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Tell us about the place you live
#11
RE: Tell us about the place you live
I live in Skokie, Illinois. It's one of the northern suburbs of Chicago and has a population of over 66,000 people.

Here are a few attractions that are in Skokie:
* North Shore Center for Performing Arts (For what it's worth, a musical called The Last Five Years, which is popular enough that I learned out about it through its fairly sizable TVTropes page)
* A Holocaust museum (For reasons I will go into later)
* Two Barnes and Nobles (I go there now that all the Borders stores on Earth are closed)
* A sculpture garden with a statue of Gandhi (apparently, Skokie's a sister city with Gandhi's hometown)
* Niles East High School (The location for several John Hughes movies, now torn down and replaced by a community college. The only original part still standing is a flagpole.)
* Old Orchard Mall (The mall of Lindsay Lohan's character in Mean Girls)
* The Library (I go there every Friday)

There's no famous people who live there, at least so far as Wikipedia knows. There's two Nobel Prize Winners who went to Niles East, but I never heard of them before I decided to write this. Of course, who do live there? Well, at least in 1978, Skokie had more Holocaust survivors than any other city on Earth, Jerusalem included. Because of this, some Nazis decided to march on Skokie, and, after the Supreme Court decided that even Nazis have a right to free speech, they decided to move their protest to the big city.

Of course, there's also some public transport: Greyhound and CTA bus stops, and a train called the Skokie Swift that can take you into Chicago. I use the Swift to go to classes at Columbia. That said, if you saw Source Code and think that there's a Metra train that goes there from Glenview, you're wrong. Skokie is one of the few suburbs that Metra doesn't cover.
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#12
RE: Tell us about the place you live
Oh, another little bit about Dundee... It is home to the RRS Discovery. I believe this was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain... It went on what was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since James Clark Ross's voyage sixty years earlier.

The boat as it is currently.
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#13
RE: Tell us about the place you live
(October 25, 2011 at 2:08 pm)edk141 Wrote: I live in central Edinburgh. I'll take some pics tomorrow if anyone's interested, but you can probably find most of the good bits on the internet.

I was in Edinburgh last year, it is easily one of my most favorite cities in the world.

I live in Hoogvliet, a part of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The city of Rotterdam is best known for having one of the largest freight ports in the world because 2 main European rivers Maas and Rijn converge into the delta there. So it makes it a perfect loading and unloading zone for European goods. It is the second largest city of the Netherlands.

I have no idea on how many pubs Hoogvliet has, because I never visit any of them or much of Hoogvliet in general. Rotterdam has so many pubs that I couldn't possibly count but that is hardly surprising in a city with a population of 600.000, 1.2 million if you count the deelgementen (sort of suburbs).

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#14
RE: Tell us about the place you live
Surprise, Arizona...the "surprise" being that anyone would build a town here. 40 minutes NW of Phoenix it would all look like this....

[Image: 0] if they didn't irrigate the hell out of it. But they do so it ends up looking like this

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We have a Spring Training facility for the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals 2 miles away...

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This actually isn't my house....

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#15
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Just LOVE Rotterdam

I live in Newtown, Mid Wales. Population 13k
The High Street is pretty much it. Nice country views from wherever you go.
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The worlds first mail order company started here: Pryce Jones. With Royal patronage they shipped out woolen goods by canal.
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There's a really old WHSmiths (UK newsagent chain). The last one remaining in it's original 1927 state. (exciting huh! Smile)
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The source of the river Severn is not so far away. Lots of hills, windy roads. Yet it's the biggest town in the county, one of the most sparsely populated in Europe. Apparently.
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#16
RE: Tell us about the place you live
My town sucks, and that's all you need to know.

(October 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: I live in orlando. We have all the amusement parks so my childhood was orgasmic.

Yes, and you also have the country's largest evangelical community, so it's give and take.

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#17
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I live in a hellhole called 'Texas'. I despise this heat >_<
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#18
RE: Tell us about the place you live
Lex KY.(because it feels good)

We may have a few horses around here.....
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We also like to build obelisks (as long as they're blue!).
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Some coddle their loved ones in a creepy but ultimately understandable fashion
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The Mary Todd Lincoln House
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Which of course was a well known whorehouse run by this woman
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Who pretty much ran shit round these parts until
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Our main drag
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The courthouse and the library are also gorgeous, as is the Kentucky Horsepark, or the Quaker Village. Right in the middle of KY, nice and close to Land Between the Lakes, The Daniel Boon, Red River Gorge, Natural Bridge, etc. I'll let yall have fun googling those images.

I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#19
RE: Tell us about the place you live
(October 25, 2011 at 5:06 pm)Faith No More Wrote: My town sucks, and that's all you need to know.

(October 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: I live in orlando. We have all the amusement parks so my childhood was orgasmic.

Yes, and you also have the country's largest evangelical community, so it's give and take.

I'm not surprised to hear that. But it's easy to ignore them. Besides, like I said: ALL the amusement parks!
If I die and god is real, im so screwed.
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#20
RE: Tell us about the place you live
I'm told that those amusement parks don't hold a candle to the state of the land pre-swindle. Watched a few documentaries, it was pretty nice once upon a time. That being said, Florida is pretty nice, tip to tip.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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