This is what the bottom pic looks like from a different angle. That pic is used to highlight the extremities of urban sprawl and capitalism when in reality it's just a freeway exit in rural Pennsylvania (Breezewood) among the Appalachian mountains. There are hundreds of these freeway exit 'towns' all over the country off the freeway. It's where you go to get gas, eat, and sleep when driving long distances. Because it's in the mountain the elevation changes of the terrain make it look worse than it is from that angle
They're still fricking depressing. Give me one cozy town with history and identity for every 15 of these and it would be a better deal than the louisiana purchase.
It’s not that inaccurate though. Go to any major US metro and what you’ll see is sprawling highways shooting off from it, lined with fast food and gas stations, and residential neighborhoods clustered around the highways.
The OP picture is the view going into Breezewood in a car. Your picture is from a hot air balloon. Curious how you need to resort to extenuating circumstances for your picture?
There really aren't that many of them. Half the stuff in the original picture is closed today. But there is plenty of houses nearby if you look up Breezewood on a satellite map and zoom out, people do live there. This is a decent-sized freeway pit stop at the intersection of two major interstates and a US highway. Some freeway exits are just a couple gas stations. Or maybe a hotel with an apartment above the office that the owners live in.
This is a pretty typical look for the center of a small town in USA
Not cute, but not terrible looking either. Some are a bit more rundown than others, depending on the wealth.
The OP is a stop on the interstate, not really a town. There might be a town nearby, but that isn't the town itself.
I don't get your image. There aren't even that many and most of them are closed. Hardees, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Bob Evans, Perkins, Taco Bell. Is that a lot? Hardees burned down some time after this pic and is out of frame in the original pic. Perkins is closed. Starbucks moved into the Quiznos building (Quiznos is gone) which they share with Sublicity and the original location is gone, but there is a Dunkin' Doughnuts near the spot. Taco Bell is closed. McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and Bob Evans (out of frame in the original pic) are still there. There is a Sheetz now. And there are some non-chains like the diner.
You're just being a fricking moron. Having a few restaurants, stores, gas stations, and hotels at a freeway stop in the middle of nowhere is not the same as a cookie cutter subdivision with artificial grass built in the desert. The photographer used a long focal length to capture everything down the road all in a single shot, making the foreground appear closer than what's in the back and aided by the rising elevation because it's in the mountains. It's an illusion, not 'merica urban sprawl chain restaurant city. Now if this was International Drive down by Universal in Orlando, that would be a little different.
It's not, it's blue ridge, GA but it's pretty much the same idea... Still it was pretty neat. Nice looking scenery. But yes touristy as hell. Some neighboring towns are ignored somewhat and not as full of people
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Your zoomer ADHD crippled mind can't bother to do the most basic fricking research behind a meme image. It's literally just an area designed as a rest stop. Europeans love using this image to generalize all of America despite the fact that when you can find places that look exactly the same in most cities there. Do everyone a favor and just donate your organs to someone with the brain capacity to actually use them.
>Noooo you can't call me out for being a vapid consumer. My souless way of life is heckin based
They'll defend it to the end
you literally spend your time on interstates, your opinion means absolutely nothing
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Ironically the soulless chain-infested pit stops are the most economically sound aspects of small towns, drive off the interstate, 80% of small town main streets are dead or boarded up
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>Ironically the soulless chain-infested pit stops are the most economically sound aspects of small towns
That's what happens when the demand for people driving by on the interstate exceeds the actual population of the town.
A lot of these rural towns have experienced population decline with people moving to cities, hence the dead main streets in many of them.
That's the situation for rural America, every town other than college towns and mountain towns with tourism/vacation homes could be facing trouble, with an aging population. Young people just don't want to live in small towns anymore.
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Oh stop. Hustle and bustle of the big city. Studio apartment. AIDS. Black “people”. That’s what they want, right anon? Right? You’re just a stupid city homosexual projecting and making city homosexual excuses.
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Rural population decline made a major 180 during COVID as anyone with money and a remote job fled for rural towns with cheap land and no lockdowns.
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Are they going to shitty rundown towns off the side of the interstate? Or are they going to some cute place in Montana or Idaho?
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>some cute place in Montana or Idaho?
