TheLemonadeJoe

It really depends where you live and what your main company is, as well as the currency of your salary.

For me as a foreigner, things looked not quite old, not quite new. In the suburbs and exurbs, everything crumbled. In NYC, where I lived for a bit, everything was brand spanking new and shiny. In other cities, things were grosso modo the way they are in shitty cities all over the world. It's a very mixed picture.