Are there any small towns in America that look good enough to be European?
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Are there any small towns in America that look good enough to be European?
America has upscale small towns that mog almost any place in Europe. Breckenridge and Telluride, Colorado are just a couple examples.
the problem is that the only good small towns are in colorado, everywhere else is shit
There's certainly some in the Appalachians also (North Carolina mainly) and New England as well.
There's more in the west outside of Colorado.
The New England coast has some really great small towns. California has a few - Arroyo Grande and Ferndale are two that come to mind from my past travels. Vermont is full of quaint and charming little towns. Stuart, Virginia is a neat place. Brevard, North Carolina. I seem to recall Beaufort, SC as rather charming. Apalachicola, FL.
I never really looked into vermont, it actually looks pretty nice.
Do you know if it's actually pleasant to live there or is it all just in the looks
Weather is horrible, with a handful of mild sunny days in between endless rainstorms, muggy hot days, and gray dreary days in spring and fall. Every time I have visited, the weather has sucked. Winter is savagely cold and snowy. Nature is pretty great, very green in summer, lots of flowing water, also lots of biting insects when the warmth arrives. Local farm culture is also great, Vermont people are big on eating locally raised food versus supermarket crap. Fewest Walmarts in America, very little suburban sprawl. Politics are strongly leftist despite being rural. Gay pride and black lives matter flags everywhere when I visited in 2021. Towns have centuries of history and great culture. Highways are narrow and slow. People are pale-skinned, high IQ, often weird-looking, and with esoteric interests.
>shitty weather
I've lived on the costal side of the PNW for a while, being able to see the sun at all is great. Other than the gay and black shit that sounds very cozy, might try living there soon
Pale skinned like british/colonial aristocracy?
Almost petite, pale skinned, fine boned, slim with small waists, flat bellys, brun haired, eyes colour varying from dark to bright blue, baby making hips and breasts that fit in your hand?
Seconding Beaufort
I used to love taking the boat there.
Beaufort kind of reminds me of a front range town
>Breckenridge and Telluride
Just knockoff versions from european alpine villages.
You've never been to Telluride. It's right up there with the best ski towns in the world
Avatargay genocide best day of my life
>facebook tier meme
>cherrypicked nonsense
>rural UK 'better' than anything lmao even
dont you have anything better to do? do you actually travel? or are you just a broke b***h sitting in their parents basement?
This is what rural towns in the UK actually look like.
rather have that than whatever the frick this is
Its a gas station
Kansas is farm country, they don't have the time or energy to work on building pretty towns. Farmers don't have huge budgets for leisure activities.
Tell me about how the government pays farmers to let their fields lie fallow.
not pictured: the cozy 1-10 acre plot where everyone actually lives and spends their time. i know this idea boggles the europoors mind but do try to keep up
I was looking on google streetview and this town seems cool
Its surrounded by farm land, but is a walkable community. Its got a bar that'll open till 2 am on Friday's and Saturdays for when you wanna get piss drunk, its got outdoor things to do. And if you want more, its only a 20 minute drive from Wichita. What's the problem?
This is 15 minutes from my house
what's it like living in the area anon
I've only lived in el dorado as a kid, I dunno what the eastern side of wichita is like
East side has some pretty upscale areas for the region. I don't live on the east side though, I just work there. I'm ad far west as you can get while still being in the city limits. Transit times aren't bad, assuming no accidents I can get anywhere in the city within 25 minutes. Cost of living is reasonable and there's a lot of work in my field. It's not a super exciting place to live but it's decent enough. The city is trying to revitalize downtown and having some success but they decided to go for the meme minor league baseball shit for a second time
Why is there more road than building
Looks kino
Nah that's London/Birmingham. Used to live in Gloustershire and it did look like OPs pic.
RENT FREE LMAO!
almost every single muh walkable city thread is made by a self hating american
not even on a highway, population of 1500
Colwich, Kansas actually seems pretty walkable
The streets all have sidewalks and you have a bar/grill, a pizza restaurant, a library, an elementary school, a grocery store of sorts, a bank and some sports fields (baseball and disc golf) within walking distance of the neighborhoods.
That sports bar seems like a chill place actually.
They have a dancing hall, I bet they do square dancing.
all of that comes at a price though
Yeah, its also 20 minutes away from Witchita which increases the price
I just think its funny that the example he picked was actually a pretty walkable small town.
