The Blue Banana:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_banana
The Eastern Seaboard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States
Île-de-France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-de-France_(region)
Florence, Italy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence
I share an opinion of cities with Thomas Jefferson.
Realistically, the “Eastern Seaboard Conurbation” drops out south of Petersburg, Virginia. In fact, the Richmond-Washington I-95 corridor isn’t fully urbanized yet, there’s still about 35 miles of relatively empty space between Richmond and Fredericksburg. (North of Fredericksburg, though, all bets are off—it’s been absorbed into the greater Washington area. Stonewall Jackson would weep.)
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Chianti wine, fresh pane toscano (tuscan bread baked without salt) and pecorino cheese
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This post is making me hungry.
Me too, but I'm glad I no longer live in them.
Mainly being from Los Angeles for most of my life with 10 years spent in San Francisco, I now prefer the remote Western US mountain town lifestyle.
But until I'd actually seen New York City and explored it, I really hadn't known what a metropolis really means. New York City convinced me that it remains the uncontested center of Western Civilization -- no insult to Paris or Rome intended.
San Francisco is just the miniature golf course version of Manhattan, and that's being generous.
The first time I was on the east coast I was expecting to see just what this story states ... a continuity "cityscape" ......
I was shocked as just how much open space you found on the east coast...you get out of the city and your in the sticks
So Cal is just one continuity suburban sprawl ...far more than I saw on the East Coast...that really surprised me
Visited Florence a few months ago, unfortunately just missed the chestnut festival. While dining there is pretty good my favorite lunch was to go into a deli and get a wide but random collection of cured/smoked meats and some cheeses and eat them straight out of the paper. Though (I believe we freeped about this before) when it comes to breakfast in Europe my favorite is Sweden for it’s pickled/smoked/cured fish.
If one believes the recent articles and books, that ‘Blue Banana’ is trending to muslim.
In perhaps 75 to 100 years, we’re gonna need the Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces again.
As one who grew up in L.A. county, CA before the freeways, you can keep the “bright lights and big cities”. IMHO, quiet nights under the stars make this life much more pleasurable.
HOUSTON is one of the crappiest places anywhere.
I was born there when it was only .5M but now the thing goes on for 50-80 miles (and +5M)in any direction and there is is NOTHING worth seeing. All natural beauty when I was playing along the bayous as a kid is gone - only more concrete and asphalt.
Endless urbanization is a worthless and ugly human endeavor.