Hometown Pride

[Amethyst Wind]

Fuck my town. Zero positives about living here.

I find it most apt to describe it as there being no future here.

For the most part: You are born here, grow up here, raise a family down the street from the house you grew up in here, and die here. You spend your entire life working a crap job in a crap town with crap people and think you have seen enough of the world while you drink away your pension in any of 100 identical drinking establishments which are considered Saturday night hangouts.

I hate it. Place hasn't changed its ideology in 100 years.

I count myself damn lucky not to have been born here. I'll be breaking away the moment I have the means to do so.

Warrington, btw. Moving to Manchester the first chance I get (though I'd prefer London, I'm willing to take Manchester as a first step)

 

[lacktheknack]

For the love of God, don't walk down East Hastings, Vancouver.

Not without a taser, anyhow.

OT: Edmonton, AB born and raised. I love it here, and I don't even know why. As in, I seriously can't articulate it.

Huh.

The sad part is that I haven't even been there, only heard stories. And I want to move to the North West(I guess just West for Canada). Add in that I feel Canada is quite a bit better than where I live and boom, irrational love of Vancouver.

We went to East Hastings as part of a charity outreach. We were put into groups, and there HAD to be a large male present in each group. It's that kind of street. It sure looked it, too.

If it makes you feel better, it's impossible to starve in Vancouver, because the soup kitchens are EVERYWHERE. (At least everywhere we went.) So... yay high amounts of charity!

 

[cathou]

i'm from a rather small town north east of montreal. and yes, i'm pretty proud of my town. For a 20k pop town, it got a vibrant cultural scene, some great places to eat, nice shops... i always try to buy local first, before looking somewhere else.

also, i'm from quebec, so we got also a provincial pride. yesterday was the national day for us. next monday it's canada day, but for most of us here, it's only moving day...

 

[Shadow flame master]

Technically, my home town is Terry, Mississippi, but seeing as I spend most of my other time in Jackson and some other parts of the Jackson-Metro Area, I consider all of it my "home town".

Do I have pride for it? Somewhat, seeing as I live in a state that places last in anything good, and first (or tied with Alabama) in anything bad, there are times when I feel pissed about my state but then I remember that there are many good things as well. Like the way the setting sun looks when it's over a field of wheat in the delta, and the general feel of the people down here is also nice.

 

[Superlative]

I come from the biggist town you've never herd of, aka the reason American school children just miss %100 on the states and capitals test: Columbus, Ohio


or, if i were to get super specific, a suburb no one outside of Columbus has ever herd of called Gahanna (ga-HAN-na). We sit smackdab in the center of the State where we get overshadowed by Cincinati to the south and a gigantic vortex of failure known as Cleveland to the north.
(note: trolling cleveland is kind of a local pastime but we mean no real harm )

Columbus is a really nice town with a lot of stuff to do. we have a place called Easton which is basicly a shopping district the size of a small town. a person could do there and get everything they need for a house, from Drywall to books. We also have Lavender Ice Cream. u ought to get the Lavender Ice Cream. We also have a place called North Market where you can get anything from craft beer to fresh squid. no, for real, they got squid and bison and all types of weird foodstuffs. We also have a Zoo if your into that kind of thing.

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[Diddy_Mao]

Big Spring Texas.

Um. Had an extremely large number of retirees and uh...horned lizards.

It's got a YMCA and a fairly active Lions Club.

*cough*

 

[Eddie the head]

I know some magazine called my home town the best town to live in the north west. It's not that bad a guess. Oh also Sarah Palin was born here. So there is that. Also next to a big lake. And Viggo Mortensen as well as a few other movie starts have places up here.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

My hometown's Mar del Plata and I miss it an awful lot. Especially the sea and the breeze.

 

[Darklord008]

Grand Rapids, Michigan. I love it here. HUGE Dutch, Christian-reformed population (not a negative for me, but...), and there are certain parts of downtown you avoid unless you have to, but other parts are awesome. Great restaurants, good sports teas, and it's big enough to have interesting suburbs (Eastown, Kentwood, etc.) while still small enough to not feel too overpowering. So yeah, I've got a fair amount of hometown pride.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

I'm from Johannesburg and there are very few positives I could say about the place. It's really just a dirty, xenophobic, smog covered mess with a stupidly high rate of crime. I'm told there are number of hospitals in the city the get about 7 new murder victims in every day. So yeah, not one of the world's most pleasant places overall.

