Well done, Mr or Mrs Hack. It must take Amundsen-like powers of exploration to find somewhere containing a few things that are slightly different from each other.
Now for a challenge: head on out there and find me a city that doesn’t have contrasts. I want to read about somewhere that is utterly uniform in every respect. Now wouldn’t that be an intriguing story?
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the place you describe is milton keynes, UK
How about the capital of North Korea – Pyongyang?
Can’t say I’ve ever been, Jeremy. I eagerly await your guide to it though
I might be wrong, but isn’t a “city of contrasts” invariably somewhere in the developing world? London, New York or Paris could never be “cities of contrasts”, whereas Cairo, Delhi or Rio are prime candidates.
Hack visits perceived old/poor city, finds new/rich stuff – behold, “a city of contrasts”.
Hack visits perceived new/rich city, finds old/poor stuff – behold: “the hidden underbelly”.
You wrote: “I want to read about somewhere that is utterly uniform in every respect.”
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Tim Richards
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Actually Matthew has captured it nicely – the “contrasts” tage will most likely be applied to a city in a developing country, where the extremes of age and wealth appear greatest to Western eyes.
Although I don’t know that it couldn’t be applied to a developed country – I could imagine London being described that way (prompted by a skyline containing Canary Wharf & the Gherkin versus Tower Bridge and Parliament).
Tim Richards
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