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I really like it when people share what suburbs in places with highly walkable cities look like - helps dispel the myth that people hate cars and driving places and have only been forced to by Sinister Forces.
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Noah Smith 🐇
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Bet you didn't know that every suburb in Japan looks like Breezewood.
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Relatedly, shout out to for showing me that Japanese parks kinda suck. He's also very good for puncturing the myth of every other country being automatically better than America in every respect.
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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌
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Japan has very sad parks.
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The weird thing is not that suburbs exist in america and Japan. It's that in america we made high-density cities basically illegal. So every part of the city is 'the suburbs' Suburbs should exist! Just legalize cities
There was a video of a street in Cincinnati that was like "All of Houston is like this BTW" and it's like "So one of the most rapidly growing cities in the country notable for a lack of zoning is doing this? People love this model."
The train to Paris from the airport looks indistinguishable from every typical Baltic or Czech suburb ive been through. Brutal views.

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