• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

10 things about your city (or town)

Zephyr

Moved on
I will tell you a tale of the Puyallup.
1. No one can pronounce our town's name.
2. We have the Puyallup fair, which makes us better than you.
3. The fair brings in tourists, which I hate.
4. There has been a HUGE increase in Mexicans here. Seriously. Good thing I'm learning Spanish.
5. South Hill baby!
6. There is no number 6
7. We are conveniently close to Tacoma.
8. We are inconveniently close to Tacoma.
9. I have met exactly 3 women in town that I have actually liked.
10. All of them are lesbians :( except maybe one :)
 

Aqualung

Tasty
jonny said:
4. If you hate paying taxes, move to Vancouver! Washington doesn't have a state income tax and Oregon doesn't have a sales tax. Since the mall in Oregon was only 5 miles from my house you can pretty much get out of paying both taxes (as long as you don't work in Oregon).
My parents are going to be moving up to portland soon. They have to go cause my dad's job is moving there. They were, strangely enough, going to live in WA and work in OR. Kind of dumb. Luckily, they realised it pretty soon.
 

jeffrey

†ßig Dog†
Sebree, Ky. Population, 1,565. Alien hispanic population is about 200, which the majority of which works at the Tyson chicken plant. Unemployment is 6.8%. The closest hospital is 16 miles away in Henderson, Ky. The average income is $29,663 The average home sells for $52,100. We have 2 banks, 1 grocery store, 2 gas stations, and around 6 churches. We have one police officer. Used to have 2, but one is on suspension following a grand jury indictment for a meth charge. :eek:
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Kokomo, IN:
1) The only places to hang out are stores. For me, its Gamecrazy and Scent of Sage (Metaphysical store)
2) After the paintball field burned down, there is NOTHING to do.
3) Both wrestling promotions folded
4) You have to travel to Fort Wayne or Logansport for rave parties
5) There are hundreds of p***ed off Delphi workers.
6) There is a Souplies (liquir store) on almost every other corner
7) There is one porn shop next to a Dairy Queen, one in middle of the main commerce area, and one that is so far out very few people know about it.
8) The KKK is still going, not very strong, but enough to keep racism up.
9) The first place for minors (mainly 18-20) to hang out was closed before it opened due to building code violations.
10) There is nothing here, and I would move to another state in a heartbeat.
 

Mike182

Flaming Queer
10 great things about nottingham

... ... ... this could take some thinking!

1) the goth population seems to number equal to or greater than the chav population
2)Robin Hood
3)shopping that is third to london and birmingham
4)multi-cultural
5)although we rate high in the gun crime statistics, i am yet to be shot at
6)the teachers, we have some outstanding teachers
7)coffee shops - you cannot get a god mug of cheap yet decent coffee in any other big city
8)bins! there are not bins in london, yet we have bins galore
9)cinema right next to the theatre
10)NG1

hmmmm, i could do a list of about 30 bad things about nottingham though

C_P
 

michel

Administrator Emeritus
Staff member
Bournemouth

1.On the sea front.
2.because we are 'hidden by the isle of whight, we get two high tides and two low tides a day
3.We get the very best of the weather in the whole of the U.K
4. We are apparently the 'clubbing Mecca' of the whole of England (including london) so, if you like clubs and bars, Bournemouth is for you.
5. We have our own 'International' Airport; I put that in quotes because it has only one runway and there aren't that many planes. Having said that there are at least two to Paris or Bruxelles per week, plus Spain. Plus Yugoslavia. I can drive to the Airport in ten minutes.
6. We really are multicultural; no one is quite sure who should be carrying passports around the streets.
7. We are half an hour's drive to Southampton (where the quays for Cunard, P&O lines cuises are all situated )
8. Although I live ten minutes (for my wife; I am slow) walk from the centre of town, the house has back and front views of what could pass by as living in the Country. There is a Golf course and massive park whith ten minutes walk too.
9. We are on the Edge of the 'New Forest' which is something to be seen; the whole part of this country has ruins going back to very early times. An archeologist's heaven.
10. My wife lives here (hey that should have been no1)
http://www.bournemouth.co.uk/
 

