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Quebec City looks neat. It's like it's European without being crowded or smelly. And without those shabby modern apartment buildings like in Colon's pictures. Gaeta with half the people, maybe...
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Quebec City looks like it froze in time. But I suppose a museum city is what tourists fancy.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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Late at night when you walk up and down the hills and are next to the heavy stone walls...it is very cool. And froze in time is better, really. People still live there and there are lots of fun outdoor cafes and such. Just has a need look to it. And you didn't respond to the apartment troll.Comment
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You like living in a wooden house, so why should I pay attention to such comments?DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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Seriously, that's kitsch Ludwig of Bavaria would have been jealous on.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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Which reminds me, and returning to my observation in Dan's other thread, was anything built at all in North-America during this time period that didn't hark back to bygone ages? The finest art nouveau was storming the globe and you were building grotesque copies of medieval Euro castles? Why were you so afraid to look ahead? Thank god you at least were excellent art deco'ers.Last edited by Colonâ„¢; September 16, 2006, 15:04.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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At any rate, I agree with the original article. American cities suck. Cities where you need a car to get around suck. Honestly that was part of the reason I ended up leaving the Cote d'Azur. Couldn't get to work without a car, and the public transportation sucked."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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Now I live in a loft building that is a 100 year old school turned into apartments. It's more brick and cinder block. And quit it about Atlanta. How can you beat the highlands, where you sort of have relaxation of trees and such, and don't have adjoining walls. But the houses are not so far apart, you feel like you are in sterile suburbia. Plus you can walk to bookstore and restaurants and bars. Drive to downtown for work in a skyscraper (with a parking deck) is only 20 minutes in traffic, 10 minutes without. How can you beat that. Like a bug in a rug!Comment
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Have you ever been there or are you googling stuff, Colon. I was there late at night, after the tourist season, but still warm. It was a great city with the outside bars and such. And that battlement looks different at night with noone around. you just see the kitsch person. You miss that you are on a huge deck above a cliff and miss the look out on the Saint Lawrence 100+ feet below. Plus you miss the rest of the city and the walking around the hills and such. Yes...I think you need to visit it.Comment
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I walk less than 5 minutes to class from where I live. I can walk to almost any type of shop I would need on a regular basis in 10.
While the Atlanta I may have finally escaped is not the Atlanta I moved into in 95 and came to despise with a passion, it is still by and large more a collection of suburbs than a city."The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
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The Highlands rawk, Yellowjacket...Comment
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I can walk to hundreds of bookstores, fashion boutiques, antique stores, coffee shops, restos and bistros, trendy bars, clubs, comic book stores, record stores, movie theaters, regular theaters, museums, libraries, galleries, an aqua zoo and a regular zoo. All in 30 minutes. 20 minutes if I walk fast (and Europeans typically walk faster than Americans).Originally posted by TCO
Now I live in a loft building that is a 100 year old school turned into apartments. It's more brick and cinder block. And quit it about Atlanta. How can you beat the highlands, where you sort of have relaxation of trees and such, and don't have adjoining walls. But the houses are not so far apart, you feel like you are in sterile suburbia. Plus you can walk to bookstore and restaurants and bars. Drive to downtown for work in a skyscraper (with a parking deck) is only 20 minutes in traffic, 10 minutes without. How can you beat that. Like a bug in a rug!DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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I can imagine what it's like. I'd probably be impressed for several hours, feel soft and cuddly inside because of the grand cosiness of it all, then get bored and feel relieved I get to return to a proper contemporary urban environment.Originally posted by TCO
Have you ever been there or are you googling stuff, Colon. I was there late at night, after the tourist season, but still warm. It was a great city with the outside bars and such. And that battlement looks different at night with noone around. you just see the kitsch person. You miss that you are on a huge deck above a cliff and miss the look out on the Saint Lawrence 100+ feet below. Plus you miss the rest of the city and the walking around the hills and such. Yes...I think you need to visit it.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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More later, but remember that this thread has nothing to do with Washington, really.Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
Which reminds me, and returning to my observation in Dan's other thread, was anything built at all in North-America during this time period that didn't hark back to bygone ages? The finest art nouveau was storming the globe and you were building grotesque copies of medieval Euro castles? Why were you so afraid to look ahead? Thank god you at least were excellent art deco'ers.
But in any event, there is a lot of art deco in Washington. Not much in the Logan Circle area, but a lot in the older monied parts of the city. Not much was built in Logan Circle when art deco was the style, so that's why you don't find it there.
Some of the pictures that you post harken to the 60s to the American eye and is not considered good looking. I will show you what I'm talking about.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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But I had 20 restaurants and bars in 4 blocks of me. And 6 within 2. No 30 minute walks. And it still felt loose and relaxed. Not confined.Originally posted by Colonâ„¢
I can walk to hundreds of bookstores, fashion boutiques, antique stores, coffee shops, restos and bistros, trendy bars, clubs, comic book stores, record stores, movie theaters, regular theaters, museums, libraries, galleries, an aqua zoo and a regular zoo. All in 30 minutes. 20 minutes if I walk fast (and Europeans typically walk faster than Americans).Comment
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