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.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Whenever i see some documentaries about china, japan or south korea, i'm actually blown away. They are in a big city that is recognizable, and then they sit in a train for an hour and land in a city that i haven't heard of ever, that is somehow 3x bigger. I really wanna visit some day, but maybe i'd just be overwhelmed

[–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No I mean in the photos

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

Houston, Los Angeles and some random yet all the same suburb in the US

[–] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

My money is on Detroit for the first one

Recommend this City Nerd video on downtowns with the best and worst parking lots

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.