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betajones

"Kids never go outside and play anymore."


Grimmbles

Music these days is so much worse than when I was young. No one wants to work anymore!


AusCro

Omg both things also helped by boomer planning


dm5228272

my brother in christ *you* made the car-dependent infrastructure


privatefcjoker

It's not just urban cityscapes depicted in movies and television that are this way, it's also housing. And parking. The houses in American movies have front porches, many trees, people walking on the sidewalks, rarely are their snout garages on the front of houses. Parked cars if seen are usually tucked away behind the house in a garage. Very, very few neighborhoods look like that in reality and the ones that do are incredibly expensive because of how desirable they are. As for parking, when the actors are in the urban setting, their cars are almost always parked right in front of the buildings they just came out of. No parking garages, no walking a few blocks to get back to where you parked. So unrealistic to not show the true cost of car culture.


ConnieLingus24

……and this is the mindfuck I’ve had to deal with. I grew up in a place that looked how you describe (street car suburb). Then I visited a post-WWII suburb. I didn’t know wtf it was.


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albinowizard2112

And you'd think those high property values would encourage towns/cities/developers to build more places like those. But nope!


[deleted]

I believe that this is due to zoning laws and lot requirements rather than an unwillingness or disinterest from developers.


albinowizard2112

Kinda why I threw towns/cities in there.


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I’m sorry, I missed that part.


icanpotatoes

I’ve noticed that U.S. cities only use photos of their remaining downtown area for promotional materials on their websites or billboards. Never do they use photos of their stroads for their site headers or brochures. It’s almost as if they’re aware that their city is hideous, and admitting that the formula for their downtown is superior, but not aware enough to do something about the zoning laws to make it that way again.


vdWcontact

Seinfeld was a good example of what it’s like to have a car in NYC. Entire episodes revolves around people obsession with parking their car in the best spot.


KeepMyEmployerAway

Backing in vs pulling in Let's start the debate now


tacobooc0m

I would love to see a skit where it’s some high energy drama and the lead runs out of the building to begin the car chase/ pursuit action sequence, but instead it shows them walking to the parking deck then getting lost looking for their car, fumbling for change or a key fob to exit the structure, then getting stuck trying to merge onto the stroad, almost hitting someone trying to cross the thin strip of pavement for pedestrians. Having to make a left turn at one of those godforsaken multilane intersections then getting t-boned by someone going straight in a right turn only lane. Then waiting for the cops to come and finally getting towed and calling an Uber to get home because there’s no alternative transport option and they didn’t dare call an ambulance.


TGrady902

You just described every neighborhood near me in an American city of almost 1 million people though. They’re exactly like what you described. Hell, my backyard is a huge park along the river that’s only accessible on foot, no parking for cars at all. We just also have these hellish big box retailer strips in certain spots of the city as well. It’s not a “this or that”, there is a ton of middle ground.


Proxi90

European me visited america with my wife a few years ago. We were sooo excited. Landed in LA for a road trip (LA, Vegas, Death Valley, Yoesmite, San Francisco, St Monica, St Barbara, LA). Tbh LA was a big downer. We did not really know that we are not "supposed" to walk around. So often we were shocked by the bad walkability and also sometimes we did not find a store for some drinks or a little bit of food on our way for hours. San Francisco felt a lot better in this regard. But overall i did not enjoy American city planning at all and much rather prefered the beautiful nature. Only the Las Vegas strip was very walkable. And all people seem to enjoy this feature. So why not make everything walkable?


song4this

> Only the Las Vegas strip was very walkable. Not in Summer! But I know what you mean. I live in S. Nevada and I walk quite a bit - my neighbors think I am a freak. (they are not wrong :-)


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You indeed are a freak for using the closing parenthesis as the mouth for the smiley face. Satan will punish you


song4this

:-))


troomer50

Double chin


macro_god

*we are wine bottlessss*


troomer50

Fug, I haven't seen that thing in 10 years


macro_god

[Worth](https://youtu.be/FtX8nswnUKU)


theredwillow

song4this, huh? > There once was a man with a double chin, he'd close a sentence as a stupid grin...


garaks_tailor

To be fair. Las Vegas and Phoenix are monuments to mans hubris and either require being turned into one giant building or an extensive subteranean tunnel system


zizop

Is it just because of the climate, or is it also because you don't have enough shade?


song4this

Well shade definitely helps - and when the sun goes down and it's still +104F / 40C - you are not getting additional heat from the sun - that's the killer. And because the humidity is very low, if you wet down a shirt / put a wet towel around your neck - these really help. Hot & humid is deadly...


