I appreciate you taking the time to make this. Displaced Ashevillain here. Can confirm that Beloved Asheville is the best way to help the communities there. Good luck on your new chapter! Im over here working on my new chapter as well.
Dang man, I adored your Asheville content. It's exactly the kind of work and passion the city needed. But of course, there's a lot of relief effort going on there now just to return to normal, and a lot of people and families that need help just to get a new home. I'm happy to hear that you are okay. Can't wait to see what you cook up next!
still it's an important question, how the city will rebuild - will they rethink, what had been bad? Or will they even block rebuilding stuff, that's incompatible with the current zoning regulations?
i had been wondering about your safety ever since i heard about the flooding, glad to know that you are safe and i hope that you enjoy NYC! i’ve been many times and each time i come back loving it more 💖
Thank you greatly for posting for Beloved Asheville. I am a life long citizen as of 72 years... My home is in Swannanoa. I hope one day when the dust settles you will come back to these beloved mountains. Owen Park and the Swannanoa River are within walking distance. Both lakes at Owen Park were completely dry, taken by the river. There were three ducks left out of hundreds of geese and ducks. They were begging for food. I weep deep inside with grief... Never have seen anything like this. It is not whole bodies that are being looked for... They did pull a bull out a shed who had been there 26 days without food or water. The two cows with him had perished. We need miracles. Nature in time, will replenish.
She was briefly seen in the video, but a huge shout out to Kim Roney on the Asheville city council who is also fighting to make public transit and walk-ability more accessible in Asheville!
I'm in my late twenties and have lived in NC my entire life. I've always loved Asheville, especially visiting as a kid and during college. I moved here almost exactly one year ago, and the experience of living here has been so vastly different than visiting. The economy is completely bogus. The dichotomy of rich people coming here to retire juxtaposed by service industry workers, starving artists, and homeless people all struggling just to get by month to month is a ceaseless reminder of the dysfunction of US society. Due to other reasons I am moving to DC in a few weeks, but honestly I'm excited to leave Asheville. It hurts to see such a beautiful place with an amazing history be ruined by plain old bad politics and planning. Hope you enjoy NYC and find a living there that makes sense to you! Thanks for doing what you've done here in Asheville.
Spot on! When Asheville got "discovered" by the "gentrifiers" it was the beginning of the end of a very special, heart-centered and creative human-sized city. Gentrifiers bring their wealth & compulsive consumption into a wonderful & affordable community and soon cause an increase in taxes & rents, sprawling "development", and native population displacement. To make matters even worse, they tell their friends about how wonderful it is and then they come, add to the problem, and tell their friends. After a few years, your beloved city has changed into the standard American urban/suburban nightmare. And now a hurricane has wrecked huge swaths of Asheville and the surrounding small rural communities, so one has to wonder what will come next? One thing is for sure: money will dictate much of what gets prioritized, and the service workers, starving artists and homeless will mostly have to cobble together whatever they can to recover even just a little bit of their pre-Helene lives. This is what has become of The American Dream - George Carlin could dissect & explain it succinctly with his blistering comic satire if he was still with us. Suffice it to say: "We have met the enemy and he is us..."
Do u think that kind of stuff doesn’t exist in DC or NYC? 😹😹😹😹 It’s even worse over there, take it from someone who’s lived in DC and been to NYC many times and has moved to Asheville from all those other urban environments. The grass is NOT always greener. But you do you.
@@user-lt1jd1ye3v true, it's a problem that shows itself anywhere there's a big enough population. Personally I'm not moving to get away from that, it just sucks to see it happen to a place that wasn't that way before, and one that I grew up knowing very differently.
Loved your content…so insightful…hope the powers that be listen to what you lay down! You gotta do you and live your life! You’re young! NYC is a great place to be, observe, learn and I hope to hell a place you’ll continue unleashing quality, eye opening content for the country and world to see! I’m currently displaced from Asheville, but we got out with our lives and have a home to come back to after minor repairs. It’ll be forever changed…but we will rebuild, we will survive and hopefully we’ll do it all better this time around! Good luck to you Rob! Hope you find your way back to the mountains in the future!
I'm so sorry to see you leave North Carolina, but I get where you're coming from. This year I made the same calculation: dollar for dollar, I do not get the urban experience I'm after here. If I didn't have other things tying me here, I'd have left already.
