If you can't plink tin cans in the fallow fields next to your home, it's not rural!
Milwaukee is not huge by any means, but it’s obviously not cow pastures either
excuse me sir?
Hmmm. How to put this in a way that you hedonistic, slothful, frivolous, superficial, layabout city-slickers would understand?Ah! If you walk down your driveway from your doorstep to the street and your cup of Double Ristretto Venti Half-Soy Nonfat Decaf Organic Chocolate Brownie Iced Vanilla Double-Shot Gingerbread Frappuccino Extra Hot With Foam Whipped Cream Upside Down Double Blended is no longer warm, then you probably live in a rural area.
as someone from the enlightened, bustling, privileged northeast... that's not obvious
I'm guessing anyone who lives in Seoul and tries to look down on some Gyeonggi satellite city like Anyang is from a hick town or deep 'burbs back in their home country. They're trying to adopt the big city airs they were envious of back home. Seoul, although interesting in parts, is not a huge wow factor big city. A lot of Seoul is completely interchangeable with places in Anyang, Seongnam, or Ilsan for example. Looking down on Suwon, I get, but I always get a kick out of foreigners that live in HBC thinking they are in some chic and sophisticated hipster enclave like Williamsburg in Brooklyn. A friend lived in some sub-standard apartment for a couple of years and I enjoyed popping up there and getting some food with him, but was always happy I didn't live there. As long as I'm on the subway line I am happy. No desire to live in Seoul.
The DNC 2020 was going to be our one chance to finally prove ourselves worthy to you sophisticates and we BLEW IT!
Bots bought all, or the majority, of the day 1 PS5s D:
Seoul and Busan justify the annoyances of urban life. Smaller Korean cities are (generally) interchangeable, lacking in interesting culture, food, architecture, social opportunities, etc. They do, however, provide plenty of air pollution, outrageous driving, rude and pushy citizens, crowded transit and littered streets. Never again for me.
same with most of the recent graphics cards releases ㅠㅠ
Yeah, didn't expect anything less.This year's been crazy. I wanted an RTX 3080 to build a new PC, sold out everywhere. 6800XT looks like it's going to sell out too. Ryzen 5 CPUs all sold out. PS5's all sold out. I'm not watching unboxing videos or anything. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to get something new to game on for the holidays.
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Yeah, personally I've always been a small town guy myself... There are definitely some benefits to city life (especially for people who are big into nightlife and stuff like that) but frankly I'd rather live out in the sticks and maybe take a weekend trip to Seoul every once in a while.
I went to Anyang once and thought it the definition of urban hell.All the traffic and distance of a big city and none of the benefits that justify tolerating uber-urban life.My blind spots: I somehow have never been to Ulsan or downtown Incheon (just the airport). They are on my bucket list, along with Cheongju and Naju.
you come to a cool area that looks like nowhere else I've seen in this country. You can see these lovely old buildings from the colonial period like the First Bank of Japan and first post office or something.
... You can visit the tacky Wolmido boardwalk area which I think is Korea's answer to Coney Island or the Jersey boardwalks. Then going past the largely uninteresting Chinatown you come to a cool area that looks like nowhere else I've seen in this country. You can see these lovely old buildings from the colonial period like the First Bank of Japan and first post office or something. in the same area there are these older two storey buildings that are on a closed pedestrian street and are used as galleries. It was all free and I wandered into one place that was showing nothing but North Korean propaganda materials and another that was some amateur photographer and his photos from B.C. and Alberta. Keep walking and you feel like you've come into the downtown of a mid-sized Korean city. It's busy and must cater to sailors with the its shopping and nightlife spots. Finally, there is an area that has been made up like something from a children's Christmas movie. It's just part of the city but it has a year round winter motif going.