NationStates Jolt Archive

Is there anyone who plays this game from a place that makes you go "Where on earth is that?!" or "Ummm, yeah. My.... Great Uncle lived there aswell..."

I would be quite amazed to find out.

i started kindergarten in a town where it snowed on the 15th of july the year i did. and that town is in california. i grew up in one where it was less then half a mile to where my dad worked for the railroad, as telegrapher, towerman, clerk, in one direction, and an equally short distance in the other to out in the boonies where you could pick blackberries in august and watch the deer and other furry creatures go about their natural lives undisturbed all arround you. just better stay indoors on the first couple of weeks of hunting season though.

about the only thing you really had to watch out for were rattlie snakes, which if you wore boots and watched where you put your feet and hands pretty much took care of that.

our cats used to kill rattle snakes and drag them home. along with the more usual rats and mice.

the doctor was a general practioner who made house calls and the school ran bussess to pick everybody up. but if you missed it you had to walk. which wasn't all that bad, living as close as i did, other then the embarrasment of being late for first period class. but close to half the students lived far enough away that it took them the day riding it to get to school and back.

and this weren't down in no agri-industrial flatlands either, but up in my surrial nervana mountains, not more then 30 miles from where i'm living in this damd city at the edge and foot of them now.

not much about the place i'm currently living, except that what was the biggest railyard west of the mississippi, until they built the one down south at colton, is located here.

all of these places were and are located in placer and nevada counties of california. NORTHERN california.

my favorite place to have lived was norden, on donner summit, in the railroad's company houses that were all connected to each other by wooden halways called snow sheds. that part of it's all gone now, but last i was by the post office is still there, and i guess there's still a place the sierra club comes up to on occasion and its on the old highway between soda springs and the sugar bowl. yup, ski areas. and the railroad's still there too.

first paying job i ever had in my life was dishwasher in one of those ski lodges in soda springs.

just before i went into the airforce to keep from being drafted into the army so i wouldn't have to go to viet nam and kill civilians.

let's see, i've also lived in reno nevada and portland oregon, but most of my life has been in placer county california. i was also born elsewhere too. buffalo new york. which my parents left to get away from the snow. which, after figuring out they couldn't stand l.a. or the southern california climate, the first place we ended up was truckee, where it snowed on the 15th of july, and fully california's answer to buffalo new york's weather! (if in a MUCH smaller and pleasanter town!)

i also lived on a kind of half-assed commune up in southern oregon for a while in the late 70s.

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John O'Hara, Molly Maguires, mine fires, mummers...

Well, I live in Perth, Western Australia, the most remote capital city on earth. That's a fairly interesting place.

But I'm from Seattle, which is also a fairly interesting place, if you like rain.

My hometown was about 20 miles from Sutter's Mill where gold was discovered in California and was the primary mining settlement. It had the largest Chinese population that was divided between rail workers and mine workers. The town was strip mined completely and doesn't really have any native dirt, and was the first place to have a hydro-electric power plant.

It's also hot as fucking hell there during the summer and stays hot all through the night. No matter how many showers you take you always feel dirty, not that sticky humid dirty, but like covered in grit.

It also has the only operational 12 guage mini railroad, according to the plate I read...

Some of these facts might be adjusted to my memory and me not giving a shit when I was told but now caring that I'm older and have moved the fuck away from that boring place ;p

OH! And its zoo housed the Smokey the Bear. Though that's disputed with some place in Texas I believe.

I like CToaN and LG's locations. Concerning myself, I live in England. No, I do not know the Queen.

Currently living in Huntsville, Alabama USA, also known as "Rocket City." Interesting place to live as people fall into two categories - rocket scientists or rednecks. Some interesting facts:

* Site of the development of the Redstone rockets, Saturn I and V.
* Site of the original Space Camp
* Has the highest per capita number of PhDs in the US (or so I've heard).

Things will start getting interesting here in the next few years once they start testing the Ares I engines. I wasn't here at the time, but from what I heard, many windows were blown out in houses just around the facility when they tested the Shuttle main engines back in the 70s...

Luxembourg. No it isn't part of Germany.