My sister helped enable my husband and I to take the vacation of a lifetime a few years back, and one of our stops was Waikiki Beach on Oahu. After doing a bit of back-of-napkin math, we realized we could literally live there (with all of the amazing lifestyle, weather, cultural, and other benefits that comes with living in a literal island paradise) for about the same as we were paying to live in Asheville. We dearly love the mountains and not sure Hawaii is where we'd want to go if we left. But I gotta say it was something of an eye-opener that we haven't stopped thinking about yet.
I moved to Asheville in March from Atlanta! I love it here. Right after traveling in Italy for a month in April-May this was a great place to come back to
I am so glad you are safe! Our hometown has a lot of positive features and wonderful people but if you want to live car-free or even car-lite because of transportation barriers it would cost too much. I also moved out of town a few years back to a town with better bus and green way infrastructure to live car-lite at my current budget. Thank you for sharing local requests for help and BeLoved. I am excited for your future projects I hope that continue to share! Because your perspective does make a difference. I had never felt my exact frustrations with Asheville and the car dependent infrastructure of the world so understood. Good luck in NYC! I hope you get into the nitty gritty of their local transportation and infrastructure projects as well.
I just found your channel from this video! I have been living in NYC for two years and have been car free for 7 years. I think you’re actually in the same neighborhood as me, there is lots to do and enjoy there and beyond. No shortage of music venues to play gigs at.
Good for you! Your Asheville content has been great, and I hope you keep up the urbanist videos. I get a big move as I moved from Arlington, VA to Los Angeles. It was only in LA where I went car free and loved it. If I had to live in another city, I'd seriously consider New York. All the best.
I agree 100% that the destruction that has been done with development in asheville and the surrounding cities is insane! I feel awful for the wildlife that has been displaced and hope that rebuilding after the storm will consider just planting grass and trees instead of putting buildings back up especially right along the rivers.
Welcome to NYC! I had the same thought process as you about 20 years ago, when I moved from suburban America to NYC. I am still here and really value a car-free living style, allowing me to walk everywhere - to/from work, shopping and other activites. I also happen to be very athletic and enjoy running, skiing and the outdoors. If you feel you miss outdoors stuff, you actually have plenty of options. Reach out if you want to get more info in this. BTW, my heart and goes out to Asheville and the area and will contribute (already have to Samaratan's Purse).
I would join a running group- there a lot of run clubs to chose from. Bandit in Williamsburg comes to mind. I run with Dashing Whippets, and though they are more Manhattan focused, they have a Brooklyn group that runs in Prospect Park.
I've donated to the cause, I hope my small contribution can help ❤ Despite not being able to part from North Carolina under more favorable circumstances, I hope you're able to find your footing in ny. I'm definitely curious on what your thoughts are regarding its city planning.
I plan to move to Greenville, South Carolina someday. They have a bike trail network that’s expanding, and they even have all kinds of stuff that expresses their bike friendliness.
@@ayatollahlalalola Was it where the Swamp Rabbit Trail crosses W Blue Ridge Dr? Because that's the part I always dread, as much as I love riding on that trail.
Congrats on the move to NYC! You should totally come checkout Jersey City. A lot of urbanist experimentation going on over here. Looking forward to your future content!
After being in nyc for a month I’ve kinda just accepted that maybe i’ll just go to places where the walkability is there & always will be there. Kinda sucks but you eventually have to put your energy somewhere else
We will miss you in Asheville my friend. Thanks for the content that brought so much to light about our community and infrastructure. Enjoy the adventure and let us know when you’re back in town!
what the hell i also moved from asheville to a large city right after the hurricane in order to live a better car-free life (tho i moved to philadelphia and haven't had a car in years- one year living in asheville with no car was more than enough for me, and i lived in a part of town that was more walkable)
I have been wanting to make urbanist videos from my current home in the Midwest, and I have desperately been wanting to move to DC for years (where my sister also lives). As NJB told Yet Another Urbanist when he moved from Reno to Seattle, your voice will be much more valuable in a place like NYC than in Asheville. I'm sure you will enjoy living there much more too.
Maybe when they fix up Asheville after the storm, they can make the infrastructure more Dutch-inspired, if you know what I mean. Shoutout to Not Just Bikes!!🇳🇱
Would like if they could just get a train station however the hurricane has put the whole future of passenger service for Asheville up in the air on wether the rail road will think its worth rebuilding which unless they get state funding is unlikely
hey rob. cool videos, keep them up. im an architect and have many of the same gripes with the built environment that you do. good luck in new york, its tough to make it in a place so expensive but im sure you've got this.