Wichita sucks ass
>t. Kansas anon
Crocker?
More like crocker shit. Ammi right?
>$400k
I live in Southern California, this wouldn't buy you a shoe closet
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/641-W-Villa-Chaparral-Rd-San-Jacinto-CA-92583/17967031_zpid/
It will get you a house, as long as you're okay not being in a major city, or having a 2 hour or so commute to work.
...and you're over 55 and you're ok with paying protection money every month to overbearing intrusive HOA nazis
I wasn't making the point that you would have a shitty house to live, I was making the point that you were wrong in the assertion it wouldn't even get you a shoebox. It will get you a house, just not in a city or anywhere nice. If you want to live in a city or anywhere populous you will obviously have to cough up cash.
Still a shitty hut , just with cosmetic brick facing.
And get some paving tiles instead of the most low effort concrete drivewy possible.
Then you would at least have tried.
Let me guess, you need more?
Here's a house in Finland for a comparable price. Taxes are double what they cost in the US. There are almost zero good middle class jobs. Military service is mandatory. And Russia might invade at any time.
photo 🙁
why are you posting some strainge properties from finland through some weird site nobody uses in finland.
Finland. Now there's a country I have zero interest in ever visiting. "Finland, a country with one city. We get all the bad weather like Norway, but also with the threat of a Russian invasion"
Finland is in Nato, literally nobody in finland is scared about russian invasion.
I saw that. Happened on April 4th this year. So now it's just the bad weather and the one depressing city to contend with. I'll move Finland up to number 943 on my list of places to visit right between Iraq and Liberia.
>Here's a house in Finland for a comparable price
Not even close moron, 20k€.
https://www.etuovi.com/kohde/1352483?haku=M2017728915
wtf are these roads. There's like a thousand people living here why do the side streets look like highways?
S Colorado Avenue is the only one that is wide like that. The rest are all narrower.
Maybe it used to be a four lane road
Kek this dudes feelings were so hurt he spent time on this
And kissing cousins.
GDP free
Almost every town has a "Main Street" which is usually quite nice.
You may not like it but the hack for finding the nicest, most walkable small towns full of friendly people and local restaurants and shops is to google "most gay friendly town in X state."
I just did this for Georgia, a state I've never been to and this was the result. Blue Ridge, Georgia. Looks nice.
Some other findings were Missoula, Montana, Flagstaff, Arizona and Madison, Wisconsin which all look very nice.
Neither Missoula, nor Flagstaff, nor Madison are small towns. They are all sizable cities.
Gays have good taste in towns, you have to admit it
These look nice to americans?
>Missoula, Montana, Flagstaff, Arizona
Nice because of the colleges, try again after youve had your douche homosexual
Bet your town has nothing but accident attorney billboards and fast food.
Not that anon but Flagstaff is absolutely trash, he's right
Flagstaff is definitely boring. Sedona is where you want to be in the spring and fall. Every restaurant is a gourmet mom and pop joint. The landscape is amazing. The resorts are insanely good. I went in the fall a couple years ago and did some hiking. It was one of my all time favorite places in the world.
+1 for Missoula in the summer
Jackson Hole
Carmel California
San Fran has some beautiful neighborhoods, but I wouldn't live in the city
Hilton Head Island is amazing.
Park City Utah
South Lake Tahoe
Catalina California
Laguna Beach
Newport Beach CA
I'd also recommend Telluride, Vail and Durango Colorado.
Saugatuck, MI
Thanks for the tip anon
oh nvm didnt see the gay part LMFAO
Kek look at all that open space dedicated to lanes, parking, and private trains. Truly a cucked lifestyle
I'll give you Flagstaff, beautiful area. Only good part of Arizona though. Madison isn't exactly a small town, its a state capital with a massive University
Frankenmuth mi
you think? I've worked there before and while it is okay, I think it could be much better than it is with less touristy stuff. Northern MI small towns are wonderful though
How many more "small town America" threads are you going to make before you get the fricking picture?
Europe is a fricking shithole. Why do self-hating mutts want to be like Europe.
If the US and Europe had open borders free movement with each other, all of Europe would empty overnight
>If the US and Europe had open borders free movement with each other, all of Europe would empty overnight
Nah
It would be braindrained though, and in return you'll get a lot of Americans looking to get welfare in Europe
This thread may have convinced me to move to Colwich, Kansas
I hope the regulars at the only bar in town take kindly to me
post your travels anon
You know you're not American when you're already triggered just by looking at that map. All those parallels and right angles give me a headache.
