON+L4E+3S3/@43.9323161,-79.4274218,1732m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x882ad5a11baf9b1f:0x7409c074a688cc54!8m2!3d43.9311277!4d-79.4286372!16s%2Fg%2F11f3gc017t?entry=ttu
mans didnt even splurge for the hummer smh what will you do after the apocalypse while the rest of us are out there driving tanks?
Hey man, maybe you can afford a Hummer at 3.5 million subs, but I'm struggling up here in tax-happy Soviet Canuckistan. 😭
@@NotJustBikes skill issue
Skill issue💀
Great to see you around here, @TierZoo!
fancy seeing you here
Can we all just take a moment and acknowledge the fact that this man willingly took the trouble to drive on the 401 to film this for his subscribers? Now that's dedication!
Drove the 401 in a truck that he possibly could've had issues driving due to how bloated and non-maneuverable it is, even if you drive (more reasonable) cars often.
Deserves a "Full-on Sarcasm" award! 👏
honestly driving 401 is the biggest punishment on its own.
No people buy those trucks because the other drivers give them more leeway (as you would a shopping cart or container ship)
Those trucks aren't really hard to operate on highways designed to accommodate 18 wheelers. The problem with big trucks is everywhere off the highway.
this channel has really helped me articulate the vague unease ive always had around my hometown, and why pedestrianized areas always felt more comfortable. i can put specific vocabulary to specific problems now. its great to know im not being weird about this, or picky, or uppity. there are serious genuine problems here and the solutions would help Everyone
I now understand why so many punk bands hate their hometowns 😂
It’s a frustrating and sobering realization I’ve been coming to about the US. Capitalism is good for profit, but the effects and consequences of such actions is not beneficial when we don’t address the root cause of why transportation is such an issue. Now we’re looking at 3D roads since we’ve plateaued on 2D designs from a public transportation infrastructure issue yet there is no pressure or regulation for automobile companies to fucking serve and help the public.
Public vs private interests is what is on display here as to why we’ve become victims of our greed.
I could only imagine how much better we could do if these companies and their interest started making an effort to address urbanization and carbon emission issues.
Wow…..
" helped me articulate the vague unease ive always had around.... " That is a phrase I will borrow for so many things. Lately, Ive found to have "ideas" that I was not able to get my head around and I think this phrase is accurate when find what was missing to properly develop. I hope you don't mind me using it hehe.
The malaise answered :)
Imagine if the whole point of the channel was an elaborate plan to get a Dodge RAM and move to the suburbs
🤯
I’m actually curious how he filmed the video with the Ram and the 8 bedroom house.
"You've become the very thing you swore to destroy!"
"Thanks to all my Patreon supporters who pay me to get a McMansion and a Dodge WARLOCK!!!! Hahaha suckers!!!"
*Sponsored by the new Dodge RAM Warlock. RAM: RAM into EVERYTHING.*
It's crazy how recording a normal day in the suburbs is literally the greatest argument against them
Pretty much
litellary no idea how anyone can live like rhat and then get scared it gets "taken away"
@@TheGamingSyndrom Stockholm syndrome
@@v0xl did you know that stockholm syndrome was complete nonsense made up by people trying to disparage women?
the history of it is pretty grim, but also fascinating
This episode was scarier than most horror movies I've seen.
"Now _that's_ a climate change I believe in!"
Lmao, you've truly nailed the ethos of these truck owners
Nice
TBF, any air conditioning is climate change I could believe in down here in Australia. Summer heat sucks.
That and the fact that they act like they got a Hemi when they really drive a V6
@@TheNewChevyRoll48 I'd take a smooth and quiet 3 cylinder hybrid or electric over either of those things. How's driving a bigger engine anything to "act like" lmao.
Especially the coal rollers.
I dont usually comment on your videos but when the train lady said “het volgende station” I actually started to tear up. I grew up in Florida in a suburban night mare. My first time taking the train from Schiphol was one of the most life changing experiences of my life. It really felt like e waking up from a horrible nightmare. Just seeing that having a life that doesn’t revolve around cars can exist.Now I’m about to start at the University of Groningen to study Spatial Planning and Design. I always wanted to study urban planning but there were no real options for me to do so in Florida. Thanks for your content, it has been life changing and influential for me.
Amazing! I'm so glad to hear that. Groningen is a great place to end up, too!
Please bring that urban planning back to Florida, or other stats. Brightline is a good idea, but it needs transport to and from that station too
Just wanna note my appreciation for the "calling all your friends desperate to hang out but no one will come over because it takes three hours to get to your house" bit. I went from living in a big city in college where all of my friends were
That is exactly why they are terrified of anything remotely "anti-car" because they view it like threatening to chain them back up again.
You found great words for a terrifying reality. I'm so sorry.
Well said.
And everyone is overworking to pay for their dumbass car.
"Why are you playing video games when the weather is so nice?! Go outside and play with your friends!"
Man you gotta get a new doctor. Thank god your sorted that out, one more trip on YRT would have been the end of me!
Yeah man, it's all good! Suburbia is the best, and that's not just the copium talking! 💊
Congrats on moving to paradise my man! All the conveniences you could ever want, just 30 minutes in any direction. 😎 And look at all the exercise you're getting from jumping into the cab! 💪 Suck it Big Bicycle!
Absolutely! I've gained about 10 pounds since gettinf the truck but I figure that has *got* to be all from muscle, right? 💪
@@NotJustBikes that is why people buy muscle cars
I loved it. Especially when your groceries sliding around the truck. Brilliant.
@@sdtok527 lol
@@sdtok527 LMAO
The only video on TH-cam that’s 100% wife’s boyfriend-approved
I know, right? Man, it's gotta suck not to own a truck.
@@NotJustBikes I know right? Like how else am I going to carry my 2 items I bought at the grocery store?!
Jesus 😭😭
City Nerd is embracing his betaness
Incredible
Oh hell yeah! That house is enormous, you must be super important! Grats bro!
You know it!! You gotta come over for a visit if you're ever from Canada. I'm only like an hour and a half drive from the airport!
I call that enormous house phenomenon..
The warhammer effect 😅
What a rigggg!!!! Those bike riding climate alarmists won't know what hit em!!
I know right? Climate change *can't* be real, because otherwise I'd have to admit my lifestyle is unsustainable, and I ain't gonna do that!!
Damn right those cycling hippies won't know what hit them!
And neither will the driver of that truck
The funny thing is, I feel like this is one of the smaller trucks compared to what I see around me here in Indiana. Walking home with the kids we had to walk behind a running truck (grocery getter wankpanzer not a work truck) that was so tall I had to stand on tip toes to look in the back window to see if they were getting ready to back out. And I'm 6 feet tall! The kids didn't even come up to the bumper. Of course, I couldn't see anyway because of their black out tinting 😔
Dam straight. Climate change is a hoax put on by the solar panel companies to sell more solar panels. Massive truck drivers need to rise up against this evil!
i mean they probably will. its a big-ass truck, kinda hard to miss when it rams into you at full speed
(note: please dont actually murder cyclists)
"Big Bicycle is waging a war on cars" lol
This is genuinely a masterpiece of a video, probably the best you've ever made. The sheer dedication to the bit, the editing, and show not tell jokes are really a magnum opus of critiques on suburban life. The sheer difference in the last several minutes genuinely made me emotional, and was such an incredible climax to the video. You absolutely deserve 1 million subscribers.