Crystal Red

Episkopos Crystal Red
1. Guernsey has the oldest post box in the world
2. Has the pub that is closest to a church in the entire world (less than a metre between them)
3. Is 25 square miles (the whole island), which is about 3 million times smaller than Disney World's car park :D
4. Is governed independantly but still is linked to British monarchy (since 1404 I believe)
5. Had it's own language (Guernsey Patois) but it is nearly extinct (because of the German occupation during WW2), though a new language is emerging, a slang language created by the local music scene called Guernsey Twatois, such words as 'Packish Chont' are comonplace in the growing language
6. Is populated but just over 60,000
7. Has a large Portuguese & Latvian population
8. Was occupied by the Germans in WW2
9. Every year Guernsey celebrates liberation day, on the 11th May, it is the day the English got off their arses & came here & kicked some german backside
10. Guernsey's main produce is Tomatoes.
 

Pussyfoot Mouse

Super Mom
I love this thread, I just wish I lived in a more exciting town. So this is what I have:
I live in the tiny town of Sunderland, which is about 50klms from nowhere. We have nothing exciting except our:

1) Sunderland Fall Fair, which the children have the day off school to go to.
2) The Sunderland Syrup Festival, which the whole town seems to participate in, except me
3) We have a liqour store, beer store and grocery store all in one.
4) There is a "Home Hardware" store that was actually in a commercial last year.
5) A crappy little restraunt that was just taken over by new owners and now it sucks!
6) The public school is also our public library.
7) The "Arena" that is only of use to us in the winter for ice skating.

Other than these usless things, there is nothing great about the town I live in except that it is absolutley beautiful. Driving through my town is like driving through a "Norman Rockwell" painting. So I guess it's pretty special in it's own little way.
 

CaptainXeroid

Following Christ
I work in Atlanta, but live in the suburbs, so I'll claim both.:D
  1. Atlanta was almost completely burned at the end of the US Civil War.
  2. Atlanta is home to Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and Chic-fil-A to name a few.
  3. Atlanta has the lowest ratio of city residents to metro population in the US. 416,474 to around 4 million.
  4. Gwinnett County was the fastest growing county in the US a few years ago.
  5. Forsyth County was the 5th fastest growing county in 2004.
  6. We average 1 day of measurable snowfall each year.
  7. On that 1 day that it does snow, EVERYTHING shuts down.:woohoo:
  8. Georgia 400 is not a NASCAR event, but it is local limited access road on which people drive like they are in a NASCAR race.
  9. Stone Mountain Park is centered around a large exposed piece of granite.
  10. Atlanta was the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his church, Ebenezer Baptist Church is on Auburn Avenue not far from my work.
 

anders

Well-Known Member
1) Music: The home of an internationally praised symphony orchestra. I don't know anything of children's music, though.

2) Education level. Probably one of the highest in the country. We've got one of the four (or five) full universities of the country, and one of the three(?) universities of technology. Under employment is probably not very high as there is no shortage of blue collar work.

3) Western hospitality. We're renowned for being open and hospitable, not like the reticient Northeners or stuffy Easterners or shallow Southerners.

4) "wierd." Not in any way. Sometimes they say that there is no upper class here, but only middle class and workers. That might be true. The really rich people here aren't more than you know the names of them all, and they don't fan their wealth but are mainly regarded as contributing to society.

4.5) The West coast is regarded as one of the most conservative Christian parts of the country. Among the Church of Sweden clergy, there is for example still an appreciable resistance against accepting female clergy. But if you ask the (wo)man in the street, that person will in all probabilty be perfectly uninterested in religious matters. (S)he will almost by definition accept evolution and will laugh at creationism (if they understand the notion at all), unless you happen to encounter a member of the exceptionally small minority of Jehova's Witnesses.

6) Not very much of a hill country, but certainly not flat either. And if you want an undisturbed walk in the woods, or to a lake suitable for a summer swim, it's within a (healthy, though) walking distance from the city centre. - Did I tell you that this is Sweden's 2nd largest city?

7) Major newspapers. We've got the no. 2 morning paper and I think the no. 2 evening one.

8) The capital. Doesn't mean very much in Sweden, but Gothenburg (Göteborg) certainly is the centre of Western Sweden, sporting a humanities university, a technological university, regional courts, a regional hospital and a collaborating pharmaceuptical company (from which for example Nobel Prize laureate Arvid Carlson) plus some major indistries.

9) Drug addicts is something that I've yet to identify here. And I have lived here for some 50 out of my 62 years of age. Crime is fairly low as well, particularly armed ones, as Sweden has strict laws on firearms (and knives and axes and baseball bats and whartever).

