#American cities

[sherdnerd]

I don't know how to explain it but Chicago is to New York as Philadelphia is to Boston

[ven-finn]

I haven’t been drawing much recently. This world is a lot to process

[wallpapers4screen]

[aci25]

Why “Great” American Cities Can’t Provide Basic Necessities [like public toilets]

In a world turned upside-down, the number of public restrooms required increases in direct proportion to the number of individuals living on the streets.

It is illogical to deny people access to housing and toilet facilities, and then proceed to arrest and label them as perverts simply because they had no choice but to relieve themselves in a natural setting.

[canichangemyblogname]

I just saw someone selling a T-Shirt that read, "Chicago; City of Wind," and I just stared at it. As a city native, I understood why the shirt said this, but I also understood why it was incorrect.

The city's official motto is urbs in horto or “city in a garden,” at it's a reference to the city's extensive and historic parks and boulevard system. You can see the system pictured below:

When you go to Google Maps, you can see the parks system as well as all the green space along the lakeshore.

Chicago does have a rival, unofficial motto: "I will." It was adopted after Great Chicago Fire of 1871 to represent the determination of Chicagoans to overcome the destruction and rebuild the city.

Chicago also has a couple nicknames, and I think the city's nicknames are where this T-shirt designer got the idea to call Chicago "The City of Wind."

One of the city's more well-known nicknames is "The Second City," a name that influential travelers and natives of New York City bestowed upon Chicago as a commentary on how the city couldn’t keep up with "The Big Apple." Chicagoans adopted it in an act of ironic self-deprecation, and it evolved from its negative connotation of "less-than-best" to a commentary on what Chicago does well and how the city and its contributions to America are successful and influential in their own right.

Chicago is also popularly called "The Windy City," and while the city is quite breezy, the name does not come from Chicago's local weather patterns. Most people assume it's a commentary on the breezes coming off Lake Michigan, but the term initially held a double meaning meant to highlight both its breezy weather and how local politicians and speakers were "full of wind." We can thank Cincinnati for helping popularize this name. A running rivalry in baseball and the meat-packing industry in the late 1800s led to some scathing articles in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Like "The Second City," Chicago has come to embrace this nickname as a point of pride.

Chicago has also been called "The City of Big Shoulders" (or "Broad Shoulders") in reference to the poem Chicago by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Sandburg. Other nicknames include shortened versions of the city's name: Chicago, with some suffix added to it. Chi-town has been used for big events but is not popular among locals. Chi-beria is a portmanteau of "Chicago" and "Siberia" and a commentary on its cold winter weather, but also not a popular name among locals. Chi-raq is a very controversial portmanteau of "Chicago" and "Iraq" that was intended to compare the city's crime rate to the death rate in war-torn Iraq. It stems from misleading war statistics that completely ignored the civilian death rate in Iraq during the US invasion. The term saw its highest usage among the American public during the American occupation of Iraq and only some usage among musicians and filmmakers. It is most commonly used in right-wing arguments about the supposed danger of "minority" or "democrat-run" cities and the supposed "ineffectiveness" of gun regulation.

[debrink]

Los Angeles

City of Angels • California

~ Little Blue Dog Designs

[theriseofthesea]

I went to the city today and the pigeons were so chonky. They were like the size of a Big Mac!

[animusrox]

"You Missed the Point by Idolizing Them" Starter Pack

[aizawaondrugs]

My class was in New York for a week because we won some program or whatever and I thought I was prepared. My English is fine, both speaking and understanding. I was pretty sure I was alright with the whole culture thing for a foreigner.

I'm not gonna post pics about New York, everyone knows what it looks like bla bla bla, but most importantly because I can really crop the people(my classmates) out of it. But like. It's a concrete jungle. I've seen concrete jungles before, lived in them for a while. I thought I was gonna be fine

The culture shock was the fact that for me, THIS is the fucking concrete jungle:

THIS IS A BIG CITY. FULL OF CONCRETE BUILDINS. THERE'S BARELY ANY NATURE IN IT. THE BAR WAS ON THE FLOOR. HOW IN THE EVER LOVING FUCK DID THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT THOUGHT IT A GOOD IDEA TO DIG UNDER IT A PLAY LIMBO WITH IT?!?!

[my-dark-happy-place]

I would like all Americans (and everyone else) who are excited for the Superbowl to know: Before the actual Superbowl there's a live tournament on TV, here in Germany, called "American Ice Football".

It is exactly what it sounds like: American Football but played on Ice, in shoes with entirely smooth soles.

It's a tournament with 4 teams and they are called Eastside Ossis, Westside Wessis, Northcoast Naughties and Southside Smoothies and it's just hilariously entertaining.

Here's a video to show you how stupid it looks:

[4kvibes]

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