Tell us 9 things about your city/town! Let's learn about each other

[Cutlass]

Here's a little game for get to know each other I saw at another forum. I thought it would be interesting to learn about our world by asking members firsthand.

Just cut and paste this into your own post, and answer the questions. Keep in mind that people from other countries are reading it, so you may need to explain some terms:

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
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2) What is the population of your city/town?
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3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
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4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
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5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
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6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer:

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
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8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer:

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer:

 

[Joecoolyo]

I usually won't go into this much detail about where I live, but what the hell

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Northbrook, Illinois, America

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 40,000

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Chicago

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: Residential/Commercial, the headquarters for All-State insurance and Underwriters Laboratories are in my town

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: Used to be named Shermerville, but was changed to Northbrook due to anti-German sentiment during WWI.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: Nope

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Chicago

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Not current, but John Hughes grew up in my town and went to my high school. Subsequently, like half of his movies take place where I live/in my high school. Ferris Buellers Day off was literally filmed at my school.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: All of them

 

[bhsup]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Butler, MO, USA

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 4,209

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Kansas City, MO and it is about 60 miles north

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: It is a rural county seat of a very sparsely populated county (about 25K)

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer:

• First city west of the Mississpppi with permanent electrical power, which is why its nickname is The Electric City.
• Hometown of Robert Heinlein.
• Victim of ethnic cleansing via Order #11 by Union forces during the Civil War.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: Not really, no.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Change your plans and go to Truman Lake or something actually vacation-worthy instead.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: VRWCAgent. Otherwise, no.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: Well, the local Butler Bears of course. And then most everyone is loyal Chiefs and Royals fans as well.

 

[Jan H]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Hamont-Achel (province Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium);

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 14000 (Hamont ca.8500, Achel ca.5500)

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: probably Eindhoven in the Netherlands, which is at ca. 30 km to the North of us.

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: some agriculture, some small and medium sized businesses, and a lot of people work in surrounding cities

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: Hamont-Achel is made up of two towns, Hamont and Achel, that together form a "municipality", the lowest level of local government in Belgium. I live in Achel. Hamont-Achel has officialy the title of "city", because in pre-Napoleonic times, Hamont was one of the free cities in the county of Loon.
Since we are almost surrounded by The Netherlands, we have a lot of Dutch inhabitants. I think about 15% of the population has the Dutch nationality. The main reasons the come to us, are lower housing prices and lower capital income taxes

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: yes, "Achel" is one of the 7 official "Trappist" beers. The beer is made by the monks in the "Achelse Kluis" abbey; there also is an artisanal cheese maker, who has won a couple of prices with his products, especially with the "Achelse Blauwe", a type of blue cheese

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: taste a beer at the abbey!

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Belle Perez is a pop singer that is fairly well known in Flanders and Holland. She grew up in the same street as me. Jelle Vanendert is a professional cyclist who won a stage in this year's Tour de France.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: there are three football (soccer) teams, but they are all in the very low sections. We have a male volleyball team that almost got promoted to the Belgian premier league last year.

 

[Shekwan]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Ilsan, South Korea

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: Don't know, maybe a couple of million.

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Seoul

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: Satellite City

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: It's really new. It didn't exist twenty years ago.


6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: Not really. Run of the mill Korean, alcohol and red pepper paste based food.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Nothing, its a sprawl of neon and tower blocks. There a big fake lake, which is relatively nice.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Probably several K Pop artists who nobody in the west has heard of.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: FC Seoul are close by in the World Cup stadium. They encourage vuvuzela use and don't show the away teams highlights on the big screen. A childish approach to football overall.

 

[Skwink]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Aberdeen, WA, USA

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 16kish

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Seattle, about a two hour drive away.

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: It's a logging/lumber and pulp mill town on the water.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: Used to be called the "Hell Hole of the west coast".

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: Razor Clams! Best food on Earth.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: The woman who begs outside of Walmart everyday.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: No, Kurt Cobain is dead.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: Aberdeen Bobcats!

 

[_random_]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Dayton, Ohio, USA #1

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 841.502 in the metro area, 141.527 in the city proper.

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Cincinnati is 45 miles away if that counts. Chicago is 230 miles if it doesn't.

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: There's a lot of industry in the area, although that's been in decline. There's also a big USAF base in Fairborn, so there are quite a few military types around.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: The cash register was invented here.
6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: We like our pizza with crumbly sausage and thin, salty crust. We're also the home of Mike-Sells potato chips, which kick serious ass.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Air Force Museum I guess? There's really not a lot of touristy stuff here.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Nancy Cartwright, voice of Bart Simpson, and Mike Peters, the guy who draws Mother Goose and Grimm.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: DRAGONS, BABY!

