Hot or Not: My new town!
As most of you don't know, I've been enlisted in the army, some way away from my home town, the lovely city of Haifa. As a part of my service, I've had to rent my own appartment ( monetary assistance provided by the military ), and I've decided, to rent a 3-bedroom+1living room appartment, with my friends.
But that's not really the topic of the thread. The topic of the thread is the city where we decided to rent- The fine city of Bat Yam, a city of approximately 130 thousand people.
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/?id=100286
Bat Yam borders Tel-Aviv ( Jaffa, actually) on the north. Central Tel-Aviv is a busride away.
It also has a clean, and well-kept shoreline, with sandy beaches.
(wiki)
However, the city is constructed very densly.
the distance from our building to the next is so small, in fact, that you can hear all the arguments and screams from the near building, as well as the noises of kids shouting and playing from the street level ( the sound is trapped between buildings and cannot escape anywhere but up.)
There is also a problem of crime. Street fights occur from time to time, and there has been a murder in the 2 months that we live here.
So, hot or not?
also, please introduce the forum to where you're currently living.
I'm living next to Paris, and I find Bat Nam pretty hot, from what you say. For a so densely populated city, it does look good, and it sure is good to have a nice beach next door.
Sound isn't too bad if you invest in double-windows, and crime happens in every big city.
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I'll try to find pics that are less sexy.Now it's your turn to post pics of where you live.
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
Smartass.
Not the center of the metro - but the pathetic industrial suburb on the wrong side of the banlieu.
I'm on the right side of the banlieue, actually.
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis
Bat Yam.Too much crime.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.
Bat Yam looks okay, but the architecture is
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I have to agree. The architecture is nothing more then a bunch of blandly colored boxes of various sizes.
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
The bottom link is a picture from very near where I live, but it's a few years old. All those buildings have been completed.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
Originally posted by Az
Jaffa
What kind of army position do you have that lets you live in an apartment and not in barracks on the base?
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Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General Ludd
Where I am currently living:
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and the "sky line"
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The mothership:
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That looks reaaally finnish... Good for you. Living in a finnish-like place is a good achievement for Robot Stalin of Death (with lazers!).
I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"
Looks like a quite place AZ. Have to concure with the uninspiring architecture.
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There's actually quite a large finnish community here, apparently descendant of the finnish lumberjacks who immigrated here back in the day. The bush is littered with log cabins and saunas.
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A nice park in my little homes town:
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I've been to that square. New York.
PS: that gate was fenced when I was there and it looked like a silly reaction to terrorism fears to me. Glad it's gone.
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Originally posted by General Ludd
The mothership:
Where the bloody hell is that... that could very well be an alien zbloigd mothership landed on earth!
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I'd be sure the settle on the coast so I could get access to the crab resource and added trade.
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my college city Leuven:
and my place:
Pauscollege
(first built by the Dutch pope Adrianus IV (the last non-italian pope... wojtila and ratzinger excepted)
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St. John's, Newfoundland. City of 100k, metro area of 200k.
nice rocks.
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Thats why Newfoundland is called "the rock".
Nice trees too.
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With a little imagination that could be from the town I grew up in. The lake, the shores, the forests, especially the factory.Originally posted by General Ludd
and the "sky line"
The ever so lively city centre. Fits in one picture.
I currently live and go to university in Jyväskylä:
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