Pic rel
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Did your ban expire?
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>the entirety of USA looks like the area right off an interstate highway
What is this? Like what is this person gaining from spamming this?
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>the entirety of USA looks like the area right off an interstate highway
The small town rural areas do
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The area right by the interstate does, which is probably all you've seen of rural towns
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Literally everywhere in flyover states look like pic rel
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>picking a rainy day to make it look worse
Warsaw, Indiana seems like not a bad small town. The buildings look fine and they're all occupied by businesses.
It is strange to compare it to a capital of a country though, when its just a small town
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>He thinks the weather is what makes it bad
Broken low IQ mind
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>cute row houses and shops
What's the issue?
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Looks nice. Probably looks better when it’s sunny.
Your zoomer ADHD crippled mind can't bother to do the most basic fricking research behind a meme image. It's literally just an area designed as a rest stop. Europeans love using this image to generalize all of America despite the fact that when you can find places that look exactly the same in most cities there. Do everyone a favor and just donate your organs to someone with the brain capacity to actually use them.
That photo of Breezewood is funny. It's definitely an ugly main street. But I've been to that area of Pennsylvania many times. It's really beautiful. Most of it is just endless country roads and rolling hills. There is an awesome lake one exit down from Breezewood called Raystown Lake where you can rent a boat and cruise in solitude down the river. Seven Springs ski resort is like an hour up the road. There is an awesome rail trail an hour away in Paw Paw where you can bike through a mile long train tunnel. You can follow the trail 150 miles along the Potomac river and ride to Washington DC. There are campgrounds all along the trail. I've only done a short section of the trail, but I've always wanted to bike the whole thing.
Outside of the PNW and New England, not really. Unless you count meme towns like Taos, which are nothing more artificially inflated housing bubbles waiting to burst at any moment. We have a few here in Florida but they're filled with junkies who will literally shoot you for looking at them funny and not face any charges. Tl;Dr FRICK OFF WE'RE FULL
>the PNW and NE have the best small towns.
You’re right about NE, but PNW? Fricking spare me. The small towns there are no more interesting than anywhere in the country. You fricking been there?
If you want max comfy, go to a summer destination place along the ocean or a lake, but during the fall or winter. New England has plenty of these, and the great lakes likely do too.
I think I was in Wisconsin or Michigan and I found a town that looked exactly like Silent Hill. The old fashioned stores, oddly industrial buildings for pulverizing gravel and mechanics across the street from residences, railroad tracks that lead to nowhere, and there were hardly any people. If it was foggy it would have been perfect.
Yeah America is built into nature, our small towns are definitely the most accessible while also being beautiful. For instance in Europe, the forests have 0 housing near them and anything that is in there is purely private land.
The problem is that you’re asking Americans, and Americans think stop light towns with no sidewalks and a Wendy’s are comfy. The hard truth is that if you’re coming from Europe or similar, the only states you’ll find anything even remotely resembling what you’re looking for are the original colonies states and even those will be greatly disappointing.
The north east is pretty much the only area in the US where you can find cute small towns due to how historic it is.
There's some comfy ones out west too. But yeah PA/NY have a ton of amazing small towns. Pennsylvania has to be the quaint small town capital of the US. New england is also great and the upper south.
Michigan and Wisconsin have pretty great spots. Heard solid things about PA as well. Indiana and Ohio still fricking blow though, as does practically everything in Illinois outside of Chicago. Know next to nothing about Iowa, and Minnesota is beautiful but then you have to deal with 60 IQ Minnesotans.
I live in pic related and while it looks nice on photos and also when you take a walk.. I hate it and would rather live in some american suburb town or so. >get used to the nice view, nothing special anymore >rude people that hate to smile >traffic jams always because of tourism >same restaurants for 30 years already, no variation, same boring food >no "real" nature, everything is agriculture >can't go hiking without encountering other people every few mins and houses >shit weather >taxes to the moon >booooring, nothing to do if you don't wanna hike the same route every weekend
>no "real" nature, everything is agriculture
I’m glad you brought this up. Europe is cute but there isn’t any nature left. A mountain surrounded by farms and timberland isn’t nature. The trees are small, baby trees hardly 50 years old at most. These aren’t real forests, these are meant for timber harvest.
