What is the most generic, soulless, identity-less copypasted strip mall wasteland city in the US and why is it Indianapolis?

>>2783042 (OP)
I don't see a strip mall in your pic

>>2783042 (OP)
Denver fucking blows ass. Might as well be a flyover city. Everyone’s a slowpoke fucking loser with no edge or political skill. Downtown is such a generic grid shithole

God I fucking hate Denver. I love being on the coast with sociopathic fake people

>>2783042 (OP)
Columbus is way worse but I guess they're close enough.

>>2783050
Is Columbus just state government offices and OSU? Never been

>>2783048
Grids are a good thing and are based. As someone in Charlotte, where a grid only exists in Uptown, I envy a grid. The degradation of our suburbs was caused by a transition of grid system to cul-de-sac for new suburbs.
>they're soulless
Barcelona is a grid city and one of the most visited cities in the world for leisure tourism.

>>2783042 (OP)
what do you need in a city op? a corner shop with halal sandwiches which vagrants hang outside all day

>>2783042 (OP)
Amazing scat orgies in Indianapolis. We were smearing and shitkissing all night long. I really love it when guys eat scrambled eggs before they feed me; it makes their shit extra gassy and sulphury. I especially love it when I get the occasional hint of egg with each delectable bite

>>2783042 (OP)
non identity is preferable to being empty like trenton, albany, and camden

Oklahoma City is worse in evert way, and with double the violent crime.

>>2783048
Denver's improving. When I visited downtown in 2022 for my court date, there were more druggies on the sidewalks than normal people. I visited again in 2024, with part of the 16th Street Mall project finally completed, and downtown was full of rich young white people socializing. Meanwhile, Colorado Springs went from being one of the best cities in America to being a crime-ridden shithole where you can't even leave your bike locked up next to the boulevard because some tweaker with bolt cutters is going to come by in the next ten minutes.
>>2783101
Even people who have lived in NC for years still use a GPS to get around because of how random the city roads are. But until you've spent time living with loud exhausts and thump-thumping speakers cruising past your house at 2 AM on those lovely gridded streets, it's stupid to say that you envy a grid city.
>>2783179
Why is the only Republican major city in America so freakin' violent?

>>2783042 (OP)

Houston. It's the 4th biggest city in the country and 3x the size of Indianapolis; yet, nothing. Name one thing this city gives you. There's really nothing. It's just there. Indianapolis is at a crossroads so it's convenient for people in the area and there's the racetrack. Why would anyone go to Houston? Texas already has several sprawling cities that barely have character, so why have another one? And Houston has the worst sprawl. It's weird as fuck too because it's such a large city, yet it's empty at the same time. Hard to explain. It never ends and yet feels so empty and soulless. Same shittiness as New Orleans but at least New Orleans has character. Nobody cares about Houston's sports teams either. It just exists. It's one sprawling liminal space. It sucks. And it's hot and humid. The gulf is tepid and oily too.

>>2783185
>Why is the only Republican major city in America so freakin' violent?
Compared to Memphis, St. Louis or Milwaukee it might as well be Nantucket. Though yes, its a fucking shithole & a half and by far and away the city that most fits what OP is (not) looking for

Also, Miami is now America’s largest red city unless you want to count DFW which imo is still kinda purplish.

>>2783042 (OP)
Charlotte

>>2783048
Easily the worst major city I have been too

>>2783169
can confirm

>>2783185
Oklahoma City has low black population that's only like 10 percent of the city, but that 10 percent commit around 70 percent of the violent crimes. It's one of the reasons that Oklahoma votes so strongly republican. They're sick of seeing such a small minority of the city cause such a massive amount of crime. Like most cities in the US, there's really no good way to stop black people from committing crime. Europe is finding that out the hard way too. The best you can do is isolate them in neighborhoods and let them shoot it out.

In a perfect world, we'd sterilize them. But we're not there yet as a society.