Hey Rob, I'm going to try to send you a message here on youtube. I live in the piedmont triad area of north carolina and sold my car 4 months ago. I have not burned fossil fuels or taken an uber in that time period. I have cycled nearly 2,000 miles in 4 months and my life has vastly improved. Would love to share my insights on living urbanist in North Carolina.
This bloke is more caring of his lovely hometown in North Carolina than his 3 older brothers who are Japan-pilled to the max. The revolution will not be televised - much love to you mate and keep putting out content when you can 🖤 Edit: never knew this robinson was "lystroid" on vine bro wtf
@@EastWindCommunity1973 nevermind, long story but I’m sure his brothers have contributed to causes in NC and they’re great people in general, just none of my business to interfere with the context. I’ve seen similar videos to this one - when implemented change is seemingly about to occur in rural areas, disaster strikes because of the lack of nationwide awareness, emergency prepping, funding and communication regarding the issue in the first place. Kudos to future Mayor Robert for doing his part though sometimes it is beyond your control to continue this fight and you need to forcefully carry on - figuring out governing institutions/self-involvement and come back later to start documenting + planning the A’s and B’s again.
I'm just glad you and your people are ok. Fortunate that you already had housing elsewhere on the go. Good luck on your new chapter. For NYC video ideas, I noticed some of my friends are very daunted by the prospect of riding buses and metro systems. Stuff like getting on the bus on the right side of the road to head in the correct direction, making connections, reading metro maps. There's a lot of soft skills that you don't get taught, unlike driver's ed. You could do a public transit ed for new york's public transit options.
I have lived in Asheville since 1997 and had a studio there in the early days, and just lost my studio from Helene. I hope you check out Project for Public Places in NYC and Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language so you don't recreate the wheel. Good luck!
Dude, that's awesome! Congrats on your journey. As much as I'd love to live in NYC, I've found my forever city in Calgary...also a substantial jump from Virginia.
Why do you live in NYC? I have lived here for 35 years. I have watched kids your age with financial backing move in for a few years, jack the rents up, crush the culture and go home in wave after wave after wave. While you are here, go try and find a New York accent. It will be a worker bee buzzing around keeping everything working for the long term tourists, the ones who stay for five years of their twenties, go back home and tell everybody New York sucked. All the New Yorkers are gone, now, all replaced by transient rich kids and European tourists. They are all gone. I wish I could get a million people from New York and have them all move down to Asheville in wave after wave after wave for years and years until every shred of its culture was trampled into the earth, gone forever. But there are only a few New Yorkers left, probably fewer than the entire population of Asheville.
Loved your Asheville content! Helene caused me to leave Asheville and I probably won't be back. The destruction and devastation caused by the hurricane is unprecedented... a new era begins!
Reported a comment on this video from a user that was talking about how they "hoped Rob Robinson crashed and burned". That is not only rude and wrong to do, but it is even against UA-cam's community guidelines. Please for petes sakes, if you hate somebody please keep it to yourself. None of us want to listen to or see your hateful words.
If it's the Mike Hiers one, it appears they work for Asheville Community Yoga. Really disappointing behavior for someone in our community. Truly pathetic stuff
@@timwatkins6559 Yeah. I didn't want to see some random on the internet hating on someone over what I assume might be something very stupid, and I'm pretty sure alot of people here (the majority) feels the same as I do about that. So I went ahead and reported the comment to UA-cam's moderation staff. Hopefully they will take care of it.
2:30 mirrors my situation very much. I had to find a positive way of engaging with this preoccupation of mine. Nobody wants to be around osmeone who is angry and obsessed all the time and it is not a very effective (or wholesome) way of communicating.
Did you find "Ludwig Hilberseimer" in any of your research? From everything I could find, he pretty much invented sprawl. You will will find a lot less of his influence in NYC, but still a lot of "Robert Moses" style developments to shake your fist at. Glad you and your family are safe.
