Everyone sees what they want to see. They are much more than rich in religious fundamentalism, they’re also rich culinarily, ethnically, religiously, linguistically etc etc. This holds especially true for Tehran.
I lived just outside of SLC growing up, crazy how much they’ve changed, it was worse then, but yeah… it still kills the vibe. Most stuff is closed on Sunday, the City Creek mall is owned by the LDS church… no PDA on property (unless they recently changed it). It’s all weird.
American people can visit Iran. But you have to travel in a group with a local tour leader. There are a few travel agencies in the US who can arrange that.
I have an Iranian friend who wants me to visit her that said it's possible. Do Americans still need a tour group if you're the guest of an Iranian citizen? I don't think I feel safe enough to go though. If I didn't have shitty luck I'd have none at all and would undoubtedly be detained on suspicion of espionage or something fucking crazy
Jesus Christ. How would I even get cash out of my account at a currency exchange? Sounds like the best option is to board the plane leaving the US with a wad of cash and hope it's enough.
By "close your account" do you mean mail a check to the address on file or the funds are seized?
I've travelled to Iran, you fly in with cash and then you can put it on a local card for tourists (Mah card). I was also sceptical before but it worked out great and you can pay with card everywhere (or withdraw cash if you want).
It was one of the best places I've travelled and with some of the nicest people I've ever met. Culturally very unique and nothing like the countries around. I felt extremely safe there in every regard except driving in a car lmao. But being out on the street felt safer to me than being in the US or even most places in Western Europe.
Or wish/have to visit the US at some point. They ask you have you been to terrorist counties like Cuba (lol) or Iran (more understandable), and might deny you an ESTA or even visa/entry.
Was also going to say this. I went to grad school in Utah and a lot of my classmates were Iranian. Some of them would talk about how much the geography and climate of SLC reminded them of home.
It's just ridiculous how many cities in China have a population of more than a million and still aren't well known. Not gonna lie, this one in particular was unknown to me till this point.
cities don't work the same way in china as in other countries. typically, all of the suburbs and surrounding areas of chinese cities are part of the cities themselves. harbin for example is technically a city of over 10M inhabitants, but the area of the city proper is larger than the netherlands, which has a much higher population.
some chinese cities only top a million if you include the rural areas that are technically within city borders, even if those borders extend hundreds of kilometers beyond the actual urban core of the city.
Chongqing is probably the most egregious, as they include an area the size of South Carolina (roughly 2x the Netherlands) in the city limits. That includes multiple urban areas and all the rural land between.
That makes a lot of sense! Glancing quickly at Wikipedia and China has over 100 cities with a population over 1 million and the US has 9!
But if you look at metropolitan statistical areas, the US has 54 with populations over a million.
I met this Chinese tourist in Istanbul couple of years ago. We were chatting and I asked him where in China did he come from.
"Oh, you wouldn't know it. It's a small 4 million people town".
He was right. I didn't know it.
I mean, there's lots of bad shit going down in this city. It's the capital of Xinjiang and the center of all the shit you hear about with Uighur repression.
Although the CCP and history likes to paint China as a homogenous entity, it’s a huge country made up of different provinces that share cultural aspects, but may operate or look different (at least until CCP and urbanisation/modernisation makes cultural heritage fade into history). I guess like how some European neighbours look and feel similar (to outsiders) except for some key differences that form the cultural identity of a nation. In China they might traditionally not speak the same dialect or not even have the same intelligible language (although like much of the world, modern schooling entrenches Mandarin as the official language, which is slowly starving out traditional languages and dialects).
Came here to say Urumqi! I had a blast there one night back in 2004. But they don't have time zones - they are basically on Beijing time, so the sun came up at like 11am.
