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jmrz:
This is fun! I've lived in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia for all my 19 years of aliveness.
We have lots of beaches and a harbour that looks like this:
The CBD looks like this, the City Council are in the middle of trying to get the CMD revamped and to encourage businesses and people to come and do things in the city, it isn't working overly well:
Aside from the beaches and soaking up the sun in summer, Newcastle is a nice quiet place to live. We have two big shopping centres and a whole handful of smaller ones.
Boro_Bandito:
--- Quote from: Nim on 30 Jul 2008, 22:25 ---I grew up in a small country town in South Australia before recently moving to Adelaide. I took some photos while I was down there, though. Thus:
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Hell, South Australia from your pictures reminds me a helluva lot of parts of South Texas.
Vendetagainst:
--- Quote from: Sam on 01 Aug 2008, 09:43 ---you do know that texas' capitol is 15 feet higher than the national capitol, right?
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yes, well Illinois' state capitol is the tallest non-skyscraper capitol, whatever that means. :-P
RedLion:
My town has had a GM plant in it for 105 years, and they announced a few months back that they'll be closing it down. Janesville's finally developed enough that it will survive without the plant and won't become like so many abandoned rust-belt towns, but it's still going to hit this place hard. There's going to be a not insubstantial exodus of people.
Further, the town's only strip club was closed, and the proprietor arrested on charges of running a prostitution ring.
And then this summer there was the biggest flood in the history of the city and all of Wisconsin. Half the city was inaccessible due to flooding. It wasn't as bad as some of the things you saw in Iowa--entire towns submerged up to the roofs of houses--but it was pretty damned extreme nonetheless. I was working for the city's Water Treatment division at the time, and so much of our days were spent helping individuals with flooded basements, opening manholes to suck out flooded sewers and pump stations that had been flooded with water and broken down, so the plumbing system for a part of the town broke down. That was fun. Then, of course, when the water finally receded, there was dead fish, mold, and mud everywhere. It was lovely.
BlakeJustBlake:
I know I've already posted my town and such, but I thought I'd just give y'all some better pictures instead of the generic ones off the internet that are supposed to make it look cool. And to keep down bandwidth and the amount of scrollage I'm going to link all the pictures.
Which if you don't remember this is going to be Denton TX.
This is what most of the streets pretty much look like in Denton
This is a club called Dan's Silverleaf
This is the court house, they turn those lights on every night, Christmas or not.
This is the square, there are things there like a coffee house, an ice cream shop, and several several bars.
One thing about Denton is that it has a ton of hookah bars, and they all pretty much look like this.
This is what my campus looks like covered in snow (It's Texas alright, it doesn't happen often.)
I'd like to get up a picture of Fry Street, which is this place close to campus where there is like a hookah bar, a head shop, several bars, and a couple little places to eat. It used to have a pretty awesome pizza place as well as a fairly awesome coffee shop, but the pizza place burnt down and the coffee shop closed. So now it's hardly as cool. Also a guy comes out every night in his van and sells healing tobaccos or and pipes or something like that. He usually has a bubble machine. Also there's this bum that walks around and asks if you want to hear a joke for some change. He usually has pretty good ones, but he's not always up on fresh material.
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