Describe your hometown

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Hometown or home town is the city or town where one grew up, or the place of one's principal residence. It is not to be confused with birthplace, although the two can be the same place.

Thank you Wikipedia.

Most of us have families that can't afford to move all the time so inevitably there is going to be one place you grew up in that left a lasting impression on you. So what do you think of that place where you stomped around in the snow as a kid or played games with your pals?

Spoiler: My hometown

Seeing as I'm currently living in my hometown with my Parents for financial reasons, it is easy for me to describe it. It's a small town that is about 20 minutes away from the nearest major city in the province. The weather in the winter is very cold and the weather in the summer can get very hot. It has grown a lot in recent years but there are two major parks that still exist where I used to go as a kid.

There is a grocery store, recently a Tim Hortons and nothing much else to comment on. The best memories I have are of me biking around the town for hours, exploring every nook and cranny. The new neighborhoods that have sprung up are nothing like the older neighborhoods, with houses built in the 60's and 70's. They have very large houses everywhere and they all look very similar. Kind of detracts from the small town charm that the older part of the municipality has.

I have tons of memories both at the elementary school and the high school as this was the only town I've ever lived in as a kid. The high school had massive renovations when I was in the 8th grade while the elementary school stayed mostly the same until after I graduated in 2010. The best part about the town was always the people in it. I have friends scattered across town who I can game with and the small community band (formed after the school division destroyed the music program here) can always be counted on to provide laughs and a good time.

All in all it is a good place to live but I certainly won't be doing very well in my chosen field of film in such a small center.

Now then.

What can you say about your hometown? Why do you identify your hometown as home?

Personally my reason for identifying with my town is easy; I've lived here pretty much all my life.

Your turn Escapist!

 

[yankeefan19]

My home town is small, 20 minutes away from the nearest large population canter, and until recently, 20 minutes away from the nearest gas station (although that was only for about a year because the previous gas station moved away because it was flooded out and the company wanted to make a double sized one in a larger town that was heavily damaged by a tornado about a week before he flooding). It is very hot in the summer, with lots of rain and severe thunderstorms, and FUCKING COLD in the winter with huge amounts of snow being the norm. It used to be bigger, having a grocery store, a few restaurants, and a drive-in movie theater, but those were taken down a little bit after I moved there (except the movie theater, that was long before I moved there). It is the 4th town I've lived in, but the one that I have the best knowledge of and the one I have lived the longest at.

 

[MammothBlade]

When I was younger, I lived on an 70's to 80's housing development (not a council estate). Not like the newest ones which have tiny rooms and very little space between "detached" houses, this was quite decent. My house was right next to a forest and moorland, but also on a damn street corner which proved to be problematic because of the tendency of youths to hang around and kick about balls on street corners. Yup, even decent housing estates have their chav problems. The "village" itself was mostly composed of endless rows of various houses and a big hill between the shops and my house.
There was a toy store at the row of shops, in which I frequently threw tantrums. There are better places to live, but I'd prefer it to where I'm living now. There is a rather large, beautiful house at the end of the same road owned by a family friend which I'd absolutely love to have.

 

[FamoFunk]

My home town is small, yet big? It's a 25min drive from the city and it has a massive castle slapped in the middle of it!

Spoiler: This Castle!

They film a lot of Dr. Who here, it's full of Chavs, always raining, is surrounded by beautiful hills and mountains, has lots of villages in it.
The town is nice, it has an in-door market, lots of local shops and a fuck tonne of tourists.

 

[ToastiestZombie]

A fairly big town, I live in an estate on the outskirts of the town. It's quite nice but just round the corner is where all the chavs and council houses are, so it's not that good of a place to be whilst walking around at night. As for the town itself, its pretty shit. All the good shops have closed and been replaced by poundland or Starbucks. The buildings are mostly modern, but there are a few streets with Victorian houses on them. But other than those most of the streets are grimey and horrible. But, we do have a really nice park and a prestigous golf academy 5 minutes drive away. As I live on top of a hill, my bedroom window overlooks some really lovely hills and you can see for miles.

