To preface this post, I will say this. I study urban geography. It's my major. So let's begin.
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Originally Posted by i-hate-snow
There is so much more to the United States than suburban tract housing
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The majority of housing in the United States is low density, suburban "tract" housing. Most Americans live in such a manner.
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Also, keep in mind that no one can help where they were born--you shouldn't knock European-americans, we make up a LARGE portion of the European diaspora and have actually done fine jobs of preserving our forefathers' cultures here in the vast, wild New World.
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Being trapped in Canada and visiting America (though having visited Europe more)... I can say that this is wrong. The culture is different.
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People have lived in my town since 1670 and, to my way of thinking, historical Georgian, Tudor, and colonial architecture is just as attractive here as it is back in England.
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How many times have you been to England and seen "colonial" architecture?
Seriously you say "we've never experienced America" but how about you? Have you truly experienced Europe, in fact, England? Do you really know us all that well?
I know America because I live near it at the moment. I've been there many, many times. I know Americans. I understand what goes on there. So don't even try to ask "have you ever been to America?". Because I have.
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Originally Posted by i-hate-snow
In any old city you will find many graceful European elements that have not yet been completely surrounded by suburban trash, as is the case with most of the south, west and midwest. Cities like Charleston south carolina
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Charleston is
illegal under current American planning legislation.
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Secondly, America was founded by Europe and had European values from the get go... over the years they have just merged; this is the result.
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America was founded by people who didn't want to be British anymore, therefore they forfeited any way of being "European" or "British"
America can be a beautiful, wonderful country... but for the most part, I'm sorry, but it isn't. It is being slowly conurbised (my own expression, coming from the noun "conurbation"). The Americans are destroying their own country due to poor planning.
By the way, the only place with "suburbs" in the traditional, low density housing sense that I can recall would be the United Kingdom (basically the originator of suburbs). But it's again, different in America.