>>2783185
>But until you've spent time living with loud exhausts and thump-thumping speakers cruising past your house at 2 AM on those lovely gridded streets, it's stupid to say that you envy a grid city.
Well I grew up in a gridded neighborhood, Its way better, I've never actually lived in a suburb built after 1900.

Also people still pass by my apartment in Charlotte, not having a coherent grid doesn't mean there's no thru traffic.

>>2783233
Combined Miami-Dade/Broward/Palm Beach is still slightly blue.

Palm Beach was Harris +6k. Broward was Harris +150k. Miami-Dade was Trump +125k. What's unique is that Miami-Dade is considered the main part and is the most red.

>>2783262

It's only going to get worse. The republicans are going to lose in the next election, and the libs are going to ramp up the DEI shit HARD as pure revenge.


Get ready for it.

>>2783230
>Compared to Memphis, St. Louis or Milwaukee it might as well be Nantucke
It's a matter of per capita, you see. Democratic-controlled cities range from clean, modern first-wrold metropolises to run-down, nigged out cesspits.
Republican-controlled cities, on the other hand, are soulless shitholes without exception. When your shining examples of urban governance are Oklahoma City, Jacksonville, Fort Worth and Bakersfield, you KNOW you're doing something wrong.

>>2783042 (OP)
>>2783048
>>2783050
>>2783179
>>2783219
>>2783282
>Blocks your path

>>2783386
First of all who gives a fuck
Second of all those places are probably much more livable

>>2783219
Numbers, Lola's, the magic cauldron, bambolinos, kryptonite if that's still a thing, agora, Menil park, avant garden, notsuoh, giant tubs of pho for like $8,

There's also the beach like 45 minutes away if you want to go to Surfside or Quintana don't even bother with Galveston it's a shitshow.

My gripe with your post is that you sound like a dude who got a luxury apartment in midtown or you live in some place with jeets out in godknowswhere it has one of those polo and cargo short with lanyard jobs. Anything outside of the 713 is not Houston and I'll die on that hill. That's it I've been out of the city for a few years up in Seattle and we were already losing our institutional spots like Theo's and South Beach, when I left. I would assume if anything that process has accelerated as more Tesla driving lanyard people show up to Texas. But, I digress. Both Seattle and Houston can go to hell and Indianapolis though I've never been there. I'm moving to Tampa.

>>2783578
Wow, you're actually a coping, malformed inbred mouthbreathing retard

>>2783714
Look another reddit tier response
I live in a blue city. I just don't give a fuck about which way a place votes. It doesn't make a big difference.
I did notice when I went to Texas that the tent cities disappeared and the streets were clean and not full of aggressive bums which was nice. And I imagine it is much easier to buy a house or live a normal life there.
What was your point again?

>>2783752
>I did notice when I went to Texas that the tent cities disappeared and the streets were clean and not full of aggressive bums which was nice.
The vast, vast majority of Texan cities are run by Democrats you dweeb.

>>2783387
Can't believe I went there, I guess st Augustine would've been nice to see, otherwise useless waste hole. Jacksonville beach ain't bad but still soulless

every large Midwestern city is exactly the same, idk why Americans pretend otherwise.

Dallas

>>2783048
Colorado is great. Denver sucks.

Opinions on Cincinnati?

>not Lubbock TX or Lawton OK
/trv/ does not know what even is in America.

At least most the cities mentioned above have regular shows, artists, events, sports, and an airport for you to get somewhere directly that isn't the Capitol.

As a rule of thumb, exclude college towns. Then pick the 4th largest city of any given state. There you will find the generic strip mall/subdivision car centric and fast food chain having cesspool that is middle America.

A place big enough for large corporations to have a market but too small and depressed to retain any character.

Generally any place between 50k-200k will be like this.

>>2785715
I'm thinking kino

hypothetically if i was a west EU dude ( white ) that would move to the US, has a favor for country side and wish to find a nice girl that's not consumed by materialism and social media, whoring herself out. What state / city / area should i move to?

