• anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        Huh? I mean buildings get condemned or rebuilt sometimes, but talk like that tells me you haven’t been to Boston or New York.

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    1 year ago

    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.