Share some info about your hometown

At least you got space ships n shit

Folk travel a looooong way to visit Roswell.

Yeah, it's where I got my start in space piracy. Only good thing to come out of living there.

http://www.winnipeg.ca/interhom/

my home town in the middle of Bum Fuck Nowhere!

@Ketchup/Perdido - Wichita Falls was the kind of place where people from my kinda town escaped to when they grew up. They were what a 5A football team. Man, I remember going there once and thinking it was a big city.

Now what did I do with that guys letter jacket?

PS: I lived in too many places to count one as my home town so I'm listing them all, except for the town above that shall never be named.We had one main street and 10 stop lights though and finally got alcohol in 1991 wooot. Kids at First Baptist still aren't allowed to Dance, despite repeated showings of Footloose on cable (which we also got in the early 90s), well not at my house since there weren't enough people...on the county road that is, not the house. We finally got satellite service (2000) but the dags are still hoping for cable though.

Staten Island, NY: Mark Your Calendars! Its the Borough's Centennial Celebration
Austin, Texas, Self proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World. Their website has a main menu and a music (by genre) menu - definitely worth checking out if your headed that way!
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The site is for the UIUC but the county website is trash. Life there was so cheap I got to live in a 3 bedroom (6 room) house with a yard for 500 a month. Granted it was near the kraft factory but what the hell - at least now I know not to eat the yellow cheese.
Bezerkley, Ca - ahh they instituted more stringent recycling laws (again) and the stage production of Girly Man is coming up I see.
Boston, Ma - ooh neighborhood action coming up - remind me to be out of town that day. Oh and you beantowners no that Dunkin Donuts was bought out by the French in recent years. Yep, they've gone and taken our coolatas. Those Bastards.

http://www.osterleypark.org.uk/

Penn & Tylers Green Website

And the Horse and Jockey pub. Almost brings a tear to my eye...
[img]http://www.pennandtylersgreen.co.uk/pix/il_horseandjockey.jpg[/img]

Kingston upon Thames

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It's where pepper comes from too.

great, now it looks like I'm copying jml, but really, I had this idea myself.

born Bloomington, Indiana and left at six months
The Prairie Capital City til 7 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which was great -- 4 seasons! That's a new slogan though.
do you know the way to San Jose? I knew the way out. No seasons. Bleah.
Fayetteville, Arkansas -- love it, but it's a bit small. Probably what I mostly consider to be my hometown at this point as my parents still live there -- and I'm registered to vote there, have my bank account, driver's license, etc... and they don't have a nice home page but here's Tim Ernst Photography of the Buffalo River Wilderness area which is right near town. Go Razorbacks.
St. Louis, Missouri -- love it, but... well actually I really liked it there. I do like Munich more though, but just because big mountains are closer. The Ozarks are nice, but not much skiing there. The link is to someone's photo of Johnson's Shut-Ins -- sounds like it's a mental hospital but it's a state park where the water is shut in by the rocks.


© Tim Ernst, whose site I linked above. Buffalo River. Great for a lazy canoe.

I fell asleep under those last time I stumbled out of Oceana...rather convenient I must say as it was raining.

Welcome to the club. I rather appreciate the Paratransit program for elderly and disabled. You shake their chairs and they think they are going shopping? (evil, I know)

Cedarburg, WI

milwaukee, wi

another mke site...

I used to get mine from ASDA

Well alright Gen and JML are bringing out the guns. Here are a few of my cities, Portland being what I consider home now.
Home in Europe
My Acid/Uni years
La Habana
My heart

Calgary aka Cowtown

Sandbach

My local Watering hole.. (The Wheatie)
The Alms Houses.. 200m from my place
My School. (the one with the cricket playes)

Aw.. makes me realise why I left!

Okay, now I can play too :

Munich
Herndon, VA
Prague
Paris

and I guess here although I have never been:

Azerbaijan

and in my heart:

NYC

Home is where the heart is .

Atlanta, Georgia

Home of

Coke
[img]http://www.labournet.de/internationales/co/cocacola/coca.gif[/img]

Scarlett and Rhett

[img]http://olivia.canal13.cl/medios/data/entretencion/cine/scarlett_ohara_l.jpg[/img]

and
[img]http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/media_content/m-3838.jpg[/img]

and of course: crime
[img]http://www.travelbygps.com/special/GTcrime/thumbnail.jpg[/img]

www.windsor.gov.uk

Didnt Atlanta win out in worst city thread or was that Detroit. No offence Dana, I could not be upset with a town that produced tha Audrey T of the south

Also I noticed PapaG has yet to respond Haha( we grew up not too far from each other)

oh, your so sweet!

I think Atlanta did. I have to check on the latest facts, but I believe Atlanta is in the top three for murder rates in the States. Makes me sad really

Isn't Georgia also homeground for Deliverance ?

Friendly folk, "y'alls not from round here is ye ? "

COMING IN YOUR EARS!

Cool idea for a thread Perdido, I shall rate it 5 stars.

Sherwood Park is my home town, but it's really a suburb of Edmonton.



Which, for all you trivia buffs out there, is exactly the same latitude as Dublin.

