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demonrail666 04.20.2007 08:20 AM

Name and describe where you live.
 
Name it and describe it in one sentence.

Bethnal Green, London: Once traditional working class 'stronghold' now a hyper-expensive refuge for elderly 'salt of the earth' types and their chav kids, immigrants, and members of various NME-friendly bands.

gmku 04.20.2007 08:29 AM

The Interzone: a metaphorical stateless city not to be confused w/ the very real "International Zone" in Tangier, a city occupied after World War II by the French, English, Spanish, and Americans each with their own courts and administration, and an international refuge for criminals, artists, drug smugglers, and tax-evading tycoons.

Pookie 04.20.2007 08:32 AM

I live in a town called Bald Knob, Arkansas, and this is the hottest place in town, Kelley's Grill:

 

sarramkrop 04.20.2007 08:34 AM

Stepney Green, London: Home to a few more chavs from Bethnal Green, immigrants and loads of broken tvs and washing machines on the street and not much else worth mentioning.


 



 
 

Pookie 04.20.2007 08:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Stepney Green, London: Home to a few more chavs from Bethnal Green, immigrants and loads of broken tvs and washing machines on the street and not much else worth mentioning.


Bloody immigrants, eh?

Don't get them in Bald Knob, my friend;) . Don't stay for long anyways.

sarramkrop 04.20.2007 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pookie
Bloody immigrants, eh?

Don't get them in Bald Knob, my friend;) . Don't stay for long anyways.


I have my own ice cream van, you know?

Pookie 04.20.2007 08:39 AM

I knew your real name was Toni.

 

ALIEN ANAL 04.20.2007 08:41 AM

Kalgoorlie
A mining town consisting of 30,000 people, its one of the biggest country towns in Australia or W.A, We have brothels on the same street as the police station and a high drinking rate for both males and females

atari 2600 04.20.2007 08:46 AM

In 2004, Charlottesville was ranked the best place to live in the United States in the book Cities Ranked and Rated by Bert Sperling and Peter Sander. Sperling and Sander ranked the cities based on cost of living, climate, and quality of life. Charlottesville is best known as the home of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. The city is also known for Jefferson's Monticello, his renowned mountain-top home which attracts tens of thousands of tourists every year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia
http://www.bestplaces.net/CRAR/

sarramkrop 04.20.2007 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Pookie
I knew your real name was Toni.



 


Before terrorism, there was this:
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?...1&id=310462004

cryptowonderdruginvogue 04.20.2007 08:57 AM

Houston is the largest city in the state of Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States. As of the 2005 U.S. Census estimate, it had a population of more than 2 million. The city covers more than 600 square miles (1,600 km˛). Houston is the county seat of Harris County and part of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area, the sixth-largest metropolitan area [3] in the U.S. with a population of more than 5.5 million.
Houston was founded on August 30, 1836 by brothers Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen on land near the banks of Buffalo Bayou. The city was incorporated on June 5, 1837 and named after General Sam Houston, commander at the Battle of San Jacinto. The burgeoning port and railroad industry, combined with oil discovery in 1901, has induced continual surges in Houston's population. In the 20th century, Houston became the home of the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions, and NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
Houston's economy has a broad industrial base in the energy, aeronautics, and technology industries and only New York City is home to more Fortune 500 headquarters. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled.[4] Houston is also home to Rice University, one of the United States's leading teaching and research universities, and the University of Houston, Texas's third-largest public research university with more than 36,000 students from 130 countries.
Houston is a multicultural city with a large and growing international community. The Museum District is home to many cultural institutions and exhibits, attracting more than 7 million visitors a year. Houston has an active visual and performing arts scene as one of five U.S. cities that offer year-round resident companies in all major performing arts.

MellySingsDoom 04.20.2007 08:58 AM

Clapham - I live bang round the corner of a fairly large housing estate, so you can imagine the amount of pikeys that inhabit my 'hood. Oh fucking joy. Am also not too far from Stockwell. People sell drugs (literally) outside my front door, but they leave me alone. Apart from that, it's becoming increasingly gentrified and expensive. Some very good pubs and restaurants, though, and a nice park a stone's throw away.

SynthethicalY 04.20.2007 09:00 AM

My mini-city is the capital of porn. In the east, crime is so rampant, that I don't bother to go. In the west; that's where I live and the police come at least twice a day. Ah I feel safe.

Pookie 04.20.2007 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by SynthethicalY
...the police come at least twice a day.


Oo-er. Anything you say will be taken down...

 




I need to go home now.:(

SynthethicalY 04.20.2007 09:07 AM

Pookie my side of the city,has less attacks than the east. So we don't bother going over there. Anyways nothing interesting.

floatingslowly 04.20.2007 09:24 AM

Oklahoma (which means Red People in the language of the Choctaw) is also known as the "Sooner State" due to all the cheating bastards who left the starting line sooner than they were supposed to in the Land Run of 1889 .

