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Head Shaving, Grooming & Care => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: SLYinKC on August 10, 2007, 08:28:52 PM
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I know we've had threads before where we've learned about where everyone is from. I'd like to take it one step further. Why don't we all tell a little more about where we live or where we are from. What makes it special or why in the world anyone would want to live there.
I am originally from Springfield, Missouri down in SW Missouri. It is only about an hour north of the famous Branson, Missouri tourist area.
For the past 20 years I have lived in the Kansas City area. Kansas City is famous for its BBQ, the American Royal Rodeo, the Country Club Plaza, the most fountains of any city in the US, Royals Baseball, Chiefs football, KC Wizards professional soccer and many other things that would make this list just too long.
So what's so special about where you live???
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I am hard pressed to think of anything that is really special about where I live. Not that it isn't a nice place, but it's overcrowded and the property taxes are punitive. But it's convenient for work and my immediate family lives here. Were it not for that, I'm not sure I'd be living here myself. I will say, though, that this time of year, Jersey peaches are a real treat.
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Born in Oakland, CA at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, raised in Alameda, home of the Alameda Naval Air Station. The station was closed a few years ago with a decrease in military spending. The Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area is a wonderful place with tons to offer (and a few not so good things to detract).
Although I now live about 100 miles north in a suburb of Sacramento, I'll always consider the East Bay (Oakland/Alameda) my home.
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LaGrange still has some cheap and honest mechanics. After dealing with ones in Atlanta that is a great thing to be known for!
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I was born in Falmouth Mass on Cape Cod.Dont remember a whole lot as we moved to my mother hometown of Toledo Ohio when I was 7. I remember the ocean and the fishing industry is was very important. I received my first jellyfish sting on a beach nears Woods Hole.
Toledo is a real blue collar city. It has a strong manufacturing background which goes back over 100 years. Toledo is home to the Jeep and the most famous minor league baseball team in the country,The Mud Hens.It is known as the Glass City and for many years was the centre of the worlds glass production. Toledos hometown son,Jamie Farr is best known as the Section 8 Klinger on M*A*S*H. Also Tony Packos Hot Dogs which Paul can assure you,kick some serious ass.
Toledo has a large ethnic population of Poles,Hungarians,Lebanese(my family) and Greeks.
Toledo has its problems with crime and unemployment just as any decent size city in America does. It was good to me growing up and and It was hard to leave, She is in my thoughts daily.
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Washington Indiana....oh Washington...whats so great about it? Well we are situated in SW Indiana about 2 hours directly sw of Indianapolis. It is small town of about only 12,000 people. We are the home of Notre Dame Basketball player #40 Forward Luke Zeller. We have an abundance of the Amish living sect. So that gives us alot of homemade amish cooked buffets to eat at. We are also home to the worlds only Turkey Trot that attracts top music entertainers and yes we really race turkeys. SlyKC might enjoy this little fact. Ryan Hill was drafted to play for the KC Royals but had to give it up after he broke his arm and wasnt able to play. Ryan is from here in Washington. We are minutes away from Santa Claus Indiana which is home to one of the Top 10 amusement parks in the USA. Holiday World has the the Worlds fastest and best wooden roller coaster in the World, rated by the roller coaster enthusaist. Also Santa Claus Indiana is where kids from all over the world send their letters to Santa and millions of people send their Christmas cards to Santa Claus Indiana post office only to be post marked with the seal and then forwarded onto the recepiant. Abraham Lincoln grew up and lived 14 years in this small community. We are famous for the Wratten murders...read up on it here. wrattenmurders.bravepages.com So have i rambled on enough already? So there is a little about where I live. Good place to raise children...safe and friendly community.
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Where I live is the brick capitol of the USA, used to be the world. Where I grew up, well, the aliens landed there. :/O
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nothing. franklin lousyana sucks really big donkey dicks. well it does. man i need out of this state.
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But, Paul, How do you really feel about it???? :D
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sorry, the mind is just not in a real good place right now.
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The Warren-Youngstown OH. area has the most affordable housing in the country. Last year we were ranked 100 out of 100 for employment opportunities. There is a good chance these two facts are tied together. But I have only lived here two years. But I actually love living around here, so long as I can keep my job!
Before that I lived in Massillon OH for 10 years. The home of Paul Brown, and self proclaimed High School Football Capital in the country, 9 times national champs.
