• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Benches are just so nice. The value-to-price proposition is amazing and I don’t see why any city would disagree with this other than incompetence. I recently ordered a bench for a little public garden in my neighbourhood and plopped it there for 100usd. People love it :)

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      9 months ago

      Cities discourage benches because the homeless might use them and that would mean acknowledging the homeless exist.

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        9 months ago

        That’s not always the case tho. Sometimes cities just forget benches exist. My town has no real homeless issues but still lacks of benches for some reason and the public parks team would rather spend the money on touristy shit like “dancing fountains” smh