Pick any city in the Midwest and compare to any proportionally sized city in China. Like just about. Infrastructure is crumbling everywhere in this country while China has built more high speed rail than every other nation on the planet combined.

The priorities speak volumes.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Whenever i see some documentaries about china, japan or south korea, i'm actually blown away. They are in a big city that is recognizable, and then they sit in a train for an hour and land in a city that i haven't heard of ever, that is somehow 3x bigger. I really wanna visit some day, but maybe i'd just be overwhelmed

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No I mean in the photos

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Houston, Los Angeles and some random yet all the same suburb in the US

[–] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My money is on Detroit for the first one

Recommend this City Nerd video on downtowns with the best and worst parking lots

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The images are from Houston.

The parking lot picture is from the 1970s, so probably not exactly fair to compare to a modern city. I don't know (care about) how it looks now.