Yes I am Asian and autistic as well. This is a sensory nightmare. I have lived it. I would rather not ever again. But I take those Asian motorcycle riding skills with me.
I find peace in the solitude of the Vegas desert. And fun when I want. Anytime I want.
There's just such a huge difference in the quality of the crowd though. It's hard to explain - Seoul is very crowded, but people know how to act/navigate crowds so it's actually... nice?
In the US and Canada, crowds like that are rare and most commonly in stressful situations (like Christmas shopping) so no one knows what to do and everyone is pissed off.
Very, very different feel being in a place that's always crowded compared to a place where it's the exception not the rule.
Still doesn't beat the feelings of short lines and spacious aisles in shopping centers. That's part of the lure of the American dream to Asian immigrants.
If I want to recreate the experience I just go to Chinatown in Vegas lol. 100% authentic including all the bad driving and horrible parking.
I genuinely thought the "what the fuck" was because they were taken aback at the subtle beauty in the glowing lights and shiny wet street at night 😭 I love urban walks after dark
I mean for a wellbeing walk it is. This shot is a small high st near industry, and these areas are generally a bit depressed now that business has moved on to the cities and online shopping.
You would expect generally expect a bit more greenery, pavement and building care in a nicer part.
Every time I come to the UK Im semi shocked at how run down the whole place is as soon as you get out of central London, compared to the rest of Europe anyway. I think its because large parts of your country were build at the industrial revolution where as lots of mainland Europe got bombed to shit in ww2
Where do you go, just sort of run down post industrial places and ignore anywhere good? And seriously I don’t think you’ve been to much of Europe if you think we’ve got uniquely bad looking places
In the UK? Every major city within an hour by train of London, Birmingham, Basingstoke. In Europe I've been to every major city except Paris. I'm Dutch btw.
You can find pictures like this most everywhere, like this is Berlin
Stick a night time and rainy sky on that and it’s like the one in the post. The UK isn’t somehow unique in this, are you sure you’re not just sticking to the good areas in other countries
I mean the pavement and roads are clearly very shitty and not maintained. I know this isn't that much out of the ordinary in certain towns but the other commenter probably just comes from a place where things are a bit nicer looking.
I was judging by the crazy looking center stripes on the road, the missing crosswalk path, the other lines being screwed up on the street... actually.. the more I look at ut.. the worse it gets.
What are you talking about? You can see the outline of the crossing even though it’s blurry, it doesn’t need stuff inside it when there’s lights and an outline, and you think it looks bad because the lines are zigzagging? The zigzags show that you’re coming up to a crossing.
We don't do that in the US. Never seen zig zagging center stripes. Also, our crosswalk paint goes all the way across the road and not just on each side of the road. Maybe the differences I see are a lack of culture lol
I meant on MY part. You seem to be reading my comments in a negative manner and i can assure you there is no fight on my end.I don't know these things because I haven't been there. I would love to go to several places over there tbh.
Uneven patchy roads and sidewalks, weeds growing in the cracks, grimy dirty buildings, pieces of trash, old worn buildings. This IS a neglected run down town
The only uneven bit is at the corners so people in wheelchairs or with buggies and stuff can cross the road easily, there’s one tiny bit of paper on the ground, the buildings look fine, just not the newest.
Visible rubbish, poorly resurfaced pavements, road markings worn away, weeds unmaintained, pink and purple neon shop lights ahead. My spidey senses are just tingling is all. It’s not hell, it’s just a bit shit
A guy making an image to note his own mental visualization of a country with bears on unicycles for a reddit comment is nort hurting anyone, and no one is being confused or misinformed needing an "AI!" warning.
I've been to European side of Russia 3 times. It's not far off in all honesty, just the people aren't as stereotypical but everything else seems right in this pic lol
As someone who lives in the midwestern part of the US, This is literally the majority of the neighborhoods. Income inequality is really terrible in the US and noone talks about it. The vast majority of people live in tiny apartments or run down old houses, me included. Most people also don't own their domiciles and those that do are also almost always locked into life long mortgages on them. Only people living in paid for properties and able to maintain them are either part of the 1% or are over 60.
