Anyone living near the Alps? Austrian, Czech, Germans, Swiss, etc.? I'm wanting to learn more about the area, particularly the less populated areas. I drop into street view on Google Maps into any major city and feel a sense of dread when it looks like everywhere else. I want to experience the sense of architecture that has a time and a place that isn't like an infectious blanket ruining the streets and buildings and people with its pragmatic utility. Give me art and investment and beauty; something human and timeless that would be worth fight for. I want to meet people I respect and trust and genuinely care for.

I may have just gotten fixated on the particular fantasy in my mind. I'm tired of being blackballed and unemployed in this country, and I want to know that there is a place in the world where things aren't so horribly bland with their surroundings. It's like I'm being suffocated by the sameness of the Midwest. Somewhere small where I can learn all your names, share a beer and some laughs, play a game in person, walk home down some winding road down into a town or village, just stare outside because there is something worth staring at. Something worth doing beyond it giving me food or paying for a house that has had its construction costs covered 3-4 times over from occupants who never get to own it themselves. I don't want to stare at the dilapidated housing in the next neighborhood over because some LLC in Texas is waiting for the sale price to rise another 200%.

I love you people. Show me pictures of the best things still on this Earth.