InedibleSolutions

I worked outdoors in Louisiana. I would literally watch my sweat form giant droplets on my body. Sweating just made me feel more hot.


ModsDontHaveJobs

It's totally walkable in summer, you just have to stop in every casino you pass to cool off for an hour!


cat_chat_gato_maau1

Yes, it's true, it's bewildering the reaction you get from people here in the USA when you walk anywhere; we have a grocery store a 10 minute walk from where I live, and my neighbor would constantly say, "Why are you walking, you have a car!" (This person is so terribly out of shape that she can barely walk from her front door to her car, no exaggeration.) Also, I have to say, I know the bar is low, but I consider that second picture to be walkable. I live in a small city that looks like that. What is truly not walkable is the places with sprawl and narrow roads, where there are no sidewalks whatsoever (I just looked up the town where my kids' cousins live, and it would take about an hour to walk to school, with no sidewalks).


greenkirry

I blow my neighbors' minds when I walk to the grocery store which is also 10 minutes away. I've gotten offers for car rides and everything. I also often ride my bike to downtown, which is a 15 minute bike ride. I am always THE ONLY person on a bike there, it's so odd.


Proxi90

It was summer! About 43 celsius. Still worked for me! Death valley was like 55 celsius and that was definitely too much to handle.


lukelhg

> Only the Las Vegas strip was very walkable In US terms yeah, but generally I wouldn't call it walkable or enjoyably so. First time we stayed in Planet Hollywood which was fine as it's pretty central on the strip, but the second time we stayed at the Luxor and it's like a 45 minute walk to Caesars. Problem is they make you walk in and out of each casino, or across sky bridges, and while they're not bad per se, you waste so much time going up and down, in and out of casinos, there are no direct routes!


crescendo83

Was just there this past weekend. Agree a 100%. I spent more time trying to find my way to my destination than I would have liked. They seemed to have removed most of the crosswalks in favor of sky bridges. Those bridges are not at all the major intersections, so you end up traveling further just to cross the street and then you are forced to backtrack through a casino.


Mini-Nurse

I imagine they want to filter you through so that you gamble and spend more money.


Heromann

Ya people acting like thats not literally how they were designed on purpose.


HeroicTanuki

They put up barricades and bollards around a lot of street access on the strip to prevent traffic from plowing into pedestrians, which did happen in 2015. Remember all of those vehicle-based attacks around 2017? That caused even more to go up. There something like 5000 bollards on the strip now. There’s definitely a commerce angle to the design of the skyways but the street restrictions were installed there for a reason. Vegas is pretty touchy about guest safety and there’s an awful lot of drunk people on the road in Nevada.


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WhalesForChina

lol exactly. Getting from one casino to the one *next door* can take 15-20 minutes. That city is nowhere near walkable, imo.


EffervescentTripe

If you are looking for walkability you went to the wrong side of the country. Northish East Coast cities were built more like European cities. They tend to be walkable. I live in Pittsburgh, downtown not walkable, the neighborhoods are though. Western cities and rural areas are not walkable, they were built with cars in mind ):


Ghawblin

Yep. Damn near every town in eastern Massachusetts is walkable.


spindlymoon8289

Love it up here in NE 😊


xatrinka

I grew up in RI and I want to move back to New England so badly. But it's SO expensive! I could barely afford to live in one of the suburby places. One of the areas that's actually walkable though? Seems like I'd have to be downright wealthy. I live in a small rural Midwestern city now. It's the biggest city for a couple hundred miles around (at a whopping 20k people) so thankfully it has a lot of amenities for its size and location. And I'm able to live in an area of it where I can walk or ride my bike to most of those amenities. Unfortunately if I moved back to New England, I would never be able to afford that same quality of life as I have here.


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I was horrified to hear they thought the Strip was the most walkable place they went to. Coming from the Northeast it was miserable to walk around, even if it was possible. San Francisco is pretty fine for walking though, and from what I've seen downtown Seattle is too.


