Beautiful Cities

[WilliamSmith]

Let's discuss aesthetically beautiful cities-- the environment, architecture, etc.

I think Hong Kong is a beautiful city. It is spectacular to look at flying over it at night. In the daytime, there are these tall white towers jutting up out of green mountains overlooking a bay. I was even at a port area, and that looked nice.

I have never been to Sidney, Australia, but Perth is a beautiful city. That Swan River is a unique shade of blue, with a modern city-scape around it. There is a park you can go to on a hill that overlooks the city.

Parts of Honolulu look spectacular, especially if you can see Diamond Head. Go a couple of blocks from the coast past the Ala Wai Canal and that is not necessarily the case. The downtown looks pretty nice, too.

I've seen a few state capitols. The buildings usually look nice. I think Rhode Island has the best state capitol building I've seen, and the town is nice-looking for a city-scape. There are also those nice houses up on the hill near Brown University. The buildings up there around brown are nice. I don't know if they have a committee that makes sure buildings built look nice or if it's just market pressures that lead to the nice architecture. Hartford has a smaller, more ornate, but beautiful capitol building, almost as nice as Rhode Islands. The city-scape is not as impressive, IMO.

Honolulu is a beautiful city, but the state capitol, while an okay structure and functional, isn't that impressive for looks. The old palace is an okay big manor, not a spectacular palace. The Rhode Island state capitol building is far more important than the queen's palace in Honolulu, IMO.

Sacramento, California is okay looking. It's not great for a city-scape view, IMO. They do have that old west area down by the river that's okay, and a steam boat. The state capitol building looks nice, not as impressive as Rhode Islands. But as far as the grounds go, it's the best I've seen I think. The largest Valencia orange three in North America is there. It's legal to eat oranges that fall from the tree, even though some people around there who seem to think oranges come from the store and not trees might ask if the fruit is good if it fell off the tree. The grounds of the capitol has sample plants from all around the state and a flower garden.

I've never been to Europe. I would imagine Prague and Vienna would be on someone's list. I've never been to Rio in Brazil either. What are some beautiful cities that you have visited?

I love this thread. I'll fill it with pics in due course, being a visual kinda guy. (Might run out of data and/or time tonight.)

Cities usually have tons of ugliness in parts of even the nicest ones, but some of them are sensationally beautiful looking places for sure, at least in part. I like cities where the development is heavily integrated into the surrounding terrain.

I second the positive sentiment on Hong Kong, being a Cantonese enthusiast partly, but it looks amazing: The highrise and the way it's sort of nested around the amazing historic harbor and up against the fairly high elevation tropical hills is amazing (especially at night as you said).
I wonder if I'll go there by sea on my own boat and sail directly in there someday, time will tell.

[WilliamSmith]

I'll make the cutoff 50,000 people, since there are a lot of smaller cities and towns that would qualify.

Prague. Valencia, Spain. Bamberg, Germany. Dubrovnik, Croatia. Split, Croatia. Colorado Springs. Salt Lake City. San Francisco (in the old days, of course). I suppose Vienna architecturally, though there is nothing noteworthy about its natural setting and I thought it was a bit overrated. Innsbruck, Austria. Salzburg, Austria. Budapest in parts. Krakow, Poland in parts. Paris (in the central part, but as you journey out of the city it is progressively ringed by high rises of Bauhaus dreck, and goes from stunningly beautiful to hideous; same with Zagreb, Croatia). Reno. Portland (in the old days). Seattle. Madrid. Seville (in the city center). Brasov, Romania. Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

Most of the cities of Bulgaria have ample and very beautiful pedestrian areas. An exception to this is Veliko Tarnovo, which doesn't have any pedestrian streets but is in an amazing natural setting. Every city view is like a picture postcard.

I don't know that beauty is necessarily the word that comes to mind, though it is beautiful in parts, but I was most blown away by Rome, and the sense of history there. I was a Latin scholar in school.

I suppose Quito and Cuenca in Ecuador qualify as beautiful since they're in the Andes, but there's just a crummy delapidation effect in a lot of Latin American cities that disqualifies them in my mind.

That's an impressive list!

@gsjackson
Just out of friendly curiosity, what did you find beautiful about both Portland and Seattle back in the day?

Seattle has an impressive looking marina, especially at night.


It has an impressive night skyline too, and I always associated it with that "Shadowrun" cyberpunk RPG series (though didn't know that franchise was invented by jews at the time, but let's not go there, LOL).

I suppose I'd better post a night skyline since I mentioned Shadowrun and Seattle:



Portland used to be a nice place to live, at least grading on a curve by the standards of American cities. I didn't really think of it as "beautiful" even though I liked it there in a lot of ways, but it has (or at least had) a nice looking waterfront and marina.



I've seen prettier views of the waterfront than this pic, but it's still pretty cool:


Without meaning to get on the negative side here, I have to add a caveat to others reading that this is only for good memories though: Here in the 2020s jews and SJWs have turned both these 2 cities into bigtime no-go zones (at least by my standards), but I'll stop the negative side of the discussion here and stick with the positive.

