Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. Even if you live within walking distance of many things, sometimes you just plain need a car. Try hauling anything even remotely large and bulky on public transit and see how that goes. Or buying a bunch of groceries or anything in large quantity and its going to be a chore.
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  2. The thing that doesn't make sense about this video is that just because you live in a gated community it doesn't mean you don't stay within its walls most of the time. I mean why can't you live in a safe gated community AND GASP GO OUT of your community on a daily basis to interact with the people of the rest of the city or area you live in?
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  3.  @jeremynewcombe3422  Because a gated community is usually meant to keep people OUT, not to keep you in. Its suppose to be a safe haven from the outside world of sorts where you come home to a sanctuary that hopefully keeps bad people out.
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  4.  @screamingcatchannel9624  The traffic in Toronto/GTA is bad not always because of too many vehicles, but mostly because of bad traffic management. Always pisses me off to be on a major road and see traffic build up because a minor road has a long green light so that two cars can use it and the rest of the 30 seconds there's no cars at all. Meanwhile cars are piling up on the major road waiting for the lights to change. I can't tell you how much better traffic would be if they would simply change traffic light timings to make major roads have most of the priority and be given the longest green lights over minor roads. Just that single change would make things so much better.
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  5.  @jeremynewcombe3422  It depends on where you live as to which bad people you might run into, but I think in general we know who leads the way in crime and violence and which demographic the vast majority of people want to avoid having as their neighbors.
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  6.  @jeremynewcombe3422  Because the statistics say so? Do you seriously believe that these facts are all made up just to make certain groups of people look bad rather than telling the truth? You're more than welcome to move into their communities and call them your neighbors and prove us all wrong, but we all know you would never do that.
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  7.  @jeremynewcombe3422  I think there's a few reasons why. 1. Poor upbringing. When you have crappy parents being utter failures in doing a proper job in raising their kids, then have that go on for generations on end then you produce neverending streams of badly behaving and often violent and criminal people who keep repeating the same mistakes over and over. Fix this one problem and it solves many problems among their communities. 2. Too many of them aren't very bright, but unfortunately are highly emotional and highly aggressive. That's the worst combination possible where you have people who don't like thinking things through and prefer to act on their emotions immediately. That leads to violence, crime and destruction, where more educated and intelligent people would usually choose to avoid conflict and solve problems with discussion rather than violence and anger. 3. No one has the courage to hold certain people accountable for any of their actions and poor behaviors and instead choose to make continual excuses for them instead. Seems like most of our leaders and society would rather let these groups destroy our cities than have the balls to drop the hammer on them and keep them in line and be called racist, bigoted, discriminatory etc. They seem to believe that appeasement and kissing their asses will eventually calm them down and lower their anger when that's never worked and instead has only done the opposite. Namely they know that no matter what they do or say, few people will ever hold them accountable so why not keep pushing the envelope further when most everyone is too much of a coward to stop them? I live in a city that use to be much safer and cleaner, but because of our leaders being continual cowards and hypocrites in handling some groups of people and their behaviors its gotten progressively worse through the decades. Sure its still far from being a craphole like Detroit, but there's no denying that things today in my city are much worse than they were 30-40 years ago.
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  8.  @inspecktorf  How about making public transit more safer and secure for the general public from violent people and criminals? And also how about increasing work from home opportunities for more workers where possible? That would probably solve alot more traffic problems and do it much more quickly than building expensive public transit projects. Those who are able to work from home can then not require roads or transit at all and even better they can have more flexibility in where they choose to live and not overcrowd one area while leaving other areas less populated.
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  9.  @Xambonii  When you design cities and suburbs to be large and spacious then that's how things are going to be where you need a car to get around. Get city planners to design better cities so that you can reduce the use of cars without necessarily getting rid of it entirely.
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  10.  @jeremynewcombe3422  I think almost everyone is at least a little bit 'racist' or has some bias or preference for or against one group of people or another and in most cases I would call that less about racism and more about developing perceptions and opinions based on life experiences and interactions with people. Anyone who says they're 100% not racist or biased is most likely either lying, don't want to admit the truth or they're very naive. To put it another way, lets say we were talking about almost anything else except people would you call it 'racist' if after driving a number of cars over the years someone told you that they ended up preferring Japanese cars over American ones? If someone told you the reasons they preferred Japanese vehicles was because they were more reliable, cheaper to maintain and performed better, would you call them 'racist' for not treating all cars as being equal? That they were being anti-American for not ignoring all their life experiences with cars in favor of forcing them to say that all car brands from all countries were equally as good even when clearly they weren't? Sounds pretty illogical and unreasonable to throw out all of your life experiences with cars and force yourself to believe vehicles of all countries are equal when obviously they're not just so some people don't call you biased don't you think? Yet that's exactly what we all too often do when we're talking about people to avoid being called 'racist' even though its simply that someone is usually drawing from their life experiences and facts to shaped their opinions.
