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[IWantAnAudiRS6]

Crowthorne, the second-happiest place to live in England. I'm not joking. Some sad git decided to take a poll.

It's also been voted the Best-Kept Village of Berkshire (1997) and is generally a nice place.

[kingofthering]

San Francisco- gay people run free and naked and idiots run the place to the ground with reforms and property prices that eradicate the middle class, plus it's the place where the oldest high school west of the mississippi resides, and i go there.

[Sweeney921]

I live in what's called the "West End" of Henrico County, which includes most of Richmond, VA. The west end's stereotypically the "rich" side of town, although almost everyone that lives here is humbly a part of the middle class. The really rich part of town, in fact, became its own town recently (Glen Allen). It's generally considered to be the suburban-driving soccer mom capital of the world.

Since there isn't much for someone to do once they get tired of going to the movies, high school football's a big deal. It's quickly becoming the preferred method of proving that your area of town is superior, because there's at least one very athletically competitive school in every part of town. The district title is considered the holy grail. Sound anything like the movie Friday Night Lights? It is, just not as extreme.

I love the football, but the cars here suck.

[mattmacklind]

I live in Kansas City, Missouri, in the US. It is pretty much in the exact middle of the state. It is the 26th largets metropolitan area in the US with a population of 440K or so. I checked the Wikipedia entry and supposedly not only do we have the best tap water in the country, but we also have the chance of obtaining "world city status". I thought that was kind of funny for reasons I will explain later.

We have more fountains than any other city in the world except for one, and I don't actually know which one that is, maybe Paris.

Kansas City used to have some mob connections as it was a mid point between Los Vegas and Chicago, NY, and other cities in Ohio. Some of the oldies are still around but they just sell cigarettes through vending machines and run less popular bars for other people like them. I can say that here because none of them will see this, right?

we have a pretty strong local economy. Sprint in headquarted here, among others, including Inter-State Bakeries, who make Twinkies among other things.

I think KC is one of the most beautiful american cities. It has a great look to it and is easy to get around. There are tons of restaraunts here of all kinds you could ever imagine with high quality, and the housing is relatively inexpensive. I moved here six years ago and never want to leave. I've lived in Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans, all great cities and fairly large, but KC is so easy to live in with no fuss I just love it and the people are cool. That is why I hope it never attains "world city" status. The less people that know about it the better. Whenever I travel and tell people where I'm from, they think I'm from the Kansas City where everyone rides bulls and wears cowboy hats, drives trucks and so on. I hope it stays that way because my city has a very private feel to it.

Here's the sky-view:


Here's the train station, its in an area leading North to Downtown and now houses a science musem as well as rail service.

[Bob]

Wow you guys all live in really beautiful places- my town sucks, but Princeton's nearby and the campus there is amazing. They also have the best pancake house in the entire world, PJ's Pancakes. And Einstein's house. My Granddad actually met Einstein while he was fixing a streetlamp. That's all.

[blackhonda]

I'm from the city of Brisbane, capital of the state of Queensland, Australia. Brisbane was founded in 1825 as a penal colony on the orders of the then Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane. It was regarded as an extremely harsh place to be sent even by the standards of 19th century Australia. The penal colony was closed in 1840, and declared open for free settlement. In 1859 the new colony of Queensland was created, and became a state of the Commonwealth of Australia upon federation in 1901. The city has a population of about 1.5 million, making it the third largest city in the country. In recent years Brisbane has outgrown its' reputation for being just a large country town, it's has a growing cafe and arts scene, the South Bank area (built on old dockyards/warehouses) is an open area within the central business district with restaurants, out-door cinema (in summer), swimming beach etc. This region has a mild climate, it's winter now, the temperature today is about 25 degrees C (no BS), spring begins on September 1. As clutch-monkey says: "sub-tropical land of mangoes...". Brisbane is also the gateway to the tourist areas of the Gold Coast (to the south) and the Sunshine Coast to the north, the surf beaches are some of the best in the world. The Gold Coast also hosts a Champ Car round annually....and I can recommend it...
Some pictures; the maps are self explantory.
A photo of the Central Business District
A photo of the House of Parliament
A photo of the Storey Bridge (with bouganvillea)
A photo of Suncorp Stadium, home of the Brisbane Broncos Rugby League team; the Queensland Reds Rugby Union team and also the Queensland Roar Football (soccer).
Australian Rules Football (similar to Gaelic Football) and Cricket are played at the nearby Woolloongabba Stadium (but we just call it the 'Gabba )
You should come and visit us sometime, oh and by the way, we do speak English down here...