 

[Lillefix]

Not my home city, but I live here,

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Bergen Norway

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 250 000

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: It's kind of internationally recognised. It's Norway's second biggest city.

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: It's traditionally a trading city. Was an important port of the Hanseatic league(that why it's called Lufthansa). Nowadays it's much oil.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: Has one of the world's most annoying accents. It's surrounded by seven mountains in order to prevent the accent to spread.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: They have a famous fish soup.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: The city itself is the attraction.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Not internationally no. Danes mught have heaard of Sissel Kyrkjebø.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: I hate sports. The football team is called Brann, which means fire btw.

 

[Marla_Singer]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Paris, France.

2) What is the population of your city/town?
11,836,970 as of january 2007.

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
New York City is at about 5,850 km (3,630 miles)

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Well, it's on the Seine river and a major European city since a long time now.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town
What I particularly enjoy about Paris is its long and rich cosmopolitan History.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Mushrooms! Well, not those that make you see pink elephants but the ones we put on pizzas are called "champignons de Paris" in French.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
I would advise you to get a dinner in Kong's restaurant, at the top of one of Samaritaine's building just in front of the Ile de la Cité. Enjoy the food and the view.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Making a list would be too long and unfunny. However, the beauty of Paris is that the best-known Parisians have roots elsewhere. For those who may be known in the US: Edith Piaf (Italo-Algerian), Charles Aznavour (Armenian), Serge Gainsbourg (Jewish Russian)... (that was a long time ago I know)

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Paris Saint-Germain FC (footie)
Stade Français and Metro Racing 92 (rugby)
Paris-Levallois Basket (basket-ball)

The most popular is by far the footie one.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Talking about celebrities born in Paris, you may have heard about Eva Green, the actress in James Bond's Casino Royale. Well, we were in the same class during primary school! She was a very nice and shy girl at the time. I liked her as a kid.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

I don't see Cutlass answers...


1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer:Ravenna, OH

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer:11 thousands

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer:Akron about 21 miles

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer:Municipal Government, some small retails, fast food, small industrial, and etc.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer:A former Mayor (Paul Jones) was tried and convicted on various tax fraud convictions. Also had awarded his son 274,900 smackaroos over 8 years for his lawn mowing business.
My personal fame: When I was 13, I was well known for stealing the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) van from officer Stephens, and drove it around the middle school. Was considered a legend for doing that. He never again left the keys in the ignition after that.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer:Not really. Some were considered unique, but they went out of business many years ago.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer:There is a particular flag pole in front of the Municipal Courthouse at downtown that is interesting to climb. Just do it on a busy Friday night - no one will notice - I promise

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer:Maynard James Keenan of Tool once reside here.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer:None. We do have good cheerleaders though

 

[KMRblue1027]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Shamong, New Jersey, USA

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: About 5000 or so

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Philadelphia, about a 30 minute drive

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: I guess agricultural while mainly serving as a bedroom community

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: We have the lowest crime rate in the state and the 3rd lowest in the country last time I checked.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: We have a winery which is quite popular locally (State).

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Not much to see or do honestly

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: None although a hockey player does live here.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: Generally the Philadelphia Eagles with the Phillies close behind

 

[Camikaze]

I'm gonna answer twice, because although I definitely live in 'Sydney', I live in the 'City of Bankstown', which is a city in Sydney. Not sure how they define 'city'.

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Bankstown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney, NSW, Australia

2) What is the population of your city/town?
~190 000
~4.5 million

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Sydney- 20km
Singapore- 6200km

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Bankstown's inland, and I guess kinda industrial? Not really, though. Just mainly suburban.
Sydney's coastal.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Well, Bankstown usually has a minimum temp. 5 degrees lower than Sydney in winter, and a maximum 5 degrees higher in summer. I don't understand this, given it's only 20km difference. Sea breeze, I guess. I can't think of anything else trivial.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Bankstown just has the normal eclectic mix of eateries, I think. It's comprised of many suburbs, so it's just what you'd expect of somewhere suburban. It's not particularly known for anything else, and if it was, it wouldn't 'local' in the true sense, anyway.
Sydney has no particular 'local' food or drink that I can think of. The cuisine is highly multicultural. Italian and Chinese are the mainstays, presumably just like the UK or US.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
If you were to vacation to Bankstown, I'd want you to see the train station to the city. And then get on a train.
If you in Sydney...well, there's a few things. I'd probably direct you towards Mrs. Macquarie's Chair, or send you on a Manly ferry. On a sunny day. Simply because the harbour and city just so beautiful then!

