Yeah tbh, like its kind of ugly but doesn't seem that bad. When I look at this I see
-Dense housing: duplexes and apartment buildings, which are good for the environment
-Buses
-walking distance to the business/commercial district that seems to be there in the background
There are many places way worse than this in this country. The suburban sprawl is much worse than this. Not to mention the endless number of small towns that are falling to pieces in rural areas
Look at these coastal elites with some semblance of public transit and more than half of those buildings being fully intact.
Definitely depends where you are. Indianapolis is like nauseatingly car dependent. I haven't seen their BRT yet.
Look up rents in queens and you'll be happy wherever you live.
My city is rapidly gentrifying and rents are reaching NYC levels without any rise in wages
They're just actively killing so many old, beautiful neighborhood trees where I live. Same shit last time I visited the town I grew up in, Americans fucking hate trees or something.
Actually an old quote by some European vistor in the 1900's that Americans took to trees like they were blood enemies. Wish I could remember tge exact quote and who said it.
It's really sad to me because is such an easy thing to plant a tree and it literally makes everything better. But too many homeowners here are just like "they're too messy!". They literally don't want trees because they drop their leaves lmao
There is this guy on YouTube that drives around and interviews people in different impoverished neighbourhoods around the USA, and it's so fucking weird because the roads and infrastructure always look like the dilapidated shit I'm used to seeing in my eastern European corner of the world...
US urban and suburban spaces are ugly as shit and I hate it here.
True, but at least here you can
walkdrive to Raymour and Flannigan for furniture purchases.
And it's still pretty shit. But at least we have a subway that hasn't collapsed just yet!
We need to drag 2000 lbs of steel with us everywhere so all the garden room needs to be used for concrete.
