Discribe your home city.

[GeneralHotRod]

Padma...

How are things there? I went to school at Nebraska-Lincoln for 5 years and have a lot of family in the Omaha area. If you could get the winters there a little warmer and I'd move back in a minute. I'm envious of the low housing costs, and I am tired of all the idiot drivers from California that are here in Colorado. Then again you have to deal with those fools from Iowa there.

Here's a quick factoid about the Omaha area...It is in the top ten cities nationwide for technology based jobs.

 

[Padma]

GeneralHotRod:

I grew up in Minnesota, so winters here just aren't that bad. This year we only dipped below 0 degrees F a couple of times. Course, last year we had 3 ft of snow and the corresponding cold....

Housing prices are rising, especially out in West O', where all the expansion is going on. Still, the median cost is pretty low for a city this size.

Yeah, we have our share of jack@ss drivers. Sometimes I think more than our share, especially during rush hour!

Here's a quick factoid about the Omaha area...It is in the top ten cities nationwide for technology based jobs.

Quite true! Trouble is, since this is a 'low cost' city, the pay runs at national average for tech, or lower. My company was fortunately able to convince our national headquarters to pay us above national average, or we wouldn't have been able to attract the people we need to support USSTRATCOM's IT needs.

 

[Andu Indorin]

Colorado Springs, Colorado:

"A suburb in search of a city."

 

[SKILORD]

nowthe city i moved to from the VI.

Henderson North Carolina. Not too small, but backwater compared to the islands, people stay where they live instead of leaving every chance they get. SALES TAX?!!!! WTH!!! i've never had to deal with that before!!! No seafood!!!! God, the states are screwed up.
Driving 65 miles an hour, weird. (avg speed limit in the USVI is 25) . movies come out when they're supposed to, WOW. no native discount

 

[animepornstar]

luleå

wasfounded in the early 17th century, the population is about 72000 and it´s on the northern border of the civilization. it´s it´s most famous for shiping out iron during ww2

the girls are very beautiful here

the climate very cold. it´s snow and ice everywhere. if you come up here you better bring your passport in case you forget your gender.

a lot of strange animals are living here, everything from elks to polar bears.

the fact that we have polar bears living here has given us the right to wear arms. it´s necessary to be armed when you are going anywhere, because you can be attacked by a polar bear or a wolf pack when you least expect it. anything smaller then a magnum 44 is not recommended, akimbo berretas might be cooler but if you are attacked by a polar bear you have to aim very well with them if you don´t want to be eaten up. the record in shooting polar bears on the way to/from school is five. the guy who shot them is a legend. machineguns are however forbidden.

the bond babe maud adams lives here.

our equivalent to the indians, palestinians and irish are lappjävlarna. a strange people that whines all the time. they are living from breeding reindeers and their only interest is snowmobiles.

half the population in luleå are communists and the other half democratic socialists.

luleå is the only place in the world where mcdonalds has been. forced to shut down. why? because the inhabitants of luleå eats burgers with cutleries.

the is a drink called submarine. in whole sweden it is that you fill a big glass with beer and put dram glass with vodka in it. in luleå a submarine is that you fill a big glass with home-distilled and put a dram glass with beer in it.

we see northern lights more often then we see the sun.

 

[IceBlaZe]

Nahariya is a small city located in north-west Israel by the beach.
You can see it in the map here:

This is the by-the-beach 'Tayelet' (Promenade):

This is the old (now revised) water tower:

Fountains in the southern part of the city:

Short History:
In the begining of 1934 the engineer Joseph Levi bought a 2,400 dunam piece of land from the Tuany family from beirut.
Along with the agronomist Dr. Zelig Soskin and with the engineer Shimon Reich, he founded a jewish settlement.
Because it is crossed by the 'Gaaton' river, and river in hebrew is 'Nahar', it is called Nahariya.
in the year 1935 the settlement was officialy recognized and a new organization called 'Nahariya - Small Farms LTD' was founded to raise more money to develop and extend nahariya, and to buy more lands.
The company was comitted to sell territories to new settlers and to supply waters to the residents of the town.
in the 10th of february, 1935, the first settlers arrived, the Duitch -Dayan family and the Pauker/Fauker family.
The first group of settlers that came were mainly new immigrants from germany who came in the wave of the fifth immigration to Israel.
When the water tower was built it was to be made the symbol of the city, along with ancient hebrew letters (that I dont understand).
In 1936, with the new start of slaughter by arabs, the local residents needed to protect themselves from snipers in the area while continuing to supply farm products and continue their agricultural effort.
The roads around nahariya became dangerous and the supply of food and such's to nahariya became the job ofmost of the men in the town.
During WW2 Nahariya became a place of favour of hangout to the british troops, thanks to its Yekish (East-Central european) warm hosting and its tasty delicatessens.
To the beaches of nahariya arrived 7 ) illegal immigrant during the British Mandate period ships, and the local residents supplied the holocaust survivors with food and housing.
In 1947, according to the decision of the UN to divide the area to a jewish country and an arab country, nahariya was left out of the borders of the jewish country.
Thats when the blood occurences began and arabs tried to kill the residents of the city. All roads to nahariya became almost impossible to pass because of the arabs, and the last safe road was the sea.
A lot of food and supplies to northern Israel arrived through the beach of nahariya, and regular delegations tried to transfer it to Israel itself. A lot of delegators, including 47 of the delegators of the Yehiam Delegation, were slaughtered during their attempts to pass food and supplies to northern Israel.
In 1948, after the liberation war, the state of Israel was declared, including Nahariya inside its borders, and everyone celebrated and everyone were happy except for the arabs that lost the war they started
In the 50's Nahariya recieved immigrants from countries including poland, iraq, yemen and persia.
in the 60's a lot of immigrants from Morroco were recieved.
Nahariya was first recognized as a complete Israeli city in 1961.
Today Nahariya has over 50,000 residents and estimations say that in the next 20 years the number will grow to 70,000 residents.

I, myself, live in a small neighberhood in the northern part of nahariya, that was only attached to nahariya in a later stage.
My neighberhood was first a little farm-settlement of its own untill it grew and nahariya grew and they connected together. so now its a neighberhood of nahariya called 'Rasko'.
Nahariya is a sweet city, tho if it wasnt for our current very idiot mayor, it could have been better.
But I think nahariya is evolving every day, even tho it is no longer the small and sweet summer vacation city it used to be.

Here is a pic of illegal immigrant ships arriving at nahariya beach:

 

[cleopatra143]

I'd like to change the subject, just a little bit. I don't have a HOME town, although I've lived here in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX for going on 7 years now.
Anyway, what I would like to say, is that I've lived in several big cities all across the US and have traveled quite extensively to places like Seattle, Nashville, Miami, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, etc...
My point is, these are supposed to be major tourist attractions and be wonderful places to go visit, so why is it that these places all across the US are rat holes? I mean, they are so hyped up that when you actually get there and see them, they are so disappointing! I don't know, I guess when you grow up thinking Disney World in Orlando is the Magic Kingdom your in for a big disappointment

 

[Apollo]

Originally posted by cleopatra143
I'd like to change the subject, just a little bit. I don't have a HOME town, although I've lived here in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX for going on 7 years now.
Anyway, what I would like to say, is that I've lived in several big cities all across the US and have traveled quite extensively to places like Seattle, Nashville, Miami, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, etc...
My point is, these are supposed to be major tourist attractions and be wonderful places to go visit, so why is it that these places all across the US are rat holes? I mean, they are so hyped up that when you actually get there and see them, they are so disappointing! I don't know, I guess when you grow up thinking Disney World in Orlando is the Magic Kingdom your in for a big disappointment

What? Seattle is a rat hole? I have honestly never talked with anybody who visited Seattle and didn't like it.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Originally posted by animepornstar
the is a drink called submarine. in whole sweden it is that you fill a big glass with beer and put dram glass with vodka in it. in luleå a submarine is that you fill a big glass with home-distilled and put a dram glass with beer in it.

Not hugely unique. The first is known as a depth charge, or an atomic bomb, and the second is known in my experience as a hydrogen bomb.
Five of those, and you get a bit tipsy.

 

[animepornstar]

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade


Not hugely unique. The first is known as a depth charge, or an atomic bomb, and the second is known in my experience as a hydrogen bomb.
Five of those, and you get a bit tipsy.

well, good inventions are to be shared.
we also have a drink called gällivare sunrise, gällivare is a small mine town in the middle of nowhere. it´s a glass home-distilled with a slice of sausage attached on the glass. do you have anything like that?

 

[Simon Darkshade]

No, I do not know of any local drinks that involve deliberate and compulsary insertion of sliced sausage. I think they leave that up to the individual drinker.

 

[cleopatra143]

What? Seattle is a rat hole? I have honestly never talked with anybody who visited Seattle and didn't like it.

