Third places where people can spontaneously have fun like this are not possible in 99% of this country because we designed entire metro areas around the car, minimizing human interaction.

No Hayden, it's not possible because in the cities the type of people who'd show up wouldn't look like that and would be shooting and looting instead of dancing. Hope that helped.

Make 2025 the year you work ON the business instead of IN the business.

Ah yes, it’s the lack of cars. Of course.

Every town and city in America has parks and a public square just like this.

America as in the USA?

I get how something like this could be cringe or what not, but the ability to NEVER encounter this or have this naturally occur is a byproduct of designing a massive portion of this country with no ability to meet organically.

If you think a plaza surrounded by homes, businesses, workplaces, and restaurants is the same as a municipal park with city boundaries, think before you reply lol.

Have you ever stopped to consider that the same thing that created a need for cars and suburbs in the first place is something that they don't have to put up with in Rome

Every town in America does this sort of thing. You Chinese hack.

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I notice something specific about these beautiful gatherings 🤔

Not having that happen is a feature, not a bug.

I would venture to say that you can dance on more than 1% of the landmass of the United States.

Yes, Europe is just better

That’s not why lol

And then Starbucks was able to be that 3rd place for a decade or so, but then the new guy was like “Nah, we’re a software company…” and now no one sits in there any more.

In America, many third places have become first places due to the opioid crisis

You forgot the alcohol too.

Your posts are so strange.

a guy with an accordion can make a street party in most European streets. We sit on a patio in a parking lot. Depressing as hell.

This seems like a great idea but where am I going to park my F-250?

Are you called the Transit Guy because you effortlessly re-route around what the actual issue is

Just move to Europe and be happy

That is possible in many places in the US. You live in NYC, so you're familiar with Washington Square Park. The difference in the US is that crime takes over such spaces, which is why we can't have nice things.

Imagine doing this in a country where people can actually dance

I’ve been to Rome, cars everywhere.

Yes. The US is conceived as a set of destinations linked by roads, while most cities around the world are places in their own right. The outside is a place.

Move to Europe and enjoy your life. You know you want to.

It's also illegal in the US because of noise ordinances

These types of gatherings happen every single night, 365 days a year where I live in multiple locations.

How much soy did you drink tonight?

are you fully certain that it is the lack of cars? not the lack of something or somebody else? a certain group?

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Actually it's because of the black people

Ah yes, the famously traffic-free city of Rome

I was in Lampassas Texas a couple months ago and people were dancing in the streets like this to country swing. It also happens every weekend in my Arizona small town.

I grew up in places like these. And we’re building them into @EastSolanoPlan.