Like you UA-cam feeds urbanism content to me. But it’s sort of an accident as it started by watching channels simply because I like trains. And frankly, what I find in these channels is alarming. No, not all of us hate suburbia. In fact a great many of us like to live out here. I went to college in the middle of a major city and I’ve never had a real desire to live like that. And you know what? That’s ok. And it’s ok you do want to live in such an environment. The difference is I am not trying to undermine your preferences while you made a statement in this video that suggests you want to fight suburbia. You have your best answer - moving away from them. All the power to you. Best of luck in New York. Even I would find it interesting to live in manhattan for six months or so but I suspect that that is all I could stand. But if you want urban density, cool. That’s where you will be happy - but don’t mess with our property rights because millions of us don’t want to live that way or raise our kids in that environment. We can respect your preference but we expect you to respect ours. Is tolerance so bad?
I appreciate you taking the time to make this.
Displaced Ashevillain here. Can confirm that Beloved Asheville is the best way to help the communities there.
Good luck on your new chapter! Im over here working on my new chapter as well.
That’s a hell of a jump. Financially, I could never. As a fellow Asheville citizen, I wish you the best out there.
I feel like many parts of Brooklyn and Queens are probably cheaper than Asheville these days. A lot has changed in the last 10 years.
@@ayatollahlalalolaI know someone who just moved to Brooklyn, not true. Still double the average Asheville rent at least
@@SeñorMalc downtown asheville is 96 acres. brooklyn is over 40,000 acres. you can find cheaper rent than asheville
Hopefully everyone in Asheville recovers quickly.
But also welcome to the Northeast Corridor 🤙
Thanks, Alan!! I love your videos 🚂🫶
Dang man, I adored your Asheville content. It's exactly the kind of work and passion the city needed. But of course, there's a lot of relief effort going on there now just to return to normal, and a lot of people and families that need help just to get a new home. I'm happy to hear that you are okay. Can't wait to see what you cook up next!
still it's an important question, how the city will rebuild - will they rethink, what had been bad? Or will they even block rebuilding stuff, that's incompatible with the current zoning regulations?
i had been wondering about your safety ever since i heard about the flooding, glad to know that you are safe and i hope that you enjoy NYC! i’ve been many times and each time i come back loving it more 💖
Thank you greatly for posting for Beloved Asheville. I am a life long citizen as of 72 years... My home is in Swannanoa. I hope one day when the dust settles you will come back to these beloved mountains. Owen Park and the Swannanoa River are within walking distance. Both lakes at Owen Park were completely dry, taken by the river. There were three ducks left out of hundreds of geese and ducks. They were begging for food. I weep deep inside with grief... Never have seen anything like this. It is not whole bodies that are being looked for... They did pull a bull out a shed who had been there 26 days without food or water. The two cows with him had perished. We need miracles. Nature in time, will replenish.
She was briefly seen in the video, but a huge shout out to Kim Roney on the Asheville city council who is also fighting to make public transit and walk-ability more accessible in Asheville!
I'm so glad you and your people are ok. I hope this next chapter feels better and that you share what you learn! Wishing you the very best
I'm in my late twenties and have lived in NC my entire life. I've always loved Asheville, especially visiting as a kid and during college. I moved here almost exactly one year ago, and the experience of living here has been so vastly different than visiting. The economy is completely bogus. The dichotomy of rich people coming here to retire juxtaposed by service industry workers, starving artists, and homeless people all struggling just to get by month to month is a ceaseless reminder of the dysfunction of US society.
Due to other reasons I am moving to DC in a few weeks, but honestly I'm excited to leave Asheville. It hurts to see such a beautiful place with an amazing history be ruined by plain old bad politics and planning.
Hope you enjoy NYC and find a living there that makes sense to you! Thanks for doing what you've done here in Asheville.
Spot on! When Asheville got "discovered" by the "gentrifiers" it was the beginning of the end of a very special, heart-centered and creative human-sized city. Gentrifiers bring their wealth & compulsive consumption into a wonderful & affordable community and soon cause an increase in taxes & rents, sprawling "development", and native population displacement. To make matters even worse, they tell their friends about how wonderful it is and then they come, add to the problem, and tell their friends. After a few years, your beloved city has changed into the standard American urban/suburban nightmare.
And now a hurricane has wrecked huge swaths of Asheville and the surrounding small rural communities, so one has to wonder what will come next? One thing is for sure: money will dictate much of what gets prioritized, and the service workers, starving artists and homeless will mostly have to cobble together whatever they can to recover even just a little bit of their pre-Helene lives. This is what has become of The American Dream - George Carlin could dissect & explain it succinctly with his blistering comic satire if he was still with us. Suffice it to say: "We have met the enemy and he is us..."
