>>56644433As the other anon said, just like the UK, for the US the cities are the shitholes with 3rd world levels of crime and ridiculous inflation and cost of living.
The countryside of the US (And the UK on that note) is both affordable, significantly lower crime levels and gets to reap the benefits of a developed nation's infrastructure.
Its this weird catch 22 where all these original superpowers condensed and centralised a fuckton of power into their cities due to trade and production coming from them, because of their location in elation to the ocean and how they could receive shipped goods
They used that power to grow their economy in massive ways and establish themselves as the world's superpowers. And of course this wealth spread across the countryside (e.g. bumfuck nowhere in India has nothing, meanwhile bumfuck nowhere in the UK has 5G internet, power, clean water etc.)
But now the rest of the world has caught up, and these centralised cities like new york and london are dying of the self inflicted poisons of being a massive population centre in a comparatively small area, built for production rather than living.
China is following the exact same path, except they are behind countries like the US and Germany and haven't quite caught up yet, and have MASSIVE swathes of land that have not yet felt the benefits of the GDP generated by the major chinese cities. They may never, seeing as the CCP doesn't really seem to care kekw