Currently living in Huntsville, Alabama USA, also known as "Rocket City." Interesting place to live as people fall into two categories - rocket scientists or rednecks. Some interesting facts:

* Site of the development of the Redstone rockets, Saturn I and V.
* Site of the original Space Camp
* Has the highest per capita number of PhDs in the US (or so I've heard).

Things will start getting interesting here in the next few years once they start testing the Ares I engines. I wasn't here at the time, but from what I heard, many windows were blown out in houses just around the facility when they tested the Shuttle main engines back in the 70s...

My hometown also has Aerojet that tested I think maneuver rockets or something, anyway it would (does?) send vibrations so that if you had a circular above ground pool it would cause it to undulate. Apparently. A friend had one and it started doing that with pretty tall 'waves' and that was the explanation we got.

My hometown also has Aerojet that tested I think maneuver rockets or something, anyway it would (does?) send vibrations so that if you had a circular above ground pool it would cause it to undulate. Apparently. A friend had one and it started doing that with pretty tall 'waves' and that was the explanation we got.

We've had some explosions here (the NASA center where I work is co-located with the Army, and they like to blow things up) that rattled the windows in my apartment so much I went through to make sure none of them were broken. I didn't realize it when I moved down here, but my apartment is only about 200 meters from an Army missile test range. Still, it's going to be interesting when the real tests begin - my office faces down towards the test stands, so I'll have a front row seat...

Nope. I'm boring that way ... I grew up in Sydney, Australia.

The best lunar eclipse I've ever seen is just ending, though :)

My current abode is Essex, but in a month it's going to be Sheffield.

i'm often amazed at how many americans have never heard of or have never considered the existence of where i'm from.

i'm often amazed at how many americans have never heard of or have never considered the existence of where i'm from.

I loved Edinburgh. Still want to climb Arthur's Seat though - didn't have enough time on my two trips through there. Granted, I was there during the Festival, so that kinda explains the lack of time...

i'm often amazed at how many americans have never heard of or have never considered the existence of where i'm from.

Edinburgh? It's got a castle or something, hasn't it? :p

I loved Edinburgh. Still want to climb Arthur's Seat though - didn't have enough time on my two trips through there. Granted, I was there during the Festival, so that kinda explains the lack of time...

Edinburgh? It's got a castle or something, hasn't it? :p

no, edinburgh is where i live now. i am from jersey.

no, edinburgh is where i live now. i am from jersey.

Hehe, yep. You're right there then. I've heard of it, but had to Google to figure out where it was...

We've had some explosions here (the NASA center where I work is co-located with the Army, and they like to blow things up) that rattled the windows in my apartment so much I went through to make sure none of them were broken. I didn't realize it when I moved down here, but my apartment is only about 200 meters from an Army missile test range. Still, it's going to be interesting when the real tests begin - my office faces down towards the test stands, so I'll have a front row seat...

That could be fun ... or lethal.

I lived near a hospital once. Across the road was twenty metres of wooded creekbed, then the hospital helipad. Helicopters are loud, too, but the "lives being saved" thing made it OK. Then one sunday, there were helicopters taking off and landing one after the other.

Nope, it wasn't some major disaster. It was trainee helicopter pilots doing their prac exams. Right next to a hospital, and my house. I went out for the day ...

Hehe, yep. You're right there then. I've heard of it, but had to Google to figure out where it was...

at least you've heard of it. if i had a pound for the number of times i've been asked "There's an old Jersey??" i'd be considerably better off than i am now. :rolleyes: :D

I'm living on the Isle of Man but I was born in London.

They're both spectacular place's.

I'm living on the Isle of Man but I was born in London.

They're both spectacular place's.

I always wanted to go to the Isle of Man to hear Manx spoken by a native. Too late now I understand...

at least you've heard of it. if i had a pound for the number of times i've been asked "There's an old Jersey??" i'd be considerably better off than i am now. :rolleyes: :D

Just imagine the shock of residents of New Paltz, learning of Old Paltz.

And those from Newark... um... is there an Ark?

Still, consider Mott Haven- it's a real place, and something like 80% of the NATIVES don't know where it is.

Eh, fuggedaboudit.

I always wanted to go to the Isle of Man to hear Manx spoken by a native. Too late now I understand...

I can speak a few words in manx!