And before that my hometown is Akron. Rubber Capital of the world. All-American Soap Box Derby. Home of Firestone Country Club and national tournaments. Tiger Woods just one one here last weekend.
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Redding, CA - home to an abundance of recreation, including the best lake ever, Shasta Lake. There's two huge mountains, Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen to look at all year long. Home to the best steak house ever, Jacks. Unfortunately, it's not the best place for employment for someone like myself in the software industry.
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nothing. franklin lousyana sucks really big donkey dicks. well it does. man i need out of this state.
aaaw! well hunny, there's plenty of room over here for ya! ;)
I decided this would be easier, go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagenham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagenham)
it's actually quite interesting. sort of...
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Yeh my home town was pretty abysmal too - couldn't wait to get out!
Moved to London at 17 & stayed there for over 20 years - still think of it as home in many ways but moved to Kent 4 years ago as the property was more affordable. I love it here. Love living a stones throw away from the sea & 5 mins away from the Kentish countryside. Life is a lot slower here too which suits me fine!
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Miami: beautiful scenery in parts like the beach, kind of rundown and grimey in other parts. Very large hispanic influence (60% hispanic), a whole lot of cubans, colombians/venezuelans and nicaraguans/hondurans. Also many american blacks and haitians. Everybody is tough (supposedly) and everybody believes they are a celebrity or they are trying to be. But there are a lot of cool people as well, lots of partying. The city is based on clubs and restaurants. Northerners love to come down and party on South Beach. Large hip hop influence. People have high barriers protecting them from other people, kinda hard to break throough in general, but it is possible. Excellent, cheap cuban food. That stuff is great. Lot of political corruption and the gang members become police officers. But for some reason I love the hell out of my city and don't picture myself moving. Oh and did I mention there are masses of incredibly hot women?
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Philly...
besides the historical part, we are averaging better than a murder a day...isn't that special :/O
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I was a Navy Brat, so I really don't have a home town. Until I was in 8th grade, I thought it was normal to go to a different school for every grade.
I lived in the northwest burbs of Chicago for 25 years, and we raised our children there.
Now we are in Dayton, Ohio, birthplace of aviation, home of the Wright Brothers. If you are ever in town, check out the Air Force Museum. They have some really interesting old equipment on display.
I still don't consider it a "home town", even though we make our home here now. If people ask where I am from, I use that old line from Happy Days. When Richie asked the enigmatic Kat Mandu where she was from, and she replied, "...from the place where the wind begins..."
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Mine is special in an infamous way.
I live about 1.5...maybe 2 miles from Columbine High School here in Littleton, Colorado.
Grew up in Long Beach, California....when I was a kid we would watch the L.A. Rams practice at Blair Field in Long Beach. We'd bug'm for autographs as they left.
Some of you may remember these names...but back then I had autographs (all on one piece of paper) of:
Merlin Olsen
Jack Snow
Roman Gabriel
Fred Dryer
Deacon Jones
Bob Brown
Tom Mack
That'd be worth some $$$$ if I still had it.
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My town has became a big attraction, lately due to "Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil". I grew up here, moved away and came back. I like the laid back southern charm it still has. Its funny that the Bonaventure Cemetery has became so popular that they lock it up at night. I have relatives buried there and have passed out there at night in my younger adventures. The Wormsloe plantation is where they filmed the house for Forest Gump, its been a historic colonial place since I was knee high to a grasshopper! Lets not forget that Juliett Gordon Low was born here, which is the founder of the girl scouts, guess we wouldn't have all those great cookies! Oh and Mrs. Wilkes heart clogging country food, Ft. Pulaski and Ft. Jackson from the civil war, man there is alot crap here. Golf is also big here, minutes away from Hilton Head Island. I guess this town is ok, just need alot more rock concerts and it would be great!
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the movies league of there own and hard rain was filmed here
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I was born in Tacoma, WA about 30 miles south of Seattle. But I consider myself more of a Seattleite as I have lived here most of my life. Anyway, Seattle is special in the fact that it is a exciting cosmopolitan city with a alive downtown core. It has great shopping, nightlife, and tourist attractions like the Pike Place Market and the Seattle Center (the 1962 Expo grounds) with the Space Needle. But in less than a hour, you can be skiing in the mountains, hiking or boating on Puget Sound. In about 2 hours or less you can be at the main part of the ocean, Mt. Rainier or even desert. I feel blessed to be from and live here. Plus being sly is quite normal here!
