Places you live in or whatever.

[Cossack]

As an effort to increase understanding about you jackasses I have decided to open up a thread to describe your hometown, place you live in, area you grew up in.

Well screw Russia on this one, I prefer to talk about the city I live in currently. Currently I am attending the University of Texas at Austin. To the best of my knowledge this million sized city is the hippest place I have ever lived in. Austin has been coined the "Live Music Capitol of the World" and rightfuly so. Many free concerts occur on the shores of the Colorodo River and in our club district wich is coined, Sixth Street. Be it folk, country, classic rock, or punk, you can get your fill of free music here. Our musical icon, native Wille Nelson adds a touch of personality to this city. The only shortage of music here, would have to be rap. Austin is primarily a rock and roll town. This could be due to the lack of poverty with the exception of some bad areas in East Austin such as Montopolis and St. John's neighborhoods, and the culture of rock that has eminated from this city throughout the ages.

Politicaly Austin is a very unique city. It is described as an oasis of leftists in a sea of rightist Bush supporters. We destinguish ourselves from other Texans by carrying on the vision of our political icon, Former President Lyndon Baines Johnson. We are democratic and proud of it. This pisses off many other Texan politicians, especialy since we are the political capitol of the state. Enviormentalism is strong in this facet of liberalism.

We do have good reason to be enviromentalists. After all Dallas has a cornfield and Houston has a gunky oil soaked port. Austin has its cherished Barton Springs. This is a place I am glad to work at as a lifeguard. This special place is a sectioned off part of Barton Creek. Here several main springs, pouring out gallons of cold water from the Edward's Aquifer converge. The pool remains 68 degrees year round and has made a natural 16 foot diving well. One dip into this swimming hole and you will fall in love with it. The city has done much to stop housing development along the watershed to discourage the polluting of its waters. Unfortunently for the Springs the city has been loosing as the State got involved in the matter. Politics aside Barton Springs is a wonderful place.
       Now lets turn to my school, the University of Texas. This university is the largest in the nation, numbering approximently 60,000 students the campus is a bedlam of social chaos. The professors are so leftist they make me look like an agent of the religious right. The chaos can be entertaining, and at times can cause you to get wasted either at the drag or sixth street. There is no shortage of places to get wasted in this city. Our sports teams are top notch. The Longhorns annualy go into the Big 12. Although I am sure many of you will say your teams are better *cough* Trojans suck *cough*
 
So there it is, Austin, Texas in a nutshell. Hope y'all understand more about it, and I am eager to hear about your places.

[tasty]

Haha, nice description cossack. Just two things about Austin before I continue (and Austin is a pretty fuckin cool city IMO)
1. Have you seen the movie Slacker? (no, not that piece of shit teen movie "slackers" that came out a couple of years ago, the Richard Linklater film about Austin from the early 90s). If you have, is it accurate? If you haven't, see it and tell me.
2. Did you go to the SXSW music festival at all this year? There were so many good bands I almost made the 25 hour drive, but I would have had to skip class so I didn't.

OK, now on to myself. I reside in Iowa City, Iowa where I go to the University of Iowa. It's a large public university but is still the smallest university in the big 10 (other than Northwestern). It has about 25,000 students that completely dominate the otherwise pathetic Iowa City, which has only about 40,000 citizens when the students aren't in town. Since the frats here are all dried up, Iowa City is dominated by a thriving bar scene (35 bars in a 4x4 block radius). People here drink heavily, regardless of what section of the relatively diverse Iowa City community they are from. Profs here are predictably liberal (generally), but I would say a majority of the students here are conservatives (stereotypical business major frat guy variety). Thankfully there are snooty pseudo-intellectuals like me and my friends to turn our noses up at their middle-school intelligence and middle-school shenanigans. The non-student citizens of Iowa City are generally people who live here because they enjoy living in a college community and reaping the benefits it has to offer. Outside the city, we are surrounded by the requisite Iowa corn and beans. I am originally from Des Moines, which is a more mainstream corporate-type larger city, although at a population 500,000 is not exactly a thriving metropolis. This year in Iowa City [the Athens of the Midwest] has had its ups and downs, but who knows what next year will bring. There is a good chance that I won't be at Iowa next year but rather will be transferring to Beloit, a small liberal arts college up in Wisconsin to get away from all the stupid suburban Chicago kids that come to Iowa because they were too stupid to get into U. Illinois. Iowa is a weird place sometimes,  but in Iowa City and Des Moines at least we aren't nearly as backwards as you might think.

