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What’s cool about where you’re from?

What is cool about my town?
We are upper middle class, mostly caucasian. Crime is almost NON-existent. People take care of their lawns and property. Most vehicles around here are well maintained. Weather is nice, people are nice, we are close to the services that we need.
The cost is high though. The homeless are creeping closer to the edge of town. The State government keeps passing laws that do NOT represent my opinions or interests. A tipping point seems to be growing closer for the Wife and I.
 
Photon440 said:
A new town just popped up. A few months ago this was an empty field.
This is the new "Smallville" set being built.
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Don't forget that British Columbia played host to many fantastic locations in the Stargate SG-1 series. :thumbsup:

It's amazing how many planets resemble rural Canada. :lol:
 
I was raised n rural S W Ga. If you do nt own a large peanut arm or decent small business, you wold starve. County is 78% Black as of 40 years ago, what now I do not now sort of living in the Cival War era. Good people of both races, and people my age(72) still refer to a lady of thus generation as "MIss" so and so.
I lived is rural Missouri for 37 years. Conversative, great people. They move at a slower pace than some,require less income in general, land and some aspects of living are cheap compared to many areas. Again IF in the sticks you better have a large track of income producing land, be retired or be full time politician . I love it there.
I have been in S E Tx for 4 years now, only because this is home to the love of my life. Like S W Ga, way too humid, but NO real winter at all. Too close to the city of Houston, left wing *** hole city. We are close enough to be a bedroom community, although rural and 1 traffic light in the whole county, it is like living in the burbs to me.( NO good). Makes price of land STUPID high compared to Mo. Great area IF you like riding thru the National Forest and staring at pine trees for hour on end!!! ha I like sky and grass.
 
Grew up near Milwaukee, my folks moved out of the city to the burbs in ‘61, then more rural than suburban. Today the area has expanded where you can’t tell when you leave the city and enter the village and along with it came more BS you have in a city. Milw has a lot of interesting history and some fame with the 50’s-60’s though why did Happy Days say they were in Milw making the show in LA? Lol. Village where I grew up was cool back when, we had drive-ins, a lot of fellow boomers with muscle cars, no problem cruising through town and meeting at one spot or another to shoot da chit in our cars. As this sort of fun was getting behind me getting older anyway, – village changed. A lot of the fun places got torn down, our Dog ‘n Suds and A&W drive-ins, two outdoor movie theaters (leaving none), then a cruising ban, and more traffic as the place grew. Traffic got so bad it was gridlock anyway before the streets were converted to 4-lanes. I laughed about the ban dictating no more than two trips per hour through town – hell with the traffic you couldn’t do much more than this anyway.

We have about four or five months of nicer weather we can count on, sucks depending on what weather one likes. Was never a winter fan and swore I’d move to a warmer climate someday. But having been all over the US for biz and vacations, some old friends retiring to the south and west, no longer have the gumption to move. I’ve been in FL during the summer as my daughter moved there a few years ago for a job, and also AZ. Played golf there when it was 105 degrees and didn’t mind it much. I was a lot younger then and now tolerating that is a different story. A bud outside of Phoenix sent me a photo of his thermometer in July. The gauge was maxed out and more beyond its range. Geez, in FL the humidity was so oppressive, my hair never dried all day after taking a shower and changed T-shirts twice a day. Seems to be just a flip-flop of staying indoors a few months out of the year. So could be I stay at the old ranch and bitch about the weather until spring arrives. This area where we're at now, used to be rural when we built out here 25 years ago, a lot of the land was once farmland still in my wife’s family then going back to before the state became one. Now – dozens of subdivisions, count five more being built now. Every acre of farmland has a house on it. That’s ahh – progress.
 
I am not anti social, I just want my nearest neighbor to be at lest 5 miles away!
I ask very little of the weather I just desire something with a high of 60-75, low humidity and a constant 10 mph wind. And just a few days in the 20's for a low, to kill off some bugs MAYBE!
One snow per year about 1 inch is fine to remind me of the people that live in that chit and love it!!!
Maybe one good ice storm to take a few of the drunks and asshole drivers on to Heaven or Hel, which ever!
 
Canton Ohio, Pro Football Hall of Fame is here. I'm not much of fan of football or famous athletes.

I'm more proud of our industry, home of the Timken company. Timken bearings used tobe made here. Timken steel still is.
 
padam said:
Canton Ohio, Pro Football Hall of Fame is here. I'm not much of fan of football or famous athletes.

I'm more proud of our industry, home of the Timken company. Timken bearings used tobe made here. Timken steel still is.
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And we wish the bearings were still made there... They were known as a grade A part... Not so much these days...
 
