This is an outrage! Survey says Pittsburgh is second most beautiful place in the USA!

[Frankychan]

I like the lush greenery here. But I wouldn't mind experiencing England.

For got to mention that the first mountain in the background is Koko Crater and the one on the right is Koko Head mountain.

[Dis]

here's where I live. kind of boring, not much to do





arghh. I just clicked on a link for las vegas pictures and it was some damn porno link! When will people learn that Las Vegas isn't a smutty town, we don't like their kind around here. It was one of those annnoying pages where the back key doesn't work, and creates pop ups you have to use ctrl-alt-del to get rid of.

[Worthingtons]

I will have to get a picture of Derby from the 9th floor of the University some time, some of you rural people might like it, as looking outside it looks like a Forest!! Yet this 'forest' area is actually the city centre!

I looked for pictures of Rotherham on google but I only mainly got pictures of the football team,which is of course what Rotherham is famous for.

Anyway, I must live in America one day, and prefferably Chicago.

Cheers
Matt

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Oerdin
You should have gone to Balboa park. Most of the archicture there was built for the 1910 Pan-America Exposition and the 1915 World's Fair. I really like the classic Spanish Colonial revival look.

Ah yes, I have forgotten Balboa park. It was indeed beautiful And there were some nice buildings in the city too, such as the famoous hostel whose I have forgotten the name. And the countryside looked terrific (I'm not used to desert, too bad I didn't have the time to hang around there )
But the city in itself, in general, just looks like a collection of cubic skyscrapers in downtown, and ordinary houses / flats out of it... Stuttgart strangely reminded me of SD when I first came here.

[Jac de Molay]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Yea! Pittsburgh really is gorgeous, now that it's no longer a steel town. The hilly topography has prevented the maniacal zone-and-pave mentality that affects so many cities; it's more European in feel, and easily the greenest urban space I've ever seen. And while the view of thee skyline from Mt. Washington is indeed spectacular, my favorite view is the skyline's sudden appearance as you enter the city via the Fort Pitt tunnel; it's like the opening shot of a movie, and I've literally heard people gasp when they see it for the first time.

I agree. Everyone lives near downtown because of the topography, unlike surrounding Detroit which, sadly, is turning into sprawl-mania. Good public transportation, too.

Detroit could take another lesson from Pitt in that the city has made a concerted effort to restore and maintain existing historical buildings, as opposed to tearing down and replacing with glass and steel lookalikes. Theres a lot of nice restored strips along the rivers with shops and bars, and a great street market on the weekends.

It really is a nice city. Need to get back there some time.

[Gangerolf]

are those bahai gardens open to the public? is it some kind of wacky cult? where did they get the money to build all that?

[Gangerolf]

Sure, those skyscraper towns look cool from a distance.
But do they have anything to offer to people who want to get a bit closer, besides glass, steel and concrete?
Like parks, I like a good park. and boatrides

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Ah yes, I have forgotten Balboa park. It was indeed beautiful And there were some nice buildings in the city too, such as the famoous hostel whose I have forgotten the name. And the countryside looked terrific (I'm not used to desert, too bad I didn't have the time to hang around there )
But the city in itself, in general, just looks like a collection of cubic skyscrapers in downtown, and ordinary houses / flats out of it... Stuttgart strangely reminded me of SD when I first came here.

I've never been to stuttgart but I'll have to stop by there some time. If I am lucky it will be to pick up one of those famous sports cars. (I hope maybe someday).

Yes, several of the skyscrapers in San Diego were built in the 1970's and are of the big square tower type (yuck) but there are a few, like the Bank of San Diego Towers (They are the five octogon shaped buildings with green lighting you see in all the photos), which are interesting and different. Also the Hotel del Coronada is a classic Victorian style resort that was built in 1888 which is still the largest wooden building in the US. Legend has it that the Hotel del Coronado was the first building west of the Mississippi to ever have electric lights and the wiring was all done by Thomas Edison himself. For the last 115 years the Hotel del (as locals call it) has been one of America's Grand seaside resorts where royalty, movie stars, and Presidents all rubbed shoulders and hob-nobbed.

[Dinner]

The suburbs do suck though. Just track home after track home. At least the city set aside alot of open spaces so you can escape it all.