Mine Is Bigger Than Yours

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Sundae

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I've been told by many Americans that it would not be worth it.
Too long, too many similar landscapes lasting for too long
(as in it takes so many miles for the dramatic changes to happen)
and too much corporate hemogeneity.
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One evening at a social gathering of prominent scientists in Boston,
during a similar discussion about traveling across the US,
there was a stunned silence when one remarked about Chicago:
"Once you've seen a cornfield, you've seen them all"

- It was not well received.