All the surplus American people in Japan are employed being the “American guy” in the office who is kept on to tell the boss his idea is stupid because he’s just a clueless gaijin who doesn’t know that you don’t do that.
Guess I need to brush up my CV as I’m a professional clueless gaijin.
Yep
Not what the meme implies but yes. I went to a place in Akihabara that was mostly just one dude at a counter grilling and smoking food. He didn’t speak English so the nice Singaporean gentleman next to me was translating for us. It was a great meal
The tiny hole in the wall places that Japan’s zoning laws permit are soooo cool. Like 4 chairs in the whole place and 2 are reserved for regulars. They’re like studio apartments, but it’s a restaurant.
Post american revolution v2, I’d love to see our zoning laws disappear to make way for things like this
If the US got rid of zoning laws our cities wouldn’t look like Tokyo, they’d look like Dallas. And believe me, one Dallas is more than enough.
…dallas has zoning, houston does not: contrast the two cities…
Oh damn, you’re right, I mean Houston!
…well everything folks have lamented about dallas is still true, but it’s not the result of unregulated development…
Never been to Dallas, what about it?
I’m in Dallas and it fucking sucks, tons of suburban sprawl, tons of roads but public transit is barely functional and hard to design efficiently, a lot of the roads don’t even have sidewalks or they just randomly end, the roads are designed in a way that promotes aggressive driving making it even more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians, the local business scene here is depressing outside of restaurants and entertainment but there’s like 20 Walmarts.
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dang… it’s just this:
My guess is that the person originally mentioning Dallas is contrasting the city’s suburban sprawl and lack of public transit to Tokyo’s urban density and bustling nightlife.this one will load
the house sizes and spacing between houses is highly correlated to the girth of an average citizen.
So everything is as it should be and your eyes cannot unsee that
Get on the treadmill would solve the urban sprawl
I think the only rule they had when “planning” Dallas was “there are no rules”. Zero zoning rules means one giant skyscraper in the middle of a mile of strip malls, multiple city “centers”, vast areas of it are competely unwalkable due to lack of sidewalks and/or what are basically highways running through them, and no mass transit to speak of. It’s like they took 5 shitty, small cities and glued them together with more shitty city material.