Do u think that kind of stuff doesn’t exist in DC or NYC? 😹😹😹😹 It’s even worse over there, take it from someone who’s lived in DC and been to NYC many times and has moved to Asheville from all those other urban environments. The grass is NOT always greener. But you do you.
@@user-lt1jd1ye3v true, it's a problem that shows itself anywhere there's a big enough population. Personally I'm not moving to get away from that, it just sucks to see it happen to a place that wasn't that way before, and one that I grew up knowing very differently.
If you think income inequality is bad in Asheville just wait till you live in DC
@@Dronebertios_World are y'all just trolling? I never said it was better there 🙃
Loved your content…so insightful…hope the powers that be listen to what you lay down! You gotta do you and live your life! You’re young! NYC is a great place to be, observe, learn and I hope to hell a place you’ll continue unleashing quality, eye opening content for the country and world to see! I’m currently displaced from Asheville, but we got out with our lives and have a home to come back to after minor repairs. It’ll be forever changed…but we will rebuild, we will survive and hopefully we’ll do it all better this time around! Good luck to you Rob! Hope you find your way back to the mountains in the future!
I'm so sorry to see you leave North Carolina, but I get where you're coming from. This year I made the same calculation: dollar for dollar, I do not get the urban experience I'm after here. If I didn't have other things tying me here, I'd have left already.
My sister helped enable my husband and I to take the vacation of a lifetime a few years back, and one of our stops was Waikiki Beach on Oahu. After doing a bit of back-of-napkin math, we realized we could literally live there (with all of the amazing lifestyle, weather, cultural, and other benefits that comes with living in a literal island paradise) for about the same as we were paying to live in Asheville. We dearly love the mountains and not sure Hawaii is where we'd want to go if we left. But I gotta say it was something of an eye-opener that we haven't stopped thinking about yet.
I moved to Asheville in March from Atlanta! I love it here. Right after traveling in Italy for a month in April-May this was a great place to come back to
I am so glad you are safe!
Our hometown has a lot of positive features and wonderful people but if you want to live car-free or even car-lite because of transportation barriers it would cost too much. I also moved out of town a few years back to a town with better bus and green way infrastructure to live car-lite at my current budget. Thank you for sharing local requests for help and BeLoved.
I am excited for your future projects I hope that continue to share! Because your perspective does make a difference. I had never felt my exact frustrations with Asheville and the car dependent infrastructure of the world so understood.
Good luck in NYC! I hope you get into the nitty gritty of their local transportation and infrastructure projects as well.
I just found your channel from this video! I have been living in NYC for two years and have been car free for 7 years. I think you’re actually in the same neighborhood as me, there is lots to do and enjoy there and beyond. No shortage of music venues to play gigs at.
Good for you! Your Asheville content has been great, and I hope you keep up the urbanist videos. I get a big move as I moved from Arlington, VA to Los Angeles. It was only in LA where I went car free and loved it. If I had to live in another city, I'd seriously consider New York. All the best.
I agree 100% that the destruction that has been done with development in asheville and the surrounding cities is insane! I feel awful for the wildlife that has been displaced and hope that rebuilding after the storm will consider just planting grass and trees instead of putting buildings back up especially right along the rivers.
Wishing you the best on the move and looking forward to the new projects :)
Welcome to NYC! I had the same thought process as you about 20 years ago, when I moved from suburban America to NYC. I am still here and really value a car-free living style, allowing me to walk everywhere - to/from work, shopping and other activites. I also happen to be very athletic and enjoy running, skiing and the outdoors. If you feel you miss outdoors stuff, you actually have plenty of options. Reach out if you want to get more info in this. BTW, my heart and goes out to Asheville and the area and will contribute (already have to Samaratan's Purse).
I'm a runner! I have been trying to figure out good places to run in Brooklyn
I would join a running group- there a lot of run clubs to chose from. Bandit in Williamsburg comes to mind. I run with Dashing Whippets, and though they are more Manhattan focused, they have a Brooklyn group that runs in Prospect Park.
Good luck in your future endeavors dude!
I've donated to the cause, I hope my small contribution can help ❤ Despite not being able to part from North Carolina under more favorable circumstances, I hope you're able to find your footing in ny. I'm definitely curious on what your thoughts are regarding its city planning.
The world is yours, Rob!
I plan to move to Greenville, South Carolina someday. They have a bike trail network that’s expanding, and they even have all kinds of stuff that expresses their bike friendliness.
Please don't. We're full.