Yes this is definitely a peak
A Spielberg type masterpiece
I was getting more and more stressed during the video, until the last part where I got to relax. Masterpiece of a video.
Scene with orange pill just trow me out the window! It was sooooo good.
The whole thing just made me so sad I'm trapped in suburbia, but even the closest city doesn't have transit setup for wheelchair users. We've got sidewalks though! Just can't use them bc state laws place more importance on the free flow of car traffic so about half the driveways are so full the cars have to park blocking the sidewalks and then the cars drive too fast to see me in time to avoid clipping me. A side mirror to the arm at 25mph is really painful so I just have to drive to the playground 2blocks away...where can I get some of that copium?
THIS
I just got back from a trip to Amsterdam, and traveling there with my toddler made me feel shame for how we Americans don’t really prioritize spaces for little people. Bikes and transit too, yes; but in the Netherlands they invest in beautiful play spaces that are everywhere. No need for everyone to have a yard and terrible, home-mart play set. Please, do a video on these spaces and show the world what community play spaces could be.
th-cam.com/video/ybFG-GyS_38/w-d-xo.html In this video he visited playgrounds in Amsterdam
I remember these subjects being covered in past videos, not sure if it ever showed up in one single video as a dedicated topic. If it didn't it'd certainly be worth making!
How dare you say that America doesn't prioritize spaces for little people! We have shopping malls and megastores! Big, beautiful retail spaces where the little ones can learn to be good consumers. After all, gotta start 'em young! Nothing says happy playtime like learning to buy too much stuff and taking on debt! 'Merica, baby!
Jason got you covered: th-cam.com/video/ybFG-GyS_38/w-d-xo.html
These spaces go hand in hand with prioritizing bikes and public transit. In a car-dominant space you can't build space for children because it isn't safe. So if you like the one you must also advocate for the other (which imho is a no-brainer, don't want to even make head space for understanding why on earth someone would prefer carcentric planning)
Of all the things that matter about bike-friendly cities designed around public transport, you managed to capture what makes them so special: peacefulness, and socialisation. The contrast between the first part of the video with a constant noise and grey surroundings, against the second with a sudden silence and lively environment was a poetic way to put all this. Kudos!
socialisation equals...SOCIALISM! COMMIE! COMMIE, YOU'RE A *$(#&{?>^# COMMIE!!!
It's kind of ironic or counter-intuitive that the most dense places are quieter than the suburbs. People go to the suburbs because they think they can have peace there but to have peace they need to stay inside their houses which is depressing. While in the Netherlands you can have peace inside and outside and that's what makes a place worth living in.
TBF he did edit the sound to make the public transport quiet/silent. But yea suburbs are surprisingly loud and there's always the hum of traffic in the background even when the highway or stroad isn't close.
The random interactions I get with people while not driving a car are so precious. I was once biking down a road and a local construction company truck drove by. The kid in the passenger seat leaned out the window and asked me how I was doing. That made my day right there.
@@TheDoomSheep It is a matter of scale, though. Public transport ends up a lot less noisy simply because you need fewer wheels to move people. An individual bus makes more noise than a small personal car (not a Dodge Ram or some "sporty Mustang", though)... but far less noise than 20 cars. And it fits a lot more people than 20 cars. I find it hilarious that a few years back my city outlawed trams from ringing their bells because "it's too noisy" (it's actually quite a relaxing sound, honestly, and rather important)... but the incessant constant noise from the car traffic is apparently just fine. The volume of car traffic is a huge problem. We don't really get to experience silence outside anymore (and I'm not living in North America :D ). There's a huge difference between hearing a bus or tram passing by once in a few minutes and the unending noise of car traffic.
We've talked about how you can almost never hear birds singing in the city anymore recently; and you know, when you actually _try_ , you can hear them. It's just that the notoriously loud bird singing some people always loved to complain about is absolutely drowned out in the car noise. The animals didn't disappear (though again, Europe) - you just can't really hear them anymore most of the time. I'm not surprised North Americans don't want to walk anywhere anymore; who would, in that concrete hellscape? When I was in Bahrain, people never even considered walking anywhere - everyone looked at me like I was completely crazy, and yeah, there were no sidewalks, no pedestrian crossings, no trees or bushes, just concrete, asphalt and sand (of course, like most noveau-riche, they love copying "rich" countries, so they adopted the US style wholesale).
Only inaccurate thing in this video is that the radio is 100% ideologues. In reality it's 70% ads, 20% music and 10% ideologues.
That’s FM. AM🗣️ is a whole other mess
AM is like 50% right wing ideologues, 30% religious programming, and 20% Tejano music.
The most unrealistic part of this video is when he went inside from the backyard and could no longer hear the leaf-blower.
I love how quiet suburbia is. When nobody's mowing their massive lawn, or leafblowing, and there's no emergency vehicles on the 30 roads within hearing distance of my house, and also no normal vehicles either, and no cars driving by my house with their music turned up to loud, really just a wonderful place to get some peace and quiet
Yeah, you’d need a VERY energy-efficient house to pull that off.
I could definitely see this character pulling out his insulation and putting in single-pane windows to make the libs cry.
Maybe he got European-style noise proof windows installed. Like we have - 92 mm deep with triple windows. Considered an upper standard here in Czechia for new windows.
you're right!!! the most realistic response would be to go complain that the neighbors were causing too much noise by doing yard work. followed by calling the police. 🤡
My pet hate is my neighbour pressure washing everything his walls his driveway and everything in between continually for two or three days straight and then whinging and whining if I start my motorbike
As a Scandinavian who just recently visited family in California, this felt way too real.
I'm almost 2 meters tall and still had to jump to get into my in-laws car, and "just outside LA" meant an hour drive.
If we weren't able to borrow a car we were basically locked inside the house.
Only an hour? Damn, that's some incredible luck.
This is insanity!
Similar vibes when I visited friends in Michigian from where I live in the UK.
I tried to walk to a gas station from our hotel, only a 10 minute walk but cars are zooming by at 60mph endlessly, no trees, destroyed sidewalk, giant signs. It felt like I was really out of place, like the sidewalk was an afterthought.
Was nice to be back in the UK, we're not extremely 'walkable', but compared to the US? We look great for walkability!
You know what I found weird about California? Everyone has a porch and a lawn, and it's a safe, clean neighbourhood, but there's nobody on the sidewalk, nobody on the lawn, and nobody on the porch. It feels like everyone is either sitting at work, sitting in traffic, or sitting on the couch. No life to the neighbourhood. Like, no kids screwing around on the road, even.
