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04-27-2009, 03:01 PM
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Come on, people. Paris is beautiful; Florence is beautiful, no doubt Kyoto is beautiful, San Francisco is beautiful, Rio, Vancouver... The Bronx is not beautiful. Brooklyn is slightly less not beautiful. No deed to be defensive, find the silver lining, argue the fine points, or anything else.
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04-27-2009, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by missionhill
Come on, people. Paris is beautiful; Florence is beautiful, no doubt Kyoto is beautiful, San Francisco is beautiful, Rio, Vancouver... The Bronx is not beautiful. Brooklyn is slightly less not beautiful. No deed to be defensive, find the silver lining, argue the fine points, or anything else.
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It's called an opinion. |
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04-27-2009, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Weekend Traveler
I have friends who chose to live in Brooklyn or the Bronx because they say it is so beautiful. I do not see it, both seem ugly. Now someone could love the people or the culture and the history of these places or have warm memories but physically beautiful?
There may be some nice parks and nice looking trees in some parts of these New York areas but as a whole would you call the Bronx or Brooklyn beautiful?
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There are both beautiful and terrible areas in Brooklyn. Perhaps your friends who told you it was beautiful live in beautiful neighborhoods? Brooklyn Heights and Bushwick have little in common.
No city is uniformly beautiful; I've been everywhere and swaths of San Francisco, Paris, Vancouver, are very ugly but who cares? It's not like you have to live or even step foot in the nasty parts. |
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04-27-2009, 03:33 PM
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The pretty bits of Brooklyn and the Bronx don't compare that well with the pretty parts of SF and Paris for the most part--but both boroughs definitely have some nice places.
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04-27-2009, 03:39 PM
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I have toured the entire city of New York on multiple trips. I see very few trees in the Bronx or Brooklyn except near the rivers. Yes it is nicer in the North Bronx but it is no Scarsdale!
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Are you kidding me? Fieldston Road in Riverdale rivals any street in Scarsdale! |
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04-27-2009, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by missionhill
Come on, people. Paris is beautiful; Florence is beautiful, no doubt Kyoto is beautiful, San Francisco is beautiful, Rio, Vancouver... The Bronx is not beautiful. Brooklyn is slightly less not beautiful. No deed to be defensive, find the silver lining, argue the fine points, or anything else.
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All of these places are the same.... some beautiful areas,especially where tourists go but not any more overwhelmingly beautiful than anywhere else.Rio is mostly squalid... absolutely squalid for the most part.I lived in Florence for 3 months at one time and really got to know the whole city. Outside of centro?Not so nice really, with a hefty amount of really bad.Lots of filth and grime.Most of Rome is pretty ugly too though I love Rome and see it's beauty .I have never been outside of the touristy areas of Paris,which are beautiful but I have heard that there are vast swaths of slums around the perimeter that put the bad parts of NYC to shame.
If all you see of any city is the best or the worst then I guess that's what you are going to think the whole place is like because of your very limited exposure.That's not reality.
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04-27-2009, 03:48 PM
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There are also some very horrible, dodgy areas in Paris and has anyone ever seen the favelas in Rio?
This analogy doesn't hold water.
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04-27-2009, 03:50 PM
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I think they are both beautiful...more than just in a physical sense BUT even though they are noy the BEST looking they're still gorgeous to me... & even if you lived there, it doesn't mean you've actually been all over Brooklyn. or have you? some people just need to open their eyes. im an artist so i look for the beauty in everything
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04-27-2009, 03:50 PM
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I've lived in Paris and half of it was ugly. But the other half of Paris is hidden and there is no reason for tourists to even venture into those areas - the other side of the city is, of course stunning. San Francisco is dingy and I don't really like the architecture. The setting of the city makes up for it.
Like any city, there are terrible parts and nice parts.
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04-27-2009, 04:38 PM
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It depends on where you are on each borough. Is there any place that's actually beautiful as a whole?  |
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