Country Discussion: USA

[verreauxi]

I follow him on twitter but haven't dived into his YouTube. is it worth it? I would like to learn more about transit, it overlaps some with work, but he gives the feel of Trainspotting for nerds (which is fine with me, tbh).

I have booked marked a few urban planning websites over the years that I found via Web Urbanist.

City Lab is a good one, and here's an article on the Interstate system, which I'm sure you know, was built often to divide cites (rich from poor, white from black) in the 50s' and how to repair them.

City Observatory is another one.

I don't read these blogs very much, but it's hard not to notice how the interstates have, in some cases, completely divided cities for no good reason (it's almost like they treated them as railways where, once the tracks were built, you would build a town on both sides of the tracks...but in this case the cities came first, then the interstates, not the other way around). I'm thinking Boston (rectified by the Big Dig), New Haven, Chicago...and on and on.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Deffo full of swamp rats, Didn’t see many ducks though

 

[Chewbacca]

I follow him on twitter but haven't dived into his YouTube. is it worth it? I would like to learn more about transit, it overlaps some with work, but he gives the feel of Trainspotting for nerds (which is fine with me, tbh).

He is obviously on the spectrum to some degree as he struggles to look at the camera but he has some excellent videos assessing the various types of urban and regional pt including some stuff on scheduling that I found really interesting.

 

[Kurt.]

Must be a great country.
Seinfeld learned me that American women are really really into short, balding fellows. Incel heaven.

Pity he never ‘learned’ you to use proper English mate

 

[Cool_Blue]

ha ha ha, these morons got more than they bargained for (the people, not the sea lions)

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Everything to say about the States. Loads good, loads bad. We're supposedly working towards "a more perfect union". We've been working at it for close to 250 years and are still nowhere close.

Better guests than hosts - maybe the truest stereotype about Americans. We're awful guests. I'm chalking that up to having oceans on both coasts - we don't have to deal with anyone else. Two hours by train gets you from Chicago to Springfield, IL. Two hours by train gets you from Paris to Brussels or Berlin.

I don't think there's a more diverse place - culturally, ethnically, geographically... The American Dream still exists, if only in myth and aspiration.

Lots to love, lots to criticize and lots to detest, lots to poke fun at.

See thats a bit unfair in my opinion. I have been to the USA a few times.

Once to Rockford, Illinois for 3 months for my university placement and was put up with a host family who i lived with. Twice to Austin with family to visit family and twice to Las Vegas and once to Fort Lauderdale. I feel like you get to see a different side to the country when you are there for a longer period of time and you have connections there, compared to just going on holiday.

Always been well looked after and found people to be very generous. Of course theres lunatics, but not much different to where I'm from.

 

[Prevenger17]

If I listened to you all on here, my family is some psychopathic cult, who I should bin off and move back to England to save my sanity.

I'm afraid so mate.

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Side note on the USA for me.

I developed a policy and procedure guide for juvenile probation on the use of pepper spray in risk situations such as home visits. Was told this would be taken forward to be implemented in the County so i may have left my mark.

I knew nothing on the subject so plagiarised a zoos policy on using pepper spray on bears (I think i have remembered that correctly)

 

[BlueTX]

This is without a shadow of a doubt the worst city in the US. Any place where everyone that lives there says "oh, no one golfs here in the summer" because it's so beastly hot has an uphill battle for livability, to be sure

Sorry @BlueTX

Now, now.

Whilst summer is indeed beastly, we can play golf for months while people in Northern climes are shoveling feet of snow. Tomato, the other variety.

 

[mezzrow]

Side note on the USA for me.

I developed a policy and procedure guide for juvenile probation on the use of pepper spray in risk situations such as home visits. Was told this would be taken forward to be implemented in the County so i may have left my mark.

I knew nothing on the subject so plagiarised a zoos policy on using pepper spray on bears (I think i have remembered that correctly)

Another eye opening peek at the "deep state" at work...

 

[Rita_Poon]

Side note on the USA for me.

I developed a policy and procedure guide for juvenile probation on the use of pepper spray in risk situations such as home visits. Was told this would be taken forward to be implemented in the County so i may have left my mark.

I knew nothing on the subject so plagiarised a zoos policy on using pepper spray on bears (I think i have remembered that correctly)

Was someone stealing pic-a-nic baskets?

 

[mezzrow]

Was someone stealing pic-a-nic baskets?

Only if they're smarter than the average bear...

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Now, now.

Whilst summer is indeed beastly, we can play golf for months while people in Northern climes are shoveling feet of snow. Tomato, the other variety.

Golf is a summer sport.

When I want to golf in the winter, I fly to Florida for a long weekend

Cheers

 

[BlueTX]

Golf is a summer sport.

When I want to golf in the winter, I fly to Florida for a long weekend

Cheers

Golf is s summer sport because of where you choose to live. Down here, we can play year-round and I can swim in my pool 11 months out of the year.

 

[Acrobat]

I'm afraid so mate.

Thanks. I expected nothing less. Ill let them know what EFC supporters think of them.