post the city you live in!

[rtil]

forum seems a little dusty lately so i thought i'd post a new topic..not sure if this one's been done before


so i will start. i live in bellevue washington, a fairly big city (100,000+), about 15 minutes outside of a city most of you probably know - seattle, washington. about 10 years ago, bellevue was a really boring city with pretty much nothing in it. i went to high school there and drove by downtown every day and i hated it. but since then a shitload of buildings have gone up and the city is totally different now. where there used to be empty lots and crappy stores there are now skyscrapers with malls on the bottom of them and condos, apartments, etc.

jenna and i moved to bellevue 2 years ago when look for a new apartment after we graduated from uni. a lot of rich people live here cuz most people who do live here work at microsoft, nintendo, amazon or expedia. because of that the city is very clean and uppity, but it's still an affordable place to live.

here is bellevue from a community not too far away called somerset. the views up here are awesome and you can see why. you can see seattle from somerset as well.


here is the city from the lake. if you flipped the camera 180 degrees, you would get the seattle skyline.


here it is during the day, before a lot of buildings that are there now went up. but gives you an idea of what you can see on a clear day.


this is about 2 years ago when construction was fucking eveywhere. at one point there were 6 or 7 cranes up in the city. everything is built now though, although i think more buildings will go up if the economy ever gets better.


another shot of the town from bellevue downtown park.


this is the building i live in. it's 20 stories and i live on the 7th floor, the highest floor i've ever lived in. my goal in life is to progressively live higher and higher up in a building as i get older. my previous record was 3. good upgrade if you ask me. unfortunately though, rent on the 20th floor of this building is $6,000/mo.


this is the view from my apartment window. it's a big window that goes from the ceiling to the floor and the width of the living room so you can see a lot.



was lucky to catch this one morning


you can also sometimes see mt rainier between these two buildings on a clear day


so yeah. i live in a city that's growing really fast and used to be really boring but now has a lot of cool buildings and places to go. it's right by the water and it's very green like the rest of west washington. when it's not too rainy it's awesome.

now post your cities ^_^

[rtil]

oh and everything you've heard about jersey is true.

[Casey Pixmintro]

I'm currently living in Edinboro, PA where I'm going to school. It's a pretty pleasant area, only about 6,500 people (not including the 9,000 from campus). We got a nice lake that's pretty fun to go canoeing in.

It's also only about 15 minutes from Erie where there's usually a lot to do, and its about 25 minutes away from Presque Isle at Lake Erie.


I'm living in a ridiculously, suspiciously cheap rowhome with Gregly and some other friends. It's pretty nice, I'm happy cuz I have my own room for the first time in a while. Ours looks like these, except we're in a 4-home segment right up at the street across from a nice creek.

Actually I know a bunch of people living in those specific ones right now. But yeah anyway, a lot of the year it looks like this.

Also featured is the hotel I worked at for like a minute.
Makin this is NSFW jus so it doesnt show up on google

edit::: Fuckin shit sorry about the gigantic picture at the end

[Crabarms]

I live in Muskegon Michigan.

There is an amusement park Called Michigans Adventure which I guess does pretty well. Went there a few times and really the only amusement park I went to besides six flags. Worked their once at age 16 and I got in pretty late like 2 weeks before school started and haven't really cared to go there again. I used to live less than a mile from it and could walk to get there if I wanted.




A lot of access to get to Lake Michigan for those who like the beach.



Not much else that I can think of not a great place but I guess not too horrible either.

[emanhattan]

i live in bellevue also so pretty much everything rtil said

[zhicago]

ooh very excited to make this post

I live in a city called Salisbury, Maryland... although I have lived in many other places in MD and surrounding areas (Baltimore, DC, Bethesda... yes where Bethesda games are made.)

But I was raised on the Eastern Shore of MD in Salisbury soooo.


The Eastern Shore is the peninsula jettied by the Chesapeake Bay, and everything here is based around the water. You can drive 10/20 mins in any direction and be at some form of water basically.

