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Conner4REAL posted...

without cars the suburbs wouldnt exist.

Without cars there also wouldn't be grocery stores. Or dating as we know it.

Cars radically altered the infrastructure of the Western world as a whole and the US specifically, in ways that you wouldn't even associate with the idea of cars at first glance.

It's sort of the same multifaceted cultural reset that smart phones are causing now. So much of how people live their lives is likely to change over the next 100 years or so. Assuming we don't all kill ourselves off in the meantime.



Conner4REAL posted...

areas that are suburbs or hicksvilles formally inhabited by hicks. When you go even further out you get hillbillies who live in the styx

It's "out in the sticks", not "styx". The poor rural people don't live in the river in Hades.

It's basically a reference to living on the edge of the forest, at the edge of civilization. The place where you've cut down most of the trees, but haven't cleared away the stumps or smaller trunks yet, so they look like sticks. It's why you'll also hear some people refer to areas like that as the backwoods.

Boondocks/boonies, "the ass end of nowhere", or place names like East Bumblefuck are similar concepts.