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  11. @Adam Bennett Transit only makes sense when you have enough density, is relatively cheap and is safe to use. For many cities one or more of those things isn't true.
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  12. Good to have optimism, but I seriously doubt Gary will get any better anytime soon when its populated predominately by a certain demographic. We all keep waiting for Detroit to get better and it hasn't ever comeback for the same reason.
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  13. Because people like cars and driving and in many cases trying to reduce their use is very difficult if not impossible. Also narrowing streets in any place that has significant snowfall? Minus well shutdown the city after every major snow storm then because between people shovelling snow and snow plows clearing the roads, the amount of piled up snow will take up practically all the road space meaning no one will be able to move anywhere.
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  14.  @MVargic  ' If more apartments could be build, prices would drop as this demand would be relieved. ' This can only happen if a) You prevent many if not most of those new units from becoming AirBnBs or other short term rentals and more importantly b) preventing foreign investors from buying up new housing units as they're being built while people actually living in the city can barely afford any of the new units because prices keep going up rather than down.
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  15. The vast majority of people struck by cars could EASILY be avoided if pedestrians simply LOOKED BOTH WAYS before and during crossing the street, but in this day and age asking anyone to take even a tiny bit of personal responsibility for their own behaviors is considered 'victim blaming'.
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  16.  @MrCrunch808  'Demographics of crime show oppression not how bad a demographic group is.' Disagree with this. There is PLENTY of crime and violence that certain groups commit that have very little to do with poverty or oppression and more because they're just shit people who's parents did a horrible job of raising them properly. There are hundreds of millions of poor people in the world who live in much worse conditions who don't raise their kids up to be violent and criminal people. Maybe this is less about other people failing them than they failing themselves but they'd rather not take the blame for anything. 'Very rarely does any group purposely impoverish themselves, its always a system of poverty that makes sure that people of a certain demographic are treated as second class citizens.' Again disagree. NO ONE does a better job of oppressing these people than themselves. How often do you ever see these people collectively work together to lift themselves up rather than seeing their neighbours doing better than they are and getting jealous and then either tearing down any progress and/or taking what's not theirs instead of thinking 'hey if they can do it, so can I'? You can see it everywhere in the US in certain communities. People complain about lack of services and stores. Services and stores open in those neighbourhoods. People in those places commit continual crime and violence against those businesses until the owners can't take it anymore and leave. People go back to complaining about lack of services and stores. Repeat into eternity. Seriously when have you EVER seen certain demographics BUILD upon anything given to them and keep improving and progressing to become better and better rather than seeing something shiny and new and proceeding to strip it down until there's nothing left?
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  17. You need more density and better city planning and zoning to make public transit efficient and usable. And more frequently these days you also need to keep transit safer as well from all the violent/crazy/criminals who are on there who could cause harm to riders.
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  18.  @Codraroll  I live in Toronto and here we don't have superwide residential roads unless maybe its a newer subdivision. If there are cars parked on both sides of the street you have about 1 1/2 car spaces for vehicles to pass which of course means one person has to wait for the other to pass. It doesn't happen very often, but usually once or twice a winter we have one big snowfall and residential roads narrow alot, especially the closer to get towards downtown which is of course the oldest parts of the city. For me I'm not in favor of superwide residential roads, but I am for them to be wide enough that you can comfortably fit two cars passing each other with one side of the road for street parking and it would be even better if newer subdivisions would have built in roundabouts to move traffic better.
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  19.  @geoman798  That would be great, but unfortunately in many suburbs that isn't the case. I live in Toronto and whoever is in charge of zoning and deciding how new neighborhoods are developed they sure as hell don't care about building walkable/bikable neighborhoods instead of areas that require you to have a car to get anywhere in a timely manor. Even in areas farther out that was once farmland that is now being developed where builders and city planners can choose to build however they wish, they still aren't choosing to build new subdivisions that are pedestrian and bike friendly, but rather its still mostly car centric. So if there's anyone to blame its those people for continually building neighborhoods that need cars to get around rather than building with density in mind and making those areas being more pedestrian/bike friendly.