Oklahoma "is OK".



lawl @ zombies swa(y)

Cardinal Rob 04.20.2007 12:12 PM

I live in a relatively nice village:
 



Out of it is hellish. Litter and sofas dumped everywhere, fat malformed women in fleeces groping you, chav five-year-olds having drive-by shootings, obese emos, racist policemen, twelve-year-olds giving birth on the street and trying to control their offspring Chesney, Chaznay, Chardonnay, Bacardi, Alcopop and Topshop at the same time who have just gone round the corner to mug a heroin dealer for mummy's brown sugar.

terminal pharmacy 04.20.2007 12:23 PM

Adelaide, home of the second biggest fringe festival in the world after edinburgh.

LittlePuppetBoy 04.20.2007 02:45 PM

Aylmer, Quebec. A small town across from Ottawa where nothing really exciting happens. Lots of forest hiking trails though :)

Savage Clone 04.20.2007 02:47 PM

Minneapolis.
Flat, with water.

SynthethicalY 04.20.2007 02:52 PM

Oh I forgot to name my town, it is called The San Fernando Valley. Made up mostly of L.A.'s conservative population. It has hills, a lake, and high rate of crime.

!@#$%! 04.20.2007 02:53 PM

 


earth. round. blue.

Savage Clone 04.20.2007 03:07 PM

Wow, such perspective. It really makes me sit back and take stock of my own perceptions as a global citizen. It makes me think in a less "us and them" kind of way. It makes me feel like a beautiful stitch in the fabric of The Brotherhood Of Man.

And then it makes me send my lunch back up my espohagus and into my city's waste treatment system, ready to be broken down and re-absorbed into the marvellous circle we call Life.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 04.20.2007 03:09 PM

Harmony, Pennsylvania: a small quaint town settled by a celibate German sect called the Harmonites.

!@#$%! 04.20.2007 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Wow, such perspective. It really makes me sit back and take stock of my own perceptions as a global citizen. It makes me think in a less "us and them" kind of way. It makes me feel like a beautiful stitch in the fabric of The Brotherhood Of Man.

And then it makes me send my lunch back up my espohagus and into my city's waste treatment system, ready to be broken down and re-absorbed into the marvellous circle we call Life.


really man? didnt you guys study this in elementary school?

Savage Clone 04.20.2007 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!
really man? didnt you guys study this in elementary school?



No, the "intelligent design" crowd didn't take too kindly to the blasphemy of Space Talk, so the school nixed that part of the science curriculum and replaced it with a unit on how to make your own volcano with baking soda and vinegar.

!@#$%! 04.20.2007 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone
No, the "intelligent design" crowd didn't take too kindly to the blasphemy of Space Talk, so the school nixed that part of the science curriculum and replaced it with a unit on how to make your own volcano with baking soda and vinegar.


ha ha, that might explain a few things...

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
Harmony, Pennsylvania: a small quaint town settled by a celibate German sect called the Harmonites.


stupid trivia - "harmon" (accentuate the "O") in hebrew means "horny"

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 04.20.2007 03:35 PM

That's funny !@#$%!, gives my town a brand new meaning.

!@#$%! 04.20.2007 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
That's funny !@#$%!, gives my town a brand new meaning.


ha ha, yes. the sect too.

HaydenAsche 04.20.2007 03:53 PM

Willmar, Minnesota.

Shithole town. Lots of meth. Lots of gross people.

schizophrenicroom 04.20.2007 04:28 PM

edgewater, florida

lots of old people, a few snotty kids, and an amazing goodwill store. an hour from orlando. just a 15-minute drive from daytona beach, the south of that city having a good-sized crack problem.

jico. 04.20.2007 05:03 PM

 


i live in a nice T3.

!@#$%! 04.20.2007 05:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jico.

 


man that's a pretty house, very modern-looking

is it made of legos?

jico. 04.20.2007 05:57 PM

nah, it's more like...

 

macrodollar 04.20.2007 05:58 PM

Heath, Cardiff. Described as an "original suburb", quite close to the city centre though actually quite a boring place for someone of my age that seems to be mostly home to old people and some older families. It's not as bad as proper American middle of nowhere suburbs, I have no idea why anyone would want to live there. Somehow my working class parents manage to score a house in a boring middle class area.

!@#$%! 04.20.2007 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jico.
nah, it's more like...


 


ha h aha ha ha

that's fakkin hilarious

youthoftomorrow 04.21.2007 02:29 AM

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (pronounced CORE-duh-lane).

a resort town of 35,000 people directly next to the world famous Lake Coeur d'Alene and wthin driving distance of half a dozen ski resorts; a rapidly expanding suburbia that will be absorbed into the Spokane, Washington metropolitan area within the decade; a cultural abyss for anyone under the age of 35.

Washing Machine 04.21.2007 05:52 AM

I live in Whitchurch, Cardiff. My area could be best described as modern british suburbia. LOts of countryside (well kinda of), loads of abandoned bridges, railway tracks. Its a really cool place to hang out. Particularly in the summer!

 

Pookie 04.21.2007 05:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Washing Machine
I live in Whitchurch, Cardiff. My area could be best described as modern british suburbia. LOts of countryside (well kinda of), loads of abandoned bridges, railway tracks. Its a really cool place to hang out. Particularly in the summer!



 


There's lots of Whitchurch's in the UK. My sister lives in Whitchurch, Hampshire.

I think I went through your Whitchurch on the way to Fishguard a few years ago!

Washing Machine 04.21.2007 06:12 AM

hahaha Fishguard. Otherwise known as Hell!...


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