Old World: Here is a haunted castle built a thousand years ago.

The USA: Here's a haunted toy shop that opened ten years ago.

When I went to the UK for the first time I was blown away at how much old stuff you guys have. I was allowed to walk through a centuries old castle by myself. I could have taken home a castle rock if I wanted to. Here if something is 300 years old you can look at it from 6 feet away behind a velvet rope.

It was pretty wild to me going to a toy store that was itself older than America.

	▲	2b3a51 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		London is a very old city. One of the Wren churches has a crypt from an earlier church, so 21st Century, then into 17th century then down to something like 13th century. Another staircase down under that and you are standing in a Roman structure. Oxford: On the main road through the centre is an old tower, the Carfax Tower, 11th century so 900 years old. You can sit in the churchyard outside that tower and have a coffee and pastry. People have been stopping for a while outside that tower for a long time. It is nice on a sunny day towards evening when the warmth of the stones staves off the chill from the rivers. Chester: Pop into Superdrug on Northgate Street for toothpaste. Medieval chapel, wool exchange, theatre and music hall. Dickens did a reading there.

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rickdeckard 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Old World: "The owner was very cruel, so at one point the citizens rioted and brutally murdered him"

The USA: "See, there once was this weird Janitor..."

Although to be fair, "it was built on an indian graveyard" was a gift that kept on giving alot ;)

	▲	buildsjets 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We had the "built on an Indian graveyard" trope about our local little league fields. Turns out, true story bro. Ref attached 1960 newspaper story, "From an Ancient Indian Burial Ground": https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=sfcn19600623-01... https://www.fireislandnews.com/history/long-islands-native-a...

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RajT88 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I had a conversation with a foreign roommate in college once.

Me: My city is old - maybe 250 years old

Him: My city's a thousand years old

He wasn't Swiss, but:

https://www.chur.graubuenden.ch/en/chur-oldest-city-switzerl...