Towns & Cities that are F----d.

[idahoblues]

Popping over he Tetons is our alternate for Jackson, so it’s too close to the WY border to count for Idaho snow! And, where’s the big lake effect?

You do get your share of snow, but IIRC it’s mainly cold dry “rain shadow” area snow, not the heavy, wet lake effect soup!

I agree with your assessment, that's why I live here. You can only get to Grand Targhee via Idaho

 

[ChicagoBlue]

America has a lot more land per inhabitant. That alone makes the average land price lower.

Much if it is uninhabitable and zoned for Agriculture, but you are correct that we have larger suburbs and exurbs.

Also, I very much doubt that the USA have a small number of families who came over with William the Bastard who still monopolise a huge proportion of what land there is.

Instead we have families of the great Industrialists (Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie and even Ted Turner) and the nouveau riche who soak up all the land, not to mention it became an even more valuable asset during the Pandemic, such that Hedge Funds bought up most of the premium land for a few years!!

Finally, does the USA have such concepts as Green Belt?

Does the area from the Mid-Atlantic Coast to the Sierra Nevadas count? If not, west of the Mississippi to the Sierras, also known as “fly over country,” must! ;-)

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Had the unique pleasure of being in Rhyl yesterday. It has changed somewhat over the past 50 years. The holiday makers are an interesting bunch!!

 

[Bill Walker]

Had the unique pleasure of being in Rhyl yesterday. It has changed somewhat over the past 50 years. The holiday makers are an interesting bunch!!

Changed for better or worse ?

 

[mancityscot]

Abroad -

Los Angeles
Atlanta
Seattle (fucking weirdo central that place)
Tijuana
Algeciras
Charleroi
Limassol
Cairo
Abdjan
Johannesburg
Damascus
Baghdad
Kuwait City
Peshawar
Multan
Delhi
Mumbai
Kolkata
Chennai
Chengdu

The whole of the old East Germany back in the day. The land time forgot.

Anywhere you’d recommend in India mate?

 

[laserblue]

Anywhere you’d recommend in India mate?

Bangalore's OK in parts and New Delhi ( as opposed to Delhi) is generally nice but I never went to any of the tourist destinations.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Marseille. Long time ago, 19 y.o. first trip to France. Went walking through the northern parts of town, carefree and clueless, was taken aback by the squalor. Ladies (?) of the night gathering on street corners and guys looking for crew for a boat to Cairo. When I got back to the safety of my digs a local told me "that part of town is f*cked and you're lucky you weren't." Not been back, though I keep hearing that in spite of its troubles the place has "character."

 

[laserblue]

Marseille. Long time ago, 19 y.o. first trip to France. Went walking through the northern parts of town, carefree and clueless, was taken aback by the squalor. Ladies (?) of the night gathering on street corners and guys looking for crew for a boat to Cairo. When I got back to the safety of my digs a local told me "that part of town is f*cked and you're lucky you weren't." Not been back, though I keep hearing that in spite of its troubles the place has "character."

Sounds like you went to the part that put the arse in Marseille.

 

[quincunx]

new brighton.

shithole.
had a gun put to my head.
greta notgarbo my arse.
anyone off to the briton's protection?

 

[City Hobgoblin]

new brighton.

shithole.
had a gun put to my head.
greta notgarbo my arse.
anyone off to the briton's protection?

Bit random