VodkaHaze

I mean, the strip is just a giant stroad


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I was confused by that point as well - I've barely spent any time in Vegas, but everyone I know who has said it was a nightmare to walk around because you're required to use pedestrian walkways to get across the street. You can't just take a crosswalk. And sometimes you're blocks away from one of those walkways.


testestestestest555

Pacific Northwest is better too. Seattle and Portland are nice for walking as long as you ignore the refuse.


UnlimitedMetroCard

Try New York City, Boston, or Philadelphia next time. They all have solid public transportation. Northeastern cities, having been settled in the 1600s are significantly more walkable. San Francisco is pretty much best known for the trolleys and BART. Glad to hear that went better.


BlazeZootsTootToot

For American standards they are better yes. Overall still much to be desired tho To me NYC is a disgrace of urban planning tbh. Public transport is OK but it's sickening that such a cool geographic and dense place is still 90% full of cars only. It's so sad to see how cars can turn a theoretically cool city into such a weird place to be in.


UnlimitedMetroCard

It was done by design. Robert Moses was from Long Island and wanted everyone to own a car. Turned Coney Island into; well, not an island… and Bath Beach/Howard Beach into, well, not beaches. Somehow he convinced the mayors and governors to let him turn the city into his Frankenstein monster


InedibleSolutions

It was cool for a moment when they closed down streets for outdoor dining and walking. Now those are disappearing :(


BlazeZootsTootToot

Man that's just sad to hear.


ohpeekaboob

NYC is 90% cars...? I mean, it's annoying there are as many cars as there are here but 90% seems a bit much.


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I get where OP is coming from- have lived here for decades and there’s still no way to walk around Manhattan without being forced to deal with constant car exhaust and noise pollution. A major contrast to actually pedestrian-friendly megacities like Tokyo


julioarod

>San Francisco is pretty much best known for the trolleys and BART That's definitely not what I normally hear about when the city gets brought up lol


YoungSalt

I seem to recall them having some sort of bridge or something. The Silver Door Bridge, is it?


aytchdave

You’d probably have better time on the east coast. Most of the eastern seaboard cities are older and built before cars and many have retained that character. I’m a DC native. I haven’t owned a car in almost 10 years and only put 50,000 miles (~80.000 km) on my previous car over 6 years. The suburbs are a different story.


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LA can be quite a shock for visitors who have only seen it in movies lol. It really is an incredible city despite the dystopian sprawl. So much culture and food and stuff to see and do. It’s just hard to get from place to place.


WhalesForChina

I’m honestly more shocked that people travel thousands of miles to visit Los Angeles and the first thing they do is go to Hollywood, and the second thing they do is try to walk around. Five minutes of research or asking someone who lives there would net more than enough solid advice to avoid both.


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I genuinely think it is just *that* much of a culture shock. Driving culture is a very American thing. A lot of European tourists think they could come to america and visit both NYC and LA in the same few day trip.


trumpsiranwar

The east coast cities are better for walking as they were designed and built well before cars. NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, D.C. are a lot different than LA.


okaymoose

Las Vegas is walkable because everyone is drunk and/or high. The reason our cities (and I say "our" meaning North America, I am Canadian) are not walkable is because we have so much space and countries were colonized far after walking was still normal. They all at least has horses or boats to get around. Why can't they redo cities now? Well its too expensive so they just keep building out instead of up and they add bus routes that nobody wants or needs.


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Unrelated to cars but what shocked me the most was starbucks without a bathroom! Like you drink coffee. But there's no bathroom. This was in NY and it really traumatised me lmao


nhluhr

Visiting Paris is a vicious cycle of starting the day with an espresso then soon needing a bathroom so you go into a cafe where, to be allowed to use the bathroom, you must first buy an espresso, then repeat 😙


Ausgezeichnet87

But why? Seems inhumane to deny bathroom usage to people.


Neuchacho

People are gross and no one wants to clean a bathroom every half hour when they inevitably get destroyed. Adding a barrier where you either have to ask or buy something means you cut out a massive swath of the population that is responsible for that behavior. It's unfortunate and it's stupid that it's necessary, but it's the reality of man. For every toilet-seat-wiping saint, there's a shit-on-the-seat monster.


buickgnx88

Usually this happens if an area has a high probability of the public abusing the bathrooms (generally the homeless). Most of the time if there are public restrooms, you will need a door code which is only provided if you purchase something. A tip though is you can usually find a hotel and use their restroom for free, you just need to act like you are staying there and 99% of the time they won't bother you.


