American suburbians travel in steel bubbles, never having to interact with anyone aside from some sort of homogeneous chain store in their local community. Living in a dense city, one might not know their neighbors, but since we all live on top of each other, we have to find a way to coexist. One of the bigger issues I found with american suburbs, is the false sense of community. I grew up in american suburbs and have spent my adult life in nyc and berlin, so feel I have a relevant perspective. Maybe these 20% left are but that doesn't change the numbers much. They are paying for themselves and their suburbian life-style. They are funding the later redistribution from which suburbs are extra-maintained. The point is: There's not much these "others" that would pay these suburbians for their taxes. General funds which are powered by suburbian residents, which would be taxed, simply in a different way if there was a road tax, but the sum wouldn't differ. What it means is that suburbs aren't costing more than these people are earning, becouse they (in 80%) are the tax base with which suburbs are funded.Īlso our roads don't tax cars enough so they are going to take the money out of other more general funds to pay for the car. Your pocket, becouse 80% Americans which are living in suburbs, pay taxes for the suburban life, there not many "others" to cover this for them. If you don't directly pay for parking, it's coming out of someone's pocket. I would take an american suburb over this french "suburb" any day. In Europe, even though we have "suburbs", they are nowhere like those in America, sometimes they are more high density and shadier than the city. While vising the US I was really surprised with how pleasant the suburbs looked, even though some cities looked like one parking lot after another. ![]() It's easier and cheaper to get a decent house in an american suburbs than almost anywhere in Europe. They may seem they're everywhere when visiting Europe but living there is another matter. Those walkable European trendy neighborhoods with beautiful old buildings are not that common and they're expensive. I now live in a high density mostly communist built district and I don't have many things to do in walking distance, most people have cars and use them to drive when going to work or shopping. ![]() And boring is what I want my neighborhood to be, a safe place for the kids to play outside. Lack of public transportation isn't exactly the fault of the suburbs as they can coexist. Two criticisms I've heard are the reliance on a personal car and that they're boring. ![]() But for traipsing around the real world: not so much.I have heard some very harsh opinions about suburbs in the US but what exactly makes the bad? Galliano, but hellooooo strappy, platformish situation down below! They are lovely little sculptures, these shoes, worth admiring and puzzling over the physics. ![]() Sometimes the shoes were so fantastic the clothes were an afterthought. At Rodarte, Prada, and Miu Miu, models stumbled- ouch!-and tripped- oof!-and wiped out completely- splat!-and it was impossible not to wonder: If professionals can’t make it down twenty feet of flat plywood while glued into their shoes-yes, designers have resorted to glue-how in the world am I going to make it across Lex? And the poor clothes. They are clunky and spiky and outrageous, studded up like dog collars or all tricked out with vertiginous, inverted ( Excuse me?) heels. But this season, they reached some sort of (ankle-) breaking point. This is not new shoes have been getting bigger and weirder for a few years now. So there’s this undeniable thing happening with shoes right now.
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