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Originally Posted by SaskScraper
That's interesting how residential built-form style can match up not only on both sides of the border in neighbouring Provinces-States but also even with States that don't border directly with Canada but are in similar regions/geographic areas of continent.
I've put together a collage of 3 cities, Saskatoon, Great Falls in Montana which is a couple hours drive south of the border where I grew up in Saskatchewan, and Scottsdale in Arizona which is a couple hundred kms from Mexico.
Each city has two pics in the collage. Can you match up which pics goes to each city?
A general good rule of thumb for matching is Scottsdale is an affluent city in a desert environment and has a fair amount of drier foliage types and generally less grass lawns, more stucco and clay/terracotta in houses where as the further north you go, you get more wood siding and asphalt roofing shingles etc.
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Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN
Top left - Bottom Right Saskatoon
Top Right - Bottom Left - Great Falls
Middle - Phoenix
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4 out of 6 correct! certain things in the pics are a direct give away, single mailbox on the street is dead give away it's American, blue box recycle less likely in America etc.
Middle left is actually Great Falls,
Bottom left is Scottsdale...
https://www.google.ca/maps/@52.11330...2!8i6656?hl=en
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Fou....7256936?hl=en
https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Gre....3007715?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.3688...7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.ca/maps/@33.59895...4!8i8192?hl=en
https://www.google.ca/maps/@52.11091...2!8i6656?hl=en
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Originally Posted by hipster duck
No, I was in Sudbury for a few days last summer and used it as a base to explore nearby sites like Killarney and Onaping Falls. I ate at Tucos and the stores on Kathleen street were a pleasant surprise.
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Kathleen street as a destination street could be a hard sell to most SSP poster on here, but I love the fact Sudbury is fostering it's more promising streets.
Most posters on this forum wouldn't be able to recognize a Prince of Wales National Award winning Heritage Leadership town, if they ever came across one.
https://www.swiftcurrentonline.com/l...heritage-award
I love seeing what other cities have for eclectic fair when it comes to hipster streets. Broadway Ave in Saskatoon has for decades and now also 20th street has gentrified even in the short time that I've been here.
Neighbourhood around Broadway sells it's self as being closest to shopping, school, work, downtown etc.
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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
That's why I suggest hesitant Asia new comers to start with a place like Singapore, Malaysia, or Hong Kong. Places where English is widely spoken, infrastructure is familiar and food is delicious . Or heck, just dive right in like so many 20-somethings from Woop Woop, Australia and head straight for Thailand and Vietnam.
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Hong Kong or particularly Singapore is a great spring board to Asia, I've been several times to Singapore and feel perfectly comfortable there, It's like a utopian city in a lot of respects, very clean and safe and people are friendly.
Hopping to Bali for a week is easy from Singapore, just hire a driver to take you around the island to see volcanoes and temples etc, plus Bali has all the conveniences of what any traveler would expect.
With smart phones translating signs etc is super easy, no excuses to avoid any where because of not knowing the language.