The insane amount of work to get anything good done due to American bureaucracy is just incredible.

Two years later, he’s still awaiting an approval from the Bureau of Development Services, this one for railings along outside walkways.

It's taking them over two years to approve railings, that should be a week max.

“I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t give the city its $50,000, get my permit, and start building,” Gregory says. “The city completely shut down [for COVID], and I was stuck with a project that needed about an hour of the building department’s time. No one had a single fuck to give.”

Makes me think of this story about the French rail abandoning California

This country is so fucking dysfunctional.