. "A half-hour wait for a bus, unless it is past 9PM or something, is a sign of shitty public transportation.posted by griphus at 10:38 AM on November 8, 2011 [5 favorites] Adding to gungho's points (although a lot of people in American cities didn't live in crowded tenements, at least once you get outside of NYC/Boston, some other cities) -- American cities, all over the country, were in pretty bad" . . .