Like yeah sure I want to go outside and be looked at by 100s of strangers and do all of nothing in my shit failing city yeah
Maybe I can go to to the shoreline of the lake so polluted that it gives people hives after they go into it for too long or maybe I can sit and oggle the homeless people and watch cops harass them or maybe I can spend like 80 bucks that I dont have on shit I dint need on the remains of a torn down mall or eat food that's addictive and slowly killing me. Maybe I could be forced to rise a bike in the fucking thin ass shitty roads and fuckinf die because it's literally illegal to ride in the sidewalks also it's impossibleto go to one side of the town without a car because it's illegal to ride a bike on the road that connects the two parts
Or maybe I can get arrested for being in the river that's only allowed to be sailed upon for some reason
Or maybe I can go to the "bad side" of town and step in broken glass and dog shit
Or better yet, I can go to the "good side" of town and have rocks and slurs thrown at me if I wear a floral patterned jacket
City life fucking sucks
I miss living in the countryside but I dont miss the shit internet speeds lol
i like cities but by god american cities are truly shitholes
maybe it's because california ran itself into the ground with liberal-communism but every major city I've visited here is a literal and figurative shithole
It’s not just California, it’s everywhere.
Non-shitholes are reserved for paying customers (gated communities for the rich, suburbs, etc)
even the suburbs are shitty though, lol, just not like, "aesthetically". I live in a wealthy suburb and it's a fucking cultural and spiritual graveyard. Having to drive to go to the grocery store literally only a mile and a half away is fucking SOUL crushing. You're just in your car ALL of the time, EVERYWHERE.
Also, SF is a playground for the rich and the income inequality is so bad even money can't fix it, unless they literally go mask off and start piling the homeless and working poor into Auschwitz style graves
Oh yeah you’re right. Only gated communities are ok. In america you gotta pay for a non-hellscape existence. That shit ain’t free.
Yeah it's so bad. There is no level of community in this country that isn't terrible.
Large cities are too noisy, have awful air quality, are too hot in the summer, and have all the problems you described.
Midsized and small cities have most of the problems above but they also tend to have a lot less to do and worse job opportunities.
Small towns have nothing to do and very shitty job prospects. Can be very hard to get quality groceries depending on how far the next city is. Usually infested with the worst type of chuds. Upsides are the air quality and noise, usually less absolute poverty (dying in the street, freezing to benches in polar vorteces) because people tend to be more supportive and willing to help each other out and housing is cheaper.
True rural can be good depending on your lifestyle preferances but my main issue with it was the fact that you're effectively on your own and everything (work, school, grocery store, hospital, etc) is far away.
I haven't run into that, but then again I do crime and be gay pr regularly. It keeps things interesting.
I would never move back to farmville. The cops are worse. The environment is just as polluted. It takes five hours to go to the grocery store. No jobs. Too may whites. Too many Christians. Gay shame as far as the eye can see. No political orgs with anything resembling good politics, and no political will to start them. There are even more people too high on meth to function in rural areas. The metric for fun otherwise is popping a bunch of pills or getting smashed and watching some boring sport. The gossip travels too fast, and if someone is terrible the population is too sparse to avoid them when you go to the single hospital/grocery store/school/working toilet within 100 square miles. Library? What library? The cheaper cost of living is completely offset by having to commute for any kind of good paying job. The biggest economic center in the county is the slave labor from the state prison. The world will end before you get public transit. Weird things happen in the woods at night. Was that a shadow outside the window? I'm so far out here no one can here me scream. That sounded like glass shattering. Oh fuck they're inside the house now. I get no reception out here. Oh my fucking god
I can't even fucking walk down my road because everyone's got covid brain now and drive worse than before. Barely any sidewalks and fuckers go like 60+ in the 35 here and of course the pigs never do shit about it.
I want to petition for a speed bump in front of my house and just live stream that shit