I wonder how it feels like waking up each morning with a view of that mountain
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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Well, it pretty much feels like this! Took it in Santiago from the tallest building downtown :-)
I think I’ve been in this building! It was at night though. Amazing views all around.
Has a similar aesthetic to SLC imo, from Sparky's pic that is.
I moved to Utah and a lot of towns cities straddle mountains like this where the town is in the valley next to the mountains. It's very cool, but Id take forests over a view. I find being surrounded by woods much more comforting than high desert with a view but I guess that just depends on where you grew up.
The thing about forests around cities is they tend to get cut down and paved over. That’s much harder to do with mountains.
It's comforting
Weird, you'd think it would be chilling
In my city we're surrounded by mountains, always one in view. No matter where you are in the city you know where you are cause they serve as giant landmarks.
I think it'd be chilling to be surrounded by an ocean instead.
I think the user you're replying to was making a joke, chilling = Chile.
Oh yeah def went over my head xD, cuz I could see where they coming from with big ass towering landmass, it might feel like it could fall over you
That reminds me of Reno.
Nah, it's Chileing
What if it was this view?
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I want to go to there…
Santiago is a cool town. I’ve been twice and I would definitely recommend a visit. It kind of answers the question, “what would Mexico City be like if it were in a developed, first-world country?”
Sounds like heaven!
Nature is beautiful. Majestic mountain ranges. Sharp pavement roads. Concrete everywhere. The tiniest touch of green regulated to little parks. Not another animal in sight except for pigeons finding trash in vacant parking lots. Sometimes I like to sit on a porch and really take in all the air, noise, and light pollution. Ah
Yeah I can't help but feel so frustrated seeing people develop places like this. In order to support wildlife they need valleys as well as mountains. You can't just build on every strip of usable land because a lot of animals need to graze and nest there too.
Then you should do some reading. Latin America is the most urban region in the world.
We have small pockets with high density like Santiago. It has 1/3 of the population of NYC but 150% of the population density. And NYC is by far the densest US city.
The result of this is wide swaths of nature, I grew up used to seeing no buildings or anything else man made all the way to the horizon. When approaching my hometown we would first see the city glow, because you get actual darkness out in the country. In the US' lower 48 only part of Oregon and Nevada get close to that.
Of course now US companies are once again trying to destroy our land with careless mining.
I'm glad to hear that's not the case! I was speaking on my own experience living out west in the US where there is still a lot of public land. The attitude in the western US is unfortunately pretty bad. They want more and more public land to develop into low density single family home markets like Phoenix. It's pretty infuriating hearing the locals moan about BLM and concoct conspiracies about how they stole land from them and show zero interest in the health of the local wildlife.
There's still quite a bit of untouched land in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Navajo, basically anywhere that has large amounts of BLM land, but this unfortunately is getting pushback from locals who want everything to be developed.
That elevation must make it twice as chilly
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