Where do you live?

[Starchild]

Ah sunny Felixstowe. Originally a Victorian seaside resort town, it has grown over the years to encompass the neighbouring town of Walton and the villages of Trimley and Trimley St. Martin to create a thriving town of over 20,000 people. Bordered by the River Deben, the River Orwell, and the North Sea, Felixstowe enjoys some of the driest weather to be found in the UK.

Felixstowe was first settled by the Romans, who built a fort to establish their presence. It promptly fell into the sea. Felixstowe is home to Languard Fort, the place that saw the last invasion of the main UK in 1667 when 2,000 Dutch soldiers attempted to land. They were killed as was the fashion in those days.

Felixstowe remained a sleepy village until the 1890's when those plucky Victorians and a timely visit by the Empress of Germany turned it into a coastal town full of shopping, arcades, and a pier! ooooh!

Today, Felixstowe is known for it's port. The UK's largest container port and fourth largest in Europe, the docks provide jobs, money, and act as a terrorist target!

Felixstowe has two highschools, three clubs, and a number of dreary, overpriced pubs. The only exception to this is the Grovsner, a warm happy place full of good memories and overpriced pints.

Only 2 hours from London, 1 hour from Norwich, and 30 minutes from Ipswich, Felixstowe offers the chance to escape before snatching it back on unpredictable train and bus times. Ipswich, the nearest town, is a horrible mass of concrete and townies, the nightmare spawn of some Essex development planted in Suffolk.

[cinch]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar

What can I say?

I love Tripod!

[Japher]

I live around the corner from this:



Forced to see it everyday and there is nothing I can do about it!

For those who don't know what that is, it's Apple HQ in Cupertino, CA. I don't think there are a lot of ppl in Cupertino as it is only about 3 blocks by 5 blocks or something. Yet, it butts up agains the larger towns of Sunnyvale, Los Altos, Los Gatos, San Jose, and Mountain View.

Needless to say there's a lot of ppl in this valley, and a lot of silicon, and not all of it is the computer chips if ya no what I mean

[GePap]

Like People don;t know where I live?

so I will post a few local pics of my neighborhood within the Metropolis of Gotham:









and this last pic, the first building on the left at the bottom of the stairs is my very actual building:

[GePap]

This is actually a shot of the largest Church in all chrisendom, the Cathedral of St. John's on 118th Street



(interesting that so many of my pics have religious themes, like the one above, the round orange building, has the remains of Saint Cabrini in it, the first American saint.)

[GePap]

And a nice fishing hole, the harlem Meer in central park, sometimes home to alligators...



and the original Guggenheim:



(taken from a bus)

St Patricks


And accross the street, Rockefeller center:



And the main branch of the NY City Library:

[MattyBoy]

Molly Bloom covered my home town pretty thoroughly, as usual

[Q Classic]

alva, is that the same train station from amelie?

[alva]

alva, is that the same train station from amelie?

amelie?

[Sandman]

Edinburgh = great.

[Q Classic]

movie:

le fableaux destin de amelie poulain (2001)
dir: jean-pierre jeunet
audrey tatou, mathieu kassovitz... set in paris. and that looks like the paris train station?

[alva]

and that looks like the paris train station?

This one is located in Antwerp.

PS. the other pictures should display now too.

[Q Classic]

that explains a lot. 'cause i knew you weren't flying the french tricolor, but... the images looked like paris's station, so...

[Bereta_Eder]

Athens. Shite.
I'll elaborate.

Bad points:

Densely populated as shite.
5 million people. The Attican basin is built from one end to the other and when you think there's no more space, they BUILD again. And build, build, build, is there one cm2 free? BUILD IT!

Buildings buildings everywhere. The result of an anarchistic unplanned irresponsible urbanization characterized with a sense of urgency.
Athens used to be a beautiful city (in the beggining of the century). It could easily compete with such gems as Paris. It had neoclassical architecture, spaceous roads, intricate beautiful gardens in every house. But they destroyed it. Utterly. Now it's no better than New York.

Parking. There is none if you go to the center or any of the more populated districts.

People are crazy. We are. We are impolite, the city is inumane, it chokes us, chokes creativity. You'll have to find a humane aspect in this city like a diver reaches for a breath of air.

Polution. Only London is heavier air poluted than Athens which means, we're shite and ****ed in air polution. They even put up a electronic board automatically analyzing the air agents outside the spiritual center of Athens. What for? It was always on yellow, moderate caution. **** as well.

No green. How can you have green when you've built everything.

Good points.
No criminality! The lowest crime rate in the EU. (untill the immigrants arrived - RACIST!). Take a stroll to every road, every district, every hour of the night, no worries.

A bazillion things to do. There's always things to do, the parties can't be counted and there's something for each and every taste. All the restaurants of the world, all the clubs bars traditional tavernas to rave parties. A 21th century babylon.

It's populated by Greeks. Good thing and bad thing. The good thing try saying to a foreign country to a kiosk owner, sorry I'm 20 eurocents short and him saying oh take it lad; what you think I'll go bankrupt?

