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American cities are way more beautiful than European cities. The meme that American cities are ugly needs to die.
>American cities are way more beautiful
>>60338482
t. Johnny Walker, Texas
>>60338482
Yeah, but we don't have these types of building
>>60338482
I don't find this city beautiful
The clear weather, green, and sea makes it look pleasant but the building itself don't attract me, at all
i don't like cities at all, too many people at once
Most American cities lack the historical part of the city, which is probably why they are not considered to be as beautiful
![b3f1ac04-a1b4-4882-9798-f94ccfabec0e_lb1024x768[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qXo0CpB.jpg "b3f1ac04-a1b4-4882-9798-f94ccfabec0e lb1024x768[1]")
>>60339273
This Tbh
History is the most important part
My little town is over 2000 years old, I can walk down the road and visit the 10th century cathedral with William the conquerors son, or I could go to the park where there are Roman ruins, or I could go and look at the building where the Humpty Dumpty story originated from
>>60338482
(w)ew lad
>>60339640
>these ads
why ;__;
>>60339640
>>60339689
are you arguing for or against?
I cant tell...
>>60340023
It's a matter of taste
>>60340086
Hello fellow red bricks city
>>60338784
>European cities are very beautiful
>>60338482
American cities look fake like something from sims or a movie. It looks like it's all made of plastic 30 years ago and has no history
>>60340488
>and has no history
You're correct, there.
>>60338482
But I agree that the New York skyline is really great and the city looks very beautiful
>>60338482
>the meme
What meme?
Come to new England where everything looks like it's from the 1600s. Maybe not ancient but that's old to me. Our cities that look good are the ones that don't have a shit ton of disgusting sprawl generally
>>60338482
I'd rather visit the rural towns tbqh, especially in the northwest
>>60340971
>Come to new England where everything looks like it's from the 1600s
Literally no place in New England looks like it's from the 1600's. Maybe before modernism, but definitely not now.
>>60341351
Not every building but there's a lot, especially churches
>>60341587
Post some churches.
Thanks lad.
who the fuck cares about history, almost anyone lives in recent buildings anyway.
>>60342883
>almost anyone lives
A for effort
Who lives in a building makes no difference to the beauty of the city. Why do I need to tell you this
>>60342883
I've heard some euros say those older buildings are hell to live in. Are they really that bad?
>>60343283
older buildings tend to be in the very center of the city, so only the very rich can afford to live there
>>60342075
Cathedral in Lincolnshire
>>60339273
>>60339407
>These buildings we've bombed and rebuilt like 20 times are really old!!
Nice meme - so if Boston put some native American recreation in Boston Common would it be considered historical? Because that's basically what you're saying with your little buildings and churches from 1950s rebuilds.
>>60343199
Is it all wooden or are the columns made of stone?
We have cities in Australia that have more history and culture than the US.
>>60342075
Trinity Church in nyc.
>>60343514
>Some cities were bombed, thus all the old buildings in Europe were destroyed
These are all Medieval buildings for example
>>60342075
alright then
>>60343740
>>60343607
>>60343410
Nice.
>>60343607
proper church.
>>60343514
This place is more than 140 years old, Europe still has hundreds of old buildings ranging from a few hundred years old to a thousand... Don't try and claim all our historic places were rebuilt.. do you think every country got levelled in WW2 or something? the only places that got truly fucked and lost their history was Warsaw, Berlin and Volgograd (Stalingrad)
>>60342075
okay.
build in the year 1000.
>>60343841
We have lots of really big ones, I'll start posting some more small cosy ones now.
>>60343880
You're forgetting a good chunk of northern france as well. Le havre is a mere concrete shadow of what it once was.
Small one in the abbey
built around 1100
>>60343981
It's a bit pathetic I know, but this church is the oldest wooden church in the world, and one of the oldest wooden building in Europe still standing. it was build over 1200 years ago.
>>60343880
rotterdam
>>60344134
From the tower, I can see where the Americans got the influence for their churches (and suburban houses lel).
Here's probably the most well known church in Slovenia (especially with tourists).
>>60344368
And it's lesser known sister (although it's not located far away)
>>60344512
Forgot the fucking pic...
>>60344548
Here's a group photo (just so I can post more Bled tbqh).
Grace Church
Function over form, quality over aesthetics, why don't Europeans get this?
>>60342075
Trinity Church, Portland Oregon
>>60344624
>Implying you can't have both
>>60344548
Both look nice, Slovenia seems like a nice place too visit, I'm planning to travel Europe in a year or so. What are some nice places in Slovenia for history and Landscape? What places should i definitely see?
>>60338784
that is actually quite good looking through jsut look at the background
>>60343410
Cathedral in NYC.
>>60343544
no mate
small town murica
>>60339273
Everything America does is historic.
>>60344863
Seems a bit out of place with those huge skyscrapers... Don't like skyscrapers desu.
Unfinished St. John's Cathedral. Also in NYC.
>>60344916
That's just NYC. There's a bunch of gothic architecture peppered around the city. It's where Batman gets its "Gotham City" inspiration from.
>>60344916
I always liked skyscrapers so it never felt out of place to me. You can always go to northern Manhattan though, way fewer skyscrapers.
>>60344908
Like invading Canada and getting your arses kicked? Or was it sucking the rest of Europes dick to win your """""independence""""" war?
>>60344733
Tourist trap tier:
Lublana
Bled
Postojna (cave and nearby Predjama castle)
Slovene riviera
The above are all nice but they're the cliche options. In Bled, there are the lesser known canyons (Blejski Vintgar), the Soča river is incredibly beautiful, too. For landscape, see Lake Bohinj (Bled's bigger western cousin). A nice historical town is Ptuj, the oldest town that was already established by the Romans. Some other points of interest: Vipava valley, Prekmurje, Pohorje, Kranjska Gora... There's all kinds of things. What kind of landscape are you interested in, anyway? Mountains, hills, plains,...?
Anyone else apart from me live in Cambridge?
Nah American cities are like Asian cities, everything's built around the fucking car so all the roads are stupidly wide and in straight lines all directions, nothing's very cosy. Who wants to live on a fucking grid.
>>60345078
Mountains mainly, I find they give the most breathtaking views. Thank you though for the info.
>>60338482
>they are
>>60345388
>Who wants to live on a fucking grid
What a bizarre thing to say
>>60345388
>who wants to live on a fucking grid
Americans, apparently...
>>60345420
Good choice, they're my favourite as well. Logarska dolina (Logar valley) and Jezersko would be great choices then, too.
>pic related
>>60345307
About 128 514 people yes
>>60338482
>>60338784
fucking proxies
>>60345388
most Roman cities have a similar structure, it's not about cars, it's about organization
medieval cities were a mess because the times were a mess in general
that said, cities without an actual square (not a wider road) are fucking sad
>>60345606
Yeah but the Roman grids don't have freakin highways passing through
>>60342075
Canterbury Cathedral
>>60345637
Never thought about that. There is only a highway around the city.
>>60345388
Tokyo is far from grid 2bh, we have tons of narrow roads too.
>>60343514
>every old building in Europe has been bombed and rebuilt
>>60345725
Very cosy, I was actually thinking of Korea since that's the only country I've been to in Asia. The major cities were almost entirely soulless tower blocks that had been knocked up in the past 5 years.
>>60344916
I think it's a good contrast desu
>>60344919
pretty cool, is it the top thats unfinished?
>>60345388
very true
>>60345388
Rude desu.
>>60345830
The thing is when I visited Seoul I thought I was in America or something because of the wide roads.
Pic related is Sapporo, which is a city of almost complete grids unlike Tokyo.
That's the exact opposite of my ideal place to live. I can't even imagine living in a Slovene city tbqh.
>>60346232
Of course, people have different preferences.
>>60346232
Those mountains are high. Do people climb them?