[WilliamSmith]

Now I think of it, I haven't seen many beautiful cities. Maybe San Francisco as mentioned, Dunedin NZ and the West Lake section of Hangzhou (the rest of Hangzhou is the usual dump). Maybe central Shanghai and parts of Xiamen as well.

@Cornfed

San Francisco and much of the rest of the Bay Area is really beautiful at its best in previous decades, it's just another victim of ZOG and SJWs at this point to where even lefties are saying it's becoming more and more of a hellhole.

I never realized you'd been to China. I remember you'd said you lived in Korea for awhile and you said you noticed Korean women have nice legs, LOL.
I'd ask you if you liked Chinese women (many of whom seem to enthusiastically want to jump white men's bones more than any other Asian women I'm aware of, in my personal experience), but unfortunately you talk like you hate all women so much we probably shouldn't even go there!

By the way, did you know that those "MRAsian" incels on Reddit have a big thread about you, Cornfed?
I disapprove of being disrespectful to Asian men as a general thing, but those particular squealing manginosphere betas on that particular forum were such a bunch of SJW-esque crybabies I couldn't help being a little entertained by listening to them screeching and flipping out because they read a post that they thought might imply you would consider scoring with an Asian woman.
(For the record if any decent Asian men see this: I decided to stop scoring with Asian women awhile ago and never turned any of them into "baby mommas," so your little women are safe from me at this point, in case that makes any of you feel better. )

OK, back on topic: Shanghai has an amazing night skyline, doesn't it?

[Cornfed]

By the way, did you know that those "MRAsian" incels on Reddit have a big thread about you, Cornfed?

That sounds funny. Do you have a link?

OK, back on topic: Shanghai has an amazing night skyline, doesn't it?

Yes and some good old Western colonial buildings, a few even with the broken glass on top of the walls, which is cool.

[WilliamSmith]

By the way, did you know that those "MRAsian" incels on Reddit have a big thread about you, Cornfed?

That sounds funny. Do you have a link?

@Cornfed I'm slightly disappointed to have not found more, but I did find something, so separate thread forthcoming!
Unfortunately I think some of the squealing I'd enjoyed reading before got deleted (which is probably no surprise since "Redditors" are constantly deleting anything jews, faggots, trannies or pedophiles don't want anyone to be allowed to say, not to mention users deleting their own comments or entire accounts).
But I did at least find something amusing that mentioned you, and moreso Winston.
(Fortunately for the sake of finding this material, everyone truckling to the jews on most platforms means that anything bashing "white men" is usually allowed to stay online, so there was some good stuff about you and Winston. I will post it today.)
Edit: Here you go, I made this thread with what I found: viewtopic.php?f=39&t=49013

OK, back on topic: Shanghai has an amazing night skyline, doesn't it?

Yes and some good old Western colonial buildings, a few even with the broken glass on top of the walls, which is cool.

Broken glass on top of the walls, do you mean they did like Arnold and Franco Columbo used to do by deliberately putting broken glass on the walls to "deter" thieves, or just the windows busting out of old buildings?

A lot of Chinese cities are known for glass busting and buildings falling down, not because the Chinese aren't brilliant and capable engineers with high IQs (they are), but because of corruption where there's always finaglers doing things like substituting inferior building materials into concrete or cutting corners in building code so they can pocket extra funds. I've seen some videos of building in both their "ghost cities" and inhabited cities falling down, whole freeway overpasses collapsing. This isn't "anti-China" talk though. The only reason they have a psychotic economic bubble is because every other nation state's hand is forced to compete with the ZOG bankers who took ex-"Western" nations off sound money and created the tentacled zio-banking central bank network. Right @MoreTorque?

[Cornfed]

Broken glass on top of the walls, do you mean they did like Arnold and Franco Columbo used to do by deliberately putting broken glass on the walls to "deter" thieves

Yes, broken glass jars set in cement on a perimeter wall is common in old British buildings in the concession ports, and you could still see it in Shanghai when I was there in 2011.

[WilliamSmith]

Broken glass on top of the walls, do you mean they did like Arnold and Franco Columbo used to do by deliberately putting broken glass on the walls to "deter" thieves

Yes, broken glass jars set in cement on a perimeter wall is common in old British buildings in the concession ports, and you could still see it in Shanghai when I was there in 2011.

LOL, that is cool!

Makes me a bit sad I didn't get to go see more of mainland China before the international ZOG and George Soros and Rothschild et al made the geopolitical scene to f***ed up, sigh.

A place that'd probably get mixed press for being a "beautiful city" but one I always wanted to go see was Chongqing which has a mixture of traditional beauty in parts + lots of sort of heavily atmospheric urban grunge. You didn't go there, did you?





Also that's the place where they put the train straight through this big-ass building, LOL!

[gsjackson]

@gsjackson
Just out of friendly curiosity, what did you find beautiful about both Portland and Seattle back in the day?