Last time I biked in Greenville I got hit-n-run by a car.
@@ayatollahlalalola Really? Where were you riding?
@@headcas620no such thing as a city being full of
@@ayatollahlalalola Was it where the Swamp Rabbit Trail crosses W Blue Ridge Dr? Because that's the part I always dread, as much as I love riding on that trail.
Congrats on the move to NYC! You should totally come checkout Jersey City. A lot of urbanist experimentation going on over here. Looking forward to your future content!
What a huge loss for Asheville! Good luck in your future endeavors!
After being in nyc for a month I’ve kinda just accepted that maybe i’ll just go to places where the walkability is there & always will be there. Kinda sucks but you eventually have to put your energy somewhere else
I currently live in LA but in santa monica where it actually feels like it’s getting better every year compared to the deep suburbs
Best of luck to your adventures in NYC, Rob! May you inspire others in Asheville to continue the push for more urbanist development there.
SO excited for this new chapter, Rob!! I hear NACTOs Designing Cities conference is in New York in May..!
Best of Luck young man. May your life be a success no matter what endeavor you choose.
Farewell, really enjoyed the avl content
Thanks for your videos! Good luck with everything in the future :)
There were suburbs (possibly even exurbs) before cars. It is car dependent suburbs and exurbs that are recent.
We will miss you in Asheville my friend. Thanks for the content that brought so much to light about our community and infrastructure. Enjoy the adventure and let us know when you’re back in town!
Troy is always around, don't forget that... Troy will visit... remember that too...
Turns out, crossing Patton Ave was just the beginning.
With your insightfulness, creativity, and ability to communicate, you will shine no matter where you live or what kind of work you do.
what the hell i also moved from asheville to a large city right after the hurricane in order to live a better car-free life (tho i moved to philadelphia and haven't had a car in years- one year living in asheville with no car was more than enough for me, and i lived in a part of town that was more walkable)
I have been wanting to make urbanist videos from my current home in the Midwest, and I have desperately been wanting to move to DC for years (where my sister also lives). As NJB told Yet Another Urbanist when he moved from Reno to Seattle, your voice will be much more valuable in a place like NYC than in Asheville. I'm sure you will enjoy living there much more too.
I hope you make New York a better place! Thanks
Maybe when they fix up Asheville after the storm, they can make the infrastructure more Dutch-inspired, if you know what I mean. Shoutout to Not Just Bikes!!🇳🇱
Gotta get there before all of the predatory investment real estate buyers with dreams of turning Asheville into the next Dallas do.
@@sonipitts too late
Would like if they could just get a train station however the hurricane has put the whole future of passenger service for Asheville up in the air on wether the rail road will think its worth rebuilding which unless they get state funding is unlikely
hey rob. cool videos, keep them up. im an architect and have many of the same gripes with the built environment that you do. good luck in new york, its tough to make it in a place so expensive but im sure you've got this.
Hey Rob, I'm going to try to send you a message here on youtube. I live in the piedmont triad area of north carolina and sold my car 4 months ago. I have not burned fossil fuels or taken an uber in that time period. I have cycled nearly 2,000 miles in 4 months and my life has vastly improved. Would love to share my insights on living urbanist in North Carolina.
This bloke is more caring of his lovely hometown in North Carolina than his 3 older brothers who are Japan-pilled to the max. The revolution will not be televised - much love to you mate and keep putting out content when you can 🖤
Edit: never knew this robinson was "lystroid" on vine bro wtf
Wat
@@EastWindCommunity1973 nevermind, long story but I’m sure his brothers have contributed to causes in NC and they’re great people in general, just none of my business to interfere with the context. I’ve seen similar videos to this one - when implemented change is seemingly about to occur in rural areas, disaster strikes because of the lack of nationwide awareness, emergency prepping, funding and communication regarding the issue in the first place. Kudos to future Mayor Robert for doing his part though sometimes it is beyond your control to continue this fight and you need to forcefully carry on - figuring out governing institutions/self-involvement and come back later to start documenting + planning the A’s and B’s again.
I'm just glad you and your people are ok. Fortunate that you already had housing elsewhere on the go. Good luck on your new chapter.
For NYC video ideas, I noticed some of my friends are very daunted by the prospect of riding buses and metro systems. Stuff like getting on the bus on the right side of the road to head in the correct direction, making connections, reading metro maps. There's a lot of soft skills that you don't get taught, unlike driver's ed. You could do a public transit ed for new york's public transit options.
we will miss your AVL content!
