Interesting how if you live close to something famous like the pyramids or the NYC skyline you just take it for granted.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some might also take the pyramids for granite.

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• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I lived within sight of the statue of liberty. Often forgot it was there.

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I lived close enough to see the Manhattan skyline everyday. Never paid attention to it. Then I would have the occasional out of town visitor and they were just in awe at the sight of it.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Take it for granite.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TBF, if it was natural features it might catch more stares. I’m always taken away by the valleys running through my hometown, but these pyramids look foggy and mid from the street view

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• Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, we get busses of people coming where I live to see the Mississippi river. It’s just a damn river. Although, living here and driving on the interstate seeing “whatever river” that looks like a creek in comparison is amusing.

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• Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I like how most of turistic spots are just some big ass shit.

  Pyramids; big ass pyramid

  Crist Redeemer; big ass Jesus

  Liberty Statue; big ass woman

  Eifel Tower; big ass antena

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• Asafum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s something I tried to remind myself of when I was having a bad day at work at a previous job as a service tech. On the days I was driving into or around Manhattan I’d just take in the skyline and tell myself that it’s pretty amazing I get to see this.

  It is kinda wild to know so many people have only ever seen it in movies and I’m just driving into it to go to some hole in the wall ice cream shop and squeeze into the tiniest space imaginable to try to fix a machine lol

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• Beacon@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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