>>2783042 (OP)
Because it's Dallas.

>>2786961
rural areas are mostly the same but generally the further west you go the better. the midwest might be nice but it's full of peasants. the monoculture has reached into the countryside though. you better be open to lurking some conservative churches to find that

>>2787035
>peasants
That's a great way to describe the entire rustbelt and Midwest. Literally a sprawling nothing landscape filled with dead industry and lard-ass wallyworld dwellers. At least the South, Southwest, and California have different cultures with decent things to do. The only place in the northeast that has a soul/culture is Boston and they ruin it be being total dicks

>>2783042 (OP)
What is the most generic, soulless, identity-less copy pasted strip mall wasteland city in the US that is still great to visit?

>>2787630
Chicago. King of Flyoverland.

>>2783057
No, it's a """"""""""""city""""""""""""""" of 900k, with 2 mil in the metro area.
Except, it's not a city at all. It's a fuckhueg collection of suburbs. Just endless suburbia, for hours, in all directions. Our "downtown" is pathetic for how many people actually live here. As far as generic goes, I would say that Ohio is by far the most average state, and Columbus is the most average place in Ohio.

That said we do have some businesses and we are the second largest city in the midwest (after Chicago). We are the most generic in the US (maybe), but generic isn't the same as bad. And there are a lot of shit tier cities in the US.

>posted from Columbus

>>2783042 (OP)
Charlotte gets my vote. Soulless corporate plastic city full of arrogant "live to work" bankers who moved from the northeast

>>2783048
I don't think most people realize Denver isn't some alpine wonderland, it's just generic American suburbia on a barren plain 20 miles east of the foothills.

The only true cities in America are New York, Chicago, San Francisco, DC, Philly, and *maybe* Boston.

Everywhere else is a sea of suburbs around a cluster of office towers.

>>2788413
Kek I didn't even see this when I posted >>2791188

>>2791188
You left out Denver

>>2791188
My favorite places in the US are mostly smaller cities near ski resorts and beach towns. Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Jackson Hole, Durango, Telluride, Missoula, Ouray, Folly Beach SC, Bethany Beach Delaware, Miramar Beach Florida, San Clemente Ca, Newport Beach Ca. Black people don't ski, so ski resorts are almost always low crime areas.

I was forced to spend 3 weeks of my life in Indy. It's white bread bland and somewhat trashy, lots of fatties and pitbulls. Burgers were good though, the downtown sector has enough bouge in it to support a yuppie population and their millennial burger joints, boba cafes, and token ethnic food restaurants. It's also surprisingly walkable inside the highway loop. But there's a lot of human garbage and welfare apes. Canal area, riverside, and downtown are passable.

>>2791188
Cars ruin cities. The best cities in the world prioritize public transport instead of cars. /n/ is right. No one wants to be in a place full of highways and parking lots.

>>2791375
I've only ever seen one black guy while skiing
he was snowboarding

>>2783379
Don’t know how red it might stay when Trump finally stabbed Cubans in the back after all these years as a bedrock. Then again, red voting blocks are used to maintaining their cuckoldry even after extremely foreseeable betrayals.

>>2783042 (OP)
Lubbock, TX is worse. What the fuck even happens there?

>>2791188
>>2791405
These.

/thread

>>2791188
Posts like these are way too doomerist.

There are nice urban neighborhoods even in sprawly cities. Even the sun belt cities are having their downtowns improve.

>>2791905
What did drumpf do to cubans

Eurotard here. Been reading "On the Road" by Kerouac this past month and I've gotten obsessed with going on a month-long road trip East to West. Will obviously not be living it as beat as him, as I'm a huge pussy, but I really fancy the idea of stopping in random shitholes, spending the night, eating a burger or two and keep driving.
Is it a realistic trip or will I miss too much of the major cities that way? Though I don't think American cities have much more to offer than its vast countryside.

