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Post by varsovian on Jun 5, 2007 7:43:19 GMT -7
Warsaw is strange!
OK - number one, where is the centre?
Two - the most prestigious residential area of Warsaw, Konstancin, sucks. Sure, some big houses built by either apparatchiks or people with more money than sense (or taste). All ruined by massively high fences/walls, and a slew of tumbledown shacks in the immediate vicinity.
Three - a national park just outside the city. Cute - I'm not complaining, I love seeing the occasional elk!
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Post by varsovian on Jun 5, 2007 7:43:55 GMT -7
Sorry about the typo in the thread title ...
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Post by rdywenur on Jun 5, 2007 7:59:50 GMT -7
You can fix it just go into your original post and correct the title (edit)
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Post by hollister on Jun 5, 2007 8:32:00 GMT -7
Varasovian,
Interesting ....
Where do you think the center of the city is ... or should be? In thinking about it I can see several city centers - the Political (which has at least two "hot spots" - the economic - the historical (Old Town etc....) and a whole host of other centers. I guess each person can choose what center works for them!
What is an "apparatchiks"?
I love the park as well -
I think all cities are strange! As for me, I think Tampa is REALLY strange - there is no downtown and there are very few sidewalks so it is difficult to go for walks.
The trend here is for large developers to come in and build huge communities - that are behind walls with gates (because there MIGHT be scary things on the other side of the wall) - some of these "communities" have even gone so far as paying the local city government extra money to hire a extra police person to patrol ONLY their community! I have BIG problems with such a movement. Most of these communities are modeled on some type of theme - the most popular seems to be "Tuscany" right now - before that it was something called "Mountain Lodge"- I wonder if you live here - why adopt the architecture of another region?
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Post by rdywenur on Jun 5, 2007 9:49:05 GMT -7
Holly I always think this when I go to Las Vegas and see those desert rats try to recreate grass lawns in the desert. The desert has it's own beauty and why did they go there to begin with if to recreate where they have been.
"Save water..grow rocks"
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