The pioneers of the great plains divided the land into square plots
And there's no natural features, its the great plains, so why not grid for this small town.
They did it really consistently too. Every county was 20 miles across in a square, a courthouse and school were built in the center as 10 miles was considered the maximum distance it was feasible for children to walk to school or for a farmer to travel to business that required his presence at the courthouse. A town grew around these locations, so they're pretty evenly spaced. Roads were put in every mile as the land was divided up into square miles of 640 acres which could be further subdivided into 16 40 acre parcels, the minimum amount of land a family was thought to be able to subsist on at the time in that climate. This pattern repeats itself all the way from the appalachians to the rockies so the midwest all seems the same for 1000 miles.
I think they had to in order to comply with the homestead act
>welcome to kansas boy.
>now squeal like a pig
is a rape occurring in that picture...
>san fran
LMFAO
Across the bridge from SF in Tiburon. Look it up on google images. It's one of the most beautiful areas in the US. It's all millionaires living there. The houses are insane!
>tfw you will never grow up in Colwich, Kansas
>you will never marry the girl you have always loved who you grew up dancing with at the monthly line dance night hosted in the dance hall of the only bar in town
>you will never, at 11 years of age, race your friends on bikes around the premises of the town, which is surrounded by farmland
>you will never play hide and seek in the cornfields that surround your town
why even live bros
>your friends will never get into fentanyl at 17 after flunking out of highschool because a rumor about them went around
>you will never get a dead-end job at walmart because all the farms import cheap labor
>you will never finally get that job at the car dealership, make 10% commission, and buy a house
>you will never get divorce-raped, meet your old addict friends at the one bar in town and develop a meth habit
>you will never refinance your house and get a job trucking because your family hates you and you owe 2k in alimony every month
This, I really hate SighSeegays who grew up in Cali or NYC or something and they think that rural America is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz when it’s really just Walmarts, meth heads, fat nice but moronic boomers, and very ego-flated fat women dating men who look like Chad.
t. Grew up there
do you think its any better in norcal? nyc at least has good looking women
are the women really good looking when you contemplate how many Black folk and israelites they've slept with because society tells them it's cool and fun?
As a brit I can say basically nowhere looks like the bottom. I don't think people realize just how poor the UK and a lot of europe is. You're more likely to find russia looking blocks with a greggs than a comfy village.
Amerimutts complaining about wages and house prices have no fricking idea how bad things can get. In the UK outright owning a ford focus is an aspirational product. I'm a doctor and my wife gets the bus to work because we can only afford one old car and I need it to get in. We went a pebbledashed shitbox outside of Sheffield that still costs £1k a month
*rent
ffs. Only got 4 hours sleep last night.
>russia looking blocks with a greggs
one thing I noticed in the UK, is that you have nice old buldings, tenements with a store on the ground floor, active frontage of urbanist dreams, but the store front is an ugly third world looking business with third world looking signage. The only businesses that looked halfway decent from the outside were the pubs, that all pretend to be 300 years old regardless of when they were built. A spoons built from scratch last year will feel old and cozy.
Down town areas look like american strip malls with historic buildings plopped on top.
unfortunately some of this is true. local governments have done their best to rip the heart out of beautiful old towns in the name of progress. one of the most egregious examples is winchester, pic related, where buildings that would have been standing when jane austen lived her last days in the city have been gutted and homeganised
you sound like a miserable twat though and you are talking out of your arse. i suspect the only truthful information in your post is that you live in a shitbox in sheffield in which case you should try to scrape together a few pennies and go on a trip to the cotswolds or somewhere
ugh. why is anyone allowed to use stucco on a main street? just look how bad that looks compared to the brick
reminds me of how my dad thinks. he doesnt care how something looks, just wants to get it done. thats what i imagined happened here with the contrasting stucco and brick. and if you say "dad that looks bad" he'll just say no it looks fine, i like it. the man has no taste.
You just described the entire baby boomer generation
There's definitely something to be said for keeping a consistent aesthetic in a city. Croatia does that really well with the white walls and red roofs in all the towns and cities. Most of the cities look close to what they would have looked 500 years ago. But the US hasn't been around that long. The cities in the US popped up out of nowhere 100 years ago. They were more concerned with function than making things look nice. What you get in the US that you can't get in Europe is cheap undeveloped land.
