Uk twitter discussing how Americans live a subpar life

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Agreed
We made our cities spread out and drivable

which has bit us in the ass imo

I definitely agree with them saying that. Had the Auto Industry not got in the way, shyt wouldn’t have turned out like this for our cities. Prior to the 1950’s and 1960’s, America held similar values towards urban planning and city infrastructure as Europe did.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Facts. As a Londoner when first visiting the US it hit me like a ton of bricks how big and spaced out your cities are. You damn near need binoculars to see the other side of main roads half the time

I can only imagine how you must’ve felt when you visited LA and Houston

Fun fact btw, Houston covers as much geographic area as London does.

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

Agreed
We made our cities spread out and drivable

which has bit us in the ass imo

Here in the DMV, we have the blessing of having a very walkable central city (DC) with generally walkable inner-ring/close-in suburbs in MD and VA that transitions to wider roads and wider suburbs that eventually transition into either wine country or farm country with plenty of nature nearby. And for all its problems and faults, most cities in this country (Imma say a good 90% of them even) would absolutely kill to have something like WMATA/Metro.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Is nyc designed that much different from London it's dense and full of apartments so idk wym

London is older so they have more apartments and row homes.

NYC has a second portion of the city that was built after the 1940s that has lots of sprawl. Not really going to see a Staten Island and Eastern Queens in London or many European cities but often times people say that Boston is the closest equivalent to London’s since Boston like London doesn’t have a grid

 

[UberEatsDriver]

This London dude has his views of America based on NYC which is common of Europeans who view America as nothing but the east coast and California but I will say that this Twitter user is right about taxes.


Americans are stupid. They hate taxes but want every service to mankind. In this situation I’ll use NYC. Every day dudes is begging for more transportation options and fixtures and sanitation services etc and more police tactics for crime.


But as soon as tax rises to give them what they ask for they get mad pack up their bags and go to North Carolina bragging about how lower the taxes are and then they’ll post in their North Carolina home that “damn there ain’t no subways here why doesn’t Charlotte build a bigger system”

 

[UberEatsDriver]

More ppl in the UK and Canada move to the US than the other way around despite America having over 300 mill

Source?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

The post is about how London (a city) has infrastructure better than NYC (a city)

he also said “Americans” and the funny thing about that post is that NYC is not really an “American” city culturally speaking if you get what I’m saying? That tax mentality for example is much larger in the middle of America which is real American culture

 

[UberEatsDriver]

The problem with this country is that they go through months of going back n forth when it comes to things that will help citizens, cry broke and cut programs on the federal level, then when it’s time to cape for other countries like Ukraine, they suddenly find billions in a matter of days

Yea to get anything done it’s level after level after level

 

[UberEatsDriver]

The bay area the best of both world walkable and spread out/drivable

Imagine if the rest of Cali woulda went with the program

Nothing in this video is really spread out. I see mostly apartments in this video.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Mostly shytty takes. His main takeaways were that NYC is dirty and the infrastructure is bad, because less taxes.

And he’s right! And that’s why we’re a better country than the UK we don’t tax the fukk outta our citizens so we keep more of our capital. We’re entrepreneurs in this bytch. If you wanna work 3 1/2 days out the week and go live off in a quiet English village when you’re old, then yeah go to Europe.

We capitalism in this bytch

Sorry you don’t like our public transport lil british boy I whip my Lexus throughout Atlanta and I do just fine

Yea and in places like Atlanta it’s harder to get out of poverty when you have to depend on a car as your main transport for any little errand. Imagine that. Paying car insurance, car notes, car repairs and all types of fees for transportation when you can save all of that money by being next to a train

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Hate to say but that British breh is right.

London Underground is significantly cleaner and more efficient than the NY subway. And the museum comparison is just depressing.

Their subway isn’t even 24/7

 

[Sankofa Alwayz]

A lot of foreigners arrive in America with images from film, tv and music videos in mind and find out the reality is much different

A lot of them come here thinking NYC and LA are only 30 mins from each other

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Its true. Every time I go to NYC, I have to leave after a few days. As in, I start missing my clean, quiet and comfortable town.

The wealthy parts of NYC are beautiful but, the poor parts look downright third world. It makes you wonder why anyone would live there if they weren't rich or very stable financially.

There is nothing in NYC that looks “third world” and poor areas in nyc wouldn’t even be top 10 in that description.


















What makes your post also ignorant is you expecting a poor area to look beautiful, quite and clean.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

The way eastern European countries have their infrastructure set up, every block can operate as it's own mini economy. Appartment complexes and businesses coexist in the same places so everything seems a short distance.

In the US everything is super spaced out and separated, outside of NYC, the public transportation system is garbage so it always feels like you gotta travel for everything.

Outside the east coast you mean. Y’all forget the entire northeast down to DC is nothing but walkable cities. DC has buses and subways and apartments, so does Philly and so does Boston. You don’t need a vehicle in most east coast cities

 

[desjardins]

America suffers from corruption at every level
From local city council, to police departments, unions, senators and representatives, and federal government
Way too many interests, way too many palms getting greased, and way to easy to block progress with lobbying or culture wars

I don't know enough about the UK to know why they have better infrastructure, but they obviously have some level of corruption too with so many Russian oligarchs and Middle East billionaires parking their money in London