[The Ghost of Bondo]

Colorado Springs is a filthy conservative town of about 500,000.  It houses the home of Focus On The Family, perhaps the epitome of the religious right.  We also are home to the Air Force Academy, Peterson Air Force Base, Fort Carson Army Base, NORAD, and I think some sort of office for Homeland Defense (although that may have changed with it becoming a cabinet position).  Between all these things Colorado Springs, as can be seen in The Sum Of All Fears, would be the primary target in any nuclear war (but not a target of terrorism so much).  The current defining political aspect of this town is when only one liberal was voted into the local government while everyone else is strongly conservative.  Their first vote was to dismantle the same-sex partner benefits that had been established a year before.  A total of three people were using these benefits so there was no financial reason.  The main reason given was that as they weren't married, it wouldn't be legal to give same-sex partners benefits but not heterosexual but unmarried partners.  This is of course a crock of rationalized bullshit seeing as the state of Colorado doesn't allow same-sex marraiges.  So basically Colorado Springs is a pinicle of Colorado politics which are a majority of bigots who let religion way to far into politics.  At least on the state level we have Denver and Boulder to provide some liberal power.

There are three main universities in Colorado Springs, USAFA as I mentioned earlier, there they rape women and star in porn films, deal drugs, and commit other crimes.  Sometimes they get punished and booted out, sometimes they don't.  I should mention that with the military presence here, our crime is way above normal for a city our size.

The second is Colorado College, a private, thoroughly liberal school.

Finally there is mine, CU-Springs which is moving towards 10,000 students as the fastest growing campus in Colorado.  It had been a communter only school about 10 years ago but has added some dorms but still remains that way.  The average age of students is 5 years higher than at the Boulder campus as can be seen by many parents/older people coming back for another/a first degree which is particularly popular at UCCS which has a more extensive selection of night/weekend/online classes than some schools.

UCCS itself certainly has some liberal teachers, but like the city and the school's population, it is not all that liberal if not actually conservative overall.

The city is decent for arts, the recent bankrupcy of the Colorado Springs Symphony (now a seperate group the Colorado Springs Philharmonic) not withstanding, Colorado Springs does fairly well.  There are a number of music clubs (usually jazz/blues), performances at the World Arena or City Auditorium, there are a couple of places that do plays/musicals.  Of more interest to me is the figure skating focus that comes from having the Olympic Training Center (we are home to the most olympic athletes in the nation because of that) and from having the old Broadmoor rink that was influencial in the development of skating in the US (although it is gone now).  Colorado Springs gets a fair share of skating events.

In terms of sports, Colorado Springs kind of sucks.  Outside of the skating and CC hockey and AFA football, there really isn't much in the way of high competitive sporting events.  The UCCS golf team is apparently quite good (DIII) but who follows college golf?

The city has two regular newspapers, the Gazette which is the wide release daily and is ultra-conservative and the Independant which is a worthless weekly liberal rag (apparently instead of providing a quality product they feel they just need to be really out there to contrast the Gazette).

The only reason I'd see for moving to Colorado Springs is if you are an outdoors type.  Colorado is the fittest state in the country, mostly due to it's "300 days of sun" and fairly moderate temperatures (can get a bit cold in winter and a bit warm in summer but not so bad).  It is dry as hell though, which is what you should expect from an arid region but you know, people don't for some reason and plant lawns (fucking bastards).  But really, this city is just too overly conservative for liberals to enjoy, Boulder really is a much much better city politically, socialially, artistically, etc.

[kami]

Uhm, well where do I begin about Gothenburg... It'd be much easier if I just gave you a link to Gothenburg online but I guess many of you guys wouldn't check it out.. so here goes.

Gothenburg is the second largest city of Sweden with a population of around half a million and around 1 million in the larger Gothenburg region. It's the largest sea port in Sweden situated on the west coast. It's a nice comfy city with a lot of different people from every class in society and a wide political spectrum from the left to the right, although it's quite a big social democrat stronghold.

About the schools umm, well we've got two large universities here, the Gothenburg Uni. and the Chalmers Technical University. Then we've got about 10 colleges and various other kinds of schools. I attend the Hvitfeldska Gymnasium (translates to college), which is the oldest and largest college in the region with just over 2,500 students. I don't think the professors and teachers in Sweden are actually allowed to say what their own political opinions are to the students, they try to teach the students about everything as objectively as possible which is what I think schools should do, let the students think for themselves instead of being indoctrinated into thinking this and that.