I look forward to the next video about congestion pricing
Keep shining
I have lived in Asheville since 1997 and had a studio there in the early days, and just lost my studio from Helene. I hope you check out Project for Public Places in NYC and Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language so you don't recreate the wheel. Good luck!
Sad to see ya go but wish you the best!
Good luck to you!
literally driving down patton listening to this haha
Dude, that's awesome! Congrats on your journey. As much as I'd love to live in NYC, I've found my forever city in Calgary...also a substantial jump from Virginia.
Why do you live in NYC? I have lived here for 35 years. I have watched kids your age with financial backing move in for a few years, jack the rents up, crush the culture and go home in wave after wave after wave. While you are here, go try and find a New York accent. It will be a worker bee buzzing around keeping everything working for the long term tourists, the ones who stay for five years of their twenties, go back home and tell everybody New York sucked. All the New Yorkers are gone, now, all replaced by transient rich kids and European tourists. They are all gone. I wish I could get a million people from New York and have them all move down to Asheville in wave after wave after wave for years and years until every shred of its culture was trampled into the earth, gone forever. But there are only a few New Yorkers left, probably fewer than the entire population of Asheville.
I'm happy you're safe, I initially thought of you when I heard the hurricane hit Asheville.
looking forward to the next chapter, where or however you make it
Loved your Asheville content! Helene caused me to leave Asheville and I probably won't be back. The destruction and devastation caused by the hurricane is unprecedented... a new era begins!
Asheville wasn’t completely devastated, and it will be back stronger. You do you though.
Welcome to your true home 🥂
Reported a comment on this video from a user that was talking about how they "hoped Rob Robinson crashed and burned". That is not only rude and wrong to do, but it is even against UA-cam's community guidelines. Please for petes sakes, if you hate somebody please keep it to yourself. None of us want to listen to or see your hateful words.
If it's the Mike Hiers one, it appears they work for Asheville Community Yoga. Really disappointing behavior for someone in our community. Truly pathetic stuff
@@timwatkins6559 Yeah. I didn't want to see some random on the internet hating on someone over what I assume might be something very stupid, and I'm pretty sure alot of people here (the majority) feels the same as I do about that. So I went ahead and reported the comment to UA-cam's moderation staff. Hopefully they will take care of it.
2:30 mirrors my situation very much. I had to find a positive way of engaging with this preoccupation of mine. Nobody wants to be around osmeone who is angry and obsessed all the time and it is not a very effective (or wholesome) way of communicating.
Take me with you lol
If they don't get the water sorted out, a lot of people are going to be leaving Asheville.
The Robinson diaspora extends from NY to LA, classic Americana.
Enjoy spending all you earn on rent. NYC is an wonderful place to work and commute incessantly.
welcome to the city :)
Right after the flood. Are you moving closer to your siblings?
It’s time for this Robinson brother to shine. Nick and Porter been problematic
Did you find "Ludwig Hilberseimer" in any of your research? From everything I could find, he pretty much invented sprawl. You will will find a lot less of his influence in NYC, but still a lot of "Robert Moses" style developments to shake your fist at.
Glad you and your family are safe.
Best o’luck
nice 100% electronica hat!
Tell your council person to vote yes on city of yes...
Like you UA-cam feeds urbanism content to me. But it’s sort of an accident as it started by watching channels simply because I like trains. And frankly, what I find in these channels is alarming.
No, not all of us hate suburbia. In fact a great many of us like to live out here. I went to college in the middle of a major city and I’ve never had a real desire to live like that. And you know what? That’s ok. And it’s ok you do want to live in such an environment. The difference is I am not trying to undermine your preferences while you made a statement in this video that suggests you want to fight suburbia.
You have your best answer - moving away from them. All the power to you. Best of luck in New York. Even I would find it interesting to live in manhattan for six months or so but I suspect that that is all I could stand. But if you want urban density, cool. That’s where you will be happy - but don’t mess with our property rights because millions of us don’t want to live that way or raise our kids in that environment.
We can respect your preference but we expect you to respect ours. Is tolerance so bad?
Gotta love the nyc tax rates
Next, move to Europe to see road diets and parking removals on Google Street View. ^^
bro how are you gonna complain about asheville (which is well deserved) but then got to NYC which is way worse XD
first 5 seconds 🤮nope
Took the time to comment though eh?