>>2791905
>>2792924
>What did drumpf do to cubans

Nothing, that poster is a butthurt retard. Francis Suarez, Republican Cuban mayor of Miami, is also hands down the best mayor the United States has had in decades. Huge night and day difference in improvements in central Miami from even just 5 years ago that rival the transformation of Singapore. Republicans in Miami are not going anywhere any time soon.

>>2791188
God damn that makes fucking fort worth look like paradise
Disgusting

>>2794452
Too bad the whole city is sinking lol

>>2792073
Using Texas is cheating

>>2794446
That's pretty much the ideal way to explore the US. Our trains and buses go nowhere and are also full of you know whos. Road trips are the standard. Just be prepared for a lot of driving, most Americans are somewhat used to driving for 5-10 hours at a time. Also gas and motels will be more expensive than you think.

>>2796216
Sure thing libtard, Miami will be under water in just two more weeks, am i rite?

>>2783042 (OP)
Phoenix

>>2794446
I've spent like 15k mi going east to west in the past year alone. It's worth it. People shit on fly over states like Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota but they are cool as fuck if you actually drive the backroads and not just the boring fast interstates. Not to mention backroads are usually only 10mph slower, no traffic, and best of all almost never any trucks. You end up passing through a ton of small towns/cities. Some are dumps, some are nice, some are just meh and you end up seeing any way landscape and everything than you would on interstates.

Same applies once you hit the Mountain states, but there are times you are basically forced to take interstates for short periods of time before you can go back on a normal highway. Honestly getting off the interstate is key though unless you want to go to the "big cities" out there. Wyoming for example has so much to offer, but you would never see really any of it if you stuck to I-80 only.

>>2796223
Don't ask me
Ask the insurance companies
Or go ahead and blather about how they are jewish or whatever and stick your head in the sand
Money talks

>>2796324
>insurance companies

That has to do with the high amount of cases of insurance fraud and lawsuits concentrated in Florida you fucking retard, not made up fairy tales concerning some magic flood that's going to suddenly wipe out South Florida. On the flip side though, its going to be funny watching California get wrecked by the notorious "Big One" earthquake.

>>2794446
I've done the east to west US road trip on 4 different routes multiple times. There is nothing worth seeing in Iowa, Oklahoma, Nebraska, The Texas Panhandle, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Alabama or Mississippi. You waste at least a week driving across flat farm land that smells like cow shit. St Louis is so dangerous you won't stop to see the arch.

The best things to see in the US are on the east and west coasts. People get this idea that they should go east to west, when they should be going south to north on the coasts.

Start in San Diego and drive up through Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Sedona, Zion, Bryce National Park, Arches, Moab, Telluride, Durango, Taos and then Santa Fe.

Or drive up from San Diego to San Francisco, Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Lassen, My Shasta, Bend, Mt Hood, Rainer and Seattle.

Pick any section of the 101and just drive up the coast and it'll be the most beautiful drive of your life.

The drive from Salt Lake City through the Tetons and Yellowstone is utterly insane.

If you have to go east-west, go Chicago, Rapid City, Yellowstone, Missoula, Coeur d'Alene, Seattle.

>>2783042 (OP)
oh hey my home city
born and raised
fucking sucks

>>2796424
>nothing to see
>Interstate photo
Ragebait post

>>2797868
No one cares, why not actually say something about it

>>2783042 (OP)
>>2791112
Second anon here and another guy got it. Addiing a third vote for Charlotte because if you just added a large billboard for Wells Fargo or Chase Bank that covered up the skyline, there would be no audible difference in vibes. Charlotte is the city that Blackrock would make.

Also all Midwest cities have souls. How dare you fools slander comfy Columbus, with High Street and the White excellence of the German Village. Indy has a lot of nig-nogs but downtown also has pretty comfy vibes and nowhere that has a well designed canal system like this is completely barren of soul. You sure as fuck won't find this in Charlotte!

>>2783387
I’m amazed it even gets considered as a city. The downtown is empty and any neighborhood with something to do is basically a separate town.