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Originally Posted by Vlajos
I do that often enough. Roads are the same everywhere on average.
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This is decidedly not my experience, on average. I've seen residential streets in some low income neighborhoods in parts of the south side that looked like what I would imagine street conditions to be like in war zones, or third world countries. It's much rarer that I see that in middle-to-upper income neighborhoods. I recall a few years back, driving through the southern half of Back of the Yards - so this is the largely African American section south of ~50th or so - I'd never actually seen anything like the condition of those streets in the U.S. I'm not being hyperbolic here - it was shocking, and appalling. Livid.
I strongly suspect it is not just streets. Likely other types of vital infrastructure are not, in practice/actual lived experience (not policy or on the books), funded/maintained evenly throughout the city. Nothing would please me more than to be proven wrong - that this is not in fact the case. I'm not, however, naive.