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03-10-2010, 03:26 AM
Jesus of Suburbia

Epic Poll‼

What state/province/country do you live in?? City?? Post an interesting fact about it.
I would make this a poll, but the maximum number of options is fifteen so....
Anyway....

I live in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
We had the first McDonald's Drive-Thru ever. Seriously;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-through#Restaurants
Second to last paragraph in the restaurant section.
They made it for the soldiers in Ft. Huachuca.
They needed to hurry.
Because they are soldiers.
And soldiers
Need
To hurry.
03-10-2010, 03:32 AM
Grod

So this actually isn't a poll. Hmm.
03-10-2010, 03:35 AM
Jesus of Suburbia

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grod

So this actually isn't a poll. Hmm.

Yeah.... Too many places and so little maximum options....
I think most of us here are European, North American, and some South American. I don't think there are any Asians here, and not many Africans at all.
Also, as a side-note, I mean where you live right now.
Not where you lived twenty years ago.
Not where your anscestors are from.
Where you live.
Although, as a side-note, you can put that you were originally born in ____ or have a ____ heritage. Dat's kool.
03-10-2010, 04:00 AM
Kromoh

I'm brazilian. A powerhungry and imperialist european dwelling on the land that belongs to the natives.
03-10-2010, 08:14 AM
Quigin

I live in the platypus capital of the world.
03-10-2010, 08:24 AM
Lseadragon

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quigin

I live in the platypus capital of the world.

oh my god you live in france

why I live there too!
03-10-2010, 08:30 AM
Dannon Oneironaut

North Carolina, USA. Kind of sucks. Wish I were still living in Oregon or Hawaii or Vermont or Tokyo, or Barcelona, or Copenhagen or Dublin. This is not the best place I've ever lived.
03-10-2010, 03:52 PM
Banana

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

North Carolina, USA. Kind of sucks. Wish I were still living in Oregon or Hawaii or Vermont or Tokyo, or Barcelona, or Copenhagen or Dublin. This is not the best place I've ever lived.

you bet you were still living in oregon!

I actually dont think my town has done anything
03-10-2010, 04:46 PM
Zhaylin

Ehhh, I don't officially "live" here anymore but I do spend my Wednesdays and Thursdays here:

"The population was 5,725 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, it has reached a population above 7,500. Buckhannon is home to West Virginia Wesleyan College and the West Virginia Strawberry Festival, held annually on the third week of May. The city is located 115 miles northeast from the capital city of Charleston and 140 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Buckhannon is also home of the Sago Mine Tragedy that happened on January 2, 2006, resulting in the deaths of 12 of 13 trapped miners."

I love it here. It's a sleepy little slice of heaven BUT everyone DOES know everyone elses business though...
03-14-2010, 06:03 AM
Dannon Oneironaut

Quote:

Originally Posted by Banana

you bet you were still living in oregon!

I actually dont think my town has done anything

Where in Oregon do you live? I lived in Ashland. I lived there for 14 years. I moved away because I was sad to see what the town has become. Gentrification from California. My friends were all becoming alcoholics and coke addicts and nobody seems capable of sustaining long term relationships. However, not ALL of my frineds were doing that. And I have the best friends ever over there. Here, in Asheville North Carolina, everyone prides themselves that this is such a progressive (small) city, but it really isn't anything compared to the West Coast. People are moving here from all over the East Coast, especially New York. It is in the process of being gentrified. However, it really doesn't compare to the West Coast. People here just started hearing of bio-diesel and they never heard of permaculture. Also it is hard to meet people here. I haven't made any solid connections or friends yet. People are suspicious of eye contact still. And talking to strangers is weird here. Not like Hawaii at all where everyone is eager and excited to meet people because it is a beautiful place and it is just good to share.
I love traveling for that reason. I love going to places where a lot of travelers come through because people like to meet people. It is strange in places where they don't meet travelers or people from other cultures and countries, because the locals aren't exposed to other influences and they don't understand that their little way of life is not the only little way of life there is.
Oregon is great: it is on the West Coast, so it is pretty progressive, and they are exposed to travelers. But it is not so flaky and ridiculous as California has a tendency to be. I always loved Portland. Great city. Portland, Oregon! Also, Oregon has great nature to explore. great rivers to swim in and hot springs to soak in and green mossy old growth forests with salmon swimmming up.
Can't you tell I'm a little homesick? Don't get me wrong, Asheville North Carolina is cool as far as the East Coast goes. Not as cold as Vermont, but just as rural. we got the Southern Appalachian mountains here with its rich hillbilly culture. In Oregon everyone is growing marijuana and mushrooms but here the people brew moonshine. There are people to meet here also, I just am too shy and jaded. I miss my real friends and don't feel like going out to the bars to meet people.
03-14-2010, 04:42 PM
NinjaWookiee

