Soon after 911, some Middle Easterners (I don’t remember exactly who) were shown a video of the attack, and some of them said they didn’t know buildings that big existed.
You don’t know what you don’t know.
Beacon@fedia.io 1 day ago
I lived my whole life in nyc and i try to imagine what it would be like to come from a smaller place and see skyscrapers for the first time. I can never really imagine what it's like
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mickey7@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’ve always been on the East Coast and wonder what it’s like to live in middle America and never see an ocean in person
Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Total vertigo. Just walking through the streets is surreal. You crane your head to try and make sense of it but the buildings just keep going.
Individual buildings in NYC have more people in them than at any given time than my entire hometown. By a large margin. Just so cool. I guess that was the main shock for me, the sheer sense of scale
Couldn’t believe how good the tap water tasted either haha