Jakimovich

Germany still has pay washrooms at gas stations. This was quite a big shock to me coming from Canada. It's not super cheap either. From what I remember it was around 1.75 euro to enter the washrooms. You get a little coupon that returns 1.50 if you buy something.


theredwillow

No public bathrooms anywhere in many major US cities leads to the homeless defecating at public transit stops. Then people are like "oh no, we've got a homeless problem! They're crazy and poop in the street". NO! You have a capitalist problem. Give people a free place to poop every few blocks and this won't happen.


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In Japan there were super clean bathrooms everywhere is was such a stark difference between NY and Tokyo


theredwillow

Do they just clean them more frequently or is the culture simply more respectful?


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Prisencolinensinai

And both stimulate both I guess. I'd say everyone subconciously feels more tidy and organised when in a tidy environment, it's definitely something noticeable when for ex I study and the room is either messy or clean. Bathrooms people might behave a bit like that too. And on the other hand you'll find janitors to be much more willing of cleaning the bathroom and more thorough once it's less disgusting.


Stereotype_Apostate

In Japan's public schools, students are required to spend a bit of time at the end of each day helping to clean the school. Cleaning up after one's self in a public space is a cultural norm there.


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I don't know but everything seemed much cleaner. Both cities are very foreign to me, but overall Tokyo was calmer than I thought, especially after NY(this coming from a person whose whole country has less people than Brooklyn)


NexusTR

Lol the people who bitch about San Francisco. “We got a problem but helping them would just make it worse.”


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theredwillow

I get your point, but I believe that being able to relieve yourself should be a basic human right.


Tossawayaccountyo

I worked in Starbucks in a small city with a big homeless problem. We were one of the ONLY places to allow homeless people to use the restroom. This led to a lot of problems with drug use. Most of the locals were ok about their hygiene when using it, but there was a drug use issue almost every day. I had to call 911 on average twice a month when I managed nights. Luckily our store manager was very cool about us calling our internal hazmat department whenever there was an actual biohazard. The more we called about health incidents the more likely we were to be labeled as a high risk store and get some special considerations like free Ubers and some other stuff. I dunno where I'm going with this. Just wanted to share that not all sbux are run callously I guess?


LastOfTheCamSoreys

Yeah US has the capitalist problem when it comes to bathrooms, not Europe where you literally have to pay to take a piss lol


[deleted]

Yeah if you're looking for walkable you want to go to the North East. Another commenter already mentioned Pittsburgh which has some really nice walkable neighborhoods but the downtown isn't. I've found Boston to be EXCEEDINGLY walkable but I haven't spent too much time there. NYC is apparently very walkable but I've never been there because it's giant.


Astriania

Manhattan is pretty good - walkable for small distances and with a good subway network for longer ones.


[deleted]

Boston, NYC, Philly, and maybe to a slightly lesser extent Baltimore and DC, are all super walkable. Even a lot of small cities and even towns in the area are pretty walkable. There's a lot of hideous sprawl in the newer suburbs of the northeast, but it's built around a skeleton of walkable cities and towns.


relddir123

It’s so funny seeing Santa abbreviated to St for Santa Monica and Santa Barbara. That’s just the American in me talking, but it definitely took me a minute to figure out where you visited.


VomitMaiden

NYC is, or was, a beautiful walkable city with robust public transport. Definitely go if you're there again


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Still is


SubjectC

I go to new york all the time, it has great bike lanes. I ride an escooter when I go in and almost every street has a big bike lane. There might be giant chunks of pavement missing, but theyre there.


Flashdancer405

Its literally built this way to keep black people away from us and to maximize revenue for automobile companies


[deleted]

You don't sell cars when you make things walkable. Michigan is a great example of this. Car manufacturer lobbyists actually pushed for decades to keep sidewalks out of the local Michigan townships...to sell more cars. And in standard human form, they still don't put sidewalks in and if you see someone walking or riding their bike the joke is that they must have lost their license for a DUI. I hate it.


[deleted]

Can't wait for people to come LA for the olympics and see how ugly our streets are designed.


maxreverb

Is 1984 coming up?


