Answer for question 4230.
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fabrisse[Error: unknown template qotd]There is no all time favorite.
There are a few cities I had a hard time living in, but most had something that I loved.
In Mannheim, it was the Saturday farmer's market (seriously, the cauliflower looked like it had been painted by Vermeer) and the fascinating grid system. The Duke (I think it was Duke, could have been Prince) who founded the city was fascinated by chess and the main street between his old palace, now the university, and the bridge was the dividing line. From the palace, the letters A-K formed rows on the right, and the letters L-T formed rows to the left. The numbers 1-7 formed the columns, so that my address was J7 with a unit number attached. I loved that system.
I currently live in DC which, along with Brussels, Belgium, is the city I think of as home. Both cities are beautiful. Both get slammed as the home of bureaucrats, but both have dynamic free or inexpensive cultural lives.
There are a few cities I had a hard time living in, but most had something that I loved.
In Mannheim, it was the Saturday farmer's market (seriously, the cauliflower looked like it had been painted by Vermeer) and the fascinating grid system. The Duke (I think it was Duke, could have been Prince) who founded the city was fascinated by chess and the main street between his old palace, now the university, and the bridge was the dividing line. From the palace, the letters A-K formed rows on the right, and the letters L-T formed rows to the left. The numbers 1-7 formed the columns, so that my address was J7 with a unit number attached. I loved that system.
I currently live in DC which, along with Brussels, Belgium, is the city I think of as home. Both cities are beautiful. Both get slammed as the home of bureaucrats, but both have dynamic free or inexpensive cultural lives.