Literally everything in my post was true lmao. But I'd actually rather you keep thinking the UK is a nicer place and never ruin the memory by visiting. As for my situation im just planning on leaving like everyone else, problem is medicine actually cripples your options to aus or NZ which don't appeal to me.
No not really. You have places in devon, the downs and some peak district villages but population wise no-one actually lives there and you'll be looking at a starting price of £2m for a small cottage because of planning restrictions.
jesus you sound like a proper miserable c**t.
i hope you don't have this same bedside manner with your patients
why don't you frick off to somewhere that does appeal to you then dr miseryguts?
Honestly, even most of the historic old towns in the UK look drab and depressing compared to Europe.
We have the same ugly shit in Europe.
That is very true. Same issue is occuring in France and Italy.
Main culprits are poojeets with their ugly-ass stores with depressing white-neon lights inside.
Forgot to post picture.
SVOUL
>As a brit I can say basically nowhere looks like the bottom
Kek there are entire counties that are nothing but that.
If it's not a coastal town with good weather, or a town not directly adjacent to ski resorts, I don't want to live there. The only towns or small cities I've ever visited in the world where I would consider living are in Orange County California, the French Riviera or a few of the nicer cities in Italy, especially Verona.
Cassis France
La Ciotat France
San Clemente California
Newport Beach California
Santa Barbara
Near Monterrey CA is a bunch of phenomenal towns
I love san francisco bros
>Not shown: the other side
Incredibly ugly skyline, what an overrated city
disgustingly ugly city with no redeeming qualities. a cancerous tumor on the bay area that is rapidly metastasizing. i will pop champagne when it gets leveled, catches fire, and sinks into the bay for good
Top is not rural. It's just a small town sprawled out for cars
Copium
That is the fault of real estate elitists and concentration of wealth in the center
I agree about real estate ((elite)). Instead of beauty we get strip malls. While there is some appeal of the glass and steal skyscraper, it MUST to be tempered by stone and brick and nature. It sickens me that we allow our nations to be filled with
((Functional structures*~~ without taking time to incorporate art/expression of the soul (cant think of proper words). We're on a suicide course of ((progress)), never taking the time to ponder or incorporate beauty. What sre we progressing towarda if we strip our towns and cities of beauty? Imagine every strip mall redesigned to have fruiting/flowering trees along the curbsides, stone sidewalks, hanging planters of seasonal flowers in windows and proud marble scultures and triumphant fountains.
It wouldnt cost much but would vastly improve the modern cities we flock to, it would make them liveable and worth visiting. Most east coast cities ((renovated)) their train depots, stripping them of beauty and art in the name of progress. Look at Union Station in Chicago IL or the East Coast train stations, look at San Frans trolly. They should be beautiful and awe inspiring; places where man slows his hurried stride and gazes in wonder and pleasure at the artistic triumph of his fellow mans controbutions to civilization. It breaks my heart
>Take picture of an unremarkable and generally destitute part of rural America
>Take picture of remarkable and upscale part of rural Europe
Why don't you take a picture of some Belarussian or Russian rural town and compare it to America?
There are thousands upon thousands of beautiful villages and towns in the UK and mainland European countries.
>>Take picture of an unremarkable and generally destitute part of rural America
Everywhere in America looks like that.
>rent free
>indefinite visa extension: granted
comfy
Europoors are unable to comprehend the scale of America, and the variety contained within our great country.
Visit while you still can, because they recently started blacking the rural villages.
im sorry, i dont share your worldview so your question is based on a false premise. no i am not interested in continuing talking to you because its become boring to hear this tedious shit in every thread on every board.
my friend, most of the world shares the view that if you sleep around a bunch, especially with thugs and sleazebags it makes you unattractive.
you encounter this view in every thread on every board because it's an objective truth. even the darkest of blacks will admit it's gross if a girl is "ran through" when given even a small amount of anonymity, look no further than blacktwit and all their anti-simp discource to see this, and NYC has an astronomical number of ran-through clout demon prostitutes.
Only on the coasts and in the mountains
Raystown lake is one exit away from that ugly Breeezewood PA exit. Looks pretty awesome to me
>Anon discovers what lakes are
Do you have something that looks like that one exit from your house?
The ocean?
I'll venmo you $500 if you walk outside in the next hour and take a photo with timestamp in front of the ocean.
