Morning Discussion
Having stayed in an American suburb for a few weeks last year, I'm oddly repulsed yet fascinated and enthralled by them. Please, video games, take me there.
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Does england not have suburbs around large cities? I've sadly only been to london proper. :(
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Doesn't every place that wasn't seriously developed until the last couple hundred years follow that model? England is an exception because there's thousands of years of history of development already and people aren't going to say, "Let's bulldoze the amazing character of this old town and put up a Wal-Mart." Unfortunately when you have nothing else around like in the US, terrible unsustainable developments are the thing to do, only to see them abandoned in 20 years.
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I hate our stupidity, hey let's spread OUT and drive BIG CARS and all have GIANT homes which are built very in-efficiently but we can put a MASSIVE air conditioner and heater on the place. My family are all from England and they basically laugh at housing codes in this country, the homes are made of plastic and paper. Don't last long and a cunt to keep warm or cool.
Melbourne has only 5 million people but it's near 60 miles from one end of the suburbs to the other full end.
London and Hong Kong are such better cities.-
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I laughed at housing in England, when I was there. Insanely, ridiculously cramped living spaces - it was like being shoved into a tiny doll world. Every time I opened a car door in a parking lot (even) I feared denting some other car's door since parking spaces, like everything else there, were minuscule at best. It was literally like a breath of fresh air to come back home to the USA after my tour in England and park somewhere and actually have freakin' room to open my car door.
I liked my time there but there aren't too many things I'll miss about the place from a living perspective, though the people were lovely and it was awesome to be somewhere were futbol reigned! -
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In Orwell's 'Why I write' he talks about how there really is no one defining thing that makes us 'English' none of really have any aspirations yet in times of need we can all pull together and be 'English' We are a strange bunch.
I think my 'English Dream' is to have a manner house and be the Duchy of a small Hamlet. I would have 20 or 30 peasant families working the land and serving under my protectorate and I in turn would ensure their well-being.
Its a modest dream I know but one I hope to someday live. -
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the "american dream" is often misinterpreted as the desire to have a house, kids, two cars, and a relatively well-off life. in reality it is, and always has been, the opportunity for people to follow their passion and live their life in the way they see fit. which is a pretty cool foundation. it just gets obscured and in the 1950's, when a single-income family of four could live in a three-bedroom suburban house, it was assumed that's what everyone wanted.
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Funny video about annoying London hipsters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I
(repost from ER)
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