Eh it's just a return to 50s style architecture, and I like open air malls, when they're not built on land that could be easily used for more useful or beneficial things like affordable housing. They remind me a bit of where I lived for a couple years in WA, where the only real indoor mall was tiny & everyone went to the outdoor mall that hasn't significantly changed since the 1950s instead bc they just had more. It's near the Hanford site & the whole place sort of advertises itself as a "nuke town" so the whole thing felt very atompunk/retrofuturist.

It's in MetroWest, but my dad drives a Subaru & has used speen street automotive in Framingham for decades. He seems to like them.

I mean hell Sudbury needs transit badly, we have exactly one bus stop and that's it. I hate it I don't have a car so I wind up wasting a bunch of money on uber anytime I need to get somewhere.

not even the mental health facilities for non-criminals are that nice, so I'm not shocked.

Mental health facilities literally still exist, just not called asylums anymore bc asylums historically were horrific and unethical, and the term "asylum" cannot ever be divorced from brutality in the public consciousness. I know this because I've been a patient in a mental health unit before. They still have some major problems with human rights abuses, but up until covid hit there were some pretty drastic improvements, (after covid, at least at the unit I'm familiar with, they took away most of what made it bearable & got rid of all the trained counselors in favor of nurses who don't give a shit) and it's nowhere near as bad as the forced lobotomies and direct physical & mental abuse you seem to want to return to.

I'm sorry, I only laugh at funny jokes.

ya know it costs nothing to not be disgustingly insensitive

I mean here's my thing: Assuming he's being 100 percent honest and truly believed his wife was replaced with a malicious imposter & that he wasn't hurting his actual loved one, he still tried to throw SOMEONE off that bridge.

Well, this is a messed up, tragic situation. Guy wasn't in his right mind but that doesn't excuse what he did. Hopefully, he'll regain some lucidity & take responsibility. Must have been terrifying for his wife, I hope she's got all the support she could ask for right now.