Your hometown and why you enjoy living there.

We all live somewhere and all places have their charm, so why promote it a bit. I live in Amersfoort, a tiny medieval town in the centre of Holland, small, quiet, pleasant. Full of bars and restaurants and of course a lot of old stuff. Lots of festivals in the summer, lots of tourists with other priorities then hash and hookers.

Summer

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...oppelpoort.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...y/DSC02387.jpg

Winter

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...gony/dehof.jpg

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...agony/2005.jpg

^--my street

My hometown has a little less charm...

My hometown is less than 200 years old. It has no charm, it is not quaint, it is large compared to surrounding cities/towns, it is not modern, or retro, or post-modern, or old-school, or medieval, or historically significant in much ways. Thus is not interesting at all. :shame:

... well, to me at least.

Currently I live in Essen, a large city with beautiful exhaust fumes everwhere, charming old coal mines with rotten buildings, a new almost useless shopping center in the middle of the city and uhm, we also have an attraction and that would be me.
Ok, there are some negative sides to the city as well, like a working subway system, a university, it's a bit greener than other cities I heard and the people are actually quite nice here in general unlike my old home"town" where everyone either didn't know me or hated me(oh the charming village life of happiness)
Well, I don't have a lot of pictures and they aren't really good either but let me post two from around Christmas:

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https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i...en/Theater.jpg
That's one of the big light thingies they put up when Norway was the guest/featured country, behind it is the Opera or Theater :sweatdrop:

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https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i...er_Strasse.jpg
One of the shopping streets in the city with Christmas lights, notice the lack of snow. :furious3:

Well the Euro people are lucky they have so much history in their hometowns. My town was just a quaint farming community till 1941 where a military base and the only airbase north of SF till about 1960 was built. My grandparents worked there and we still live in the same house they got during the end of WW2

Oh common Essen has some absolutily stunning parts the cathedral is one of germany's finest, one the oldest roman in Europe in fact?

^-for the husar

Ah well some more

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/Fragony/006.jpg

^--- on my way to the supermarket

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...-the_river.jpg

^--- my street from different angle

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v494/Fragony/007.jpg

first pic from different angle

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

:sweetheart:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena,_Montana

Halle - Belgium

Sint-Martinus Basiliek:

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https://i156.photobucket.com/albums/...iliekHalle.jpg

And off course, Carnaval Halle:

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https://i156.photobucket.com/albums/...g/P3020218.jpg

:jester:

https://img219.imageshack.us/img219/...elsinkioo2.jpg

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

Alright, Cardiff-

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...tle_autumn.jpg

We've got quite a nice castle, even if it is a bit of a hodge-podge; some Roman walls, a Norman keep, and then the clock tower and most of the interior done up in a neo-gothic style during the 19th C. by the Bute family.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...-photos-02.jpg

Caroline St., AKA Chippy Lane, which isn't quite as grotty as it used to be, but still does the best fish and chips in the world.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...insbrewery.jpg

The Brains Brewery, which makes the tasty beer I like to drink.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...ic20centre.jpg

Our lovely civic centre. The building in the centre of the foreground is our city hall, and the one to its right is the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, famous for its Monet collection.

Wales looks very beautiful.

My home town is Sacramento, California, the capital of that state. I'm not living there now, but plan to be back there within a year or so.

It's lost most of its "charm," but is an hour and a half away from San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, an hour away from Napa Valley and the gold foothills, and has MUCH better weather than where I am currently (outside of NYC). State government jobs abound in Sac. The northern California coast is just a few hours away driving, and is a favorite hangout of mine--oodles of charm and natural beauty.

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

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporozh%27ye

In no particular order.

I don't like living here. That is, the village (Oude-Tonge) I live in, not the city (Rotterdam) in my location tag.

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

Hey Raz, which city do you actually live in? Perth would fit all of those indicators, ie Boring and uninteresting. At Least I'm not in Adelaide! :laugh4: jk.

My original 'hometown' although not my city of birth, was Chester in England. Quaint, historical, but overplays the Romaness a touch too much. I mean 3/4 of the 'Roman' Walls date from the Medieval period.

The Cathedral though is pretty spectacular, and this is coming form a professed atheist!

I've grown up here.

I'll probably end up moving back at some point in my life, but right now, I can't wait to get out and off to UNI.

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

It is beautiful plus I live right in a calmer part of the old town....in a house "only" 350 years old, but well.....

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

It is beautiful plus I live right in a calmer part of the old town....in a house "only" 350 years old, but well.....

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Uhm, wow that looks absolutily incredible.

I live in Southern Sydney (More specifically The Sutherland Shire) and I love it here. The area is known for being really elitist/snobish (I know that all of the Sydneysiders who read this thread will roll their eyes when they see my post) but seriously - we are the greatest place in the Soutehrn Hemisphere. Awesome people (minus the racists), awesome beaches, and just plain awesome everything else.

As for Sydney in general this is where most of my relatives live and where I go to University. I couldn't move out, even if I wanted to.

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Originally Posted by Gaius Scribonius Curio

Hey Raz, which city do you actually live in? Perth would fit all of those indicators, ie Boring and uninteresting. At Least I'm not in Adelaide! :laugh4: jk.

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Eh, Perth is exactly where I live. :laugh4:

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Uhm, wow that looks absolutily incredible.

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Thank you Fragony! It is very nice here. One can just walk around in the city and look at all the patrician buildings [I used to live in a house of a very rich 11th-12th century merchant family].

Where I live right now [the very right part of the panorama wiki-pic], I am only a 3 minutes walk away from a park built around the rest of an old fortification.

Enough with the braggin`....

But if you come to Southern Germany [in other words Bavaria] you have to check out Regensburg. It is only 1h by train from Nürnberg [known as Evil Maniac from Marses home as I just learned & from the acclaimed MTW2] or 1,5h from Munich....Ynd U may get a Subedei-history tour of the city...incl. a visit in the medieval torture room...just to look, no testing necessary.

Cheers, Sub

Sure made my hitlist don't be surprised if I do.

Can you consider BFE as a town? If not then I don't have one and don't live there. More people should leave their home towns; you'll gain more from leaving your comfort zone.

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Sure made my hitlist don't be surprised if I do.

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~:cheers: You are welcome!

Wonderful to see the places everyone lives. I love and am envious of the history in Europe -- I was born wrong side of the atlantic in that regard, but what can one do about one's parents, eh?

At any rate, in the town I mostly call home we have 50 million year old mountains (QTVR link)... ~:)

I've never lived in a town, but I can post images of some trees. :2thumbsup:

https://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4950/1060643iz1.jpg

Oh look, rainy. What a shocker. :laugh4:

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Oh look, rainy. What a shocker. :laugh4:

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LOL! Oh well, can't help it but having a liking for overcasted weather. :2thumbsup:

There's nothing to enjoy about living in Basingstoke. I think everyone in the UK is aware of that.