I lived there and it was horrible. Sure, every place has its own culture but as a native Southern Girl, those people up there are rude to "outsiders". Don't get me wrong, these places can be beautiful but the people and the atmosphere are a different story.

 

[SAFuser]

Leipzig ist a city with 512 000 inhabitants and the biggest city of the New Federal States (outside Berlin). Its highest population had it in 1933 with 713 000 inhabitants.

Almost 1 000 years ago Leipzig was mentioned first time. It's famous sons are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann and Kurt Masur.

Napoleon's run of conquest ended in Leipzig in the Battle of the Nations in 1813. Since 1913 Europe's largest war monument remembers this - the Völkerschlachtdenkmal.

In 1989 the peaceful mass protests with up to 320 000 participants was one aspect lead to the reunification of Germany.

Until 2008 the popular fair trade Games Convention was an international figurehead until the cologne fair trade destructed it by dumping conditions.

The Leipzig Central Station ist Europe's largest terminal station by area. In front of it there is also Europe's largest tram station.

The University of Leipzig is the second eldest uninterupted existing University of Germany after the University of Heidelberg. 2009 is the 600th birthday of its foundation.

I live in Leipzig just for 8 years and i love this beautyful cultural, architectural valuable and friendly city. Secretly Leipzig is called the capital of the New Federal States.

A live cam of Leipzig:

Ciao, SAF

 

[Leonel]

I live in the south side of Everett, WA. To the east of me is Highway 99 and the Everett Mall, to the west is Paine Field and the Boeing factory. We have approximately 100,000 living in the city limits but they're spread out across a wide swath of land. The look of the place is essentially a utilitarian Pacific Northwest building style with a majority of styles being from the 1970's, much like the rest of the Puget Sound. The tallest building is about 10-11 stories tall in the downtown area and the average height is about 2 floors.

Mostly working class/lower middle class people live here, however there are relatively upscale apartments dotted around the region, mostly around the Mukilteo area.

 

[Dachs]

Epic bump is epic. Here's a picture of the city in which I was born:

 

[musekick]

I'd rather not give out the name, but I'll give you a little visual:

Population- about 500.
Geographic area- rural Pennsylvania.
Total number of businesses- six (including a combination general store / apartment / post office / laundromat).
Demographics- White. Oh, so White.
Landmarks- The general store.
Roads- One. Seriously.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I don't mind a thread like this being bumped. Anyway, I have considered two cities as home.

Marikina City, Metro Manila, Philippines - typical residential suburb of Manila. Prides itself on being one of the cleanest cities in the Philippines. Picture of city hall below.

Pickering, Ontario, Canada - I'd probably say it's a typical small town. With a nuclear power plant. Picture of city hall below, I live in an apartment close to it.

 

[Mirc]

I live in [wiki]Bucharest[/wiki].

Capital of Romania.

Population: around 2 million

Age: Very young, first attested in 1459 (that's amazingly young for a European capital, especially since other towns in Romania can be more than 2600 years old)

Description: Situated in the plains, some 100 km south of the Carpathian mountains and 65 km north of the Danube. Used to have a huge center of amazingly beautiful buildings, of which only around 1/4-1/5 are left, after the communist disaster. Would have high potential to get some of its old charm if the many historical buildings would be restored. But we are too stupid to do that, and I don't expect it to even start happening before the next... 15-20 years pass by.

Landmarks: Palace of the Parliament (second largest building in the world, by floor space), Romanian Athaeneum (round concert hall, built from public money in 1888), Triumphal Arch, a few other interesting palaces.

Photos: Click here for a lot of good photos. I love pages 1 & 2 especially.

 

[Kyriakos]

I live in the Byzantine "co-reigning city" of Thessalonike Founded by Kassander, one of the epigonoi of Alexander the Great, circa 315 BC, it quickly became the capital of post Alexander Macedonia. After its conquest by the romans it became capital of one fourth of the roman empire, under the tetrarchy system. Two books of the bible are written to its inhabitants. The city later on was second only to Constantinople in importance during the Byzantine, but also the Ottoman empires. Today it is the second biggest city in Greece, with around 1,5 million people, and a center of south-eastern Europe.

Here are a few images of it:

 

[Mirc]

@Varwnos: I love Thessalonike, from the photos I've seen (been looking around at photos of cities for quite a while). I might come there this summer, if I can persuade my friends to take a trip south and not only west while we will be hopefully travelling though Europe.