The New "Tell Us About Your City" Thread

[Fifthfiend]

Also Pete's Brass Rail and Car Wash in Danville makes the best hamburger in the world, but only on Friday/Saturday evenings.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Originally Posted by Nique

Portland, Oregon

I've always wanted to visit the Northwest states sometime. My sister's going to college just outside Portland, so I figure I could pal around withmooch off of her if I ever go

[Nique]

Portland is really the best city for mooching off people. It's not really that expensive to do stuff here so you're really looking at a trading a minimal amount of guilt.

[katiuska]

Originally Posted by Nique

Pretty much everything good about Seattle you can get a reasonable facsimile of in Portland with 45% less douchiness.

Yeah, that's basically what I've heard. I've only seen Seattle for all of like a day, though, so I can't say much one way or the other. I will say that I don't think I could love a city that names its stadiums Qwest and Safeco.

Portland, however, is pretty awesome.

[mauve]

!!! OMG fellow Oregonians!! I thought I was the only one!

Portland is pretty cool, from what I've seen in my few visits. I like the Portland Art Museum, but then I'm weird like that.

[Savage Thinking]

So Asheville, North Carolina is a pretty rad place. As a visual person, the sights to see, whether it be the just mountains or the Biltmore Estate for example, are always amazing and never gets old.

Also, I recently learned of a barbeque place called 12 Bones, which I hear is amazing. When I see the line of people practically wrapping around the place, I'm gonna have to take their word for it. Also the president ate there, which is pretty cool.

[Flarecobra]

Escondido, California 2009-present. That Wiki article should tell all you really need to know.

Camp Pendleton, CA (Intermiddently) 2004-2008, left on occation for deployments.

Naples, Florida1984-2004, place of my birth. And my old High School was on Newsweek's list of top high schools back in 2006.

[Torque]

Winnipeg: We might not kill you, but we probably will
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/st...homicides.html

Winnipeg: Your car is only your car until it's someone elses.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/st...uto-theft.html

Winnipeg: Our police might not shit kick you nearly to death, but probably they will
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_QJ5k15I1U

Winnipeg: Where the police have the right to pull you over, and inspect your vehicle top to bottom without cause, or warrant.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...-99298379.html

Seriously... great fucking place to live.

[Loyal]

Somerville, MA
It's pretty much a satellite city to the more important Boston. A lot of the people who work in Boston live in Somerville due to the MBTAMassachusetts Bay Transportation Authority connecting us. There are at least three main streets running the length of Somerville, and by my last count there are at least three McDonalds along the length of the biggest.

There is always some sort of construction going on both here and especially in Boston. Always. Expect to see at least one road resurfaced every month.

Due to the incredible density of colleges in the area, winter is always a fun time, especially for mechanics and taxi drivers, as out-of-state students unused to the cold and driving in icy conditions make a mess of their cars.

[Tev]

On the Splendorous Mediocrity of Springfield, Illinois...

Where to start? As far s state capitols go, Springfield is on the smaller side. For the most part you can get to anywhere in town from anywhere in town in under fifteen minutes if you know how to juggle the two major roads with the one highway that basically circles the city.

The city is just big enough that you can exist in your little section of town without having to venture far to find a store and a handful of eating establishments. This can create some rather disconcerting instances when your friends ask why you've never tried out that awesome Mongolian place across town that you never even really knew was there even though you've lived in this rather small city for almost a decade.

Politics technically happens here. At least this is where we keep the usually empty Governor's mansion as well as various state lawmaking buildings. For the last few state administrations we've had governors who decided living in Chicago was the way to go. Granted most if not all of them are in jail right now so.....yeah. Our current president is from Illinois. If you ask him how often he visited the capitol you'd have to remind him first that Chicago only thinks its the state capitol.

We have schools. Three public high schools and two catholic schools in town, and one "rich kid" school in what is a town, but could more generously be called "the gated suburb of Chatham." Also we house a community college as well as the University of Illinois (not to be confused with the much better funded, better known, and more accomplished Southern Illinois University).

Anyway, that's about it. It's not bad for a hick capitol in the middle of a state that can literally measure its affluence by how far north you fall on the state's latitude.