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[Boy Wonder]

Hi y'all...
Was wondering(as i gazed out of my luxury penthouse pad in Doha last night)..just who has the best view from their accomodation in the world of EFL..?

My pad in the clouds looks down imperiously onto a run down district of the city...and as I speak I can see rooftops cluttered with junk/washing lines full of half the cleaners overalls in Doha/men walking around in vests and sarongs in their courtyards...oblivious to the spying EFL teacher far up above/a couple of mosques and lots and lots and lots of badly parked cars.....Truly it is a sight of beauty and typifies the modern oil rich part of the Gulf that has been my home for the last 5 years...

WHAT IS THE ROOM WITH A VIEW THAT YOU NOW INHABIT...?

CAN IT RIVAL THE BEAUTY AND TRANQUILITY OF MY VIEW..?

WHO HAS THE BEST VIEW IN EFL..?

[yaramaz]

From my lovely third-floor bedroom window (which fills 3/4s of one wall) I can see the backstreets/side streets of this gritty, crumbly, grey little city. The pavement (meaning both the Brit and American definitions of the word-- road and sidewalk) is uneven, occasionally with great potholes and missing chunks and sudden unexpected dips which are all too easy to tumble into. It is dusty year round, though more so in winter when the coal dust settles down for its long winter's nap. The apartments across the street are small and square, usually only 3 or 4 stories high, with miniscule, scabby yards full of broken things and skinny children. There is usually at least one headscarf'd lady sitting out on a balcony or beating carpets over the railing or tending to the rooftop roses or drying pepperson a rope. The streets are teeming with small children playing with sticks and tin cans and rickety bikes. The scrap-metal men walk up and down the streets with their rusty old carts full of Stuff, shouting. The veggie guys do the same, pushing their carts piled high with potatoes or onions or tomatoes etc. The more affluent ones drive their rust-bucket trucks slowly down the street, shouting their inventory list into a loudspeaker attached to the back of the spud-ful vehicle. Not much greenery to speak of-- trees, grass, etc don't seem to feature in the city planning, aside from the tiny park full of smoking, staring men on benches a few blocks away. Concrete roads, concrete houses. The roofs are an attractive shade of mediterranean red tile. On a good day you can see the enormous MT Erciyes in the distance.

Not a great view but an interesting, ever changing one.

[basiltherat]

barren desert and a couple of camels - stunning !
basil

[Joachim]

My view is pretty spectacular, and the main reason why i chose to rent my apartment. I live on the Kowloon side in Hong Kong, just across the river, about Kowloon MTR/Airport Express station, so my view is of the Central hong Kong skyline - one of the most dramatic and "Metropolis/Blade Runner-esque" cityscapes in the world.

Buildings on the Kowloon side are much lower, so it really is awesome to be able to look at the HK side, without having to live there........

You can spend hours just looking at the boats and stuff, so cool

[Louis]

The view from my room's window. Gotta love this place.

[Gordon]

I live on the outskirts of a small city in rural Japan. My house is on a hill and I have a great view of the city from our backyard. There are rice fields all around and there is a big reservoir at the back where people fish. The rice fields turn a lime green twice yearly before harvest time. Beside us is an abandoned house and every time we have a windstorm pieces of fiberglass from their ugly carport fly into the side of our house. This neighbourhood is really nice and the houses are large (by Japanese standards ), but our neighbour's house is a real eyesore. At least they're quiet.

[James_T_Kirk]

I probably have one of the worst views of all: a concrete parking lot . There is a yard with a few nice trees outside, and I occasionally see a squirrel or rabbit, but that's about it :yawn:

I am jealous of all your views, especially Joachim's...ah, Hong Kong, my favorite cityscape...

[Stephen Jones]

Considering I live in the desert, with rainfall of about 5" a year, it is weird that out of my windows i see loads of trees - there are varying birds that perch in the the trees by the kitchen window. From the roof looking over to the Royal Commission and College the view is lof a chunk of greenery worthy of a Tropical Rainforest.

Saudi is one big race to see if the water runs out before the oil does!

[Shaman]

I live on the top floor of a three-storey walkup. I look down on a stunning concrete pond (ie. parking lot). Directly in my line of view is a picturesque building. Okay, it's a two-storey walkup. Given the slight difference in altitude, I am able to see the steeples of two old churches, the Jacques Cartier bridge, and the CBC building.

Monty Python excerpt:

Narrator: And everyone rejoiced.
Everyone: (Deadpan unison) Yay.

It's not the worst, but there's definitely room for improvement.

Shaman

[shmooj]

THe view from our kitchen of Seoul Tower & Haebanchon Church

[cha muir]

We live in a guest house on campus in the lovely mountain town of Dalat, Vietnam. When I open the door in the morning I look out across a small valley to the farms on the other side. Farmers in conical hats watering. At night the lights of the green houses making a kind of contemporary land sculpture. Behind the house, a small stand of pine trees and our little containe garden. We like our view very much.

[khmerhit]

Amazing photo, shmooj. Whistle.

Dalat--now that sounds nice. is it noisy tho?

kh

[Boy Wonder]

That is amazing ,shmooj....I think we should doff our caps, bow graciously , rise with dignity and salute you before bursting out into a cacaphony of riotous applause...
It's the best thing I've ever seen on Dave's.....truly well done.Thanks for showing it to us!

And the photo wasn't bad either!!!!

[shmooj]