On the culture and entertainment scene we've got the largest entertainment park in Scandinavia, the Liseberg which is to the east of the city center and has a wide array of rides and stuff you'd see at any big theme park. Also we harbour the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in our concert hall which is quite famous I believe... and the Gothenburg Opera of course. There's a lot of other stuff as well, but yeah..

Anyone could live in Gothenburg, only downside as I see it is that it could feel a bit cramped, I like it though, not too big, not too small.

I haven't lived in Gothenburg all my life though, I used to live in a city just north of Stockholm called Uppsala. It's the fourth largest city in Sweden with a population of about 80-100,000 people, it's pretty much the same as Gothenburg 'cept it's much smaller and it has more of a student city feel plus it doesn't have the harbour culture with all the fish.

[Snipes]

Well, I was born in ********, Cali (CENSORED). I grew up at a little town/village called Point Reyes Station. It was small.. we knew alot of people in the neighborhood becaue it was so small. Then, when I was about 8, we moved to Washoe, a part of Nevada. After when I was about 9, we moved to Reno. Reno is such a sleez city.. If you go down town, you will see signs for places like 'Adult Store', or night clubs that say 'Topless Cheerleaders!'. So, now I am still in Reno.

[Typhy]

Ok, since that last post ( now deleted ) was about the most disorgainzed thing in the world, I'll try and make this one a bit better.

Simple facts: There are about 29,000 people living here, most of them on the mainland. It is the city in Southeast Alaska that gets the most tourists.

There is one Airport, Juneau International Airport. - One bagage claim, one terminal, capacity for 2 large planes at once. Nothing larger than a 727 can safely land here, due to the runway.

There is one hospitial, Bartlet Reigonal Hospital, and one University. Oh yeah, also, one prision.

There are 7 elementry schools ( K-5 ), 2 middle schools ( 6-8 ), and 1 high school ( 9-12 ).

Geography: Juneau is surrounded by glaciers, and mountians. There are roads in or out of the city. The only way in or out is by boat or plane. The city is devided into three parts: The Valley, Down Town, and Douglas Island. I live on Douglas Island. Town and Douglas are connected by a single lane bridge.

The Island of Douglas is devided into two parts, North Douglas, and Douglas. North Douglas has only sprung up, population wise, in the last 25 years, while Douglas is the oldest part of the city. Douglas had the first mine. Right now, there is the residential part of the Douglas, which extends from "the bridge", for about 2 miles. Past that, there is "Sandy Beach", and olld Mine Ruins. The mine ruins and area around them make for great Paintball and Airsoft games.

Down Town is the political section of the city. It contains: The court house, Govoner's house,  State Office Building, Capitial Building, and the Federal Building.

The Valley is the residential area, over half the population lives there. The Valley is about a 10 minute drive away from Down Town Juneau.

Politics: Juneau is the democratic capitial of the state. The state of Alaska almost always goes republican, Juneau is the exception, voting over 60% democrat.

ISP: There is one ISP, and a shitty one at that - GCI.

One of the nicest things about having no roads in or out of the city is that it makes for no crime. Two year ago, when there were 2 hours robberys, it made the front page of the Paper ( The Juneau Empire: www.juneauempire.com ), two days later, 3 people were arrested.

The water is a huge part of life here. Almost everyone owns a boat, and many people own their own Sea Planes. By East Coast standards, the waters here are very deep, I get a bit worried whenever I get in less than 90 feet. It's common to be in over 600ft of water.  Because of the lack of roads, when you want to get out of Juneau, but don't want to fly or take a ferry, you either use your boat, or, in our case, take your own plane.

We have one city owned ski area, Eaglecrest, it has two ski lifts, and loses money each year.

Being only several feet above sea level makes for some interesting questions from tourists: "How far above sea level are we?" As he walks onto the dock to get onto his boat. Generally, in that situation, you roll your eyes, look over the side, and respond, "Oh, about 12 feet."

Most people would consider it impressive to see bears and Eagles, for us, it's just part of life. Looking out the front window of our living room right now, I can see 3 Eagle's in a tree. To us, when we go to the rest of the united states, it's "Oh wow! There's a cow!" To us, Cows, pigs, and sheep are more interesting that moose, deer, bear, and eagles.

We have exellent salmon runs here in the fall, we average about one cast per 40lbs of fish. There is no weight limit, limit on Kings is 2 per person, no shorter than 28 inches.  Late in the season, we throw back anything dark, or anything under about 40lbs.

