What makes where you live original?

[super_smash_jesus]

So I am completing my degree in the next few months, and was really wanting to go travelling. I don't care where, and thats where you thread jockeys come into play. Tell me your general area of residence (no address' please, that will make my parole officer shit) and something that is neat or makes that place stand out from others.

For example :

I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. What makes my hometown intersting is that considering we are in the middle of the prairies, we needed a ski hill for recreation purposes (B.C is far away). To accomplish this, we stacked a lot of garbage, enough so to create a mountain, then covered it in soil. So to this day, we have a garbage mountain which people skii on every winter.

The most interesting story may very well persuade me enough to actually visit next spring, so begin the tourist marketing!

 

[GothmogII]

Hmm...I'm not sure I like the idea of a crazed backwoods serial killer stalking our town. But okay

We've got stones! Grey stones! Lot's of em', beaches full! Hence why we're called Greystones -_-.

This is in Ireland by the way. Down on the South-East coast. But, Ireland's a pretty good place to visit in general. You've got the Burren, The Aran Islands, Lot's of old Forts around the place. Monasteries and such. And the ugh, the Gaeltacht, that's where everyone speaks Irish...I didn't like it, but some people have said they had fun there. It's usually just students there.

 

[Death Magnetic]

Come to jolly old England!

Everyone drinks tea, eats crumpets, it pisses it down constantly and the people are all xenophobic about immigrants even though they can't see it through their perspective. Also, teenage stabbings are abundant and I saw one happen once. As you can tell I'm patriotic. *

(*Results may vary)

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Come to jolly old England!

Everyone drinks tea, eats crumpets, it pisses it down constantly and the people are all xenophobic about immigrants even though they can't see it through their perspective. Also, teenage stabbings are abundant and I saw one happen once. As you can tell I'm patriotic. *

(*Results may vary)

I'll be in London in less than a week, I'll tell you how I found it.

Anyway, I live in Calgary, Alberta. What makes Calgary interesting... we have some pretty good restaurants, one bar in the city serves a house brew of godlike awesomeness, The Glenbow is an alright museum, and we're fairly safe if you're not a member of a gang.

 

[khululy]

I live in holland and we are the tallest people on earth. And most of our land is about 7 meters under sea level and it was a dutch man who invented the way to make chocolate as we know it. And Vincent van Gogh as well as Rembrandt where Dutch. and we were also the first European country to trade with Japan.


and since Holland is not a big country I find it's my general area of residence

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I live in holland and we are the tallest people on earth. And most of our land is about 7 meters under sea level and it was a dutch man who invented the way to make chocolate as we know it. And Vincent van Gogh as well as Rembrandt where Dutch. and we were also the first European country to trade with Japan.


and since Holland is not a big country I find it's my general area of residence

I'll also be in Holland for a few days... but that's not until October.

 

[Danny Ocean]

What makes where I live interesting?

Me.

Ba Dum Tsh.

 

[the protaginist]

come to pennsylvainia,the Redneckest state north of the(South u.s.-north u.s.) border!

 

[Frosk]

Seattle, WA, USA

The Space Needle
Ted Bundy
The Green River Killer
Starbucks (that right, it started here and we plagued the world with them)
Experience Music Project
Mt. Rainier & Mt. St. Helens
Olympic National Forest (the only temperate zone rain forest in the world)
Floating Bridges on Lake Washington (pontoons float the bridges on the water)
Olympic View Sculpture Park
The Fremont Troll
The Narrows Bridge (you all know it, it's the one that waves like crazy before crumbling under the pressure) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mclp9QmCGs

I'm probably missing stuff cool stuff, but that's the best I can do at the moment.

I am taking a few liberties with the distance of some of these things from Seattle proper, but once you are here everything listed is pretty close.

 

[Haelin]

Norfolk - England...
We have..erm...rain...and cold, also beaches, fenlands, woodlands.
Its a wonderful place for wildlife, well in the countryside, if u venture to the city its all pubs, clubs and drunkards wandering about
We have theatres, music venues, parks, beautiful cathedrals etc

There, iv tried to make it sound as nice as i can.

 

[Evilbunny]

Where I live there is a vandal that adds a level of charm to the town. He is constantly changing "no turn on red" signs to "no turn on fred" and changing gaylor avenue to gaylord avenue. His best work is a sign some hippie put up that says "war is not the answer" underneath which he wrote "wait, what was the question?"

 

[Solo508]

I live in Stirling, Scotland. Right under the big monument dedicated to William Wallace (seen in the film Braveheart) Its got so much green yet it still has everything you need, its definately worth a look.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stirling/wallace/images/fromcastle.jpg

 

[NewClassic_v1legacy]

The great thing about Louisiana is nothing. Maybe New Orleans around Mardi Gras, but you're honestly not missing out on too much else. Skip it and either go to Miami in Florida or Cancun, Mexico.

Plus, it's hurricane season locally. Keep an eye out for Gustav, if I disappear forever around Tuesday, then you guys know what happened to me.

Shortly thereafter, keep an eye out for Hurricane NewClassic.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. What makes my hometown intersting is that considering we are in the middle of the prairies, we needed a ski hill for recreation purposes (B.C is far away).

actually it was for the commonwealth winter games, i think tho i forget which ones for sure tho, it was 25 years ago tho

as for me, my city has a few interesting things

1 Col John McRae was born and lived here for most of his life
2 the law allowing women to go topless started here when a girl walked down the street topless, she got arrested and challenged it and took the case to the supreme court and they said she was legally allowed to do it
3 the best micro-almost-craft brewery in canada is here
4 we have a smaller scale of Notre Dame here, doesn't look totally like it cause they ran out of money
5 we're the home of the Great Orbax

 

[khululy]

May I add holland is the home country of Heineken beer (it's not the best dutch beer imho but it's famous)
we have such a great country, we even know hom to make real cheese. unlike the french or americans.

 

[Death Magnetic]

I'll be in London in less than a week, I'll tell you how I found it.

Just wear a stab proof vest. Also, everyone in London barges into everyone else because they have the pathetic knowledge of thinking they're more important than slice bread. Everyone is exceedingly impolite. The London Underground is a claustrophobe's worst nightmare and is too bloody hot in summer. Chavs are copious and are the most worthy of all my hatred. The food tastes like burnt hair and shite and is overpriced. The pollution there is so bad it turns your bogeys black as well.

Enjoy! (Note: I have been there plenty of times to form this judgement)

 

[Haelin]

Yeh London can be... not all that fun sometimes :S

 

[werepossum]

I live in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the USA. Tennessee has a lazy, winding river and miles of streams full of almost three hundred species of freshwater fish, not to mention amphibians galore. We're one of the most diverse places in the world for freshwater fish and amphibians outside of the tropics. We also have beautiful, worn-down old mountains, some of the oldest in the world. People are polite and charming, for the most part.