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U must be a city boy. Out here in the mountains of New England we have nothing but fresh air (at least since the smoke from Canada has blown away ...) I have butterflies and fireflies and crickets and grasshoppers and frogs singing all the time
You don't even need to be in the mountains of New England. We're right outside one of America's bigger cities and within an hour drive of two more, and we have butterflies, frogs, raccoons, foxes, etc.
C t'une bonne chose mon ami(e)
Yeah. I'm like minutes outside a major city and see these things in my backyard. I think they probably need to get their eyes checked or something...
My hometown was literally 14 houses in the woods with one road. 6 of them still exist in a renovated state but now there are apartment towers and paved townhouse complexes everywhere, invasive weeds at every roadside, dirt lots unused that used to be wild native plants but are just dandelions and moss. All the parks used to be connected by trail but now its streets without sidewalks on all but one side of the smallest park. If you go down the residential streets you will see enough cybertrucks that I want to cry.
So yeah its a city now but it wasn't before.
Damn that unfortunate. I live in a "city" for this state, and one of the bigger ones at that with 15k population. The "small town" in mass I moved from had 20k population. At least up here where the city ends, there is nothing but trees and mountains. Back in mass there was no distinguishable like as near the whole state is just sprawling suburbs and towns. I think some of what makes us glorify Europe in ways is they have harder lines where cities end, so you can still get to nature. Also, there's still some nature to get to instead of just suburbs till the next city limits
Kinds in the Netherlands and Japan roam in their cities safely. Its less an urban issue how rotten US mentality is.
10 years ago we had fireflies by my lake. This year I counted maybe 4 total.