I was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and lived my first 15 years in and around the rural districts of that city. 'Palmy Nth' is not famous for too much, unless you count unruly motorcycle gangs, rising population of solo-mothers & chlamydia, a cheese processing factory and the most attractive rubbish tip in the country.... :rolleyes:

I went to one of the more prominent high schools in the country - Palmerston North Boys High....'PNBHS' along with a few boys who have turned into media celebrities lately.
One of those is Jeremy Corbett - he was caned for continual talking in after-school detention by our Senior Master 'Errol Brookie' - famed for his wicked forearm swing. Six of the best were administered in the corridor just out of sight, but not sound. Let's just say it served as a deterrent to anyone else contemplating a conversation. Many years later (1998) I called Jeremy at his Radio Station at around 6:10am...just after his show started - he denied all knowledge of that event....BS...I was there, and heard it all. During that conversation, I discovered that his fellow DJ that morning 'Mark Smith' was also in my form class....memory forgot about him. We had a good chat then said goodbyes.

A local TV and advertising production company shows another old friend from school as it's CEO......oh if they only knw what a bad boy Simon was during school. :D Several boys on my form classes have since died...in varying circumstances....bumped into another on my first day working for a big parking company here in Auckland. I was been shown the layout of the lanes and barrier gates I was to assist in installing that week. I couldn't help thinking I knew the boss of the parking Company (Wilsons) - then it dawned on me....it was 'Fatty Butson' from school. :lol: When I clicked, he realised, and we wandered off for a private chat...much to the disgust of his underling Manager (Tim Ellis) ...Tim was later convicted of fraud & embezzlement from Wilsons. :jackoff:

So yeah,.....not much exciting about where I was from, but where I live now in Auckland - we are 2 minutes from the boat ramp for ocean fishing, 3-4 hours from the ski fields, 2 hours (90 minutes at night :D) from Tauranga where @Chargerjase lives, 3 hours from our Bay of Islands famed for big game fishing & many activities and tourist attractions, 30 minutes from the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, 2 hours from Coromandel - famed for fishing and diving.....and only 15 minutes from the biggest carpark in the country - the Southern Motorway. :D
 
There’s a variety of things I like about northwest Connecticut but the thing I appreciate most when I travel for work is the architecture and old town centers. Little clusters of 250 year old churches and houses with stone walls and small barns. Drive a 1/4 mile farther and it’s small farms and hilly countryside. No cookie cutter cluster houses.
 
kiwigtx said:
I was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and lived my first 15 years in and around the rural districts of that city. 'Palmy Nth' is not famous for too much, unless you count unruly motorcycle gangs, rising population of solo-mothers & chlamydia, a cheese processing factory and the most attractive rubbish tip in the country.... :rolleyes:

I went to one of the more prominent high schools in the country - Palmerston North Boys High....'PNBHS' along with a few boys who have turned into media celebrities lately.
One of those is Jeremy Corbett - he was caned for continual talking in after-school detention by our Senior Master 'Errol Brookie' - famed for his wicked forearm swing. Six of the best were administered in the corridor just out of sight, but not sound. Let's just say it served as a deterrent to anyone else contemplating a conversation. Many years later (1998) I called Jeremy at his Radio Station at around 6:10am...just after his show started - he denied all knowledge of that event....BS...I was there, and heard it all. During that conversation, I discovered that his fellow DJ that morning 'Mark Smith' was also in my form class....memory forgot about him. We had a good chat then said goodbyes.

A local TV and advertising production company shows another old friend from school as it's CEO......oh if they only knw what a bad boy Simon was during school. :D Several boys on my form classes have since died...in varying circumstances....bumped into another on my first day working for a big parking company here in Auckland. I was been shown the layout of the lanes and barrier gates I was to assist in installing that week. I couldn't help thinking I knew the boss of the parking Company (Wilsons) - then it dawned on me....it was 'Fatty Butson' from school. :lol: When I clicked, he realised, and we wandered off for a private chat...much to the disgust of his underling Manager (Tim Ellis) ...Tim was later convicted of fraud & embezzlement from Wilsons. :jackoff:

So yeah,.....not much exciting about where I was from, but where I live now in Auckland - we are 2 minutes from the boat ramp for ocean fishing, 3-4 hours from the ski fields, 2 hours (90 minutes at night :D) from Tauranga where @Chargerjase lives, 3 hours from our Bay of Islands famed for big game fishing & many activities and tourist attractions, 30 minutes from the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, 2 hours from Coromandel - famed for fishing and diving.....and only 15 minutes from the biggest carpark in the country - the Southern Motorway. :D
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That's an awesome story Roger. I was born in Hastings, raised in Wellington. My sister went to school with Anna Paquin. I have no real claim to fame except I live is a beautiful part of the world. I have recently moved to Germany for work and its also a cool place. In another couple of years I will move with my American Fiancé to Texas and take the Pledge of Allegiance and fully integrate into the United States. My attitude to immigration is this. Immigrate with pride. Appreciate where you come from, but fully embrace where you immigrate too. If you don't like the culture of where you move too, then don't move there. Whenever I am in the US or NZ, I respect flag and country.
 
Nothing major. Del Shannon was born and raised here. As mentioned in different thread, Touchback movie shot here for the most part.
 
Christmas decorations are going up. It looks like some lights are out, in reality they were twinkling and the camera missed them.
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