SimHQers are from everywhere. I always wondered what you guys see on an average day In & Out. Here are a few pics from my side, Hong Kong. All Google pics, but accurate.
Hong Kong Island & Victoria Harbour, seen from Kowloon side. I'm there virtually every day.
Mongkok District Considered the highest population density in the world. It is packed, you simply can't walk straight on a sidewalk for more than 1 sec. I end up there whenever my wife suffers street-food withdrawal. Quite common.
South Lantau Isnald This is home, restricted traffic to permit-holders only. A different Hong Kong. Away from the crowd, but then only 30min drive from the crowd :-P When I arrived some 30 yrs back, I had to live among the crowd, the bars and the cacophony of Cantonese, Tagalog, and bits of English. No more. I now seek migrating birds and water buffaloes.
Cheers, Slug
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Carleton U with the Rideau R and Dows Lake/Rideau Canal. Ottawa R in the background
Parliament Hill from the Quebec side of the Ottawa R
Rideau Canal
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Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
I'm tired of this place, but I love the south.
Some people might say that Atlanta is not really the "South".
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I live about 15 miles SW of downtown Miami so my actual neighborhood looks very much like the first pic.
Second pic is downtown Miami.
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I live in the south western mountains of NC. My "town" has all of 2 stoplights.
This is High Falls. You can see the covered bridge a little at the top.
My town is down in there somewhere.
This pretty much captures the whole town.
Its a nice place to live except for the hoards of bicyclists gumming up the roads and the inebriated geriatrics looking at the leaves in the Fall. I can take the geriatrics more than the cyclists. When they bunch up in groups of 10 to 50 you can hang up passing them on the winding roads. And a lot of them now wear body cameras in case they get run off the road, attacked or well... run over.
The road less traveled is filled with fewer needy people.
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Wow, Chef! Your town looks like the quintessential American rural town! Once I retire I wouldn't mind living in a place like that as long as high speed internet is available.
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I am on the last access point of the last node for the local cable company, Morris Broadband. They recently laid a new cable from the node because my wife griped at them for so long I guess they got tired. It's pretty decent and reliable. Before that we went 3 months without cable internet. There has been talk of an initiative to get Google Fiber out this way but I won't hold my breath about it. We have 23 devices (PCs, smart phones, Alexa, etc..) in our house that connect to the internet without much of an issue on a 10/1 connection. I have advocated going to a 20/2 connection and my wife just got a new job with a 50% pay raise so maybe that will happen.
Dupont Forest is a really great place to take walks but I go at the butt crack of dawn to avoid the hoards. My goal is to walk all of its trails at least once. In the late Spring the blue fire flies come out in the forest. We also have white squirrels in the area.
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I need to visit Newfoundland one day. St. John’s is quite a pretty looking city!
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Before cancer retired me I used to work some of the times in the stone building beyond the pickup with three second story windows (Downtown).
We just built a new "market" for the farmers market and civic type stuff too "public market."
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Hannover, Germany. Some call it the averagest of all German cities. No spectacular mountains, or coastline, the local river is small, the lake is artificial. Well connected, though - major hub for railways, with a nice little airport, major autobahns going N-S and E-W. Politics are boring, so is the weather. No earthquakes, tornados, or dangerous animals - the place simply works.
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Originally Posted by Ssnake
Hannover, Germany. Some call it the averagest of all German cities. No spectacular mountains, or coastline, the local river is small, the lake is artificial. Well connected, though - major hub for railways, with a nice little airport, major autobahns going N-S and E-W. Politics are boring, so is the weather. No earthquakes, tornados, or dangerous animals - the place simply works.
It's also considered to be the epicenter for the correct, textbook spoken High German!
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