If you were to be born in a second city

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  1. Iain Aschendale

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    The thing is, I know you don't game, but I play quite a bit of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, which has sections of the city realistically (for 2009, when it was released) modeled into it, so when I look at a picture like that one, I feel like I've been there.
     
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    Bucharest Romania.
     
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    No, no. I get it. I have a deep fascination with Brutalist architecture and the kind of city planning that went hand in hand with it, which the Soviet Union and South America embraced with such passion. It's both deeply romantic and tragically fatal at the same time, a last grasp at life from a raw concrete deathbed. We've talked about my fetish with certain buildings before, n'est-ce pas?

    National Congress of Brazil in Brasilia
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    Druzhba health spa in the Ukrainian resort of Yalta
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    The castles are just amazing, and the history is remarkable. :)
     
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    London, Munich or Stockholm maybe. I like Europe.
    I'm sorry US. You've got to step up your game.
     
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    LOL:p
    Where were you born?
     
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    What is it like?
     
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    Unending war with the spiders rages. Nowhere is safe.
    A lot like the US crossed with the UK.

    Except with more spiders.
     
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    I never experienced the two together.
    I know I would not like the US.
    I am in the UK. The best planet in the world.
    Spider wise it depends.The little ones are oK.
     
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    DK3654 Almost a Productive Member of Society Contributor

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    Yes, the US is trash

    You uhh....you sure that's the right word?

    No, no. The littles ones are often the most dangerous. Not the really little ones, but the biggest ones rely on crushing prey with their fangs, not their venom. And this means they aren't very dangerous to humans because their fangs, despite all their crushing power against little bugs, struggle to do much more than penetrate the skin.
     
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    The UK? Yes it is the right word.
    I mean you are still here spiders or not right?
     
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    Ancient Gaul. Preferably around 70B.C. perhaps within the tigurinni, sequanii or the Helvetia tribes. Why? So I could guide my own tribe and defeat that upstart Caesar and lead the tribes into a glorious battle again the romans, defeat them and raize Rome to the ground. That way, Christianity would hopefully never be all that popular and the Gallic society which I am so fascinated it would continue to exist.


    It also means I would be able to live within the Gallic society...


    No seriously, Gallic culture, myths and society is just one of those things we know so little about. Yet every a scrap I have read, research, found or otherwise makes it just all that much more interesting. Absolutely fascinated by them - so much so I have based an entire group of people (multiple civilisations) on them within my world.
     
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    Future metropolis sounds good. Sometime and place where we've solved a bunch of modern problems like cancer and green energy and stuff. Also, imagine genetic engineering to be more inherently attractive. Less fucked-up than plastic surgery but has better results anyway.Although that could also having it's own downsides and limitations.
     
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    Don't be sorry. I was born in the U.S. and I'm planning on moving overseas as soon as I can.
     
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    'I am in the UK. The best planet in the world.'
    'the UK. The best planet in the world'
    'the UK. The best planet'
    'PLANET'
    Don't know if you've heard, but the UK is not a planet.
     
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    Maybe not anymore, but at one time. *doffs bowler and hums God Save The Queen*
     
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    Why?
    Because I once took an internet quiz, probably at an old site called emode (or something if not them) which told me based on their quiz I took, that I would be best suited to Seattle, WA, USA and ever since then (this was years ago, growing up as a teenager), that result for 'which city should I live in' I got that day has always stuck out in my memory.
     
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    Well, half a planet maybe. Unfortunately Queen Victoria never quite became Empress of the World.

     
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    Some Shantytown in post-apocalyptic America. Life expectancy would change, daily.
     
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    why?
     
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    The UK is a Planet? Not sure how that works. Planets within planets.
    How do you know you wouldn't like it here? Is it cause we drive on
    the right hand side of the road, and we neighbor Canada? :p
     
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    Haha nah!! my sister lives in Michigan she prefers the UK.
    It is just that everything is magnified and big. I am not sure I will adapt.
     
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    Not a city more an Alpine Heidi type of a chap - lots of winter foraging skills. First chapter I wake up among bears all skinny, and Daddy Bear's playful with me and rubs my head with his paw - 'Off you go, Manboy..go find yor Mommy'

    Call it plagiarism if you will with that damn Mogli in Africa. But

    my friends are polar snow monkeys, wolves, white panthers, and that grumpy Moose bad guy of the forest. Nobody likes his antlers, swinging antlers around. Massive balls also - but mainly the book's aimed at the kids' market so I/we don't write about his balls directly, and implied only in the sound effects. When I get my revenge, I pretend to feed him a bowl of tics/cherries in Spring, he's so mournsome/ apologetic

    'Take them off, they're sucking on my blood

    Then I kindly brush the tics away - that's midway through and make a fire for all the animals by rubbing leaves together - and everybody's kind to the Moose and he lets the shrews, even flying squirrels get to land on his antlers, woodpecker pecking on his balls. He doesn't mind - like his life lesson.

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