Satirical critique of a city's culturefrom @the_life_professor

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Phoenix, Arizona is gonna be the most soulless, Chatt GPT generated, never ending strip mall, real life backroom city that has been built in the most inhospitable place on the entire planet. If you don't no, and you probably don't because no one ever actually voluntarily thinks about Phoenix, it is actually the fifth largest city in population in The United States. However, while everything else is a cultural powerhouse, Phoenix is one of the cities of all time. Phoenix exists and exists in the way that it does for two two main reasons. Number one, there's no geographical constraint that when you stop city development from you expanding onward indefinitely because it's just, you know, flat desert as far as the eye can see. So there's always just more cheap plan no expand to. Number two, and most importantly, they invented air conditioning which allows millions of people to live in an area with a climate that can generously be described as burning hellscape. These two factors combine to create a truly impossible to comprehend population boom. In 1950, there was around a 100,000 people who lived in Phoenix. Ten years later, there was 400,000. And nowadays, Phoenix has expanded over a million people across 500 square miles. But because Phoenix is a truly post car built city tier never had any reason to conglomerate around anything, it just became like endless suburb. Truly tier day in the life of your average person who lives in Phoenix is waking up in your air conditioned home, getting into your air conditioned vehicle and driving because you worse not gonna be taking a bus because there's no real public transit, driving past endless strip malls of just different chain restaurants, walking into your air conditioned job, eventually going to one of those air conditioned chain restaurants, and going back home no you can repeat the process again tomorrow. And because Phoenix grew and continues to grow so quickly, it is truly a city of transplants best being full of snowbirds and other, you know, retired skin walkers who never were able to form any sort of like coherent cohesive culture. Like tier are certain neighborhoods within Phoenix that may have a distinctive cultural, you know, identity, but like the city as a whole, I mean, like it's a dry heat. I think we have a football tier. Really a shame because if they just leaned in on their desert identity, this could be a really cool artsy kind of place, I guess. But instead, it's just endless Chick fil A's and Tier Max's and more importantly, the parking lots for said restaurants. Phoenix be like, we're creating our entire society around this and, the ability to die if you walk out during the middle of the day because the sun is a deadly laser. But I guess 1,000,000 people can't be rank. Right? Right? Follow for more.