Are cities obsolete? - Is it time to retire these wretched hives of scum and villainy?

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More rural than small town, but to any city person let me just tell you that the cities are great, the country is shit, and you should keep paying 80k a year for your super nice apartment.

The nice thing about being rural is that the insane shit that goes on doesn't really matter. If I didn't want to I could go for weeks without seeing/hearing another person most months, and that's being outside and not holing up in one room like a neet. I WISH the cities didn't suck as hard as they do, just because that meme about city people running away but being literally retarded and voting for the same policies is absolutely true.
 
Cons:
More crime
More pollution
Lower standard of living
Less cost-adjusted personal wealth
Little to no community cohesiveness
Nothing but concrete as far as the eye can see
Constant noise
Rats everywhere
Nearly impossible to build equity, trapping you in a cycle of poverty forever

Pros:
Yummy street tacos that only sometimes give you food poisoning mmmm num num (please ignore the fact that tacos are so easy to make a literal chimpanzee could do it)
 
Major (((Blue))) Cities: Because the nukes have to be aimed at somethin'
 
I was born and spent my entire life up to this point in a province with a lower population density than Wyoming. I've literally never known anything any different. Granted, I do live near the one actual city here where the density is higher, but like, that city would still be in the bottom three on this list when you sort it by density. I've been to New York City, Toronto, Miami, Edmonton and Calgary and personally I think you people are all animals and I don't understand what you have to live for. Please kill yourselves.
 
Ostatnio edytowane:
A whole bunch of people crammed into one small place is not what the species is adapted to, and that leads to crap like more crime, craziness, and "identity politics" (at least in the West). Glad I moved out of big city, especially with "The New Normal" BS there.
 
I've wondered this. The city crap is only being shilled because of retarded environmentalists and their global warming doomsday (that's always a few years around the corner, for decades running).

We live in an age now where people can commute easily, many jobs can be done remotely. There was a time when industry was associated with cities, but now you often have rural communities that are industrial, have a factory in them. Industrial rural. Cities were important due to rivers and harbors and shit, now it's roads. Of course the city won't just disappear, but I feel like a big deurbanization, like an even more extreme suburbanization, will happen.
 
The difference between towns and cities is like night and day. I lived in a town and it was demographically doomed being full of junkies and old people, very few young people. I visited the city on the weekend and there were young people, fit people and couples everywhere. Shocked me and made me realise how bad the brain drain is.

I still can't understand living in the city. I feel uneasy in such a claustrophobic place with big buildings and a lot of people everywhere. Especially hate the innate poz cities have. I really hope those young people aren't getting super brainwashed because they're the future.

Cities were important due to rivers and harbors
'Were'? They still are for the massive trade and amenities.
 
There was a time when industry was associated with cities, but now you often have rural communities that are industrial, have a factory in them.
That's because back in the 19th century, raw materials would arrive in the city and be taken right from the docks or railhead to small workshops where a bunch of swarthy Italians (or the local equivalent) would hammer them into shape. By the time the 1950s came along, significant amounts of manufacturing had moved to suburbs or rural areas because continuous-flow manufacturing (manufacturing products on one long assembly line) required physically huge factories that just couldn't be built in cities.
 
Cities can work, and work well. However, you need the right population makeup for it. Let's look at some different cities to figure out what that might be.

Tokyo: Well functioning metropolis, fairly easy to get around, clean, very livable (if you can afford it, and can stand living close to 14 million people)

Beijing: Looks modern and glamorous, but with a very apparent underbelly of filth waiting around every back alley.

Johannesburg: Crime-ridden shithole.

New York: Crime-ridden shithole.

If we compare NYC and Tokyo, it's easy to say "Well, it's obvious that since Japan is 98% ethnic Japanese, so there's low crime, which makes the city better!" True, this does help, but it doesn't explain everything.

Beijing is also mostly homogeneous (something like 97% Han Chinese). But it's full of callous assholes who don't give two shits about each other (mostly because of governmental conditioning, but still). There's a reason the Chinese are called bugmen, and it's because they just don't seem to place the same value on human life as others do. They also don't give a shit about cleanliness, what with the number of people who will snot-rocket in the middle of the sidewalk or flat out piss in the nearest corner.

Inner-city Johannesburg is pretty homogeneous, but it's an absolute apocalypse-tier shithole of a city, complete with regular blackouts. But look at pretty much any city full of mostly niggers and they're all heading that way.