Plus the economies in these small towns are ass, if you don’t inherit a business you will be a poor wagie forever. Plus unless you inherit land, a few walkable streets don’t make up for how cramped your world ends up being. Obviously this is still better than a “diverse” and unwalkable american city, but its still better to live in americans suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas where you can at least earn money and buy land.
the midwest has some of the most beautiful small towns in the world
Lol, the ones that aren't a strip mall are rusted out shit holes. Oh what might have been.
hate to break it to you rajeesh, but small towns don't have designated shitting streets. you'll be completely lost
This is what the bottom pic looks like from a different angle. That pic is used to highlight the extremities of urban sprawl and capitalism when in reality it's just a freeway exit in rural Pennsylvania (Breezewood) among the Appalachian mountains. There are hundreds of these freeway exit 'towns' all over the country off the freeway. It's where you go to get gas, eat, and sleep when driving long distances. Because it's in the mountain the elevation changes of the terrain make it look worse than it is from that angle
They're still fricking depressing. Give me one cozy town with history and identity for every 15 of these and it would be a better deal than the louisiana purchase.
>but longer driving distances
So be it
I dare anyone to try walking on the sidewalks, if there are any, of these pit stop hellholes. It’s awful
It’s not that inaccurate though. Go to any major US metro and what you’ll see is sprawling highways shooting off from it, lined with fast food and gas stations, and residential neighborhoods clustered around the highways.
The OP picture is the view going into Breezewood in a car. Your picture is from a hot air balloon. Curious how you need to resort to extenuating circumstances for your picture?
>low effort anti-American troll thread #9000000000000000000000000000000000001
herbs
You homosexuals do realize that's a highway exit in the middle of nowhere, not a town
I don't think anybody actually lives there
someone has to live there to work in all those gas stations, fast food places, and hotels
Correct, this is a town 10 minutes away called Everett, Pennsylvania
Breezewood is just the part where I-70 connects with I-76
Its an interstate intersection in the middle of nowhere, what do you expect it to look like?
So you're saying you see a lot of interstate exits? Woah
There really aren't that many of them. Half the stuff in the original picture is closed today. But there is plenty of houses nearby if you look up Breezewood on a satellite map and zoom out, people do live there. This is a decent-sized freeway pit stop at the intersection of two major interstates and a US highway. Some freeway exits are just a couple gas stations. Or maybe a hotel with an apartment above the office that the owners live in.
This is a pretty typical look for the center of a small town in USA
Not cute, but not terrible looking either. Some are a bit more rundown than others, depending on the wealth.
The OP is a stop on the interstate, not really a town. There might be a town nearby, but that isn't the town itself.
I don't get your image. There aren't even that many and most of them are closed. Hardees, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Bob Evans, Perkins, Taco Bell. Is that a lot? Hardees burned down some time after this pic and is out of frame in the original pic. Perkins is closed. Starbucks moved into the Quiznos building (Quiznos is gone) which they share with Sublicity and the original location is gone, but there is a Dunkin' Doughnuts near the spot. Taco Bell is closed. McDonalds, Pizza Hut, and Bob Evans (out of frame in the original pic) are still there. There is a Sheetz now. And there are some non-chains like the diner.
>I don't get why small towns being full of just chain restaurants and a Walmart is a bad thing
I'm sure you don't kiddo
You're just being a fricking moron. Having a few restaurants, stores, gas stations, and hotels at a freeway stop in the middle of nowhere is not the same as a cookie cutter subdivision with artificial grass built in the desert. The photographer used a long focal length to capture everything down the road all in a single shot, making the foreground appear closer than what's in the back and aided by the rising elevation because it's in the mountains. It's an illusion, not 'merica urban sprawl chain restaurant city. Now if this was International Drive down by Universal in Orlando, that would be a little different.
Yep, rare though and often tourist filled these days
Not sure about here but it looks like Gatlinburg Tennessee, which is full of tourists. Places like this just turn into basically amusement parks
It's not, it's blue ridge, GA but it's pretty much the same idea... Still it was pretty neat. Nice looking scenery. But yes touristy as hell. Some neighboring towns are ignored somewhat and not as full of people
Yeah I still want to go to Gatlinburg too, will check out anon
Chooo chooo chooo chooo chooo.
