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by lordnacho 2120 days ago
As a European, it's not the age that matters so much as the uniformity of American cities. A lot of places between the coasts seem to be the same simcity arranged slightly differently.

Come to Europe and see very different styles within a short distance.

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It's the result of a lot of growth and development by a common culture with high degrees of communication and trade in a very short amount of time.
So much so, that I didn’t really understand SimCity until I visited the USA.

I don’t think I’ve even seen a water tower outside the states, and if I have they are disguised as other things. (Unless you count the tanks on top of literally every Cypriot building, but even those are nothing like the American/SimCity type).

There's a few water towers around Norfolk - and a particularly brutalist one near Lowestoft not far from the furthest East point of the UK
They were quite popular in Hungary in the socialist era:

https://viztorony.hu/acelszerkezet.html