Climate: While many people think it's cold, the majority of the time here, it's quite warm.  Today, it's about 50F. In the winter, temeratures here range from 0 to 30 degreese. In the summer, they usually range from about 50 to 75.

Each day in the summer, about 5,000 tourists come off the cruise ships to see our lovely town. The biggest tourist attractions are of course, The glaciers, the mines, and the wildlife.

Well, that's about it. . . For now.  

[ACE Justin Sane]

uhh lets see I live in a town in California called Port Costa, founded in 1879 there is about 150 people and the only businesses are 2 restaurants various craft shops and a hotel.
in about 1890 Port Costa was the largest wheat export in the world home to over 3000 people mainly sailors and railroad workers.

Its surrounded by 3 miles of hills which are used to keep cattle on, you see alot of kinds of wildlife out here including deer, foxs, rabbits, snakes, raccons, skunks, and occasonally a bald eagle.

www.portcosta.com

there are 2 fairly famous people here including Clayton Bailey

www.claytonbailey.com

and Roy Deforest.
Clayton is known for his lifesize robots and clay gargoiles one of his robots just sold for around $100,000.00 to a man in wisconsin. Roy Deforests art can be seen in the museum of modern art in San Francisco. Clayton also does a clay day at the old school every year where people from all over can come and make stuff outta clay, kinda fun.

Port Costa is located about 45 minutes away from San Francisco.

There is an old school building that is used as the community center and an art studio, also it hosts art shows, talent shows and BBQ's once a year.

[Mr. Lothario]

     For the past year, I've been living in a suburb of San Diego called Sabre Springs. Sabre Springs is one of dozens of similar tiny suburbs which, for one reason or another, exist near cities but are not part of those cities, so the suburb falls under the jurisdiction of San Diego. Thus, I will talk about the place where I lived for 23 years and still consider my home (since Sabre Springs stands cheek-by-jowl with it--our move was < 3 miles), Poway.

     Poway is a large small town, with a population of 48,000 (as of the 2000 census) rattling around in an incorporated area of 39.3 square miles (101.9 square km). That area makes Poway the biggest city in San Diego County, although most of the area is mountainous and largely undeveloped. Poway is smack in the middle of the meeting of two large-ish valleys, and gets its name from that fact. Pau-wi was what the Diegueno and Luiseno Indians called the area. The generally accepted translation is "the meeting of little valleys" or "the end of the valley".

     The first white person settled in the Poway valley in 1859, and the valley was prosperous and well-populated by farmers (in the 1900s Poway became famous for its peaches and vineyards) by the 1880s. In 1954, the citizens of Poway voted to bring water to Poway, and the first delivery was made in June of that year. The village voted to incorporate in 1980 and became the City of Poway.

     Poway doesn't have much in the way of schools, politics, or entertainment. With the exception of a thriving light-industrial Business Park in the nearby hills--the home of Gateway Computer's headquarters--Poway is almost exclusively residential (excepting the standard run of grocery stores, fast food places, etc., of course). Poway is within 30 minutes (traffic permitting) of downtown San Diego, and within 45 minutes of pretty much anyplace interesting in the County. Poway doesn't bother with a nightlife, since you can easily drive to a city that has one. There are no colleges in Poway, since SDSU, UCSD and San Diego State are all within 45 minutes of Poway. There is a large school district, however, comprising 31 schools (21 elementary, 5 middle, 4 high, 1 continuation high) servicing 100 square miles.

     Poway has the lowest crime rate in San Diego County. This is the kind of town where two murders in a year means the crime rate doubled, and a window being broken by vandals is noted in the police blotter in the local newspaper.

     Poway is extremely equestrian-friendly. It has a large horse population, many riding trails through the neighboring hills and mountains, and is the home of the Poway Rodeo, a nationally-known rodeo (among people who follow that sort of thing). Remember the TV show "Renegade"? There was an episode set at a rodeo. It was filmed at the Poway Rodeo, and Lorenzo Lamas was so taken with Poway that he came back to film several more episodes, and eventually moved here. Heh.

     A nice, quiet, boring town that is conveniently close to towns that are neither quiet nor boring. It works out nicely for all involved.

[BTs_Colin]

I'm from London, Ontario, Canada.

We also have a Thames river, lol.

Anyway London is about 335,000 people. It's nicknamed the 'Forest City' because we have many trees.

http://www.city.london.on.ca/ for some pictures etc.

Anyway I go to South Collegiate Institute (Grade 12). It's about 1200 people. Good chron, some ladies and enough parties.

[alaric]

I presently reside in the infamous city of Fargo-Moorhead. Yes, that's Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota. The reason I say I'm from both cities is because it really is just one city that happens to cross a state line -- and if I say I'm from Fargo people might actually know where that is.

Fargo has been depicted in such illustrious films as "Fargo" (though not a single frame of the movie was actually shot anywhere near Fargo) and Moorhead has recieved an honorable mention in the Grand Comedie "The Big Lowbowski".

And though we may appear on film and in popular culture as a simple people who posess a funny accent, I assure you this is not the case. F-M is a city on the cutting edge of technology with some of the best schools in the nation. Go look it up, our test scores, graduation rates, and college enrollment figures will almost certainly pwn yours. And that silly accent is horrifically exaggerated and mostly just a running joke around here.

The people here are honest, hardworking, and overeducated (you would not believe the number of people working retail here who have college degrees). The people here are on the whole very nice, friendly and happy to help anyone who needs it.

Much like Austin, the countryside around F-M is very conservative so we are an island of liberalism in a sea of conservatism. However, I should note that what passes for liberal here is pretty conservative by national standards.

This city is also plagued by corporate monopolies. The "Forum Communications Company" owns just about every media outlet in town and ruthlessly drives competition out of business. A couple years back our city councils sold our cable system to Cableone which has proceeded to rape and pillage freely as the only legal cable provider.

Winters here suck. Period. If you haven't seen us on the news getting pummeled by one blizzard or another you've probably seen the spring flooding which generally accompanies said pummelings. Oh, did I mention it gets DAMN cold here? A week of -30 to -40 is expected every year and it often tops 100F in the summer so if you enjoy wild temperature swings and like to get a good taste of all four seasons, Fargo-Moorhead is the place for you.

[*NADS Capt. Anarchy]

Might I add to Just's post that if you go to http://www.portcosta.com and click on the kids page, he's "Aaron" at the bottom left.

I have two home, but my main one first. For the past 12 years I've lived in a little of 10,000 town called Healdsburg in Sonoma county. According to our road sign, we're exactly 69 miles north of San Francisco and smack in the middle of wine country. Which, naturally, means there's no worthwhile shopping around here, it's all antiques and rich fart bullshit. To do any decent shopping you have to goto Santa Rosa, which has real stores.

There are generally two types of people here. People who own or run wineries and their Mexican dayworkers. The schools systems scores here are painfully terrible, complicated by so many ESL students and Californias recent elimination of the emersion program. so, basically we're teaching a bunch of kids who can't speak english in english. Makes sense, huh? (I hear a lot about this bullshit, my mom being a teacher.)

The land around here is about 90% vineyards, which leads to some extremely boring landscapes. Rows and rows of grapes as far as the eye can see. DULL. The good part is on the hills too steep to plant grapes there are plenty of pine and redwood trees, which breaks up the monotony somewhat.

My second home is a ranch/BnB out near Calistoga in Napa county, another rich littel wine village of about 6000 people. The ranch itself has a wonderful redwood canyon and 340 odd acres of undeveloped land. [shameless plug]http://www.mountainhomeranch.com[/shameless plug] If you're in the bay area an enjoy the outdoors, pay us a visit and use some of our wonderful hiking trails, enjoy our lake, and generally get away from it all.

Basically, I come from wine hick country. And i hate it.

[Golo]

"young residents of Port Costa, armed with recyclable plastic cameras, took pictures of cows, buildings, trees, hills, miscellaneous objects and themselves"

Hahahah, thats damn funny

[Brain]

well, as it is i'm living in 2 places now that i am going to college. i was raised in a little town called East Troy WI and i'm currently going to college in Houghton MI

First about East Troy (which is WEST of troy MI and ther is NO other town named troy in the state of WI. go figure)

East Troy is located aproximatly 45min. SW of Milwaukee in Walworth county i've lived here for 12 years now (i was born in Waukesha, then moved to Lake Geneva, then to a small town called Como then to ET when i was

The best way to describe ET is a rural farming town. ther are about 3,000 people who call the area around ET and almost all of them live in the sorrunding countryside.  

despite being only 3,000 people, ET has an overly large commercial sector due to the fact that we are the first town outside milwaukee that you can buy non reformulated gas at. ther for we have 5 gasstations with in one mile of eeah other and 3 of them are located on the same intersection. ther is also a burger king and a mcdonalds  within view of that same intersection and conviently enough, they are located across the street from one another

now, i know you're thinking ayt this point '"how intresting is this town if he is talking about gas stations." well, you're right it's not interesting. that is untill summer rolls around. then the alpine valley music theater opens up and  the concert season begins.  concerts that have been held ther include dave mathews, the gratefull dead reunion, ozzfest on annual basis (i think), and this summer jimmy buffet is comming to town.