NYC is full of "vibrant diversity", and, predictably, is a shithole.

So it's not just a lack of niggers that's required, and Johannesburg proves it's not just a homogeneous society that does the trick. Tokyo seems to have the proper combination of not only a homogeneous, nearly nigger-free makeup, but also people who tend to care about how their actions affect others. In short, a high-trust population (which, yes, is made possible by the lack of niggers, etc.) Is it perfect? Of course not. But it seems to work quite well for them.

So imagine if we had a city in the US that was 98% white. A city where everyone had a similar ethnic background, and where everyone at least considered how their actions affected others, but with more Western individualism thrown in. That city would have a strong chance of being even better (by city metrics, anyway) than Tokyo.

And now you know why (((they))) won't allow it. Why every city in America has been pozzed to hell and back, flooded with various shades of mud, and all manner of degeneracy not only tolerated, but encouraged and celebrated. If such a city were to ever come about and show white people just what's possible, the residents would realize that (((certain parties))) are no longer necessary, and are indeed a detriment to society as a whole.

tl;dr - Cities can work, but only with a homogeneous, high-trust population. Remove either of those factors, and it's all downhill.
 
Cities as a concept will never be obsolete. The natural accumulation of talent, capital and industry is inevitably drawn to urban conglomerations and their surrounding regions. It's in cities that artists trade ideas, businessmen trade contacts and conduct in trade and where the halls of power and influence engage in their shadowy exchanges and direct their bureaucratic organs.
And as they are followed by the masses (or vice versa) those masses teem and generate the appliances and tools and the better part of the next generation of those who will rise and achieve in their talents and the city in turn must foster these energies or die in return. But never will these energies disperse into the countryside except to die for they will always follow the next city they can for it's in the city that these energies are maintained.
 
Cities as a concept will never be obsolete. The natural accumulation of talent, capital and industry is inevitably drawn to urban conglomerations and their surrounding regions. It's in cities that artists trade ideas, businessmen trade contacts and conduct in trade and where the halls of power and influence engage in their shadowy exchanges and direct their bureaucratic organs.
And as they are followed by the masses (or vice versa) those masses teem and generate the appliances and tools and the better part of the next generation of those who will rise and achieve in their talents and the city in turn must foster these energies or die in return. But never will these energies disperse into the countryside except to die for they will always follow the next city they can for it's in the city that these energies are maintained.

Right, cities only rarely exist because somebody decided, "Hey, let's have a city," and those cities last until some redrawing of a political map makes them irrelevant, like Persepolis. But for the most part, they exist because of geographic reasons, and wealth attracts more wealth. As much as the Bay Area disgusts me, if you're trying to start a software company, you'll meet more VCs and people with software startup experience in a week in that region than you will in a year in Wyoming.
 
More rural than small town, but to any city person let me just tell you that the cities are great, the country is shit, and you should keep paying 80k a year for your super nice apartment.

The nice thing about being rural is that the insane shit that goes on doesn't really matter. If I didn't want to I could go for weeks without seeing/hearing another person most months, and that's being outside and not holing up in one room like a neet. I WISH the cities didn't suck as hard as they do, just because that meme about city people running away but being literally retarded and voting for the same policies is absolutely true.
Different tiers of cities behave differently.

There are a lot of 100,000-500,000 population blue collar/industrial cities that aren’t libshit retard asylums but DO facilitate productivity by things like supplying factories with rail service.

Sure, even in that kind of city you’ll have a libshit clique that staffs the coffee shops on Main Street, but whatever. The majority of the people aren’t outwardly political, or at least not to the point of scaring away customers.
 
There are a lot of 100,000-500,000 population blue collar/industrial cities that aren’t libshit retard asylums but DO facilitate productivity by things like supplying factories with rail service.
I think this is what's always missing from the discussion. People act like you have to move to LA or some small town in rural Wyoming, but once you hit the 50-75,000 people mark, you're going to have all the businesses and amenities most people need to be comfortable. A city with 100,000 people is going to have jobs, places to eat and shop and women to bang.
 
A lot of why cities suck is that there's a huge underclass (not necessarily poor, but can be) is needed to really power the city, and especially in more "diverse" cities that underclass is extremely easy to manipulate and is why corrupt political machines in cities exist. (Public education implies political machines were a legacy of pre-WWI America, that is absolutely not true).

Dismantle the political machines and crime, high taxes, and everything that follows will start to dissipate.
 
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