Your hometown and why you enjoy living there.

**Fragony** · 05-04-2008, 13:00

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

Winter

^--my street

**Rhyfelwyr** · 05-04-2008, 13:36

My hometown has a little less charm...

**Raz** · 05-04-2008, 13:36

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.

... well, to me at least.

**Husar** · 05-04-2008, 18:00

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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**Veho Nex** · 05-04-2008, 18:27

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

**Fragony** · 05-04-2008, 18:27

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

^--- on my way to the supermarket

^--- my street from different angle

first pic from different angle

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 05-04-2008, 18:47

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

**Samurai Waki** · 05-04-2008, 19:12

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

**Andres** · 05-04-2008, 19:18

Halle - Belgium

Sint-Martinus Basiliek:

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And off course, Carnaval Halle:

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**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 05-04-2008, 19:51

Alright, Cardiff-

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.

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.

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

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.

**Togakure** · 05-04-2008, 20:08

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.