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ThisIsOriginal:
Hilton,New York (bout 40 minutes outside of Rochester)
never come here unless you want to see endless pizza places and a bunch of kids dressed in AE,Aeropastle,and A&F being oversarcastic.
inflatable_slide:
im from cork, its a pretty nice city.
http://www.foundmark.com/Ireland/data/Daytrips/CityCentre.JPG
we have a one o' these http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/CorkStFinbarrsCathedral.jpg/450px-CorkStFinbarrsCathedral.jpg
eeeh we have a butter museum... the blarney stone eeeehhhmm a really good university http://www.ucc.ie
and an art college and of course pubs galore!
SilentJ:
I am so very pleasantly surprised that there are like four people in this thread that live within a half hour of me! Somebody with fer better organizational skills than I should organize a meetup around here since I failed so very, very hard last time.
I'm from Columbia, MD, a relatively quiet suburb pretty much equidistant from Baltimore, DC, and Annapolis.
It looks like this from up in the air.
Some fun places I go around town are Lake Elkhorn, Lake Kittamaqundi, which houses the People Tree, the vision of a unified community made into a statue, and is next to the Columbia Mall, which has plenty of stores that aren't Forever 21.
Columbia is a planned community, built in the vision of James Rouse in 1967, designed to be a community in which segregation based on race, religion, and income would not exist. To this day, this is very much true; it is an incredibly diverse community, with an extremely low crime rate, located in the county with the highest household per capita income in the nation.
The city is broken up into ten self-sufficient villages, which are all broken into neighborhoods. Each neighborhood's name is derived from a work by a famous author, and all of the street names in that neighborhood are titles of works by the same author. For example, a friend of mine lives in Dickinson, where all of the street names come from Emily Dickinson works (Sweet Hours Way, Weatherworn Path, etc.). I live in Huntington, but I have no idea what author/work this is from. The street is Spring Water Path; anybody have any idea?
In 2006, Columbia, paired with nearby Elicott City, was named #4 on Money magazine's list of the 100 best places to live in America. In 2008, they were ranked #8 on the list. The library system for Howard County is consistently one of the top in the nation.
In the fall, I'm attending nearby Howard Community College, also in Columbia. This is the newly-built Rouse Company Foundation building, very close to the middle of campus. As far as 2-year universities go, it's actually very nice.
Famous Columbians include Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, and Edward Norton, who is The Fucking Man.
More info here.
ViolentDove:
I just GIS-ed my home town, and was kinda surprised at the lack of post-card-esque pictures. Where I'm from is a town next to a beach/tidal lagoon where a lot of Sydney-siders go for holidays.
It basically has a lot of bush and water and sand-
It has a pretty decent shore break, and an average reef break. So you see a fair bit of this-
And this one kind of shows the island were we used to go camping and drink stolen homebrew-
Nice enough place to visit, if you're ever in Sydney and feel like a weekend away.
RedLion:
Man, you guys almost all live in such nice places. I live in Janesville, a town of about 60,000 in south-central Wisconsin. Discerning characteristics: None.
This is our main street.
God, I just fucking bored myself senseless just looking at those pictures. Luckily, we're 30 minutes from Madison, an hour from Milwaukee, and 1 1/2 hours away from Chicago, so there's plenty of places to go that actually have things to do.
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