 

[Tarcolt]

Bundoora. Northern suburbs of Melbourne... the best place in the northern suburbs if you don't want your head caved in

 

[proctorninja2]

I used to have alot more pride for Boston when I was younger mostly because I fallowed sports more and Boston is pretty much a sports town but now since the recent bombings Its been really great to see the city rally together to help each other although no one can still drive in a straight line

 

[SirDeadly]

I'm from Adelaide, Australia. The only thing we're really proud of are out AFL teams (I support a team from Perth) and they're pretty bad...

 

[Atrocious Joystick]

The biggest problem with Uppsala is that it is too good. Excepting one or two places it's a beautiful fucking city centered around a bitchin' Cathedral from the 13th century and one of the best universities in the country. With a population of 200 thousand it isn't a behemoth like New York it isn't even close to Stockholm but it still has everything a city needs pretty much within walking distance of each other. Problem is I'd like to study in another city somewhere else in this here European Union but the thing I want to study falls under biology and this university is one of the best in the world when it comes to biology. It gives me very little reason to move but I know I got to eventually for my sanity.

Oh and the renting market is fucked too. "Why hello sir I'd like to rent an apartment." "Of course mister just sign up for this here rental queue and use the interwebz to mark apartments you are interested in. The average waiting time is ten years. Come back when you're thirty."

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

I'm not quite sure what I would classify as my hometown.
I was born in Birkenhead, lived in New Ferry until I was 3, then to Wirral until I was 5 which are both close to Wales. After that I moved to Keith, a town in the North-East of Scotland and within a year we moved to a small cottage in the countryside where I'm sitting here in my bed at midday typing this out on a laptop today.

 

[Angie7F]

I'm not quite sure what I would classify as my hometown.

Me too. I was born in Tokyo, moved at 4, went to Perth.
Moved back to Japan at 14 and now I dont know what is my home town.

But lets say Tokyo, because i have been living in Tokyo the longest.
Welk, I cant complain much since it is one wierd clean metropolis to live in.

 

[Ldude893]

They let some guy named Snowden get on a plane to Moscow without a stitch.

Yeah, I'm actually pretty glad my city's living up to its image as a stronghold of freedom, especially in a corner of a country where there is none.

 

[Nadia Castle]

Oldham, a lot of people think its a hotbead of racial tension, but in all honesty its probably the most generic northern town in Britain. Everything is just generally 'okay', the town centre, the surrounding areas, even the football team is distinctly 'meh'. That said I'm still pleased to be from here, being generic means it's very down to earth about life, and the chippys are fantastic. I've just moved back there after my tenancy in Bradford ended and about the only bad thing is the local jobcentre, which treats me like something they found lying in a gutter because my last job laid me off.

 

[Zantos]

Huddersfield. It's alright, I guess; easy access to the countryside, nice monuments (Castle Hill, man), and I guess...Patrick Stewart was born nearby? However, there are a lot of chavs about. Just yesterday some lovely gents and their lady friends shouted 'white and nerdy' at me. Guess that I can't argue with that assessment.

I drove to college there every day for a year, and not once did we drive through Lockwood without passing at least one emergency service vehicle in full siren. That's basically how I think of Huddersfield now. The worst part is though, Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, which is technically part of Dewsbury.

But on the plus side, some fantastic takeaways. Particularly on Trinity road. Even if you do have to go through the cringe of watching your mate have to be told by the pizza shop owner why he can't have ham and pineapple.

OT: Barnsley, so everything Froggy and I have said about Huddersfield, swap Patrick Stewart with Brian Blessed, and you've essentially got it. Although apparently we had something to do with the invention of the beer pump, so that's pretty cool.

 

[absulute]

Reading, England.

Things from Reading:

Biscuits
Kate Winslet
Kenneth Brannagh
Ricky Gervais.

That's about it.