Share something interesting about your town/village/community

[geezah91]

Honestly I'm just hungry for interesting facts about communities around the world. I'll get it started.

The village I'm from, Bansha, was, according to my 6th class teacher, the first rural village in Ireland to be connected to the national electric grid.

 

[Tandtroll]

The community my parents live in (where I used to live) has a motto like many other Swedish cities... only ours is rather weird. "See Sundbyberg, then die." And that's the official motto that they have on billboards and stuff.
Then again, there are many senior citizens living here.

 

[Naeberius]

I live in Christchurch, New Zealand. We are sick of the quakes now. That is all.

 

[Doitpow]

The town I live in, Sherborne, has more pubs per person than any other town in the country.

 

[Radeonx]

The town I'm currently living in (Redmond, Washington), is home to the Microsoft headquarters.
I live a good 5 minutes away from the campus.

 

[Robert Ewing]

I live in Swindon. Profact, Swindon is unique, as it is the only large town in Britain not situated on a major river.

And Swindon is a shortening of 'Swine hill.' As it's situated on land that was previously massive pig farms.

 

[DanielBrown]

I live on the west side of Stockholm, Sweden.
Nothing notably has happened here, as far as I know, but the past few months we've had a major increase in crime. Lots of knife slashers has been running about. One kid even got stabbed to death. Also had a "practise riot" by a group of retard kids who thought it would be cool after the UK riots.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

My hometown, Slough, has the largest privately-owned trading estate in Europe, and in said trading estate is where the British version of 'The Office' is filmed.

Also, Pinewood studios are about 10 minutes from my house; yep, that's where all the James Bond's were filmed. Heck, I'm friends with one of the Executive Producer's son.

SO HOWWABOUT THAAAT.

 

[Esotera]

A man from a village 5 miles down the road was recently arrested for having sex with a horse.

Repeatedly.

 

[Monkeybald]

My town was named Rocklin, because the English miners who started the town didn't like the sound of 'Rockland'.

 

[iLazy]

We have the highest rating of murder per capita...yay? I really gotta get out of this town.

 

[Nargleblarg]

My town hosted the 2004 Olympic Diving trials, it was a big deal back then. And the local County that I'm in won some contest about a year back to hold the premiere of the movie "The Other Guys."

 

[Sram]

Around Merten fruit-growing was established as a branch of the economy in Germany by Otto Schmitz-Hübsch. Also Heinrich Böll, awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature 1972, is buried here. Oh, and Carnival is great, too.

 

[Bobbovski]

My municipality was the home of the guy who was suspected to have killed prime minister Olof Palme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme

It was the birthplace and death place of Ted Gärdestad, a famous singer in Sweden.

Some more info about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sollentuna

 

[staika]

I live in a city called Erie Pennsylvania. It's located right on Lake Erie, we have a beach on the lake but it continues to lose sand so we have to bring in sand from other places to keep the beach alive. We have some colleges and a mall here and its an alright place to live.

 

[Catie Caraco]

The town I was born in, Johnstown New York, has a pretty cool Colonial history. We were founded by Sir William Johnson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Johnson,_1st_Baronet He had a fantastic relationship with the native tribe, and, when as a Tory things started looking bad for ol' Sir Bill, the Indians helped him escape to Canada. His home still stands. The street I grew up on has a Colonial period jail and fort. After the technical surrender of the British to the Americans but before word got out, a battle took place in my city that started at that fort and ended in a field a couple miles away. Oh, and George Washington inspected that fort once.

His common law wife, the Native woman Molly Brant, was pretty awesome too. http://meyna.com/mohawk3.html

Also to Johnstown's fame is Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was pals with Susan B. Anthony but very few people have ever heard of. Sadly, since she was very instrumental in the Women's Suffrage Movement but didn't get a coin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton There's a street right near mine called Cady street, after her father.


The city I live in now, Haverhill MA, apparently made shoes for the Queen of England, back when she was our Queen, and some rich dude built a castle here for some reason. That's about all I know. http://www.winnekenni.com/

 

[Bobic]

My village has a castle that was featured in the Call of Cthulu: Dark corners of the earth game.

Suck on that.

 

[MalthusX]

My hometown, Pembroke, Ontario, was founded by a couple of illegal squatters in the 1800s.

My current place of residence, Toronto, was orginally colonized after the British (presumably after a vision of the future) abandoned Detroit.

I like my hometown's orgin better.