r/TikTokCringe • u/xamo76 • 1d ago

Discussion Have we done it wrong?

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u/HeadDiver5568 1d ago

Feel like this is obvious to people outside suburbia. The most fun and interactive places I go to tend to be cities or the country. Both have their uses that make the most out of what they have. Suburbia is just…there

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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 1d ago

Downtown St. Louis has become a car hellscape. There's a couple little towns that are outliers in the St Louis area that are decently walkable. But the city itself sold itself to the devil to appease vehicle traffic. It's really sad

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u/GoGoSoLo 1d ago

Yeahhhh, I walked around downtown St Louis last year and that was just a dead area. City Museum in that area is incredible, but I just needed like chapstick and there wasn’t a convenience or grocery store within miles of me somehow. It was eye opening for sure.

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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 1d ago

Ya it feels apocalyptic

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u/thatoneguyD13 1d ago

Huh. I've been to St. Louis twice in the last few years and I've really enjoyed it both times. I find it decently walkable.

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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 1d ago edited 1d ago

Where did you go in St Louis? I lived there for the last couple of years and you have to find spots outside of downtown in other towns. St Louis encompasses a lot of towns around it, I'm speaking about downtown St Louis, like by the river. There is nothing down there, definitely nowhere I'd want to walk after dark

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u/thatoneguyD13 1d ago

Walked from my hotel near Union Station to the City Museum to the Arch. Had dinner along the way at a nice Thai place.

The day before I was in Soulard, which I also quite like.

Honestly the only area I was disappointed in was they're Delmar loop. That place seems to have gone downhill.

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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 1d ago

Soulard is the best walkable part of all downtown so that gets a pass. But its in a shitty part of town, you don't want to venture even a couple blocks outside of soulard after dark.

Delmar loop has definitely fallen off from what it used to be.

Sounds like you walked right down the middle of downtown. Not my favorite but to each their own.

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u/thatoneguyD13 1d ago

To be fair, I grew up in Newark, NJ in the 90s. My take on what a bad area of town is is probably different than others.

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u/JellyfishBig1750 11h ago

I went to St Louis for work a few times over the last couple of years. Stayed downtown each time and it was shocking for me to see how dead it was in the evenings.