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Florida isn't a metro area, it's a state. Maybe you mean Miami. I don't know why anyone would want to live there: - Way more obese people - Lower intelligenc

• selimthegrim 2y ago
  <s>Because no science ever got done in like Calcutta ever</s> Although I will say the bus system in Miami is total garbage
  • hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
    It's America, where single-occupant pickup trucks equal freedom. And so public transportation became largely viewed as a signal of low-status, which is why it's so inefficient and neglected. America had many local tram services that were ripped up because it seemed like cars were better and the future.
    • selimthegrim 2y ago
      I will say one benefit of living in feudal-until-Katrina New Orleans is the excellent streetcar system
      • hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
        Houston would need another 5 hurricanes to be livable, and ATX just wants to keep having shitty roads and more traffic with its token tram that crawls into E ATX. Where I grew up, I recall the demolition of a 1920's-era local train station took 15 years and it was replaced in the 90's with a light rail system with stations in the middle of nowhere and railcars were almost always empty. Most American cities are too badly designed to allow for efficient local public transportation. I think about the only way out is high speed rail into city cores from feeder satellite residential suburbs, and then local busses and trains. I'm glad NoLa got a clue.