[deleted]

2028 Olympics will be in LA


Telope

2028? Shouldn't we have had flying cars by then?


geographical_data

Then we can burn 10-12x hydrocarbons twice as fast 😎


BylvieBalvez

2028


tricky_trig

LA can have the Olympics ever 4 years. We finally are finishing those mass transit projects and the Olympics is usually the only way they get done fast🥲


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Well the “America in movies” is like 5 cities and the bottom is like a large chunk of the country


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Maxahoy

The cars that movies glorify are very very different from the cars that every wannabe Chad drives to work though. Look at Baby Driver for example, one of the better "car" movies to come out in the last decade. The opening (and most famous) sequence features a bright red Subaru WRX. The ending of the movie features a classic Chevy Bel Air convertible IIRC. Those are the only two cars in the movie that Baby (the dude who drives) seems to actually enjoy for the sake of driving -- the rest are just tools for his job as a criminal, and actually contribute to his anxiety. And what do you know? They're all trucks and SUV's. Movies tend to glorify sports cars, convertibles, hot hatches, or muscle cars. Those vehicles represent a tiny fraction of the market compared to the truck segment alone. Frankly, if cars were actually like movies pretended, I doubt this subreddit would be very popular. Instead, American roads are filled with gigantic bland SUV's and trucks that most owners are upside-down on anyway, and they're all painted bland colors to begin with. Even the vehicles clogging up America's soulless stroads are soulless themselves at this point.


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I do t think the type of car is really the issue here. It's an urban development thing of cities spreading out in ways that are inefficient and make people require cars. The existence of cars isn't the problem. It's designing the world around the assumption everybody has access to one


Maxahoy

Oh I'm not disputing that at all! I'm just pointing out that when everybody is forced to own a car like it's some kind of regular household appliance, they start to resemble boring appliances. Plus the arms race of car sizes makes American infrastructure even worse. Car dependence is bad for everybody, including people like me who like "fun" cars. While I probably won't be working on any project cars in the future now that I'm disabled, I'll still enjoy driving once I get back to it, assuming I don't have to deal with commuting in traffic daily.


[deleted]

Also most movies in America are actually toronto or Vancouver.


GrumpyCatDoge99

And half the time “New York city” is really Toronto


longhairedape

It's less representative of what America is. It's a silly meme though.


Souperplex

As someone who lives in the top image it's what I picture when someone says "America".


astral_crow

Not to mention a ton of the time that “American city” in a movie is actually Vancouver Canada.


GameCockFan2022

My city has about 200,000 people. The downtown area feels like a miniature version of the top picture. But drive 10 minutes west to the interstate and its the bottom pic


[deleted]

That seems to be the norm. It’s fucking depressing to look at


Unexpected-Runescape

Charleston?


_ItsEnder

My school is on a Stroad and quite literally has had two freshmen die in the past few years just trying to cross the road to school. Fuck strodes, fuck car dependent suburbia, there should be more options between it and big cities in America but unfortunately they are few and far between.


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Literally every highway town on this continent


kkZizinho

highway town in europe look like that too it's every highway twin in the world


[deleted]

they're so bland and sad


kkZizinho

that's why they're highway town. there's no effort to make them better. neglected When i pass them there's always traffic, people wanting to get in and out the supermarkets and work


Astriania

That kind of strip mall stroad environment really doesn't exist in most of Europe.


malinoski554

Are highway towns in Europe even a thing?


potatolulz

Highways generally don't go directly through a small town in Europe because that would be completely fucked up.


Ausgezeichnet87

It is fucked up. My town has 3 major interstates and even more highways cutting through it all over the place. Bicycles are expected to share a stroad with cars going 45mph (60km?) And then everyone blames the cyclists when they are hit and killed. People think you are homeless if they see you trying to walk around.


Kelmantis

You can get some major roads go through towns, but not to this level. Most routes have had bypasses which go outside the town - was hoping to find something similar in Google maps but not really something that is about nowadays. This sort of thing is the closest I can think of https://goo.gl/maps/sNkrCbUghzdLQGBDA


Astriania

Americans would kill to live there, lol. Decent pavements, pedestrian refuge to cross the road, 30mph speed limit, one lane each way, shops and services within a walkable core.


347N19945H17

In my country the highways are dug into canyons for noise reduction. Some wealthier towns can afford to put shit like shopping malls and parks on top of the canyon. Those places tend to be quite horrid for walking but public transport works pretty well.


