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Addy, WA. Cozy little bar and restaurant in a tiny town in NE Washington.

@Chzikken_1486 uuuh does it usually look like this on the countryside there?

Yes, rural US looks *exactly* like that. You can pin that as being western because of the construction style, but the shoddiness and decay is universal.

In general rural America is very different from rural Europe, which has been slowly civilized over the course of thousands of years. Most of America was still untouched forest 200 years ago

@Kazak @cjd @Chzikken_1486 I dunno, we also build WAY closer. I went for a walk via streetview through those towns and it's crazy how many cars there are sometimes on a single property

@Kazak @Chzikken_1486 @cjd if a european had designed those towns, they would be a third of their current size in actual square whatever

Yeah the design pressure is that you NEED a car to get around in rural areas, which makes rural town design car-centric, which reinforces the need to have a car, etc. Walkable villages aren't really prevalent except on the East Coast, where civilization arrived before the invention of the automobile

@Kazak @cjd @Chzikken_1486 there was a time when car lobbyism also transformed west germany into a more car centric society after ww2 but most of that has been reversed