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  20. Europe may end up with fewer cars on the roads in the core of their cities, but it will NEVER EVER be car free because all these ideas are mostly only feasible in the very heart of a city where its most dense and busy and it might make sense to drastically reduce the number of cars in those areas. Outside of that core area for many cities, I don't see why many people would want to drop driving if they can afford it. Drive less? Perhaps, but not drive at all? I doubt it. Also outside of enviromental reasons, why stop driving if you actually enjoy it? If I lived in a city with great transit I would consider driving less, but I would NEVER give it up completely when I enjoy simply cruising the streets and going where I want to go without having to be cooped up with other strangers on a bus, subway etc. and being restricted to where I can go based on where the transit goes.
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  21.  @enotsnavdier6867  The difference is that in North America the Chinese were poor, and hated by wealthier and privileged white people. See here's the difference between the Chinese and other asians vs so many black people. In the face of racism and inequality, the Chinese could've gotten angry, became violent and started rioting and destroying things until they gained some 'equality'. Instead they chose to spend their time on working hard, getting their kids educated and opening their own businesses to serve their own people. In short instead of getting angry at being mistreated and not having things given to them, they adapted to their environment and directed their energy to building things and lifting their people up. Perhaps black people should try and learn to do that sometime instead of tearing themselves and everyone around them down.
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  22.  @pabloaguilar578  I'm not completely against public transit, but far too many people seem to think that transit is the ideal solution to every country's traffic problems without looking at the reality that for many places cars/bikes/small electric vehicles are a better solution. Also crime and violence is a reality that many people face when taking transit and if you don't live in such an area then lucky you, but I really wish you would for a year or two so that you can experience first hand the very real problems and dangers that many people face taking transit in many areas of the world. Maybe then you'll sympathize with people and understand why there are many reasons why transit isn't always the best solution.
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  23.  @adambennett805  If you don't mind losing money then sure, build more transit that is mostly empty the vast majority of the day because of low usage. Personally if I lived in a low density area, I'd save up and buy a car ASAP than rely on public transit that's inefficient and takes forever to get anywhere.
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  24.  @itsjonny1744  Why not judge WFH on a case by case basis? Namely if some employees have said that they want to WFH and have shown that they're producing as well or even better, then why not let them do so? Even if they're producing slightly worse but they're happy with doing WFH then that's still not a bad tradeoff to have more content workers. As long as people can show that they're producing at nearly the same rate, then it shouldn't matter as much where they do their jobs does it? I think its worth trying if employees want to and see how it goes before saying its a bad idea. As for public transit, I agree trying to implement it retroactively is almost always more costly and that's why you need to build better and high density neighbourhoods so that taking transit is an actual viable option.
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  25.  @jasminewilliams1673  But making generalizations about the entire community filled with older citizens, kids, employed people traveling to the white side of town to work less desirable jobs has nothing to do with anything you experience. Broad generalizations. You mean like how many black people do it towards white and non-white people and we all have to go along with or else we're racist? Seems like its always the same few groups of people who are allowed to make broad generalizations of other people without facing much backlash that other groups of people would for doing the same.
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  26.  @geoman798  That's great if you live near the downtown of a city that has plenty of shops where you can buy fresh groceries everyday if you want, but if you live in the suburbs its definitely more efficient to drive once or twice a week and buy more at once and hence reduce the number of driving trips you need to make.
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  27.  @리주민  That's the thing. Not everyone can live close to downtown of a city and be able to walk a few blocks or less to their local street vendors and buy fresh food from them whenever they want to. In many cities once you go outside of the core, things get much more sparse and it becomes a pain to shop more than once a week unless you have a car. If you live in a city that has high density and many areas that are full of local shops then good for you, but for many North American cities that isn't the case where its often a few areas of high density with plenty of stores that you can walk to for shopping and after that it becomes much more empty and isolated outside of those areas. Those are the areas that many people live in that requires them to have a car to get anywhere in a timely manner. And often even if people do want to live in those neighborhoods where you can walk around and not need a car too much, they can't afford it because housing costs are so high and the only way you can find a home that's even remotely affordable is to live in the suburbs. So again I say lay most of the blame on the decision makers who design the cities rather than the people who have to adapt and live in those cities.
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  28.  @IkeOkerekeNews  The suburbs of Detroit seem to be doing better in places, but Detroit the city? If its 'coming back' then why is the murder rate still so high and the population IS STILL shrinking? Such a 'comeback' that it lost 70,000+ people in the last 10 years? 🤔 🤔 🤔
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  29. @Futurology Or even better design neighborhoods that don't require much driving or transit to get around to begin with. Build neighborhoods that encourage walking or biking to get to your local store or restaurant or at most only requires a short drive to get where you need to go for your daily needs. Try and get rid of long commutes as much as possible so that you don't need to drive long distances or require expensive public transit to be built.