>>60338482
Doesn't look better than the average city here
>>60346388
They don't look too steep, so I'd assume so.
Can we all agree that, objectively, America is the best country on earth?
>>60346388
Your Dutch is showing, Johan.
>>60346388
>Those mountains are high
They don't look very high actually, compared to other pics ITT anyway
>>60346388
Only children. This is more like it.
wanna live in bern
>>60343283
Most of them are pretty bad to live in desu. They are murder to heat and maintain. Also if you live in a house that is listed as being of historic interest you'll have the government all over you tits making sure that it is properly maintained and any renovations are in keeping with the style and construction of the house. A relative lives in a big old mansion in the countryside and when he wanted to replaster the outside walls the local authority made him use a goat hair plaster mixture that was 3 times as expensive and only half as good as modern products.
>>60338482
I have travelled to 31 american states and every major european country (and most of the minor ones) and this is unequivocal bullshit
>>60344906
>MI
Fake picture, not enough potholes and rust for Michigan.
>>60346800
How about Novo mesto?
>>60338482
Give it a few hundred years and people will say that the excessive use of glass looks cozy and "cultured" compared to carbon-based materials that will be used.
Just the process by which things become "cultured" ladpai
>>60346881
Jesus, that sounds terrible. I know preservation is important, but if it's private property the owner should at least have a choice on how to maintain it.
>>60346800
>tfw all German cities looked this way back then
>>60347177
If you can't afford living in a historic property, don't move into a historic property, you moron.
>>60347204
Dude don't get me started...
P.S. And it's all your fault.
>>60347098
this better?
>le an old pile of bricks=history!!1!1!! XDDD
>>60347273
Calm down Hans. I'd just give them all to the government at that point and let them maintain them as historical sites instead.
>>60347478
So that no one can live in them?
>>60347282
>living in Sweden
>still proud of Poland
>>60347675
Sure, turn them into historical sites that people can visit instead.
>>60347710
>>still proud of Poland
Proud of what Poland?
>>60347932
How much money do they give you to live there?
>>60349282
I only go there once a year to watch a hockey game.
I thought I would post something other than the same 3 or 4 pics of Detroit we see all them time.
>>60347775
there's enough of them already. The Irish anon explained it pretty well though. General renovations and maintenance is way more expensive for listed buildings, plus the fact that they're old means it costs a shitload to heat them in winter -- you're better off using the fireplaces.
>cherry picking boston
>>60349886
That is a lot of expensive real estate dedicated to parking cars.
>>60349946
American city planning doesn't follow rational rules.
>>60350413
Grids are pretty rational.
>>60350532
I mean the value. Land is expensive enough to justify building highrises in one spot, and a few blocks down the road it's suddenly cheap enough for single story residential buildings. It makes no fucking sense.
>I mean the value. Land is expensive enough to justify building highrises in one spot, and a few blocks down the road it's suddenly cheap enough for single story residential buildings. It makes no fucking sense.
Asian cities are superior to americunt and gayropean ones.
>>60350796
I live above a tram line, it fucking sucks.
>>60350796
bityfl. i've visited hong kong tons of people shat on the streets
>>60350796
LE BRIGHT LIGHTS
LE DENSITY
LE LE LI LA LU LO
>implying you wouldn't enjoy a stroll down this cozy new england street
>>60343410
build 3 towers, get one free! very nice.
>>60338482
>A brit thinks your city is pretty
<3
Beacon Hill in Boston
>>60338482
I've sailed in that exact spot. Its a great place to sail but the water is nasty.
What do you know of my city of Chicago?
>>60338482
What am I doing with my life...
>>60352646
murder and fire
>>60338839
>>60349886
why didnt those nincompoops build underground parking garages????
>>60342075
>>60353054
Here's the town it's in.
>>60353673
I'll post some more of these
>>60353244
>He fell for the everywhere is the southside meme.
>>60340329
kek, parking lot filled with Romanian gypsies. They have been removed from that area now.