[baddabang]

I don't like to disclose my hometown. I will say that it's a 1x1 mile town with nothing exciting and a lot of drinking.

Sooooooooo the car crashes are not exciting? or did they just get old?

[IBrake4Rainbows]

Since No One else has done it....allow me to Present Canberra.

Canberra is the Capital of Australia, with around 350,000 inhabitants. it ranks as the third smallest capital city in the country.

It's divided into 4 sections, or Satellite Cities. - Belconnen (North), City (Centre-North), Woden (Centre-South) and Tuggeranong (South). I live in Tuggeranong, which is also the newest major centre, only being constructed in 1988 or so.

Parliament House is generally regarded as the centre of the city, and is located near Lake Burley Griffin - named after the Cities designer and an artificial lake that you shouldn't swim in.

Generally it's a little dull, but there are cafe (Manuka/Kingston) and Club Districts (City). along with other football or specialist clubs dotted around the city. A symptom of being the "Bush Capital".

the ACT is interesting because it's tiny, essentially. completely surrounded by New South Wales, it required a port, so they designated Jervis Bay, which happens to be around 5 hours away the ACT itself is landlocked.

Right, Pictures......

[clutch-monkey]

Canberra is the Capital of Australia

it's staggering how many people actually don't know that (looking at you, Norwegian exchange students)

I'm from the city of Brisbane, capital of the state of Queensland, Australia. Brisbane was founded in 1825 as a penal colony on the orders of the then Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane. It was regarded as an extremely harsh place to be sent even by the standards of 19th century Australia. The penal colony was closed in 1840, and declared open for free settlement. In 1859 the new colony of Queensland was created, and became a state of the Commonwealth of Australia upon federation in 1901. The city has a population of about 1.5 million, making it the third largest city in the country. In recent years Brisbane has outgrown its' reputation for being just a large country town, it's has a growing cafe and arts scene, the South Bank area (built on old dockyards/warehouses) is an open area within the central business district with restaurants, out-door cinema (in summer), swimming beach etc. This region has a mild climate, it's winter now, the temperature today is about 25 degrees C (no BS), spring begins on September 1. As clutch-monkey says: "sub-tropical land of mangoes...". Brisbane is also the gateway to the tourist areas of the Gold Coast (to the south) and the Sunshine Coast to the north, the surf beaches are some of the best in the world. The Gold Coast also hosts a Champ Car round annually....and I can recommend it...
Some pictures; the maps are self explantory.
A photo of the Central Business District
A photo of the House of Parliament
A photo of the Storey Bridge (with bouganvillea)
A photo of Suncorp Stadium, home of the Brisbane Broncos Rugby League team; the Queensland Reds Rugby Union team and also the Queensland Roar Football (soccer).
Australian Rules Football (similar to Gaelic Football) and Cricket are played at the nearby Woolloongabba Stadium (but we just call it the 'Gabba )
You should come and visit us sometime, oh and by the way, we do speak English down here...

what he said
and i live here, so it's the sexiest city in australia.

[IBrake4Rainbows]

it's staggering how many people actually don't know that (looking at you, Norwegian exchange students)

I remember reading of a study carried out on American's where they were asked what the capital of Australia is.

They didn't think it was Sydney, funnily enough.
Nor Melbourne.
Nor Brisbane.
Nor Canberra........

But Dubbo.

[clutch-monkey]

But Dubbo.

ROFL
i figure, if we ever get invaded, we're safe because they can never take our capital city. nobody knows where it is...

[IBrake4Rainbows]

...and nobody cares either It's fantastic, it's like my own Bomb Shelter.....

[taz_rocks_miami]

We have more fountains than any other city in the world except for one, and I don't actually know which one that is, maybe Paris.

That would be Rome.

[2ndclasscitizen]

More photos of Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uc_mitc...7594097603056/

Oh, and the south of Canberra blows. Anywhere south of about Kingston sucks.

[IBrake4Rainbows]

More photos of Canberra

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uc_mitc...7594097603056/

Oh, and the south of Canberra blows. Anywhere south of about Kingston sucks.

I concur.

Although to be fair anything north of the city sucks too.