climate is ok but ther are only 2 seasons here. winter and road repair. in road repair it can get into the upper 90s F but hitting 100 F is rare due to frequent breases off of lake michigan. winter it can go to -30 F but, again due to the lake, it tends to hover at 0 F  snowfall is plentiful, and in the middle of winter you can expect to see a least a foot or 2 of snow on the ground.

and that's about all there is to East Troy, good place to raise a family. nice place to live, but jack shit for a night life. (hell Fargo has a better nite life than East Troy)


the other place i am currently calling home is Michigan Technological University located in Houghton in the Keweenaw Pennisula of the Upper  Penninsula of Michigan.

houghton has been named one of the top 10 cities in the midwest to live, but i'd like to add the disclaimer. it's only the case if you REALLY REALLY like snow

it's absolutely breathtaking when the leaves change during the fall.  due to the area is still predominantly forested, you can look in virtually any direction and see an unparalleled panorama of color.

that view goes on from week 3 in the fall semester till week 5.

then the snow falls

and falls

and falls

and falls

and falls

and falls.

the record up at tech is 3 months of continuous unbroken snowfall (accumulating snowfall) and 355.90 inches of snow in a winter
 
snowfall totals

and yea, other than the snow and the fall, houghton is just a small college town isnt all that great, although we do play NCAA DIV. 1 hockey. we get our asses handed to us, but for such a small school, playing div 1 is quite a feat

[(SEALs) one]

Well, I was born in a suburb of Boston called Weymouth.  
Weymouth is a town that is about 400 years old, has old houses, 30% of its population are seniors...but I guess I had a good life there.

About 3 years ago I moved down to Plano, Texas(suburb of Dallas).  It is a pretty new town with lots of good places to go I guess.


one

[Casper]

as most of you know i live in the same place as typhy. also wanted to correct him on some things

Simple facts: There are about 29,000 people living here, most of them on the mainland. It is the city in Southeast Alaska that gets the most tourists.

33,000 people and yeah but its the whole state not just South East.

Oh yeah, also, one prision. Politics: Juneau is the democratic capitial of the state. The state of Alaska almost always goes republican, Juneau is the exception, voting over 60% democrat.  

yeah our prision is the state prision . and juneau is like 51/49 no 60/40

Most people would consider it impressive to see bears and Eagles, for us, it's just part of life. Looking out the front window of our living room right now, I can see 3 Eagle's in a tree. To us, when we go to the rest of the united states, it's "Oh wow! There's a cow!" To us, Cows, pigs, and sheep are more interesting that moose, deer, bear, and eagles.

thats only for people who never go any where except england. intereting things are like Crocs and shit.

We have one city owned ski area, Eaglecrest, it has two ski lifts, and loses money each year.

Not every year just recently cause of low snow fall!

And Brain i hate you give us back our snow!!!

Climate: picture seattle, with out the building and people and lots more rain.

[bronto]

ah. yes.

Born on August 31, 1986 in a hospital Canterbury, England to an american mother and a british father. Lived in Whitstable for 3 years. Moved to Hampton Bays, LI New York, moved to Center Moriches in 1990. I live in the nicest part of town (lucky), on a hill, accross from a large park with a creek where we keep our phatty catboat. My town is mostly hicks, dirtbags, and infamous migrating Mastic mastoids (long story short, mastic is a neighboring town, shittiest place on earth), but there are a few good people here. I go to a small, over crouded high school which accepts kids from the nearby reservation for a sum of money each month. Thats pretty much all that happens in this town (notice i didnt tell you anything happens), so pizzooooo.

[*NADS Foxy]

 Wow, someone on GR that lives near me, which is Alaric btw.

 I live in Minot, North Dakota. It's a mild town of about 40,000 people, just about smack dab in the middle of ND. Our city has the nickname of the "Magic City" because it is a nice place to live, mostly everyone is friendly. No, Indians don't run wild, and we don't ride in damn carrages, and yes, we have electricity. I have heard of this, and talked to people that thought this... Entertainment wise, it could be better. Outdoor skatepark, indoor paintball field (ghetto), mall, bowling alley, etc. That's why ND and maybe other MidWest states have such a high teen drinking percentage. Not too much to do. But it is a laid back way to live, so it isn't all bad. I live here, so I can't hate it too much. I can't think of much right now, too tired...