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Barcelona, Spain
New York City, NY
Dubai, UAE
Paris, France
Chicago, IL
Looks Familiar (Nördlingen, Germany)
Nördlingen, Germany
Sydney, Australia
Seattle, WA
Bern, Switzerland
Giza, Egypt
Mount Reinebringen, Norway
Vatican City
Vancouver
Shanghai
Amsterdam
Bac Son Valley, Vietnam
Mexico City
Venice
Athens
Moscow
Turin, Italy
Island in the Maldives
Cape Town, South Africa
Mogadishu, Somalia
Orange County, FL
Tulip Fields in Spoorbuurt, Netherlands
San Francisco, CA
Lurker4815162342
If this is your 12th favorite earth, could you please post some pics from the better 11? I think we all would like that. Thanks.
unluckylu
These images are horrifying. We're a virus.
maddcovv
Thanos did nothing wrong? :)
Justshowmedamnedmemesalready
I wanna travel again
haitamimama
Mexico City and Moscow-how depressing
Cachemeousside
Aaand now I want to play Sim City.
Garadur
Play Cities:Skylines. It's everything SimCity ever wanted to be
knotwhatiwant
Crazy how nature do dat
Rifneno
#1 is clearly SimCity. The original one, from like 1992.
Eltore
almost, this town-planning scheme was created in 1860
Ulthirm
Christ look at Mexico city. That is one hell of a hit there.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
1 million more people than NYC, and not packed veritically.
Teeface
Seattle and Bern looking sexy
redstaterefugee
I love these. Some cities are gorgeous, but a couple look like garbage dumps. Also, wow, Vietnam!
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Barcelona looks like the original SimCity.
SwedeOnAnIsland
Mithrein
High Venice
nosebleedcremebrulee
Ah New York, Amsterdam, Paris, Nördlingen,
happybirbday
I get existentially sad on airplanes, seeing how drastically humans have impacted the earth. Ag land, roads, we're put our mark everywhere.
StarkRG
If it's any consolation, we'll probably be down to ruins and tribal warfare in less than two centuries.
happybirbday
And this is why I have made the decision not to have kids. Too much suffering coming our way.
OhNoDontTouch
plus they're gross and expensive
StarkRG
Same. Also I can't find anyone who can stand to be alone with me who I can also stand to be alone with, so that makes it a lot easier.
SolidRD
Dubai just over there making shapes and designs
AngMoPrime
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jaySelfieDog
the picture is not real. this is what they planned but most of it didnt get built
blumpk1npie
You can do anything with unlimited oil money and slaves
tinyCabbage
dubai doesn't have much oil, less than 1% of its money comes from oil.
Snuffdigit
Prisoners with jobs*
remaog42
Immigrants without passports*
EggFooYung
You don't even need the money, just the slaves. As proved by the Egyptians, Chinese, and many others.
blumpk1npie
The Egyptians working on pyramids & large constructions were compensated (tho they did have slaves). The Chinese were on a whole other level
bearded3d
Some of these places just straight up said fuck nature
UncleRat
The real virus in the world is humankind.
LollieCom
They're like tattoos and body-mods on the planet. The earth will be healed with our extinction.
StarkRG
#1 I've been there, I don't remember it being THAT depressing...
StarkRG
#25 I've been there too and it WAS that depressing.
LiquidTitan
The Dubai one is total fake ... there is no canal and the other one is missing ...
maddcovv
Yeah it’s a bit messed up. https://goo.gl/maps/driqyovCu3nqtxyK8
chajdajiji
Is Dubai signaling aliens?
Fairdinkums
Stupid sexy Sydney. They definitely have us beat on looks but Melbourne is still better.
rugrugrug
And Brisbane beats them both.
justbecauseimparanoiddoesntmeanyourenotouttogetme
QUEENSLANDER!
BumMunch
Shanghai looks like an alien city on mars
blumpk1npie
It looks much nicer when there isn't smog
Zeus541
Which is never
ImOPsMom
When is that?
justbecauseimparanoiddoesntmeanyourenotouttogetme
1949
corvettee01
#3 That's some serious "Fuck You" money.
StarkRG
Don't forget about the ski resort they have there in the middle of the fucking desert.
LostChaosKnight
Venice and Bern are surreal.
jondarane
Bern is just lovely
Gingeringeri
#17 Mexico City looks like it's build on a wavy ocean.
EverydayIsLegDayBecauseImRunningFromMyProblems
How would sewage even work with those rolling hills? I think the pic just squished the distance and its not that bad.
blumpk1npie
It's built on what used to be a lake to be fair (at least some of it was)
Sauroctonus
The city centre was, this is probably a suburb a mile or two out from there.
IwishKimPinewasmygirlfriend
#20 Russia as per usual looking like a dystopian hellhole
DukeSamuelVimes
Found the American.
EggFooYung
Whether or not its actually a dystopian hellhole, that picture sure makes it look like one.
DukeSamuelVimes
Clearly (*filteredly).
IwishKimPinewasmygirlfriend
I found the guy who's wrong
DukeSamuelVimes
Alright, guess I shouldn't assume all idiots are Americans.