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Oh and Mrs. Wilkes heart clogging country food,...
Don't forget The Lady and Sons, along with the St. Patrick's Day Celebration
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sydney!!!
the beach!! somewhere in amongst those homes is where we live!!
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Hamburg!!
It's the best town in old German. See www.hamburg.de
If you need a contrast, take the Express train (ICE) to Berlin, it lasts only 90 minutes.
J
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Elkhorn, WI is called the "Christmas Card Town" for how it looks in the winter...started way before I was born. My dad acutally got in a film(you can barely make him out sitting on the bench when they filmed some segments on the basketball team) they made on it in the 50's.
I moved to Delavan, WI for a bit...famous for its Circus back in the day, an elephant actually fell through the ice at a local lake. Also famous for Gary Burgough(spell check)...you know, RADAR from M. A. S. H.? My mom had the hots for him...he was a senior when she was a freshman in high school...shouldn't he be one to go SLY?
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I grew up in Springboro, Oh. There is not much about this town, although it was part of the underground railroad during the slavery days. Then we moved to Venice, FL. The sharks tooth capital of the world, and former winter home of the Barnum Baily Circus until they moved out a couple of years agonow it just home to a bunch of real old people. Now I live in Marietta, Oh. Its known for being the first city and capital of Ohio, and the river boats, there's alot of history that started there on the expantion west way back when. I think the people that live there still think its 1891, very backwards. I like the fact that I travel for work all the time, I die of bordom there ;D
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Huntsville,TX....The VICTIMS Rights capital of the World!
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I grew up in South Mills, NC (15 miles North of Elizabeth City, NC and 40 miles South of Norfolk, VA). What was special about it? Our house was right it front of the canal that is part of the Inter Coastal Water Way. During the peak season, we got to watch all sorts of boats travel up and down the canal.
Another interesting fact is that the county it was in had one stop light! Not sure if that is the case any more given all of the development that is happening nowadays.
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New Orleans, there's nothing more to say, good spicey food, spicey--to say the least- politics. More than 250 years old, this old girl can't be burnt out or flooded out. It's up, it's running and it's a great place to live and visit. We're Back, as they said in the movie! Laisse les bons temps roulez!
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Philadelphia, where it all began in 1776.
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I come from Bondurant, Iowa, population 3000 or so. We're a good old Iowa farm town that is turning into a bedroom suburb for all the people who are sick of living in the Western part of the Des Moines area. I live in what is known as Old Downtown, across the street from City Park, and 2 short blocks from Bondurant-Farrar High School (Go Jays!). Most of our fame is local, and most of the State of Iowa remembers us for the 1997 State Championship basketball team, when 10 of the 15 players (including myself) went Sly for the trip to State. Overall I like my little corner of Greater Des Moines.
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My home town or the town I call home?
I was born and raised for the first part of my life in Oakland CA. So that is technically my home town I guess... there are alot of "special" things about that town.
The town I reside in currently that I know call home is right above Seattle on the Puget Sound. I live walking distance to the shore and to the small downtown full of restaurants etc. Besides that fact that I live in it O0, it is a historical little city and about 10 miles from Seattle.
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I have lived in Las Vegas, NV for 21 years and its the only city I have lived in. I don't think anything special about living in Vegas, maybe taking a trip here you could find something special about it. Gets too hot in the summer so it sucks going outside unless it to the lake or someplace nice and cool. The lake isn't all that great now, it use to be a fun place to go fishing a couple of years ago but now the water level has drop so much you don't have many places to launch the boat anymore without having a big group of people trying to do the same. hmm but it is nice you can go out and get some great food for cheap.
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I've lived in Green Bay, Portland, Los Angeles, Nashville and Milwaukee. I finally grew tired of city living and moved to Almond, WI. Truly the middle of nowhere -- Population 600. That's special in itself for someone who's accustomed to the congestion of the larger cities. Also, I paid $92,000 for a gorgeous 3 bedroom bungalow built in 1903, on a huge double lot that would go for $250,000 easy in Milwaukee; $500,000 in Los Angeles.
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I've lived in Green Bay, Portland, Los Angeles, Nashville and Milwaukee....
"I've been everywhere man, I've been every where..." :*))