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Meg:
This is my hometown.


Pictures.



People call it the surf mecca. There's always a lot of surfers around, all the time.

I was a very happy teenage girl.

orangepeas:
I tend to move around alot, so I don't really have anywhere I call "home".

I grew up in Cambridge,which is about a hour from Toronto. This is where I went to school from grade 9 to grade 12.

I hate it, therefore I spend most of my time in Waterloo,which is about 20 mins from Cambridge.

Where I get my music
We have a decent music festival where they have local bands perform

ephemere: my grandparents live in markham. I am so glad I don't live there. I'm actually thinking of moving to Guelph this coming August. It's neat there.

Boro_Bandito:

--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 28 Jul 2008, 11:28 ---I live in Timonium, Maryland.  We're north of Towson and south of Hunt Valley.  Hunt Valley has one of the highest concentrations of game developers in the US outside of California.  It's a nice place, there's two state parks within 10 miles of where I live.

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I keep forgetting how close you live to me, and to where I go to school and work.


I live in Reisterstown, MD. It's a small town north of Baltimore, on the last part of 795 before it turns into the Westminster Pike. I live in a baby boom neighborhood built in the early 60s and occasionally find relics of past residents while gardening/landscaping for my parents. So far these have included a rail road spike, a thirty year old cap gun, and an eight ball.

A pretty happenin' Italian Ice and Gelati place.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/1501570735_433df5f90b.jpg?v=0

But as nice a place as I live now, it is not my Hometown. I grew up in Lubbock, Texas on the eastern Edge of the Llano Estacado. Now you can knock Texas all you want, but I loved my home town. I liked the fact that it wasn't a big city, that there weren't any bad traffic problems or tall buildings. I liked how flat it was, and I appreciate looking back that rent for a 1 bedroom apartment per month is like $350. According to Wikipedia "The area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world", I know, its exciting right? Buddy Holly is from Lubbock. In Lubbock is the relatively well known Texas Tech University and the Red Raiders, part of the big twelve. Really good marching band, and the reason that if you're in band in any junior high school or High School in Lubbock it also automatically meant you're in marching band, no exceptions. Lubbock is a really spread out town. There are 250,000 people who live there, and yet most buildings aren't any more than a single story high. We literally have nearly endless space to build, so there's no reason to cram everything together. Streets are wide and grid-like, houses have big yards, and its surrounded by nothing but cotton fields and a few small villages for a hundred miles in three directions, and bordered by Caprock Canyon to the east. Out in Lubbock you feel like you have room to breathe, where you can see miles in any direction and the sky takes up more of your view than the earth. There were no naturally occurring trees originally in Lubbock, they were all brought in and planted at some point or another.

So the Llano Estacado, or Palisaded Plains, is a mesa. Extremely low population density, and according to Wikipedia "This geographic area stretches about 250 mi north to south, and 150 mi east to west, a total area of some 37,500 sq mi, larger than all of New England, and covering all or part of thirty-three Texas counties and four New Mexico counties."

Pictures:
Maxey Park, a few blocks from the house i grew up in: http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/2612090.jpg

My old high school: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Lubbock_High_School.JPG

A bad mural: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3124522

A statue: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1936760

Off Season: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5331663

Luke C:

--- Quote from: valley_parade on 28 Jul 2008, 15:33 ---
--- 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!

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We would kick your ass North Adams, if you even have a team.

Hairy Joe Bob:
I live in Brighton, on the south coast of England. It is very pretty and has very nice weather. We have two universities, loads of parks, two piers and lots of old winding tiny streets called twittens, these are mostly in the south Lanes, and the North Laine (a 'laine' being a field where there was a big market - this is now rows of streets but there are still hundreds of little shops selling everything. We also have a clock tower and several theatres.

We have a big garish, ugly but somehow charming, pier:



Plus a dilapidated and ruined but strangely beautiful pier:



I love this town, we have the quaint south Lanes:



The North Laine, full of hippies,bric-a-brac shops and street theatre:



One of the best things about Brighton is sunrise, and sunset:



And finally, the Brighton Pavillion:



This palace is surrounded by parks and greenery, and it is right in the centre of the city. We've got a pretty nice city.

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