London may be too complicated for me. I can sort of handle NY’s simpler geometry, and LA’s everything-is-cars is annoying but not actually hard. But London is like 50% higher cognitive burden than any other city.
Seattle, DC are the right size cities for my brain.
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This is how I feel about navigating the Bay Area compared to NY.
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Illegibility has benefits. Particularly when you’re building stable cultural heterogeneity. :)
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*If* it works at all... survivorship bias is strong among cities that aspire to be large.
And how come you're up so early.
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So you're talking spatial complexity burden or something else like social order complexity burden?
I felt the latter more than former.
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The complexity and specificity of London navigation makes “The Knowledge” requirement of black cab drivers all the more impressive.
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London and LA are very similar large organisms made up of many small villages that grew together, but I think that because so much of London travel occurs underground there’s no chance to piece together the whole in an understandable way vs traversing LA by car
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