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City lovers blindfolded by capitalism, worldwide

Your city, today: "I ❤️ my city", read boards everywhere around town. Social media is full, "My city is the best. Yours sucks, haha!", with bitter battles over states of roads, metro awesomeness, and supposed 'welcoming' natures, or a lack of all of them. It doesn't take long for people to gang up on each other, internalize hurt and project it as a "hate" for their perfect little town.  A deeper dive into the exact points of argument are yummy eating spots, green spaces, unbeatable street food, warmness of city folk and a lack of language barriers. But a deeper-than-that look into it leads to a mafia of property owners and entrepreneurs - in whose shadow lie the corporate darkness that covers city landscapes. It's a perfect picture of pseudo-freedom that ordinary city folk never need to realize. Their deliciously magical local ice cream joint, majestically built architecture, mouth-watering local cuisine and legendary roadways have their