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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

The American logic is as follows: You WILL need a car, it's just inevitable, so you might as well have plenty of space around every building for whatever stuff you might want. Also in the US, zoning generally makes ALL farmland also usable for single family homes.

@cjd @Chzikken_1486 @Kazak I dont want to turn it into a car thread but it also just makes towns look uglier when all the buildings are so far apart. But that may just be my bias