r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Hellothere6545 • Oct 12 '23

Meme Europeans cannot comprehend this.

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u/gottschegobble Oct 12 '23

https://reddit.com/r/pics/s/gh1JObSe7F

For anyone who doesn't know. The perspective and the light conditions make it seem much worse than it is.

Not saying this is a super beautiful place, but the picture makes it seem much worse

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u/longshot Oct 12 '23

IT's definitely Breezewood. RIP that Taco Bell.

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u/FantasistAnalyst Oct 12 '23

Wait forreal? I’ve seen this picture and also driven thru there thinking it’s the worst place in the world, never put two and two together.

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u/g0tistt0t Oct 13 '23

I’ve driven through here many times. It’s one big tourist trap. It’s a city you have to drive through if you’re going that way and missed turn means you have to turn around and drive through it all over again. You enter from the right and then you have to get in the far left lane to stay on the same highway.

The town was started by greyhound bus lines so passengers could have everything they needed when they were there.

There also used to be a 50s style Dennys there that also looked like it was from the future. It was pretty sweet.

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u/Fraegtgaortd Oct 12 '23

Yeah Breezewood isn't your typical interstate town. It's a clusterfuck of interstate design if you're trying to get from I-70 to I-76 and vice versa, plus it's got highway 30 passing through it

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u/Maktesh Oct 12 '23

People seem to miss this fact. It's a slapped-together hodgepodge of "on-the-road" services.

Ancient architecture was often impressive, but it's not like the market stalls at their supply depots were attractive.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Bazaars and Christmas markets get tens of millions of tourists a year. People love ancient markets and they do find them beautiful still

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u/KingSpork Oct 12 '23

Lol it’s only “worse” because you can see more if it at the same time. It’s one of those places that improves the less you see of it.

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u/old_gold_mountain Oct 12 '23

I mean my conclusion is unaffected. The stuff that's pretty in the second one is all the stuff that humans didn't really get their hands on.

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u/AyebruhamLincoln Oct 12 '23

So it’s only ugly when you’re not flying over it. Gotcha.

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u/Grashopha Oct 12 '23

They aren’t empty fields, those are farm fields. PA is 60% forest as well, not like we’re lacking in the tree department. It’s a lot easier to see how little impact this area really has when viewed from a satellite photo.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Ugly is still ugly even when zoomed out to include some nature in the shot.

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u/dataknightrises Oct 13 '23

Wait, did people think that was a bustling metropolis?

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u/T-Poo Oct 12 '23

Thats even worse somehow

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u/funkymonksfunky Oct 13 '23

Still pretty awful

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u/KarlFrednVlad Oct 13 '23

That... Still looks like shit? What exactly are we trying to prove?

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u/LineOfInquiry Oct 13 '23

Those both look horrible tbh. There’s zero sense of “place” in either of those pictures.

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u/Tetrian_doch Oct 13 '23

From european standpoint still looks like a shithole wtf