https://www.europesays.com/2030814/ Fatal crash on suburban Hastings road #afternoon #crash #died #fatal #following #Hastings #NewZealand #ON #person #road #saturday #serious #suburban

This is a very blatant #clickbait and common #misconception:

• Salaries ain't worse but what people call "#perks" in the #USA is basically #mandatory in the #EU.

Simple things like:

• paid sick leave
• paid vacation leave
• paid parental (!!!) (not just maternal) leave
• healthcare insurance

• pension / retirement plan
  ...

• In the #US, gross salaries are only higher because it's WAY MORE EXPENSIVE to get the same "perks", because #ForProfitHealthcare exists and noone gets paid vacay per law, so everyone has to cut that.

#Solidarity-based systems make things way cheaper, and people won't demand 6-digit salaries when they have to spend like 10% of their salary just to downpay a #car in a #CarCentric #suburban shithole but have excellent #PublicTransport at affordable rates right at their doorstep!

I originally planned to finally make the trek down south to visit @benbrown's favorite coffee shop and check out some zines, but it's hella (crazy!) windy here today and it looks like most of the seating at that place is outside, so I think I'm gonna postpone until tomorrow.

So, I instead decided to inject a little bit of #solarpunk #urbanism in my run-of-the-mill #suburban #cyberpunk #dystopian life and walk the quarter mile or so to a local coffee shop in the hopes that it would not be packed as per yoosh. Figured I'd save some carbon emissions while also getting in a tiny lil' bit of exercise while going nomad for an hour or two.

At least this way I won't have to fight traffic or destroy the environment while I'm gettin' my walkabout tendencies satisfied. But I will say that today is one o' them days when I really kinda wish that I lived in a dense walking city like NYC with really good public transportation.

And I'm wondering what *you're* doing in *my* backyard.
#deer #suburban #wildlife #snow #Delaware

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Suburban dusk is a watercolour in the North of Sao Paulo city, where there are only houses and tall buildings are distant and small.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/suburban-dusk-james-mccormack.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social ]

We don’t talk nearly enough about it, but dense urban areas subsidize #rural and #suburban ones. That’s because urban #density creates higher-paying jobs, valuable land uses and high-end retail, all of which generates tax revenues. And it does these things efficiently because dense land uses are easier to provide with services. We see the high cost of density’s opposite, sprawl, when rural services start breaking down … as with EMT services in rural MN. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/04/05/minnesotas-rural-ambulance-providers-look-to-state-capitol-for-their-own-lifeline

Reading "The City in History" by #lewismumford and loved the way he describes the suburban way of life:

”Here domesticity could flourish, forgetful of the exploitation on which so much of it was based. Here individuality could prosper, oblivious of the pervasive regimentation beyond. this was not merely a child-centered environment: it was based on a childish view of the world, in which reality was sacrificed to the pleasure principle.” pg. 494

a timelapse of an evening swing of #suburban pendulum in #moscow

so glad i no longer live here

ER9E-610 at Shakhriabad station of Tashkent - Hojikent suburban rail line #train #er9e #er9e610 #tashkent #rail #suburban

Veröffentlichung

"Die intime Stadt – Kulturen queerer Verbindung"

Es ist ein Allgemeinplatz Anonymität als konstitutiv für städtische Beziehungen zu verstehen. Was aber passiert, wenn wir stattdessen Intimität zum Ausgangspunkt der Betrachtung von Stadt machen? Diese Frage greift der neue Themenschwerpunkt von #suburban auf.

https://zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/issue/view/50