Where are you from? Tell us 1 interesting fact about where you live.

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   myownworldposted 15 years ago

   London: multicultural... alive... fast paced... overcrowded... unpredictable weather...pubs at every corner...great architecture... where you find beauty in the most unexpected of places... yes, one mad vibrant city that I love!
   
   

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   bsscorpio8posted 15 years ago

   Bawlmore hon!!! Funny accent, crabs, and big hair!!
   
   Baltimore, Maryland.(aka...Bloodymore, Murderland)

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   klarawieckposted 15 years ago

   I live in Miami, Florida... where English is a second language! :-)

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   Fluffymetalposted 15 years ago

   Currently I live in Corpus Christi TX and one cool thing is you can drive and camp on the beaches ANYWHERE!

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   Greek Oneposted 15 years ago

   I'm from Canada's largest city.. Toronto
   
   

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   Japemwellowsposted 15 years ago

   I'm from Rochester Kent UK, Charles Dickens based many of his novels in this area.

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   habeeposted 15 years ago

   I live in TIfton, GA, where it's 105 degrees with 99% humidity. Who needs to visit a sauna when you can just step outside? I'm going to go get in my pool now!

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   Uzdawiposted 15 years ago

   I live in a small country, that has the highest number of meteorite craters per land area in the world.Estonia.

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   TMMasonposted 15 years ago

   I live on the convergence of the Suwannee, Itchetucknee, and Santafe rivers in FL. I am less than minute walking time out my door from the Santafe, two minutes driving up the road from the Itchetucknee.... and about 4 mins from the Suwanee.
   
   And it is quite peaceful, and very beautiful to the eyes.
   
   Of course it is also boring as all hell and miles from anywhere or anyone... but it is great in its own way.

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    tobey100posted 15 years ago

    Whites Creek, Tennessee.  If you can find it let me know.  I think there's a reward of some kind.  12 miles northwest of Nashville.  One interesting fact....if we go into the big city on the weekend we have to hire someone to babysit the town.

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    CASE1WORKERposted 15 years ago

    I live in Leicester in the United Kingdom
    One interesting fact? We have a clocktower in the centre of the town referred to as "the clock tower"
    not an imaginative lot are we?

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    Ron Montgomeryposted 15 years ago

    Flagstaff Arizona - Home of JoyCone, the largest manufacturer of ice cream cones in the world.

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    wademcmasterposted 15 years ago

    I live in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia.  The author of Mary Poppins as born here, theres a stature of Mary Poppins in Town.

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    cocopremeposted 15 years ago

    I live in Johnson City, Tennessee.  During the time of Prohibition, it was known as "Little Chicago" because Al Capone used the town as a hideout.  Johnson City was a big railroad depot back in the 1920's, so it was a logical place for him to have a base.  There are lots of buildings here that are linked with Capone and his men.
    
    

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       IntimatEvolutionposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Wow that is too cool. 
       
       Columbia Missouri has a lot of interesting facts about it.  But my favorite is my Missouri Tigers!  Lets Go M I Z Z O U!!

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    bocanqposted 15 years ago

    Hi im from (GABORONE )Botswana ,in southern africa, the CAPITAL CITY OF THE WORLDS LARGEST DAIMOND PRODUCER; JUST A FEW HOURS FROM JOHANNESBURG......!http://www.botswana-places.co.za/gaborone_city.jpg

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    leebertteaposted 15 years ago

    The Willis Tower was once called the Sears Tower and is bigger than the Twin Towers were. It is currently the tallest building in the USA.

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    ahostagesituationposted 15 years ago

    I live in California, but I'm originally from Maryland--Mason-Dixon line. Very best blue crabs in the world, my mother is the best steamer that I know.  And in other news, there is an animal called "nutria" near the Eastern Shore of MD, and it's also found down south.  It's essentially a large rodent, and it was (and is) consumed (yes, eaten), by residents partially due to its rapid over population.

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    CYBERSUPEposted 15 years ago

    I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.---The city of Brotherly Love and the Liberty Bell !

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    akirchnerposted 15 years ago

    Prineville, Oregon - my interesting fact?  It is the redneck capital of Oregon - but I jest.  It is a frightening place to live if you are a city slicker like me! Lucky I know how to take a joke.

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    sukrithaposted 14 years ago

    Hii.. Me from India -> Kerala-> "Gods Own Country"

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    Capt and The Kidposted 14 years ago

    We live here and there. Not really a boundary defining kinda person when it comes to where to live.  At sea is best and when we have to live on land, it is usually the big peninsula.

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    camloposted 14 years ago

    What an interesting thread. I've never seen it before, but have just spent some time reading the messages here.
    
    Well, I live here:
    
    
    
    Cologne.
    
