Apartments and metros

American apartments now:

Newly built American apartments aren’t much better than commie blocks

Having seen the interiors, Khrushchevkas are way nicer than any 5-over-1 I've been in in the US. By a comical degree, really.
- What do they look like on the inside?
What? All the new American apartments I've seen are luxury and full of nice amenities. Which I think is a problem because none of it is affordable. Even older apartments get renovated and the rent shoots up. I would love to see some practical and efficient apartments.
This is Denver so your region my differ. From what I gather new bare bones apartments only exist in extreme cost of living areas like Sanfran or NYC.
- Those "luxury" apartments are just plywood and sheetrock byult as fast and cheap as possible. They look good at first glance but start to come apart after just a couple years.
- Those “luxury” apartments are glorified shoeboxes with shared patio and pool access.

American build apartments are less spacious. Soviet blocks also have nice balconys nowadays.

Much easier to fall off a balcony than through a window. Convenient feature in Russian culture.

Actually in some places they are, they even look quite beautiful with new colourful isolation and stuff.
Of course not always, I have seen some where the walls act as doors.
- Nice coat of paint
  But nothing can isolate those things, you can hear your neighbors breathing
I live in one currently. One of the early ones from the late 60s.
Location is great, city provides hot tap water and heating. Cheap utilities.
Huge amounts of these were insulated all over the country starting from the late 90s. EU also provided funds for that after my country got in.
I honestly don't remember seeing typical commie block not maintained well from the outside in cities nowadays.
On the negative side - walls are crooked and not soundproof, this is usual, flat sizes are a bit too small for families. 50m^2 is most common for ones built before 80s I think.
I did talk lately with retired construction engineer that knows these, he said that although these were built cheaply and were supposed to be temporary - as long as steel reinforcements don't rust, probably will outlast all of us.

I will not stand for this slander of the NYCT

Congrats, you have one of the only functional public transit systems in the US
- Must be nice to be able to go somewhere without needing a car, or 3 busses and 3 hours.
NYCT is absolute garbage compared to the rest of the world outside of the US

I’m not even American and I know there are nice train/metros in existence. Grand Central looks pretty nice.

The stations themselves look amazing, the platforms on the other hand are still beyond deplorable.
- I really like the DC metro stations. Sure, most aren't opulant, but they're usually clean and well lit, and I think the style looks really cool.

Has anyone here read/played Metro 2033 and beyond?

Yeah that shit is crazy. The guy describes the metro stations like Tolkien the trees and bushes. I really felt the beauty of the stations when reading the Metro 2033 saga.
- Which is funny because I only saw cramped death traps in the parts I played

Russia has like one metro like that lmao

Sucks they had to walk everywhere