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
In Bankstown,
In Sydney, yeah, a lot. Obviously about half of Australia's celebrities are going to come from Sydney. Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe live here (when they're 'home'), to name a few.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
In Bankstown, the Bankstown-Canterbury Bulldogs, a rugby league team.
For Sydney, hard to say, because the sports competitions are quite localised. That is, the most popular competition is the NRL (National Rugby League), but 9 of the 16 teams are Sydney teams. There is one NRL team in Melbourne. Conversely, there is one (soon to be two) AFL (Aussie rules) team in Sydney, with the majority based in Melbourne. Cricket is followed on an international level, so the favourite there is obviously 'Australia', and this actually holds for most other sports.

 

[Dreadnought]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Neshanic Station, NJ, USA

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: ~5000

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Flemington is ~10 miles away. New York is ~80, Philadelphia ~100.

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: It's mostly agricultural with a huge pharmaceutical presence.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: President Lincoln and T.R. gave a speech from the back of a train car in our town.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: Nope.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Go to the town's pub, it's very good!

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Not that I know of.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: Philadelphia teams, though New York teams have a presence.

 

[civ_king]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Vallejo, California, USA

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 115,942

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: San Francisco

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: Former industrial town

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: Mare Island built a destroyer in 17 days in WWI

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: 'Pino lumpia is very popular

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Check Alden Park and St. Peter's Chapel (largest collection of Tiffany Glass on the West Coast)

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Natalie Coughlin, CC Sabathia, Jeff Gordon, Joey Chestnut

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: There isn't one

 

[ZeletDude]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Hailey, Idaho, USA

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 7,000 in my town, about 14,000 in my valley (15 miles long a few miles wide)

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Well it's a world renowned ski resort, Boise is 2.5 hour drive, Salt Lake City 5 hour drive, Seattle 11 hour drive, and Portland about 11 hours as well.

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: In the mountains, mostly supported by tourism.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: Worlds first ski lift was used here , also the Dalai Llama spoke at my town's highschool in 2005.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: Not really

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: The Ski mountain - Skiing and snowboarding basically

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Ezra Pound (a poet) was born here, Ernest Hemingway wasn't born here.. but he died here and spent alot of time here.. many celebrities have second/third homes here. (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mats Wilander, Walter Annenberg, Adam West, Tom Hanks, Steve Miller, Demi Moore, Peter Cetera, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Ashton Kutcher, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Wynn, Mohamed al-Fayed, Barbara Kent, Tony Robbins) <-- wiki list.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: there really aren't any sport teams besides highschool and the "Sun Valley Suns" which is a hockey team..

 

[Bamspeedy]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer:
Onalaska, WI, USA

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer:
17,000+
It is literally a suburb of La Crosse (population 50,000+).

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer:
Madison, WI - 2 hours
Minneapolis, MN - 3 hours
Milwaukee, WI - 3.5 hours

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer:
On the Mississippi River. To the south there's an industrial park, but most of that belongs to La Crosse, and to the east is the mall area. Onalaska and La Crosse had a big annexation battle in the '80's over it. La Crosse got one side of the highway which has the actual mall, Onalaska got the other side of the highway with all the other stores, the Wal-Mart, Home Depot, etc.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer:
Nothing I can think of. 100 years ago it was a logging town like most town and cities in this part of the country that are on a river.
La Crosse has the world's largest 6 pack of beer. Mark Twain wrote of his fondness for the city of La Crosse. Current mayor was elected into office at the age of 24. UW-L named their mascot after Colbert....yes, the comedian. Not that interesting since they weren't the first to do that.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer:
Nothing except some micro brews.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer:
State Bike trail I guess. La Crosse has Granddad's Bluff (scenic overlook), Mississippi Queen (steam boat) and Island Girl (fancy boat) and the world's largest 6-pack of beer. In the winter if you don't have a snowmobile there is a ski hill (but I'm sure it's tiny compared to more notable ski hills)

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer:
No, a former NFL player and former twin tennis players. La Crosse has 100 people on the 'notable people' wiki, but I won't bother seeing who's current or famous enough. Ed Gein was born there, but that's in dispute, probably because no city wants to admit he was born there. I thought I read somewhere that La Crosse was in the 1986 video game Rampage, but I can't confirm it.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer:
Onalaska itself, just has the Coulee Region Chill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulee_Region_Chill

La Crosse has:

The La Crosse Skating Sirens began competing at the La Crosse Center in 2009. The Skating Sirens are a nationally "bouting" women's flat-track roller derby team. The La Crosse Spartans of the Indoor Football League began playing at the La Crosse Center in 2010.

