Post a picture of your home town (or local area)

[GipsyQueen]

You're in the wrong time period if you want a US city to be lived in. Cities are for jobs, suburbs are for living now a days. All the inner city living is generally...not good neighborhoods.

Though this certainly isn't true everywhere, as a lot of places are trying to rejuvenate the living conditions/property values within the city itself, but suburbia's been the trend since uhm, the 60s or so?

Interesting... I like city life. Very cultural, you don't need a car, you can walk to a lot of places.... the subs just all look the same. :lol-sign:

 

[Laurelin]

My ideal existence is right outside the edge of the suburbs and less than an hour from a smallish city. Nice and convenient. Not too hard to get to stores or a mall. But no traffic and no people to deal with. And you get some space instead of being in one of those cookie cutter suburb houses with a teeny tiny yard.

You couldn't pay me to live downtown though.

 

[jess2416]

I live downtown and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it.... I cant imagine living anywhere else now LOL

 

[CaliTerp07]

I LOVED living (almost) downtown. I was one stop light away from being in DC. The convenience of it all was magnificent. I could walk to restaurants, the grocery store, the mall, a huge park, the subway...gah, it was so good. I even had a giant backyard. And since it wasn't really the city, parking was easy too (the worst bit of living downtown is parking, imo)

Sadly, the only way I afforded it was splitting the rent on a house with 5 other people. It was a blast, but not conducive to married life. Rent on that cute little house was nearly $5000/month

 

[PWCorgi]

I'm repp'n Minneapolis, Minnesota
(I don't feel like looking up pictures of Bloomsburg, PA)

We has a shpoon...

and in the back is the Basilica of St. Mary (Ryan's school is right next door to that).

The city! that big white thing is the Metrodome...which recently collapsed cause of all the snow this year.

Target Field!

And the University of Minnesota Art Museum, coolest building ever!

Yeah, haven't been here that long, so I don't know very many places. Ask me again in a year.

 

[Tortilla]

I live and grew up in Toronto, Ontario.

City hall.

The Royal Ontario Museum.

Yonge-Dundas Square.

Inside the Eaton Centre.

And the Toronto islands!

I loooooove my city!

 

[GlassOnion]

I live downtown and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it.... I cant imagine living anywhere else now LOL

I think I would actually enjoy living downtown and being able to walk everywhere, but then I would miss having things like a shop, garage, and what not. If I could get a Suburbian house in the middle of downtown, I think I'd be happy.

 

[~Jessie~]

I'm so just grabbing these off of google images. lol.

This is our city hall... those metal plant things are all throughout our downtown:

Wekiva Springs State Park:

One of the very many lakes around us:

Lake Apopka:

Downtown Orlando:

We have a really pretty clean city:

Lake Eola, downtown:

 

[SunnyNJazzy]

I live in a small town south of Portland, OR - Canby. We were excited when we got a movie theatre in town lol.

We have the Swan Island Dahlias

Molalla River State Park

And that about sums it up for exciting parts of Canby. But I'm a small town girl and I love it, couldn't stand living in the city!

 

[noludoru]

I live sort of near here.

View from Top of Rockpile by oriolefan1012003, on Flickr

I do not live there anymore, but I spend lots of time in Manassas near Old Town:

The tracks: Old Town Manassas | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

The streets: Old Town Manassas | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Simmons 5a | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

And where I like to walk:

Old Town Manassas by Leo Druker, on Flickr

 

[oakash]

Hey Jessie, the second picture of the springs is Wekiva... Google lied to you

I'm almost positive that's Rock Springs.

I've actually never been to Wekiva Springs, huh.

 

[nikkiluvsu15]

This is our Courthouse..

Our one and only "fun" thing to do in the Big LO: Bowling. (well besides Spring Hoppin' and swimming in the Suwannee River)

Post Office

Suwannee River State Park

Suwannee River Jam

Basically thats its! Well besides lots of springs and trails and such, lol

 

[Dizzy]

What is downtown exactly?

 

[CaliTerp07]

What is downtown exactly?

You mean a general definition of "downtown"? It's the center of the town/city where the main businesses/shops/activities are. Opposite of "suburb".

Downtown is a term primarily used in North America to refer to a city's core (or center) or central business district, usually in a geographical, commercial, and community sense.

Downtown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I didn't realize it was a North American thing...that's interesting.

 

[Dizzy]

Right, so what's uptown???

 

[jess2416]

Right, so what's uptown???

basically its the higher income version of downtown,,,

The term uptown often refers to a specific portion of a city in contrast with the local downtown area. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada. The uptown neighborhood or neighborhoods, separated from the city's lower or central business district, may often be residential, sometimes with particularly upscale or fashionable connotation. Such uptown areas may not necessarily be located to the north of or at a higher elevation than the downtown, regardless of designation.

Uptown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[CaliTerp07]

Right, so what's uptown???

It's usually a swanky residential area. It's kind of arbitrary what part of the city is named "uptown", and not all cities have it. (For example there is no "Uptown DC" or "Uptown LA". By contrast, every area has a "downtown".

The term uptown often refers to a specific portion of a city in contrast with the local downtown area. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada. The uptown neighborhood or neighborhoods, separated from the city's lower or central business district, may often be residential, sometimes with particularly upscale or fashionable connotation. Such uptown areas may not necessarily be located to the north of or at a higher elevation than the downtown, regardless of designation.

 

[CanadianK9]

Im live south of Georgian bay in Ontario....heres a few snippits of the area

Blue mountain

The beach

Some forest and lake

Alot of nature...and well, I enjoy that, not only good for me, but the dog and although it may be rougher in the winter I wouldnt trade it for anything

 

[Whisper]

I live a little bit outside of the town I was born in. I live in a much more rural rea now, so I'll post the scenery.

This is the only picture in this post I took. The area in the middle of the picture where you can see green patches of grass is actually about 50 feet lower than the foreground. It's sort of a valley and one of Millie's favorite places to go hiking.

The rest are pictures of what the area looks like. Not my photos.

And Colossal Cave. I'm so in love with it. I used to volunteer at the park and I got to visit parts of the cave that tourists aren't allowed to see.

The main entrance

Inside

 

[oakash]

^^^ I meant to say it ISN"T wekiva, but Chaz won't let me edit