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Cape Town, South Africa - often rated as both the world's most beautiful and most dangerous city. If you're going to get murdered at least live somewhere that's scenic
Cape Town, South Africa - often rated as both the world's most beautiful and most dangerous city. If you're going to get murdered at least live somewhere that's scenic
I was just looking at South Africa last night! One thing that I noticed is that many of the cities are notably lacking in trees. Another is that the single-family homes either have fortress walls with ADT Security signs on them or are basically slums, which I guess is a remnant of Apartheid. South Africa seems fascinating and is on my list of places to go, particularly Durban. So yeah, it's not exactly visiting a place, but Street View is still very educational.
Cape Town, South Africa - often rated as both the world's most beautiful and most dangerous city. If you're going to get murdered at least live somewhere that's scenic
Those palm trees in Cape Town look a lot like some of the palm trees on the New Mexico State University campus.
Indeed, there are several contenders for Lordsburg's throne. A good rule of thumb is to examine one of two types of towns, and they exist mainly west of the Great Plains. The first is a town that's formulated specifically around the needs of serving transportation, old railroad towns especially, but towns that are in the middle of a desert, on an interstate highway, with no towns of size at least 30-50 miles in between. The other is a town that's existence is predicated around an extraction industry, such as mining. You might want to add military towns in as well, but there are exceptions to that rule.
There is a common theme, which is transient beings. Along with that come the inevitable commercial enterprises, in some predictable order of succession: RV parks and repair shops, auto repair, pawn shops, liquor stores, gas stations, chain hotels, chain restaurants, dirty book stores, and churches.
Here is another gem. Nothing like having the Mexico border fence at the end of your block. Although there probably is not much difference in that town.
Well, I certainly didn't mean to 'jump the gun' with Lordsburg Sorry Lordsburg, there ARE worse places than you.
Not to get too off-topic, but my hometown of Phoenix should be added to this list: a sprawling, endless heat island that stretches forever, filled with Wal-Marts and K-Marts and Circle K's and strip malls. There are very few cities in the entire world that can have summer overnight LOW temperatures of 95/96 degrees.
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