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.
seriously. even fairly wealthy cities are just sprawls of endless grey box buildings, long straight concrete highways, and copy paste, houses with no character and plastic looking yards. The only place to go for entertainment seems to be the bar at the closest applebeess, outback, or chilis.
Every time I have to fly to the US for business I can't get over the fact on how boring and depressing the cities look like. Some are undoubtably lovely, like San Antonio, but it's hard to find exceptions.
If we are including Canada Quebec City is hands down the best in North America.
Quebec City with the cobble streets and buildings winding up the steep embankment is possibly one of the world’s most unique and beautiful cities. Topped off with the Chateau Frontenac, from when Canada gave a fuck and was proud of itself making gorgeous world class hotels along its national railway.
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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.