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  30. ​@J B Check the last couple of years and see the crime, violence and murder rates go up significantly. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/us-crime-rate-rise-2020/index.html Also why don't you go to the subreddits of various US cities and read what people who actually live in those cities are saying and whether they believe crime and violence is down or not? Why not read their real life experiences and what they see happening in their cities on a daily basis and see if they believe the media that 'crime and violence is going down'? Also its easy to say 'crime is going down' when the justice system doesn't convict people or only gives criminals a slap on the wrist and they let violent people back on the streets even when they're repeat offenders. Seriously go to places like the New York subreddit and see what they're saying there. When even super liberal people living there are saying enough is enough and that they're interested in voting for a mayor that will be tough on crime and violence because they're tired of seeing their city going in the wrong direction then you know something is really wrong.
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  31.  @NamelessProducts  How about looking at statistics by areas, regions and cities rather than the entire country? That would be the more accurate thing to do. If there's low crime in the suburbs and rural areas, that's of course going to balance out high crime rates in the downtown of a city for example. New York City and its surrrounding boroughs are very large areas. If you look at it as one single entity then crime and violence averaged out across all those areas would make crime and violence seem relatively low, but if you looked at the crime rates of each area individually then you'll clearly see that some areas are low crime and others are very high crime areas. That's what many people refuse to do when talking about crime, violence and murder because far too often the most crime ridden areas involve the same one or two demographics and to try and point that out is a racist thing to do these days apparently. Also one thing that isn't mentioned nearly enough is the fact that many crimes go unreported and/or the charges are reduced even if the offender is caught and charged. Ask people living in Chicago, New York etc. what their justice systems there are doing with regards to being lenient to criminals and allowing them to be released so that they can offend again and again or else they're given relatively light sentences so that they can be released from prison after a few years so that they can do it all over again.
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  32.  @williamhuang8309  You know what's even more efficient? More people working from home so that we don't need to build huge expensive transit projects to begin with. And also get businesses to have more small offices throughout a region so that even if people need to go to an office they don't have to make long commutes to do so.
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  33. It might look nice, but is it even safe to visit with all the crime and violence happening in Detroit? Maybe if Detroit can solve that, many more people would feel safe to visit.
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  34. I wonder what the crime and violence rates are like in a place like Levittown compared other much more diverse communities? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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  35. US cities: Take down elevated highways because they're ugly and divide the city!! Tokyo: We have elevated highways running throughout the heart of our city and transit rail lines running between high rises and businesses built DIRECTLY UNDER rail bridges and everything looks cool, integrated and pretty.
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  36.  @christophershapiro9730  Ask yourself do you truly believe that Gary Indiana is going to improve much anytime soon with the current demographics there? Yes or no?
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  37. I don't want to phase out cars because I ACTUALLY ENJOY DRIVING! I mean if you don't care about or like driving then its no big deal, but for someone who loves cars and driving for the simple pleasure of driving, I would never give it up EVER as long as I can afford to drive. 😊 😊 😊
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  38. Because its the only way to excuse and justify horrible black behaviors that we would never tolerate from most other groups of people. To even try to hold them responsible for their actions and words the way we do with most other people would get them angry and have them accuse you of racism and that would be a near death sentence to your livelihood if not your personal life as well.
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  39.  @austinhernandez2716  You're right everything I've said is anecdotal. Now please put your money where your mouth is and move to certain parts of a number of major cities that are only 'anecdotally' known to be violent and dangerous and live there for a couple of years and see what you have to say? Will you ever do it? Of course not because HYPOCRITES LIKE YOU WOULD NEVER EVER live in the areas with certain people that you defend so much from the comfort of your home that is probably located very far away from those people. And I bet you never will if you can help it because hypocrites like you NEVER do what they preach.
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  40. It doesn't have to be that way. Its only that way because the people there allow it to happen and refuse to do anything about it even if it destroys their communities. Poor asian people who came to western nations with little to nothing could've easily fallen into the same trap, but instead the vast majority of them took a different path where they saw a great opportunity to build a new life in a peaceful and largely stable new homeland and they took advantage of it rather than settling in their new homeland and proceed to tear it down.
