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What cities?
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.
No I mean in the photos
Houston, Los Angeles and some random yet all the same suburb in the US
Lol dipshit have you ever been to China? The small cities they consider sleepy bergs have ONLY 1 million lol. That's ten times the equivalent city in the Midwest at minimum.
You say this like it's an own when it's actually China flexing on us.
My money is on Detroit for the first one
Recommend this City Nerd video on downtowns with the best and worst parking lots
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.