Gregor Vukasinovič
Un.Planned
This place wasn't designed with photogenic vistas in mind. It wasn't designed at all, it just grew over time. It also has a traffic light that ruins the atmosphere a bit, but then, it wasn't designed for atmosphere. Only to do a job.
Yet, if someone gave me a million Euros right now and told me I could buy a home wherever on Earth I like, and not a lot of time to explore and scout for one - it might very well end up being one around here. The hills, the forests, the rivers small and large... the place keeps giving me District 12 vibes. Is there a word for when a place that doesn't actually exist feels more like home than anywhere you've ever been for real? Where you've spent close to 20 years of your life? I mean, District 12 does in fact exist in a way, those movie scenes were all filmed somewhere of course. Appalachia. West Virgina, the Carolinas, Places I've had a soft spot for as a kid already, long before the Hunger Games were a thing. Probably since I looked into John Denver's Country Roads and what the song is about. Blue Ridge Mountains, perhaps the earliest example of the Agalloch Effect I experienced. Only, in a time where just knowing Mexico exists can get you thrown in a cell upon entry into the land of the free or what they called it...
Let's just say any bucket list item in the USA I had hoped to visit one day... it's probably best to just write them off. 12 but with actual peacekeepers won't make a great holiday destination.
Un.Planned
This place wasn't designed with photogenic vistas in mind. It wasn't designed at all, it just grew over time. It also has a traffic light that ruins the atmosphere a bit, but then, it wasn't designed for atmosphere. Only to do a job.
Yet, if someone gave me a million Euros right now and told me I could buy a home wherever on Earth I like, and not a lot of time to explore and scout for one - it might very well end up being one around here. The hills, the forests, the rivers small and large... the place keeps giving me District 12 vibes. Is there a word for when a place that doesn't actually exist feels more like home than anywhere you've ever been for real? Where you've spent close to 20 years of your life? I mean, District 12 does in fact exist in a way, those movie scenes were all filmed somewhere of course. Appalachia. West Virgina, the Carolinas, Places I've had a soft spot for as a kid already, long before the Hunger Games were a thing. Probably since I looked into John Denver's Country Roads and what the song is about. Blue Ridge Mountains, perhaps the earliest example of the Agalloch Effect I experienced. Only, in a time where just knowing Mexico exists can get you thrown in a cell upon entry into the land of the free or what they called it...
Let's just say any bucket list item in the USA I had hoped to visit one day... it's probably best to just write them off. 12 but with actual peacekeepers won't make a great holiday destination.