@@katana2k same in Canada. Welcome to North America.
the fact that "tree isn't tree shaped enough" is a real HOA rule
Ya our HOA forcefully removed ALL the trees on our property due to "Not fitting the look and feel of the neighbor hood". We conduct our gardening to look like the front page of a magazine. Now we are on the hook for the tree removal and stump removal services for 14 trees. Our current theory is that our HOA didn't like how much more beautiful our gardening was compared to the bare grass and lawn chairs of the surrounding houses. We were just about carbon neutral with 90% of the trees being high-carbon capture trees like American chestnut trees. Now thats practically impossible to get back too.
2k likes and no replies? Anyway the HOA really wanted their rule list long to look professional
buttetworthfilter8403
The fact that this comment has no replies is a-tree-gious; un-tree-livable, even...
@@ivoryas1696 unbe-leaf-able
my hoa in vegas every winter accused us of having a dead palm tree when it was clearly a dormant palm they put in themselves when the house was built!
Congrats! Finding your channel a year ago led me down a rabbit hole that ended in me selling my car and moving to a walkable city. I am happier now! Keep changing lives :)
in the states? im looking to move myself but they are so expensive!
Pro tip, my friend: back at the Walmart, when you were taking up 2 parking spaces, you coulda grabbed at least 6 with just a little creative effort. Show those priusoids what you think of their "reserved for compact car" spaces. Keep living the dream, man!
Huge congrats, man. I know this is just a starter home, but after your next million you can totally upgrade to something a little bigger and farther away from the city (too much noise!!). Love the truck! Have you considered a lift kit??
Thanks so much! Yeah, this is just the beginning! My ultimate goal is to get a Hummer and to live in a rural area ... as long as I can also have paved roads, municipal water & sewage, regular garbage pickup, highspeed Internet, lots of freeways ... and low taxes, of course! 👍
Should have gotten the Ferd F-450 Cool Ranch Platuimn Boot Licking Edition instead, that dodge doesn't have enough towing capacity for the youtuber yacht
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nah brother, you need to go up to at LEAST the 550. if you're driving a 450 they might still let you have it insured as a personal vehicle (like a globehead prius pansy). You've gotta drive the 550 or bigger so that you are legally required to insure it as a commercial vehicle! If you drive a truck with less than 6 axles, you've been duped into buying a useless wokemobile that'll get stuck in the smallest of snow drifts or potholes. you NEED that 6x6 power. I'd also recommend the cow-catcher grill for maximum lethality on impact with any dangerous persons who might be trying to infringe on your rights and personal space. BUT!!! do not be tempted by the snow-plow blade attachment. it might seem like the perfect way to further weaponize your vehicle, but keep in mind that plowing the roads is the GOVERNMENT's job!!!!! if you attach a plow or crane or horseshoe hitch you'd be degrading your beautiful symbol of FREEDOM and LIBERTY to little more than an ugly utility truck!!!!!
Maybe the real treasure was the children we crushed along the way.
...at the abortion clinic.
@@mattmattmatt131313 no i am pretty sure that conservative suburbians like to not abort children only to accidentally run over them
@@mattmattmatt131313If only you’d made a prenatal visit to one, the world could’ve been just a little bit brighter 😔
@@mattmattmatt131313 don’t you mean the guns and school shootings that republicans refuse to stop?
That juicy downward facing tailgate , those WARLOCK add ons are hefty, but sure worth that extra penny!
Yeah man. I can't imagine buying a truck and not getting the high-end package. People might think I'm a blue-collar! 😱
I think about this a lot. I'm in my 30's now, and I think about how much more meaningful my life and relationships could've been if I lived in a place that was designed with real life in mind. So many friendships fizzled out because they lived in the same town but were a 45 minute drive. You miss enough of someone's life and you just don't really know them anymore, and vice versa. That's real love between people that just dries out and drifts away, it's starved out. I don't feel like a person in this country. Everything in my world is built to extract wealth from me. I exist from one parking lot to the next, only welcome as long as I'm spending money, and forcefully unwelcome if I'm not. Even public institutions that are supposed to be about helping people have been taken over by MBA's whose entire pathetic life is built around dumping their grift onto everyone else with buzzword salad and soul-stifling "metrics". I hate it here so much.
You really hit that one on the head. I spent my life in suburbia because that's where I grew up and where my gf/wife wanted to live and work. I've always hated it, but I didn't realize how much until 5 years ago when I had a taste of a real city. What a soulless environment to live in. 75 000 people, yet you're always alone in your f... car or home. And like you said, everything is about money, and appearances. I'm going to salvage what's left of my life and move to a good city and it won't be in North America.
I grew up in Europe and lived in North America (in the burbs) for a bit. And lemme tell you friends don't just magically appear in more densely populated places/downtown either. Friendships fizzle out too. The suburbs I lived in in NA were amazing. Right next to a lake, a forest, lots of amazing neighbors, I walked over to my friends houses every day... suburbs can make for a much tighter knit community than an anonymous city street. Heck, I was better friends with my suburb neighbors in a two block radius than I am with the people who live in my own building currently. I've never even seen most of them, never mind talked or be friends with them.
Everything is not suburbia's fault and urbanism isn't the solution to all problems.
If zoning laws are slightly amended and mom&pop type stores and maybe a café or two are added to a suburb, plus public transportation, you can drastically improve them with very little money&time spent. OTOH I wouldn't know how to ever fix the anonymity of a big city, of a 50 unit building, people being so sick of other people because they're surrounded by them day and night that they don't stop and talk to you but just scurry by.
Suburbs have a lot of untapped potential imo. All it takes is a shift in priorities, the right policies - which I am certain will happen - and they can turn into something great and sustainable.
@@heidi5346 the thing you described with suburbs being able to have shops and public transport would just make that a town at that point. I never thought about apartments in that way though, that’s good insight.
@@zephyrdreamer "the thing you described with suburbs being able to have shops and public transport would just make that a town at that point." exactly! a self sustaining, livable, walkable/bikeable town. that was my point. all it takes is tweaking zoning laws (and a change of mind) and you can turn lifeless suburbs into actual functioning towns.
Freedom baby!!!
I love how both city slickers and actual country people both can join hands and hate on the suburbs together
They are the worst of both worlds. I grew up in the country and spent most of my adult life in the city.
The occasional times I had to live in Suburbs was just depressing. You get none of the space and nature of the country and also miss out of all the amenities and public transport of the city. On top of that you loose any sense of community you can find in either a village or the city. (In a village obviously everyone knows everyone and in the city you have places like your local grocer where you bump into neighbours or the pub down the road where you can hang out)
If I live somewhere it has to be either the city or a village in the countryside, anything in between is just hell.
@@boomerix Totally agree. The suburbs were promoted as the best of both worlds but in reality are the worst of both. You'll notice in the comments sections of these videos too that usually the people who are defending "the suburbs", when describing their own situation, are not even from the types of suburbs these videos are discussing. They are generally talking about more semi-rural living.
Key word: "**Actual**" country people. Most true rural people just don't give a damn what's happening over there.
What's modern is to cosplay as one while you live in one of the millions of McMansions or some derivative.
@@JesusManera Hit the nail on the head there, I love my rural community back home and also love being in the big city but British suburbia (while much better than American suburbia) is mind numbingly boring and tasteless.
