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What a shame you don’t have good public transit, horrible crime and pollution, poor schools and a police force that is actively against you. The US does not have a single city in the top 20 worlds most livable for a reason. (Many, actually)
It's a big country. Even today there are wonderful places to live in the USA, and also terrible places.
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It's because living in downtown Vancouver is expensive. Your rent probably comes close to covering the mortgage on one of those huge empty houses in the suburbs. That fresh baked good is probably ~$4 while the equivalent at Walmart is $1. No doubt it's a great lifestyle for well off DINKs. A lot harder to make it work for a family of 5 on 50k a year.
It shouldn’t be, and certainly doesn’t have to be. Logically it should be cheaper to live in an apartment than an entire house - obviously. Suburbs are subsidized by economic centres. And the state of affairs in North America - Vancouver included - is we’re not building housing to match demand. That’s true purely in terms of individual units but it’s also true for types of units. Like apartments that aren’t luxury un…
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Those top 20 livable lists are always pretty narrowly defined though. They’ll mention some pricey cities in Switzerland for sure, and for forget the poor slouches that have to commute into Bern from Freiburg.
> They’ll mention some pricey cities in Switzerland The thing is that these cities aren't pricy for swiss people, with a swiss pay-cheque (err, direct bank-to-bank money transmit). It's all a result of decades long higher inflation there, that now has this extreme price difference. And with prices did their wages increase ... but not yours, visiting Switzerland. At least the country is so small you can just drive thr…
I wonder if the USA will go down the same route eventually.
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I live in Ballard Seattle, we have most of that except the hot pot place (we are getting a Korean BBQ someday soon though). Ok, no imax (you have to take the bus to Seattle center for that). And…no subway-like mass transit until 2065 it seems. But you can get that in the states, you just need to pay for it, although the prices are something Vancouverites can surely emphasize with. And frankly, Vancouver area has some…
> The nice thing about living in China was that it was easy and cheap to live urban. It is not that cheap when you adjust for the average hourly salary. and imported goods are disproportionly expensive when you need them
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> ... they could find this in pretty much any Spanish city That's a horseload of bullcrap. For a start there are plenty of pickpockets in many spanish cities (not just Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia). Then there are people visiting houses: don't tell me it doesn't happen for I had my house visited by thieves the one time I forgot to put the alarm on (because I had to run to the ER for my daughter was between life and…
But nobody in Japan is actually living. They are all in a rush to get home or work or school. I feel sorry how little time they actually get to do things they want to do on their own schedule.
The BBC forgot - or, as is more likely, refused to mention - rule #0: ensure a homogeneous culture with rather stringent rules around public behaviour.
When I read comments like yours, I always read "homogeneous" as "ethnically pure", and judge the comment writer accordingly. No debating about the stringent rules, which I'ver read comes from the Samurai times, but I think your projecting your idea of "racism works!"...
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> but I think your projecting your idea of "racism works!"...
You're judging what you want to see which says a lot about you and nothing about the comment. Let me spell it out for you so that you may not make this mistake next time:
Culture [1]: the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time
Ethnicity [2]: a large group of people with a shared culture, language, history, set of traditions, etc., or the fact of belonging to one of these groups
Neither the word culture (which I used) nor ethnicity (which you used) are related to race or racism (which you used as well). As you see, your claims of racism are in the eyes of the beholder, i.e. yours.
Drop it already, stop thinking in terms of race and racism. Do better as 'progressives' like to say, or educate yourself or whatever terms you prefer to use. Accept that not everyone thinks like you, in terms of race. Accept that most people use words like culture in their original meaning as stated above. Accept, in other words, that most people are not as race-fixated as you seem to be judging by your comment.
[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/culture
[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ethnicit...
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When I read comments like yours, I always read "homogeneous" as "ethnically pure", and judge the comment writer accordingly. No debating about the stringent rules, which I'ver read comes from the Samurai times, but I think your projecting your idea of "racism works!"...
> When I read comments like yours, I always read "homogeneous" as "ethnically pure", and judge the comment writer accordingly. followed by: > but I think your projecting your idea of "racism works!"... You're judging what you want to see which says a lot about you and nothing about the comment. Let me spell it out for you so that you may not make this mistake next time: Culture [1]: the way of life, especially the ge…
Freaking bigots, arguing about words rather than their bigotry...
I have been living in the inaka for 8 years now and I always laugh at this kind of articles. They only focus on the core areas of Tokyo, Osaka, and a few big others cities, and forget to mention that outside of those areas the whole country is just endless urban sprawl of the ugliest, soulless cities you can imagine.
just don't live in the countryside then, there's a reason their population is decreasing
I have watched a few videos on YT of people riding or walking around Tokyo and other cities. I think its a good example of what life there is really like in terms of seeing the environment, cleanliness, beauty, nature, buildings and more. The only people in the background that I could see were people, young and old, travelling to and from school, offices, workplaces and so on. The video was long and if i were to trav…
US's #1 priority is to separate out the undesirables from living next to you. This was accomplished by zoning (big lots, min construction size, HOAs, laws), suburbs, must have car, etc -- all of which are only accessible to the super rich.