You'd be forgiven if the headlines of the last year or so have turned you off of the idea of travelling to the United States of America. Despite the news, there's much more to the U.S. than contentious politics and civil unrest. In this occasional series, travel writer Bert Archer will highlight some of the reasons why a trip to America is worth your time and travel dollars. Find our current ambassadors in the list below or by clicking on the markers on the map. Here, why Los Angeles is, despite what you've heard, worth a walk around. The Free Cities Foundation’s ambassador network stretches all around the world. I wonder if airports really are reflections of the cities they serve, or if I’m making it up. ![]() Toronto’s, for instance, is all grey and cold blue, unremarkable but way more efficient and workable than Torontonians give it credit for. Vancouver’s is gorgeous, and despite way more effort and money having gone into Doha’s and Dubai’s, Shanghai’s and Beijing’s, it effortlessly beats them all. Zurich’s is perfectly clean and plain, nothing much to see there, unless you know exactly where to go, in which case you find things like the Swissair lounge, where they have more than 150 whiskies, served by knowledgeable bartenders, for free.Īnd the Los Angeles airport, known universally by its IATA code, LAX, is a huge big mess. It is, like the city that surrounds it, just tragic. You may have to walk for close to an hour to get from one terminal to another, for instance, in the absence of something as basic as a shuttle. When added to American airport security systems, two-hour layovers can turn into mad dashes to make your flight. They recently opened a VIP terminal that essentially provides the sort of experience you get at a regular airport for the rich and famous who just can’t put up with the airport in its natural state anymore. It’s a wreck, just farcically bad by any metric a reasonable urban planner or city theorist or rational human being might use. A city that evolved in lockstep with the auto industry, it isolates its 9.5 million people in their cars spread out across more than 4,000 square miles, militating against the most basic aspects of what makes cities work, things like interacting, gathering, seeing each other and learning how to coexist. ![]() It’s not a coincidence that road rage was born here, little daily eruptions of fury like geysers that occasionally explode volcanically in Watts or South Central. forge alliences.Īnd even if you loose it may not be a game over, since if you are skilled then the ruler of the enemy country that defeated you might try to recruit you into their ranks as long as they dont hate you i suppose then they might just execute you and cause a game over.If there is ever a revolution to overthrow the powers that underwrite that persistently injustice-riddled nation, it will likely start in this urban razor’s edge straddling that greatest of tectonic metaphors, the San Andreas Fault.Įxcept, boy, is it glorious. so you have a choice but will have no clue what the choice is about.Įdit: EratohoK also fits quite well with OPs requirements, since you can absolutely get absorbed into the strategy aspect of the game, managing your armies, hiring officers, defending from the enemy, training your skills so that you your self are more useful in battles. this extends into some daily character events as well. Click to pends on which one you try some of them are small nice games (this is especially the case with the older titles) and some like EratohoK are monster equal if not bigger then free cities, but as mentioned before there is ONLY EratohoK here on F95 here:Īt least i didnt see any ofther era game on here.Īnd you will run into walls of japaneese texts that didnt have the chance to be translated, so for example you have a character with unique dialog for love, slave routes, but for example only the love route is translated for that particular character but if you try to enslave them then all their slave dialog will be in japaneese, only a few characters are fully translated.
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