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"KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time" (kngt) 05/04/2018 at 14:11 • Filed to: shitposting, shitpost, starterpacks

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Spanfeller is a twat > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:16

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Arent those included under the definition for fly over country?

user314 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:20

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*Starts typing furious correction, notes every single thing is true about Pittsburgh, cries*

Ash78, voting early and often > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:23

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This is trying so hard to be funny, but it also reeks of a vague envy from someone who has to spend 3 hours a day on a urine-soaked subway car.

“But all the culture!!” they say, as they attend a play or opera once every 3 years and don’t really enjoy it.

/love cities, rural areas, small towns

//but master planned sprawling suburbs suck

fintail > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:25

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Funny how more than one these can apply to Seattle.

bwp240 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:30

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*also from reddit

For Sweden > Ash78, voting early and often 05/04/2018 at 14:30

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With the difference in living costs, you can fly NYC and see the Met Opera.

facw > Ash78, voting early and often 05/04/2018 at 14:33

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Hey now, the urine is really only a problem on those early trains. By mid morning, it has usually dried up.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Ash78, voting early and often 05/04/2018 at 14:34

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I lived in this community for a couple years and all I could ever think is “Why are these houses built on top of each other in the middle of the god damn desert?”

There is literally empty desert all around this community

For Sweden > Spanfeller is a twat 05/04/2018 at 14:34

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Portland is fly over country?

SmugAardvark > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:37

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So, Sacramento only ticks a few of those boxes...

All the buildings in one tiny area, yup. Downtown can be walked from one end to another in about 15 minutes. You can circumnavigate the whole Downtown/Midtown area in a car in less than 10, unless it’s rush hour. However, the “nothing else of note within hundreds of miles” doesn’t fit at all. Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, and Napa/Sonoma are all within 100 miles of here. Yosemite, Reno, San Jose, and Monterey are all within 200 miles.

We have a brand new arena in the heart of downtown. However, they did a really nice job with the architecture and design. It has also brought a bunch of new businesses into the district.

While this is ostensibly a basketball town, the Kings are so awful, that I don’t think anyone would readily desire us to be known as such. Our 2nd tier soccer team probably has just as much local support. But moreover, baseball and football are probably more popular overall, despite not having any pro teams located here (apart from the AAA baseball club across the river in West Sac, but they’re popular largely because they are the Giants’ farm team).

I think our science center closed a few years ago. (Nevermind, there’s one right by the Cal Expo. Never been there, but I assume it is as described in the OP).

Our main history museum is in the state capitol building. I didn’t grow up here, but I’m sure every elementary school student goes there annually on a field trip. I got kicked off the property once for skateboarding in the park that encompasses the capitol. Old Sac is a bit of a history museum in and of itself, and contains a few random museums within it. The California Auto Museum is pretty cool though.

We actually do have public transportation, in the form of bus service and light rail. They aren’t amazing, but they aren’t terrible either.

I’ve never heard anyone claim that we have the best St. Paddy’s day celebration of any geographic area (county, region, state, time zone, etc.)

Drivers from the Bay Area really are the worst.

Meh, I’ll take it. I rather enjoy my second rate city. Big enough for plenty of stuff to do, but small enough that it’s easy to navigate (and own multiple cars in).

functionoverfashion > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 05/04/2018 at 14:37

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I think this exact thought as I fly over areas like this. It’s just more profitable to build like that, is the short answer.

Spanfeller is a twat > For Sweden 05/04/2018 at 14:38

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A land of ports? Yeah, what year is it? 1800? Why is the port land so special?

/J

functionoverfashion > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:38

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I’d add that the suburbs are filled with strip malls alternating with developments of identical houses built on the minimum-zoned lot size with minimum setbacks.

punkgoose17 > user314 05/04/2018 at 14:40

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That is the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the meme. *laughs *cries

Ash78, voting early and often > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 05/04/2018 at 14:41

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In cases like that, I can sort of support the water issues (ie, denser is better and more efficient) but then you see the same thing all over the wet, green Eastern US, too.

That’s not “organic” growth, that’s a developer’s greedy dream.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:44

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They forgot to mention: “strategically located between the mountains and the ocean” but actually way to far from either to actually be accessible.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 14:45

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Moved from LA to STL 5 years ago. Yup - this whole thing rings true...

BigBlock440 > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 05/04/2018 at 14:50

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Because the owners of the rest of the land didn’t sell.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > functionoverfashion 05/04/2018 at 14:52

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I know...I don’t get people who buy those houses though. I was just renting, but I’d never buy something packed in like that.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Ash78, voting early and often 05/04/2018 at 14:54

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What water issues? We built a man-made lake...does that help?

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > bwp240 05/04/2018 at 14:59

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Literally the first city I though of LOL

user314 > punkgoose17 05/04/2018 at 15:02

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I mean, at least we have decent bus service, right?

Ash78, voting early and often > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 05/04/2018 at 15:06

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I meant more like the scarcity of naturally available water combined with the desire for people to have lush green landscaping in a place where that’s not very sustainable. So the developers, zoning boards, and environmentalists are in rare agreement: just cram everyone together!

Side note: The outlying Phoenix and Vegas housing markets totally derailed my career about 7-8 years ago (bank got shut down).

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 15:11

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Ew its Birmingham.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 05/04/2018 at 15:13

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Alabama or UK?

Chinny Raccoon > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 15:45

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Birmingham (UK) is nice in places.

LongbowMkII > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 15:51

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Ha my city doesn’t have a natural history museum!

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 05/04/2018 at 21:50

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Alabama.