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I love the old building and historical architecture here don’t change please

The US is older than almost everywhere at this point.

The Americans rebuilt Europe after the WWs.

Asian countries are all brand spanking new. India only became a country in 1947. Singapore started in 1963....

US is old

I would say everything looks old because the US was ahead of much of the world in building this infra to begin with. Go back to the countries you visited 30 years ago and see how they looked. Id bet theyre not "updating," but rather--they just got around to building in the first place and in the 90s it was dirt roads and no buildings.

Yes. The ENTIRETY of the United States is positively antiquated and run down. Modern architecture, amenities, and living simply do not exist in the US.

/s (in case the sarcasm wasn't clear)

Because it hasn’t. Biden’s is the first administration that has managed to fund infrastructure in decades. republicans refuse spending, they prefer tax cuts for billionaires. If you go to wealthy neighborhoods and drive around shit looks great.

Coming from Peru and Colombia, the USA feels newer. But the cities constructed in the USA make it super car centric and anti social

Cool Story Bro

Republican leaning states prefer not to use taxes towards infrastructure. Why? Because many don’t live in the city. They don’t care about doing so

It is an overrated shithole that lost its way after it won the cold war. It is transitioning to a kleptocracy.

US definitely peaked in the 90s and went downhill (FAST) after 9/11

Infrastructure in the US should have been updated decades ago.

Finally, the mood shifted economically-politically. Now there are huge sums of money going into building next generation infrastructure, manufacturing facilities, etc. in the last 2-3 years alone.

Check the news, it might surprise you. The US is in the midst of a big transformation. So is Mexico, since we're talking about it.

It'll take 5–10 years to really see it, but it's happening...

I think the USA peaked about 1975 tbh

This was my first response flying from Australia. In Australia everything is bright and colourful, i was slightly disappointed to see a lot of things unkempt.

I mean... where did you go?

I've been all over Europe and I find most places in Europe look older than the US. But there are plenty of places in the US that are old and outdated.

It depends a lot on where in the US you are. Some cities are way more modern and up to date than others. But in general yes, infrastructure is just out of date here.

Depends on what country you are comparing it to and where in the USA you are

It’s a second world country pretending to be a first world country

I guess this answers why Americans say how good Dublin Airport is 😆

We traded infrastructure for tax cuts for the wealthy in the 80s under the cruel and/or moronic leadership of Reagan. Just another way Boomers screwed over their children and grandchildren to give themselves some quick bennies. The thing that really infuriates me is that half the country thinks he was a god because of relentless Republican propaganda. The only thing the GOP is good at is creating false narratives.

Where? Where is exactly are you talking about? The US is too big to generalize like this

Because the ruling capitalist class is too busy filling their pockets to give a shit about the rest of us

America needs leadership and it needs it now.

Well you definitely aren’t wrong, but it’s a pretty simple situation.

American taxes seem to go everywhere except for upgrading critical infrastructure and then on the private sector side of things there are components like greed and economic factors like ROI that might prevent spending money on updating the buildings and architecture.

America seemed to build so much of our nations current physical appearance in the 50’s with what appears to have been a pure focus on greed and rapid expansionist policies.

The creation of the modern suburban scheme and inadequate city planning that have left us with the American version of villages (far different than the European towns and villages).

These days the only opportunity for American architecture to be done modern, shiny, and new is when sufficient population and demand bleed over into new areas and either allow for completely new buildings and businesses…or via growth and maturation in existing towns, cities, and villages that fosters sufficient investment to replace existing buildings with modern new ones, at a huge cost. You can find evidence all over in every state, both of the old ugly that you mentioned (sucks for all of us), and also some of the shiny new attractive modern buildings.

There’s also a third category where we have well preserved and intentionally old historic architecture, like New Orleans or Savannah, in both you can find great examples of updated modern /historical buildings, which is quite beautiful to see, right along side truly old historic stuff.

It was all built in the 70s

Because Reagan cut taxes to the rich and corporations right around then and it bankrupted the entire country.

Same thing from old world (europe) to the US..

Its simply a factor in when places go through thier high growth periods.. Shenzen or Dubai is essentially a decade or two old.. Of course its new..

Oh we 100% peaked in the 90s

But what about our tanks, jets, bombs, and drones huhhhh?

Republicans don't spend money on important things like infrastructure. They are busy redrawing voting maps and taking away woman's rights and other marginalized people's rights. And blocking improvements from passing in congress.

If democrats can win the presidency and get a majority in the house and senate you'll see improvements happen pretty fast. If drumpie gets elected, just sit back and watch the collapse happen all the faster.

We are an undeveloped country masking as a developed one