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Maybe now we can be known as the place with the largest public restroom. When nature calls, just go where nature is.

Proof is indeed elusive, because $ --> evidence works for the opposing view too. Enterprises are known to spend money on controlling distribution/placement in lieu of product development for greater gains down the road.

Forgive me too if I didn't see the proof that all the programming are what ppl actually wanted.

Not all. Its always a mix. Sometimes they put out programming that majority wants to hear, sometimes its for the minority but push to the majority. That is incidentally how some monopolies work. Whole thing reminds me of windows with internet explorer, do ppl actually want it or is it because its there vs firefox.

LOL. You can actually compare them with the ppl in houston photos and see the difference in body shape and size. I got to say Jax takes nice pictures.

It is possible to dislike something that everybody else thinks is nice, but disliking it doesn't make it not walkable though. SF is small but not that small where every part is hilly. I think I can understand not wanting to climb hills, some parts are steep, but many parts are not hilly, and the street atmosphere is on every corner. It is really dirty in some parts though, but like Jax said, the sidewalks are large enough, that you can avoid the dirt. I don't like the pandering, but I don't understand how you can don't like all the ppl.

I wouldn't consider this a hip, pretty or trendy street, but I would consider it walkable when compared to feeder road sidewalks or across parking lots. I guess anything that has interesting street atmosphere would be considered walkable to me. Its not about being trendy or hip. compared to

Walkability can include doing something at the destination and be "strollable" on the way there. They don't have to be exclusive of each other. It is a knock on Houston, but if they reduce walkablility down to being only about proximity, then they might as well do a density research, and they had already done plenty of those.

Yes, yes, yes. A place is walkable not only because of distance, but there should be stuff in between point A to point B that makes the walk walkable, things to see and experience, people activity, weather. I see folks saying I am near this and I can walk to that, but what is in between?

Great for them, cause I got to wait days for a doctor's appointment here. Whose money they using anyways?

I think the fingers gave it away

I guess this is one of those, I have no kids, I don't even have someone who wants to make a baby with me, but guess what, let's play armchair parent.

I am sure you can find uncleanliness and dirtiness if you try hard enough, but for those cities, those are the exception rather than the norm. And I think those pics you posted are from offbeat areas rather than their main streets. I thought you implied the main streets or main gathering places are not real if they look clean and orderly. Those are certainly not their main streets as I remember their main streets as much cleaner than that. And also, I was in Singapore beginning this year, and the skateboarding with graffiti pic you posted is actually a designated area for skateboarding and graffiti, it was allocated and designed that way on purpose to mimic the US skateboarding parks. No other area in Singapore has that kind of graffti. I also checked the link of the pic you posted and you neglected to show the other pics which show the clean areas. These are the pics from the same link you posted And this pic above of their public transportation system is indeed as clean as show. I took it when I was there, it was extremely clean exactly like the pic, and it wasn't a amusement park ride. Here are some of the main gathering areas of the cities mentioned, and they are not amusement parks. Woodlands has something going on, it shows that real life and nice neat can go together, and I give them credit for that.

That door kicking until they get the message is a nice suggestion. I have seen kids in the neighborhood, and mums with strollers having to go around them and ending up on the road because these asses like to block the side walk with their pickups.

Many cities in the world are neat and orderly and they are real. Zurich (Switzerland), Montreal, Singapore, even our own Portland OR comes to mind.

Why is it when the place is really clean and orderly and pleasant, it would be consider not 'real world', Why do we lower our standards and consider a place 'real' only if there were some homeless hanging around, trash everywhere, broken sidewalks, overgrown grass, deteriorating conditions? If anything, being walkable is an accomplishment itself, considering how unwalkable most of our other areas are.

ROFL, someone's great grandparents are probably RIGL at this comment right now. As for the shooting, its not really right, but I certainly do not feel bad the burglars got shot though.

I don't think one can not act gay. Of course we have to know what exactly is acting gay. I meanif a person's partner comes to visit and gives the guy a peck on the lips, like a wife would kiss the husband when visiting, is that considered acting gay?

You have an interesting workplace. Is he pretending to annoy you, knowing how you feel about gays? Why does he feel the need to to that, and how does one 'act gay'? Like I said , I had seen ppl making fun of gays at workplace before, including mimicking drag queen behavior in front of them and then laughing about it, is your friend 'acting gay' that way? Depending on the intention, it can be sexual harassment but mine was a pretty male charged environment so nothing was done.

Hmm, the straight white old man, the so called minority that holds most of the power in a workplace sure needs protection.

You have expert perspective on being discriminated? Wait, are you a straight white older male? I am not a homosexual, but I have seen homosexuals being made fun of at the workplace.

Nice, I am happy those homosexuals got some protection, but I am even happier seeing the bigots and homo haters get pissed off because homosexuals are not going to take their ____ any more.

Unfortunately, as evident in this thread, its all about making money, if you can convince developers and leaders that your kind of image will fatten their pockets, this is the kind of image we are stuck with. you want nice casual dining, but they build convenient fast food, because its a predictable money maker.

Its even more sad he has to resign, says worse about the republican/religious community.

Maybe there is some yet to discover link with this gay republican trend. For those who say being gay is circumstantial, do you think being a republican representative contributes to making a person gay, or does gayness itself make a person want to become a republican representative?