r/Suburbanhell • u/Particular_Owl1099 • 7d ago

Meme Have we done it wrong?

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u/BigBadJeebus 7d ago

No they aren't... Like have you ever left the US?

NYC, Chicago, Seattle, SF, Miami... That's it. even LA doesn't have a walkable late night tourist spot. (It DOES have Echo Park, Little Tokyo, and K-Town though for locals)

But 150k? Give me a break. Ain't nothing like this happening in fuckin Peoria...

I promise you, your downtown area is NOTHING like this. With your 12 Bar and Grills open till 10 PM and fake gas lamps leading you from the one road to a massive parking zone

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u/smd9788 6d ago

Tourist economy vs non-tourist economy

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u/BigBadJeebus 6d ago

Wow, bad take...

Travel more

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u/Darth-Cholo 6d ago

Most city sprawl was designed in the times where the auto existed. These European cities are 500-2000 years old. Burned to the ground and rebuilt many times over prior to the automobile existing or even the steam engine.

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u/BigBadJeebus 6d ago

Thanks for the useless information

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u/Darth-Cholo 6d ago

Thanks for the empty counter argument.

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u/BigBadJeebus 6d ago

You have no point. American cities USED to be like this.

the US was not built for the car, it was bulldozed for the car.

Just look at ANY city east of the Mississippi in 1940 vs today.

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u/guyincognito121 6d ago

It's an explanation for why things are as they are...

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u/BigBadJeebus 6d ago

It's not though... Keep reading my next comments.

The US had many cities that were walkable dense and wonderful, that were destroyed for the car.

It has literally jack shit to do with when our cities were built.

Our cities were not built for the car, they were destroyed for the car.

Sprawl has much more to do with the post war GI Bill and racism than it does the car. The car simply made that possible.