Eh, fuggedaboudit.

that does sound like an interesting place. is it on any maps?

Eh, fuggedaboudit.

Dang for'ner.

*shakes head*

I've been living in Alabama too long...

Luxembourg. No it isn't part of Germany.

It will be :p

I live in a city where theres almost always fire somewhere :P

and this is in cosy little denmark! :P

In Kolding, we almost every year we have a crissis conserning fire, 3years ago we had a fireworks accident which destroyed most of a city part, and just a week ago we had a truck loaded with chemicals catch fire... I tell ya, i dont know why it always happens here, but it does! :P

Denmark, Kolding (Cold-ing)

Let's see...

Saturday Night Fever was set in the neighborhood I grew up in.
So was Welcome Back, Kotter.
The Cosby Show was filmed not far from my current home.
The Honeymooners
The Patty Duke Show
Do The Right Thing
Moonstruck
The Warriors

(These are the ones that don't come out and name where I live -- and I should mention many take place in wildly different neighborhoods.)

Melbourne, Australia. Which makes me fascinating to Americans.

Connecticut itself isn't all that interesting in my opinion, but its a nice place to live in and the most excellent vacation spots in the country are an hours drive away (and perhaps a short ferry ride).

I am talking about Cape Cod, Long Island, Block Island, and Martha's Vineyard, of course.

Melbourne, Australia. Which makes me fascinating to Americans.

Why would you think that?

It will be :p

Trust me, been there, done that. :p

I live in a place with highest rate of lighting strikes!

The best lunar eclipse I've ever seen is just ending, though :)
It sure wuz pretty, wun't it? I was meaning to set the camera up on time-lapse, but didn't get home until it was just leaving totality.


To answer the OP: I grew up in Lyttelton, NZ (a peninsula formed from a loooong-extinct volcanic crater, tacked onto the east coast of the South Island). 90-odd percent of the crater is protected nature reserve, so made for a beautiful adventure playground.

But for such a remote and idyllic place, twice during the ten years I lived there (age 3-13) I managed to sleep through large nearby explosions.

The first occurred when an old ammo magazine (as in, large concrete bunker filled with obsolete army ammo) spontaneously exploded at 2am one morning, waking the entire peninsula (except me). Half my classmates were on the news, in their pyjamas, while I was blissfully ignorant.

The second happened a coupla years later, when one of the 50-meter-high petrol tanks that international freighters refuelled from at the Lyttelton Port also spontaneously exploded, at around 5am. Again, I was apparently the only resident not woken. Luckily this gigantic fuel storage tank had only about 2% liquid fuel in it, and the explosion was caused by vapour. So the (80-meter-wide) metal lid of the container was thrown directly into the air, landing like a pancake back on top of the container.

No injuries at all from either explosion I'm happy to say.

But it's weird to think back on memories of explosions in my childhood when I lived in a near-paradise.

Meh, I live in the most southern capital in the world.

Manila, the Philippines. Find it in the map. And use the correct adjective.

Manila, the Philippines. Find it in the map. And use the correct adjective.

Filipino?

Filipino?
*zing!* Correct! You can claim your prize on the last Saturday of August 2007, between 3:44 and 3:45 PM.

Let's see...

Saturday Night Fever was set in the neighborhood I grew up in.
So was Welcome Back, Kotter.
The Cosby Show was filmed not far from my current home.
The Honeymooners
The Patty Duke Show
Do The Right Thing
Moonstruck
The Warriors

(These are the ones that don't come out and name where I live -- and I should mention many take place in wildly different neighborhoods.)

I saw Saturday Night Fever. It sucked big-time.
(Yeah, I know, it's cool now. But it's a for fuck's sake disco romantic musical. It sucked.)

Never heard of the other stuff. Yep, that's some hick backwater you're from! :p

I saw Saturday Night Fever. It sucked big-time.
(Yeah, I know, it's cool now. But it's a for fuck's sake disco romantic musical. It sucked.)

Never heard of the other stuff. Yep, that's some hick backwater you're from! :p

For the record: Yes, Saturday Night Fever DID suck.
And the disco they filmed in later became a roller rink, and then died, thankfully.

