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I've said it many times on this forum that the U.S. generally offers higher quality personal space to more people than Europe does, but that Europe generally offers much higher quality public spaces.
Not necessarily. Many cities grew rapidly after WWII, and can have quite nice downtowns, but be ugly on the fringes of the inner city or in the suburbs.
That's pretty much what I meant. In some parts of the U.S. there aren't really any nice downtowns to be found anywhere reasonably close by or even a decent drive away.
I've said it many times on this forum that the U.S. generally offers higher quality personal space to more people than Europe does, but that Europe generally offers much higher quality public spaces.
I am genuinely surprised to see that they still have something like that in Novosibirsk out of all places.
To me Novosibirsk was always a city of high rises, something like this -
Dear god.
Been there, done that - lived at one point in time in the "hood" in DC.
And certain placed I saw in New-York - that's something that no eyes of Soviet citizen ( even the former one) should have ever seen))))
Yes, the Bronx in the late '70s and '80s looked like Berlin after it got bombed in WW2.
Cool, thanks. The coast of Portugal sounds beautiful, too, for surfing. How cold is the water off Cornwall?
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