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r/Suburbanhell

Little boxes, on the hillside. This subreddit is about suburbs, how bad they are, how ugly they are and solutions against them. Not looking for a debate. Founded 2015 · 126.2K members

125.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 23.6K upvotes, which works out to 188 per 1,000 members.

188peak upvotes per 1,000 members
125.3Kmembers
23.6Kbest post
3.8Kmost comments
200posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

58% 12% 9% 9%
Image 58% Video 12% Gallery 9% Text 9% Question 7% Link 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Meme 31 Showcase of suburban hell 23 Discussion 10 This is why I hate suburbs 6 Question 3 Exurban 1 Solution to suburbs 1 Before/After 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

….THIS neighborhood?

↑ 23.6K 💬 3.8K image 2025

sad but true

↑ 21K 💬 310 image 2025

One of the most depressing suburbs I've ever seen. Texas, USA. This is real.

↑ 19.4K 💬 2.2K image 2025

We’ll have suburbia 🤡

↑ 11.2K 💬 66 image 2025

I'm a traffic engineer and I just finished installing our town's first bike lane 🥰 what do y'all think?

↑ 10.3K 💬 657 image 2025

You will live in the pod

↑ 7.3K 💬 324 image 2025

Visualization of space dedicated to cars

↑ 7.1K 💬 108 image 2025

No greenery is affecting my mental health very badly

↑ 6.4K 💬 149 image 2025

Average suburban fear…

↑ 6.4K 💬 57 image 2025

Paranoid Neighbors and Prehistoric Rituals

↑ 5.8K 💬 73 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Suburbanhell, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Suburbanhell?
r/Suburbanhell ("Little boxes, on the hillside") describes itself this way: This subreddit is about suburbs, how bad they are, how ugly they are and solutions against them. Not looking for a debate. It was founded in 2015 and has 126.2K members.
How many members does r/Suburbanhell have?
r/Suburbanhell has about 125.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 200 of its posts; the biggest reached 23.6K upvotes, which is 188 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Suburbanhell?
"….THIS neighborhood?" reached 23.6K upvotes and 3.8K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Suburbanhell.
What subreddits are similar to r/Suburbanhell?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/Suburbanhell?
Of the posts we hold, 58% are image posts and 12% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Suburbanhell?
Across 200 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 13:00 UTC (6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 01:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Suburbanhell?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Suburbanhell has 4.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Suburbanhell, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.