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Last year, my wife toured Budapest, Vienna, & Prague. She said all 3 cities were thriving, spotless, orderly, and safe.
Very few empty stroefronts, no grafitti, no gangs handing out on street corners.
She saw no homeless people, but of course she was in the areas frequesnted by tourists.
She said she hasn't seen any U.S. city looking tht nice, since the 1970's.
Why are our cities a mess? Democrats mostly. The crappy parts of Republican cities & states, are Dem controlled. There are very few exceptions, but if it makes you feel good to point them out, have at it.
I go to OKC all the time. Homeless everywhere. They even panhandle to the people in the Mcdonalds drive thru. Crime is bad, shootings all over town. Big sections near downtown just taken over by the homeless. GOP Mayor and city council.
I agree the Dems can be blamed for much of it. But I don't think there is a magic solution on this. But two parties that fight all the time, can't agree on anything and put their allegiance to their "tribe" above everything else. This all won't be fixed. It will just get worse.
European cities remind me of what cities in the United States where like before mass suburbanization. I have been fortunate enough to visit many European cities in the past few years. The only city which can match a European city with a high degree of energy and vibrancy is Manhattan and maybe Chicago pre covid. Even smaller European cities such as Turin and Seville put much larger US cities to shame.
The United States is a suburban society and much of the population has a disdain for anything urban. Cities where making progress from the 1980's until a few years back, but after covid and insane progressive politics it has put our cities back 30 years and I am not too optimistic that things will improve anytime soon.
The US has more than 5 times the retail space per capita as the UK. No wonder so many US stores are shutting down. To even merely get down to the level of Canada would entail a big chunk of US retail closing.
That's because we were a very wealthy/financially healthy nation.
Now that we're being impoverished, retail will slowly match poorer nations like Canada and all those other Euro states.
Not really. Considering only the city proper, London has slightly more people than New York., Considering the metropolitan area, New York is about 1.5 times bigger.
Why would you only consider city proper?
FYI: That's quite possibly the worst way to compare cities.
European cities remind me of what cities in the United States where like before mass suburbanization. I have been fortunate enough to visit many European cities in the past few years. The only city which can match a European city with a high degree of energy and vibrancy is Manhattan and maybe Chicago pre covid. Even smaller European cities such as Turin and Seville put much larger US cities to shame.
The United States is a suburban society and much of the population has a disdain for anything urban. Cities where making progress from the 1980's until a few years back, but after covid and insane progressive politics it has put our cities back 30 years and I am not too optimistic that things will improve anytime soon.
NY and Chicago are nothing like European cities. Europe doesn't have all the high rises with a massive downtown.
As usual you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I spent a month each in Paris and London and retail is THRIVING in Europe. Perhaps you are referring to Paris or London IN TEXAS???
The Paris and London I went to were in Europe and were absolutely mobbed with shoppers and restaurant diners. So many shops had LINES just to get in the front door I lost count.
Please show us all the photos from your recent travels to Paris FRANCE and London UNITED KINGDOM showing streets devoid of retailers.
I believe you. However, how many of those people were tourists?
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