• Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    There exists cities where the streets are older than America itself.

    The locals feel pressure to allow automobile traffic down these roads, and where space allows they generally do. It feels out of place.

    I have been to cities like this. I have driven cars in places like this (i lived internationally for a while) and it doesn’t feel right. I don’t have money to travel now, but if I did, I would just walk.

    There are cities that people still live in that predate the concept of street addresses and post offices and I have met them, and have had no idea what to put down on the bullshit forms at my bullshit job for their address.

    The world is large.

    • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Dude, my house in Denmark is from 1779. Not quite as old as America, but i honestly believe the house will win in the end.

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      4 hours ago

      There exists cities where the streets are older than America itself.

      i think this is true for majority of cities outside the us of a…

      • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.ml
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        2 hours ago

        Yes, and Americans know this is true but they forget how it might change their perspective of the world.

        Its like that old joke: two fish meet in the ocean. The first fish says “hey how are ya, how’s the water?” And the second fish says, “what’s water?”

        Most of the people I know are working class and can’t travel overseas for vacation (if they even can afford to have one). Seeing it on TV is completely different than experiencing it.