What is your favourite landmark in the city in which you live?

[KrazyHorse]

A friend of mine once had somebody from Johannesburg ask him "you live in Baltimore? Isn't that dangerous?"

[Al B. Sure!]

There are 65 National Historical Landmarks in Philadelphia. Baltimore has 25.

Barnabas, is that from The Wire?

[Hauldren Collider]

Baltimore is famous around the world for having Colombian crime rates

It's not that bad....

[KrazyHorse]

I am willing to bet you have never been to West Baltimore.

[Barnabas]

I don't know what the Wire is, but ministers in charge of fighting crime from many countries around the world cherry pick crime stats from places like Detroit or Baltimore to say: Stop complaining about crime people, look, this country is safer than the USA!!

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't know what the Wire is, but ministers in charge of fighting crime from many countries around the world cherry pick crime stats from places like Detroit or Baltimore to say: Stop complaining about crime people, look, this country is safer than the USA!!

Baltimore

And KH wants to claim it is better than Philly in any way Philly was only the murder capital of the US that one year. Baltimore is up there quite often trading places with Detroit and DC.

[Drake Tungsten]

At least Baltimore is the best in the country at something.

[KrazyHorse]

Exactly.

I have lived in the best cities in north america in 3 categories, in order:

1) Culture
2) Murder
3) Money

[Guynemer]

Homicide: Life on the Street

and

The Wire

vs.

It's Always Funny In Philadelphia

and

...?



Tight race, but gotta give it to Baltimore.

[Hauldren Collider]

DC isn't that bad if you aren't a ******. Stick around the touristy areas and don't run around at night like a dufus and you'll be fine.

And It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is hilarious

[Al B. Sure!]

DC isn't that bad if you aren't a ******. Stick around the touristy areas and don't run around at night like a dufus and you'll be fine.

And It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia is hilarious

So you're retarded if you live there, HC? Retarded because you were born into a ghetto?

If you actually lived in DC, you would know better. Fairfax County Boy

[Asher]

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is a "comped" taxi?

Just so you know, it comes from "compensated".

[Drake Tungsten]

I thought it came from "complimentary"...

[Asher]

No.

Well, in food service it is. When you get a comped meal I guess it's complimentary.

But complimentary really doesn't fit when, in these cases, it's usually an employee paying then getting reimbursed (or paying on a corporate card).

[Heresson]

Gliwice: I'm not sure. The only monument of a remarkable value is this: the place where ww2 started, and allegedly the highest wooden construction in the world still in existance. I can see it from my window. I used to think it's Eiffel Tower when I was a child.



but for me, as a child, this was a favourite:



a Neptune fountain.

Nowdays - I really don't know.


Warsaw - either the castle of Warsaw





or this carmelite church, which I used to think is the nicest thing in Warsaw.



I also like Lazienki palace/park and Krasinski palace very much.

Damascus - an obvious choice would be the Grand Mosque, but it wouldn't really be true. I can't really say.

Paris - I really like the Invalides, but my favourite place is Luxembourg park. Perhaps because my mother used to sit there and, being lonely, I decided to sit there as well. A thought that she used to sit there often made this place more at home for me than the rest of Paris.