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This is my hometown. Don't you just love it? What is your hometown known for? What makes you proud about living there? OR maybe not your hometown.. just whereabouts you're living now. Why'd you decide to live there? What would entice you to leave?
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Posted 23 January 2009 - 04:43 PM
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What is your hometown known for?
Gambling, Strip clubs, drive-through weddings, partying, extremely hot summers and very cold winters.
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What makes you proud about living there?
I never had a sense of pride living in Vegas, it was just cool because the cost of living was cheap and my family was there. I am happy to be living in San Diego now though. It's a beautiful city. I live a mile away from the ocean and a block away from Little Italy, I basically skateboard everywhere I have to go.
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Why'd you decide to live there? What would entice you to leave?
I'd say if anything were to entice me to leave, it would be destiny.
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Posted 23 January 2009 - 04:48 PM
I would be enticed to leave by many things. Jobs, people, opportunity to grow as an individual. Actually.. the only thing holding me back from leaving Reno is money, school (which are basically the same thing), and family.
Whatever happens..happens.
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Posted 23 January 2009 - 06:46 PM
I live in a small city that is one of the few, perhaps the only in the country, that has been a home to four medal of honor recipients. That's something to be proud of.
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Posted 23 January 2009 - 08:15 PM
My hometown is Austin, Texas. It's the greatest city I've been to. Well known for its video games (my Dad is developing Guitar Hero World Tour for the computer 
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Now I live in Monroe. A terrible Louisiana town full of lazy drunkards (not to bash Reno or anything) and poverty. The boredom there entices me to leave.
).Now I live in Monroe. A terrible Louisiana town full of lazy drunkards (not to bash Reno or anything) and poverty. The boredom there entices me to leave.
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Posted 23 January 2009 - 11:57 PM
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 02:20 PM, said:
What is your hometown known for?
New Mexican food, vistas with the Watermelon and Apple mountains in them, Luminarias at Xmas, the largest nuclear stockpile in the US along with the center of nuclear weapons production, and apparently one of the top street prostitution scenes in America according to people who track such things (rather a scary bunch, I should imagine).
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 02:20 PM, said:
What makes you proud about living there?
I'm not sure if I was ever really proud of living there, I really knew the place though.
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 02:20 PM, said:
OR maybe not your hometown.. just whereabouts you're living now. Why'd you decide to live there?
It's close enough to school and has nicer apartments (and just about everything else, in terms of buildings and amenities) than Boulder does. It's also the 3rd best town to live in America or something according to Forbes.
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 02:20 PM, said:
What would entice you to leave?
Money, sex, love, fire, floods, being exiled from the county through a vote of the populace, being pelted with stones every time I leave the house, being kidnapped and taken elsewhere, the plague, death squads roaming the streets, nuclear war, giant genetically-engineered locusts blocking the roads, and/or poisonous snakes in the plumbing.
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Posted 24 January 2009 - 11:30 PM
Pufer, on Jan 23 2009, 08:57 PM, said:
and/or poisonous snakes in the plumbing.
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This is my hometown. Don't you just love it? What is your hometown known for? What makes you proud about living there? OR maybe not your hometown.. just whereabouts you're living now. Why'd you decide to live there? What would entice you to leave?
My hometown is known for its sky-high housing prices, being a bastion of conservatism in La county, and the occasional celebrity that decides to live there. On the plus side, we have good schools and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It's a nice enough place, but 'proud' would not be the right word for my feelings towards it.
Where I live now I can go to University, be within walking distance of countless delicious restaurants of every possible variety, and see people doing ridiculous things on a regular basis. But there are any number of things that could entice me to leave. Grad school seems like the most likely, but a massive earthquake causing the Bay Area to join the Bay is a close second.
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Posted 25 January 2009 - 10:36 AM
Well, my hometown is Atlanta so I'm not going to talk about it because it's known for way too many things. I'm going to talk about my University town instead, Macon.
It's the homeplace of the Allman Brothers!
It's the homeplace of the Allman Brothers!
It's the homeplace of the Allman Brothers!
It's the homeplace of the Allman Brothers!
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 04:20 PM, said:
What is your hometown known for?
It's the homeplace of the Allman Brothers!
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 04:20 PM, said:
What makes you proud about living there?
It's the homeplace of the Allman Brothers!
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 04:20 PM, said:
Why'd you decide to live there?
It's the homeplace of the Allman Brothers!
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 04:20 PM, said:
What would entice you to leave?
It's the homeplace of the Allman Brothers!
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Posted 25 January 2009 - 08:40 PM
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Don't you just love it?
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What is your hometown known for?
Manchester f***ing united.
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What makes you proud about living there?
