The appeal is all completely superficial, so it’s not surprising the amenities are too. But it’s also about how even the impressive things they’ve built were put together in a very piecemeal fashion in a way that doesn’t rely on any other infrastructure that might improve things for anyone else if it existed. E.g. they built a shiny new development - but you can’t even cross the street without driving (a mile or more) to get there, because the roads are like freeways where there’s no way a pedestrian can (safely) do so, as even when they do build infrastructure, it was built for a specific purpose for specific people, with no consideration for anyone else or any other uses.
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