In Simiane-la-Rotonde, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
* accordion music intensifies *
Not sure if this is a map from Counter Strike or Uncharted…
It’s obviously a map from Overwatch 2
It’s a VERY iconic map from CS.
Looks like cs_italy
"plucky guitar riff*
Walkable, dense, green, no cars, built from locally sourced materials…
Are urbanists just trying to create French villages?
Green?
It’s gorgeous but I wouldn’t say green. All stone, with some potted plants.
Most French villages are very car centred.
Not the ones developed before cars were invented, which is likely the case of this one.
Yeah, the centre. But many places like this are half dead at the core, with car centered suburbs around it and shops in big malls along the roads. The difference with Spain is stark, where the old centres are usually still the actual heart of the village.
Those are very rare as most villages have been adapted to be accessible for cars. I’m just saying that stating that French villages are carfree is not true, and the average French village definitely shouldn’t be the model for bike and pedestrian friendly urban design.
Yeah sure, it’s not like anyone uses their car to get from a to b inside that village, but for everything else people will use a car.
I was passing through another village where I spent holidays as a kid, cabrière d’aigues, all I remembered was the big pétanque square. Seeing it now three quarters of the space is a parking area. I don’t know if I just remembered that wrong, but pretty sure there was no parking back then.
This picture is so French I can smell the baguettes and hear the accordion when looking at it.
They even have a white flag so German tourists feel welcome.
TFW you will never get to live in the magical fairyland called Europe.
I’m pretty sure Europe doesn’t actually exist guys. Sorry… 😔
You can buy a house in that village for like 50k. I’m not kidding. If it’s very pretty and touristy, make it 100k.
I’d still need a visa though.
Go there, work without visa, marry local person, profit!
I’d do it. I actually did but I only was an illegal alien the first year because french bureaucracy is worse than hell. Also had money for around 1 year. France is wonderful.
You are unhappy that you can’t visit Europe but you also get unhappy when Europe visited you. You just can’t win with some people. /s
I can send you a picture from where I live when I’m back home, I’m sure it’ll make you feel better about your situation :)
Oh no that sounds terrible please don’t do something like that I beg you!
I looked at contour lines at mapy.cz and that village has like 80 meters of elevation difference between it’s lowest and highest point. Incomprehensible for a flatlander.
Yeah that little ring road around the village was a pretty tough climb on the bike, haha.
Woah, mapy.cz…
Basic Neanderthal hut
