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Cities like Rochester Buffalo and Syracuse NY are considered run down and kind of grimey by a number of people but I think all 3 are truly diamonds in the rough
photos from 40 years ago simply are an incorrect way of showing a city today. That second photo of Rigleys Delight? Completely different. The Inner Harbor was abandonned up until the 70s. Federal Hill was a neighborhood you could not pay one to live in. Now? The inner Harbor is extremely expensive and beautiful. The 1st Photo you posted could possibly be around but industry in Baltimore is a severely dying breed. that last photo could still hold some truth as East Baltimore, although shown some (little but great non the less) improvement, is still very bad. As you can see the tracks are in front of the back of those homes, tracks built on Eminent domain's rule, meaning of course it will rip though a place like that. You can't base a city off of 3 photos, one perspective. Or 6 photos. and one perspective
That first picture was of the Sparrow's Point Steel Mill, I believe.
Cities like Rochester Buffalo and Syracuse NY are considered run down and kind of grimey by a number of people but I think all 3 are truly diamonds in the rough
I, of course, agree. Yes, there are some gritty parts in each of those cities, but there are plenty of beautiful areas as well.
I'm going to throw out my city of Lubbock. I have heard people say that it was a desert wasteland full of oil refineries (which just proves they have never been here). The land around Lubbock is flat prairie, but the city itself has tons of trees and is nicely landscaped. Texas Tech is annually ranked as one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation.
Here are some pictures of the surrounding landscape:
Here's what Lubbock looks like:
We have sunsets like these very often
I don't think Lubbock is beautiful, but from my experience, it is one of the more pleasant-looking cities.
P.S.: Photo credit to David Kozlowski.
I'm going to throw out my city of Lubbock. I have heard people say that it was a desert wasteland full of oil refineries (which just proves they have never been here). The land around Lubbock is flat prairie, but the city itself has tons of trees and is nicely landscaped. Texas Tech is annually ranked as one of the most beautiful campuses in the nation.
Here are some pictures of the surrounding landscape:
Here's what Lubbock looks like:
We have sunsets like these very often
I don't think Lubbock is beautiful, but from my experience, it is one of the more pleasant-looking cities.
P.S.: Photo credit to David Kozlowski.
I like the looks of it. That cathedral in that one downtown picture looks like Pittsburgh's PPG Place.
That first picture was of the Sparrow's Point Steel Mill, I believe.
could be. Probably is. But using something from a city's suburbs is unfair. Sparrow's point is in Baltimore county
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