Google is your friend. ;)

*zing!* Correct! You can claim your prize on the last Saturday of August 2007, between 3:44 and 3:45 PM.

Awww... you didn't mention there'd be a prize...
Wait, that'd be the saturday just gone, wouldn't it? Ah, sneaky.

Is there anyone who plays this game from a place that makes you go "Where on earth is that?!" or "Ummm, yeah. My.... Great Uncle lived there aswell..."

I would be quite amazed to find out.

Geographically, I'm quite boring. I'm sorry.

But I've been told I'm interesting in other ways many, many times.....and only too often does it NOT seem like a compliment....

Manila, the Philippines. Find it in the map. And use the correct adjective.

Filipino?

That isn't common knowledge?

I'm from a place that used to build ships and mine coal, but now does very little of either - so not especially interesting.

I live within a few miles of where a former US president died, and with walking distant of one of the best pizzerias in the world.

Luxembourg. No it isn't part of Germany.

Once on a Europe drag and drop game I had my first one as Luxembourg...so hard to pinpoint...but I did it!
Lol

Oh and I'm English

I am from the place where the very first parking meter was installed.

not interesting.

I live within a few miles of where a former US president died, and with walking distant of one of the best pizzerias in the world.

Where's that?

Long Island, NY.

Oh yeah! Crap I'm stupid.

Let's see...

Saturday Night Fever was set in the neighborhood I grew up in.
So was Welcome Back, Kotter.
The Cosby Show was filmed not far from my current home.
The Honeymooners
The Patty Duke Show
Do The Right Thing
Moonstruck
The Warriors


(These are the ones that don't come out and name where I live -- and I should mention many take place in wildly different neighborhoods.)
They tease him a lot because they got him on the spot, Welcome Back...One of these days, Alice...Because they're cousins, identical cousins in every way...Fight the power! Fight the powers that be...When the moon hits the eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore...Warriors, come out and pla-ay...

You've spun the radio dial in my brain. I probably could find my way around Brooklyn and I've never been there.
I am from the place where the very first parking meter was installed.

not interesting.
Clearly a center of evil and malice.

I'm from North Dakota. Once they were considering turning my state into a safari for African animals because no one lives here anyway. I don't think the African animals would survive winter here.
I'm also from one of the flyover states. No one stops here by choice on a continental flight -- they fly over to get from the East coast to the West coast.

Born in Houston, Texas. Not particuliarily fascinating. Really consider Austin my hometown. Better, but half the people here would know nothing about it.

Lived in Rock Hill, South Carolina for awhile. Home of Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. Yikes.

any canadians? Newmarket, Ontario ...jim carrey's home..but thats as interesting as it gets

Northern Ireland used to be a lot more interesting than it is now. Not that i'm complaining at all

As I consider it, Colchester should be more interesting than it is;

-it's the oldest recorded settlement in England.
-it has a slighted Norman castle built upon the foundations of the Temple of Claudius in which Boudica massacred the last of Colchester's Romans in he rebellion.
-it has a significant military garrison. In fact, we got IRA bombed back in the day I think.

All things considered, it sucks though. Populated by brash, rude would be gangsta kids, essex boys and the squaddies ensueing from a garrison, hence rendering a night a gauntlet of fight evasion.

Abraham Lincoln once argued a court case in our appellate court house. I guess that interesting. Or something.

Erm, lets see. My village predates the oldest existing US settlement by 415 years and my high school is 13 years older. The village used to be home to Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run. This is especially sad as he visited his parents once and my sister got starstruck serving him on a checkout till. The first observation of the transit of Venus was achieved from two villages over. Our town had the first stretch of Motorway and the first ever KFC in the UK. It's also England's newest city, and the home of Freddie Flintoff. Our football team was a founding member of the English Football League, the first league champions, the first team to complete the double, doing so without losing a game (something only managed by Arsenal since) and the team with the record highest FA cup tie win (26-0). This is my home.

...hence why I moved away :p

Northern Ireland used to be a lot more interesting than it is now. Not that i'm complaining at all
I bet the troubles were really fun...

I bet the troubles were really fun...

Interesting means fun does it?

The phrase "May you live in interesting times" comes to mind

Interesting means fun does it?

