03-01-2021, 10:06 AM
(02-28-2021, 11:56 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: That's not the first thing that I notice with Rick Steves, as he generally seeks to show the brighter side of life in the scenic delights and such places as street cafes. Industrial Europe and America never were glamorous even when they were churning out the goods that gave workers a material quality of life that medieval aristocrats would have envied (except for the tiny flats and obligation to toil). Steel cities like Essen, Pittsburgh, Gary, and Birmingham (Alabama) were awful places.
For the most part the cities you mentors are even more awful today, as is Detroit.