Reading the internets about the FIU bridge collapse. The Walkable/Bikeable/Huggable/Loveable Streets Movement is out in force saying that instead of a bridge, there should have been candy sidewalks and love trees and bike canals and foot rail and shit. 1/
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I spent a large part of my youth around FIU, and here's the thing: a) it is a blasted hellscape, b) it is as densely developed as interstellar hydrogen. Miami weather is usually, like, 86 degrees and 90% humidity. Also it rains for 2 hours every afternoon, like clockwork. 2/
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You do NOT walk anywhere in Miami, because you live a mile away from the nearest place you might want to go, and because outside switches between 'sauna', 'thunderstorm', and 'swarms of mosquitos and giant flying cockroaches' (sometimes two or three at once). 3/
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Replying to @St_Rev
Why do so many american cities seem like hell on earth ?
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Air conditioning made a lot of otherwise intolerable areas inhabitable. The southern part of North America has a considerably warmer and more extreme climate than Europeans are used to.
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