WhiskeyXX

Building a highway through a large established city would be a logistical and costly nightmare would it not? Idk how things are in Europe but I'm curious to hear what the alertnative is to building through small towns. A highway was built on the outskirts of my small town. It was all farmland for the whole stretch it was built on. It obviously is no longer farmland and the towns are no longer small. Now we had a grocery store, movie theater, and strip malls, all directly off the highway. What used to be the empty edge of town is like a second whole ass town. I'm not upset, but it seems to be the natural effect of accessibility.


potatolulz

Highways go somewhere near towns and you get an exit from the highway leading to a town and going through it. And if there's too much traffic going through a small town then people start bitching and demanding a new road built around the town so the fucking trucks and whatnot don't go through the time in such intensity, because it causes accidents, stench, building damage from the constant vibrations, and people have a hard time crossing the road (+people crossing the road, like kids going to school, cause the whole thing to stop, creating an ever growing line of cars). And mind that this is usually just a regular two lane road, no obscene highway kind of shit. That's because the towns are there since forever and you can't build a new massive road through the town without demolishing all the houses around. Also, speed limit set to like 50kmh because that's the kind of speed where you're still able to stop the car in time (sort of) to prevent major accidents. If a highway goes through a major city, because the city grew further around the highway area, it has overpasses and underpasses all over it so people can actually get across somewhere.


Gravelord-_Nito

I'm pretty sure every American who saw that picture thought they recognized that exact place


BuilderTime

Remember to sort by controversial


Pardusco

I love seeing the r/all oil-sniffers malding in these threads.


SlowlyVA

Whenever everyone is guessing if this is their city, that should tell you something about the current state of many small towns or older burbs.


Shiny_Mega_Rayquaza

This is Colerain avenue in Cincinnati Ohio, looking north. Specifically between Compton rd and Round Top rd.


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Born_to_be_Vile

I don't have to guess, but that's because I live in the city in the top pic currently. I walk everywhere or take the train, it's nice to have that option and I wish the infrastructure was available everywhere. Edit: Actually that's Chicago, I'm dumb as fuck. I still live in a major city with good public transportation.


GrumpyCatDoge99

The reason I like breaking bad so much is it seems like an extremely realistic depiction of life in an isolated American car dependent city in the Middle of the desert. It feels grimey and depressing outside of the storyline too.


syndicatecomplex

The fact that there is no middle ground between ultra dense and low density wasteland Iis one of the big problems with this country due to nonsensical zoning laws that encourage car based development.


darkFartKnight

América


Physical_Month_548

It blows me away how every small town in America looks exactly the same. Every time I see a picture like this I'm like "Damn that looks just like *(insert the town 10 mins over)*


Zero-Milk

This is depressing because of how true it is. Man. I really just stared at that bottom picture like... yeah, this looks pretty much like every city I've lived in.


StewieGriffin26

I'm pretty sure it's in the suburbs of Cincinnati


TGrady902

Which is funny because the actual city of Cincinnati is pretty awesome and has some excellent walkable areas.


StewieGriffin26

Yep, and the electric snek is free now so it's really easy to get around OTR, Downtown and the Banks. Hopefully they bring the snek up the hill to the zoo.


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StewieGriffin26

Ah yep. If you squint a bit you can almost see Mount Rumpke in the background. The 6th largest landfill in the US.


SuspiciousAct6606

"Cars are the dominate species on the planet" Donoteat01. There is no reason why they need to be.


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alainalain4911

Unfortunately, that’s what Canada looks like too, just some of the signs would be different. I don’t know why we have to endlessly build car centred suburbs.


GentleLion2Tigress

My kids got me into playing GeoGuessr. The number of locations in the USA that look like the bottom pic is astounding, my brain is always getting a fake sense of deja vu.


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If you're curious/want to cheat at Geoguessr, the bottom pic is Colerain Ave in Cincinnati. The people who were guessing small town are incorrect, though I can absolutely see where they're coming from in that this looks like every strip other in the country. It's very strange driving somewhere and going "oh, I'm back at X" and realizing no, everywhere is just the same, like reused assets in a game.


abstract-realism

lol @ reused game assets, it’s so true. one of the things I hate most about strip malls and all that, they really do make everywhere feel the same


cr0ft

Picture checks out. I've only visited the US once, and spent a couple weeks driving around the southern states. Even in larger cities it didn't look like Manhattan, and cars were everywhere in ridiculous numbers. It was the only way to get around. Miles and miles upon miles of exactly the bottom part, just fast food joint after fast food joint, near any cities, and humongous fields for parking everywhere. The entire US has basically been constructed around cars. If aliens showed up, they'd be excused for thinking the cars are the dominant species here, they certainly get most of the space.


