Wtf is the point of doing this? Those are damn nice fucking trees and a lot of them could be left there with no issues at all.
It just flattens out the entire landscape into something horrible. There was probably a shitload of wildlife that lived in those trees too.
Can’t wrap your oversized pickup truck around a tree if the tree doesn’t exist :very-smart:
trees drop branches and shit. you have to spend money on cleaning that up.
iirc this was the reason none of the neighboring towns had any trees on the streets when i lived in NJ. the place we lived had trees, but it also had higher land taxes. and its own school, no bussing.
i think it was as close to a gated community as you could possibly get without gates.
That's literally just running a trimmer down the roads once a month though ffs. Nobody even has to get out of a seat for it. The same people mowing all that grass can do it in exactly the same amount of time. aaaaaaaaa
what if there's a storm and a branch falls and damages someone's private property tho? god's wrath will overflow because private property is sacred, and the town might be liable for damages.
easier to just pave everyhing over, really.
I've read a fair bit of Strong Towns but never seen this video and it's fantastic thank you for posting!
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like an out of place boomer
i dont think resenting the amerikan carbrained capitalists' urge to constantly flatten out , then pave over patches of land that once were something of a magical place for you (and surely others) adn overrun with all kinds of flora and fauna each interacting with each other in their own complex ways, i dont reallh think that counts as "boomer" shit .... actually now yhat i think about it i would almost expect anyone using chapo dot chat to feel that way..
There's so much developed and abandoned property in the city where I grew up, and yet every time I go back, more subdivisions and commercial areas have sprung up out of farmland and forested areas. I assume it's because it's cheaper to do that than it would be to tear down the old, rotting ruins (and probably deal with some serious contamination on the site) of the empty factories, etc. So the sprawl just keeps growing. At least the woods where I played are in a floodplain between my old subdivision and another, so it's been left alone so far. Even by the time my youngest brother was a teen in the early 2000s, he was saying that the neighborhood kids weren't playing in the woods anymore. He went out there to smoke with some friends, and all our trails were overgrown and there were no forts to be seen.
I used to take my .22 to and go shoot squirrels.
Did you eat them? I've eaten squirrel and I can't imagine doing it multiple times on purpose when rabbits exist.
I went to highschool around 2009-2011, my hangout spots were all the houses they just built and weren't able to sell. Now they're probably all rentals
im mostly pissed they cut down all the trees. this stupid fucking country loves unshaded ashpalt and then bitch about the heat.
America is a fractal and the pattern it reveals is a nightmare hellscape of suburbanization.
I think every place that I played as a child or all my schools except my high school don't exist anymore.