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  41.  @Mgameing123  Sure Denmark is a mostly peaceful and safe place to live and gated communities shouldn't be needed because of that. That's the good thing about living in a nation where most people aren't violent and dangerous. Now what if you lived in places like South Africa or Brazil or other nations that are much more violent and dangerous? I 100% guaranteed you'd be BEGGING to live in a gated community in those countries with full time security patrols to keep you safe. I think many people who grow up in largely peaceful countries often lose sight of the fact that there are many places in the world where things aren't nearly as safe and comfortable as it is in 1st world countries. I think far too many people just assume because most western countries are mostly safe that its the same everywhere in the world and people like these need to wakeup and live in the real world more.
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  42.  @nodnoc  Why can't it be both? I mean if you're living in a nice gated community then its obviously also in a nice, safe, peaceful area and probably far away from violent, dangerous people.
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  43. To me, as someone who grew up in Europe it's wild that so-called "engineers" think it's a good idea to build highways through cities dividing neighborhoods. Seriously I don't know why its such a huge deal to build a highway through a city if its needed and if its done right. Not saying its always a good idea to do so, but its not always a bad idea either. Tokyo has TONS of highways and rail lines running throughout its huge city and it doesn't ever seem to be a problem. In fact they build businesses under and right beside highways and have rail lines running in between residential buildings. The point is they're not bothered by having these transportation links running all around their city and saying its 'dividing' or ruining their communities in any way and instead they build under and right up to it and it becomes apart of their city.
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  44.  @g.m.2427  The thing is cars have their space and pedestrians have their own space and when people start walking onto the road it should be the responsibility OF BOTH parties to prevent accidents rather than completely excusing the stupidity of many pedestrians that if they were simply more alert and smarter about crossing a street, the vast majority of vehicle/pedestrian accidents could've been prevented. Seriously why don't you go out to a busy street near you and try looking both ways several times at the traffic and see how ridiculously easy it is for pedestrians to scan the streets in all directions before they choose when to cross. Compare that to a driver that even if they're fully alert and are moving at a reasonable speed, depending on the weather and time of day it can significantly affect how quickly that driver can see and react to a person who walks in front of their vehicle. The point is that in most cases its much easier for a pedestrian to check and make sure the way is clear before crossing than it is for a driver to try and anticipate and react to a random person who suddenly walks in front of their vehicle especially when the weather is poor and/or its at night time.
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  45.  @langhamp8912  Oil companies and their products have alot of downsides, but its those very products that has allowed modern civilization to be created and maintained and for people like you to live in comfort and have a relatively easy life compared to people in many other parts of the world. If you really hate oil that much, then why not give up everything oil related in your life and live in the wild like humans did thousands of years ago?
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  46. You know how you can also increase the safety of pedestians? By having people PAY ATTENTION AND LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE AND DURING crossing a street. If people did that, they're chances of getting hit by a vehicle would be extremely low. Instead pedestrians don't seem to want to take any responsibility for their own actions and well being and they want to blame everything on the driver.
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  47.  @fuzzyherbivore193  Well its cool you gave up your car, but its not something I would ever do especially since I live in the suburbs. I grew up taking public transit everywhere and it took forvever and it was crap. The one and only thing that I miss about it is seeing random hot girls on buses and the subway every so often. 😊 😊 😊
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  48.  @lazyboy300  As stated in the video, doing mobile orders is so easy these days for a number of fast food restaurants. Why even go through a drive thru when you can order on an app beforehand and then when you get there just go inside and sit a few minutes while they make your order and send it out quickly. Even if you order at the restaurant, it doesn't take that much longer to go inside and make the order and then get it compared to going through a drive thru.
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  49.  @ampersand2001  You should feel lucky you have the privilege to laugh at such a thing. Violence doesn't just happen, there are reasons. Don't you think its a massive coincidence that violence and crime mostly only follows the same couple of demographics of people no matter where they settle in the world? Its like seeing a particular brand of cars breakdown at much higher rates than other car brands and then getting angry if anyone criticises that brand of car for being unreliable instead of holding that car brand to a higher standard if they want people to buy their cars in the future and not see them as garbage.
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  50.  @Mgameing123  Stabbings even perhaps frequent stabbings that we hear about happening in England isn't the same as the near complete lawlessness that we see in South Africa and many other 3rd world countries. Even the very violent and dangerous ghettos in many American cities would be considered 'relatively tame' in comparison to the worst parts of Brazil, Mexico, South Africa etc. where you have to fear for your life on a daily basis. These are the types of areas that some people need to live in to understand how much of the world really is like.
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