I almost never see patches of grass or bushes were i live

[bailey_187]

and i like it that way. whole world should be paved over.

come at me hippies

[Il Medico]

Having lived in a giant swamp most of my life, I can say I agree.

*hi-five.

[Omsk]

I live in an area (urban block) without vegetation.I never really cared for it anyway.
*High five.

[bailey_187]

sitting on the concrete step outside my block of flats smoking, watching people pass>>>>sitting in some stupid feild in the countryside watching cows or whatever they have

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I've had moments when I've felt that the world would be better off completely covered in concrete, steel and glass. I'm not entirely sure why.

[Wanted Man]

Sure, they have their own charm. But the place where I live is one of the greenest places in the country, and it just looks so peaceful in springtime. Wouldn't trade it in for steel and concrete too soon, although I like them in cities.

In a nearby city, they're currently replacing old 70s-style office buildings with one 92m glass and steel structure. Opinions on it are divided, but I think it looks fine, certainly better than the towers that are in use now. In mid-sized cities, you've got to avoid paving over everything, but I do like what they're doing in this city: carefully building good-looking structures just out of the city centre, getting rid of the ugly 70s ones, thereby slowly giving the city a respectable skyline.

Before:

http://v1.studenten.net/graphics/content/pictures/4-1-2010-12-41-ibg_gebouwen_klein.jpg

After:

http://www.strukton.com/SiteCollectionImages/Projecten/duo2%20Groningen/Stadstuin%20fase%201-CENTER.jpg

Currently, the old towers are still there while the new one is under construction, so a simple walk past is sufficient comparative material. Instead of having the landscape spoiled by those towers, soon it will be dominated by that glass and steel "cruise ship", as people have taken to calling it. Looks like the right decision to me.

Anyway, supporting the idea of getting rid of all the green and replacing everything by grey is something for those hateful transhumanist types on Revleft who seem angry at the world or something.

[gorillafuck]

I like cities much more than rural areas but having only cities on Earth would suck.


Anyway, supporting the idea of getting rid of all the green and replacing everything by grey is something for those hateful transhumanist types on Revleft who seem angry at the world or something.Fuck anything natural and fuck anyone with preferences for peaceful, green areas. Anyone who disagrees probably wants everyone to live in a cave.

[Wanted Man]

I think I'd make a great caveman. :cool:

[Tablo]

Caves are cool! I like nature! :D

[Os Cangaceiros]

When I'm in nature (a significant portion of my life) I feel completely content. Even my thoughts seem clearer...I'll just sit out the deck and look at the sweeping vistas of mountains and bays in front of me and just think, like, for hours. Maybe have a beer or roast a bowl occassionally, but it's just as fun without. I miss that a lot, but fortunately I'm going back to it soon. (That's not to say that nature can't be a *****, though, because that's very often the case.)

On the other hand, in cities and busy urban environments I often suffer from anxiety and depression, and I never really feel completely contented. I like cities in other ways, though.

I'd probably be very, very unhappy if what's popularly known as "nature" were to disappear. For perspective, this is my hometown:

http://cdn.wn.com/pd/70/7a/6661a9ebb85c217e33bcb33f75fb_grande.jpg

[Kuppo Shakur]

Good luck breathing without vegetation!

[Ele'ill]

So basically you'd like to live in a shopping mall.

[Tablo]

So basically you'd like to live in a shopping mall.
A communist shopping mall... so a mass distribution center.. with a food court.

[Luisrah]

This is the island in which I live

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/1e/5f/f7/s-miguel-island.jpg



http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/112543005_affbaff54e.jpg

http://images.travelpod.com/users/bellavita/1.1215775920.1-sao-miguel.jpg

http://www.travel-in-portugal.com/photos/data/media/6/LagoDoFogo.jpg


http://wmkamp46a.de/images/atlantik2007/SaoMiguel-LagoaVerde-LagoadasSeteCidades.jpg

http://www.ilankelman.org/themes/volcanoesfurnassprings.jpg
Secondary vulcanism

http://ondas.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/VilaFrancaCampoIlheu02.jpg
Small isle very close to the main island

http://ipt.olhares.com/data/big/30/307021.jpg
Paradise :)

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4346/4032021241364172.jpg

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1860/berraboi.jpg
Plenty of cows

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3786/2425221152473912.jpg

[Ele'ill]

After:



Oh, chem-trails and people.

[Sam_b]

Want to live on Luisrah's island.

[Hoplite]

I grew up in a sun-blasted desert most of my life, so greenery is still fairly novel to me. I enjoy an urban setting, but I like having areas of green that I can step to once I get tired of the concrete.

[Pavlov's House Party]

fuck off, its been winter here so fucking long i don't even remember what the colour green looks like

[Hoplite]

fuck off, its been winter here so fucking long i don't even remember what the colour green looks like
...want

**Lives in SoCal**

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Anyway, supporting the idea of getting rid of all the green and replacing everything by grey is something for those hateful transhumanist types on Revleft who seem angry at the world or something.

It's not anger so much as intense feeling of disappointment. When I look at the half-assed way the world is organised, structured and developed, it sometimes frustrates me because I feel a strong conviction that we could do much better. Correcting social and economic problems is both laudable and necessary, but doesn't go far enough - it deals with issues relating to nurture, but not those relating to our common nature - namely, our origin as the product of a blind, unthinking natural process completely indifferent to our ultimate fate. Our most basic instincts served us well in the evolutionary past, but our environment is changing faster now than ever, and natural selection simply cannot keep up and even if it did, we cannot expect it to operate in an entirely benign manner.

