Lots of cars, at least half of which have drivers that really need a course in “Basic driving skills 101”, and not enough road for all the cars? Close enough. Having weather instead of climate makes it more of a “survival”.
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Watched my first orbital rocket launch! Big deal to me. Unfortunately it wasn’t Artemis 1, but a Starlink launch was still a jaw dropping experience.
And I still have Artemis to look forward to!
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Walked the Bridge. For some reason I feel like a Big Mac. Some might say the Mighty Mac.
Turns out I am fat enough not to fall through the road.
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My sister got married this weekend!
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I don’t even struggle, but I don’t want to be forced to do it every day, thus I live in a megacity with crazy metro lines and stuff 
Makes life much calmer. Highly recommend Also, much better for the future of humanity.
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Got a surprise offer of some cool robot parts to try out.
Also, my printer which has been choochin since the 1890s is still going strong!
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I’ll say that that depends on what you’re comparing to–a city of cars driven by 1 person, 100% agree. A city full of cyclists/walkers? Sorry, mate. 
But at least you HAVE a decent mass transit system.
Did about 50 miles on 2 wheels with my dad, 30 of which we had other friends with us. (And leave your batteries at home!)
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Takes ‘original’ in original prusa to a whole new level. It’s now the ‘OG Prusa, even before Josef Prusa came around.’
Finally done with the moving part of moving. The keys to the old place have been handed off! Now just to finish the unpacking part… bleh.
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Last I checked, you have to move out of the new place before the unpacking from moving in is officially over.
Found a box from a 2007 move the other day 
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We’ve lived a few places while living in California and I’m pretty sure we still have boxes that haven’t been opened since we packed them in Texas 
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I think it was safe to assume that most people here are from cities dominated by private cars. So I believe I was comparing a city full of walkers, and transit riders (49% of trips (something like 20 million a day) made on foot, 35% by transit) to a city of people who drive everywhere
Walking to most things is realllyyyyyy nice I need to get my bicycle fixed though, or get an electric bike. These hills are rough for non-electric bikes.
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So, that’s maybe not a valid assumption. FRC teams overly represent suburban communities rather than urban.
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Which would be car-dominated cities. But my point was more that they’re likely to be from American cities, where even the center cores are entirely car dominated. With maybe a half-exception for NYC (the core, not the metro area, the metro area is just as bad as all the other American cities w/r/t driving everywhere).
Let’s put it this way, I feel like when I left the U.S., I learned what a real city is. That is the state of urbanism in the U.S. (my country of birth).
Another one. I completed the first shift of my new “gig” - volunteer at the Detroit Zoo.
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The (first) concrete was poured for our new practice area today. In the past the school has given us practice areas, but they’ve been shared or on another campus from the shop. So it will be nice to have an area that’s all ours right out back.
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Oh, I really don’t call most suburbs cities.
I mean, I don’t really usually distinguish between center city and suburb. Suburbs are a lame administrative construct born largely out of racism, and administratively should be abolished. Each metropolitan area should have one overarching urban administration, not 200. In this sense, I love Türkiye. İstanbul is with the exception of one district, Gebze, entirely administrated by the city of İstanbul. (some day perhaps Kocaeli will give us Gebze…) Portland and Minneapolis at least have Metro authorities, which manage planning for the metropolitan area, though they don’t have the teeth they really should. having 200 municipalities fighting each other / competing within one city is insanity.
I’m guessing @Andrew_Schreiber didn’t intend for this thread to devolve into a nerdy conversation on public administration, but here we are, so let’s do it.
Broadly, I’m confused what point you’re trying to make. Is it that you like Turkey better than the U.S.? If so, point taken – thanks for your opinion. If not, what are you hoping to share or learn from your posts here?
This isn’t really realistic or how this. I live in Los Angeles, California. We’re one the biggest cities in the world by most metrics. We’re made up of many, many neighborhoods, all governed by the city of LA. We share a mayor, emergency services, social services, etc.
The city of LA is situated in the even larger LA County. This is where things get interesting. There are some other cities in LA County that have their own city government and emergency services (Pasadena, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills). You have other cities in the county that are small enough that they don’t have all their own city services, but do maintain a city government (Santa Clarita, Bradbury, Diamond Bar). Finally, you have unincorporated areas of the county that have no city government or services (Castaic, Marina del Ray, Topanga).
The areas that have some but not all city services + the unincorporated territories do two things: they recieve services from neighboring municipalities (e.g. a shared school district across multiple small cities) and/or they recieve services provided by LA County (such as the county Sheriff who provide policing services anywhere a city doesn’t have their own).
This is the standard model. Obviously LA is huge by comparison, but I don’t understand what you’re talking about with competing resources. If, for geopolitical, historical, or practical reasons, some cities are smaller enclaves but can sufficiently share services or recieve services from a county/larger entity, what’s the problem? To me, this is one of those problems which primarily exists in theory, and we’ve proven we can work around it. I’m sure there are counterexamples of where this has failed, but I can think of far more where it continues to succeed.
This isn’t really true. The literature is clear that the racial divides in suburbs are a symptom of the racial wealth gap, not its own disease. Even if it was, the origins don’t necessarily mean something should be abolished today.
Suburbs are old. Really old. They expanded mostly due to mass transit (streetcar, eventually trains) expansion and the readiness of the consumer car. Both made commuting much more realistic. At the same time, economics and government programs incentivized building new properties rather than retrofitting old ones.
I’m not a suburb kind of guy – I live in Koreatown, one of the densest and busiest parts of mid-city Los Angeles. However, suburb life does appeal to people, especially families and those looking to buy larger properties. Why must you dictate what other people should do?
I feel like when you left the U.S., you found a different lifestyle that exists in some countries – where cities are smaller and denser. If you prefer that, it’s fine. And you’re welcome to argue the merits of why you like those cities better. It comes off as antagonistic and condescending, though, when you say that U.S. cities aren’t “real” cities.
Back to what I think was your original point, yes more mass transit would be nice 
/rant
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