Worst looking city in your country?
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It is a fun place to visit. But it is incredibly ugly and garish.
The Strip is more reminiscent of a carnival or amusement park than a city of any sort of sophistication or style. I don't know of any architects who point to it as an example of excellent architecture, or even mediocre architecture for that matter.
The city itself has no character either. That is other than American strip mall nestled in a desert background.
Then there are the wedding chapels which provide their own study of glitzy tackiness.
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The Strip is more reminiscent of a carnival or amusement park than a city of any sort of sophistication or style. I don't know of any architects who point to it as an example of excellent architecture, or even mediocre architecture for that matter.
The city itself has no character either. That is other than American strip mall nestled in a desert background.
Then there are the wedding chapels which provide their own study of glitzy tackiness.
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That is the character of Las Vegas, and I for one think that it does it well.
I was an usher for a wedding at that Graceland chapel once by the way...performed by an Elvis impersonator, Hawaiian shirt dress code...it was great. There's also a drive through wedding chapel, where I got married in a red Geo Metro.
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Oh, sure. I happen to like carnivals and amusement parks myself. And I definitely enjoy going to Vegas now and then.
But it is one incredibly ugly city, especially if you get away from The Strip and downtown.
I also got married in Vegas to my second wife, so I too speak from experience. That marriage lasted all of 78 days after living together for nearly 10 years.
But it is one incredibly ugly city, especially if you get away from The Strip and downtown.
I also got married in Vegas to my second wife, so I too speak from experience. That marriage lasted all of 78 days after living together for nearly 10 years.
This is Zakho. I stayed there for several months this year and last year. It's not terrible but nothing there except a really old bridge. Also depressing looking town sometimes. Last picture is the old bridge. You don't really get a feel for how huge it is unless you're on top of it or see someone from a distance who is.
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Formaldehyde
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I particularly like the use of tarps and rocks as a replacement for roofs.
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Oh, sure. I happen to like carnivals and amusement parks myself. And I definitely enjoy going to Vegas now and then.
But it is one incredibly ugly city, especially if you get away from The Strip and downtown.
I also got married in Vegas to my second wife, so I too speak from experience. That marriage lasted all of 78 days after living together for nearly 10 years.
There is nothing you can say about the "incredibly ugly city" away from the strip and downtown that does not apply equally to Lancaster California, and it doesn't have a strip or downtown for contrast. The only thing saving Lancaster from people agreeing with me unanimously is that I am the only one here unfortunate enough to have seen it.
Poorly built tract homes, now mostly fronted by dead lawns. All commercial development uniformly confined to strip malls fronted by acres of 120F blacktop. Local industry contained in "industrial parks" which from a distance are indistinguishable from self storage rental places. They become distinct only when you get close and can recognize the size of the unbroken line of roll up doors. Occasional parks, which are little used because it is either too hot or too cold, and always too windy.
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Yep. Much of Southern California / Nevada has the same sort of barren and featureless wastelands / strip mall motif.
And i've driven through Palmdale / Lancaster before...
And i've driven through Palmdale / Lancaster before...
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Those US desert towns really look nasty... How can anyone actually survive there for long?
Looks more like a large but makeshift and removable camp set during a march in the desert
Movable camps usually look much better. Permanent structures in the desert tend to have that "built with eventual abandonment in mind" flavor, whereas a camp looks worth packing up to take along.
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Very gloomy. I suppose crime rate is usually very high in such places too. It looks like it just will make humans despair regardless of what they are like. (unless they never left the place at all, i suppose, born there, etc).
I always assumed there was some sort of roof under them but I never really checked.
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They do. But they are now leaking without the tarp.
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Very gloomy. I suppose crime rate is usually very high in such places too. It looks like it just will make humans despair regardless of what they are like. (unless they never left the place at all, i suppose, born there, etc).
Crime rate is actually average, but perceived crime rate is absolutely off the charts. Every time there is a crime story on the local news site the comments are hilarious. We don't have all that many blades of grass, but people honestly think there is a criminal hiding behind every one of them and no amount of real statistics even begins to penetrate their paranoia.
First picture actually doesn't look too bad to me.
The district Lobeda of Jena is particularly ugly, the city itself is well known for all the industrialized apartment blocks ("Plattenbau") which are very well visible from the highway (in the background in the image):
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Other parts of the city are okay though.
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