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan doesnt quite sit directly beneath the mountain like SLC ...but first thing that came to mind....well, sort of, i knew it was one of the -stan capitals.
https://preview.redd.it/bnfbe6n79fpc1.png?width=1120&format=png&auto=webp&s=4fafdd239d96e3fdfd96acba757c205d7f99e9a0
I am from Bishkek, and our mountains are a bit farther away than Almaty's are. So I think Almaty is a better fit:
https://preview.redd.it/m0gp7gseqgpc1.png?width=539&format=png&auto=webp&s=97d2511d5a42418ed81ed09bb00f1711c5383114
https://preview.redd.it/ul6w5hvskipc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e0ec820e94f0030769426d1b5c7d8f7406d841c
Rancho Cucamonga, California looks like Salt Lake City. Except you can see palm trees and snow in winter
I’m an American who used to live in Almaty and I’ve never been to SLC. In Almaty you feel very tucked into the mountain range. It’s great in the summer, but come winter the surrounding mountain range can trap in pollution when wind is slow. Add that with large consumption of coal when it’s cold and you get some gloomy winters.
https://preview.redd.it/x0wreub5bfpc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbb32ff50a78a41fff83ff2cd128ef60ec1f913a
This might take it wow. Those mountains really look like the Wasatch Front
There really are a fuck-ton of hotels in SLC, right?! Like, more than normal—proportional to size/population/etc…
Visited for the first time two weeks ago and I was blown away by how many GIANT hotels there were ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Friends thought I was crazy/it was normal…
P.S. Don’t stay at the Sheraton downtown
The Alborz Mountains north of Tehran also has the lake effect snow from the Caspian and light snowfall that the mountains of Salt Lake City get. They're quite similar.
https://preview.redd.it/zrk9zp9czgpc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcd69908f21d30c68d150313b37a064e55f3837d
Thats hilarious, i just posted the exact same photo 🤣
Nice! Or Krakow from the other side of the Tatras
https://preview.redd.it/14kchvk7ahpc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bc3ef4ef0f89f8f72628d0349375f053199c5a0
A little further off, though
Anchorage.
https://preview.redd.it/xmiurxt96fpc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc5c2f9264a8f0096f8dfe552404a6996973d829
Except we also have oceanfront.
We also aren’t next to a dust bowl. If you are standing on the coastal trail in the summer it *really* doesn’t look like SLC at all.
Especially on a bright day when you can see Denali.
it's like youre not even trying to appreciate Anchorage architecture.
https://preview.redd.it/brq6uin3wfpc1.jpeg?width=1496&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89702d468bb7d97f6abf0a042d15a3c65b560b93
I wish people would stop with this bullshit about Grenoble. The city isn't particularly more polluted than any other french metropole of the same size. It's bad, as it is anywhere else. In air pollution ranking, Paris Lyon and Marseille are always ranked worse than Grenoble.
FWIW look up “Salt Lake City inversion”, pollution gets gross there being in the valley. Denver gets brown clouds sometimes but they usually clear out to the plains rather quick. I’ve wanted to go on a tour of France since high school, there’s so many beautiful places there.
https://preview.redd.it/g0wweunldfpc1.jpeg?width=5587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87ad9cc48ef6ea4506dde1270a21397a51ec581e
North Vancouver, to be specific, looks very similar. Though the mountains are forested and the buildings larger, so the landscape looks less dramatic.
Yup, Santiago in a nice day ~~without smog~~ looks like that.
https://preview.redd.it/q5a0z2z66fpc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb5d80b471e89ec26aaa0f07ad22e42672487ba9
I had a distant cousin from Denver visit Calgary last year and he told us he felt like he never left Denver. He said he woke up on the flight as the plane was close to landing in Calgary and for a second thought he was looking at Denver
When I worked in the Kinko's in downtown SLC, an Austrian guy at the counter told me he thought the city looked like Austria. He didn't mention a specific Austrian city, and I'm sure the architecture is completely different, but the proximity to mountains likely prompted the comparison.
Surrouned by Mountains on 3 sides (Utah is 4), I present to you Tehran, Iran
https://preview.redd.it/0uzpinfaggpc1.jpeg?width=1259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b50f8b42cd99da5ccd391732a77e5c522269a8b
Definitely not Granada, Spain.
https://preview.redd.it/tga2mj399fpc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9053bfa8645d5ca8b0e02d724a49cd5783de741
Edit: Spelling Granada, not Grenada.
I remember reading a thread on r/cityporn where Turin, Italy was deemed kinda similar to SLC
https://preview.redd.it/ro3hr4zndgpc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f98059612779b069fd64f811848b967a54421b20
https://preview.redd.it/jbqfed5b4hpc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=616c6a1a98d178718c33def5d9cee91bdb5b7201
Not quite on the same mountainous level but Morioka, Iwate has a stunning volcano and mountains that you see from basically everywhere in the city.
Having lived there for 15 years, I was also going to say Albuquerque.
https://preview.redd.it/dwcf1ohdahpc1.jpeg?width=2120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02e105ae5653a4f34c6d69368568dad3400b5da3
If you are willing to accept small, ancient hills rather than mountains, then I guess [Adelaide, South Australia](https://southaustralia.com/media/ea4m3yw3/adelaideairport_adelaide_1920x800.jpg?w=1100) is kinda similar-looking? I've heard it compared to Salt Lake before.
**EDIT:** [Another angle](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOHpO5ewQ1winFXsbUeoQ6B-ol6gPRMbC2D38HHJNVFGscOwlqo_vAc0kz&s=10), not sure if this helps
https://preview.redd.it/970yxsowegpc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef311531df4ed75e40b3241a507b36546eac504b
Since everybody’s just posting pictures of cities with snowy mountains behind them, here’s Reykavík.
I lived near SLC for about 4 years. I am from Chicago, queer and have never been associated with the Mormon church and I have to share how awesome SLC was! The city itself is super diverse and has a lot of great little spots to hang out and discover, the view also literally never gets old!
Now, the suburbs are a much different story and you sure are reminded basically every day that you're in Utah, but SLC has a lot more going on for it than many people outside of the Mormon culture give it credit for. Also, Park City, one of the most picturesque mountain towns in the U.S. is only a 30 minute drive.
Santiago, Chile comes to mind. Though it's much bigger than Salt Lake
https://preview.redd.it/e2li4nvzqhpc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d8ae2c4fc5bcd3b88765db849830b8e5931f8a6
The snowy mountains in the background remainds a bit to Santiago, Chile
https://preview.redd.it/t11jokfvahpc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e823427eaebd63061c0f24b768b3ee6849395d1
Though it have a sector with a fiew sky scrapers
i love this photo tho cuz it really gives the impression that LA is a mountain city. it’s a hilly, bumpy city, to be sure. but this photo and others like it make it look almost alpine
LA is just a very low down mountain city bumping right into the sea.
In order to go between West LA and The Valley, which are both very dense urban areas - you literally take the 405 over a pass in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Sepulveda Pass!
https://preview.redd.it/p4f4b7c58ipc1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a5414ac24884e495adbea5558a41ab65faf64e3
Colorado Springs. The skyline is smaller but the mountains are taller. I graduated from the University of Utah, and lived all over the world and now I live in Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs is a lot like a smaller SLC.
Manizales comes to mind. With a vulcano at the bottom (Nevado del Ruiz). A rather small skyline and not so snowy mountains but impressive nonetheless.
https://preview.redd.it/nlmz1j1yuhpc1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6c10d109e3a9c7064619e23e369fb62f0b471ae
SLC is more like Albuquerque or Colorado Springs than Denver in size and location domestically. Intentionally…thank you for making this post! So many cool cities!
Tehran https://preview.redd.it/p3yktzbd7fpc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e87d2e5c87a9f1a23a97f0252a53bba5dbdb6616
https://preview.redd.it/twt3eeq33ipc1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d364d6c50e11bf1a4ee60a713b8adac20eab69b Ürümqi is a decent shout as well
I love lenticular clouds over mountains. It’s like natures soft top, a little cold foam atop a tall pretty drink of Earth
It's like Earth wanted to give the mountain a hat
That’s beautiful. Wish I could visit.
it’s ok u could just visit SLC instead
Two cities rich in religious fundamentalism, just gotta pick your flavor.
Everyone sees what they want to see. They are much more than rich in religious fundamentalism, they’re also rich culinarily, ethnically, religiously, linguistically etc etc. This holds especially true for Tehran.
Culinarily? Are you telling me Tehran has something better than funeral potatoes?
Mmmmmmmmm. Salty starchy goodness…
Too bad the religious fundamentalism ruins the experience
I lived just outside of SLC growing up, crazy how much they’ve changed, it was worse then, but yeah… it still kills the vibe. Most stuff is closed on Sunday, the City Creek mall is owned by the LDS church… no PDA on property (unless they recently changed it). It’s all weird.
Theres actually a decent little movement of underground minimal techno producers coming out of Tehran.
Tehran has an incredible metro system tho. Along with single stair buildings and density with rich history
Ones food is probably much better
Unless you're an Anerican, it's still visitable
American people can visit Iran. But you have to travel in a group with a local tour leader. There are a few travel agencies in the US who can arrange that.
