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Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 08:26:15 JST Adrianna Tan

This deeply annoys me and is also why I cannot stand American urbanism content
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  As a Dutch person, most YouTube content about The Netherlands is incredibly cringe, as it's often upheld as some perfect utopia, while in fact the place is falling apart due to decades of neoliberal exploitation. If I see one more video about some American jerking off over our infrastructure I'm going to fucking lose my shit. Anyway, here's a 40 minute expose on just how bad the housing crisis in The Netherlands has become, and why. If you think Canada or whatever has it bad... Oh boy, you ain't seen nothing yet. https://youtu.be/mmCgJQOM86M
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  Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 09:50:21 JST Adrianna Tan
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  @arno_in_sing American urbanists who truly believe NL is a paradise. I just find it to be a very weird way of framing anything
  
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  Arno (arno_in_sing@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 09:50:22 JST Arno
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  @skinnylatte what annoys you? The style, the points he is trying to make, or both? Housing is a mess in the NL, the title is pure clickbait though.
  
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  andrew773 (andrew773@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 13:07:39 JST andrew773
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  @skinnylatte I'm glad Americans are being exposed to different development patterns through YouTube. The generic American suburb is inefficient, short sighted, and will be a massive burden on us as they decline. The poor rural areas in our country are also truly upsetting. What's your problem with it anyway? Everywhere has tradeoffs but we could do so much better and this content expands the overton window.
  
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  Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 13:07:39 JST Adrianna Tan
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  @andrew773 a lot of this type of content ‘American goes to this place and then makes a living explaining poorly all the things about it’ irks me because they are often factually inaccurate and sometimes flat out incorrect. I also feel a lot of American urbanism content has a W and N Europe worship aspect which is hard to watch because sometimes they do it without questioning many of the aspects of those systems that people who live there care about. Just feels utterly superficial to me
  
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  andrew773 (andrew773@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 13:19:19 JST andrew773
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  @skinnylatte Fair enough. There is just so much bad content people consume this is at the bottom of stuff that concerns me.
  
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