@@boomerix Yeah the suburbs are quite bad. Theyre not even particularly quiet since cars pass through all the time. And one guy in a suped up Subaru or something deciding to rev his engine breaks the supposed peace and quiet.
As some basic fork operator I'm now of the opinion that if your truck can't easily load a pallet of concrete then you don't need a truck. Also if you ain't hauling shit for your job then you ain't in the need of a truck either.
Love the video!!
If it can't load a pallet of anything it's just an ugly SUV with a missing piece of roof. Short flatbeds are dorky af
I once hauled a bunch of cardboard boxes in a tiny electric car, the Dacia Spring. It legit had more room than the bed of this pickup truck. It blocked my sight a bit but it got the job done better than any pickup would. Checkmate.
All irony aside, I got _weirdly_ emotional during the entire montage after the orange pill. Over the course of the pandemic, NJB slowly opened my eyes to issues I never even knew my country (🇵🇭) had, and now I can never unsee them. Congrats on 1M, Jason, the international positive influence of this channel cannot be overstated.
at the very least, we filipinos have the tricycle 😈 so we aren’t completely stranded without cars.
i live in the suburbs and yet i use tricycles more often than my cars. tho im not sure if other suburbs allow this.
Same. While this video was showing that Americans are so car centric, as an Indian, all I could see was that they're all at least staying in their lanes and not cutting corners.
@@glowdean9446 _Taga Marikina ako,_ I'm from Marikina, admittedly one of the better cities here for walking and cycling. One of the mayors' campaigns was even "A walkable city is a healthy city."
Here, tricycles are widely used even in my village (for the foreigners here, it's like a good mixed-use suburb). The problem lies in other Metro Manila suburbs like Whiteplains, Wackwack, Corinthian Gardens, and worst of all Ayala Alabang. Good grief I hate Ayala Alabang. SIX LANE STROAD THROUGH A RESIDENTIAL AREA I hate it.
@@PurooRoy I can relate heavily. It's made even worse by the fact that our road-based public transportation options (Jeepneys, Taxis, and these minibuses called FXs) are often LESS disciplined than ordinary drivers.
I cycle to get to college some days and the worst offenders when it comes to being unhinged on the road are the motorcyclists. They CAN and WILL use the bike lane even when it is ILLEGAL. It's the wild west (east?) out there.
I think you meant "can not be overstated". Because if you say "can not be understated" you're saying "the value the channel provides is so low that I can't give a number low enough to be less than the value it provides."
Unless that's what you meant to say!
Happy to see you finally escaping that socialist hellhole. I wish I could afford to leave Europe, but I spend too much money paying for your gas on Patreon
Surgical strike.
Watching the video in reverse be like
“The more space you waste, the more important you are” the best line ever!
This is true, unironically. The more important you are, the more money you make, the more space you can afford. Wealthy people always buy more space, even in places where it's customary living in a 200sqft studio.
The phenomenon is called “Conspicuous Consumption”.
@@mariusvanc Yep. Basically people living in NA suburban McMansions are pretending to be like they're well-off and important even though they're NOT. Money wasted on trying to live like Jones next door. Putting mortgage aside, homeowners pay insurances and taxes on vehicles and other expenses to upkeep the house. It's very inefficient way of living for regular people who work as someone's employee. If you work under someone, you're always vulnerable to possible layoff by your employer when economy goes down. If you can't find job right away, suburban life is just illusion ready to be snuff out.
I live close to wealthy neighborhood in San Francisco and they pay top dollar for small houses in the city simply because of conveniences and amenities in the city. pretty much everything is in walking distance and they have better selection of everything than usual Walmart and box stores.
Good thing I found this awesome pro-car channel amidst all these pesky left-wing green "climate change" doomers. Finally someone who understands what's really important to us! Can't wait for your next video. We really need more media that caters to the last few remaining car enthusiasts out there.
Wow finally! As a Dutch person I was so confused by this channel for so long! Why would someone from infrastructure paradise come live here? Glad you were able to finally get such a sweet ride, in a place where that's a bit more affordable!
How did you comment 5 days ago on a video out for 2 hours
@@nama_ Probably because he released it earlier for Patreon supporters.
Nice
@@gabrielqueiroz9766 ohhhh didn't think about that
As an European, I gotta say thank you a lot, I had ultra romanticized suburbia (even thinking to move to USA), you know, movies, etc. The thing is that you actually demonstrate that this is all fake, thank you and congrats for the million!
Out of curiosity, what about it seemed better?
@@AlexSchwartzATV I can see that owning property in germany for example, even if desired, is straight up impossible for many people at least in urban areas.
It's literally exactly as shown in this video. I live about an hour and a half north of where this was shot and it's no joke. The newer half of my city looks identical to this. Endless rows of houses, flanked by 6 lane commercial districts of limitless parking lots and Walmarts. That end of town is depressing. No trees. Hardly even sidewalks. Just cars.
@@AlexSchwartzATV Being a Dutchy myself, I am always kind of jealous of USA housing/Suburbia portrayal in movies.
I mean, you guys have SUCH BIG houses, and gardens, and vast stretches of wild nature in the country.
Meanwhile owning (not renting) a house here in the Netherlands is kind of a life goal (once you own a house, you're set), and houses the size of USA houses would definitely place you in the top 1% of the population (ignoring mortgages for now).
Of course it is not really comparable (building quality, ease of access to facilities, taxes, etc.), but man, having the space for like three to four bedrooms, multiple bathrooms, a garden, garage, multiple living rooms (is this actually a thing?!)? Crazy luxurious.
Your comment reminded me of how the video game "The Sims" was designed to reflect that romanticized suburbia idea, the creator of the game called it "American Television Culture", just to show how this idea is incredibly prevalent across the world.
As horrible as suburban/freeway traffic is, this video didn't even show the worst of it. The worst part isn't sitting in traffic jams. It's fighting your way across all those lanes to either reach your exit or avoid getting "scooped" into a direction you don't want to go when the freeway splits, while everybody else is doing the same. Having one or more close brushes with anything from hundreds to thousands of dollars in economic damage (pay that deductible plus increased insurance rates to get your truck/SUV fixed) to ending up maimed or dead every time you go to and from work or any other destination.
I didn't want to be reminded of that life. Yeah. One reason I don't exactly miss the local city
I feel your pain. There are ten lane changes in my commute 5 of them are in one freeway split/merge and 4 of them are in another. I am expected to dive across this traffic or be spat out in the opposite direction off the highway. Lane changes are the most dangerous part of highway driving and some 60s or 70s engineer decided to stuff all of them into a half mile. Twice.
For real, the stress of other idiots in cars getting close to your bumper when they almost miss exits or want to overtake in the right lane. It's trash. We deal with those stresses all the time on the 401.
Now, as someone stuck in suburban hell myself, I will tell you that the "responsible" way to handle it is to miss your exit and just reroute, if you're cutting across more than one or two lanes.
But we all know that that isn't how it works.
