[monktastic1]

Oh, thank God. I only visited Portland once, and despite being vastly different from Austin in climate and flora, the sea of billboards made it feel eerily familiar (and not in a good way). I expected it to feel more like Seattle, but that one thing made a world of difference.

[nobody9999]

Poland != Portland. But very close as they're both in the Northern Hemisphere, although not on the same continent.

Sopot, Poland[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopot

[monktastic1]

Lol, don't know how my mind filled in those letters, but that was indeed my Portland experience so I'll leave it.

[sadeshmukh]

Until this, I kept reading it as Poland despite reading it at least 3 times over.

[a5seo]

Wait, doesn’t Austin have a billboard ban? There are some billboards but they’re grandfathered in and cannot be rebuilt if they fall over.

https://www.kut.org/austin/2022-04-21/advertising-companies-...

[monktastic1]

Huh, could have fooled me. My first experience of Austin was long stretches of ugly billboards (I think mostly on Burnet and N Lamar), and despite living here for years that first impression never left. Now that I think about it, without some kind of ban of course there would be way more billboards where I now live.