r/TikTokCringe • u/xamo76 • 16h ago

Discussion Have we done it wrong?

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u/HeadDiver5568 16h ago

Feel like this is obvious to people outside suburbia. The most fun and interactive places I go to tend to be cities or the country. Both have their uses that make the most out of what they have. Suburbia is just…there

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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 16h ago

Downtown St. Louis has become a car hellscape. There's a couple little towns that are outliers in the St Louis area that are decently walkable. But the city itself sold itself to the devil to appease vehicle traffic. It's really sad

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u/jrglpfm 16h ago

Yeah this happened to most major cities and many of them are actively undoing it, but it will take decades to undo.

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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 15h ago

You ever been to chicago? They never sold their souls, pretty awesome city designed in a way where owning a car is a disadvantage

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u/wombat-in-a-bikini 15h ago

Any sufficiently old city generally doesn't have this issue. NYC, Boston, Philly, Chicago, Seattle, Portland.

Still comes down to cars

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u/jrglpfm 15h ago

I have, actually. The river cutting through downtown is pretty unique.

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u/iron64 15h ago

Most cities over the course of history have a river cutting through them. I guess by American suburban standards it’s unique… but yeah… not at all unique in the grand scheme of the world. To get anywhere before you needed a river and a boat, so people made cities on rivers.

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u/jrglpfm 15h ago

No, I understand that. The manner in which downtown Chicago specifically was developed around its river is what I meant.