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Liz:
I have family in Stowe, which I believe is not far from Barre. The pictures I've seen make the whole area look all cute and quaint. Perhaps someday I will take a trip there.

Luke C:
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown

In '65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
This is your hometown

Ok so Im not Bruce Springsteen so my hometown isn't New Jersey, it is in fact Leeds. The finest city on earth.

It is hot at the moment, 23 degrees C but not very sunny.
For pics, wikipedia provides these shots which are pretty good.
Shot of the city centre, not all of it but a fair chunk.


This is Briggate, the main shopping street in Leeds and as many proud Leeds residents (and some, like me, who like pointless facts) will tell you is home to the first Harvey Nichols store outside of London.

imapiratearg:

--- Quote from: Misconception on 28 Jul 2008, 10:19 ---I have family in Stowe, which I believe is not far from Barre. The pictures I've seen make the whole area look all cute and quaint. Perhaps someday I will take a trip there.

--- End quote ---

Stowe's between an hour to two hours from Barre, I think.  Barre looks quaint from afar, but it's sketchy as shit.  You are likely to be stabbed or raped or both if you walk the streets at night.  There is also an abundance of white kids dressed like black people and white trash.  It's hardly an interesting town.  Go to Montpelier.  For real.

Leeds looks lovely!

Aimless:
Man, I'd like to just take a couple of years off to travel around the world and see nice beaches.

Misonception, I've heard that Minnesota is really nice in the winter, at least once you get out into the wild :) the only impressions I have of it are from SG-1, however.

Dimmukane:
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.

Right now it's about 90 degrees Fahrenheit, a little humid, and the locusts are buzzing loudly.  We had one fly in our house two nights ago.

Below is what part of our backyard looks like.



And this tree in our front yard blooms starts spring with bright pink flowers all over it.

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