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Commie blocks are people living on floors above one another. You cannot compare that to single family housing tracts. Complain about property separation, yes but to squawk about American suburbs looking alike is stupid.
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@BluePieNinjaTV BS. There are plenty of places where residents can walk without fear and respond without fear if a threat takes place.
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@3of11 BosnianBill and Lock Picking Lawyer already showed that those locks are no match for a cordless angle die grinder. The best security is to choose to live where the thieves cannot get to.
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@Nicholas-f5 If you think that the cops are going to go all out for your bike, you’re wrong.
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Freedom is not having to live near this: https://youtu.be/DpWNUz3P0I0
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@UCgOZKmyEmmfBtXNGO6_GkdQ Great. I can just imagine some doofus going into the hood to try to retrieve his stolen bike. “Er, uhm, I think you have my bicycle in your house…may I have it back?”
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It isn't a tourist attraction. It is not a commonly known location even within Philthy. CityBeautiful is flat out lying when he says it is a tourist attraction. The only street in to the US that is narrow and is known as a tourist attraction is Lombard street in San Francisco, and that is for its quirkiness.
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Drue-Michael Buono Whites just prefer to not live in a diverse area. Nothing wrong with that. Human capital is a real thing in life.
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@daveharrison84 Given history the concern is well warranted.
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J.R Cody “Sumimasen!” as you are pushed into a packed subway car and goosed on the bum by a pervert pretending to be engrossed in a manga novel.
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That would require people to live together with some they hate and want gone. Not going to happen.
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@haroldinho9930 No you don’t. I have seen your suburbs outside Belfast and Derry, and they are nothing like American suburbs.
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ddylla85 He is lying.
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@nehcooahnait7827 Low income is directly tied to bad culture in the US. If he wasn’t prejudiced he’d be a fool.
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@BluePieNinjaTV BS. You see one murder or B&E too many in your area and anyone with good sense is looking for the exit. No one gets indoctrinated into running. You get forced into it by those you have to run from.
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Off zone businesses can cause civil liability in the USA if something goes wrong.
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Stop pretending you don’t know why people don’t want sidewalks in front of their house.
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jur4x A leftover from the older days. It is easier to control people when they all reside close together. One of the major reasons why Americans don’t like communal housing outside of cities.
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@night6724 Don’t want it, but reality sucks here. If everyone did right and got along, chances are we could have nice things like corner shops and such. But that is not the case. Segregation started sprawl but it can also stop it too.
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@steemlenn8797 It’s very simple if you take a moment to figure it out. Corner stores are crime magnets. You do not want crime in your area (unless you’re crazy). Therefore, having stores, gas stations, businesses etc mixed in to a residential area…is a really bad idea. The cities do this, and you only need to examine them to understand why civilized people have abandoned them and sought remote accommodations. The only way your dream can ever come to pass is through genocide, which is not happening.
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@MrTaxiRob Tell me, how do the Japanese keep the crime rate so low?
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Go sit at the back of any bus in the USA and you too will discover very quickly why Americans of more civilized cultures are not fans of buses and trains.
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It would never sell. The moment to toxic neighbor, the value of the whole place will drop to the floor and people will be running for the doors.
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To be fair, Moses was a racist, along with Levitt and many of the era. Racism was a part of the social fabric of that time, and he should not be judged by modern eyes without proper cognition. It was a simple fact of life that Blacks and PRs were a curse upon NYC; neighborhoods that had been white and safe were turned into filthy ghettos that no one of any sanity wanted to live in. Urbanists like to pin the blame on automobiles and lack of mass transit and irrational fear, etc but will never accept the fact that people like to live in safety without fear, and NYC lost huge amounts of population precisely because of this.
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@nopunts9947 Ethnic enclaves are not against the law.
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@jgwil2 I grew up near there. No one, not a teacher or tourist guide or even a local ever mentioned the place being any more than just a quirk from the past. The fact that you are pumping it up to be something more than it is just wreaks of BS.
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@TrangleC I grew up in cities. Philthy and -ew York. I also traveled frequently to Boston and DC and even B'more(before it died). With the exception of Boston and -ew York, none of them are places I would consider good to live in and pay taxes to. It is ironic that these twits are talking up urbanism right at the same time that the areas that are growing the fastest are the suburbs and rural areas in the most rural states.
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@GIRLRAZR Fox? Please...
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HOAs are annoying, but stop neighborhood value collapse and blockbusting from happening. They stop panic selling and toxic neighbors from ruining the area.
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That town is meant for residents who don’t want a corner store nearby. They moved there to get away from it in the first place and now you want to make them have a reason to move again to create new suburbs and even more sprawl. Why not just leave those who want to be left alone…alone? Concentrate on improving cities instead.
