• mirshafie@europe.pub
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        18 hours ago

        Your pictures are not from Barcelona or Rome. They’re from highways between cities. OPs pictures are from stroads within American cities. Anybody that’s set foot within Thessaloniki, Barcelona and Rome can instantly tell those cities apart.

        Other European cities might be less easy to tell apart, but you chose some of the most iconic cities that truly are unique and easy to distinguish.

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          13 hours ago

          I mean the same can be said of the cores of American cities as well. The stroads are generally out on the edges where the city grew just in the last 75 years or so, just like how the highways in major European cities generally won’t be in the ancient city centers.

          Sure I can find plenty of nearly identical stroads around New York, Minneapolis and Chicago but if you look at the very center of each of them they’ll all look very different and local culture and history will shine through

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            12 hours ago

            A stroad and a highway is not the same though. A highway doesn’t take you to stores or services, it takes you between cities. Stroads are a part of a city.

            I’d also note that the Italian highways (which was showcased in two pictures) are pretty infamous in Europe.

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          17 hours ago

          OPs pictures are from stroads within American cities

          I Wikipediad a picture of Leavenworth, Kansas and this is the picture:

          But really I was just trying to be funny.