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That sign looks like it says "no cycling"?
This one? 
yes. dutch signs use red circles to indicate what is not allowed
Not only Dutch signs. They are pretty much standardized across most of Europe and some other places, thanks to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals.
Interesting, as an American our road signage is similar to the standard the other person commented. I've only ever seen signs that indicate what is not allowed with a very prominent slash through it though - not just a circle
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Germans (and similarly, other countries following the Vienna Convention) do it like this:
Bike path
No bikes
How about this? Is this a bike-free road, as in Alkoholfrei? Or free for bikes to ride on? That's why text doesn't belong on road signs. Mostly.
(Yes, I've since learned that it's the latter: -frei in a compound word and frei as an adjective are different but you can't tell if that's meant to be a space because it's a bloody pictogram and 4 letters.)
text doesn’t belong on road signs
Hard agree. Where I live, occasionally stop signs have a white lettered sign underneath that says "EXCEPT FOR RIGHT TURN". Usually it's at intersections where you're not really turning per se but just continuing straight on a road that happens to be curving to the right. It works fine ... for people that are from here that know that those signs are there and what they mean. But people from places where they don't have these stupid fucking signs approach on the cross street and only see the back of the stop sign and have no idea that the car coming from the right doesn't have to stop.
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That's black
Um. Really? No crossout? Jeez.
They must arrest a ton of British tourists.
yeah I get that the standardization is great, but no cross seems like an odd choice to me
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Yeah, the shape is wrong, but I think the intent was to indicate "bike street" or something of the sort
Funfact: If you build cities like it, walkable nice urban neighbourhoods, attractive for young families and others alike, can be perfectly affordable.
Another fun fact: Walkable neighborhoods are cheaper to build. But we've made that illegal, and instead build insanely expensive car infrastructure everywhere, then wonder why we have an affordability crisis.
cheaper to
So less profitable?
Fun fact: spending less is a way to increase profits! (It is less profitable for the car lobby tho).
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That's not at all how that relationship works.
Reducing the cost that it takes to produce something does not affect its margins negatively
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but then how do we capitalism though
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Sometimes it can happen, depending on your lifestyle. I work in tech and live alone. I come from a rural town of 7000 people. When I was a teenager in the 90ies, I wanted to live in a group of towers of a trendy neighborhood in my province's biggest city. They are connected to an underground mall with a grocery store, a cinema, a pharmacy, multiple restaurants, etc.. To me it seemed prestigious and useful to be able to live in a place without going outside for errands.
Ten years later I moved into that city but in a peripheral neighborhood. Then another few years later, I needed to move again and ended up in a tower near the ones I wanted to live in when I was a teenager. I didn't even realize it at first. I just needed a place to live. But one day while coming back from the grocery store and exiting the tower complex, I realized that I wanted to live there twenty odd years ago, and now I go shop there while living two streets away.
But now that I traveled a bit more in the recent years, there are other places in the world where I have this feeling of "I could/I want to live there" and I know it's probably not going to be possible. Also, as nice and tempting as other countries and cities are, it's already not easy to find a place to live in your own country right now, let alone in a desirable neighborhood of another country.
I recommend becoming a total weirdo. You'll fit in way better in the cheap places.
I spent a couple days in Chicago last year. Roughed it out in a park overnight. Went to the beach the next day. Spent more time on Amtrak than I did in Chicago for the whole trip. My body felt like death the whole time, but I had the best mental high I've had in years. My whole life goal is to move there now.
Go there in the winter before you make that decision.
also summer.
You guys can afford to travel?
A disproportionately high amount of lemmy users is older and in tech, so probably doing better than average.
For me, it's living in Europe. I can get a train ticket to Paris and back plus a few night in a cheap hotel for 2 days wage. Less for Prague, Vienna, and a lot of other cities.
I'm genuinely extremely jealous of the vastly superior rail network in Europe. The only option for my area is car :^(
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yes, and we will complain to you that we can't do more expensive and frequent trips.
i travel to the end of the driveway every day. i'm that rich.
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Guilty
I said this recently when visiting Brooklyn. Place felt like home to me, but I know my ass could never afford it.
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Not so sure I’d actually wanna live near the Highline
Near it, maybe. Within sight of it with a window facing, he'll no
With revolution, your chances significantly increase.
Me in Manhattan.
Can't say I've done that. Went to Boston for a work trip, spent the weekend exploring. Nice city, I can see the charm and why people would want to live there. But it also wasn't a place I'd want to live in.
Cool 👍
You should have visited 10-15 years ago when It was a lot cooler.
Before all the bio/tech bros came and kicked out all the small businesses and diversity.
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