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@csmlyly5736 You can pet a cow.
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@disfordumboo4411 Crime doesn’t happen because of people liking crime?
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Mochamad Fachri American suburbs are rural. They simply happen to be close to urban areas, but do not share the character of it.
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If you have a bakery or cinema around the corner from you, that means you probably also have a “problem” nearby also. The whole point of the suburbs is refuge from exactly that. Americans tried the whole “walk to everything” garbage long ago and quickly learned that it was a bad idea.
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Eugenia Raud Isn’t it also true that back in the Soviet days you could not move from one place to another without permission from the government, and that you could not quit a job if you didn’t like it? Urban apartment life was fitting for Russians in that it made people easier to control.
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Jeff P A good sized plat of land filled with nature, a house of size that blends into the scenery and vehicles that don’t bottom out on a pothole. No nosy or threatening neighbors to have to call the cops on for acting like animals, just the sounds of the woodpeckers and coyotes traveling in the wind.
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CommunistLenin I’m sorry, but that sounds absolutely horrific.
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Beware…speaking truth is dangerous around here.
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@BluePieNinjaTV Kids can still walk to each others houses without sidewalks. They do it all the time. Stop trying to urbanize the countryside.
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@lesliechristopher9400 The paranoia existed long ago and still does today. The only reason it is still allowed to is that it is not paranoia but painful reality.
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@herlescraft That answer you’re thinking of is wrong. Its the OTHER one that applies to all the USA. You know what it is.
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Robert Moses was only relevant in the New York area, which was culturally and politically separate from the United States from the 1920s forwards. The only "Americans" who speak of him are all in NYC and usually college students.
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Subsidized by who? The people who don’t use it?
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@monty58 It’s the ridership that’s garbage, not the trains themselves.
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Excremento, lol.
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@Callaxis It’s easier to kill a neighborhood than to bring it back in the US.
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@Lankpants All the more money and social programs thrown at the problem have failed to make a dent. Redesign of the cities is pointless because design was never the issue. The issue has been and always will be antisocial behavior on behalf of one ethnic group that overwhelmingly dominates the population in US urban centers. Jobs, free money, free anything means nothing if the people receiving it don’t care.
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@Bustermachine Corporations behave no differently than individuals. One riot or rape too many sent them packing, and nobody gives a damn about those left behind because they got what they deserved for ruining other peoples lives. Detroit should just be demolished at this point.
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@Armament Armed Arm Sapporo is almost totally Japanese, isn’t it?
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@Zaydan Naufal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamtramck,_Michigan Dude…it’s a ghetto.
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@TheEngineerd Japan is not the US. Bad example.
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@jalcobo I apologize to you for the rough language. My intent to get an unpopular and upsetting facet of life out can require the ugly talk simply because so few understand it.
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@mjacobs8139 So its a scam then, right? A slow motion version of insurance fraud?
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spqr1945 Politburo and Presidium members did not live in those roach pits. They had nice single family residences in closed off areas that the proletariat could not enter and had beautiful dachas on the coasts of the Black Sea. I’m sorry if I insult, but the Russian people were easily fooled into accepting a crappy existence. Tall nails, they were not.
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“Hashish hashish smoke dope”
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chatnoir1224 Cabrini Green.
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@jelsner5077 True, but you are being a smartass with that statement because you know perfectly damn well what the odds of it happening are with each bracket.
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@ianhomerpura8937 The Philippines is not relavent to this because the Philippines is largely of one single ethnicity, culture and language. There is no cultural toxicity there, so your input is invalid.
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@night6724 I don't have any blacks in my area for some reason, and when I asked one of my black coworkers about it he told me that blacks were not fond of the chore of taking care of a yard. I asked him if that extended to things like pools and gardening and he commented that these things were perceived by blacks to be "white" and not part of black culture. Meanwhile, I see Asian and Latino and Middle Eastern neighbors always busy planting flowers and decorating and cleaning with white families doing the same. The segregation is chosen, and it is limited to blacks only. Sorry if this offends, but if black people in the US did not follow "black" culture and acted the same as everyone else, corner shops and all the great things like streetcars, light rail, etc would be everywhere.
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@linuxman7777 Segregation worked in cities? What drugs are you taking because I want to try it. Urban history since the great migration has been a disaster with endless race riots and racial conflict.
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@Zaydan Naufal “If done right”, is the operative phrase there. Show me a city apart from Singapore that has done things right.
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@McsMark1 Are you white?
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@KRYMauL Because the freaks didn’t run the show at that time and nobody was forced out of where they lived.
