Show us your hometown

[LCR]

Inspired by the traveling advice thread, I decided to start this thread, where you can show off your hometown and share traveling advice.

I'll start with Hamburg, Pearl of the North.

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This is a part of the port by night, featuring the Queen Mary 2 on one of her visits.


This is an aerial picture of the port, with some of the nicer (mean: richer) neighbourhoods in the foreground)


This is the the Binnenalster, an artificial lake in the centre of the inner city, complete with the Jungfernstieg, a main boulevard, in the background. You can also see the tower of the townhall and the blue goals, an art installation during the Football World Championships last year.



This is the townhall by night and fully illuminated. It's home the the Lord Mayor and the Senate, the governing body of the city state of Hamburg.

Universität Hamburg
This is the entrance to the old main building and center of the campus of Hamburg University.

A "Fleet"
One of the many "Fleet" (network of small canals, which run through the city) and the reason why we're called Northern Venice. You can also see the old "Speicherstadt", warehouses they used mainly for coffee and spicestorage before they started to use containers. Part of the traditional port.

Hafencity
This is a conceptual drawing of the Hafencity, a new quartier with apartments and office builidings, which they are right now building.

Elbphilarmonie
This is also under construction, the new concert hall for philharmonics. A huge building on top of a traditional warehouse.

Eppendorf
This is Eppendorf, a middle class neighbourhood, again with a "Fleet". My grand-mother happens to live there, but today it's mostly young professionals (hipsters).

Außenalster
This is an aerial picture of the Außenalster, a large lake right in the middle of Hamburg.

Thalia Theater
This is the Thalia Theather, my favourite theatre in Hamburg. One of the best theatres in Germany, our other top theatre being the Schauspielhaus.

I hope you've got an impression of what Hamburg looks like. The most beautiful city in Germany, but that's just my opinion

Show us your hometowns!

[Archonic Energy]

ok...

i think i can do that.

[LCR]

That of course is the lazy man's way ...

[Charity]

My Home town you say... bleedin stalker.

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from the air


such a metropolis

So cool even the statues wear shades.


Ballons

Chavstoke

[Serpentine]

Uh... I have several.
In chronological order:
Bordertown
This is the most interesting thing there, and the only thing I remember. I was born there, only stayed for 3 days (mum was basically the only doctor in our town, and she could hardly midwifer herself).

Travelling tips: Stop for lunch at the kangaroos, then move on right out of there.

Kaniva
This is approximately its entirety. The town logo is a windmill. It's set in the wheatbelt between the Big Desert and the Little Desert, and I've talked to people who have driven the highway from Nhill to Bordertown - which runs straight through it, as can be seen in the picture - and never even noticed it. Pop ~ 900

Travelling tips: It has a caravan park, but you probably won't notice it. Beware of the itchy-bomb trees at the swimming pool.

Armidale
Biggest town I've ever lived in (5 digits!). Gorgeous churches, very pretty especially for about a week in autumn, lots of cafes, and a new shopping centre being built for some reason (the other one was only just expanded ). University town. Heaps of schools. Cold in winter.

Travelling tips: The restraunts and cafes are great. Come visit me in the town library on Saturdays. Oh, and we have 3 spare beds (4 if you include Erin's spare).

Valley Heights/Springwood
This was approximately the view from my house. Lower slopes of the Blue Mountains, surrounded by bush. Very pretty, but very small.

There's probably better towns just as pretty in the viscinity.

Tallangatta
The entirety of the town is in this shot. You can even see my school, down in the left-hand corner. Very small, quite pretty. Has a caravan park and, on the rare occasion there's water in it, you can go skiing on the weir (when there's no water, the mud's grand). Pop ~1000

Travelling tips: you might like to try to check when there's water. Good walk on the far side of the lookout, and when I left there was a bed-and-breakfast near it that made great cakes.

Armidale again
Just thought I'd throw in this shot - the livestock market after a massive hail storm.

[Archonic Energy]

That of course is the lazy man's way ...

and how else would you expect me to do it ?

finding that link was the most efficent method of tranfering the wonder of the whole city.

you're lucky i didn't just post a google map link.

[InaVegt]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=n...&t=k&z=12&om=1

[LCR]

and how else would you expect me to do it ?

finding that link was the most efficent method of tranfering the wonder of the whole city.

you're lucky i didn't just post a google map link.

I'm just mad that I didn't have that idea ...

[Saithis Bladewing]

City of Eugene, Oregon, United States of America; Awesome Place
See here for the area.

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One of the more urbanised areas, still lots of green:


A nice view of...I think it's the University of Oregon. Been awhile since I was in that area.


The kind of area surrounding the south, west and east sides of Eugene.

The city at dusk:


The local bus station:

See the bricks? That's all over downtown. Most of the sidewalks are brick. Try finding that in many American cities, HAH!

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Some of us don't live in a 'hometown' y'know

I'm up in the boonies, on the very borders of my town of Dahlonega. Its a pretty cool place though. Home of the very first American gold rush and one of the big reasons the Cherokee were pushed out onto the Trail of Tears (I'm related to those who hid out however and didn't go).

Most of the buildings here are at least a hundred years old.

However... can't seem to find a pic of the bloody place.

Heres the college though and surrounding area:


Some personal pics of mine in the off-beaten trails of Dahlonega...

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[Archonic Energy]

Most of the buildings here are at least a hundred years old.

you're saying that like we should be impressed?

this is old

i told you i lived on the edge of london...

although i will admit that there are older buildings around....
anyone live near stonehenge?
any egyptions around?

