Tuesday, February 03, 2004

I need a new globe

Just had a conversation with a few friends on whether Helsinki is the perfect place to live. Of course IMO it's the best place to live - otherwise I'd be living elsewhere - but unfortunately not perfect. There is no perfect place to live on this earth - I need a new one!

One can always dream, though:
I like Helsinki mostly because of the people, so the people stay put. If we enlarge the city we can bring some more people from elsewhere. Some of the architecture can stay, too, but mostly I'd replace it with the architecture from central Paris and central Amsterdam, preferably in different parts of town and not very mixed up. The houses would of course have good isolation and heating, like proper Finnish houses.

Several good museums can be imported from London, and a lot of bookstores from Paris. Yes, and I want that museum of natural history from Brussels, the one with iguanadons. St. Petersburg's Hermitage might come in handy, too, and St. Isaac's cathedral. Also the Reims cathedral.

Boston has a lot of state-of-art hospitals, we could have some of those too. Boston and New York have so many good restaurants that we can use them here, and also we can have some restaurants from the Belgian coast and Barcelona. Indonesian restaurants and Argentinian steak houses will have to come from Amsterdam. Never been to Tokyo, but I'd take some of their sushi restaurants, they might be good. The movie selection in theaters should be at least as good as in Paris, and maybe better.

HKL can stay, but will have to provide more transportation.

I'd take nice mild weather: +20-25 degrees in summer and +10 in winter. Can have a few proper mountains (say, Alps) somewhere nearby, within 100 km. Baltic sea could ne replaced with North sea and heated to 25 degrees. I'd make winters even darker and summers even lighter than they are now, although I'd be in a minority on that, and have aurora borealis every day when it's dark. St. Martin's Orient Beach would be a good replacement for Hietaranta.

Brugge can be taken in its entirety and moved to Kirkkonummi's place.

For the population's amusement solar and lunar eclipses shall be arranged every week. Also there would be an arena where spammers would be fed to lions every day, after first being forced to eat their own viagra and penis-enlarging devices.

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