Salisbury is the main city on the peninsula, discounting the capitol of Delaware which is Dover (nobody cares about Dover anyway). I actually thing Salisbury is larger than Dover. It is intersected by rt 50, which, if you follow it west, actually takes you all the way to Sacramento, CA. Follow it east and you end up at my birthplace... Ocean City Maryland, which is actually part of a chain of islands that hosts it's own breed of wild ponies...



... and Ocean City itself...




Locals tend to shy away from Ocean City during the summer because it is simply overrun and disgustingly crowded with tourists. The best time to visit is in fall when the ocean is still warm and the tourists are gone. Get a funnel cake, a tub of thrasher's french fries, and buy a hermit crab... all for 50% less than the stupid tourists were paying in July.

Salisbury and the Eastern Shore are really known for it's Maryland blue crabs (also best in fall, btw... they are at their ripest and largest in September and October)... My family catches them, as well as goes clamming, so we get them for free, but expect to pay $80-150 for a bushel of em.
I can't even really acquire the taste for any other crab. They all taste so bland when compared to ours.



Anyways. Salisbury in itself isnt really a photogenic town but we have our own minor league baseball team and stadium, a truly awesome zoo and massive park, a really nice and artsy downtown where I used to intern, and a rather large university that brings in 30,000 new students and workers a year to the town.

The real benefit of living here is the access to all the awesome things around, like the Chesapeake Bay and the ocean, the Nanticoke River, and being within 5 hours of many major cities (DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Wilmington...)

[GhostingFish]

I live in Buffalo NY

Its pretty lame here but it has its moments.. The band The Goo Goo Dolls started here and Jonny of the band went to the same school as i am going to now! There biggest show here was 7-4-2004 where they played in front of city hall with like a million people (exaggerated) in the RAIN!! They kicked ass during that show!

Could not find a good pic but i could snag it off of the dvd i have


During the early 1900's Buffalo was the brightest city in the us because of Niagara Falls which powered the world fair in 1901. President McKinley was shot dead here. The depression killed the city and it has nose-dived ever since. Now the is being over-ran with immigrants from different places slowly trashing the city.

The old 'Buffalo Central Terminal' which is believed to be haunted <.<;;






"The Water front" is what we call..






This 5 Star thing was built about a year ago



"The Peace Bridge" Bridge to Canada eh? They do a light display at nighttime :3



This isnt photoshoped. with a long enough shutter you can get some amazing pictures of the Peace Bridge




Then theres the wingfest!!^^ Buffalo is the pros at making Wings and thick pizza



Can someone say "Heart Failure"??



There is also a shit load of art museums up in north buffalo which are pretty sick (awesome). This is the newest built here:

[dilly]

COLUMBUS

FOOTBALL


WENDYS


BUILDINGS



COSI


WEIRD LOOKING CORN STATUES


SWEET ASS THEATRE


MORE FOOTBALL

[GhostingFish]

I forgot to post the theatres here!!

That is sick as hell though

[DrRumack]

leonardtown

there's bars

and pubs

and old people

[Shida]

I have a more than one post for you all in this thread, as I effectively live in 3 different towns and cities.

The main town I've spent most of my life in is called Middlesbrough, located in the North East of England. Founded in 1830, it resides in the Borough of Middlesbrough (heh), the modern county of Teesside (ahah Tea) and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. It gained infamy when Channel 4 claimed it was the worst place to live in England.


our town hall

If you're wondering where it is in relation to London:

i.e. I live nowhere near London

Its name comes from being the central point between two important ports - and is itself the 3rd largest port in the UK.

It was once an important industrial town, although due to Thatcher's closing of mines and stuff, the region has become less industrialised and is currently exploring alternative methods of making its mark. During the early 2000s its focus turned to its award winning fashion stores. Now that the 2010s are rolling in, its hoping to become one of the digital media hubs in the United Kingdom with its new Boho Zone and Middlesbrough College Campus in the Middlehaven area. It seeks to keep digital media graduates of Teesside University, home of the Animex Festival, in this area by intending the buildings in the Boho Zone to be used as studios.