[EDIT] I don't really call my hometown home even though ive lived there since I was 6. It just seems like a place to live, not home. Now my birthplace, a lovely place in wales called Aberystwyth was where I truly called home. It's just such a beautiful town with an awesome coastline and some pretty amazing views.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

well you have the primary school, the bus stances, the chav estate, the hills, the many farms, the outdoor shopping centre, a park, rugby club, junkie houses (situated between two pubs for their convenience) the other pub and five churches, all christian.

 

[Spectral Dragon]

I live 5 kilometers outside a tiny village with less than 3'000 inhabitants, we have one gas station, a store, a church, a pizzeria and not a lot else... We live 20 minutes from a small town we can use to get SOMEWHERE at least. But it's one of those everyone knows everyone towns, and you can't make it unless you move out of here, really. Sure, it's beautiful and close to nature, but we don't have a lot of nice people here, or anything like civilisation.

 

[Phlakes]

Hipsters.

I'm from Austin, Texas, and hipsters. Lots of them.

 

[Lieju]

An island of 60 residents, most of which are old people or cows.

I love it there.

 

[dystopiaINC]

A city in the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts, known mostly for it's main road, Memorial Drive (aka "The Drive") and for the HuKeLau Polynesian restaurant.
You're from one side of the river or the other, and you go to CCHS or CHS which has a rivalry game every year for "The Sword".
Former home of the Kielbasa Festival and the Fairfield mall, new home to WalMart and Home Depot, among other stores.
Also home to Westover Air Reserve base, formerly Westover Air Force base.

i found this of my home town on urban dictionary. yup this is my town in a nutshell

 

[Dimitriov]

Hmmm, all you guys seem to be from small towns.

My "hometown":

Vancouver: It's pretty big, it's got some great scenery, and it hosted the last winter Olympics.


I was born and raised in teh city, and then moved to a small village when I was eight.

 

[PleasantAsAHeadcrab]

It's not exactly a small town, but it's not that heavily populated either. It's about 45 minutes away from the capital/only city in the entire state, and it's surrounded by corn fields, bogs, and temperate rain forest, and the closest drug store is practically an hour's walk from my house. We get something like three feet of snow in the winter, and in the summer it's something like 100 degrees and ridiculously humid. The high school I personally attended is set up in some bluffs, which looks gorgeous but is ridiculously dangerous to drive near, The other high school habitually had to call the police due to drugs and bomb threats which is nice because it's right next to the grade school. The middle school is the closest thing to my house, and it's honestly kind of a dump.

A few days ago, I saw a squished wolf in the road, and a while back everyone had to deal with the minor issue of someone's horse escaping and wandering down the road, and this morning there was what might have been a snowy owl flailing around in the backyard like a moron. So, at least we have variety as far as animals go, I guess...

 

[DanielBrown]

I grew up(still live in the same area) in a part of the west side of Stockholm, kind of in the outskirts. The population is hard to make out. When I was a kid I heard there lived 10.000 people in the entire area. There's three in total... ugh, it's hard to explain, but bear with me.
The area I live in is mainly consists of middle class families and immigrants. Another is pretty much only senior citizens and the third is where the rich people live. Should be at least 5000 living in my area.

Can't say I identify with it. Don't know how one does that exactly, but yeah, it's "home" to me. A good thing about growing up here was the mix of ethnicities, however it's still very segregated in Sweden.
On an unrelated note; there has been quite a lot of crime here recently, which worries me. We've had a couple of slashers running around... one kid died and two girls got seriously wounded. Pretty sure rape and assault isn't that uncommon either.
Never ran into any trouble here myself, though I suspect it's because I look pretty scary.

 

[Beefy_Nugglet]

I was born in Concord, NH. but I grew up in my current city of Lynchburg VA. It's a pretty big city, never nothing to do. Only problem I have with it is all the gang wars and shit that always happen. I was looking out my window one night when I was like 8 years old and I saw a guy walking around in front of my house. Next thing I know a car rolls up and shoots the guy down and puts him in the back of the car and drives off. We had our house taped off while the cops pulled the bullets out from under my window and such. Other than shit like that, it's a very nice place to live.

 

[Ham_authority95]

Hometown or home town is the city or town where one grew up, or the place of one's principal residence. It is not to be confused with birthplace, although the two can be the same place.