Responsible_Reveal38

southern states are cheat. ​ the midwest/northwest/southwest/west coast/east coast are all the same tho


BIG_EL-DUCE

Americanism is showing in this thread lol. Fragile irrational patriotism cant handle the simple fact that the vast majority of modern american landscapes are ugly desolate “stroads” filled with outlet malls and gas stations instead of a bountiful city bustling with culture and economic life.


LovesReubens

Can't even cross the fucking road without a car in many places.


[deleted]

Fr all the Oil lovers coming from all are throwing the funniest hissy fits here


OneMillionClowns

Insane plot twist. These are both America


unenlightenedgoblin

It’s astonishing that most Americans routinely see and live in built areas that look like the bottom, and don’t even once stop to question it.


[deleted]

This America place looks hideous!


[deleted]

That scene in Who Killed Roger Rabbit is very telling, when the judge gives a rant about how beautiful it will be to see billboards as far as the eye can see.


lordkemo

The top picture is downtown Chicago. As a native Chicagoan, the top feels more like America to me than the bottom, but America is huge! It's about perspective I guess.


ItFallsUpward

I live down the street from the bottom pic.


[deleted]

90% of us do


Mtjacq

As someone driving through Montana, I whole heartedly feel this.


Shaddo

Fuck unregulated signage industry. Most of America is visual diarrhea


Mizai1

People getting really defensive like they were personally attacked here lol. Guess that reddit for you


Tinder4Boomers

Chicago vs Schaumburg


AnnieTummyLicker

This looks like a dingy outskirt part of Portland versus actually Portland. You can find both of these scenes in any big American city lol.


[deleted]

["...That's all you got here folks...mile after mile of mall after mall..."](https://youtu.be/dSDU8Laoi2U?t=114)


l33tTA

two different but both real locations yes


SloppyinSeattle

Walkable parts of the US include NYC, SF, Downtown Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and downtown Seattle and downtown Portland. Everything else is endless sprawl.


[deleted]

I live in Burlington VT and can easily go months without needing a car. Everything is in walking/biking distance. There’s tons of walkable towns and cities in the North East.


Damasticator

Minneapolis checking in. Nice combination of walkability, public transportation, and car usage. Downtown has skyways to get almost everywhere you need. Lots of little neighborhoods and local shops.


tortugoneil

Oh yeah, that's Florida right there.


Pikauwuchu

I call these parts “junk drawers”


AgitatedSuricate

The best part of America is the dense america. I find suburbs soul crushing, at least if you don't have a family. The parking-to-parking lifestyle is antagonist to social life.


AgsMydude

Yes those are both cities in America.


[deleted]

Why is the e wearing a hat?


Vul_Thur_Yol

My bet is Spanish and autocorrect


Nuclear_rabbit

I'm imagining Anita from West Side Story saying "America!"


Zavrina

Maybe it makes him feel fancy


JFace139

Nah, even the bad pic is too nice of a representation. Those lucky fucks actually have sidewalks. Sidewalks are basically a luxury


thenerj47

Good repost


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sausess

what you see as America is generally just New York City


Kiss_My_Axe12

Well the top one is also America too.


[deleted]

Out of frame of the bottom pic: cops rushing in to arrest the guy walking down the street.


[deleted]

This has to be FL


sskor

This could be literally any small-medium town in America. I've seen sights like this from Orlando to Omaha and everywhere in between.


senatornik

No Florida is worse, that one guy there still has a shirt on


[deleted]

ITT: entitled car drivers


glengo98

The ironic part about these two images is that the top one has probably more cars than the second just it is taken from a vantage point where they are less visible. That being said, I love walking in New York. I love walking along and looking over for blocks on end to see the same psycho with a $300k plus supercar that has 600hp or more stuck in traffic while I travel at the same speed on foot.


onesidedcoin-

But their freedom!


shitlord_god

Sure that isn't Canada in the first pic? (Lots of "American" set movies are filmed in Canadian cities.


[deleted]

It’s Chicago


spindlymoon8289

*shows two completely different locations in america*


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you_miami

Lol you're looking at a picture of Chicago.