It has previously been home to two indoor football teams: The La Crosse River Rats and the La Crosse Night Train; and two Continental Basketball Association (CBA) teams: The La Crosse Catbirds and the La Crosse Bobcats.

And they have the La Crosse Loggers for baseball.

http://www.lacrosseloggers.com/

Professionally it would be the Wisconsin teams (Packers, Brewers and Bucks).

 

[Snowguy716]

This is my first post here and I've been lurking for a while, so I figured this was as good a place as any to start off.

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Bemidji, Minnesota, USA

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: 13,500 in the city limits, about 33,000 in the surrounding area. We're a big tourist town and we have a 5000 student university as well as a tech college. We're also a regional banking/government/retail center for a population of about 120,000... so if you were to visit, the town would seem much bigger than 13,500 people.

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Twin Cities, 230 miles south... Winnipeg, about 250 miles north (in Manitoba, Canada). Duluth and Fargo are about 150 miles east and west, respectively.

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: We're known for our lakes, and the town is situated on lakes Bemidji and Irving with the Mississippi River cutting through both lakes.. giving us the nickname "First City on the Mississippi". It's roots are in logging/sawmill operations but high tech industry and small scale manufacturing have since taken over. Education, tourism, and government (federal, state, and local) are the biggest job providers. As you can guess: Lots of gov't workers plus college means we're pretty liberal.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: We regularly see -30&#730;F or lower during the winter and 90&#730;F+ during the summer. We also are home to the statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, which is one of the most photographed statues in the nation.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: Because most people have Norwegian or other Scandinavian heritage, Swedish meatballs, lefse, and yes, lutefisk, are common during holidays. Rømmegrøt is also a popular dish during Christmas as a breakfast item... along with the Norwegian-flag decked Kransekake (literally circle-cake).

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Come in the summer and fish, go hiking, lounge in a hammock by the lake all day with a good book. Come in the winter, go ice fishing, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, and finish the evening with an ice cold beer and a hot tub or a nice mug of hot cocoa and a roaring fire.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer: Jane Russell, an old famous actress who recently died. About 2/3 of the U.S. olympic curling teams from 2002, 2006, and 2010. We are the curling capital of the U.S.!

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: The curling team, obviously!

 

[emzie]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Answer: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2) What is the population of your city/town?
Answer: Well, if there weren't a river running through it breaking it between Quebec and Ontario, 1,200,000. That's the metro area anyway. City proper is 850,000ish.

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
Answer: Probably only as a trivia answer: No dude, it's not Toronto, Canada's capital is Ottowa (since everyone always misspells it as well). Anyway, 200km by road west of Montreal, 425 east if Toronto.

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Answer: It's a government town, overwhelmingly so/

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
Answer: Well I'll just use this space to boast. In terms of quality of life, #2 in North America (behind Vancouver) and #14 in the world. Suck on that, USA #28

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Answer: POUTINE

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7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Answer: Rideau Canal. Parliament Hill. One of the many national museums. Gatineau Park. Winterlude. Jazzfest. It's a pretty awesome town.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Answer:Alanis Morissette. We're sorry. Dan Aykroyd. Tom Green. Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. Sandra Oh.

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Answer: Toronto Maple Leafs

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Paris, France.

2) What is the population of your city/town?
11,836,970 as of january 2007.

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
New York City is at about 5,850 km (3,630 miles)

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[Tee Kay]

1) What city/town, province/state/territory, and country do you live in?
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2) What is the population of your city/town?
4 million-ish

3) If it's not a world-recognized city, what is the nearest big city to you and how far away?
New York City, 16664 km

4) Is it industrial, agricultural, on the water, etc.?
Coastal (it's by a large bay called Port Philip, which is connected to the Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean to the south by a narrow channel). The heart of the city, the CBD, is on the Yarra River. Most of the metropolitan area is residential urban sprawl. Industry is concentrated mainly in the western suburbs. There's some agricultural activity in the rural-urban fringe and in the Yarra Valley.

5) Tell us an interesting trivia fact about the city/town -
The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed here in 1901.

6) Do you have a local food or drink that is peculiar to your area?
Multicultural cuisine. And coffee.

7) If we were to go there on vacation, what's the one thing you'd want us to see or do?
Take a day or two out of the city and head west along the Great Ocean Road.

8) Any current male or female celebs born there?
Rupert Murdoch

9) What's the favorite sports team for your city/town?
Pick one out of 10 Victorian AFL teams (North Melbourne is of course #1). Melbourne Victory for soccer. Melbourne Storms for NRL.