[The Vorpal Tribble]

you're saying that like we should be impressed?

this is old

i told you i lived on the edge of london...

Well, this is America here. We kinda only been here a few hundred years. However, if you like, I can show you nearby indian locales of, oh, 10,000 years if you wanna get some upmanship going.

[AslanCross]

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Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. My house is in the crosshairs, so I guess I should expect an ion cannon strike anytime now.

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I don't live very far from Orthanc. Saruman plots from his tower regularly. (That's the Quezon Memorial Monument, built for one of our first presidents).

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The school I teach in. The map's outdated and shows a slum across the street. That's mostly been cleared out already.

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The university I went to.



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A common sight.

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The Mall of Asia. It's not in Quezon City, but still in the Metro. If I'm not mistaken it's the third largest mall in the world.

EDIT: My bad, it's the 7th.

[Archonic Energy]

Well, this is America here. We kinda only been here a few hundred years. However, if you like, I can show you nearby indian locales of, oh, 10,000 years if you wanna get some upmanship going.

true
and from what you said earlier they were even made by your forefathers...

you may need to add a few "fore"s in though

we really don't need to go into one-up manship here. i just like pointing out to people (americans mostly) that 200 years isn't even a grain of cosmic sand in the hourglass of the whole planet.

[Serpentine]

Well, my house originated around the mid-1800s, so within a decade or two of Armidale being founded. That's about as old as you can get around here... well, without looking at those aboriginal artifacts on the hill. >sigh< I wanna go to Europe, where the really old things are
(yes, I know many other places have architecture far older, but how much of it is still in use? )

[Morty]

Well, here's my hometown, Jasło
Not big, not impressive, but I like it. Here are some images:

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Coat of arms.

The overwiev of the town.

Front of eldest church here.

Ignacy Łukasiewicz, guy who was inventor of the first method of distilling kerosene from seep oil, who worked in this region, and set up first industrial oil refinery in Ulaszowice, now the part of Jasło.
Some photos of our town park:




Statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko, national hero.

I'd show more, but it's hard to get any good photos or information in English.

[Archonic Energy]

>sigh< I wanna go to Europe, where the really old things are

strange...
i say the same about Egypt...

[LCR]

I would love to go to Egypt or Israel, but I'm somewhat afraid to have my head blown off ... (well not so much in Egypt maybe, but it happened before).

[theterran]

First Hometown:

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Brownwood

Second Hometown:

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Maggie Valley

Third Hometown:

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Hickory

[Pyro]

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This is probably the most interesting thing in my hometown. Where I live its basically suburbia.

[B-Man]

B-Man's hometown: St Catharines.

Thank you wiki for the most unflattering photo of the downtown core.

[Catch]

My hometown, the third largest city in Illinois and possibly the most pretentious:

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Oh, suburbia. Ain't it just sickening?

[purple gelatinous cube o' Doom]

ok, I'm going to show a few of the major sites from my hometown (Bloomington, MN), and since it's a suburb or Minneapolis, I've got a few good pictures of it too.

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This is the retro Mcdonalds, was built on the site where this first restaurant to gross $1million in sales. A Mcdonalds management training facility is right behind the restaurant.

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Old Metropolitan Stadium, the former home of the Twins and Vikings. The


sits on that site now.

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Here's a good picture of downtown Minneapolis

@ theterran: Go to many Crawdad games? I hear there's not much else to do in Hickory.

[LCR]

I forgot to mention Hamburg's biggest asset:



The Reeperbahn

[Archonic Energy]

I forgot to mention Hamburg's biggest asset:



The Reeperbahn

*puts Hamburg on the "to visit" list*

[jazz1m]

City I was born in

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Kyoto, Japan

Where I grew up

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Oneida, NY up in the boondocks

Where I live now

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Well not in NYC, but I live in Brooklyn



Over the Williamsburg Bridge :)

[The Prince of Cats]

Right now, I live in Brompton, an awful place. Generally, literacy goes down as you move north in England, but Medway is a long way south and boasts some of the lowest literacy rates in the country.

You may think the rest of the country has trouble with chavs, but only because you have never been down Chatham high-street. They lope around in packs, marked by their 12" gold-plated clown necklaces, track-suits and BMX bikes that they either had since they were 7 or else they recently stole from a 7 year-old.

Hundreds of benefit-scroungers, teenage mothers, juvenile delinquents and drunks.

[Mr Croup]

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This is probably the most interesting thing in my hometown. Where I live its basically suburbia.

Hey, we also have the...uh...well there's the...no, that's not interesting at all...um, certainly there has to be something interesting in Atlanta...

We have sprawl, lots and lots of suburban sprawl, and I guess that's about it with the exception of a couple of marginally architecturally interesting buildings. Oh, and the world's largest aquarium.

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But yeah, not much of interest in Atlanta, unfortunately. Sometimes I regret having moved back here after college, but my friends and my family are here, and that was reason enough. That and I wouldn't have managed to support myself financially had I decided to move back to Oxford. Now that's an interesting town.

[Krade]

Well let's see... I live here. I don't like it too much, but even I can't deny that some cool things have happened here in the past. Such as this, for example.

But, this is asking for hometown, which Key West most certainly ain't. This is my hometown.

[ZombieRockStar]

Hmm...while I spend most of my time (except for the summer) in Toronto, and I was born there, my "hometown" is Guelph.

Warning: statuesque nudity

My old high school. So many memories...*erases memories* Need to clear up hard drive space...

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