Is 80% of America Unlivable?

[Marie Mallory]

I don't think this is correct 'yet' but do feel it is possible if things don't change.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Typical YouTube clickbait speculation... If you go by what Tubers say, the Yellowstone Supervolcano is going to blow any second (it's not), nobody lives almost all of the western states (not true), you're a genius if you can pass their "Ultimate Quiz Challenge" (anyone with a 5th grade education could pass them), and of course both of major political parties have people on there posting some of the most outrageous lies you can imagine.

Now that's not to say there isn't some accurate information there, because there is. It's just that something a huge number (85% to 90%) of Tubers have in common, is they are all in it for the money.

Remember that YouTube is just entertainment...

 

[Mary Stetler]

I live in my own little piece of heaven.
The green scam has been working on pushing us into small contained areas. My little nearby city of 30 years ago is beginning to look like Florida cities when the snow birds invade.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I live in my own little piece of heaven.
The green scam has been working on pushing us into small contained areas. My little nearby city of 30 years ago is beginning to look like Florida cities when the snow birds invade.

I have a much more fitting name for them, but I won't use it. They run like the dickens from what they create, then create it again where they run to.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Typical YouTube clickbait speculation... If you go by what Tubers say, the Yellowstone Supervolcano is going to blow any second (it's not), nobody lives almost all of the western states (not true), you're a genius if you can pass their "Ultimate Quiz Challenge" (anyone with a 5th grade education could pass them), and of course both of major political parties have people on there posting some of the most outrageous lies you can imagine.

Now that's not to say there isn't some accurate information there, because there is. It's just that something a huge number (85% to 90%) of Tubers have in common, is they are all in it for the money.

Remember that YouTube is just entertainment...

His best places to live would be hell to me. I don't want public transportation. If there was nothing else, I have used it but had to know the scheduals and wait.
LIke Europeans notice when they come here, this country is much bigger than countries in Europe. You need a car. Trains make things difficult for me unless I am going to visit a relative or friend who can pick me up. Have to rent a car. Having a car does not lower my quality of life. Cars only require sensible use and purchases.
Malls have died with amazon and other sites delivering our wants. Cities require grocery stores but look at the food deserts happening today. The poor suffer in crowded cities.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I have a much more fitting name for them, but I won't use it. They run like the dickens from what they create, then create it again where they run to.

I think John Mellencamp put it best in this song...

Ain't that America...

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

What struck me most in the first video above was the woman shown with those glued-on crabclaws trying to fat-finger text into a phoneslab with the exposed pads of her fingertips beneath the plastic claws.

Arching the finger joints backwards to make this work will probably lead to an epidemic of arthritis in later life.

While that was totally incidental, being stock footage jammed in to add "color" to a presentation, I see some connection there: stupidity in modern living.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

I think soyboy's "best places" (sorry, tattoos and fluffy cats scream feminized mentality to me) are some idealized fantasy of urban living, perhaps based on a Disney park's fictitious "Main Street" confection.

When I was young I lived in such places for years, and I was glad when my prospects improved and I could get the hell out.

I had lived in basement apartments, aging tenements, and apartments over retail. It was noisy all the time, often roach infested, and you looked over your shoulder constantly due to crime. Bums all over the place, and even a male had to watch out for deviants looking to get you into their place and sexually assault you.

Little is more inconvenient than being limited to travel on foot, bicycle, and bus. On the buses you have to put up with all sorts of bums and crazies, often visibly ill. These places have no quaint bakeries, no affordable grocers with a decent food selection and little in the way of fresh produce or meat.

This guy strikes me as an overprivileged snot with little real life experience. Probably another of those subsidized Canadian 'Tubers his government helps parasitize America.

Hopefully he doesn't end up on some rooftop with a sniper rifle in another year.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Ok, maybe that was an overreaction. He just rubbed me the wrong way.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I think John Mellencamp put it best in this song...

Ain't that America...

Now,

 

[Don Alaska]

His best places to live would be hell to me. I don't want public transportation. If there was nothing else, I have used it but had to know the scheduals and wait.
LIke Europeans notice when they come here, this country is much bigger than countries in Europe. You need a car. Trains make things difficult for me unless I am going to visit a relative or friend who can pick me up. Have to rent a car. Having a car does not lower my quality of life. Cars only require sensible use and purchases.
Malls have died with amazon and other sites delivering our wants. Cities require grocery stores but look at the food deserts happening today. The poor suffer in crowded cities.

I am a big train advocate and I think they are great where they are appropriate, such as in the high-density corridors in the East and the West. The problem is that the U.S. no longer knows how to run train systems or construct railroads. You can see that in the example of the Metroliner on the East Coast and the California Boondoggle on the West Coast. The Metroliner is/was a mostly-failed East Coast train service and many know of the California high speed rail service under construction for years that I don't believe has laid a single mile of track but has spent billions on the project, It has been said that the U.S. (government) simply cannot run a business, be it Amtrak, the Post Office, or other "government corporation". Japan has had a wonderful high-speed rail system for many years. I rode the Bullet Train from Tokyo to Osaka many times when I lived there in the early 1970s. High-speed rail can largely replace the commuter air travel between major cities. Never does it replace the private automobile in a nation as large and spread out as the U.S. however.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Never does it replace the private automobile in a nation as large and spread out as the U.S. however.

Damn right, it doesn't. Yes, Amtrak trips are great sometimes. But how would you drive from Chicago to Santa Monica on Route 66 (or at least one of it's original routes) without a car? Or any of the huge number of roads where there are no trains. Amtrak always says "We go to Glacier National Park in Montana." But the reality of that is they go to it, not into it.

 

[Don Alaska]

Damn right, it doesn't. Yes, Amtrak trips are great sometimes. But how would you drive from Chicago to Santa Monica on Route 66 (or at least one of it's original routes) without a car? Or any of the huge number of roads where there are no trains. Amtrak always says "We go to Glacier National Park in Montana." But the reality of that is they go to it, not into it.

I have loved riding on trains since I discovered them in the 1970s. Train travel is slower than flying, but probably faster than driving, especially west of the Mississippi. I have been through Glacier National Park on a train, but we didn't stop. Trains go from here to near Denali National Park as well, but only to a station near the entrance. The Autotrain along the East Coast from near Washington, D.C., to Florida is kinda the best of both worlds as you can take your car with you when you travel by train, and use it when you get to your destination or drive back home after your stay at one end or the other.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I have been through Glacier National Park on a train, but we didn't stop. Trains go from here to near Denali National Park as well, but only to a station near the entrance.

As I said, you can get to Glacier National Park on Amtrak, not into or through it. It's the same thing as Denali... The train can get you to the park, after that, you're on your own. Which is fine, it's better for the park that way. However, while Amtrak can't go into Glacier, the track are right next to the park's southern border between East Glacier and West Glacier. If you travel eastward from West Glacier and you sit on the left side of the train, you can see the park out the window. From East Glacier to West Glacier, it passes by in the dark.