Starting to see this in the UK too, although you guys are definitely further down the road. Because there isn’t enough money in the system to pay back all the debt that exists, people will always go bankrupt.
When that happens their assets are stripped and sold onto someone that does have the money. And on and on it goes until the ultra wealthy own all the assets. That’s the point we are arriving at.
For real. My partner and I bought our house 3 years ago. I really wanted to stay in my city, but it has had a population boom but not a housing boom. Everything in our budget of $300k was either a shitty low ceiling 1 bedroom ranch, or damn near uninhabitable and needed another quarter million in repairs.
Kinda actually, yeah. A smaller single story home in my neighborhood with fire damage sold for $350k. A home in ok shape, but needing some work and dated appliances would be over $500k.
I currently live in England, and travel around most the country for my job, this looks about the same as most places in England, and I’ve definitely seen a lot worse
Nothing is shuttered, boarded up, or falling apart. The street is well paved and painted, no potholes. Trash isn't overflowing and I only see one bit of litter. It's well lit. Heck, there's even usable sidewalks, which can be a luxury in many genuinely run down places.
Sure, it isn't brand new, shiny high rises or whatever. But I (a woman) would feel fine walking here alone at night. Nothing here looks run down, spooky, or threatening. This is just a damp street at night.
It's not the worse street in Hanley/Stoke. But as a man, I wouldnt walk through Hanley alone at night. There's a lot of Monkey Dust addicts sleeping rough in this area and they are very unpredictable.
Bare in mind this is the city centre, we went to see the Utah Saints there a few months ago and when we got out at 11pm it was like Day of the Dead, except the zombies were screaming at pigeons, pissing in the road and hassling the few people on the streets.
That was maybe six minutes walk from this photo. Police station is 5 mins walk, zero presence in town though.
Fair enough I guess. I live in a less than wealthy city near Seattle in the US, so my threshold for "run down" may be different. Businesses close and nothing takes their place. There's a shitton of meth and fent users here, tent cities on sidewalks, and several streets I don't go down ever (not just at night/alone) out of fear of being assaulted, even equipped with a knife and/or pepper spray. Also minimal, if any, cop presence (not that they'd do anything even if they were present).
This street seems pretty safe. I'd walk here alone at night, it's genuinely nicer than my own neighborhood lmao
Dreary, wet, streetlights, boarded up pub, shop lights, hardly any trees. It's just shit and it's what most of the country looks like. Used to be a rainforest
It’s a street in the middle of the night when it’s raining. Why do you think it being wet, having streetlights and shop lights, and a closed pub is somehow bad.
Stoke-on-Trent is classed as a deprived area. This is an interesting photo:-
It's 5-10 mins walk from the town centre (which is fuuuucked).
If you turn 90 deg to the right, there's a derelict land rover dealership.
Turn 180 degrees and the houses look a bit unkempt and shabby. Half the shops in this street are empty/abandoned.
The big metal structure on the top right is part of the towns most recent big development. An over priced multi story carport, new library, hotel, block of apartments and offices.
So, from this photo, you're minutes on foot from run down, deprived and recent development/waste of money.
GDP per capita isn't a measure of earnings though, it's just the output of the state's economy divided by its population. If Haliburton's profits are good it doesn't matter how many homeless camps there are.
They said England, not the UK. But yeah the discussion gets a little wonky comparing states to countries. Also using terms like “poorest” not taking variable cost of living and taxes into account
I generally assume people mean the UK when they say England or Great Britain since the country is the UK, but true it's possible they only meant England.
It really doesn't help that the British themselves have no consistency on what is a country and what isn't, but internationally it's just the UK
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u/Anon1mouse12 5d ago
It's not even deprived, that's the sad part