Air fares are cheap as hell. Tourism works both ways. Dirt cheap planes fares to wherever you want to go in Europe.

[Jethro83]

I live in the Hunter region, near Newcastle, Australia.

Its a pleasant place to live in contrast to Sydney, one and a half hours away. Unfortunately, the outlying suburbs of the Hunter Region (such as the one I live at) are so small, and so isolated from everywhere else. Though that can at times have its advantages.

A few images of Newcastle itself:










Going inland, into the Hunter Valley, the location of one of Australia's largest wine making industries (if not the largest)






As for Lake Macquarie (the general area where I live), this is what it looks like from above:

[Sikander]

I live in Boulder Colorado. It's a medium sized city with less than 100,000 residents. It's located right up against the Rocky mountains, about 30 miles from Denver, which is the state capital and the largest city in the region.



Here's a shot of the local cliffs that tend to dominate the city's skyline in summer. The fields below are full of wildflowers that present an ever changing pallette of color from spring to autumn.

It's ok here. The weather is really mild. It gets cold sometimes in the winter, but it rarely lasts more than a couple of days. We often have 60 degree days in the winter months, and a lot of sun. My main complaint is that the summers are too hot, and the sun is too intense. I like a more moderate climate like those that benefit from the west coast marine effect (east coast in the southern hemisphere). I'm hoping to one day move back to the west coast, either the central coast of California or the Oregon coast somewhere. Thankfully my house in Boulder is worth a fortune. I can probably afford to move to California right now and simply trade houses. If I decide to buy a place on the Oregon coast I can afford to also pick up some warm sunny land somewhere as a refuge from the fury of the Oregon winter.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

May God have mercy on your soul. The Red River valley will have broken you soon enough... *shudders*

Yeah, those floods in '97 absolutly sucked, we had more then 100 inches of snow that winter; plus, sine the river flows north, an ice dam formed just south of Winnipeg.

In the county where I live (Clay) is a state park that protects on of the last stands of pre-settlement tall-grass prairie, the wildflowers are spectacular in late summer and the wild roses and crabapples are awsome in the spring. Just north of Ulen is a small nature preserve/hiking trail/camping area in a riverside forest, very pretty area, ecspecially when we get the fall color, the read maples look like they're on fire.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Densely populated as shite.

Bah! You call that place dense? You don't know what dense is!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MattyBoy
Molly Bloom covered my home town pretty thoroughly, as usual

It takes an immigrant to appreciate it really...

I'm sure people liked my home town (I actually met someone who did) but I was glad I left.

Various views of Melbourne super Mare and Victoria (and some other parts of the great southern land, including cute marsupials):

http://www.australianexplorer.com/ph...th_yarra_3.htm

I live in South Yarra which is a suburb south of the main business district, full of groovy shops, 19th century churches, Como House and a large stretch of Melbourne's main river, the Yarra. There's a wonderful Art Deco/international style cinema a short tram ride away, and Melbourne's biggest concentration of Viet Namese groceries, cake shops, bakeries and cafes/restaurants is a stone's throw from where I live.

[Starchild]

Edinburgh. I absolutely fell in love with the place when I visited the University there. If all things go to plan, hopefully I'll be doing a post-grad course up there in a few years time and be able to live in that lovely city.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Starchild
Edinburgh. I absolutely fell in love with the place when I visited the University there. If all things go to plan, hopefully I'll be doing a post-grad course up there in a few years time and be able to live in that lovely city.

Starchild, honey- last invasion of mainland U.K. was in the 18th Century- a Napoleonic diversion.

http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK.../Fishguard.htm

[Al B. Sure!]

this picture is shocking to me



15th and Broad 1881

city hall is still there and looks the same as is the church on the left but that whole rail network is now replaced by an underground elevated line and subway. hard to believe they had surface rail there once

[Starchild]

I'm just going by what the Felixstowe Tourist board tells me Molly babe.

[General Ludd]

Woderful Sudbury!


Home of the Giant Nickle



And the Sudbury Superstack - which apparently contributes 1% of the world's sulfur emission all on it's own - up to 40,000 tons a day. (I learned that while looking for the picture. )



It can be seen for miles, in every direction.




And let us not forget the glorious slag heaps... (Why was it so hard to find a picture of these? I so need to get a camera.)

[Dis]

here ya go space

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/11/1....ap/index.html

Do you really go that long without seeing the sun?

[Provost Harrison]

Osweld, your home town reminds me of Grimsby

[Saras]

Vilnius, Lithuania!

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Space05us


I grew up hunting, and my dad was very strict about being responsible about gun safety. I knew guns weren't toys and that I shouldn't mess with them when my dad was gone. unless there someone broke in, then it was okay to give in a 30-30 shell to the body . A great guy my dad, he tought me to kill!

ah, spoken like a true american boy. hooah!

[Provost Harrison]

That looks nice Saras How come the Soviets never had their 'interesting architectural influence' on the place?

[orange]

Harleysville, Pennsylvania. Pretty small town. Population 7,000. Not far from Philadelphia, though. Montgomery County.

I go to school in Newark, DE, though. Here's a picture or two: