Your home town's claim to fame

[Hipsy_Gypsy]

The Titanic was built here. Mind you, it did sink...
Game of Thrones was filmed here.
Battle of the Bone, Belfast's "first Kung-Fu movie" and "The Belfast Zombie Movie" was, strangely enough, made here.

Van Morrison, Colin Morgan (who played "Merlin" in the Merlin series), Patrica Quin (who starred in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shock Treatment), members from Snow Patrol were all born here.

God, I hate Snow Patrol.

 

[Sariteiya]

Not really my hometown, but my region has the worst rate of Raccoon rabies in all of North America. So... Yay us?

 

[Gmans uncle]

where I was born or where I live now? I'll give ya the one for where I was born...

Hamden CT... We've got a zillion Pizza joints!

EDIT: oh wait, I was actually born in Vermont, I just grew up in Hamden... but I don't know the name of the town soooooooo let's stick with that.

 

[Idocreating]

York: Has a huge ass cathedral (The Minster) that survived WWII bombing unscathed.

Also, VIKINGS.

 

[Benth08x]

My town houses around 75% of the US's uranium. That counts for something, right?

 

[JaceArveduin]

Pretty sure my home town was the location of one of the largest saw mills in the US, but I can't confirm that as of now

 

[The_Amazing_G]

I live in Portland Oregon, the home of nirvana and the largest amount of tattoo parlors per capita. Also it's been voted the fourth weirdest city in the USA. Go Portland!

 

[The_Amazing_G]

Also we have voodoo donuts and hot lips pizza, which are both AWESOME

 

[p3t3r]

the birth place of justin beiber

 

[RanD00M]

Stockholm, Sweden.
Uhm... tons of things.... The royal family lives here. Guess that counts.

Fuck yeah Sweking.

OT: My hometown is know for fuck all on an international scale.
My hometown is also known for fuck all on a national scale. A lot of people don't even know that my hometown exists here in Iceland. Shits fucking hilarious.

 

[sean360h]

My town created the word boycott and the french invaded my town in the 1800s that's about it I think

 

[Rude as HECK]

Home town of The Trogs, a once famous band who did Wild Thing.

Baptism place of an ancient viking king.

Home of the workhouse scandal that lead to the Municipal reform act of 1835. This one had lead people to claim "Andover inspired Oliver Twist". I checked that one out; it's false.

 

[hashtag]

Toronto. We have the CN tower. That's pretty cool. Like...it's tall and tower shaped.
Wow that sounded a lot worse than it did in my head.

What about when Toronto was still called York? It got blown up in the war of 1812. That's something.

Meh. It got burnt down. Not that interesting.

 

[DSQ]

Lots of fellow Scots here I see.

Born in Brixton, London which is famous for it's large Carribian community, Riots and being the birth place of David Bowie and Grew up in Edinburgh famous for... Walter Scott, Herion, Having most of the city centre be a world heritage site, having a castle and a exstinct volcano in the centre of town, Fringe Festival ect ect.

New Bedford Massachusetts use to be the worlds wealthiest town during the 18th and 19th centuries and apparently was visited by several abolitionists during the time.

I'm from Bedford MA.

lol you guys should visit the orginal Bedford, it is, uh, quite the place. It's claime to fame is Batman Begins and TDK were partly filmed there tho.

 

[Vault101]

hahahaha

no one here has herd of it..its the most unremarkable place in the world

hmm..it has its own shire...yeah I lived in a shire, just like the hobbits

 

[OblivionSoul]

Edmonton Alberta, West Edmonton Mall as said earlier, Bioware operates out of here, but everyone here also seems to have forgotten that Nathan Fillion was born and raised here as well.

 

[Tharwen]

Well I live in Nottingham.

Robin Hood FTW.

As do I. Robin Hood double FTW.

Also, lace and gang crime and nightclubs and a castle, but who really cares about them?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Well I live in Nottingham.

Robin Hood FTW.

As do I. Robin Hood double FTW.

Also, lace and gang crime and nightclubs and a castle, but who really cares about them?

Get them all in the castle.

Could be the start of something awesome...

 

[hellswarmglow]

It's also the heart of Queens! Also notable for the Kevin James comedy series, King of Queens, and the majority of the Eddie Murphy film Coming to America! We also make the best Italian ices ever, according to the signboard outside Gino's Pizzeria on 37th st. (also grew up in Astoria).