City parks are wasteful and useless - says people who have never lived within walking distance of a good park and drive everywhere
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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They are great places for dogging.
I figured you meant walking your dog but then i saw your name
Always strange how enthusiastic friends from the americas are about dogging, cottaging, and double-fisting.
That's what she said.
They arent wasteful or useless, but they do tend to suck due to the sheer numbers of people who use them.
I believe, the solution to that is more parks.
Supplementary solution: abolish billboards and oversized/tall signposts.
Hawaii did this, and it looks amazing. Other states have banned billboards too.
This actually does seem to work. Vancouver has a LOT of parks, and I don't find them crowded or underutilized. It's a nice balance where there are people to talk to but you can find your own quiet spot too
https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/parks-gardens-and-beaches.aspx
Apparently we have 250 parks, making up 11% of Vancouver's land mass
Yeah look at my city on a map, Victoria BC. Like half the city is green space and I can easily find solitude.
Plus they’re not wild at all. It’s still a lot of pavement-touching. Especially when there’s signs telling you not to walk on the grass.
America really sucks. Go look at my home city of Edinburgh on a map, that's how you do a city
Princes Gardens going from a dump in the 1800s to a nice park is quite a transformation
It's a really beautiful park with an incredible background of old town royal mile and it isn't even crack top 3 best parks in Edinburgh
That's not a park, then, it's a nature preserve.
I agree those are much better than parks
So... you don't want to touch the grass?
I want to touch dirt. I want mud squishing between my toes and the cool wind whipping over my naked body. I want to feast on wild edibles while I gaze at a sky so full of stars it hurts to look at them. I want my neighbors to have paws and fur and feathers and scales. I want any signs I see to be curiosities or raw materials and to divorce myself from the human concept of time. I want to not see another person for months, and even then they are on a distant hilltop and quickly flee.
So... a national park, then?
Even there the signs must be read and obeyed. Imaginary lines in the dirt that I must be aware of.
And they make me wear clothes.
Said no one ever? Where in the world have you heard that?!
I've lived in small rural towns, where parks are a waste of taxpayer dollars according to many people
I'd imagine those same people think any spending is a waste of taxpayers dollars.
Well, yeah.
Bizarre. I stop at a few rural parks when bringing the kids home to Florida. They're mostly very nice and well attended.
OTOH, I can see rural people not valuing parks. After all, we can go 1/4 mile from anywhere and be in actual nature.
git the gubberment outta my paycheck, thats socialism
hail king trump long like the king
hey where’s my social security check?
Oh yeah the parks are usually fine (albeit, some can be quite bland) - it's the people who don't appreciate them. Why go to the park when they could go to the mall? Because by the time they're in their car, why drive to a park?
Yeah the concrete jungle can really put your mind in neutral gear the longer you move through it. Used to ride my bike all around downtown ft worth tx back in the early 70s. Then got transplanted out to the wide open ranch lands and found some quieter places to ride
Grinder 😏
that square foot of grass isn't for the cats it's for me
Only if I can make "cute" faces at you and go pspspspspspsps
I have a Pavlovian response to that where I blink slowly and tchktchktchk back
Get out there and consume!
Everything is nature.
Yeah, you can take in beauty anywhere, even a plastic bag floating in the wind. It's more a mind set. If you deliberately look for goodness and beauty, you'll find it. I could stroll down 5th avenue NYC and look up and be in awe of the towering monuments to human ingenuity and grit all around me. Or I can take that same walk and fixate in on litter and grumble.
Yeah, you stand in awe of the human ingenuity behind a strip mall, Taylor. Really take it all in.
Look at that line cook smoking a cig in the twighlight of the panda express sign. He's squatted on the milk crate like a shitting monkey.
Beautiful.
Yeah, you can take in beauty anywhere, even a plastic bag floating in the wind.
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