WHy do all american cities, besides ny and a select few suck?

Question

The select few are seattle, portland, miami. washington and chicago. The rest are suburbia central, where you cant live without a car, and where its hell with or without a car

Answer 1

None of the cities/town suck. It all depends on what you are used too or looking for. For me,larger cities are nice to visit but when it is time to sleep i don't want to hear all that racket. I prefer them within commuting distance. Peace.

Answer 2

Here are a few possibilities of which no one item alone may have been enough:

(1) English imperialism: This got the lumpy, misshapen ball rolling.
(2) The type of Englishman most likely to come to the Americas prior to secession from the Kingdom of Great Britain. I'm thinking first, but not exclusively, about the man of commerce, i.e. the go-getter.
(3) A Jewish cult called papism, the source of Anglican Christianity, which first polluted the eastern seaboard about 4 centuries ago.
(4) Sundry Protestant sects and their ignorant, narcissistic, hardheaded sectarians.
(5) Superstitions such as those already mentioned and as expressed vaguely in the phrase "they are endowed by their Creator..."
(6) I'll save this one for later. Suffice it to say that it's related to 2 and to 9.
(7) Egalitarianism, such as that found in the phrase "all men are created equal". Perennial evidence contradicts the claim that all men, not to mention all human beings, are equal in any relevant sense of the word "equal". It's just not true that, for example, all humans have authority to rule.
(8) Imperialism. First it was the imperialism of British America. A little later came the imperialism foreshadowed with the phrase "E Pluribus Unum", which means out of more, one. Since the word plus is the comparative, not the positive, and since "Pluribus" is the ablative form of plus, know that "Pluribus" means more, NOT many. Now, with a little tweaking of the Latin we get 'e pluribus pluribusque unum', which means 'out of more and more, one'. Still more imperialism was added to the mix in 1787 by "We, the People", er, They, the Posturing Leadership. The new imperial government of those democratic republicans commenced operations in 1789.
(9) A fetish for commerce, and a radically crass fetish at that. This put the wrong people in control of politics, architecture, infrastructure, and so on.
(10) Socialistic schooling. It makes robots, like those seen in pictures of children performing the Bellamy salute. Bellamy was a Christian socialist, and he was responsible for the Pledge of Allegiance, too.
(11) The Public Land Survey System. The PLSS is a tool of Jeffersonian imperialism This is why the USA deserves to be called the land of rectangles and boring regularity in city layouts. It's also a contributor to the artificial irregularity of the suburban subdivision.
(12) Land communism: Central planning always causes problems, and it often leads to ugliness, too. This was hinted at with my remark about the Public Land Survey System.

I could go on and on, but I think what I've written is a good start.

Answer 3

All those cities SUCK. I have been to every city listed, as well as Philadelphia and Detroit. Seattle without a car...get real, that is hell w/o a car too. I prefer western cities that are nice and spread out, not everyone piled on top of each other.

Answer 4

I liked NY when I visited for a week this summer but I can't understand why all New Yorker's think that the sun rises and sets with their city. If you have to travel 10 miles in NYC it's no faster than traveling 10 miles in any other city. It's just that you'll go past more people due to the high population density.

Answer 5

It's true! We can't do without cars. We have no transportation at all in NH with some limited one in a few of the cities! Nothing is rural and our whole state doesn't have 2 million people in it!

Answer 6

That doesn't mean they suck. You need to get out of NYC for a while, you've become jaded.

Answer 7

What do you mean by suck? Just for lack of public transportation?

Answer 8

you've got it wrong. they ALL suck! too many people in one place.