...) I can't give you a breakdown on ethnics or religions, as those things are considered private matters and would be illegal for even the government to record. In the sixties, there was a conscious recruitment of people from former Yugoslavia and bordering countries, to supply work force for the Volvo cars and SKF ball bearing companies. Those immigrants seem to be very well incorporated into Swedish society.

For bookbinding, I go to an Iranian guy, my shoes are mended by a man from Bosnia, my clothes are altered/mended by a couple from Lebanon (originally speaking Armenian), the neighbourhood pizzeria that used to be run by a Kurdish couple is now managed by two guys from somewhere around Kazakhsthan, and my two favourite restaurants are run by Sikhs from the Panjab. If you want to buy (S)E Asian food, there's three shops just in the very centre of the city. Not too bad for a town of some 500,000.
 

robtex

Veteran Member
*bump* I had a lot of fun on this thread and with the influx of so many newer, less than one year old, members I was wondering if other's could/would contribute?
 

DallasApple

Depends Upon My Mood..
1) Its true ..the stars are bright..we have big skies..

2) Its windier here than in Chicago..(no lie)...

3) Its flat ..prarie land..

4) On occasion you see a real live cowboy..(no kidden)...(I went to school with a few ..you see um less and less but you know um when you see um)..

5) we have LOTS of coyotes..one even made dinner out of one of my cats..(and I dont live in a rural area..they travel in along the creeks at night)...

6) we drive cars not horses..(most of us anyway)...

7) its VERY affluent..lots of money here..

8) you could eat breakfast lunch and dinner at a different resturant everyday without repeating for 3 years...

9) We have the WORLDS 3rd bussiest airport by traffic movement...

10) We are diverse..as people go...and on a personal note..Im proud to say Im from Texas(since 13 anyway) and a Dallasite..and I gave birth to 3 native Texans since I've been here...There are good people here..

P.S..I live in Collin county..Plano,Tx...15 minutes outside the Dallas city limits....Texas is HUGE and diverse in people..weather patterns..the way the land is formed..and on and on...Its like a small country..

Love

Dallas
 

Phasmid

Mr Invisible
The town I live in has the most pubs per square mile than any in Europe... or it used to... it probably still does.

EDIT: Nope... looks like another town now holds the record... well... *shrugs* Oh... Jenson Button is from here! Yeah! In your face! So is the failed "Shoe Bomber"... so yeah... have that world!

Frubals to anyone who guesses where I live.
 

DallasApple

Depends Upon My Mood..
*bump* I had a lot of fun on this thread and with the influx of so many newer, less than one year old, members I was wondering if other's could/would contribute?

I've been to Austin..One of the best times I've had in my life with my husband..I loved the bats flying off the bridge..And getting to see "inner space"..(the caves)...and visiting the Capital..

I love how "weird" Austin is..

Love

Dallas
 

3.14

Well-Known Member
1. lots of coffeeshops

2. lots of friendly people, if you meet a nice guy/girl you might even get a free joint from him/her

3. 2 sister citys both poor but getting better and with awsom people living in them ( philipiens, and
hotsermevasherhely or something,

4. everything is allowed, gay marriage, soft drugs, abortion etc.

5. people act sober about things they don't make big deals about things, o your on fire, o your worshiping satan, o you held a guy hostage, so what?

6. people go far to be politicaly correct, hight is verticly challenged, being on fire is thermaly challenged etc

7. lot of art and nicely desighned bridges

8. good healthcare and transportation

9. no real big nut cases walking around

10 did i mention pot?
 

McBell

Unbound
Attend the World's Largest Collector Car Auction every Labor Day weekend at Kruse International Auction Park. Over 5,000 cars for sale and over 150,000 people from all over the world attend.

Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum.

National Automotive and Truck Museum

World War II Victory Museum

Kruse Automotive & Carriage Museum

Hoosier Air Museum

Garrett Historical Railroad Museum

DeKalb County History Museum

Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival

DeKalb County has several downtown Historical Districts. The Downtown Auburn Historical District is composed mostly of the 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings, the Downtown Butler Historical District encompasses most of the town’s commercial buildings dating back to 1863, and the Downtown Garrett Historical District comprising residential, civic, commercial and religious structures most of which were built between 1880-1930.
Source
 
Top