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Suburbs extending out for an absurd distance from a city center. To be truly hell, these suburbs have to have absolutely no mixed use developments. Extra points if there's a sea of parking lots outside all stores. Suburban hell is either car focused (growing because of middle-class, mostly white families seeing the city centre as "rough") or the result of high-capacity transit (i.e metro systems) going too far out of an urban centre. The latter example tends to devolve into the former. Examples of cities that are surrounded by suburban hell: London (It's not just an American problem) Phoenix (A bunch of suburbs disguised as a city) New York City (Especially in Long Island and New Jersey) Los Angeles (Hope you like highways) Shanghai (to an absurd degree) These areas tend to have lots of homeowners. Said homeowners have also probably bought all the residential properties in downtown as an investment so nobody can actually live there. They also are the proud owners of large SUVs if only to compensate for something.
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