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“Planning” = big government interference in the USA. A major no no. If you don’t believe me, go look up the history of eminent domain use in the USA and why its loathed.
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@planecrashcorner7283 Haha, explain the current status of major European cities then. The west screwed it all up.
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Don’t go there.
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Bingo. You understand that all these wet dreams about housing and such are fantasy unless black culture is destroyed and rebuilt into civilized order.
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@jan-lukas You cannot stop the NIMBYs from moving out if you piss them off too much. Every area that scared the NIMBYs away, ended up a ghetto.
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@carkawalakhatulistiwa City Skylines also doesn't have, ahem, social disasters in the disaster menu such as race riots or blighted neighborhoods because then it would not be a game but a simulation.
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@johnmininger7472 Nobody knows that. No one. You are reaching for straws here, because Philthy is not a big tourism draw to begin with, and Independence Hall is really the only place that comes to mind for people from elsewhere, save for maybe the library steps. The rest? You may as well be asking "What is fun to do in Camden?"
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@jgwil2 You needed a guide to take you there. Otherwise, you would not have known about it on your own without looking it up. Good way to self own.
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@rexx9496 BS, the cities are crapholes that corporations are leaving in droves. Are you going to say that places like San Francisco are perfectly fine?
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John Nguyen Wait a minute...there are houses still standing in Detroit?
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@marlonmoncrieffe0728 Are you trying to hint at another cause? Ethnicity plays a role in the sense that not all cultures are good and culture is often tied to ethnicity.
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@TheSpecialJ11 White flight is a real thing though. Do you shed tears for whites forced to flee for their safety from neighborhoods gone bad?
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@nunyabidness3075 As they should have caned his ass. He was behaving uncivilized as a guest in their nation and they did the right thing.
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@duckmercy11 NYC is dying, though. Absurdly expensive, criminal ridden and taxed to the hilt. What is the good in living somewhere that you can’t be allowed to have basic peace and happiness in?
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@duckmercy11 How about we just leave it at this basic fact that no one can refute. Diversity is dying in NYC and other urban areas.
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Detroit and Cincinatti aren’t dead because of zoning, they are dead because of blacks.
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@steemlenn8797 What can I say to you? If you can’t see the problem now you’re never going to.
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@crazydinosaur8945 Your definition of a city is slightly off target. But then who can blame you? The USA is the magically stupid place where towns are more populated than cities and places are called cities even though they barely rank as a village elsewhere.
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@crazydinosaur8945 Don’t blame me for it. Its a problem that I’ve noticed for years and that pisses me off because in one state some braggart will mouth off about the “city” he lives in and get confused when I tell them that there are towns and villages more populated than his boot wipe home. A complete lack of humility is the cause.
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Don’t know what to say to you. Your ignorance is incomprehensible to me.
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Whatever strain you are smoking, I want to take a hit from that bong…
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@TheRandCrews I criticized him, I didn’t troll him you clown.
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You move in, I move out. If I and enough others don’t like you and your crap culture, you will find find yourself among the people you sought to escape from in no time at all and I and others will create a new zoned off suburb…just to get away from you.
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Go to central Baltimore and you will discover the answer very fast.
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@MadMadCommando “Living in Baltimore” Chemtrails Flat earth Unicorns Flying pigs The Easter bunny They all share a commonality.
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@laurencefraser When NIMBYism fails, there are two plausible responses, both of which ruined NYC. The first is relocation to suburbs, usually far enough away that the undesirable types cannot reach it from the city. The second, and far worse option was insurance fraud a.k.a. arson, "Jewish lightning", torching. Whole buildings and neighborhoods were burned by landlords to claim insurance coverage while pinning the blame on the occupants who usually were minorities, which increased the stereotype imaging of them.
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@raventhorX The curious thing about underwater properties is their propensity to catch on fire for no reason at all. Ask anyone who lived in NYC in the 1960s and 1970s about this.
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Just the place to take your family to! Yup, mass transit is sooo inviting.
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@laurencefraser It’s a catch 22. No good solutions.
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Marcin Kalbarczyk Fences are ok, but not needed entirely. Marlins are better.
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@Zachomara I agree with what you have said, but the elephant in the equation still stands. People can code talk it any way they wish, but it still comes down to the fact that people move to the suburbs not just because they may like the nature and isolation, but because they are also aware of the cities being undesirable places to live with undesirable people constantly around them.
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@lesliechristopher9400 True. And they mostly live in California.
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South Bronx was already experiencing a higher than normal crime and arson rate before construction began on the Cros Bronx Expressway. The neighborhoods were dying at an alarming rate, and the compensation to the landlords was enough that few put up a fight to give up the land to Moses.
