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> beautiful even without all the billboards and ads.

Rarely do I hear the absence of ads framed as a challenge to beauty. So rarely, it only happened twice - your post, and the post you replied to.

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people often think that what they're used to is beautiful. If you lived somewhere your whole life and all of a sudden it changed drastically, it's pretty easy to see how the old way could be thought of as beauty.

Fair enough. There are probably some that liked the other way. I find Tokyo city centre amazing with all the ads/signs/etc.

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