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The roads in my city are as far from flat as you can get. The potholes aren't bad but the roads are build to slope into the gutters and the gutters occasionally cut through the streets like reverse speed bumps, the train tracks are like crossing wagon ruts.
So if I see you rolling around in some luxury sports car with a 3in clearance, I'm going to assume you're too fucking stupid to deserve that much money.
My pet peeve about these gutters is 4 way intersections where the city planner put stop signs for the direction that doesn't have to cross the gutters, and makes the gutter-crossing direction the primary right of way. We have to essentially come to a slow roll to not bottom out, just give us the stop signs as a heads up that we're approaching a hazard that eats undercarriages.
I'm convinced that exact move is on purpose! No reasonable person can look at that intersection and think, "this can't possibly be done better in any way."