post the city you live in!

[put]

the city is built on the highest plateau in Mexico I think so it's humid and cloudy almost all year round I guess, it's kinda nice since it isn't very cold or hot most of the times and doesn't rain that much

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

apeldoorn, hollas from holland




the city basicly










^this is basicly a view of the centre of downtown, this is where all the malls, shopping, everythign is at

[rtil]

^ how could you ever find your bike/get it out in that one pic

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

average temperature here is 60F , mild winters, doesn't get below freezing often, lots of rain and clouds. summer and fall is nicest here, doesn't usually get hotter than 80. i think the west coast generally lacks the extremes of the summers and winters of the rest of the country. i wouldn't have it any other way.. i can't stand the sweltering heat or the super cold.

[Casey Pixmintro]

Hot as balls during the summer and 200+ of snow during the winter. If the weather channel is talking about Erie's snow, 9 times out of 10, they're using Edinboro as peak snowfall amount.

[tmk]

athens is a quaint little college town in the ohio valley

OU's campus is full of old, beautiful buildings situated on hills that love to kick your ass






the surrounding appalachian landscape is amazing



the local color kicks ass too. I don't have any photos that might hint towards the fact, but like many towns in the appalachian regions, there is a lot of poverty in the area


yo wattup bro


dilly will concur when I say that ohio weather is infamous for being about as unpredictable as it gets

[dilly]

yes.... yes it is...

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

the boogey man is dead
god bless santa

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

lmao holy shit, that looks fucking depressing (als je het aan mij vraagt)

[Necronomitr0n]

this is Monroe, Washington
population: 17,304



not a whole lot to see here but we have some noteworthy landmarks



there used to be a condensery in the middle of town that has since been demolished

they decided to keep the smokestack standing FOR NO RAISIN



here's the old picture for reference







we also have a fairgrounds combined with a speedway which was very recently home to a formula drift competition

there's also a decent carnival every year







to the southeast is the monroe correctional complex, one of the largest prisons in washington



it also appears to be a shitty prison security wise as a guard was recently strangled to death here

not only that, but the prison is also conveniently situated right next to the local high school



and with that said, motherfucking TACO TRUCK

[rtil]

they decided to keep the smokestack standing FOR NO RAISIN

my guess is that they didn't want to go through the logistics of demolishing something that tall

[Sinitron]

i live all over the place generally

but since 2009 i've been working in bergen

here's a tiny part of it, but not entirely up to date

[Sef]

Kalamazoo, Michigan

nothing really too fancy but you would probably only hear of it if you've lived in michigan

[psi43]

i live all over the place generally

but since 2009 i've been working in bergen

here's a tiny part of it, but not entirely up to date

weird, the building design looks pretty much exactly like Flensburg in Germany.

[logen]

Budapest, it's divided by a river, used to be two separate cities, but they combined them for whatever reason. Buildings look like they've been imported from germany.




There's some moutains with castles and shit, rich people live there



Now, INSIDE the mountain, there's a chapel, a water reservoir, and an old "hidden" military hospital, which acts as a museum



Thermal baths


Island which supposedly holds "europe's biggest musical festival". Imho it's just loud and full of junkies and other crackheads


but there are some cool stuff there like a small train system called "children's railway" because it's being mostly run by 10-14 yeear old kids (except driving, and other bigger tasks, for obvious reasons)


water bus, goes on land and on the river, sadly mostly for tourists



and an adventure park



And some other shit that I don't wanna mention. Ah, yeah. We have 3 subways, with another being built. But fuck em. Just watch kontroll.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJQnWCPMrII


The whole city is some sort of mixture tho, and because of that, there's always some movie shot here. The inner part of the city has a lot of old buildings, that were built around the 2nd ww, or before


but than again it also has the most newly built stuff




If you get a few miles away from the river, you'll get to places that are, again, a mixture. You could be walking around some commie built flats on one street, and get to some family houses on the other. Plus there are these newly built apartments randomly appearing between these.


So yeah, the whole place feels like some kid building a town out of different toys. Sorry bout the pics.

[rtil]

Just watch kontroll.

that movie's been on my queue list for years

[GhostingFish]

where i live is 90F in the summer and 0F in the winter. We get Massive snowstorms and humid summers.

[Hnilmik]

This is Berk.