Traveling around Toronto you really need a SatNav that gives you lane indicators. With SO many lanes in each section you really need to get lines up in the correct one or two lanes before an exit we’ll in advance. I’ve been living just across the border on the US side since 1985. Those roads used to be nearly empty. Now going to the airport (to catch a flight to visit the home land of the Netherlands), traffic is bad from Burlington all the way to the airport is 50 km of slow traffic almost all day long. There is the expensive 407 toll road ($18 each way for a 25 km by-pass), but the last stretch is pretty much stop and go. I love visiting (downtown) Toronto, but traffic in and around the city … not so much.
Absolutely loved your sarcasm! And the fact you didnt only critique your regular topics but also took mental health and relationships into account was the cherry on top!
The bit about friends cancelling because it's too hard to get out to the suburbs hit *real* hard
You really changed my perception of North America. I always thought of wide parking spots, huge cars and minivans, big suburban houses, wide roads and highways as an opportunity which the rest of the world is deprived of.
I'm really thankful that you completely changed my vision.
Imagine being an orangepilled cyclist and looking over to see Jason yelling at you in a dodge ram truck 💀💀💀
Influencers are always fake. Bet he took a private jet to Amsterdam too.
😂 angrily popping pills and eating McDonald's
Having grown in a suburb, I had more than my fair share of angry drivers screaming at me in my teenage years. A bike was my only way of transportation in a place where not at all designed for anything else than motorized vehicles (and where the closest convenient store is km away). For some people it is like a national sport being angry / screeming at random cyclists regardless of how little trafic is being impeded. Needless to say that I moved as soon as i was able to. Moved to Montréal and, even with all its flaws, never regretted it.
Never meet your heroes
lololololol
This is so insanely on point. I deliver food to these people all the time, and the ultra rich as well (who always tip like GARBAGE, btw) with their massive estates, some of them living on literal islands in the middle of suburbia. It's Suburbiaception. I will never understand it.
I do understand it in the case of the ultra rich, though. They don't need to go to the grocery store and they do have bars, cinemas etc inside their own house so they don't really need to leave except for going on vacation because they can work from their own studio in their house.
In my country some of our inner suburbs are like that too as residential areas nearer to downtown tend to be more expensive (though other inner suburbs are poorer & have older public housing built earlier in our history before outer suburbs had been developed). Embassies of nearby or big power countries tend to be like that too. Quite ironic that Switzerland, known for its public transport, has its embassy in my country located almost 1 mile from the nearest bus stop/train station, or ~1/2h walk, in a country where car taxes are ~200+%
I’ll never understand American tipping culture
The rich tip poorly because often that's how they got rich... by underpaying the working class.
Laughed so hard when he threw away the shopping trolley, that's exactly what this kind of perso would do
IKR. Abandoning shopping carts in a parking lot should be a litmus test for politicians.
Someone contact the CartNarcs lol
Lol. I didn't expect him to actually leave the milk bags and the egg carton in the back 😂
Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys is there to collect any that just might happen to wander off of the parking lot.
@@jacobrzeszewski6527 It *SHOULD* be punishable by firing squad >_>
This character is so well written that when he lets a cart loose on a parking lot, you're like, "yep, expected that"
LOL I laughed out loud there too
Damn! A comment with 4.1k likes but 1 reply?
I mean, I'm actually surprised...
immediately made me think of Shopping Cart Theory
Saw that and thought, "Damn, Cart Narcs will hate this lazy bones"!
That was a really nice touch, yeah. Classic "show, don't tell" about the protagonist :D
I just wanted to share this story because I felt like it: I live in a big european city (population >2 million) and three weeks ago I had the urge to watch the movie Suzume. I looked it up in the Internet and found a really small theater (60 seats) that aired it for the last time. The theater is ~6 km away from my home. I called them and made sure that there are still tickets available then busted out the folding bike I bought especially for errands in a 3-10 km radius. I rode there through small side streets, a park and so on. The bike infrastructure is not that good but it is available so no problems. When I arrived I bought my ticket and asked the clerk if they provide some snacks and beverages. He said that I can just go to the attached vegan bar (or better yet it is a vegan bar with an attached theater) and ask there. So I went there and bought two bottles of beer and bretzels (served in a small porcelain bowl, never had this before).
I then proceeded to get seated and a few more people came in. A mother came in with her two teenage daughters and all three of them had a glass of red wine from the bar which they drank during the movie (even in europe this is not an everyday sight). There were two students constantly making notes (probably for an analysis) and some elderly people who had tears in their eyes for the whole movie. I have never in my entire life witnessed such a pure, calm and harm-free atmosphere in my life. It was mesmerizing.
After the movie I brought back my bowl and bottles, had a little smalltalk with two elderly women about the movie who came with their folding bikes as well and went back home.
I took the same way back, it was like 18°C with a nice calming wind. In the park you could hear the birds chirp, some people jogged around, a young girl cried because she didn't want to go home because it's still nice outside (it was half past 10 though and dark, lol).
And after watching this video I thought to myself: damn, with this kind of living, this kind of suburban structure, this kind of transportation I would've never had the joy that I had on that evening. It was nothing special but it just clicked.
Riding home a little bit tipsy and for practically no money at all was a nice bonus. Can't have that with a car.
But that bike ride didn’t count in the GDP numbers. Next time take a Hummer to the movies.
Nice, now I want to watch Suzume😅
Should have gone out and bought a 15000 lb truck and hauled home a 85 inch tv in the 2.75 sq ft truck bed and rented the movie on netflix for $14.99 and drank 2 or 3 cases of beer. Could have been just like a North American!
"I took the same way back, it was like 18°C with a nice calming wind"
Well I guess this may be a reason why bikes are not popular in Alaska
i like to drive home tipsy/drunk but in a car
Dude I'm like, the biggest car guy EVER, and I am so with you with your content. I wouldnt mind having cars as toys for special tracks only in exchange for walkable cities for everyone, the american logic is beyond absurd.
@@Randive Yeah if we dont like how things are where we live we should move and dont motivate a change for the better 😂 Grow up manchild.
The U.S. and Canada will never change. This is why Notyjustbikes left. Most of our cities are designed for automobiles. Even where I live in Canada they have tried building some LRT, but it sucks. I think it is close to $2billion. I even live close to a station and to get to the end takes about 1 hour. I can drive to the end in 20 minutes.
You cannot just lay some rail and expect a walkable transit oriented community. Especially when council keeps approving single family suburbia with box shops and winding roads.
@@luisdietsch52
Love how he says “5.7L engine” while showing footage of the engine with “3.6L” in big bold text. Absolutely perfect representation, no notes
Just throwing the cart in the middle of the parking lot and not putting it away was a good touch 😂
Not to mention parking the truck across like 3 spaces 💀
I just could hear the "wee-ou wee-ou, thats not where the cart goes!" in my mind.
I don't leave carts in dangerous places, but I never put them away. If everybody puts their carts away, three store employees will lose their jobs.
@@garryferrington811 That's why I always drop litter. Keeps the litter pickers in a job. /s
@@garryferrington811 Thats why I never put back the hose at the petrol station. It ensures the employees there have something to do.
I live in Germany and this makes me depressed thinking there is literally a few hundred million living like this, and then still holding onto it as if it was something good.
