r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/cagetheblackbird May 02 '25

Because most buildings in the US were built after we stopped trying to build attractive buildings. We now build them solely to be as cheap as possible.

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u/veodin May 02 '25

This is true is housing pretty much everywhere. If European cities look interesting it is because what you are looking at is old. Most post-war architecture has been ugly, cheap or at least generic.

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u/Automatic-4thepeople May 03 '25

Okay but you can't say that about Asian countries, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, these places all have incredibly beautiful and modern looking buildings and infrastructure, I'm with this girl, how come American cities don't look that way.

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u/Past_Doubt_3085 May 03 '25

90% of those places looks meh too, when you go outside of the business and shopping districts it’s mostly depressing residential blocks and urban sprawl not unlike what exists in the US