Scenery of your town
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@Ayespy said in Scenery of your town:
@ingolftopf I'll take the mountains over the town any day.
Quite a peaceful life I take it
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@Tetsuosumo It has its moments. 100 pastoral acres (apx 40 hectares) offers opportunities to decompress. It has to be cared for, so it doesn't really simplify one's life that much - plus there are the dogs, horses, chickens to care for, wild birds to feed, etc., predators to be cautious of... But the grandkids can get outdoor exercise, which is healthy, and one can look out over nature - which is never bad.
Plus, quiet nights, clean air and dark, star-filled skies at night.
One still has to go back to the grind and make money to live every day, but in-between, there is room to breathe and fewer instances of being pestered by salesmen, passers-by and proselytes.
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I have two homes at present, over 1,000km apart, in different US states. Don't care to post any pics of the other one right now. But I wanted to mention a curious feature of American life: The gated community, with its Home Owner's Association (HOA).
Gated communities offer homeowners an opportunity to live in a place that is walled off from the world, has enforced uniformity of home appearance, and landscaping, and mandatory fees to pay for an organization (the HOA) which ensures that all residents live cookie-cutter lives of anxiety and quiet desperation. 84% of new US homes are now being built within HOA communities.
Truly, the "land of the free." see for instance: https://homeownershipmatters.realtor/password/arizona-homeowners-receive-little-to-no-protection-from-unregulated-hoas/
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@Ayespy said in Scenery of your town:
Don't care to post any pics of the other one right now...
Well, there is this. Little can rival a southern Nevada sunset.
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@Ayespy said in Scenery of your town:
Gated communities offer homeowners an opportunity to live in a place that is walled off from the world
Like Celebration, Florida?
Even the dogs get facelifts
Down in Celebration, Florida100 pastoral acres
Or in terms even non-farmers can understand: 0.92 times the total area of Vatican City.
Well, it's better than "40 acres and a mule" I guess
quiet nights, clean air and dark, star-filled skies at night.
Now that does sound great, I miss that. I need to get out of town more...
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@Ayespy Honestly even as a city boy I long for such a life. I hope I too can live like that one day
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@Ryszard Beautiful town
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@Tetsuosumo said in Scenery of your town:
@Ryszard Beautiful town
Want to see what condition the Germans brought the city to in 1944?
Displacement and destruction of the town of Jasลo in 1944 -
@Ryszard I think one has to make a distinction between the German people and Nazis. I can't begin to imagine the loss of life and senseless destruction that took place.
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@Ryszard said in Scenery of your town:
@Tetsuosumo said in Scenery of your town:
Want to see what condition the Germans brought the city to in 1944?
Displacement and destruction of the town of Jasลo in 1944Thank you for the detailed account of these terrible things.
Perhaps you were also involved in the research.
It is good and important to remember what people can do to people.
Even now, when the Russian government is waging this terrible war against the Ukrainian people.
Russia paid, with great decency, the highest blood toll in the Second World War.
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Nevertheless, a "medieval festival" is regularly celebrated in my town, also for marketing reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_fair
I don't really want to enjoy it.
In the USA this is also quite popular.
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@ingolftopf I hope you had fun!
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@Tetsuosumo
I think Walter Gentz would be very unhappy if he could find out that you question his membership in the German nation.@ingolftopf said in Scenery of your town:
Perhaps you were also involved in the research.
No. Neither did I work on documenting this crime, nor did I prepare this exhibition.
@ingolftopf said in Scenery of your town:
Russia paid, with great decency, the highest blood toll in the Second World War.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
But ... scenery of a nearby city
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Nearest major town to me...
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@Ayespy Once I saw the balloons, knew the reply that was coming.
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@Ryszard,
@Tetsuosumo certainly didn't mean to defend "Walter Gentz".Thank you for the two links, they are of course much better, more detailed than in the German Wikipedia.
To the wind, to the storm:
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@Ryszard said in Scenery of your town:
No. Neither did I work on documenting this crime, nor did I prepare this exhibition.
Too bad, maybe it will come.
You seem to be interested in these things.I am also involved in coming to terms with this time in my German city.
Even today, not always easy, but very necessary.