Doomerism, NotJustBikes, and Urban Planning (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

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NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.

What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?

When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.

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[-] Fuckass@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

PMC engineer makes many figures, uproots his family and moves to a completely foreign country with better infrastructure and some safety nets, says you should give up on your likely only home in your lifetime.

I don’t completely disagree with him, but when it’s coming from someone who gets paid to travel around the world and make enough money to move to a country you don’t speak the language of -not out of necessity like migrants to the US, but out of preference - it seems out of touch.