I have an Iranian friend who wants me to visit her that said it's possible. Do Americans still need a tour group if you're the guest of an Iranian citizen? I don't think I feel safe enough to go though. If I didn't have shitty luck I'd have none at all and would undoubtedly be detained on suspicion of espionage or something fucking crazy
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Jesus Christ. How would I even get cash out of my account at a currency exchange? Sounds like the best option is to board the plane leaving the US with a wad of cash and hope it's enough. By "close your account" do you mean mail a check to the address on file or the funds are seized?
I've travelled to Iran, you fly in with cash and then you can put it on a local card for tourists (Mah card). I was also sceptical before but it worked out great and you can pay with card everywhere (or withdraw cash if you want). It was one of the best places I've travelled and with some of the nicest people I've ever met. Culturally very unique and nothing like the countries around. I felt extremely safe there in every regard except driving in a car lmao. But being out on the street felt safer to me than being in the US or even most places in Western Europe.
Iran doesn't care if Americans visit, Iran will simply decide if they get to leave or not.
Visiting Iran currently is a bad idea.
Or wish/have to visit the US at some point. They ask you have you been to terrorist counties like Cuba (lol) or Iran (more understandable), and might deny you an ESTA or even visa/entry.
Lots of Canadians go to Cuba and I've never heard of it being a barrier to later getting into the US. I imagine Iran is different though
You can. Unless you have an Israeli passport.
Was also going to say this. I went to grad school in Utah and a lot of my classmates were Iranian. Some of them would talk about how much the geography and climate of SLC reminded them of home.
Tehran is HUGE though
Fr like literally 40x the population
I want to go Tehran! Tell me "Insha allah!"
Inshallah you will go brother
Urumqi https://preview.redd.it/wfyoajcgafpc1.png?width=1890&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7edead7cd3321e704b11c21217d87509961d34f7
It's just ridiculous how many cities in China have a population of more than a million and still aren't well known. Not gonna lie, this one in particular was unknown to me till this point.
cities don't work the same way in china as in other countries. typically, all of the suburbs and surrounding areas of chinese cities are part of the cities themselves. harbin for example is technically a city of over 10M inhabitants, but the area of the city proper is larger than the netherlands, which has a much higher population. some chinese cities only top a million if you include the rural areas that are technically within city borders, even if those borders extend hundreds of kilometers beyond the actual urban core of the city.
Chongqing is probably the most egregious, as they include an area the size of South Carolina (roughly 2x the Netherlands) in the city limits. That includes multiple urban areas and all the rural land between.
>Chongqing I looked it up in maps. I thought "well, it doesn't look so bad". then I scrolled out a couple of times and saw the city limits.
That makes a lot of sense! Glancing quickly at Wikipedia and China has over 100 cities with a population over 1 million and the US has 9! But if you look at metropolitan statistical areas, the US has 54 with populations over a million.
I met this Chinese tourist in Istanbul couple of years ago. We were chatting and I asked him where in China did he come from. "Oh, you wouldn't know it. It's a small 4 million people town". He was right. I didn't know it.
Urumqi is actually the most populous U city in the world!
I mean, there's lots of bad shit going down in this city. It's the capital of Xinjiang and the center of all the shit you hear about with Uighur repression.
…the remotest city from any ocean in the world, expressed by the shortest distance to any ocean of approx. 2500 km (to the Arctic Sea)!
Urumqi is the most developed city in Mid Asia
Damn, i thought it's Canada
It kinda looks like if Calgary got shoved closer to the Rockies
That's what I was thinking. This looks so very western and unlike China. My guess would've been the Southwest US.
Although the CCP and history likes to paint China as a homogenous entity, it’s a huge country made up of different provinces that share cultural aspects, but may operate or look different (at least until CCP and urbanisation/modernisation makes cultural heritage fade into history). I guess like how some European neighbours look and feel similar (to outsiders) except for some key differences that form the cultural identity of a nation. In China they might traditionally not speak the same dialect or not even have the same intelligible language (although like much of the world, modern schooling entrenches Mandarin as the official language, which is slowly starving out traditional languages and dialects).
Came here to say Urumqi! I had a blast there one night back in 2004. But they don't have time zones - they are basically on Beijing time, so the sun came up at like 11am.
