The funny thing is, Boise did the Abundance thing before the book even came out. City zoning code got a major rework. A lot of parking lots started turning into small, 3 story apartment complexes.
Did housing prices, or even rent, come down? Nope🙃
There was a show on TV when i was a kid called “Beat the Geeks” and it was a gameshow where contestants did trivia against subject experts dubbed ‘geeks’ and each week they had a guest geek.
Whenever the Simpsons Geek was on, I would beat him handily every time.
I am in awe of your power. My simpsons recall is that of a gnat compared to you.
I wanted to beat that fucker so bad as a kid
I figure i couldnt have beat him every time but in my head i did lmao
I remember watching it one time and the Simpsons geek didn’t know which episode “Meh” came from and I was screaming at the TV so loud my dad thought I was having a problem
Receeding roof-line back-front house.
Shadows?
if ya zoom in on some of those “houses” they start to lose their …realism.
McMansions are so comedically awful that the AI hallucinations horseshoe back around to accuracy.
I like playing a game of “real or ai” with Thomas Kincaid cottage paintings.
The chimneys man, they get everyone
I think you might be right. I can’t seem to find the original video to see what other images they use and nobody on the reddit thread has listed a location yet. The background seems right for the geography and there are a fair number of developments along Colorado’s front range that look almost exactly like this. Without a single landmark there’s nothing for me to google and searching google maps didn’t get me any exact matches, only a few similar developments.
Couldn’t be real, I don’t see any Mormon steeples
That neighborhood looks fucking awful
Not a sidewalk in sight. Just a car-centric nightmare.
walk in the street
get run over
walk on the lawn
get shot
Idaho delenda est
It’s a shame their stretch of the Rockies seems a lot nicer than Colorado’s. I’d love to explore the mountains there and in Montana, but driving ten minutes into Wyoming reminds me that I’m in 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖑 𝕬𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖆. The further north I go the more it becomes Nazi territory.
If you want some nice stuff you can read about how the natives tended the land and migrated into and out of the mountains to harvest the vaunted huckleberry
It gets less nice once the whites show up but uhh, it’s pretty cool history of how people adapted to one of the most rugged terrains in the world
The fences carving up the open range were the death of the cowboy herding economy.
Remember when Shoshone and Bannock people controlled Boise
Remember how there used to be, like, plants and animals back then, and you could actually do stuff and feel a sense of community and all that
Me neither
If by community you mean BOGO boneless wings day at Buffalo Wild Wings…
Buying Groverhaus in a bad City Skylines 1 map to show I’m hella more richer than you
Is Idaho known for it’s lack of trees?
Southern Idaho (where Boise is) is steppe, so yeah.
Northern Idaho has lots of trees, though.
Boise is surprisingly green actually. It’s on the wet side of a rain shadow, at the base of some mountains. There’s also a river running through it. Idk what the boise river valley was like historically but there are tons of trees surrounding it right now, and a significant amount of tree canopy throughout the city.
The neighborhoods close to downtown have reasonably sized houses and a lot of tree cover. Still way too much sprawl and mcmansions further out of course.
That looks a lot better than the posted picture. It looked very baron before.
Your comment actually inspired me to look this up, and I learned a very interesting fact. The etymology of the name “Boise” is from the French boisé as in the adjective form of bois (wood/forest). So “wooded” or “forested”. It was the name specifically given to the “wooded” River by French trappers, because, in contrast to everything else around it, it was surrounded by trees.
The urban canopy anywhere away from the river essentially dates back to European settlement.
Boise is actually the city of trees!
Southern Idaho is significantly drier, but has a good amount of farmland.
Central and northern Idaho have lots of trees: Boise National Forest, Sawtooth National Forest, Salmon-Challis National Forest, Payette National Forest, and many more!!
you could build versailles in boise and it’d still be shit because it’s fuckin boise. death to boise, death to idaho.
the heap of potatoes they export is the only reason to not glass the place
the heap of potatoes they export is the only reason to not glass the place
The only reason those potatoes are so prevalent and cheap is because they’re cultivated and harvested using imprisoned people’s forced labor
not but a grain of surprise
Fuck Idaho birds, fuck Idaho trees, fuck Idaho rocks and air. To turn it into a vaccum is not enough, because there will be an empty space where Idaho once existed reminding us there once was an Idaho there. We need to fold space around Idaho so that the Idaho-shaped hole where it once existed is contained within an inaccessible pocket universe, forever delisted from the multiversal register.
Even ignoring the AI slop, this looks awful. It’s so drab and bland.
I am so glad my insta only shows me silly animal videos
This is a silly video of the complete absence of animals and habitat for them. That’s kinda the same thing, you just have to use your imagination to place green and blue things in the city.
Honestly, let all the idiots who want their own shitty little fiefdoms move to these awful mcmansions. I’m never going to Boise, it might as well be Mars for all I care. Go live in your excessively large house and fill it with children who will resent you for raising them in a community where everyone distrusts each other.
It is fun though because I remember this exact sentiment about Texas 20 years ago
The problem is if you are the type of person who likes to live near things that since there isn’t anything there this community and every person in it for some reason gets outsized political influence over where you live and where the things are and they will ruin it all in their quest to drive to an inner city chain bar
That looks fucking disgusting.
