NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.
What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?
When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it’s hard for me to say he’s wrong.
PMC engineer makes many figures, uproots his family and moves to a completely foreign country with better infrastructure and some safety nets, says you should give up on your likely only home in your lifetime.
I don’t completely disagree with him, but when it’s coming from someone who gets paid to travel around the world and make enough money to move to a country you don’t speak the language of -not out of necessity like migrants to the US, but out of preference - it seems out of touch.