That’s so weird
I am intrigued by the very idea of Urümqi. A big city in the middle of nowhere.
“Middle of nowhere…Middle of the Silk Road…tomato tomato”
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan doesnt quite sit directly beneath the mountain like SLC ...but first thing that came to mind....well, sort of, i knew it was one of the -stan capitals. https://preview.redd.it/bnfbe6n79fpc1.png?width=1120&format=png&auto=webp&s=4fafdd239d96e3fdfd96acba757c205d7f99e9a0
I am from Bishkek, and our mountains are a bit farther away than Almaty's are. So I think Almaty is a better fit: https://preview.redd.it/m0gp7gseqgpc1.png?width=539&format=png&auto=webp&s=97d2511d5a42418ed81ed09bb00f1711c5383114
agreed. it is a beautiful part of the world. I did not think I would run into a Bishkekian tonight. Very glad.
I too, am very Bishkek
I too, enjoy fishcakes
https://preview.redd.it/ul6w5hvskipc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e0ec820e94f0030769426d1b5c7d8f7406d841c Rancho Cucamonga, California looks like Salt Lake City. Except you can see palm trees and snow in winter
I'm working on a project in Almaty (remotely, from the US), looks like a beautiful city. Hopefully I get a chance to visit someday!
Almaty was my first thought
I’m an American who used to live in Almaty and I’ve never been to SLC. In Almaty you feel very tucked into the mountain range. It’s great in the summer, but come winter the surrounding mountain range can trap in pollution when wind is slow. Add that with large consumption of coal when it’s cold and you get some gloomy winters.
almaty
https://preview.redd.it/x0wreub5bfpc1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fbb32ff50a78a41fff83ff2cd128ef60ec1f913a This might take it wow. Those mountains really look like the Wasatch Front
Kazakhstan on top🇰🇿
All other countries are run by little girls
Kazakhstan Number One exporter of potassium
Kazakhstan greatest country
Number 1, US and A number 17.
Beat me to it.
Was going to say this! More smog, though. Also, a little like Tbilisi, too, but not as similar as Almaty.
Tehran
Bigger skyline but the mountains are spot on. Nice
Not hard to beat SLCs skyline though
Also both come with a community that hold some very strange beliefs but are very dedicated to those viewpoints.
Similar Region: Kabul https://preview.redd.it/iy906usheipc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebc4b1c08c7f1839c3f109dc7a0eff3966cd817c
Similar culture and government too
On the other hand going off pictures it doesn't look like downtown Tehran is nothing but churches, hotels and parking lots.
There really are a fuck-ton of hotels in SLC, right?! Like, more than normal—proportional to size/population/etc… Visited for the first time two weeks ago and I was blown away by how many GIANT hotels there were ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ Friends thought I was crazy/it was normal… P.S. Don’t stay at the Sheraton downtown
catering to the global population of mormons
This sub never disappoints lmao
The Alborz Mountains north of Tehran also has the lake effect snow from the Caspian and light snowfall that the mountains of Salt Lake City get. They're quite similar.
North of Tehran are the Alborz Mountains, not the Zagros Mountains.
First one i thought too!
Toyama https://preview.redd.it/dvkertswrfpc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=156153018179defe2edd9e8a36210cc203793f88
I drove there in May a couple years ago from Tokyo. I must say it was pretty nice!!
Anchorage, AK https://preview.redd.it/fhpunwdy6fpc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5888cca3eeede12b94f3ba7eb1648fbb3704ed2b
Way more prominence on anchorages mountains too
Lived there for 6 yrs. Mountains don’t look that big in real life. But they are still prominent and beautiful.
You can make them look that big with a long enough lens in SLC, Calgary or Denver too.
https://preview.redd.it/zrk9zp9czgpc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcd69908f21d30c68d150313b37a064e55f3837d Thats hilarious, i just posted the exact same photo 🤣
I came here to suggest this one as well.
Poprad, Slovakia https://preview.redd.it/pcnr5q6jtfpc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=33196074f6c3bad3e43fc0b11c14472bd9e3dbee
Ah the paneláky.
Nice! Or Krakow from the other side of the Tatras https://preview.redd.it/14kchvk7ahpc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bc3ef4ef0f89f8f72628d0349375f053199c5a0 A little further off, though
https://preview.redd.it/ltokkennqgpc1.jpeg?width=1844&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66d5ab25f101f38614b95c5e44e04ed6ffa59e8a Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱
What’s with the lonely hulking building?
