I don't know how bad it is in the US at the moment because I can imagine in a country as big as that it would vary wildly but I've seen the New York videos of recent bullshit with migration and the built up areas look horrible. Imagine actually believing the media narrative around population, but I really am having a major case of "My lying eyes" lately because I swear even by the standards of Bradford which I have to drive through regularly things are regularly getting worse.
How bad are things in the built up areas you guys are? Suburbs any better? How many of you are thinking of buying a plot land in the middle of nowhere so you can camp on it for a few weeks to keep away from people? I know I am, fuck, I'd consider buying a plot of land in a desert that nobody wants because I hate it that much.
I lived in Middleton ID when it was the area people ran to get away from the cops. I buried my cat in an open field that is now covered by suburbia.
The entire Northwest just slowly decayed and it's hard to describe the feeling of living there. Everything I loved was destroyed, and although I still have stuff I love, I'm scared to do it because of the other problems.
Central Florida is growing in waves. A friend in Oviedo used to live with hicks and sticks, and is now living in a big upper middle class neighborhood. He hasn't moved. I have bears near my house, the cowardly kind not the grizzlies, and a lot of cockroaches. I have been told directly that in the next five years it will be like Oviedo.
Phoenix is insane. I have friends that remember Surprise being far away from the valley. I lived when surprise was expected to join it any year now. Now the valley goes beyond Surprise.