Also we Americans are pretty good at paving every square inch inch of an island. We did Manhattan and are working on doing Long Island.
You also just demolish everything every now and then because old is not the american way, while this side of the ocean tends to constantly maintain and improve on what already exists.
Glass towers tend to make a boring landscape.
Huh? I mean buildings get condemned or rebuilt sometimes, but talk like that tells me you haven’t been to Boston or New York.
I was commenting based on several documentaries on the US I’ve watched, where it was covered the building habits in the country.
I’m aware you have older cities but the trend is to tear down and build over, new and bigger.
It’s exhausting having Europeans assume that because I live here I A) endorse everything about it with every fiber of my being and B) have no ability to conceptualize any other way of living at all, much less a better one than my current American lifestyle.
It’s true we don’t have a quaint medieval village on an island, but we never had invading Huns or something force us to live on a postage stamp of land and make a quaint little village there.
I’m so glad someone understands. It doesn’t necessarily have to be Huns. Tartars or Mongols or really any nomadic horselord invaders would do well. Just drop them in the middle of Nebraska and let them get started.
Honestly. Am I missing something in the picture? It’s just a city? Am I supposed to be unable to comprehend a nice, coastal city?
Bottom right corner, it’s a road that has cars pulled up and parked along side the buildings
You and I’ll even risk most of your close circle of friends and acquaintences might understand the teasing that comes with such a picture but would that be true to the average american?
This is the picture of a high density populated area, where there are no roads for vehicles nor wide spaces. Streets are narrow and do not form straight angles. Construction is also very old.
If I’m to try and emulate the level of idiocy I often encountered on the days of Reddit, the average american will spout “that’s a fire hazard, with no room for parking or moving around in your car and the roads don’t make any sense”.
It’s good people like you exist. Now you only need 1000x those numbers to make a dent in the idiocy running that country.
You’re literally asking for the ‘average’ of a country containing everything from desert to tundra to a variety of types of forest and just about every biome in between. We’ve got political situations ranging from state endorsed persecution and torture of minorities on the one hand to policies that are at times to the left of the European mainstream on the other.
You might as well compare Norway and Turkey as Massachusetts and Texas. In the latter case they share a federal government, but both also ignore that government when it suits them. Like, look at the confusing legal situation around marijuana in the US. It’s legal in more and more states, but it’s federally illegal. So like, technically it’s federally illegal in states where it’s legal, but we just ignore that for most purposes. It does mean that dispensaries largely have to operate with cash, though.
In Massachusetts it’s even weirder. We have a ballot initiative process, so the people can make new laws by making a big enough petition and putting it on the next election ballot. That’s how we passed decriminalization, then medical, then legalization. No Massachusetts politician really took up the issue and endorsed it, we just voted it in. Which forced our state law makers to basically ignore the federal prohibition.
You could also expect to see this happen in Massachusetts if, for example, abortion were federally criminalized. We already ignore other states’ laws about things like family planning and immigration.
The US really isn’t a monolith legally or culturally.
everything from desert to tundra to a variety of types of forest and just about every biome in between.
I’m pretty sure you can find all those things just in the state of California. Meanwhile Croatia, where this photo was taken, has about the same land area as West Virginia.
Any American who lives in Hurricane prone areas can’t comprehend this lasting for more than a decade at best before it is washed away clean.
I’d give it 3-4 years. Maybe five if they’re sturdy, but not a decade.
And yet, we continue to live directly, knowingly in the path of multiple hurricanes every year instead of simply moving. I always thought going into the construction business around the Outer Banks must be a money cheat.
Mad because America still has access to trees, huh.
More seriously, the coastal county near me has seen 15 hurricanes make landfall in the past 35 years. Of those, 9 have been a category 2 or higher. You guys in your latitude get little tornadoes and some half-hearted shaky-shake that barely even registers, not earthquakes and hurricanes.
Unless your windowless, single-story house composed of 8in. of reinforced, perfectly uncracked concrete comes with an identical roof like a bomb shelter, I would strongly recommend weathering it out with whichever distant family member will take you. Anything above a Cat. 1 can just rip the ceiling off and stone in an earthquake stands a chance of aerating your skull, for all the expense you put into building it.
Brick in particular is fucking terrible for this. This is one of the reasons every now and then, you’ll see a stone building totalled while a wooden one down the street sits untouched. Wood’s pretty flexible and natural disasters are weird.
Also, lol you live in a fancy oven you can’t even renovate and you’ll be dead long before I am
Pretty sure this is Rovinj in Croatia
Are you even living if you can’t smell your neighbor’s farts?