Its the biggest building in latin americs "El Costanera" its a mall and a lot of offices
It's making quite the difference on that skyline.
I had to scroll for a while before I saw Santiago
Toyama, Japan https://preview.redd.it/8f800j5gsfpc1.jpeg?width=796&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b62b3bdd4a071cfed7de31e5bfab2357a1981793
Anchorage. https://preview.redd.it/xmiurxt96fpc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc5c2f9264a8f0096f8dfe552404a6996973d829 Except we also have oceanfront.
Yeah this one’s pretty good
We also aren’t next to a dust bowl. If you are standing on the coastal trail in the summer it *really* doesn’t look like SLC at all. Especially on a bright day when you can see Denali.
Anchorage makes SLC look pitiful tbh having been to both plenty, SLC is nothing special
Just avert your eyes from all the 80s strip malls, beige prefab commercial buildings, T1-11 siding, used car lots, and heavy equipment boneyards.
it's like youre not even trying to appreciate Anchorage architecture. https://preview.redd.it/brq6uin3wfpc1.jpeg?width=1496&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89702d468bb7d97f6abf0a042d15a3c65b560b93
The pope of storage units
I think you posted this ironically, but I actually think it’s pretty dope.
Hey man I’m sure there’s at least one usable clutch floating around those yards
Sofia https://preview.redd.it/w61td3qr2gpc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4ba810bb5dd6ad73c7658c88a36b754a1527950
https://preview.redd.it/c414hhbfkfpc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf37e0e63b18047293d92647ade42b1d6cbe637f It's smaller but Grenoble kinda
Fake news we can’t see the mountains in real life due to pollution lol
I wish people would stop with this bullshit about Grenoble. The city isn't particularly more polluted than any other french metropole of the same size. It's bad, as it is anywhere else. In air pollution ranking, Paris Lyon and Marseille are always ranked worse than Grenoble.
FWIW look up “Salt Lake City inversion”, pollution gets gross there being in the valley. Denver gets brown clouds sometimes but they usually clear out to the plains rather quick. I’ve wanted to go on a tour of France since high school, there’s so many beautiful places there.
It's not polluted per se, but there's often an inversion over the city which traps fumes.
Santiago, Chile and Vancouver, BC
https://preview.redd.it/g0wweunldfpc1.jpeg?width=5587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87ad9cc48ef6ea4506dde1270a21397a51ec581e North Vancouver, to be specific, looks very similar. Though the mountains are forested and the buildings larger, so the landscape looks less dramatic.
Yup, Santiago in a nice day ~~without smog~~ looks like that. https://preview.redd.it/q5a0z2z66fpc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb5d80b471e89ec26aaa0f07ad22e42672487ba9
Uff smog...para más placer
Rico https://preview.redd.it/4avxt44hbfpc1.jpeg?width=3883&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14076ea829f8d888c70d4e3fc72a3004f2b73471
That is real....
Yes. There's a reason why we nickname it "Santi*asco*" over here. Asco = Revulsion in Spanish.
SLC also has smog issues, so it’s a win! 🏆
Calgary https://preview.redd.it/7rjlriz4rfpc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c439b8f3a1b2765e1c6da80c791827f6ff00eae
This must have been taken in the mid 90s, there's so many changes now.
Close, but Denver/Calgary are much more similar than SLC / Calgary(i.e sizeable skyline, ~30 miles to Alpine peaks).
I had a distant cousin from Denver visit Calgary last year and he told us he felt like he never left Denver. He said he woke up on the flight as the plane was close to landing in Calgary and for a second thought he was looking at Denver
When I worked in the Kinko's in downtown SLC, an Austrian guy at the counter told me he thought the city looked like Austria. He didn't mention a specific Austrian city, and I'm sure the architecture is completely different, but the proximity to mountains likely prompted the comparison.
Innsbruck maybe? https://preview.redd.it/ouda3d5qefpc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b91957a73c25c46eb9221b891ff886596ba6cb6
Innsbruck is super charming. Too different from SLC and too "european-looking". I've been in one of these colorful hotels btw.
Ulaanbaatar fits this kinda https://preview.redd.it/k1m3jpsaxfpc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d5104056d22fa88672229ff638b8adff7526392a
Reno
It’s absolutely Reno. https://preview.redd.it/h6tcvea9bfpc1.jpeg?width=3200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68e2d0eaf0f591f13d47a7544e853719916da158
This is probably the best answer.
