The invention of smartphones and social media is one of the most vile, evil and sadistic things that was ever invented for humanity. It made us lazy couch potatoes and kids don't go outside because why go outside when you can just chat with your friends online? Why go to a restaurant and hang with buddies when you can just order through delivery? For thousands of years, we have built connections with people by going outside and meeting people, even in our primitive days as Cavemen, we go outside our caves to socialize, play and hunt our food together under the sun. Now you suddenly take that away by introducing social media and tech? Our human brains and DNA are NOT wired to adapt to these changes and probably won't be until we use them for thousands of years, but tech is constantly evolving, how do you expect our human brains to adapt to this fast-paced lifestyle? Damn, it's no wonder that suicide is one the leading causes of death nowadays because technology has turned us into vegetables!
I'm currently a homeschooler who just stays in bed all day and i do not enjoy it much. (I do get up to get myself food though and take care of myself) But i feel very isolated even though i'm stuck with my siblings 24/7. I hate it so much but i can't go to public schools or i'm going to panic from all the constant noise going on at the same time, plus if i wanted to make friends i'm extremely awkward and would just wait for someone else to talk to me. I have been friends with my neighbours kids but their just toxic as fuck, one kept stealing attention from me by going to my own damn mom and acting like its her mom. Thank god my mom stopped letting her come over, and the second one was just straight up rude. Her mom was being nice and letting me borrow her old clothes and just had to call me ugly, plus she's rude to my brothers and made me feel left out when with her other friends.
Keep it up man you're inspiring me to possibly even start my own channel speaking of this very thing except going into more detail on the impacts on the environment.
At least you are not living in a 45 floors building that you only have one piece of one floor and the building can just fall in an earthquake and kill you.
Maybe not every place is good for small businesses, especially those one considers silly. Remember, there are a lot of “Scotch Boutiques and “Everything Bows and Ribbons” type silly stores that fail as soon as it rains.
1. Everyone is in Jail or in Rehab...lol 2. A lot of these houses are EMPTY !!!! 3. These houses are EMPTY!!! 4. Why are they ... they building more houses ....
America is very antisocial and wants to make things harder for people in terms of social and economic activities and opportunities. It's a way to control Americans and make people lazy. Sure, suburbs can provide some benefits like privacy and more open space but we need more walkable cities and towns instead of the 4-5 handful of cities in America.
The small town I live in Spain,leave the apartment building. Below is a bank,small super mkt,optic center, pizza place drug store, bar, pharmacy ,bakery. exMichigan in Spain 🇪🇸🇪🇺👍
in US we rarely have "city" we only have loose gathering of houses. no culture is there, no community is there. only way to get there is by car. no wonder people in US are on the edge to start civil war. there has no sense of belonging
Hearing about all of this insanity with the Toronto streetcars unironially makes me happier about San Diego's "trolley" or light rail network, which does ALL of the logical that you pointed here: dedicated light rail stops with benches/times/ticket machines at EVERY stop and every street crossing is treated as a rail crossing where all traffic stops (except in downtown but they dont share space with cars). I often have the problem of the damn trolley arriving too early. We have one minor segment of single track that was a bottleneck on the system, but they are fixing that with a "new" line to separate the single and double track sections. So we will have consistent 15 min frequency across the entire system now.
0:04 Okay, I was going to school 50 years ago, and we didn't dress that way in the 70s. Some girls still wore dresses, but pants were getting more and more popular. This looks more like the 1950s or 60s. We also had the technology to film in color by then. Not hatin', just sayin'. 😄
4:12 Kids in 90s/2000s cartoons used to walk everywhere all the time! You even see it in Sesame Street and a lot of shows for preschoolers/kindergartners! (To be fair, Sesame Street was shot in NYC)
Used to live urban. Really, I didn’t mind the density but it was the increase of violence, crime and vagrancy that made me want to leave. Lived in the burbs for a bit, and then went rural. We can grow some of our own food, enjoy cleaner air than in the city, and generally just live more humanly. That said, it took a lot of work and earnings to score some rural property that is still within driving range to various conveniences.
feds forced us to live amongst the low trust or flee. We've surrendered our greatest cities, our centers of commerce and innovation to people who shouldn't even be here.
The Rideau St McDonald’s was fucking next level man. Ottawa lost a lot with that closure. I’d actively avoid the place and instead go to Bank St when I lived there lol.
America is screwing up mixed use so bad lmaooo it's never a big area, it will be a tiny neighborhood with one restaurant and maybe a gym called "Jenny's Sweat Camp" with a parking lot next to it lol
You should definitely be a city planner (if you aren't already),, use these videos as your portfolio. You are able to explain the issues and the best way forward in a way anyone can understand