IwishKimPinewasmygirlfriend
And you should be nicer on the internet if you're gonna throw His Grace His excellency Sir Samuel Vimes' name around.
DukeSamuelVimes
Vimes hates people who have no nominal sensibility. But I apologise, you're probably not an idiot, it was just the comment that was stupid.
ProppaGanda
#3 Dubai is probably one of the most horrible cities in the world, change my mind
fancygiraph
They have better Eastern European prostitutes than Moscow.
AllTheCoolKidsPeeTheirPants
It’s a billionaires sandbox. Literally. There’s no sustainability there. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s obsolete in 20 years.
AlexSomething
Dubai is the proof that money can't buy you taste, decency and a whole lot of other human qualities.
heyboh
The marina district seems like a more modern miami...it's not terrible
Galdrack
All the modern US and Australian cities that expanded post 1930 are much worse imo. Though Dubai is horrid looking from here.
Holinyx05
You guys have clearly never seen pics of Dubai up close. Place is a wonderland
ProppaGanda
Wonderland in the most dystopic sense of the way. It's literally built on spatial manifestation of social inequality
akahata
More like Disneyland. Everything is expensive and tasteless.
HighrockTendales
Not got the history or age of disneyland
PurplishPlatypus
Why are there so many slaves in your wonderland?
Holinyx05
in chains? I know people who work there, they are not slaves
CaldariBob
With modern border controls, you don't need chains, just passports.
megodk
Gotta say, I like the more organically grown cities...
SuperGeniusPS
Crazy how nature do that
UsernameMayBeSubjectToChange
Like Mogadishu?
ProppaGanda
I would say it's less about organic (how amazing is Amsterdam!) and more about human scale and respect for the context - historical, natural
DukeSamuelVimes
Amsterdam looks mildly dystopian to me.
kingkongkeom
Only until you arrive there, then you'll love it.
DukeSamuelVimes
Oh, I'm for sure that Amsterdam is an amazing place, but like NYC, I'm more a fan of the city and less avid on the geometric civil planning.
maddcovv
I’ll take the Maldives island
megodk
That's risky. The Maldives are in the process of sinking into the ocean
DukeSamuelVimes
I may be biased as a Londoner, which is probably one the most organic major cities in existence, but I heavily agree.
megodk
I live in Germany so there might be a bit of bias as well.
MoopsyLD
love all the places that dont try to stuff things in a tiny area like manhattan etc.
Technocratic
But storebought is fine
gaidinbdj
You say that, but when you're in Boston on your 9th consecutive single-land cobble road, it gets pretty old.
JCBalance
Boston is an exception. Its the bastard child of design and natural chaos.
SentientSpork
Yoinking "the bastard child of design and chaos"
JCBalance
I'm gonna trademark it!
JustBlarg
They look great, until you have to find your way around.
EggFooYung
As a resident of Atlanta, I can attest to this. It's horrible. Come here and try to find something. I dare you, even with GPS.
JustBlarg
Boston. Same, maybe worse. Old horse trails and cart paths evolved into roadways without an iota of planning.
Funnyjunker
I don't know, at least things look different and there's some reference points. I would probably be completely lost in an american grid city
DukeSamuelVimes
Exactly- reference areas are pretty convenient. I would never be able to remember coordinates for a grid city.
chrisjfinlay
tbf most american cities use numerical street names in a given direction, so it's easy-ish to navigate
AnonymousSourceOfGenitals
You are only helped by a grid if you know all the coordinates, you still get lost if you dont know the street names
chloramphenicolderivative
I like Manhatten
idonthaveanyideawhatthehelliamtalkingabout
yeah if you don't have a map and don't know the street names, then that part of Barcelona is hell to find something in, i was in a airbnb
idonthaveanyideawhatthehelliamtalkingabout
2 blocks away from La Sagrada Familia and down at street level you cant see it when you are close, and everything looks the same, awesome
idonthaveanyideawhatthehelliamtalkingabout
place to get lost in (but it is even better in the old city down town)
HeinekenBottle
“Well on the map that road looks like a snake shedding while being eaten by a chicken. So we should take the next left to get to the centre”
bigbabyjesusicantwait
What’s the deal with Barcelona and those squares/blocks?
CaldariBob
That district is called the Eixample & follows a 19th c. urban plan by Ildefons Cerda. The whole city isn't like that, tho.
VicinoOrsini
Many Spanish cities have those rational ortogonal layouts from when they enlarged the old medieval towns later on
momojito
Courtyards abs plazas
bigbabyjesusicantwait
Thanks! Kinda Reminds me of how I used to build in SimCity.
momojito
*and
Holedemort
I can't unsee them as "urban abs" now
LoPan
this is one of the dumbest autocorrects... I had to delete "abs" from my phone... what's more likely; I'm talking about abs or saying and?
momojito
Please show me how to delete abs in auto correct. It always changes it to that. It’s become a running joke that I’m obsessed with abs.
LoPan
Easy to do on android, but impossible on iPhone, so on my girlfriend's phone I did this;