>>60352646
loop is masterrace
>>60353135
>capital city of a US state
>literal center of government for one of the Union's states
>population is four digits
I love America, and I nurture the conceit that this triggers a Euro or an Australian somewhere. Imagine Broome being the capital of Western Austrlaia.
>>60354062
oh this is an interesting painting. Who painted this?
>>60354180
google maps i belive
>>60353495
Do you live in sauga too?
I hate it here
>>60354130
i agree with your point but vermont might not be a great example b/c it's such a tiny state. biggest city only has 42,417 people.
but yeah, i agree. i love america's decentralized approach to most things.
>>60354221
no montreal
move to toronto or something tee bee ayche
>>60354130
>this triggers a Euro or an Australian somewhere
Why would it?
>>60353839
>>60353928
>>60354011
>>60354062
The Vatican City has very similar "castle-edge" borders to these cultivated landforms. The most obvious (and westernmost) part of the country is the helipad.
>>60338482
>posts the ugliest one in the OP
I fucking hate British city architrcture.
All our government does is advertise London and ignores the shitty brutalist buildings that are so plentuful everywhere else.
>>60345388
had my quebecer cousin-in-law visiting Paris, he was genuinely upset that the plan of the city lacked optimization
>>60354062
There's a street in here i guess
>>60353495
There we go. Post dildo buildings!
>>60354333
Many Euros, and especially Australians, have the belief that the largest city automatically "should" be the capital of local government, because in many cases that's what they're used to.
In burgerland we commonly deny what developd into the largest city the state government, to check their economic power. None of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, etc... are the capitals of their state(s).
Of course there are exceptions. Phoenix and Salt Lake City (Mormon-land) are both the largest cities and the state capitals too. But none of the ALPHA+++ cities gets to have state government unless you maybe count Boston as ALPHA +++.
>>60344825
Seriously, I'm really fond of some of that late 19th/early 20th American architecture.
>>60354613
post valença
>>60354554
>>60354449
>>60354493
>>60354506
>>60354394
>>60354310
>>60354011
>>60354062
>>60353928
>>60353839
>>60353722
>>60353673
castle/fort towns are so awesome
btw, were in portugal are most of these forts? they look amazing!
>>60354675
posting
>>60354707
Filename is the location.
savannah georgia is nice if you dont mind living in a city that is 55% coon
>>60354556
That isn't unheared of here though.
Amsterdam may be the national capital, but it isn't the capital of the province it's in (North-Holland) even though it's the biggest city. Haarlem (sound familiar?) is the capital of the province.
Nor is Amsterdam the biggest city in the country, that's Rotterdam.
Furthermore, even though Amsterdam is the national capital, the seat of genervment is in The Hague.
>>60354310
>>60354707
There's a city just like that next to where I live, actually, it's pretty cool.
Rarely go there because it costs 8 fucking euros - 16 in the summers - for the bridge to go to the island it's on (Ré), but it's a nice town.
>>60354506
>Burgers will never be this comfy
>>60354556
>and especially Australians
... the largest city in Australia isn't the capital city, though.
My town is pretty ugly, but I really like that they've tried to hide that with trees. Pretty comfy if not good-looking.
>>60355043
the comfiest
>>60355119
And they absolutely hate it. They're still mad that they compromised on that.
>>60355119
The state capitals. Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane etc.
Mexican cities are more beautiful anyways
>>60357461
Care to post some more? My Mexican town game is pretty weak.
>>60357699
Yeah, that was Taxco.
Pic related is San Miguel de Allende.
>>60354556
Reminds me of how Washington DC is only the capital because it's smack dab in the middle of all the original states. Well, being near Virginia probably helped. At the time only Virginia or Pennsylvania had any good claim to the capital position I would think
All american towns/cities look like ass.
American cities are Rio-tier compared to any European city
even Belfast during the Troubles was probably still safer than most similarly-sized US cities
>>60358108
I like ass tho.
American cities are beautiful, suburbs not really.