$500 and post your face
Post Venmo and face
I dont know. That's a blurry pic and the exif data says Nuremberg Germany...That isn't near a beach. I think you just took a blurry photo next to a dirty river filled with dead holocaust israelites.
Looks like Long Beach 🙁 You live with all the filthy Mexicans.
Lmao cucked by a coastie
I'd argue that posting a photo at 4am from a homeless encampment in LA is cucking yourself.
Damn you're a pussy and moronic. Post face and Venmo
>Long beach
Wrong
Within the hour too. Small town anon on suicide watch
You took a photo at a nasty LA park at 3 am where the homeless people sleep and the gay dudes cruise for wiener. What are you doing in that park at 4 am? Why did you lie about being in Santa Monica? Why do you have a 7 year old Galaxy S8 phone? If you're living in a 2 million dollar house, why are you so desperate for money? One would almost be mistaken for thinking that you're homeless. You took the bait. I bet you'll never do that again.
>I'll venmo you $500 if you
(1) walk outside
(2) in the next hour and
(3) take a photo with timestamp
(4) in front of the ocean.
Take the rekt,
Different guy, but I'll consider sending you the $500 on Venmo myself if you answer his questions. I'm also genuinely curious about why you were in that sketchy park in the middle of the night. If you're actually homeless, I wouldn't mind helping a bro out.
>More flyovercels seething that they lost
>Backpedaling
Flyoverbros it's over....we lost
>Breezewood must look like this because there's a lake miles from it
Kek
I'm not really understanding what you're getting at. That's just a freeway exit with some gas and a motel for truckers. That's not where people live. That part of PA is just rolling hills and country roads with farms. You could go to Breezewood and buy 35 acres of land for 150K tomorrow. That's a really rural, undeveloped area.
He’s literally a mentally deficient eurocel thats never travelled farther than the corner store by himself. Why are you engaging?
People on here live such souless lives that they think lakes are rare and unique. How are you supposed to have discussions with people like this
A lake? A you moronic?
Bloomington Indiana is pretty cool. The downtown is historic and really well maintained. The University brings in a lot of money. There is really good hiking nearby too. I've done some awesome waterfall hikes up in that area.
Madison Indiana has a nice historic Main Street area too. It looks very 1900's turn of the century. It's right on the Ohio river. It also has a cool waterfall in town. If you were doing a cross country trip, both towns would definitely be worth stopping in.
the fricked up thing is those rural towns in the U.S. used to look good. They became dilapidated over time because newer generations cared less about community and began sticking to themselves. So people stopped caring about how the community looked and just left it to the local government. But how is the local government going to make the streets look pretty if nobody cares enough to bring it up?
tl;dr towns are shit because nobody cares how things look
People care. But rural American towns are empty/falling apart because they are losing population. Young people leave for better opportunities. Nobody has the spending cash to keep local businesses open, so Walmart and Dollar General are the only options available to spend money.
I like Breezewood. I was just looking around in Google maps and found this old mill next to a covered bridge. There was a little dog following the google truck around. 🙂 Look how cute this road is
https://yip.su/googlemaps-BreezewoodPA
You guys are looking for round lake, ny
Santa Monica. Why am I not surprised?
>Backpedaling when they see someone has a two million dollar house.
Post face and Venmo cucks. Also house isn't in Santa Monica kek
I've driven down route 1 in Santa Monica dozens of times. You're standing at the top of the hill overlooking Perry's Cafe and Beach rentals in Palisades Park where the homeless people sleep. No wonder you want that five hundo so badly 🙁
>Deflects and seethes about someone owning a 2 million dollar house
Kek Post face and Venmo
You're in park where homeless people sleep at 3am taking photos with a 7 year old phone begging for money. How much deeper of a hole do you want to dig for yourself?
Honest question, and no judgement, are you homeless and drug addicted?
I honestly much prefer US cities and US sprawl. It offers a much better lifestyle than what you get in Europe.
The majority of people in the US live in suburbs. The majority of Europeans live in cities. The big cities in the US are typically highly saturated with black people who live in the downtown heart of the city, which is why the crime is so high in US urban areas. The further you get away from downtown, the whiter and safer it gets.
I love walking around downtown areas in Europe because they are usually so safe. But you can't go to Germany and buy 35 acres of land for 150K like you can in the US. You can still got to California and buy 40 acres of land near Yosemite National Park for less than 200k. A comparable size plot of land in Germany would cost 10 times that amount or more.