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@Evemeister12 Arson started in the late 1950s. It went nuts in the 70s, but it existed well beforehand.
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@somebonehead Lol, and we all know why!
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@lassepeterson2740 Urban depopulation was a post WW2 policy in the US in order to stop racial conflict and reduce taxation. The side effect of this was the need for the interstate and high capacity local highways which pushed rail further towards unprofitability. Long distance rail was already dying by 1946, but interstates sealed the final fate. There is no hope of putting US cities back together again, so rail is perceived as nothing but welfare.
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@SomePotato Most Americans have never encountered a pickpocket, so the mere perception that train stations like bus terminals are for criminals is more than enough to make them not use it. If you don’t believe this, go visit a greyhound station somewhere.
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@groomboek1978 “black neighbourhoods” The world is round. Santa is not real. Scientology is a scam.
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@SomePotato I understand what you mean by perception as being a problem, but there is no will nor enough sentiment present to an actually attempt to address the issue. Americans by and large have given up on trying to fix the problems. Decades of money thrown and endless promises has achieved nothing.
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thebombson It won’t happen in the USA because residents have the right to sell and move at will. It used to be that if you had a bad neighbor they got chased out, but now it’s just move out. There is always a nicer place farther away that gives piece of mind that you can have.
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Eugenia Raud Why did they need permission? That’s a strange concept to me, adults having to ask permission to do simple things.
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Everyone is anti segregation until they meet a minority neighbor who goes stereotype on them.
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Ginger Cities are nice places to visit if they have a good vibe, but not to live in if you are white.
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https://youtu.be/4D-yvE5y0go F ATL.
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She is also the primary reason that Long Island does not have a direct link to the rest of the country and has to send traffic through NYC, causing needless traffic jams and environmental pollution. Moses was misguided with the LOMEX plan, but the concept of getting traffic through the city from LI to Jersey was not wrong at all.
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@SNeaker328 Good idea, good luck getting the government to cough up the needed funding.
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Two words: white flight. Two more words: dead cities.
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But what about feelings...?
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Aditya Raja Gummadavelly Don’t criticize the residents there. Their homes are part of their culture, which outsiders have no right to judge. Calling them poor quality smacks of racist judgement.
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Not to mention the inate liability issues created by running a business out of a home. Have a fire, or a leak of a noxious substance or even just pedestrian traffic and blammo! Lawsuits up your butt courtesy of your neighbors who had no say in it all.
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CommunistLenin You would not want me as a neighbor. I would make your life miserable and either one of us would have no choice but to flee to a single family house. Think about it. Do you want an anti-social person as a neighbor? How about someone whose cultural mores drive you up the wall? You would hold on for only so long before doing something about it.
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@ProvenScroll It makes it easy for your abode to get scoped and sized up.
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@dreamlarking What’s stopping you from living in a ghetto area then? Why did you choose to live where you do? Try not to lie, please.
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@whuzzzup Sure. Sidewalks are typically used for such things as pedestrian traffic, loading and unloading of commercial vehicles, etc. Basic features of urban living. If you choose (and pay) for an urban lifestyle, then you will get familiar with this quickly. Now, from the end of WW2 onwards, there was a diaspora of urban populations(mostly white) into the rural areas. Part of this was the desire for the quiet nature of the rural areas and the lack of features of urban life that were found to ne annoying, like…pedestrian traffic. So one of the ways to prevent this in rural areas was to build neighborhoods without sidewalks so as to discourage random foot traffic. It is a common feature of older suburban developments, and does some good in stopping rubbernecking, gawking, perving, etc. If you paid for it, the arguement is that you should have the right to keep it.
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Kevin Marinas Disney tried that. It was called Celebration, Florida. Social engineering communities never goes well.
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Kevin Marinas Zoning, planned development, what is the difference? It’s politicians and developers trying to force a cultural narrative into existence. In addition, no one wants to live in a ghetto slum either.
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It’s not just water that it is flooded with...
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There is no “nice” solution for it.
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My favorite MARTA moment: https://youtu.be/4D-yvE5y0go
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Bikes don’t get stolen in Europe, and Europeans don’t get chased by ‘roids. It’s ridiculous to compare Europe or Asia to America because the internal problems are radically different. Do you know why there are not many suburbs in Europe compared to the US? They don’t NEED them!
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@RealConstructor The two best airports in Europe when it comes to mass transit are Schiphol and Frankfurt.
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Cry all you want about racism, but at the end of the day everyone is racist to a degree or another and equality is a myth. Some people just genuinely care about where they live more than others, and when you lose those people, you lose the area. Colonizing with knuckleheads who couldn't care about anything just accelerates the death of it all.
