@_Escrevedori I’m from the US, your culture is the envy of many. An inspiration for so many young people. Work and money isn’t the most important thing, we value community and life and we see how you value it too. That’s true happiness
This whole ordeal I think really highlights the parasitic relationship many suburbs have with their urban cores.
Quality of life of people living in cities has been placed second to the convenience of suburban motorists.
In much of SF, you can’t walk 20 feet without seeing a sign declaring that Black lives matter and no human being is illegal. Those signs sit in yards zoned for single families, in communities that organize against the new housing that would bring those values closer to reality.
@Odie1941 @ModeledBehavior@lymanstoneky Option A: walkable community, transit, social life, near bars, restaurants, and museums
Option B: car dependent, traffic and long commutes, shop at strip malls, Friday night at Olive Garden
@mattyglesias @Scotty1959 @jenny_schuetz Haha ok true. Boxy, boring, bland. I prefer staying north of Mass Ave. Invest in protected bike lanes and transit, and I would support more density and increasing the height limit
@shokboi94 Haha, I used to think it was a hoax until southern MD got them bad in 2013. But the rest of the state had none. This year is the big year apparently
There's so much attention given to the fact that Trump got 74 million votes but little to the fact that Biden got 81 million. It's just an insane number. Population growth is a big factor, but no one before 2020 had even gotten 70 million votes.
When you compare an 1895 Atlas of the Chinatown and Callowhill neighborhoods of Philadelphia with a modern satellite photo, you can't help but be appalled by the damage inflicted upon the built environment to build the highway, oceans of surface parking, and the convention center
@shokboi94 I think Philly's side streets are a bit tighter and don't have the large trees DC has. Especially South Philly. But it's def beautiful there lol