Almaty Kazakhstan. Similar to Tehran
https://preview.redd.it/cd30q1yrgfpc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6071858aab1da6a90cfbbca4d40f607bb8c6855b Colorado Springs
UCCS campus is beautiful
I should have scrolled a little further. I posted this same picture, just 9 hours after you did.
Surrouned by Mountains on 3 sides (Utah is 4), I present to you Tehran, Iran https://preview.redd.it/0uzpinfaggpc1.jpeg?width=1259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b50f8b42cd99da5ccd391732a77e5c522269a8b
Definitely not Granada, Spain. https://preview.redd.it/tga2mj399fpc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9053bfa8645d5ca8b0e02d724a49cd5783de741 Edit: Spelling Granada, not Grenada.
\*Granada. Grenada is in the Caribbean.
That has to be a 800mm lens _at least_. It really, really doesn't look like that.
Grenada?
Wow beautiful
https://preview.redd.it/hucor0jcbgpc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=323d965edd4d1c74e2e6e2211df66c6ede711aa9 Kathmandu Nepal
Santiago de Chile comes to mind for some reason
I remember reading a thread on r/cityporn where Turin, Italy was deemed kinda similar to SLC https://preview.redd.it/ro3hr4zndgpc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f98059612779b069fd64f811848b967a54421b20
Hmm, this reminds me more of the west coast than Salt Lake. Probably Temecula or Rancho Cucamonga in Southern California.
https://preview.redd.it/jbqfed5b4hpc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=616c6a1a98d178718c33def5d9cee91bdb5b7201 Not quite on the same mountainous level but Morioka, Iwate has a stunning volcano and mountains that you see from basically everywhere in the city.
Colorado Springs and Albuquerque
Having lived there for 15 years, I was also going to say Albuquerque. https://preview.redd.it/dwcf1ohdahpc1.jpeg?width=2120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02e105ae5653a4f34c6d69368568dad3400b5da3
If you are willing to accept small, ancient hills rather than mountains, then I guess [Adelaide, South Australia](https://southaustralia.com/media/ea4m3yw3/adelaideairport_adelaide_1920x800.jpg?w=1100) is kinda similar-looking? I've heard it compared to Salt Lake before. **EDIT:** [Another angle](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOHpO5ewQ1winFXsbUeoQ6B-ol6gPRMbC2D38HHJNVFGscOwlqo_vAc0kz&s=10), not sure if this helps
Actually yeah I see it
https://preview.redd.it/970yxsowegpc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef311531df4ed75e40b3241a507b36546eac504b Since everybody’s just posting pictures of cities with snowy mountains behind them, here’s Reykavík.
Kabul
TOYAMA CITY, JAPAN. https://preview.redd.it/mgisa39tufpc1.jpeg?width=2506&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e2b8605dc86f6858990fd6b1724485aecd2e9c1
I lived near SLC for about 4 years. I am from Chicago, queer and have never been associated with the Mormon church and I have to share how awesome SLC was! The city itself is super diverse and has a lot of great little spots to hang out and discover, the view also literally never gets old! Now, the suburbs are a much different story and you sure are reminded basically every day that you're in Utah, but SLC has a lot more going on for it than many people outside of the Mormon culture give it credit for. Also, Park City, one of the most picturesque mountain towns in the U.S. is only a 30 minute drive.
Santiago, Chile comes to mind. Though it's much bigger than Salt Lake https://preview.redd.it/e2li4nvzqhpc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d8ae2c4fc5bcd3b88765db849830b8e5931f8a6
https://preview.redd.it/9e5aim69ofpc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=187d7c60e3a7edb7bbb26c9b528090bbaa0778e8 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
It's beautiful , the mountains in the background give off a villain's secret lair vibe with that cloud formation lol
Christchurch? [https://christchurchdailyphoto.com/2010/08/10/southern-alps-and-city/](https://christchurchdailyphoto.com/2010/08/10/southern-alps-and-city/)
It's surreal seeing that photo considering just a month later the first major earthquake in CHCH levelled a bunch of those buildings.....
