I agree

I love the convenience of the US where everything is open 24 hrs

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Part of it is just that it is…old.

The US got to a lot of technological touch stones significantly before much of the world, when the technologies were newer.

Many places didn’t do major infrastructure projects like an actually good international airport until much later, when there was better technologies.

It’s not fully worth building a NEW airport instead of upgrading the existing one, and there are limits to what you can do.

It’s not like other countries that were front runners in the industrial revolution looks sparkly and new.

SIN airport in Singapore is 41 years old.

LAX is 95.

A lot can be done with upkeep, but much of what makes SIN so nice compared to LAX was better planning, which they had a LOT more knowledge about city planning and and airport design to work with.

Why would we invest in public infrastructure when our taxes could be used for better things?

Like bailing out banks, murdering foreigners, and lining the pockets of the 1%???

Stuff is new in Asia because they have only recently built everything from scratch. In Victorian England everything was new and it’s all still here.

It doesn’t? You just are in a shitty area

I’m in currently in Rome. Your perception of old is strange

It’s because our Constitution is so old and government doesn’t serve the people anymore.

Generally: our cities are in bad shape and are in decline. Most expanded too big too fast due to subsidies and an abundance of land + wealth, and generations later can’t afford to maintain basic infrastructure. And if you’re in a part of town where you can visibly tell your government isn’t making the reinvestments to maintain basic stuff, you wouldn’t be incentivized to fork up lots of capital to maintain your own property/business.

The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

Because CEOs are paid for cutting costs. They pocket their bonuses rather than spend money to leave the company strong and growing. As for updated public infrastructure, many Americans think that sort of stuff is too socialist.

You are seeing what you chose to see… as a fellow avid traveler, the majority of the world arguably looks more dated than the U.S. Especially many parts of Central & S. America and Asia.

Too many tax cuts are coming home to roost.

Fund the government so it can fund infrastructure to benefit all.

Its because the US is not a first world country by any means, thats the reason plain and simple.

I think this depends entirely on where you are. I’m from the Phoenix metro area, which has more than doubled in population since the 90s with millions of new inhabitants. From my experience, stuff looks nicer every time I go back. The area around my old university looks MUCH shinier and newer than it did when I was a student (completely unrecognizable in some areas), downtown areas in several metro-area cities have been revitalized, etc. I find Arizona to be more developed every time I go back. I found it felt newer and more modern than most of where I went to in Europe (though old looking Europe is part of the charm).

My friend from Ohio has the opposite experience. Every time he returns to Cleveland, it’s older and worse than it was before. I think this experience very much depends on where you’re from.