The phrase "May you live in interesting times" comes to mind
You cursing me? :eek:

Nah, wasn't suggesting that. Just being a tit for the hell of it. It's a bad habit from banter with friends from Belfast.

You cursing me? :eek:

Nah, wasn't suggesting that. Just being a tit for the hell of it. It's a bad habit from banter with friends from Belfast.

Oh in that case sorry :)

Just missed the intent of the sarcasm

Dublin (near enough).

Well,

My dad's town is in the Guinness book of world records for the largest mass *Indian hanging ever.





*Native American.

I live 10 minutes away from Pocahontas' grave. The first American to visit Englan died in this craphole oo a town. Poor her. Its pretty cool hough as Viriginian Native Americans have a pilgrimage here every year and put on shows and teach us about their lifes and Native American history.

That isn't common knowledge?
Bah no.

I have seen scientific articles use "Philippino" or some other mutation or mash up the spelling of the country. "Filipino" refers to the people; while you can use "Philippine" (without the S) as an adjective.

And if you like cheap everything, you can come to my country. Seriously.

if i had a pound for the number of times i've been asked "There's an old Jersey??" i'd be considerably better off than i am now.

LOL. People have actually said that? "No, no, they called it New Jersey because 'New' sounds cool..."

I wonder how many people in New Jersey have never stopped to wonder about the original Jersey. The same goes for New York. And New Zealand for that matter. (How many New Zealanders know where the original Zealand is?)

Let's see...

Saturday Night Fever was set in the neighborhood I grew up in.
So was Welcome Back, Kotter.
The Cosby Show was filmed not far from my current home.
The Honeymooners
The Patty Duke Show
Do The Right Thing
Moonstruck
The Warriors

(These are the ones that don't come out and name where I live -- and I should mention many take place in wildly different neighborhoods.)

^that, more or less. The movie "The Squid and the Whale" was filmed, like, two blocks away from where I grew up, and was set in the same general neighborhood.

When it comes to where we're from as in ancestry...

I am a Chechen. My ancestors moved from Chechnya to the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and my great grand father on my mothers side died fighting in WWI for the Ottomans. Most of my family lives in Istanbul and it is a very large family too. Given our closeness with Turkey and a number of Turks having married into the family I consider myself part Turkish in a way.

Yeah and uh.. I live in America too :p

Columbus is one of the most important national test markets for products. We had the first Pringles, among other things, and the first BW3's is right down the street from my dorm.

Born in Houston, Texas. Not particuliarily fascinating. Really consider Austin my hometown. Better, but half the people here would know nothing about it.

Lived in Rock Hill, South Carolina for awhile. Home of Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. Yikes.

Austin has a great music and club scene, from what I understand.

Northern Ireland used to be a lot more interesting than it is now. Not that i'm complaining at all

A lot louder, I understand.

Define interesting?

I live near a town where the Freeport Doctrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeport_Doctrine) was first spoke and the guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Guiteau) who shot Garfield was born there.
That and Calista Flockhart and the guy who created BET were also born there...
Oh and there's a law that says you can't defecate out of a second story window.

I'm assuming you mean my town... no, it's not interesting, at all, unless you count the flood of Virginians moving in.

I lived in Virginia... moved to NC before moving ot NC was cool. I lived in the UK for two years when I was little. Oh, and I'm from Dayton, Ohio.

And New Zealand for that matter. (How many New Zealanders know where the original Zealand is?)

Quite a few, I remember learning it in school. That'd be Zeeland in The Netherlands, because NZ was first 'discovered' (by which I mean, by Europeans) by Abel Tasman, who was Dutch. English James Cook then anglicised it to 'Zealand'.

I've always wondered why he named the Australian state as New South Wales instead of just New Wales...

Define interesting?

Read the thread. It's full of interesting stories.
Some people interpret "interesting" to mean "famous and significant," others go more with "obscure and peculiar."

The OP seemed to be asking for the second kind. But it doesn't seem to be the sort of thread where strict adherence to the subject is necessary :)

Quite a few, I remember learning it in school. That'd be Zeeland in The Netherlands, because NZ was first 'discovered' (by which I mean, by Europeans) by Abel Tasman, who was Dutch. English James Cook then anglicised it to 'Zealand'.