I guess mainly just Mt. Rainier and Mt Hood as backdrops. I was concerned I was overrating them. I've only just passed through Seattle, but I spent a month and a half in Portland back in the '70s trying out for (and briefly making) the Portland Mavericks baseball team. I was there in May and June when the roses were in bloom, and my recollection is of some very attractive park areas. And I guess I assume Portland has done public transportation better than most U.S. cities, and that they've limited sprawl with a greenbelt.

[69ixine]

El paso,texas seems like the only city I could live in the usa(Miami has too many backward haitians):

[Lucas88]

El paso,texas seems like the only city I could live in the usa(Miami has too many backward haitians):

Wow! El Paso looks very nice and charming! I like the color and vibrant Latin-style colonial architecture (sprinkled here and there).

I'll have to look into this city a bit more.

[gsjackson]

El paso,texas seems like the only city I could live in the usa(Miami has too many backward haitians):

Wow! El Paso looks very nice and charming! I like the color and vibrant Latin-style colonial architecture (sprinkled here and there).

I'll have to look into this city a bit more.

This looks like Vice City my ideal place to live. Don't make me run; I'll get all sweaty.

I've driven through El Paso dozens of times, stayed overnight a couple of times, and this doesn't look like any view of it I've seen. Presumably it's looking toward Juarez across the Mexican border, because on the other side are mountains. The flora does not look at all familiar. There's a minor league baseball park in the middle of the El Paso downtown area. I'd be surprised if this is El Paso,

[WilliamSmith]

LOL, despite being the #1 virulent antisemite and homophobe on the forum, I am actually considering going to Florida because of the big boating scene there and its position as a jump-off point to get to the islands.
I wouldn't go there permanently obviously, but we can't fully divest from the jewnited states yet because of family and business obligations, so.... (Very mixed feelings about the situation, but that's life...)

Miami certainly looks great in parts if you view it from the right angles...


Anyway, another trip down memory lane here:

Los Angeles and Hollywood California was very cool in parts back in the 80s (when I was a little kid) and 90s (but going down the drain fast at that time), but certainly wasn't anywhere I'd call beautiful, that is for sure. (Well, unless you counted Disneyland in the 1980s, but obviously that's different. )

Italian cities were fascinating due to the intense atmosphere of antiquity in a lot of them, but also kinda grunge and had a bit of a moribund feel to them somehow, though put that way it sounds more negative than I felt. (I did like it though, even though it's an understatement to say I'm not a fan of Southern Europe, unlike @Lucas88 and @gsjackson who both seem to love it? )

Rome was very cool but gave me the creeps even when I was a boy and didn't even realize at the time how loaded with sordid history that place was. It's not "beautiful" by my personal taste, but it certainly was impressive in parts!

[WilliamSmith]

I never went to Amsterdam, but I was in Venice, Italy, and it was really a strange and incredibly distinctive place. I'd still say it ranks as a "beautiful" city though, in its own weird way.
It was pretty damned grubby and grungy in a lot of ways, but wow, it was very atmospheric and remarkable even in the grungy parts.
@gsjackson did you ever go to Venice?

There are tons of photogenic shots of it intended for tourist draws on the net, but looking around a little this was the one that most reminded me of what it was personally actually like to be there (though my own memories are even more "gothic," so to speak):

[WilliamSmith]

The "Fed Larpers" on this forum have been pushing the distasteful subject of whops into the picture even more gratituously than jewmedia shills have been sucking up to Andrew Tate lately, so let's get the rest of my visits to Italian cities out the way here in one more post before all this Italian oil and grease clogs up my arteries and does me an injury here:

Florence, Italy (especially at night) would be my favorite city I was in in Italy. Unfortunately, I'm frustrated by not being able to find pics that feel like what it was really like to be walking those streets at night, but it was REALLY beautiful back when I was there. I honestly felt like there as a sense of magic atmosphere while I walked those old stone streets. (Caveat that I've heard the dagos have now deluged themselves with swarms of migrants and rapefugees, so no clue what it's like now! But it was a beautiful city when I was there.)







I remember Genoa also being really cool. I ate ice cream that they call "gellato" or something like that there.


Well, here I'm cheating because it's not a "city," but the most beautiful place in Italy I went to by a longshot was Portofino:

[WilliamSmith]

Innsbruck, Austria. Salzburg, Austria.

@gsjackson

I was in Austria too, unfortunately for a comparatively brief period of time.
Salzburg was beautiful for sure.
I don't actually remember seeing this view in this pic below, but I sure remember other things + the tour of the salt mines there! It was fun.


I forget whether these came up yet, but two other places I liked a lot were Zurich and Lucerne, Switzerland. (Not sure if the latter is a city, I just remember going there and to the "Hall of Mirrors" that was around there.)


This one below isn't the most beautiful pic but it does remind me most of what it was like on those streets in Zurich (and yeah I know there's supposed to be an umlaut thing on the "u," but don't care since I'm a barbaric Anglo churl and whatnot):


I don't remember it quite like this pic, but I am pretty sure this is the hall of mirrors that I was in around Lucerne, and it was cool: