My buddy who lives in Scotland gets a kick out of tourists going nuts over medieval sites. He says “you wanna look at old s#it? We’ve got some REALLY old s#it!”
I’m not hip enough to know the difference between old and really old. I know the difference between new and those two though. The older don’t stick to your shoe.
In many parts of the US, any building older than the Civil War is “historic,” and a town that has several such buildings surviving brags about its “historic downtown” even if most of the buildings look like post-WWII structures.
It’s America. 99.99% of the stuff here is from 1492 or later.
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