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It's not what I pictured. (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] Shellbeach@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Does anybody remember the title of that book? I'm feeling like a trip down memory lane.

[–] SandySocks@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Busy Busy Town by Richard Scarry

[–] Shellbeach@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Thank you thank you!!!

[–] jellyhuemul 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Busy, busy town by Richard Scarry

[–] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Richard Scarry and Shel Silverstein define my early childhood

[–] NoobishFiend@feddit.dk 8 points 7 months ago

Don't know that book specifically but I think that it was written by Richard Scarry.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

Richard Scarry was the author/illustrator

[–] kaato@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Same!

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've been told that's what it looks like in Europe, except everyone has bicycles instead of cars. True?

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Not true. First of all, Europe is not a monolith. Romania is extremely different from the Netherlands. Romania is, by some metrics, more car-centric than the US.

Secondly, even in countries that are trying to make progress towards a less car-centric environment, different cities are moving at different speeds.

Finally, even in cities moving faster away from it, you still have planning, funding and political issues that need to be ironed out.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I noticed you didn't deny the bunnies and pigs running the post office or the cute fox as a mayor. So I'm just gonna say that yeah, it's mostly true.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 22 points 7 months ago

Of course, we have pigs running the police and government. Super standard :))

[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait, you don't have anthropomorphic animals in traffic in tye US?

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Only when the furries are in town: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IJUhq1pZktI

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 7 months ago

Somewhat similar to my wife's home town in rural Ireland.

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All I ever wanted was an apple helicopter ride

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago

I love the Richard Scarey books. My favorite was. "What Do People Do All Day."

The book would should things like how electricity is made or how to build a house. It would show all the plumbing, heating and electric, with little arrows to show which way things went. It taught me how to look beneath the surface of things and wonder how and why things worked.

[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You can still get something like that.
Richard Scarry's busy, busy day in Trumps America depicts news events from 2020 I the form of a children's book

[–] dzervas@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

hey I just wanted to share that I moved to a small, remote-ish village in Greece about a year ago (born & raised in Athens, a "big" city for our standards, the biggest in Greece) and it's quite close to that.

It's been amazing although I miss ordering food online and maybe the occasional bar/coffee with friends.

It's almost inside a forest and 15' drive from both mountain and amazing beaches

Thank you for listening, I honestly hope that everyone has the choice to do the same <3

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nice! I bet the food is amazing.

[–] dzervas@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

not a huge difference i’d say. in athens you can get really good food