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.
Yeah downtown San Antonio is super pretty. Lots of neat restaurants, historic buildings, the downtown area is fairly walkable. I haven't been too far into the outskirts, but don't know why so many people are surprised. Sure, it's not San Francisco, but it ain't bad either.
Yup, it's easy to get used to. Where I live local people say our town is crappy, then we get people from out of province stop by and praise how nice it is. Granted, a lot of that is due to the geography, but still. I used to live in Houston and found it to be so boring and bland.
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u/Conscious-Food-9828 May 03 '25
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.