In the US, compare a city like Houston, TX to a city like Portland, OR. Seems like two different planets.

bruh same. everytime i have to ride through suburbs im just like damn this is so depressing and ugly

I like urban centers even when they're relatively devoid of nature. What I don't like is when nature is pointlessly absent. A bunch of tall buildings providing living, working and recreational space efficiently to lots of people? Excellent. Asphalt to the horizon so that people can drive to Walmart and then drive to Applebee's? Soul-crushing.

I know it's not quite nature, but in my neighborhood in SF there's trees on every sidewalk and multiple parks within a 5 minute walk

I hate it when they remove nature and don't even provide shade or evaporative cooling