• roux [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    45
    7 months ago

    I've lived here for over a decade and this is all correct.

    Grab a few tacos on the way through but burn it all down behind you please. It fucking sucks here.

      • @Morgoon@startrek.website
        hexbear
        38
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        I went to Houston for the first time this year. I knew they're against any socialist policies but the thing that shocked me was no sidewalks! I was wondering how they managed so I did some research and they just don't. Hundreds of pedestrians are killed each year in the greater Houston sidewalk-less suburban area (statistically seniors?)

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
          hexbear
          27
          7 months ago

          Houston is a nightmare, I've been doing a ton of permitting out there and it's basically impossible because they use 95% of the right of way for the widest streets possible and if you're lucky enough to have a sidewalk, it usually doesn't connect to anything.

          It's not as bad as Scottsdale/Phoenix though

        • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead
          hexbear
          22
          7 months ago

          Austin is the same, my sister lives there and a couple times while visiting her I walked her dog. Some houses have sidewalks, some don't, it's totally left up to the discretion of the home builder/owner if they want to put one in. So you'll have two houses with side walks then 6 with one and then one house with one...

          It's fucking horrible for walking dogs and pedestrians in general.

        • quarrk [he/him]
          hexbear
          7
          7 months ago

          Yes Houston is one of the cities I went to. I actually tried walking once out of spite. What would have been a 5 minute drive was a 40 minute walk along loud and ugly cement roads breathing in fumes from huge mall crawler Jeeps.