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Don’t feel too bad, Gary ppl. You can always be as thankful as Cleveland ppl that you are not Detroit. https://youtu.be/oZzgAjjuqZM
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BS, the city is surrounded on all sides by strip mall type suburbs and this includes the outer boroughs like Queens, Bronx and Brooklyn. And people from the sticks usually move to Manhattan for one or more of three reasons: 1. Work/School 2. Culture 3. Sexual choice.
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The only way that is going to happen, is if the speeds of high speed rail are increased massively. What is needed, is vac train type speeds.
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@powerfulstrong5673 OK, firstly...why would you build a simple dwelling out of expensive steel and concrete? A single floor house needs a concrete base, but that is it. Steel is for skyscrapers, not houses.(Unless you have one of the newer townhouses) Brutalism? Bauhaus? Are you joking? Those are the ugliest styles invented. Dehumanizing.
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@jur4x Ok, you DO raise a very good point there. The heating issue is a very big deal there.
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@koolmckool7039 What is it then, according to you?
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@koolmckool7039 If you are relegated to walking while those who rule over you are able to drive, guess who wins? And your statement about the US government being in control is asinine given they can't even stop dime bag rate criminals from crossing state lines, let alone maintain security for the government. And no, people did not live closer because it was "easier." Get in your time machine and go back to the lower east side of NYC circa 1900 - Jacob Riis times, and spout that crap. You'll get a punch to the face by some housewife with 7 kids and a semi-sober husband in a one room cold water elevated railroad flat. The first opportunity anyone who could afford to escape had, they did and did not look back.
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@mohammedsarker5756 What good would zoning change do? You’re not seeing the whole picture here.
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@TheEngineerd Are you ignoring the real issue on purpose or are you genuinely insipid?
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@rossedwardmiller How do you define it?
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@JAG214 Not sure what you are getting at there. Flight from stigmatized areas is something that can be considered a litmus test for actual freedoms. If someone wants to move but is told "you can't", that by definition means that freedom of movement has been taken. Consider if you will the Chinese Hukou system or the Russian internal passport as examples of this.
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@DiogenesOfCa Would you say the same garbage if Americans switched over to electric vehicles en masse?
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@DiogenesOfCa Just answer the question.
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@DiogenesOfCa I asked you if you would feel better if Americans adopted electric vehicles more. Are you incapable of answering a simple question?
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@DiogenesOfCa What design changes do you want to the cities? The problem seems to not be in the cities but in the suburbs, should you not be concentrating on that?
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@No Peaceful Solotions Anymore I would hope it never comes to that. A peaceful parting of ways is the ideal where no side can blame the other for what happens later is the ideal.
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@cat-le1hf True, but the suburbs themselves are the end result of urban problems. A city that functions correctly will never give cause for the creation of suburbs.
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@musafawundu6718 You are assuming that whites won't run at the threat of crime and devaluation. That is a fantasy. White flight is still happening today.
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@BlueNinjaTiger And you are being recklessly ignorant of reality.
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@BlueNinjaTiger And you are being recklessly ignorant of reality.
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Haha, what makes those neighborhoods grimy, eh? Say it say it…
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@gj1234567899999 Lol, reverse the idea and you have the definition of American cities.
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Yes they were. They stopped the cities from turning into riot magnets and gave an escape hatch to those who needed to leave.
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It’s not horrible planning. It’s all part of the plan, and it has worked well in that all the goals were achieved.
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spqr1945 That depends on where you are living, though. City and suburban families are not having many children but the birth rate in the rural areas is skyrocketing. Some special areas also have an increase taking place; Utah and Arizona are examples of that. MOs like big families.
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BS. Americans choose to live where they want, no one is forcing them to live in a specific area. If you don’t want a corner store or anything like it nearby, you can find an area as remote as you want. The same goes with cities; if you want the attractions it has nobody is stopping you from going there.
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pijuskri Community pools are dirty. The neighbors are filthy people who have no manners or proper culture. Can’t stand to be near them. Would love to get rid of them but can’t. See house in countryside. Nice big house with huge backyard and full of cute furry animals. Pool in backyard is a dream come true. Can’t resist. Slap life savings on it and begin to move out of the city. Neighbors ask, “where you going?” I tell them, “a place where you are not”.
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If I buy the house next door to you and then rent it out to a “diverse” pack, you will turn into a NIMBY overnight.
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Craig F. Thompson Uhhh, what? Control was a Soviet thing.
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Matt Wolverton Not everyone wants to be your neighbor, though. And I’m sure you don’t want a bad neighbor either. Community should only be for those who want it.
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