You live in a 2 million dollar house but you're taking blurry photos with a Samsung Galaxy S8? I doubt it bro.
PXL is pixel moron, they are literally just for there cameras lmao
All you have to to do for the $500 is go to a public bathroom in Santa Monica, pass your phone through a gloryhole, and have the guy in the next stall take a picture of your dick. Then I need your mom's email address so I can Venmo her.
Kek flyovercels b***hed out again.
No
Anon delivered
pay up homosexual. SighSee honor at stake
There is absolutely zero chance anyone below the age of 50 could secure a house in the bottom pic. The only people that live there these days are boomers and those with generational wealth
An average Brits option for first home ownership is an absolute dump of a terraced house in a littered and miserable hole or, if youre doing well, a identikit suburban property that really is just a worse version of the american style.
I think americans take for granted you can reasonably quickly secure a decent property in a decent area. Won't be the most 'cultural' or 'comfy' but I'm telling you the average brit is living in far worse conditions.
It's because everyone wants to live in commuter distance of a major city. You can get incredible cheap houses in comfy as frick areas.
Look at this pic, comfy as frick 3 bedroom house in a beautiful town in a national park and it costs less than a 1 bedroom terrace in my shithole Sussex town.
> tiny shitbox a 2 hour drive away from anything last renovated in 1970 and costs $300k
lmao
Looks comfy
Innit
average brit here
doing just fine thank you
problem is you are below average and want to bring everyone down to your level
Town in the pic is Castle Combe. Area is kind of pricey but not insane. There are only two properties for sale there now, one is a 4 bed house plus an additional two floor, one bed cottage. Totals ~2,500sqft/225sqm and its up for £975,000. 20min drive to Chippenham, 30 min drive to Bath or Bristol. For what it is I feel thats alright. Well out of my price range, but also incomparable to some US rural town.
Disingenuous. If the house is also in Ashbourne its an hour to Birmingham, Manchester or Sheffield, and if its not exactly there its closer to one of those. Interior looks perfectly fine and £260,000 is not bad.
Bringing my gf to Breezewood for a date, where should we eat bros
Oceans are souless
Only mouthbreathers think lakes are better than actually oceans
Frankenmuth Michigan
Michigan is an honorary coastal state. Has way too much soul for the Midwest
fort collins is nice
Galena IL
Guaranteed better food too
Crazy they didn't put a road down there
Greenways are everywhere in America, and new towns are building them all the time.
Anyone have more photos of cozy small town Americana?
Down town Collinsville Oklahoma
Sponge docks in Florida
Downtown Canyon city Colorado
I really like Chi town but I know you guy's won't agree with me on that one
Oh and I forgot to add a lot of Vermont towns have this feeling But I can't think of their names off the top of my head
Beautiful small towns in the US are rare. Everyone knows they could look great, but the mindset of Americans is too pragmatic, too Anglo. To the average person who lives in these places, ease of use is all that matters and making it prettier just means trimming grass & maybe adding a small flower bed. My Czech neighbors meanwhile put so many ornaments in their lawn and carpets into their house it was a spectacle. I think Euros in general don't get how little Americans care for aesthetics. That's why our suburbs look like that, you know? It's pure pragmatism
Most people in the US live in suburbs though. In Europe, they mostly live in apartments in cities. You can spread out in the US and have a yard and a big ass house. Of course the cities look different.
Or... I don't know, maybe it's cause our country is only 246 years old and Europe had a thousand plus year headstart. NOBODY in the western world is building anything aesthetic anymore, it's not an American thing, find me new builds in Europe that hold up to the shit that was being made in America in the 19th and early 20th century.
>our country is only 246 years old
We have immigrants from all over the world and are the richest country on earth. If we so desired, we could decorate our cities and homes exactly as we want, like Europeans imported chinoiserie. We don't because there is no demand.
>NOBODY in the western world is building anything aesthetic anymore
This is true to a degree though. It would be a lie to say America never cared about aesthetics, in terms of home decoration we had wood paneling & the dreaded shag carpets and so on. The older generations in Europe seem to care more about home decor too, whereas the younger generation are all about function and the proliferation of Apple store/porn shoot/AirBnB style white walls and empty space is proof.
