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valley_parade:
--- Quote from: Luke C on 28 Jul 2008, 10:29 ---Leeds. The finest city on earth.
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TOO BAD YOUR SOCCER TEAM IS TERRIBLE!
I live in North Adams, MA. It's a small town that Tyler once described as "quaint", and also as "what I figured purgatory would be like". It's incredibly boring if you don't do drugs. Which I don't. I hate my town, really. I forget which magazine it was (Yankee, maybe?), but we were once called "The Gateway to Nowhere". The one upside is that we've got the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The art's alright, and they have some pretty good concerts.
The real shit part is that's it's about an hour away from anything decent. By decent I mean Northampton or Springfield, but I suppose Albany's about the same distance as well. Boston and New York City are each about three hours away, depending on traffic.
KvP:
I live in Loveland, Colorado. It's mid-sized with a mall and everything, and it's very WASP-y. Our area was rated the best place to retire for some years by some prominent magazine whose name escapes me.
Here's the only shot of the city I could find, facing East from the mountains.
Blue Kitty:
Royal Oak, MI
crap, I need to get pictures
ThePQ4:
I am from the small town of Augusta, WI (population: ~1450). The city just turned 150 years old in 2006 (the year I graduated). According to their website, the area is known for their family dairy farms, apple orchards, grains, creamery, and recreational opportunities...
This is what we are really known for:
Dells Mill:
The Woodshed (An Amish Furniture store, which is not made by local Amish, but actually shipped in from, I believe, Iowa):
Bushes Beans: contrary to all of the signs we have in town for their 100th Anniversary, we are NOT the home of them...we did open the factory for them though, about five years or so after they started in Arkansas, and according to this fun fact from the website, we ARE the home of their "Secret Recipe":
"Condon Bush, grandson of founder A.J. Bush, with his co-workers, Tom Rugotzke and Beatrice Piel, recreated his mother Kathleen Bush's "Secret Family Recipe" in the Augusta, Wisconsin, plant.":
(...If the pics are too big, let me know and I'll link to them instead).
sean:
So I grew up and currently live in Rockville, Maryland. It looks like this according to wikipedia.
Also according to wikipedia, it is somehow the 2nd biggest city in Maryland. I'm calling shenanigans. Calling it a city is a stretch. A huge stretch.
Anyway, Rockville is surburbia at its finest. It is located about a half hour outside of Washington, DC. It's located in Montogmery County, which somehow is one of the richest counties in America. Shit. Its got tons of boring old baby boomer suburban houses as pitured by Tania, a silly little town center where the cool kids hang about, and some big scary roads which are keeping me from learning how to drive. Seriously, I don't want to drive with these people, they're fucking scary. But its a pretty reasonable place to grow up. Its really expensive though, which blows. And there are so many rich little preppy kids it makes me want to engage in defenestration. (Editors note: In review of this post, I take that last sentiment back. The area with lots of rich kids is a bit further south in Bethesda. There are not actually that many rich kids in Rockville.)
Other than that though, its a nice little "city". It works. Also, F. Scott Fitzgerald is buried here. The grave is at my elementary school's church. Its pretty rad.
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