    During WWII, Cologne was bombed to the ground, so all the old buildings you see in this photograph were re-built and are, in fact, new. Except one; Der Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral - the large building with the twin steeples). In remained more or less in tact, but this was no act of God. Its steeples were useful as a land mark for the allies during air-raids.

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       IntimatEvolutionposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       That's amazing.

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    seanorjohnposted 14 years ago

    I live in Doncaster,a small north England market town, home to the st leger classic horse race , I mile 6 furlongs.It has been a very lucky race for me.

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       ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I wouldn't really call Donny all that 'small', it is large for a market town, it would be very small for a city.
       
       Hmmm... yes... Doncaster, the place that you often need to go to catch a train to London and the temporary home to Jason Shackell last year. That is actually all I know about Doncaster!

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    lilian_sgposted 14 years ago

    I come from Ipoh, a small city in Malaysia. It is known widely as one of the food havens in Malaysia. But some people from Penang (another state in Malaysia) would argue that Penang food is better!

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    sarahsherlockposted 14 years ago

    I live in Braintree in the UK. Braintree is a small town and there is relatively little that is interesting about it. I suppose one of the more recent claims to fame is that The Prodigy were born and grew up here.

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    lorlie6posted 14 years ago

    I live in Bishop, California-the Mule Capitol of the World!

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    shsaadposted 14 years ago

    I am from sungai petani, a town in the northern state of Malaysia.It is a town where you can go to TESCO to shopping.Hang out at Starbuck coffee or maybe take your lunch at Kentucky Fried Chicken or Mc Donald. It is the fastest growing town in Malaysia with many new satelite towns around it. You don't have to worry about lodging because there are lot of hotels here.

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    ross670dawposted 14 years ago

    G'day all
    Guess where I'm from? Ok, I'm an Aussie, I live about 3 hours north of Melbourne in Victoria. It's not quite the a@#s end of the world, but I can see it from here.
    Just kidding, it's a lovely hellhole.

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    kephriraposted 14 years ago

    I live in Birmingham (UK), which used to be known as 'the workshop of the world' and 'the city of a thousand trades'.

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    getitriteposted 14 years ago

    I'm from North Carolina:
    
    Home of the Wright brothers' first flight--on the outer banks of Kitty Hawk.
    
    Also birthplace of basketball great Michael Jordan~~Wilmington

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    ahorsebackposted 14 years ago

    In the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont near the US border with Canada where all things green grow.

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    IntimatEvolutionposted 14 years ago

    I am from Columbia, Missouri.
    
    We have the oldest University west of the Mississippi, and our college was the first to host a "Homecoming" event.
    
    Go M I Z Z O U!  Tigers rock the house......  Grrrrrrrr.
    
    I love my Missouri Tigers.  Black and Gold all the way baby.
    
    

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    EmpressFelicityposted 14 years ago

    I live in Margate, Kent, UK.  Main claims to fame:
    
    1. It's the home town of Tracy Emin
    2. Chas & Dave wrote a song about it
    3. Its high street has got the largest percentage of closed-down shops out of any high street in the country

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       ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Number 3 was suprising! With Kent supposed to be amongst the most affluent areas in the country!

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          EmpressFelicityposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Bits of it are affluent and bits of it... aren't.  Especially around the coast.

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             sarahsherlockposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Ditto in Essex. Huge diversity depending on whether you are in the north or south of the county. East or west too for that matter!
             
             Nice to meet you, neighbour!

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                EmpressFelicityposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                ::waves across the Thames estuary::  And you!

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    Lily Roseposted 14 years ago

    I'm in beautiful, sunny, hot, and humid South Florida.  We have no mountains or hills, except.....we do have a hill or two refererd to as Mt. Trashmore - the trash dump!  The largest hill in South Florida!

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    4youreyesposted 14 years ago

    I live in western New York,in a small town that is half Old Order Amish and half English ( as they call us.)It's very interesting watching a culture so different then yours live day to day.The horse and buggies driving up and down the road,the way they dress,all of them dressed in their Sunday best going to church.Then you can pick up the pace and be in Buffalo N.y..Which is about 60 miles north,and be in the city and have major sporting teams.Then a there is Niagara Falls and you can be into Canada as quick as you can get across the boarder. If you go 60 miles south you will be in Erie Pa.Living in a little town that's no where, I can get some where in about  1 1/2 half.That's where I like living.

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    Paradise7posted 14 years ago

    Rochester, New York, the original home of Kodak, IBM, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb.
    
    The Eastman House (Eastman Kodak) and the Eastman theater, hosting the Rochester Philharmonic, are my two favorite places.

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       ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       And also the current home of The Old Toad, a great little British themed bar (which I spent a good few weeks getting drunk in).
       
       I believe that Sunforged has also been in that bar.

