Dan Wang: belief

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…That’s not true, but continue. Suburbs mostly. I would say that’s the most boring category of American life is my view. Yet you love visiting these vibrant cities of Asia, these ancient museum-like cities of Europe. Things are highly walkable. Very few people have cars there. Nice twisting roads, as well as excellent rail, subway, high-speed rail. Why don’t we live a little bit more nicely like those Europeans as well as the Asians? I don’t see how we could make American cities into European cities. What we have are the very best suburbs. Chinese suburbs strike me as really quite mediocre. They can have excellent food as pretty much all of China does, but after that, I don’t see anything to recommend them at all. If the idea of your country is to have the best suburbs, which is where the people are happiest, European suburbs, they’re pretty ugly. They’re generally okay, but they don’t have the charm of Europe. You go to inner cities of Europe, maybe Copenhagen is an exception, but so many of them are somewhat emptying out. People are living outside of the main central old town or business district, which is becoming increasingly touristic. Suburbs are the future. America just seems like the big winner, and Canada, too.…

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