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06-19-2008, 08:42 AM
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What's with the obsession with mountains on this forum?
"Yeah, it maybe filled with ugly buildings, urban blight, smog, and a haphazard road system, but at least there are giant rocks to gawk at!"
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06-19-2008, 09:10 AM
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Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker;)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank_Carbonni
What's with the obsession with mountains on this forum?
"Yeah, it maybe filled with ugly buildings, urban blight, smog, and a haphazard road system, but at least there are giant rocks to gawk at!"
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I think the people posting that are mainly Californians or from the West Coast where they grew up with mountains. I lived in Denver for a while and I don't get the big deal either. Mountains. Woo-hoo. But I feel the same way about the desert landscape of the Southwest (yuck) because I'm so used to GREEN and trees, so I guess I can't blame them.
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06-19-2008, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by houstoner
I think the people posting that are mainly Californians or from the West Coast where they grew up with mountains. I lived in Denver for a while and I don't get the big deal either. Mountains. Woo-hoo. But I feel the same way about the desert landscape of the Southwest (yuck) because I'm so used to GREEN and trees, so I guess I can't blame them.
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I can perfectly understand how the surroundings can "soften" a city. In the sense on how the architecture blends in with the environment and so on. I mean not many buildings and building styles look good in the desert and snow capped mountains do add a fair bit of beauty into otherwise ugly cities.
My problem is that so many people completely dismiss how ugly a city is based entirely on whether or not there are mountains and/or hills. It seems not matter what the blight, decay, bad architecture, and so on, as long as there are mountains, they are happy. And the corollary to this is that no city that lacks mountains (eg. Minneapolis) can ever be considered pleasant.
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06-19-2008, 01:51 PM
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Location: New Mexico to Texas
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El Paso has mountains and palm trees and an old looking freeway but it is still an ugly city no matter how you put it, but for some reason I like the place.
Some places are ugly to me like most places in Florida but there are small towns in Mississippi that are nice looking.
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06-23-2008, 09:32 PM
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Location: The State Of California
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All Top 50 American Cities Have Some Of The Ugliest Scenery
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Originally Posted by Rwarky
Which American cities would you consider to be the most unpleasing to the eye (e.g.: too many strip malls, too many power lines, etc.)?
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   What's all of the Hullabaloo about American ugliest Cities all of the top 50 cities fit that bill from New York City to Wichita Kansas.Those posters that hate a particular city post the ugliest pictures that they can lay their's hands on and of course all of the posters that love and appreciate a particular city highlight the beautiful picture and venues and sing the praise of their's favorite city.
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06-23-2008, 09:49 PM
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Location: yeah
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank_Carbonni
What's with the obsession with mountains on this forum?
"Yeah, it maybe filled with ugly buildings, urban blight, smog, and a haphazard road system, but at least there are giant rocks to gawk at!"
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Because at least it's not an endless sprawl of ****. I hate flat voids. They're depressing.
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06-23-2008, 10:05 PM
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Location: moving again
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Originally Posted by krudmonk
Because at least it's not an endless sprawl of ****. I hate flat voids. They're depressing.
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well, actually, here's an El Paso Aerial, tell me it doesn't sprawl much
View of El Paso from Wyler Aerial Tramway State Park on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
BTW, im not calling El Paso ugly!
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06-23-2008, 10:09 PM
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Status:
"Pittsburgh: America's Most Livable City"
(set 29 days ago)
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Location: Polish Hill, Pittsburgh, PA
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06-24-2008, 09:45 AM
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Location: Anchorage AK
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Gary, In Case Closed
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06-24-2008, 09:52 AM
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every city has ugly parts and goergous parts. it might take a while to find them. detroit and cleveland for example. the neighboorhoods might not look so pretty, but then you go to downtown and your at aww. cleveland has a nice riverfront park and detroit has a skyline to be proud of. when someone mentions detroit and cleveland, some people think of the crime and neighboorhoods and poor city service, but some people have the first thing that comes to mind as the downtown. thats just an example of citys with good and bad tastes. some citys you might just have to look around and eventually you will find the beauty. so in my oppinion, there is no americas uglyiest city
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