Got it wrong then didn't he? Should have been Zedland. :p

I've always wondered why he named the Australian state as New South Wales instead of just New Wales...

We're bigger than you. We don't need a reason.

According to Wiki, he wrote "New Wales" in his journal and then changed his mind. "New Wales" sounds bad to me, the two doubleU's fight with each other. He should have called the place Albert, as the consort of Victoria. :D

EDIT: Er, Queen Vic hadn't been born at the time, so that doesn't work. Apparently New Zealand was once part of New South Wales, so let's have no more disrespect from you sheep-fanciers.

Got it wrong then didn't he? Should have been Zedland. :p

*groans*
Bad Hobos! Bad!
*sprays you with water*
:p

We're bigger than you. We don't need a reason.

According to Wiki, he wrote "New Wales" in his journal and then changed his mind. "New Wales" sounds bad to me, the two doubleU's fight with each other. He should have called the place Albert, as the consort of Victoria. :D

Consort? Aren't NSW and Vic mortal enemies?
But you're right, the thought of two dubyas fighting each other is scary...

Consort? Aren't NSW and Vic mortal enemies?
Not really, it's more like sibling rivalry. I actually think Melbourne folk are nicer, though I'm Sydney folk. And it's true that we have a lot more sheep.

But you're right, the thought of two dubyas fighting each other is scary...
If you slur "New Wales" at all, you get "Nyer, Wales" or "New Ales" - James Cook was no idiot.
But scarey? I'd pay Rolling Stones prices to watch a wide-ranging debate between two shrubyas. Hoot central!

Well my high school football team scrimmaged the town that Tara Reid came from. Haddonfield New Jersey. I've never seen a whiter town in my life. I live outside Atlantic City btw.

I forgot about where I live now, on a man-made island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay between the two spans of the Bay Bridge. Treasure Island was built for the Worlds Fair, then was going to be turned into an airport at a time when people thought the only way large capacity planes could land was on water.

That turned out to not be the case, so the Navy made it a base until 1997, when it was leased to the city for low income housing. The hangers have been used for filming What Dreams May Come, Rent, The International Video Game Invitational, Battlebots, Nash Bridges, Prototype This! and countless commercials.

Since the barracks didn't have meters the Navy pays the utility bills. As a result, there is a lot of marijuana cultivation on the island.

I forgot about where I live now, on a man-made island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay between the two spans of the Bay Bridge. Treasure Island was built for the Worlds Fair, then was going to be turned into an airport at a time when people thought the only way large capacity planes could land was on water.

That turned out to not be the case, so the Navy made it a base until 1997, when it was leased to the city for low income housing. The hangers have been used for filming What Dreams May Come, Rent, The International Video Game Invitational, Battlebots, Nash Bridges, Prototype This! and countless commercials.

Since the barracks didn't have meters the Navy pays the utility bills. As a result, there is a lot of marijuana cultivation on the island.

Yep, that IS interesting. You live on a thing which looks alarmingly like a CPU chip! At least, according to the pic in Wiki.

Is there anyone who plays this game from a place that makes you go "Where on earth is that?!" or "Ummm, yeah. My.... Great Uncle lived there aswell..."

I would be quite amazed to find out.
Isn't that kinda relative?

I'm not actually from anywhere, due to a military upbringing combined with being disowned and shipped around with a mining aunty. I'll give you the list:

Born: Townsville- Remote northern QLD tropical centre, full of military and tourists.

Singleton- The shithole of the world renowned hunter valley region, instead of wine, singleton produces infantry.

Canberra- The confirmed location of the imminent Armageddon, and coming of the anti-christ. All I can say is 'how appropriate'. Capital of Australia, Canberra is an artificial city, planned, designed, and populated purely for that purpose. The results are horrific. Imagine a city where the vast majority of residents are public servants. I could dedicate an entire thread to how intensely fucked Canberra is, socially, politically, economically, and even aesthetically.

Orange A lovely town in the central western tablelands of NSW, it is full of heritage, and also a flourishing nerve centre for NSW's legal network and agriculture, producing grains, livestock, fruit and veg, and wine. It is also full of Italians (but not as much so as Griffith).

