I hate cities with..

• thundering freeways, roaring bypasses, spaghetti junctions, brutally bare concrete overpasses, and gloomily dank pedestrian underpasses stinking in equal measure of urine and fear.
• untidy chaotic streetscapes littered with poles, power cables, transformers, advertising hoardings, bollards, traffic lights, flashing lights, warning signs, direction signs, road-signs, street lights, parking meters, speed-humps, traffic circles, white lines, yellow lines, red lines, broken lines, double lines, zig-zag lines, chequered box junctions, central reservations.
• endless Car Yards, Strip-malls, Big-Box discount stores, and Franchise Food McShacks surrounded by parking lots with overflowing waste bins.
• peace constantly disturbed by screeching tyres, honking horns, maxi-decibel boom boxes, slamming car doors, wailing emergency vehicles, raucous motorbikes, burglar alarms, or drill and hammer home-renovators.
• navigating miles of slow-moving congested traffic in order to visit friends and relatives
• arrogant government functionaries, po-faced “service” providers, foul-mouthed yobbos, and scruffily-dressed slobbos.
• constantly harassment by beggars, big-issue sellers, assorted touts and drunken louts.
• “vibrant” cities which simply means I am more likely to be pick-pocketed, or mugged, or randomly attacked by a madman, or worse.
• a place where, from across a narrow concrete chasm, a nosey stranger can peer straight in my window.
• fear of driving imposed by breathalyzer-phobia.
• charity collectors, or dodgy-bodgy tradesmen knocking at my door
• high walls, razor wire, electric fences, boom gates, or security alarms.
• non-communities of absentee-owner holiday homes
• faceless bureaucrats imposing endless nanny-state regulations

So what do I want? (click link below)

21 point CITY WISH LIST