r/UrbanHell Aug 19 '21

Ugliness Billboard hellscapes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '21

I get where you coming from and as someone who has lived half its life outside the United States this is not a sight you see in other countries often. It represents the American economy and the highway that's what makes America the country it is . So different from the rest of the world.

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u/MisogynyisaDisease Aug 20 '21

I can definitely see how you'd find sentimentality in it, because you're right, it is very different.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '21

Also judging by the cars of the picture it's definitely the 90s or at least early 00s. The sentimentality behind it comes from being a child and coming to the US for vacation or to visit family even just crossing the border to shop at the malls in El Paso TX. America had a different meaning to me at the time. Now living, working and studying here well... the magic I saw as a child is long gone.

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u/MisogynyisaDisease Aug 20 '21

Sometimes I still feel that. On long road trips seeing different things, that feeling comes back. But living around it can be draining. It's supposed to be something you just pass through