It's like around the first World War people stopped caring about making things pretty. Very weird tbh
This is pure cope. Most buildings in european capital cities are fewer than 246 years old (these cities were nowhere near as big as they are now, and frequently have been partially destroyed for various reasons) - they are just built with proper materials and to a meet aesthetic standards. You could give American suburbanites ten thousand years and you would still end up with an american suburb.
In florence italy, all but one bridge, and nearly every building on either side of the river is fewer than 80 years old, due to the war, mafia bombing, and flooding. In paris, basically the entire road structure was literally carved through existing buildings which were then rebuilt as necessary.
>Most buildings in european capital cities are fewer than 246 years old
And? Almost all the post ww2 shit is just disgusting brutalist mass housing. Like I said, find me NEW builds in Europe that hold up to the shit we were building in America in the 19th and early 20th century.
Why do blue states always put the red ones to shame? More white people?
Yes, also less car (truck) centric, so they're not 80% parking lot
I think alot of them like the northeast are older and were built before cars so more built for humans and no highways
There are beautiful places like that even in the south. But they're also very gay typically. Every dude I ever met with a high sense of aesthetics had some weird fetish, was bi, gay etc.
Here's an exercise. Go to Library of Congress, and search any American city predating the 20th century. Filter by photographs & media. They've razed and ghettofied every American city and put up dogshit. This country used to be beautiful. Picrel, my city 🙂
Sadge
no wonder gen z is fricked in the head
not a single fricking soul outside nowadays.
>pocket billiards
You don’t see that much these days. Now it’s just slang for wanking
Leavenworth, Washington. It is literally a fake ass imitation of a German mountain town.
Is it really that bad in the US? I was watching that bald Italian guy on youtube who travels to the poorest places in America and one episode was some shithole in Georgia that had like a 50% poverty rate and everyone including the police were on heroin or meth but the landscape still managed to mogg anywhere in Europe. The other time we went to some hick town in west Virginia and the same thig, half the houses were really nice too, much better than European cuck cubes and the landscape was insanely beautiful.
Europe is the massive shithole. No one knows what Europe is actually like apparently.
man america looks so much better...
That's a back alley in Seattle though. Seattle is a really pretty city. This is the view a few blocks from that exact spot on the waterfront
really pretty looking anon.
pacific northwest is one region i would like to visit one day
Hecking walkable wholesomerino Madrid!!
Directly next to this address is a piblic park, in the same block are two restaurants, and you can walk from there in less than 10 minutes to another, even bigger park and a supermarket.
Imaginr being this mindbroken
France is just so well planned, beautiful AND walkable. Americans will never understand.
Unironically looks better than basically any american city
Nope
Eureka Springs Arkansas is pretty decent tbh
Whys it's just one road?
He needs to download the history DLC for the interesting content.
Its not, most of them are covered by the trees you were looking at
sigh
oh god i do love to see a decent traffic management system
What really makes a difference is the amount of trees. Add in a shit ton of trees (actually big trees, not shrubs), take care of the grass, add some fences, and the top would look 10x better.
That is what I noticed when recently house hunting. The amount of trees and integration into nature makes or breaks how ugly a place can be. For example, pic related, looks how soulless it is. I'd never want to liver there.
I mean that does look like a new development that was probably built on a swamp. You can ever see they planted one of those trees that tower over houses and roads once matured on every house.
Trees make or break a society. Theres a ted talk (gay I know) that really brings the subject to fruition. He goes in depth about the need for good architecture and canopys of trees, to seperate pedestrian walkways from car thoroughfares, to provide shade from the sun and shelter from rain and cars. Too drunk to find now but its very potent.
I live in Chicago and the best areas are full of lush tress, juxtaposed with brick faces, sandstone churches with carved friezes and iron balconies/steet lights/accoutrements.
If you live in an ugly area, you dont care about it, you feel disconnected from youe community. If you dont care then crime flourishes, litter piles in the streets and people move away or feel no connection to their home; homes become houses. Am drunk but you shoukd get the geist of what I mean
If the trees in the neighborhood aren't at least 75 years old, its a souless neighborhood
Mackinaw Island, Port Townsend, Bisbee, Harper's Ferry, Nantucket, and Bar Harbor are some really nice small towns in the US.
Bar harper sucks compared to the others
galena illinois maybe? and other similar historic tourist towns. most regions have a few, the NE will have more
Jim thorpe and new hope Pennsylvania