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    SomewayOuttaHereposted 14 years ago

    i live on an island

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       Paradise7posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       You are very mysterious!
       
       It's lovely you live on an island.  Your own???

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          SomewayOuttaHereposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          no...it's not mine...there's quite a few of us...problem is the time it takes to leave or return to it...so i only leave about 4x a year.....everything you need to live is here though...so not many reasons to leave basically, unless I'm travelling...most times I forget that i live on an island until i want to get off of it ha ha ha

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    deancortez044posted 14 years ago

    If you are a social reject.  Actually, there are allot of people living on their own islands amongst millions of people come to think of it.

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       camloposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Not a nice thing to say ...
       
       If somebody lives on an island, it doesn't mean they're a social reject, even if it could be true that a social reject would feel comfortable living on a lonely island ...
       
       Paul McCartney enjoys living on Mull of Kintyre - does that make him a social reject?

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          SomewayOuttaHereposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          ...no harm taken...many people don't understand what island living is like....many visit and then they want to figure out how to stay...that's what i did...and no, I'm not a social reject...and i like the fact the island doesn't hold millions ....but that's me....

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             camloposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Have you written a Hub about it? It would be fascinating - I'd be the first to read it.
             
             I've often fantasized about living on one of the Florida Keys - a simple, relaxed life.

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                SomewayOuttaHereposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                ...maybe one day...

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    mega1posted 14 years ago

    Where I live in the valley of Sonoma, California - (Bennett Valley) the air is always fresh, the fog rolls in and rolls out in summer keeping us cool and refreshed - the grapes are ripening on the vines and in the distance Mt. St. Helena presides.  In winter it rains, sometimes alot, but only gets cold (30degrees or so) for a short time.  Its a great place to grow flowers and grapes.  It is maybe too idyllic, I get used to it and take it for granted.  But really our weather here is pretty perfect and I'm fortunate to be here because I could never afford to live in a place like this if I didn't work for someone whose grandparents bought into it long ago.

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       SomewayOuttaHereposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       ...I've been in that area...it's beautiful...

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    Sara555posted 14 years ago

    I live a few hours away from Seattle, Washington. It rains a ton, but it's really green and beautiful...and there's a ton of mountains

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    thisisoliposted 14 years ago

    Austin, Texas, the home of live music and spring fed swimming pools!

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    Tiny Pearlsposted 14 years ago

    I live in North Carolina, where it is hot and humid this time of year. 
    
    We have a stone spring house in the back yard that was built in 1914 when the subdivision was a farm.  There are crawdads and frogs in the spring water. 
    
    This is my first ever post in HP forums!

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       thisisoliposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Welcome to the forums

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          Tiny Pearlsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          :-)  Thanks!

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    waynetposted 14 years ago

    I live in Hull in the United Kingdom and it's the same town where William Wilberforce abolished slavery....
    
    And also the smack heads own the streets!

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    katiem2posted 14 years ago

    I live in Columbus Ohio and if you stop and think about it for awhile Columbus Ohio is mentioned in tons of movies.  People are constantly from Ohio and most often Columbus.  I'm just saying I notice it because it's where I live.  Also Columbus is one of the biggest test markets in the United States. 
    
    

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    Polly Cposted 14 years ago

    I live in Norwich, England - it's a great city actually, I live in a little bubble just outside the city centre, sort of like a village within.
    
    Norwich is friendly, has lots of history, great parks and is close to the coast and countryside so lots of places to go. It used to be the third largest city in the UK in medieval times, and has more tudor houses than London (I know that because I wrote a hub about it!)

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    mtsi1098posted 14 years ago

    Pennsylvania is where I call home...the nearby city of Philadelphia is the place where the USA forefathers wrote the declaration of independence

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    CassandraCullenposted 14 years ago

    The great california, its a great place for friends and boys and sun

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    King Larryposted 14 years ago

    im from texas...where everything is BIGGER! 

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       stoneyyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       The school board depicts monstrous idiocy.

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    _cheryl_posted 14 years ago

    I share the same home as the band Korn along with football players Joey Porter and David Carr here in California. We were rated #2 at one point on the list of our nations cities with the worst air qualities... Nothing too great other than being mentioned by Tom Hanks as he read our city aloud as it was labeled on a porta potty in a movie LOL! Last time it snowed here was in 1999. Summers are hot, even by 8pm it's only cooled down to 85 degrees....and I'll gladly take the heat over living in the cold and snow anyday!

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    Maria Ceciliaposted 14 years ago

    I'm from Philippines, the Country where the boxer Manny Pacquiao came from, the land of the rising sun. But my location is somewhere in Metro Manila. Marikina specifically. I was part of the lucky 30% who were not affected during the Typhoon Undoy last year.  Marikina is a Suburban place. Still has lots of trees and Plants in spite of it became a City with continuing developments.

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