Please help us, we need liberation. 🙏🙇♀️
Germany isn't that much better bro
When I visited Munich I felt so peaceful, welcomed, and fascinated. I wish I never had to leave. When I go to big American cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, I feel unsafe, anxious, and alien. I just want to leave them as soon as possible. -American Suburbanite
I live in the USA, in a very walkable city, and I also wonder how people can think that is the good life.
Imagine how depressing it is living it.
This is unrelated to this video, but I wanted to share a little thing here.
A little over a year ago I bought an electric scooter, and I told everyone in my family “this is just to bridge the way to getting a car.”
All of my siblings (I’m the youngest of 4) took out loans for cars, or received hand-me-down cars as gifts from elders in the family. I on the other hand have been saddled with paying 5$ a day for bus passes on a transit system that’s awful and inconsistent, resulting in the once a week-ish required 15$ Uber to get home from work. How could I save up for a car when so much money is lost just to be *able* to work, right?
The scooter was part of a bigger plan to eliminate as many costs as I could so I could just brute force saving up for a car. But then something changed! I started to like riding the scooter! And one of my sisters who doesn’t currently have a car even became a bit jealous of my ability to just come and go as I please (within a reasonable distance lol)
The scooter became my favorite thing I own! Months passed and the idea of getting a car started to sound worse and worse. I always dreaded the idea of *needing* a car, because the bills my brother tells me about sound horrible. And the entirely unpredictable lethality of someone else not being as responsible as you are was scary to me, but before the scooter I just assumed that was just part of being an adult.
I started to think about “wouldn’t it be nice to live somewhere walkable?”
Needless to say, simple research on a whim led me down the rabbit hole of transportation infrastructure in America, and how awful it is for absolutely no good reason. Yadda yadda, one two three, I found this channel and binged almost every video in about 2 weeks (love the content btw)
My attachment for my scooter only grew stronger, and my hatred for what car-dependence has done to the roads became more cemented. Now it’s something I think about on a daily basis. And wouldn’t you know it… I was hit by a damn car. Just went out to get a snack at a gas station, and got hit by a car as tall as me when crossing a yield turn. Thank goodness they weren’t going too fast, but they sure weren’t paying attention either.
I sustained a broken fibula, lucky me that’s actually best case scenario. I just can’t walk for 4 weeks - 3 months but it will heal for sure.
My scooter on the other hand… the front wheel turned so hard it’s now oriented horizontally with the handlebars. It’s probably unsalvageable. And I can’t even really bother to try and work on fixing it on account of the broken leg.
I was proud that I was the only one who never needed to take a loan or borrow money in my family for the sake of a car.
Go figure, now I have, and i didn’t get a car for it… I got a broken leg.
You might ask “wouldn’t your insurance cover hospital costs?”
I don’t have insurance
“What about the driver who hit you?”
Get this - I was *hit by a goddamn car*. I was on the floor, writhing in pain. Bleeding, unable to walk, barely able to focus. And I’ve never ever ever been in a situation like this, and i don’t like drama lol. Which is such a silly thing to say on the topic of getting car smashed. But the point is, I let the guy go. He was nice enough to help me off the road, and help my scooter off the road too just in case it *is* salvageable. But he had places to be, and I let him go.
And if I had the peace of mind to go back and rope the guy into this all without being in a knockout daze, I still don’t think I would. I value my life and don’t take it lightly, yet at the same time I hate the idea of ruining someone else’s life over something so dumb.
I’m in debt now, I’ll need a new scooter to get to work but before *that* I’ll have to take crappy bus rides again, and before *that* I need to finish recovering (it’s been about 3 weeks since the incident, I’m no longer in pain, just unable to walk)
Now, where am I going with all this? It was an accident. But it was at a yield turn, technically I burden like- maybe 5% of the fault too for not fully paying attention to him either, but good lord. Could you imagine?
This whole situation is like an unlucky lucky miracle. I survived and I *can* deal with the costs. But if you tweak any minor detail about the story? I’d probably be dead. A whole ended life, just because I wanted a snack one day.
Cars are goddamn scary, and I think I can say with confidence now that I’m not gonna save up for one, even when I’m free of debt.
If you get a bicycle they offer pretty cheap bicycle insurance that can extend to medical bills. $10,000 in medical coverage for ~$500 a year depending on your zip code and bike price. Look into it.
@@75Tades Definitely not free everywhere, but a broken bone is not something that financially impacts you a lot, and all days you're in hospital you just get off of work, fully paid. In western europe, car liability insurance is also mandatory so you get the spot value of your scooter refunded (or the driver will just pay you a wad of cash to avoid getting his insurance dinged)
Sadly, the EU as a whole is making it harder and harder for immigrants to come here.
So, instead of saving for a scooter, you have decided to move to The Netherlands (I want to discourage you from going to Amsterdam. Rotterdam or Utrecht are nice too) and buy a bike??? Here we all have a health-ensurence starting less than 130 euro's/month, the cardriver is (almost) always the guilty party en if you're ill your employer must still pay.
Beterschap!
As someone who commutes on the 401 everyday 35 minutes each way, or 1 hour in rush hour, this video hits home way too hard.
You poor soul. I was so scarred from living the 401 commute life I moved to the other side of the world.
I've driven on the 401 once during a coast to coast road trip. Never again, what an absolute ordeal, easily the worst highway in Canada, and ranks among the worst in North America.
I work on vehicles for a living and that scene where you struggled to open the hood on the RAM and then blatantly called it a 5.7 L Hemi engine when we were clearly looking at the 3.6 L V6 had me rolling on the floor. In a real truck review, stuff like that would be unforgivable but here it just added to the sense that you just don't give a crap about trucks. Absolutely glorious satire.
Ram is a Stellantis brand. There is also a 3 L V6 diesel available, eventually only for the European market, and eventually it's a Mercedes OM 642 engine from the DaimlerChrysler aera which also was in the Mercedes/Dodge/Freightliner Sprinters. The typical Stellantis used 3 L diesel is a Sofim 4 cylinder from Iveco, which was in the Ram ProMaster.
@@miriamlana833 Bet you're fun at parties
Buddy, I'm pretty sure he had a 6.7 L powerstroker.
@@papabigfatty8766 buddy, you're wrong
You have countdown going for the next Grand Tour episode, don't you?
This is the life Big Bicycle wants to take from you. Stay strong brothers.
I prefer bicycle daddy
this actually made me feel deeply sad for people who have to live in america. the level of calmness that you managed to contrast with as soon as you got on transit was phenomenal. well done!
Bruh, I just got the same truck. Congrats! Any tips on protecting my groceries from rain?
Sick, man! Yeah, you can get the cover for the bed. It makes the bed basically useless for carrying anything higher than about a foot and a half, but that's a small price to pay to look like a real man!
I’m from Mexico and I can’t explain with words how greatful I am with you for all your videos.
You change my life and I will work all my life trying to make a difference in my city because things can change and will change.
Thanks a lot
Thank you for all, with your TH-cam videos you make a big difference showing the world how things can be better. ❤
You got this! Good luck.
ahuevo
Méxican cities are trying to imitate the US's lifestyle but with no money. I hope they can find better ways before it's too late
tiene México los mismos problemas de dependencia al carro que EE.UU. y Canadá?