Albury/Wodonga- A twin city perched on the intersection of the Murray river and NSW/VIC border, with Albury being in NSW, and Wodonga being in Victoria. Wodonga was something of the retarded little brother of Albury, and that is where I lived. It is just another town, with little of major significance to note- all of the interesting things are in Albury.

Kapooka- A terrifying community made up solely of military families, hanging desperately off of the edge of one of Australia's biggest military bases (might be the biggest). Remember what I said about Canberra? Similar scenario, everyone here is also in the public service (i.e. they couldn't get a real job, or they wanted to kill people). The military wives are all insane and overweight, and the children are better worded as 'spawn'. I even went to a military school here. *PTSD*

Wagga Wagga- Not far from the localised gate to hell that was Kapooka is Wagga Wagga, the largest inland city in NSW in the heart of the Riverina. Wagga wagga was ok. Sure teenage delinquency was outmatched only by teenage pregnancy, but what the hell else are the children to do? To give you a feel for the town 'Wagga wagga' means 'place of many crows' in the wiradjuri aboriginal dialect.

Sydney- Often mistaken as the capital of Australia, and by far the most popular city of our nation, Sydney is also the largest and busiest. Of all the places I have lived, Sydney has been by far the most accommodating to my tastes. Not specifically, it merely boasts a range great enough to please most. I like Sydney, and again, I could write a thread on why.

Tom Price- Another socially fucked isolated insanity hole, Tom Price is nestled in the desert mountain region in far north western WA, known as the Pilbara. Imagine a desert, take away the sand, add countless mountains and rocks, then paint it all blood red. Be sure to kill everything. You now have the Pilbara. As noted, placed in the middle of it all, surrounded by a couple of ever-so-depressing Aboriginal villages, is a small but advanced mining community, who mine the nearby mountain 'Tom Price' for Iron Ore. Visitors often mistake the huge monolith of earth overshadowing the village as the mountain itself, however it turns out that old Mount Tom Price is actually a ditch, and the mound of earth you see is the heap of dug-out earth resulting. Another remarkable thing about this place is the absurdly high suicide rate, and the creative means of doing so. One mother actually immolated herself on the school oval. Cabin fever, perhaps...

Lihir- equaling Tom Price for the title of most beautiful and Depressing place I have lived is Lihir island in PNG. Imagine an Idyllic Island paradise. Now place a glaringly obvious mining operation on it's peak (Gold). Add to that mix a disenfranchised, welfare race of natives who are all chronically hooked on a native drug, who need and do nothing, and hopelessly watch the ever nearing arrival of the day when Rio Tinto no longer needs to upkeep them and their shattered people. Otherwise, it is a lovely Island.

Ipswich Perched proudly atop a hill overlooking the dismal western suburbs of Brisbane is Ipswich, or more specifically Ipswich Grammar School. It is an island of pretense in a sea of misery. For this reason alone, it is actually morbidly fascinating, yet at the same time corrosive to the soul.

And now, after a brief sojourn back to Orange, I am back in Sydney.

Yep, that IS interesting. You live on a thing which looks alarmingly like a CPU chip! At least, according to the pic in Wiki.

I forgot the best part, since it's on land fill it is prone to liquification during an earthquake.

But I'm not in an area that has to worry about earthqu-...waaaaait a minute...


(it has to hit a specific frequency, so it's not likely...)

Albury/Wodonga- A twin city perched on the intersection of the Murray river and NSW/VIC border, with Albury being in NSW, and Wodonga being in Victoria. Wodonga was something of the retarded little brother of Albury, and that is where I lived. It is just another town, with little of major significance to note- all of the interesting things are in Albury.

But booze and cigs are cheaper in the Dong.

Nah, you're right. It's the frontline of state rivalry ... and we were never going to lose. ;)

Entertaining post! And fair warning to prospective visitors who think the whole country is like what they see on Neighbours.

I grew up in the geographical centre of British Columbia. Not much interesting about it other than that.

I forgot the best part, since it's on land fill it is prone to liquification during an earthquake.

But I'm not in an area that has to worry about earthqu-...waaaaait a minute...


