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[taerowyn]

Reading a book, The Happy Isles of Oceania, and this just kind of made me think of past, present, future and all:

Many people told me how European-looking [Melbourne] was...I didn't think so. It was more spacious, much younger, and had more of the aspect of a city in the American Midwest. European cities have a damaged and repaired look. Melbourne's most American feature was that it was obviously a city that had never been bombed.

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[gremlingirl.livejournal.com]

had more of the aspect of a city in the American Midwest

Whoever wrote that has either never been to Melbourne or never been to the American Midwest. Having been to both, neither look like the other.

Melbourne's most American feature was that it was obviously a city that had never been bombed.

That part would be true.

Melbourne is beautiful.

:)