Boho One - Flagship building of the Boho Zone

Along with the art theme, it hosts a Modern Art Museum in the recently redeveloped Centre Square (MIMA - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art) that regularly changes its displays, offers art classes to the public, and was once infamously the setting for an episode of Top Gear.



I live in the outskirts of East Middlesbrough, on a council estate that is known for drug dealing (did I mention Middlesbrough is said to be the drugs capital of the UK?) and previously for yobbish behaviour, such as setting cars alight and dumping them in the beck near me. Regardless though, it has a secular primary school (I went to it) and a park with leisure centre nearby. It is not postcard picture perfect, but I love my area.


Main gate to the park.



Wish I could show you guys the actual park though :I

The steel industry was what Middlesbrough was best known for, having built/supplied the various parts for bridges across the world. The Sydney Harbour bridge has 'Made in Middlesbrough' carved into it and if you ask someone to think about Middlesbrough, they'll immediately picture the Transporter Bridge.



We also have a football team 'the Boro' who were once Premiership material but slipped ungraceful to mid-Champions. I wouldn't mention it if you were here though, the locals are a bit proud of the team, and football is very much important to the town. The team infamously got to the final of the UEFA cup and then got whipped. Middlesbrough seems to be infamous for a lot of things, like our comedians too (Roy Chubby Brown, anyone?). Oh dear.

Our local delicacy is the 'parmo', which I like to call 'a heart attack in a box'. I think we're still home to the UK's cheapest pint.

delicious (hurk)

I'll do Darlington and Durham later (and probably update this one too cause I'll think of more to add). It's lunch time now though :I

[DrRumack]

that looks fuckin delicious i want one

[W.A.S.I.M.]

ocean city and bellevue looks reallly nice

[psi43]

okay here we go with a less than impressive city called SCHLESWIG!

Yep, that's basically the entire city lmfao.


Different angle


This is the "Wiking Turm" (Viking Tower), it's basically a shitload of apartments with a neat restaurant on top.


And this is my house


jk it's a museum.

[Blordow]

[creamcorn]

Moerkapelle, home of almost 4000 villagers, is located where the river Rotte rises


this is the mainstreet during its busiest hour. we have over 3 stores!


naturally, because its in holland, we have lots of windmills.


however, none of them are being used and most of them have had their sails removed, leaving behind ugly stumps like these


were surrounded by acres of greenhouses and farm fields, and in the summer the whole village reaks of manure


when you live here, youll notice that the biggest and most prominent buildings and places are the church, the retirement home(still expanding), the mental facility and the graveyard, which are hilariously located right next to eachother in that order


in our area, moerkapelle is notorious for its riots during new years. moerkapelle van de relle!!


having said all that, what i like most about my village is the Rotte and the scenery

[naturally]

toronto is pretty cool. it's not great or terrible.

[cipher]

I don't think Los Angeles needs an introduction.


....



this place sucks

[put]

I was raised in a citycalled Guadalajara and for the last 5 years I've been living intermittently on another city called Puebla wich are the 2nd and 4th largest cities in the country respectively so I've always lived in crowded places

Puebla is really old (I think it's the 4th or 5th oldest city in America) so we have lots of oooooold buildings downtown.


(sorry for the huge image)







We also have the Biblioteca Palafoxiana(the first library in Mexico), lots of cool old unique books, but they don't let you get anywhere near most books, just proffesionals and college students or some shit



I also HAD(wich is now obstructed by some apartments) a really nice view of the mountains from my room




I know what it feels to live in a growing city Rtil, it's really weird how many buildings they've been building for the last two years here, all over the city at least 20 cuildings currently in constuction



PROGRESS PEOPLE!!!



Look at this thing they're planing on building, it's part of some projects they're building called "Lomas de Angelopolis" that consist on aprox. 5000 houses

There are lot's of other things I didn't cover here like a really nice museum near the city and the pyramids of Cholula that are just 45 minutes on car from my home

A really bizarre contrast isn't it.

[zhicago]

put, what is the climate like where you live?

and anyone else... whats the weather/temp like?