I can get mugged and make my attacker's face meet a wind shield without any consequenses.
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Why'd you decide to live there?
I didn't I was born here.
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What would entice you to leave?
Anything.
This post has been edited by undead_shadow: 25 January 2009 - 08:41 PM
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Posted 25 January 2009 - 09:19 PM
Sundered Angel, on Jan 25 2009, 12:07 AM, said:
You know, what with all the moving, I'm not sure I have a hometown anymore.
What do you say when people ask you where you're from?
undead_shadow, on Jan 25 2009, 06:40 PM, said:
Anything.
I will send you a silk tie that I've been using to polish furniture if you move to Sweden.
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Posted 26 January 2009 - 04:50 AM
Pufer, on Jan 26 2009, 02:19 AM, said:
I will send you a silk tie that I've been using to polish furniture if you move to Sweden.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 07:58 AM
My actual hometown is known for producing and harboring a large concentration of artists.
The town that I consider my hometown more is known for being situated on an insanely rich oyster bay.
Edit: Both towns are pretty heavy on the drinking also.
The town that I consider my hometown more is known for being situated on an insanely rich oyster bay.
Edit: Both towns are pretty heavy on the drinking also.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 03:46 PM
I love this place because it's small enough to walk through the city centre in under 5 minutes, packed enough to find anything you want to buy, beautiful enough that you can sit and admire anywhere in the city, crammed full of history and about 10 minutes drive from a city centre to a forest.
Unbeatable.
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 11:24 PM
moonunit4eva, on Jan 23 2009, 01:48 PM, said:
I would be enticed to leave by many things. Jobs, people, opportunity to grow as an individual. Actually.. the only thing holding me back from leaving Reno is money, school (which are basically the same thing), and family.
Funny thing is, I was born in Reno. Moved here (to GP, Oregon) when I was 2. I re-visited Reno not too long ago, and it sucked, no offense. Me being a non-smoker, I wasn't thrilled about everyone always smoking inside, regardless of the situation. Other than that, I really liked it.
However, I'm proud to live in Grants Pass, OR now, for a reason I'm not so sure of. People say it's a hell-hole here, what with all the rain anytime other than Summer and end-Spring. People say it's too cold, and too rainy, and they want to get the hell outta here. I disagree. Although I'm not much a fan of rain, I for one don't mind it or the cold weather, and the only reason I'd want to move is if a job forced me to.
Lektor, on Jan 28 2009, 12:46 PM, said:
I love this place because it's small enough to walk through the city centre in under 5 minutes, packed enough to find anything you want to buy, beautiful enough that you can sit and admire anywhere in the city, crammed full of history and about 10 minutes drive from a city centre to a forest.
Unbeatable.
Almost reminds me of GP, but I really have no idea if it all relates.
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 06:34 AM
Lektor, on Jan 28 2009, 08:46 PM, said:
Unbeatable.
I actually have to agree with you...
I've been to Centre Parks there around 20-30 times and I do love the beauty it... I loved the looks all the old people give me when I sit there bird watching... oh and star gazing, I enjoy that immensely aswell.
I never actually thought about moving there but it wouldn't be a bad place... (I've dreamed about living abroad but hasn't everyone).
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 08:48 AM
Sundered Angel, on Jan 29 2009, 02:23 AM, said:
Actually, I'm descended from the Sheriff of Nottingham. Funny thing.
Which one? There have been several hundred. It's an annually elected council position. It was a women not that long ago...
undead_shadow, on Jan 29 2009, 11:34 AM, said:
I actually have to agree with you...
I've been to Centre Parks there around 20-30 times and I do love the beauty it... I loved the looks all the old people give me when I sit there bird watching... oh and star gazing, I enjoy that immensely aswell.
I never actually thought about moving there but it wouldn't be a bad place... (I've dreamed about living abroad but hasn't everyone).
I've been to Centre Parks there around 20-30 times and I do love the beauty it... I loved the looks all the old people give me when I sit there bird watching... oh and star gazing, I enjoy that immensely aswell.
I never actually thought about moving there but it wouldn't be a bad place... (I've dreamed about living abroad but hasn't everyone).
Do it, this city rocks
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 06:44 PM
Captain Zaphod Beeblebrox, on Jan 28 2009, 09:24 PM, said:
...the only reason I'd want to move is if a job forced me to.
Not planning on going to college?
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Posted 29 January 2009 - 08:57 PM
Lektor, on Jan 29 2009, 01:48 PM, said:
Which one? There have been several hundred. It's an annually elected council position. It was a women not that long ago...
You know, you're the first person to call me on that.
I'd have to check the family records, but it was hundreds of years back, so I doubt he was elected to the office.
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