I live in Germany: We have Wacken!!

I live in Duisburg: Here we have the ugliest bird in the world and a giant golden ladder!!

The ladder is not photoshopped or something. It's really standing here.
Great, isn't it?

Greetings from Germany,
Matthias. :rockon:
03-14-2010, 05:27 PM
guitarboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kromoh

I'm brazilian. A powerhungry and imperialist european dwelling on the land that belongs to the natives.

<3
I'm an american. a powerhungry and ~~imperialist~~ ~~socialist~~ whatever european dwelling on the land that belongs to the natives.
03-14-2010, 05:56 PM
dajo

I live in Germany as well, in Hamburg and we got the (in)famous red-light district Reeperbahn.

http://dafno.files.wordpress.com/200...eeperbahn1.jpg

and a pretty huge harbor, 3rd largest in Europe.

http://www.wolfslicht.de/blog/wp-con...rger-hafen.JPG
03-14-2010, 06:18 PM
lucidreamsavy

Wisconsin...

And, don't forget Australia, that's where Zez lives!
03-14-2010, 11:43 PM
Rainman

I live in Sacramento, CA. Eh, we have the shittiest basketball team in the NBA?

Also, Sacramento was the first city in California to establish a police department. Sacramento PD is the oldest PD in California.
03-15-2010, 12:22 AM
ExoByte

<----

Barrie, Ontario. Canadian, eh.

Fastest growing city in Canada right now.
03-15-2010, 01:14 AM
Supernova

Town: Haddon Township, 2.8 square miles of nothing to do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by urban dictioary

A small town in South Jersey surrounded by Oaklyn, Collingswood, Haddonfield, and Cherry Hill. If you go to school there, you are most likely going to try some type of drug at one point in your life. If you don't, you are not considered cool, then even if you're not cool and you try it, it doesn't make you any cooler. The major cliques are Preps, Jocks, Skaters, Gamers, Creepsters, Druggies, Artsy Fartsy Kids, Theatre Queers, Primo Crew, Crumbs, Band Geeks, and the Average kids. There are only a select handful of people who are average, most of the school is just a bunch of preps and jocks who verge with the Primo Crew and a little bit of the Theatre Queers. Most of them only care about studying for school and put down people who are in other groups for smoking weed, but every weekend or any day possible, they will drink mass amounts of alcohol and drink and drive and think their shit don't stink. Almost all of the Band Geeks and some of the Theatre Queers smoke weed too. Most of the girls they are cunts, especially because they act like rich snobs. And now the school is starting to gain more and more black people. If you go here you know the main creepy people. You know the kid who will buy your shoes and pay you to step on him and he will film it. You also know the kid who is always riding around town on his bike, skates, or longboard listening to his headphones, tries to dress gangster and skater at the same time, he is also the kid who flipped out on the bus to Hershey...

By the way, if you happen to look it up on UD, that first def is based on the bottom 5%, definately written by some douchebag in Haddonfield (local rich town, people from there are pretty much either nice, down-to-earth people or rich, preppy douchebags).

County is Camden county, which ranges from farms to the epitome of the urban ghetto.

State is of course NJ.