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there are two countries. USA, and Europe. and everyine who says anything about the USA, that isb ad, is a Europeman. you use Celsius? congratulations. youre from Europe (the country)(European). you dont .ike Eat Delicious Jimmy’s Regional Hamburger Chain? okay Europe guy. youre not Joe Biden president? well then youre Privileged to have EuropePresident (the president of Europe) (Boris Johnson? ithink) so shut up about our American politics you ()Europe) (the only other place in the world) would never undrestanding, rthat in America, we have regional subdivisions and local dialects(you dont have those in Europe)(the other coutnry there is)(iuts just one coutnry basically and america is like 50 countries in a trenchoat did you know that?). and so. Youre not allowed to be mean to me or hamburger every again :/
There are 3 major places in the US. Cities, Suburbia and the countryside. Possible 4th is small towns/college towns, though suburbia is always trying to absorb them if there are jobs to be had (or at least real estate value to be extracted).
Gentrification is also how suburbia tries to take over cities it’s not afraid of, or that it can’t ignore the all that value it wants to extract.
Suburbia is what most people see most of America as. Right wing media see it that way too and cast anything else as dangerous, especially cities that haven’t largely gentrified. They