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Oh, thank God. I only visited Portland once, and despite being vastly different from Austin in climate and flora, the sea of billboards made it feel eerily fami
by monktastic1 1y ago
Oh, thank God. I only visited Portland once, and despite being vastly different from Austin in climate and flora, the sea of billboards made it feel eerily familiar (and not in a good way). I expected it to feel more like Seattle, but that one thing made a world of difference.
- nobody9999 1y agoPoland != Portland. But very close as they're both in the Northern Hemisphere, although not on the same continent. Sopot, Poland[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopot
- monktastic1 1y agoLol, don't know how my mind filled in those letters, but that was indeed my Portland experience so I'll leave it.
- sadeshmukh 1y agoUntil this, I kept reading it as Poland despite reading it at least 3 times over.
- a5seo 1y agoWait, doesn’t Austin have a billboard ban? There are some billboards but they’re grandfathered in and cannot be rebuilt if they fall over. https://www.kut.org/austin/2022-04-21/advertising-companies-wanted-to-overturn-austins-billboard-rules-the-u-s-supreme-court-says-no https://www.kut.org/austin/2022-04-21/advertising-companies-...
- monktastic1 1y agoHuh, could have fooled me. My first experience of Austin was long stretches of ugly billboards (I think mostly on Burnet and N Lamar), and despite living here for years that first impression never left. Now that I think about it, without some kind of ban of course there would be way more billboards where I now live.