How does one sleep in a place like that?
Yes, having fast food and gas stations right off the roadway is very convenient for a long road trip
Your thread is even more generic than the chain restaurants and sprawl you're b***hing about
>t.
>more generic reposts of reposts from years and years ago
>Noooo you can't call me out for being a vapid consumer. My souless way of life is heckin based
They'll defend it to the end
Please refrain from subjecting the world to your homosexualry
I'm a truck driver in the U.S. It's literally vapid consumerism like pic. almost every town looks like that here lol
you literally spend your time on interstates, your opinion means absolutely nothing
Ironically the soulless chain-infested pit stops are the most economically sound aspects of small towns, drive off the interstate, 80% of small town main streets are dead or boarded up
>Ironically the soulless chain-infested pit stops are the most economically sound aspects of small towns
That's what happens when the demand for people driving by on the interstate exceeds the actual population of the town.
A lot of these rural towns have experienced population decline with people moving to cities, hence the dead main streets in many of them.
That's the situation for rural America, every town other than college towns and mountain towns with tourism/vacation homes could be facing trouble, with an aging population. Young people just don't want to live in small towns anymore.
Oh stop. Hustle and bustle of the big city. Studio apartment. AIDS. Black “people”. That’s what they want, right anon? Right? You’re just a stupid city homosexual projecting and making city homosexual excuses.
Rural population decline made a major 180 during COVID as anyone with money and a remote job fled for rural towns with cheap land and no lockdowns.
Are they going to shitty rundown towns off the side of the interstate? Or are they going to some cute place in Montana or Idaho?
>some cute place in Montana or Idaho?
Pic rel
Did your ban expire?
>the entirety of USA looks like the area right off an interstate highway
What is this? Like what is this person gaining from spamming this?
>the entirety of USA looks like the area right off an interstate highway
The small town rural areas do
The area right by the interstate does, which is probably all you've seen of rural towns
Literally everywhere in flyover states look like pic rel
>picking a rainy day to make it look worse
Warsaw, Indiana seems like not a bad small town. The buildings look fine and they're all occupied by businesses.
It is strange to compare it to a capital of a country though, when its just a small town
>He thinks the weather is what makes it bad
Broken low IQ mind
>cute row houses and shops
What's the issue?
Looks nice. Probably looks better when it’s sunny.
walk a half mile in any direction and it'll be forest and emptiness
Your zoomer ADHD crippled mind can't bother to do the most basic fricking research behind a meme image. It's literally just an area designed as a rest stop. Europeans love using this image to generalize all of America despite the fact that when you can find places that look exactly the same in most cities there. Do everyone a favor and just donate your organs to someone with the brain capacity to actually use them.
Why are they even allowed to post
The image you posted is measurably better because there are walkways, but go off.
>Places to walk
So better immediately?
>It's literally just an area designed as a rest stop
Yeah, there are thousands of those soulless things in USA.
They call the small towns
>in USA
The european reveals itself
It's over. Europa has fallen.
That photo of Breezewood is funny. It's definitely an ugly main street. But I've been to that area of Pennsylvania many times. It's really beautiful. Most of it is just endless country roads and rolling hills. There is an awesome lake one exit down from Breezewood called Raystown Lake where you can rent a boat and cruise in solitude down the river. Seven Springs ski resort is like an hour up the road. There is an awesome rail trail an hour away in Paw Paw where you can bike through a mile long train tunnel. You can follow the trail 150 miles along the Potomac river and ride to Washington DC. There are campgrounds all along the trail. I've only done a short section of the trail, but I've always wanted to bike the whole thing.
Outside of the PNW and New England, not really. Unless you count meme towns like Taos, which are nothing more artificially inflated housing bubbles waiting to burst at any moment. We have a few here in Florida but they're filled with junkies who will literally shoot you for looking at them funny and not face any charges. Tl;Dr FRICK OFF WE'RE FULL
the PNW and NE have the best small towns .
I'm from Burlington, Vermont, it's great
This OP. You need to go to places built before cars or else they looks like
>the PNW and NE have the best small towns.
