• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
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    3 days 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…

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      1 day ago

      In England, I lived in a house built in the early 1600s. It was nice, though there were no longer any right angles or level floors in the place. When I bought a place, I went for something more modern, built in the 1880s.

      There’s a pub not far from here that was built in the mid-800s, though it wasn’t always used as a pub. It started as a longhouse: animals at one end, people at the other, fire pit on the floor in the middle. Now that it’s a pub, based on the clientele I’ve seen in there, the animals are at both ends.

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      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.