yeah, this is trivial to do when you cherry-pick. no cities? no national parks? nothing from any of the mountains, deserts, two sets of dunes, or coasts? nothing from the PNW? no forests? not even grasslands? the grand canyon is literally one of the natural wonders of the world.
Yeah but what does it look like where people live?
I picked random spots in European cities in google street view and most of the places did not look at all like the photos above. Brick streets, people driving bicycles, people chilling in out door cafes. I did see some spots (mostly in Eastern Europe) that looked like the photos above. I did same bigger cities and some cities I never even heard of.
Doing the same thing in the US, I got dropped into a train station in Charlotte NC, so that was cool. But besides that, I saw a lot of suburbs, parking lots, and places that looked like the photos above from random cities across the US.
It’s a joke so it only needs an element of truth to it. And it’s directed at American culture, not about landmarks. From what I can see from my very non-scientific survey, the joke definitely has an element of truth about American culture being very samey in terms of how the places the live look.
It might also be fair to say Western Europe all looks the same with people driving bicycles on brick streets to cafes and such. But that probably wouldn’t sting all that much.
I would say that stems from the fact that America is extremely young. So all of the development of our cities, architecture, and transportation happened in the last like 300 years.
You can do this with Europe too
yeah, this is trivial to do when you cherry-pick. no cities? no national parks? nothing from any of the mountains, deserts, two sets of dunes, or coasts? nothing from the PNW? no forests? not even grasslands? the grand canyon is literally one of the natural wonders of the world.
Yeah but what does it look like where people live?
I picked random spots in European cities in google street view and most of the places did not look at all like the photos above. Brick streets, people driving bicycles, people chilling in out door cafes. I did see some spots (mostly in Eastern Europe) that looked like the photos above. I did same bigger cities and some cities I never even heard of.
Doing the same thing in the US, I got dropped into a train station in Charlotte NC, so that was cool. But besides that, I saw a lot of suburbs, parking lots, and places that looked like the photos above from random cities across the US.
It’s a joke so it only needs an element of truth to it. And it’s directed at American culture, not about landmarks. From what I can see from my very non-scientific survey, the joke definitely has an element of truth about American culture being very samey in terms of how the places the live look.
It might also be fair to say Western Europe all looks the same with people driving bicycles on brick streets to cafes and such. But that probably wouldn’t sting all that much.
I would say that stems from the fact that America is extremely young. So all of the development of our cities, architecture, and transportation happened in the last like 300 years.
Most of it has been from the 50s