it’s a little disappointing about lisbon that i can walk into a grocery store and feel like i basically walked into an american grocery store with slightly more fish. but like the same magazines, the same packaging… same kinds of ads on the street… very little culture shock
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wondering how recent of a trend this is, would it have been this way 10, 20, 50 years ago? globalism seems to have at least superficially really done a number on the city’s culture. or maybe i’m only seeing relatively touristy areas, idk. nothing has felt really alien
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i do appreciate that there’s been noticeably more street life than in any american city i’ve been to. lots of hanging out outdoors. that part does feel nice and i wish i saw more of it in the states
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yeah a large part of lisbon is there to cater to tourists/digital nomads/expats. you can find stuff that isn't like that tho, but it might not even occur to you to go there because it is illegible
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we ended up looking around this postindustrial zone that is completely illegible to google maps, we could not find a supermarket. the city protects itself against gentrification by making itself confusing and inhospitable to foreigners
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