You’re right about NE, but PNW? Fricking spare me. The small towns there are no more interesting than anywhere in the country. You fricking been there?
Yes many, but commiefornians, trash from portland/seattle, and yankeeland shit are NOT welcomed.
t. Texas
Texas will be blue by 2032
Texas is absorbing all the conservative refugees from the western state hellholes. It is becoming deep red just like Florida.
Lol no. Lots of libs moving there too and in bigger numbers. Conservative Californians move to Idaho and Utah
Florida is turning red, Texas is turning blue
shitlibs are turning every texas city into austin (which has always been California in the middle of texas)
If you want max comfy, go to a summer destination place along the ocean or a lake, but during the fall or winter. New England has plenty of these, and the great lakes likely do too.
I think I was in Wisconsin or Michigan and I found a town that looked exactly like Silent Hill. The old fashioned stores, oddly industrial buildings for pulverizing gravel and mechanics across the street from residences, railroad tracks that lead to nowhere, and there were hardly any people. If it was foggy it would have been perfect.
Yeah America is built into nature, our small towns are definitely the most accessible while also being beautiful. For instance in Europe, the forests have 0 housing near them and anything that is in there is purely private land.
>For instance in Europe, the forests have 0 housing near them and anything that is in there is purely private land.
you are mentally ill
If you count Pennsylvania as flyover. There are some cool Mountain West and High Desert towns. Otherwise, no.
The problem is that you’re asking Americans, and Americans think stop light towns with no sidewalks and a Wendy’s are comfy. The hard truth is that if you’re coming from Europe or similar, the only states you’ll find anything even remotely resembling what you’re looking for are the original colonies states and even those will be greatly disappointing.
amerifats itt coping saying "it's just 10 fast food restaurants in the middle of nowhere" like that makes it any better lol
yes.
Wisconsin has a ton of nice small towns. Port washington is one of them. Pic related is newburgh, IN where I plan to move to.
I discovered Harpers ferry through this board.
Harpers Ferry is better to hike and overlook than to walk through. Changed significantly since mid 2000s
>Does America have any cute towns in the flyover states?
Maybe check out Kent, Ohio?
Curious what this board thinks of it
Nobody cares about your hometown Midwestcel
Black Hawk CO is pretty cool
Jim Thorpe PA looks kino but i've never been
Pie Town NM for something weird
Jim Thorpe PA is beautiful but not really flyover
OP I recommend Hudson and Stockholm Wisconsin.
There's some comfy ones out west too. But yeah PA/NY have a ton of amazing small towns. Pennsylvania has to be the quaint small town capital of the US. New england is also great and the upper south.
>PA is beautiful but not really flyover
Wut?
The north east is pretty much the only area in the US where you can find cute small towns due to how historic it is.
only in the east. Everything out west was built around roads and parking lots
Michigan and Wisconsin have pretty great spots. Heard solid things about PA as well. Indiana and Ohio still fricking blow though, as does practically everything in Illinois outside of Chicago. Know next to nothing about Iowa, and Minnesota is beautiful but then you have to deal with 60 IQ Minnesotans.
I live in pic related and while it looks nice on photos and also when you take a walk.. I hate it and would rather live in some american suburb town or so.
>get used to the nice view, nothing special anymore
>rude people that hate to smile
>traffic jams always because of tourism
>same restaurants for 30 years already, no variation, same boring food
>no "real" nature, everything is agriculture
>can't go hiking without encountering other people every few mins and houses
>shit weather
>taxes to the moon
>booooring, nothing to do if you don't wanna hike the same route every weekend
Loons comfy
>no "real" nature, everything is agriculture
I’m glad you brought this up. Europe is cute but there isn’t any nature left. A mountain surrounded by farms and timberland isn’t nature. The trees are small, baby trees hardly 50 years old at most. These aren’t real forests, these are meant for timber harvest.
Plus the economies in these small towns are ass, if you don’t inherit a business you will be a poor wagie forever. Plus unless you inherit land, a few walkable streets don’t make up for how cramped your world ends up being. Obviously this is still better than a “diverse” and unwalkable american city, but its still better to live in americans suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas where you can at least earn money and buy land.
Anyone here been to Breezewood? Do they have postcards of that picture? Would like to visit