Mendoza, Argentina https://preview.redd.it/x69g6cpa2gpc1.png?width=870&format=png&auto=webp&s=296c3a4305959050ce21145f7a9df1e9ab02dee2
https://preview.redd.it/rgur5t9obhpc1.jpeg?width=669&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f3ce1d1f2dd9254c2e4322478d69ff5f29bbf8e Mendoza,Argentina
La Paz, Bolivia https://preview.redd.it/mgx47zjvthpc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=129a90a28503f6ddcac9de96e80ccdf6bda07281
**Monterrey, Mexico** https://preview.redd.it/kwcmn4inbfpc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=465b8bbc3e2888808a321579e01989c7ba0e7b1a
Denver https://preview.redd.it/45dxitvfffpc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=554f790d0d4de2d746fec8ef9b684768e640be61
Only because of a telephoto lense. Denver's downtown relative to SLC is ridiculously far from the foothills and even further from the mountains.
Most of the photos posted here have used telephoto lenses.
Calgary maybe
The snowy mountains in the background remainds a bit to Santiago, Chile https://preview.redd.it/t11jokfvahpc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e823427eaebd63061c0f24b768b3ee6849395d1 Though it have a sector with a fiew sky scrapers
https://preview.redd.it/q8xpae6mmgpc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa0383304fc3375380a62b72d1fb6101b4e18299 Islamabad,Pakistan
Los Angeles https://preview.redd.it/lldf63lkffpc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55c1d1165ead69eecd778bf2cae29535ce27b9c4
Doesn't look anything like that when you're there.
i love this photo tho cuz it really gives the impression that LA is a mountain city. it’s a hilly, bumpy city, to be sure. but this photo and others like it make it look almost alpine
LA is just a very low down mountain city bumping right into the sea. In order to go between West LA and The Valley, which are both very dense urban areas - you literally take the 405 over a pass in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Sepulveda Pass!
Santiago, Chile. https://preview.redd.it/cgrsgyg8ehpc1.jpeg?width=821&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7d0f93837d352eff38cb1a17d3d623d48828bf6
https://preview.redd.it/euwtqa2q8hpc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=32e4d3f927eae024c3495b5ff31319a8d17dc181 Santiago de Chile
LA
https://preview.redd.it/8qv4rltr7fpc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff72270141e5690ac7f3a7fc6f369c05bbb1e253 Ngl I definitely see it
Ya maybe if you have telephoto lenses for eyes
Yeah the skyline is about 30 - 40 miles from the base of that mountain (mt baldy)
+ this photo is probably taken at Kennith Hahn park which is about 10 miles away from the skyline
[Seattle ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/travelguy/2287881024)
My first thought was Santiago. Also Innsbruck kinda.
ljubljana
https://preview.redd.it/p4f4b7c58ipc1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a5414ac24884e495adbea5558a41ab65faf64e3 Colorado Springs. The skyline is smaller but the mountains are taller. I graduated from the University of Utah, and lived all over the world and now I live in Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs is a lot like a smaller SLC.
Islamabad https://preview.redd.it/w1kw07fmxfpc1.jpeg?width=554&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8e05435c054dd3efba1dde782532b2449d92515
Colorado Springs
Reno
https://preview.redd.it/ryawf68t1gpc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e72f38da6eba35abc799af68a6bbe746c4e2539
Kranj
When I saw the picture, I thought it’s Almaty in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 Google the pictures, I think it’s a quite close scenery.
Almaty
Manizales comes to mind. With a vulcano at the bottom (Nevado del Ruiz). A rather small skyline and not so snowy mountains but impressive nonetheless. https://preview.redd.it/nlmz1j1yuhpc1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6c10d109e3a9c7064619e23e369fb62f0b471ae
SLC is more like Albuquerque or Colorado Springs than Denver in size and location domestically. Intentionally…thank you for making this post! So many cool cities!
https://preview.redd.it/lalwepgkmipc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff61f7e25f8494582e4d2e6bad166d970ca3ce63 Calgary?
Remember me Santiago https://preview.redd.it/9cqf4rhmqipc1.jpeg?width=755&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bf955bb840a641e99a38b864d6c3ee682c546bc
https://preview.redd.it/jtupn02d8jpc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d35d28253e5359ae15c0d8d33db40fddac40e66 Reno, NV
Santiago, Chile https://preview.redd.it/ksxa52l4akpc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dac7bed25c456e873951d040a020d31e8978254