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listen-to-the-inner-walrus · 1 year

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ive already forgotten the context but i keep thinking back to when a usamerican user said something about the uk having a lot less infrastructure problems and disasters because its so different to my own perception.

like either

america has a lot more infrastructure problems and disasters than i, as a non-usamerican, know

most non-uk folks' perception of the uk today is way off from reality. i mean like 400 schools had to close here because the concrete roofs are collapsing and this is ongoing rn

im infrastructers georg and where im from is the outlier and most people didnt grow up in areas where the main water pipes broke every year or so, and didnt have to fill a bathtub as prep or spend their days walking up to the little emergency water holder at the top of their road

its a combination of all three or two of the three, etc.

i know i have a decent amount of uk mutuals so like,,,, was the infrastructure actually good where youre from? am i the outlier adn shouldnt be counted?

#kai rambles #if it is like #a more outlier problem #(i doubt it tbh)#id assume itll be heavily correlated with poverty and race #like tbf i am from one of the most impoverished areas #and when i was a kid we used to play around in this little area that should have been fenced off because there was barbed wire sticking up #like loads of people wrote to the council who were like we dont have the funding #and then everyones like #there are kids who play there #and the council again were like our budget is 6 peanuts and a tin of corned beef #and then i - age 10 - ran into the barbed wire playing hide and seek tag and needed stitches #and the council finally put a fence up

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