@@chl_ca si, exactamente todos los mismos problemas, solo que sin menos infraestructura.
“extra bright halogen lights guaranteed to blind any Prius driver within 600 yards” - as a Prius driver in North America. I FELT that 😂😂😂
Congrats on 1M!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'm in an older Ford Escape and they're blinding at my height, too. Even in the bus I drive at work, they can get bright sometimes
plus one w the Prius Prime over here :)
I wish I had a button to deploy mirrors in my rear window.
lmao I drive a slightly lifted 90s 4runner and im still getting blinded by every other truck that passes me, this shits insane
my experience as well :):):)
I can'tstand that sound everyday going to work. Here's an orange donation.
Hey-o! An orange donation for an orange pill. Thanks so much for the SuperThanks! 👍
Tfw he got the warlock edition
Of course, man! I need the red leather seats or people might start thinking I'm a blue collar labourer!
No wayy, It's little joel's burner account🤯
EVEN BIG JOEL???? AHHHH
"Big bicycle is waging a war on cars." Has to be my favorite quote. Big bicycle sure is scary.
I love the persecution complex!
It's like the 'War on Christmas'.
The war on cars is one of those right wing inventions that would actually be a good idea.
Actually had someone in town running for council on basically this agenda. Except Big Bicycle was the incumbent council. Who mostly got reelected, thankfully.
@@Bustermachine The war on Crhistmas is actually real though. Of course the people warring on Christmas are the ones that want to monetize every single aspect of it so that it loses everything that made Christmas special.
Good call on the home gym, those are great for showing off when you give house tours. From my suburban living experience, I recommend one big, impressive looking machine for the centerpiece, then weight racks and smaller machines tastefully arranged along the walls. Remember to dust thoroughly before guests arrive. Do not use your gym for extra storage; that's what dining rooms are for. On that note, get some covers on all that dining room furniture! You want to preserve everything so it looks nice if you decide to use it some day. Eventually.
Oh, no, don't store things in the dining room! You gotta put all the junk in the garage, so that you have to park that $60K monstrosity of an SUV outside to rust and get leaf blower dust all over it! lol.
@@james-p It's fine, the truck is too large for the garage anyway.
Excellent point. I forgot NJB is new to suburbing. I assumed his garage, attic, and unfinished basement were already filled with years of accumulated random junk.
This was soooo awesome. Just came back from Denmark, Spain and Sweden. Spaces are so much better allocated and transit everywhere. We did not have to look at a schedule in Copenhagen as a Metro was coming every 3 minutes or less. It was so great seeing all these people out and enjoying themselves, such a great contrast to USA. I wonder for myself why we want to live like this?
The montage at the end of the video really made me emotional. The idea that someone could go from a bland suburb in Canada all the way to downtown Amsterdam without taking a car is quite remarkable. Life could be so much better than what we currently have in most of North America.
Wait! Your actually right. That's actually a slight glimmer of coping for Ontario's transit
Tbh there was a plane in there. But ye not like you are gonna travel intercontinentally any other way
@@zeronothinghere9334 But, I might be incorrect on this, a plane is not a car.
Cool flag. 🦀
@@mavadelo Was thinking about it from the lens of environment, completely forgot about the more societal part.
The 2 bits about socializing are what hit me most. Friends and family being far away, and the reduced serendipitous encounters with friends and acquaintances which, even if you did notice while in your vehicle, you couldn't interact with. And you certainly couldn't go for that beer if you're driving.
Totally! We used to joke when I lived in LA that if you moved more than 10 miles you'd be dead to your friends, but it was true. One night you'd be at a party and ask, where's so-and-so been? Oh, didn't you hear? They moved to Santa Monica.
i like how you described it... "serendipitous encounters". something so small but so lovely. something you dont even know you needed.
I'm going for that beer.
@@scullystie4389 I just visited my friend in LA and it was hilarious how bad traffic was (and city life). Most of my local friends live 50+ miles away and that's like 40 mins travel time in a car in my state. Though I'll admit I still love suburbia so I can have my own gym, bar, and library in my home and don't have to deal with other people. Why would people even go to a bar and pay $3 for a single beer when you can get a 24 pack of Bud Lite for $3.
Funny: I really felt relieved when you flew back to Amsterdam (even if it was clear from the beginning that it was satire). Even just watching the first part was mental torture. I'm so happy to think 1M people are interested in your videos. Congratulations! Let's hope the community keeps growing.
Me too! I think it has something to do with Amsterdam just being more human-centric. Car-centric places are (by definition) de-humanising. It's actually astonishing that some cultures strive to be de-humanising.
Except that commuter on rails is not what it's like in NYC or Chicago when more and more ppl start to travel/commute like that. Then you get muggings and thugs punching women in the face and strangulations and mass shootings. Then we all get to share the same cold/flu for months. Ask me how I know.
@@arizonamonarch That sounds like an American problem, not a public transport problem.
For me it was like taking a breath of fresh air
Serendipitously bumping into a buddy for an impromptu beer is literally the best part of living in a walkeable neighborhood!
This is a perfect depiction of what it's like to live in North America. I live in Houston, the epitome of urban sprawl. This is what everyday life is like to a T. It's even worse when you realize that kids grow up in this and are totally, 100% reliant on their parents for transportation and even just the ability to see friends until they either get their own car and driver's license at 16 or move out. I'm not even 18 yet and this is what I see every day. It's so monotonous... I'm an optimist at heart, but I really don't see a way that I can keep living here without going crazy first. Hopefully things will change, but I think I'm just going to have to move elsewhere. We're so brainwashed to think that this is the only way to live that most people don't even want change. All of his copium throughout the video are actual things that have been said to me when I say I think we need walkable cities and public transport.
As the next generation to take the reins, perspectives like yours are a reason for optimism.
Ironic how what was advertised as the epitome of freedom is more dehumanizing than a commie block.
It is monotonous. I live in a sprawl too, and I appreciate my oldest son for wanting to use public transport. However it only runs from 9am to 9pm mon-sat. He gets off work at 10pm. :( My daughter didnt even have the option of public transport to her job until recently.
Move when you have the chance.
Life is short.
@@alfred9805 go to visit yes. But not go to move and live.
“Big bicycle is waging a war on cars” genius 😂
Nice
"Oh god... the cars have already won!"
This is more hard hitting than I expected. The post orang pill, noise free montage really stuns you. Great job!
Right but to be fair, some of the noise is edited out. Source: I ride those trams frequently and they are not silent.
@@MeatNinja not as loud as a stroad
For what it's worth, that tram audio is NOT edited. None of the montage audio is edited. And the sound of the stroad at the bus stop is with the same camera at the same volume levels.
@@NotJustBikes Yeah it really depend on the tram/metro concerned. I used to travel from France to other, place, which mean reaching Paris then use the metro/tram lines to get to the other train-station from which depart international trains. Depending which, some are completely silent, others you can hear the roll and brakes all the way.
