American Cities Decline
Users debate the failures, poor governance, and unlivable conditions of American cities, often comparing them to global counterparts and arguing against generalizations or cherry-picking examples.
📉 Falling 0.3x Politics & Society
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Cities have really bad failure modes.
hurry there are cities that haven't been completely turned to shit yet!
Not all cities are… things like that don’t happen in my city
Reading the news it sounds like it's the city being a dick.
Compared to what cities? Other cities seem to have the same problem.
Problem is American cities are not nice to live in.
Sounds like the bar for model city is set too low.
Maybe those cities are not desirable for a reason?
Cities aren't being burned down
Cherry-picking a few cities is not helpful