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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by Balgair on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:16AM (#14394251)
Honestly, that would be pretty cool to see. Like, yeah, the path there is not 'fun', but a Venician Miami would be really cool if we could just snap our fingers and be at the end point.
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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by oAlbe on Friday May 26, 2017 @07:04AM (#14423197)
Foreigners have a really distorted idea of Venice.

The whole city suffers from high tides to the point where they have a different electrical system compared to the rest of Italy. San Marco square is usually under knee-high water; a problem to which solution they spent €6B, but that didn't work out almost at all. Add the fact that the whole place smells like a sewer most of the time, and you have a better picture of what it is like.

It might be a cool place for a 1 or 2 day visit, but definitely not a nice place to live.

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