I personally recommend watching it with subtitles, lots of insights to just how awesome suburbia is
aaaaand now I've had to watch it again. WORTH IT THOUGH
I found myself getting emotional as I watched this. As a parent of a young child I dream of a better world for them. People in the US are so asleep to what their communities could be. Yet they call themselves family friendly. Everyone should watch this video. *wiping away tears*
This is Canada
@@anthonyr1930 Luckily, it differs a lot in the US 😝
As someone who loves cars and has lived his entire life in a urbanistic city in an European country, I would love so much to have a house in a US suburbia, having to drive everywhere, getting my kids a car at 16 and doing all that cool Homeowner stuff like mowing the grass and blowing leaves. I'm not even joking.
Are u mentally unwell Europe is not family friendly. Teens heavily consume drugs and it smells like cigarettes everywhere
basically the same in the States@@anthonyr1930
The post-orange pill montage got me all choked up. I'm so glad there's places where people can actually *live* even if I'll never experience them. Hoping your channel and others like it inspires more proper development so in the future nobody has to suffer the suburbs again.
Same here. I got teary eyed...
Yes, I do live in a suburb, although not in the US and only 30min away from downtown but maaaaaaaaaaan... this was a rude awakening video.
Hey, Jason. I've been a fan of your videos for a long time now and I shared a lot of these perspectives with my dad who was skeptical about how important urbanism can be to the physical and mental health of communities. My dad and I were able to do a trip to Amsterdam together last November and he had so much fun riding the trains, street cars, and bikes all over town and being able to go to late night concerts, museums, and bars so easily. It was both our first time in the Netherlands and we had so much fun just walking around and enjoying a safe, beautiful, and quiet city. Also there's a really great Jazz scene! All that said, I wouldn't have ever thought to do a trip to the Netherlands with my dad if not for your videos. Thanks for opening our eyes to the possibilities of beautiful healthy places. Cheers.
The Netherlands has a jazz scene? Man just when I thought there couldn't be any more great reasons why I should visit one day! I wonder how easy gigging musicians have it there when taking transit to get to their venues.
Woah....are you me? I literally did this exact same thing. My Dad said on the trip "I can't believe I'm sharing your passion for this stuff, but this place is amazing"
I plan to visit one day, and I'd love to move there. The USA is not exactly a nice place to live in, and the political situation is declining fast. Amsterdam looks like an amazing place to live one day.
@@ambiarock590 I'm also looking to move from USA to Netherlands, even if for a few years as a student. But be warned that Amsterdam apartment rents practically rival those of Manhattan. Nowhere is affordable in the Netherlands to the point that international students are homeless while hunting for an apartment. Still worth the high costs though
@@AssBlasster there's other amazing cities in the netherlands doesn't have to be amsterdam. rotterdam, the hague, even utrecht or groningen are all very cool and very livable (and slightly more affordable) cities with much of the same infrastructure amsterdam has
I'm an Australian and this video makes me ashamed to own my truck. It works every day of its life as a trade and towing vehicle, it gets the work it deserves but good lord is it huge, and thats as a comparatively small Australian ute. I was honestly tearing up watching this, it made me miss my (comparitively) little 05' Forester. Im lucky to live in the relatively mixed suburbs of a midsized Australian town so i can still walk to local restaurants, my younger sister can walk to school, and public transport is juuuuust good enough to get my university friends out and about but I dont know what I'd do without a car.
I was in Japan recently for holiday and their cities are amazing. Tokyo had an incredible density of 7-11s, grocery stores, and restaurants. Nobody drives trucks, I saw one the entire time I was there and it was near the American military base. They know better than us. Hopefully we'll figure it out eventually. Until then, I can only hope that it doesnt get worse.
Everyone knows how important truck owners like you are.
This is why we all understand that you don't have time to put away your shopping cart.
Look at the truck you're paying off for 5 more years. You ain't no chump!
I hope he locked in the cheap 18% p.a. interest rates!
Can't forget that mortgage too. Several bedrooms, multiple bathrooms, in the suburbs. That place has to cost a fortune.
Funny, he filmed this whole thing in the town I grew up in. And that town is considered to be quite decent in terms of suberbia madness (lots of green space, good town services, and you are within walking distance to most things - depending on the part of town your in). That being said, transit was always a nightmare, I remember when certain routes got Saturday service...it was a big deal. But then they decided to consolidate routes, so the bus that would take 10 minutes to get you to the town center now took 35 minutes...it was literally faster to walk. Now, I've lived in a few suberbia towns and it was definitely one of the better ones, but the sad reality is that he's sooooo right. After I've experienced living in a well planned urban area, it was eye-opening.
Wow it was only after your comment that I realized that this video is depicting middle class life. I can only imagine what working class people suffer through to even enable this lifestyle. Forgive my ignorance since I don't know much about America (and a lot of tv shows like Friends and Modern Family are unrealistic) but I hear there's like full villages of people living in trailer parks. My siblings visited the country and said there were homeless everywhere and of course there's millions in prisons.
It seems like there's so much suffering endured to uphold a broken system.
@@ummmmmmmmmmmnmmmm Ya man thats pretty much how it is. Personally i think its an age based problem.
My parents generation had a vested interest in denigrating people with issues. The premise is that "personal responsibility" excuses anyone from helping anyone else. This was often used simultaneously to dismiss social issues and to inflate personal value through perspective of being better than those desperate people.
It kept alot of america happy taking a low wage for a long time.
LMFAOOOO the JUSTCARS license plate killed me. This is such a beautiful masterpiece, thank you for all your work brother
Did you notice the Just Cars hoodie?
And it's the blue Doug Ford style plate, too!
@@faustovieiraoh shooooot I actually didn’t but that’s actually so sick. Man really went all in for this beauty LMAOO
Man I just love those beautiful illegible blue license plates, so that the bikers and pedestrians can't identify your plate when you commit a hit and run! Ontario just keeps getting better every day, thanks Doug
It's the infamous Doug Ford impossible-to-read-at-night variant too. perfect, no notes
I just love how you tell the story in your videos. Comedic and informative. for this one I could literally listen to the audio and still have a rough picture of what you are talking about.
I love how it ended with him abandoning his wife and kids to escape the suburban horror. To this day, they're still waiting for him to come back 😂
WHAT wife & kids?
@@joestrike8537 right! He ran them over a while ago with his truck!
He just went out to get some milk!
@@eddited He used Copium to -cope- deal with the loss of his family to his massive, impractical truck.
Pretty sure it was his guest's guests the ones with the kids.
the radio part 😂
Also I felt physical relief once you were in the safe, comfy, quiet Netherlands with modern public transit. I grew up in california and now live in switzerland, so I know the pain all too well and am so grateful to live in a city with fast, reliable, and frequent public transit
Never realized how miserable talk radio made me feel until I started biking instead
Wait. did you immigrate to Switzerland?! How!?
The "Look why don't you just let me know next time you're downtown and we can meet up or something" got me a pretty good chuckle as I say that to all my suburban friends.
"extra cup holders, for the kids to park their beers." OK, that got me laughing. Also, your AM radio was NOT angry enough.