[img]http://www.bracklesham.ukfossils.co.uk/Bracklesham-Fossils/Achieve/2004/DSCF1624.JPG[/img]

200Metres from my house!

Fuck me Rus, you need to get those drains sorted out !

hey Rus, I've walked down that beach!

Here you go Hereford ... a really exciting place.

http://www.thisisherefordshire.co.uk/heref...re/tourism.html

Showem you're from Canada? Damn there are some cool people from there

Tell me about it, I mean Lemon is Canadian, how much cooler can you get ?

"Welcome to the club. I rather appreciate the Paratransit program for elderly and disabled. You shake their chairs and they think they are going shopping? (evil, I know)"

@SaraByrd - Hahaa! Evil. I lived in "an" Institute for Hypnotherapy. I put "an" because there was more than one, obviously. Highlights of my time in that flat included:

-the occ 70 year old hippy ladies sunbathing/lounging around nekid in the back yard.
-the "bird" cage, also in the back yard - found out later that the cage was made by and for a gent to sit in also nekid whilst releasing his anger.
-the dog upstairs on Prozac, off Prozac he would leap off the balcony trying to fly after birds.
-the weird conspiracy theories and neighborhood wars.

why the hell did i live there ... oh yeah...
-the 10 minute commute to work, I could have my dag, the amazing view of the bridge/bay on one side and walking distance to Tilden Park: "You could ride horses (real or carousel variety), picnic, swim at Lake Anza faux beach, stroll through the Botanic Garden, hike or camp amongst the 2,077 acres to wildlife shelter and preserve. watch for bobcats though cause they'll be watching you. ;-)

And what about a certain gentleman from Nottingham?

edit: not from Canada of course, but Kevin Costner is from there (Nottingham)...hehe..
as if.

edit #2: for those of you who didn't get it: There are a couple of sweetie pies on TT from Nottingham..I always found it a bit odd that Hollywood had Kevin Costner play Robin Hood..with an American accent to boot

This is home now, Milbertshofen. But I was in Vallejo for a while, too.
Hmmm, Tilden Park. Rose Garden. Strawberry Canyon. Berkeley is still where it's at.

http://www.city.albertlea.org/

http://www.ci.owatonna.mn.us/

and

http://www.visitwinona.com/

I sorta consider each of these my home town...
Albert Lea from 1979-1992
Owatonna from 1992-1998
Winona from 1998-2004

Albert Lea is where I have family...but not much else

Owatonna is where I graduated from HS, so a visit to the bar there is always a "trip"

Winona...well, that's where I went to college, and where most of my friends live.

Nottingham - the inspired choice for your business and your people (apparently )

Well, it does have Rock City!

We have Stone Mountain!
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@DR that is awesome!!!

And you have a City of Cumming nearby? Er, ok Bet not much work gets done there then?

Grew up in various areas of Sydney, but can't be bothered listing all the different webpages ... and one place in particular is just plain embarrassing to admit association with - unless hanging out and making jokes about it with other fellow sufferers former residents. If anyone asks, I just say I'm from
Sydney

So you guys are a red state?

Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Dunstable
This is the Priory Church where Henry VIII had the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragorn announced in 1533. Not much else has happened since then!
This was my local. The Saracens Head, probably known as the Muslim Extremist now!

Of course now I come from here: Allershausen

Spent my early years in Great Baddow, be'er known as Badder.

Petrozavodsk

Was founded by Peter the Great in the same year as St Petersburg
[img]http://www.petrozavodsk.ru/photo/214636-popup.jpg[/img]

This is in one hour by boat on the Kizhi island

[img]http://www.oilsi.ru/img/kizhi.jpg[/img]

and this is where I was born - good Crieff!

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/crie...ieff/index.html

Newport Pagnell, The Home of Aston Martin, The Only remaining Parchment Works in England (currently covers the Doomsday Book) and the only remaining Iron Bridge still in everyday use by modern traffic.
Oh and lots of pubs aswell

http://newport-pagnell.org.uk/
http://freespace.virgin.net/peter.haydon/

Hastings, Nebraska- home of Kool Aid.

Most people come there to look at the Sandhills Cranes or to chase tornadoes. But we do have lovely sunsets.






But I grew up in the Sandhills, and they look more like this:

Here's a view of where I grew up from space (San Jose, CA):

[img]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/83/300px-San_jose_ca.jpg[/img]

...but this is the place I think of as home (Santa Cruz, CA):

[img]http://www.shorelinesurf.com/shore-cowells.jpg[/img]

Edit: OMG, Jenny L, the chick in that photo is nuts! Sheesh, and people get paranoid in California about Earthquakes...

aww, all these pictures make me want to join in the fun.

[img]http://3media.initialized.org/photos/2004-11-07%20Urban/46%20Minneapolis%20again.jpg[/img]
right on the mississippi
[img]http://studweb.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~euv-5993/photos/usa/minneapolis/mall1.jpg[/img]
not as exciting the 325,000th time, but still pretty cool.
[img]http://studweb.euv-frankfurt-o.de/~euv-5993/photos/usa/minneapolis/stpauldiner.jpg[/img]
as seen in Mighty Ducks. really nummy breakfasts.