How looks like the cities where you live

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Goingonit
Like roughly 4 million other people, I live in Toronto.

All of the lights are green. Ah, I see... it must of happened when they where editing out all of the smog.

[Goingonit]

Originally posted by Osweld


All of the lights are green. Ah, I see... it must of happened when they where editing out all of the smog.

Smog? What smog? *cough* *cough* oh, that smog...

Maybe they took those pictures when there was a 50-kph north wind blowing.

[Giancarlo]

(for more pictures go here: http://www.buenosairesvirtual.com/eng/ )

City of 14.6 Million People - Buenos Aires!

Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina:



San Nicolas, Buenos Aires, Argentina:



San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina:



Puerto Madero (Downtown), Buenos Aires, Argentina:

[Solver]

Originally posted by Kamrat X
Solver: I love Rigas old town, I was there in ´92 (or was it ´91? I cant remember) and one of the things I noticed was the nice ambience in the older parts of the city. But some parts looked awfully run down in a general Soviet-style decay... Is the city less Soviet-looking now? I´d love to go back and check for my self, but I´m a student (again...) and I´m in dire need of cash as it is...

The city definitely looks much less Soviet. Not as good as, say, London or Berlin, but surely close to than than in 1991/1992. You just have to see the Convent Yard (Konventa Seta) that is in the old town now, near the St. Peter's church. My favorite place of the city.

[Zoid]

Nice I will definetly try to go there when I get the chance, maybe I´ll do another trip like 91/92. Riga > Berlin >Prague> Budapest >Vienna. I guess a lot of things have changed in 10 years...

[Adagio]

The city I live in (Sønderborg, Denmark) is a city (town?) with about 10,000 - 20,000 inhabitans (I guess), and the best picture of the city is here:



There's not much to say about...except from...please get me the hell outta there, I'm tired of this place

[Kristalli]

My city

Hmm....theres nothin much to say about Turku. It's too near Sweden!

Well, theres about 170 000 people living here. The highest building? 16 floors... Yea, I know...

But the summer is wonderful here! An a lot of grazy people. This is what we do every evening:


And this is so old I can't even remember... (someone's going to kill me...)


And this tells it all:


Come here people and I'll show you more!
There's really nothing much to say. University: yes. Great hockeyteam: yes. Subways: no. Airport: yes (tiny). Beautiful girls: yes.

[finkian]

I come from the lovely college town of eugene, Oregon, haven for hippies, beatnicks, anarchists, hobos, homos, and general ne'er do wells-- tis a rainy existence there, but one ever puncuated by topless protests, college riots, and a thriving marijuana trade. Ahhhh, home sweet home.

[Demon Allbran]

Kris(talli), should we post some vidcaps from Levottomat and show 'em what Turku really is like?

[Seeker]

Hey 'carlocito, if you're going to post Buenos Aires pics, you should show the Water Palace.

[Goingonit]

Originally posted by finkian
I come from the lovely college town of eugene, Oregon, haven for hippies, beatnicks, anarchists, hobos, homos, and general ne'er do wells-- tis a rainy existence there, but one ever puncuated by topless protests, college riots, and a thriving marijuana trade. Ahhhh, home sweet home.

Cool, I know someone who teaches in the lovely college town of Eugene, Oregon. Two people, even! Neither of them are hippies, beatnicks, anarchists, hobos, homos, or general ne'er do wells

[LTEC!]

Picture of Tijuana

[notyoueither]

Edmonton, Alberta

The Northernmost point of developed civilization in the Americas. Perhap's the world. OK, Alaskans and Boris might argue, if they could escape the Polar Bears...

A ribbon of green (a couple miles wide) runs through this burg of perfection. Roughly 1 million people share my geographical location, and many of them feel the same as I do. There is no place like home. Even if it can hit -40 centigrade with regularity come January. The summers more than make up for it...

[Kristalli]

Originally posted by Demon Allbran
Kris(talli), should we post some vidcaps from Levottomat and show 'em what Turku really is like?

No.

[Buck Birdseed]

I live in the little overhistorical ****hole of York (Celtic farm -> Roman Fort -> Viking Capital -> Major mediaeval stronghold -> Major battle site -> Important trading town -> Railway centre -> Military base -> University town), pop. negigible (okay, 100 000), famous for it's rather boring city walls, noncommittant mediaeval streets (Grey stone upon ****ing grey stone intersperesd with high-street shops) and one of the most ill-designed cathedrals I've ever seen, the huge-but-boring Minster. But that's not my city, as you may have guessed. No, I live for the Beauty on Water, the consistently wonderful city of Stockholm...



If you got a map of Sweden, and had to pinpoint exactly where you'd place a city, Stockholm would quite possibly be it- it's one of those locations endowed by nature with near-perfect opportunities for trade and living. To the west lies sweden's third largest lake, to the east the Baltic sea, and the very centre of Stockholm, at a set of short, well, rapids is the single point where one flows into the other. This results in a city fractured onto a multitude of islands, so clean that you can fish huge salmon in the middle of town, and perfectly poised as a centre of trade. The first of these is the most important- it makes Stockholm feel a whole lot bigger than it actually is (pop. 1 500 000), and much more structured and intense than bigger but more spread-out cities- Almost like half a London, if you will, not one one tenth of the size. The number of record shops, for instance, is simply astounding- the highest concentration in europe in some areas.

There are some weaknesses- the Central Station and surrounding tracks destroy large parts of the city, the best and most hilly streets were flattened out a hundred to fourty years ago, a lot of the city has been destroyed from time to time... But there is nothing like a walk through Vasatan or Södermalm to bring me joy.