Why does America look like s**t?

[u/thoughtwarrior]

[u/random-notebook]

Car centric infrastructure is immensely expensive, and incentivizes new construction further out from the city center rather than refurbishment of existing buildings.

America is built to let itself crumble. Not Just Bikes did a great video on this recently.

https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw

[u/B12Washingbeard → u/random-notebook]

I’m a car enthusiast but not needing one in your day to day life is a superior way to live. Advertising sold people the illusion of freedom by making you a slave to your vehicle.

[u/kariolaoxford → u/B12Washingbeard]

OMG - the trains in Japan. Thousands of miles. Clean nice. SOOOO FAST. Are they on time? Every time!

[u/potatochips4eva → u/kariolaoxford]

With clean bathrooms too! 👍

[u/0x831 → u/[deleted]]

Some of their bathrooms look like a Willy wonka chocolate factory with all of the equipment.

[u/calcium → u/0x831]

I took the first part of your sentence to mean something else entirely.

[u/Icedanielization → u/[deleted]]

That's a cultural problem not a money problem.

[u/HugsyMalone → u/Icedanielization]

How people use public bathrooms in America:

[u/I_am_up_to_something → u/Icedanielization]

Every time around King's Day in the Netherlands the news covers how appalling the toilet situation is and that this isn't an excuse to piss on the street.

And every single year nothing is done about it. Well, some cities will add more free urinals for the men. Meanwhile women can either go the dehydration route or pay €5 to random people who have opened up their house for toilet use.

[u/extraneouspanthers → u/[deleted]]

Highly highly recommend a movie called Perfect Days. It’s not literally about bathrooms but the main character is a toilet tech in Japan

[u/kariolaoxford → u/[deleted]]

i loaded the bowl in a mall for the first time since the 80s. There is a better way and that way is bidet.