In the long term, I believe that some of us must willingly give up our humanity in order to prevent humanity from being extinguished totally.

[Os Cangaceiros]

In the long term, I believe that some of us must willingly give up our humanity in order to prevent humanity from being extinguished totally.

uh oh

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

fuck off, its been winter here so fucking long i don't even remember what the colour green looks like

I shall trade you Georgia and all its bible-thumpers for this thing you call "winter".

[Tablo]

Winter sucks. I don't see why anyone would actually want it to be cold unless they are into winter sports.

[Hoplite]

Winter sucks. I don't see why anyone would actually want it to be cold unless they are into winter sports.
Grow up in a place where it's 95F in Febuary and where, for four months out of the year, the temperature NEVER drops below 90 degrees, that does include the hour before the sun comes up.

Record high for my hometown 113 degrees fucking F, in May.

[Wanted Man]

For me, it's 5 minutes of cycling to see something like this: http://v13.lscache2.c.bigcache.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/10531229.jpg

:cool:

Going into the other direction for 30 minutes, towards the city, it looks like this: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=12819541

It's all so lovely in the summer. Can't wait.

Don't own one of those villas though. :rolleyes:

[Pavlov's House Party]

...want

**Lives in SoCal**

the grass is always greener, i guess... or covered in 3 feet of snow

[black magick hustla]

i like gritty cities populated by fuckups and bars full of sad people and men in coats smoking shitty pall malls and broken down apartments where men slam malt liquor and talk about communism. i like walking down the bar street at night and seeing fuckers get into fights and start swinging. fuck yea this is the type of stuff i was made of and this is how i will possibily die. i feel equally alienated when sitting under a tree i rather share my misery with other fucked up people

kinsman of the moon motherfuckers

[9]

on the one hand, i love the city.

on the other hand...
http://www.travel-visit-places.com/wp-content/uploads/olympic-national-park.jpg

http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/olympic-national-park-seattle-wa240.jpg

http://www.milosh.net/photo/vancouver00/mil200005011800cscan-35.jpg

[the last donut of the night]

you can't have either one

[Rafiq]

A communist shopping mall... so a mass distribution center.. with a food court.

Food court....

http://images1.memegenerator.net/Bison-Yes/ImageMacro/3301835/YES-YES-.jpg

[Wanted Man]

9: where is that?

Just took the long way home, past scenes like this:

http://bitdump.nl/tempivn/wp-content/hoornsche_meer_molen.jpg

http://bitdump.nl/tempivn/wp-content/IMG_2527.jpg

:wub:

It's even better at night, because on the other side of the road there is a little river full of houseboats, so you can see lots of little lights through the trees. A bit further ahead, there is a freeway, which makes it kind of paradoxical. On the one side there is complete tranquillity, on the other side hundreds of vehicles go past. Densely populated countries ftw.

[Os Cangaceiros]

It's the "temperate rain forest" of the pacific northwest. I know, because it looks exactly like the forests where I lived in Alaska.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc97/Alaskan99/picture661c.jpg

[9]

9: where is that?

Explosive Situation is right :)

its the Hoh Rainforest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoh_Rainforest) <3

[Rusty Shackleford]

id prefer to live in a northern temperate/sub-sub arctic area that is close to or relatively hilly, forested in some areas, fileds in others, a port, and a general overcast/cool look and feel. mountains close by.

what am i thinking of?

SNOW IN WINTER IS A MUST.

please, help me find my dream area.

shit, it doesnt even have to be coastal. has to have a decent population 175k+

[MarxSchmarx]

id prefer to live in a northern temperate/sub-sub arctic area that is close to or relatively hilly, forested in some areas, fileds in others, a port, and a general overcast/cool look and feel. mountains close by.

what am i thinking of?

SNOW IN WINTER IS A MUST.

please, help me find my dream area.

shit, it doesnt even have to be coastal. has to have a decent population 175k+

that's my image of california north of Santa Barbara. Well, I guess not quite the snow but the mountains are really close by anyway.

[Hoplite]

id prefer to live in a northern temperate/sub-sub arctic area that is close to or relatively hilly, forested in some areas, fileds in others, a port, and a general overcast/cool look and feel. mountains close by.

what am i thinking of?

SNOW IN WINTER IS A MUST.

please, help me find my dream area.

shit, it doesnt even have to be coastal. has to have a decent population 175k+
Definitely West Coast. The only thing I could think of that fits would be someplace like Santa Cruz. Snow is a maybe, but you are never going to find a place EXACTLY like that.

[synthesis]

This is the island in which I live

Popped a semi.

[Tifosi]

http://node1.bbcimg.co.uk/iplayer/images/clip/p00c3kdr_640_360.jpg

About a mile away from my house. More brown than green. Mountian in the background is Morven, famous momment being when King Georges brother crashed into it.

[Quail]

I like living in a city with all its easily accessible facilities and whatever, but I also like being able to escape to somewhere that looks pretty.

[Summerspeaker]

I can't imagine living somewhere completely without plant life. It's arid here in New Mexico, but we still have trees, shrubs, and the occasionally patch of grass in the city.

[Meridian]

I really like trees, and I dislike asphalt concrete. Of course it is nice when facilities are close, but I dislike the dense population in the cities.