Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA?
tymon@lemm.ee 1 week agoRespectfully, there is absolutely nothing ***typical ***about New York City. There isn’t a single other city in the entire country that even begins to compare to NYC’s size and scale, and complexity.
A “typical” American city would be White Plains, NY, or Richmond, VA.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The first picture isn’t very typical of rural towns either.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 week ago
I’ll give you the first image. Like I said, I only spent a couple minutes finding them. But the second is absolutely typical, in my experience. In small rural towns, the “downtown” is concentrated like this (maybe with 1 fewer floor, and narrower roads). I’ve seen this exact scene in multiple smaller towns, literally all over the US…
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Narrower roads and shorter buildings is a start, now simplify the architecture, add space between the buildings, get rid of the “downtown” apartment buildings, definitely ditch that bike lane, is that a traffic light in the distance, lol. If you can’t imagine the smell of livestock shit permeating the air, you’re not really looking at rural America.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Rural towns. And yes, that’s what I’ve experienced.