Thank you Wikipedia.

Most of us have families that can't afford to move all the time so inevitably there is going to be one place you grew up in that left a lasting impression on you. So what do you think of that place where you stomped around in the snow as a kid or played games with your pals?

Spoiler: My hometown

Seeing as I'm currently living in my hometown with my Parents for financial reasons, it is easy for me to describe it. It's a small town that is about 20 minutes away from the nearest major city in the province. The weather in the winter is very cold and the weather in the summer can get very hot. It has grown a lot in recent years but there are two major parks that still exist where I used to go as a kid.

There is a grocery store, recently a Tim Hortons and nothing much else to comment on. The best memories I have are of me biking around the town for hours, exploring every nook and cranny. The new neighborhoods that have sprung up are nothing like the older neighborhoods, with houses built in the 60's and 70's. They have very large houses everywhere and they all look very similar. Kind of detracts from the small town charm that the older part of the municipality has.

I have tons of memories both at the elementary school and the high school as this was the only town I've ever lived in as a kid. The high school had massive renovations when I was in the 8th grade while the elementary school stayed mostly the same until after I graduated in 2010. The best part about the town was always the people in it. I have friends scattered across town who I can game with and the small community band (formed after the school division destroyed the music program here) can always be counted on to provide laughs and a good time.

All in all it is a good place to live but I certainly won't be doing very well in my chosen field of film in such a small center.

Now then.

What can you say about your hometown? Why do you identify your hometown as home?

Personally my reason for identifying with my town is easy; I've lived here pretty much all my life.

Your turn Escapist!

Pretty small. Our tallest building is an old-folks home. No more than 150k people live here. Despite our size, we're known for our social liberalism, hipsters, and environmentalists(many green anarchists live here). There are a good number of young people due to our university, which has a rabid football fan base that I don't understand. No, I will not tell you the name of my town.

How I identify with it: I wear a flannel, I have relaxed attitude towards gays, etc, and I've lived here my whole life.

 

[damselgaming]

I am from a town nearish to London called Reading. They hold a very large music festival year with a disgustingly you average age of attendance, which makes me feel very old. There was once a biscuit factory there, its good for shopping I guess.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Huh... my hometown is 9/10 shithole, 1/10 mudhole:

Spoiler: Have a look for yourself! =P

To be fair, it's not that bad, though even for urban people, life can be very 'fast'.

I always deny being from my postcode county, 'cos it's chav central! *hrk*

 

[Chalacachaca]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maracaibo

Well if you take aside all the bigotry, total disregard for common sense and manners, culture degradation, urban decay, having FARC living in our doorstep (we are cool with colombians, but not with you), lack of potable water and some sectors without access to electricity, it's a pretty cool place... cool in the "great" or "good" place, not actually cool in terms of temperature because it's HOT in here (think of how canadians brag of their cold winters, well we brag about our eternally hellish summer).

We got a nice (stinky and polluted) lake, some unique and beautiful architecture from colonial times. We used to have a whole sector full of colonial houses up until the 1970's when the acting president decided to razed it in favor of constructing an avenue where you can get stuck in an one hour traffic jam.
FUN FACT: That same president was the one who had the brilliant idea of releasing from prison acting president/underrated poetist/bloodthirsty pacifist/amateur baseball player/totally not a megalomaniacal psycho you guys Hugo Chavez. What were the charges? attempted coup d' etat in 1992, nothing special.

We are beer loving bastards with a no boundaries sense of humour and one helluva love for gastronomy (seriously, there are more people devoted to food than religion in here, and this is a RELIGIOUS country).


Hey, thanks op for creating this topic, I feel cheered after writing all that.
For those who read all that: que molleja mijo, te leeiste toda esa verga!? have a cepillado!

 

[Llil]

Have a look:

Spoiler

That over there is the center of the city. Yes, it's a city, not a town. I've lived there pretty much my entire life, and it's a nice place. In fact, you can even see my house in the picture. I like how most of the important things are within 30 min walking distance from the "downtown". (And since it's such a small place, you'd now probably be able to track down where I live, if you really wanted to.)