You could run to the edge and jump in the bay I guess. :(

I'm thinking it's not a good place to make a little vegetable garden, either:

...according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Toxic Substances Control, the groundwater and air are contaminated with asbestos, plutonium, radium and other elements which are known to cause cancer and other illnesses.

You could run to the edge and jump in the bay I guess. :(

I'm thinking it's not a good place to make a little vegetable garden, either:

Yeah, we're not allowed to plant or even dig up our backyards. If we want to plant something they give us a planter and we use that.

Aaaaar, me hearties! There be Treasure here! Buried by the Navy, blast their boots! Aaaaar!

*scrape scrape TINK!*

Oh, how it glows! We be rich now, me hearties!

(/pirate voice)

It depends on what you mean by interesting.

I like CToaN and LG's locations. Concerning myself, I live in England. No, I do not know the Queen.

I too live in England and I know some Queens.

I live in Greece and was born in Bulgaria. Hope you know these two places :cool:

I live in Greece and was born in Bulgaria. Hope you know these two places :cool:

Yeah Greece where umm falafal comes from and Bulgaria where umm wine comes from.

There's nothing really that interesting about my city, but people from the eastern states are always trying to make it sound even less interesting than it is.

Melbourne, Australia. Which makes me fascinating to Americans.Why would you think that?

Because he's Victorian :rolleyes:

I live in Greece and was born in Bulgaria. Hope you know these two places :cool:

But of course! Just earlier today, when playing EU2 I was Turkey (who cotnrolled most of Bulgaria) and helped Byzantium (who owns the rest and south Greece) conquer the northern half of Greece! ;)

And there were the times where I declared myself King of the Bolgars in CK after subjugations pagans... Yes, I know that that's technically east of Bulgaria, but if you'd like I can conquer Bulgaria as well.. >_>

As in, a place where not many people go to. A small country not in Britain etc.

What about those not in Britain who would find those British places interesting?

It depends on what you mean by interesting.

As in, a place where not many people go to. A small country not in Britain etc.

Eh...JP Joule died here...thats about the most interesting thing I think. But I dunno what other people would consider "interesting".

Eh...JP Joule died here...thats about the most interesting thing I think. But I dunno what other people would consider "interesting".
Whereabouts in Manchester are you? It's an interesting city to socialists, seeing as it's where Engels spent a large amount of time studying the working classes. It's also where Rutherford came up with the idea of the dense positive nucleus and performed the first transmutation (N to O). Plus you've got the ever (in)famous Stockport nearby. :)

EDIT: And if you're a Salfordite (?), the high lead content of the local soil leads to a shorter average height in the area, or so I'm told.

Whereabouts in Manchester are you? It's an interesting city to socialists, seeing as it's where Engels spent a large amount of time studying the working classes. It's also where Rutherford came up with the idea of the dense positive nucleus and performed the first transmutation (N to O). Plus you've got the ever (in)famous Stockport nearby. :)

EDIT: And if you're a Salfordite (?), the high lead content of the local soil leads to a shorter average height in the area, or so I'm told.
Sale. Joule was born in Salford but died round the corner from where I live now. I thought I'd post more local interests than just general Manchester. We did have Sale Sharks rugby team, but they moved. I think they still train here *shrugs*

I am shorter than average, but thats my mothers genes rather than the soil :p

But booze and cigs are cheaper in the Dong.

Nah, you're right. It's the frontline of state rivalry ... and we were never going to lose. ;)

Entertaining post! And fair warning to prospective visitors who think the whole country is like what they see on Neighbours. They relly shoul invent a QLD/NSW border town. Purely for the annual mayhem of State of Origin. That or make a State of origin for AFL or soccer based on NSW/VIC.

As in, a place where not many people go to. A small country not in Britain etc.

Like the Isle of Mann? Not technechly British, but not too far from Liverpool.

I'm from this really awesome planet called Earth. It's absolutely beautiful, with a wide diversity of plant and animal life. The local culture is extremely diverse, which is probably why we spend so much time trying to kill each other.

As in, a place where not many people go to. A small country not in Britain etc.
Oh. In that case, of the places I've lived I suppose Kenya, Sierra Leone, Malaysia and Botswana qualify as interesting. I've also lived in Italy, Belgium and France, but they probably don't count by your definition.