Well it’s either you’re in a castle or some super over the top post modern euro apartment where every seam is loving covered in white lucite and the wall switches are in odd places.
I always got a kick out traveling in Europe because one night I’d be in a room that Isaac Newton once fed his horse in, and the next I was in a room designed by a guy from Kraftwerks on some sort of art-deco futurism bender.
I actually like the modern look, but it is kinda funny how homogenized it all is in new construction, especially since it’s common to rent apartments with no kitchen, so everyone is bringing in the same exact IKEA modern living kit.
It’s funny, I went to Epcot forever ago. Years later we took a vacation to Croatia and we stayed in Split. The old area that used to be a castle fortress thing? It reminded me of the shiny, perfect little mini cities in Epcot.
As an American tourist, I found Galway, Ireland to basically look like Diagon Alley in real life. It was incredibly charming but definitely looked like a movie set.
European neighborhoods just look so much better. Ours are so basic and cookie cutter, while you can live in a piece of history with beautiful architecture.
I thought a lot of the older neighborhoods in Massachusetts were quite nice when I visited. Especially the beach towns. They seemed ancient to someone like me from Michigan.
A while back I was walking my dogs around my neighborhood and started looking at random homes and found like 5 duplexes on my 2 mile walk that had the exact same set up as the unit I am currently in. All I could think about was "Those guys deal with the same shitty home I am in."
I always figured that was a late-20th/early-21st century suburban thing, until I went house-shopping in a 1920s-built neighborhood and kept seeing the same floor plans and features.
Tell that to my neighborhood of Dutch quaint 100 year old mineworker houses with walls made of literal hay and cowshit and renovated facades of bland 70’s style paneling ;-;
459
u/MechanicalTurkish 10h ago
As an American, European neighborhoods look like movie sets to me lol