It snows nine months out of the year, and hails the other three. It's twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death. It's located solidly on the Meridian of Misery. My village. In a word? Sturdy, and it's been here for seven generations, but every single building is new.



What little food grows here is tough and tasteless.



The people that grow here, even more so, but we have fishing, hunting, and a charming view of the sunset.



The only real problems are the pests. You see, most places have mice or mosquitoes. We have...

[Hnilmik]

 Okay, I'll post about my lame town.

I live in Moorpark, California.

"Old Town Moorpark", now known as High Street, used to be a movie set for westerns and whatnot. There're plans for a movie studio to be built in this city in the middle of nowhere, beside Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley. Closer to the 118, but not too far from the 101.









On the furthest reaches of Moorpark, you can see the Ronald Reagan Library high up on its hill in Simi Valley. It's kinda nice knowing you have a past president as a neighbor. The city pictured is either Simi Valley or Moorpark... Likely Simi...



Likely Moorpark. Great view though.



We have a "Gravity Hill" I've yet to visit. Story goes that a bus filled with school children crashed/drove out of control off a cliff/onto the train tracks where everyone died. If you visit at night, set your car at neutral at the foot of the hill, and cover your bumpers with baby powder, your car will roll up the hill on its own (it's cooler if you're backwards), and if you check the bumpers again, you'll see fingerprints and hand prints of the dead children trying to prevent another disastrous fate.

Dead bodies have been found in the hills and an escaped tiger (belonging to a random enthusiast, not from the zoo) got shot in my backyard.





Moorpark College is probably the only real place that's remotely impressive, since it's the home of America's Teaching Zoo and the Exotic Animal Training & Management program, where students majoring in that field learn how to take care of and/or train wild animals. Don't be surprised if you ask trainers at Sea World, San Diego, and other parts of the world where they learned how to train/care for wild animals and they mention Moorpark. Students get a discount on the admission fee (or they get in for free, I forgot). There're tons of animals there, from toucans to parrots to lions to tigers to zebras to camels to hyenas and so on. We're even raising endangered butterflies to hopefully repopulate the wild with.









I heard that after getting through your zoology courses (think: general education), the first day you're actually allowed near the animals, they have you snap a mousey's neck to desensitize you to what happens in nature; Predators eat prey, circle of life. The seniors with the highest grades get to choose which animal they get to train. There's a raven who's ridiculously smart; So smart that she "trains" the trainers, so only the smarter students get to work with her and she even made friends with the crows in the area so they'd bring her little presents. Not too long ago, while mom was picking up my little brother from class, she saw a student walking a giant tortoise.

Every so often, like every few years, our city would catch on fire. 'Cause it's California.

[Shida]

Oh wow about the zoology stuff; that is amazing.

Now for post #2, Durham, where I reside for approximately half of the year. It's about 40 minutes drive north from Middlesbrough and still resides in the North East in County Durham. It's a very small city well known for its 'prestigious' university (where I study) and about a quarter of the term-time population are actually students.

Unfortunately, an aerial shot never does justice to how beautiful this city is (and how lucky I feel I am for being able to study there). Yes I am smitten about this city, and the day I graduate will be a very sad one indeed.

The main tourist attractions and definitely the most iconic buildings here in this tiny city are the cathedral and the castle ruins - situated at the top of a hill surrounded by the river Wear (which you can see in the aerial shot). You can't spend a day in Durham without pretty much being able to see the Cathedral all the time. If you want to escape it, you've got to end up embedded somewhere in the residential areas, or you know, have your back turned to it.


What is left of the castle, that also makes up part of University College (or Castle College as we call it in the university).


The cathedral as seen from one of the bridges in the shopping area.


The cathedral as seen from one of the river paths (one of my favourite views)

As well as the University, Durham is home to many prestigious educational establishments. Lots of private schools about here. Within the city centre, approximately 70% of the buildings are occupied by students who are required to live out during the second year, and optionally during any further years of study. In the final year, they can live back 'in college' - in the collegiate buildings dotted about the city. I am a member of Grey College, which is a member of the University and is about 20 minutes walk from the city centre on the hill campus.

Sports-wise, the university seems to make up the major contribution to sports. The Doxbridge Races are probably the most famous of the university sporting events that Durham takes part in - but there is a very large rugby league within the university, and they keep trying to bring up the popularity of undergrad cricket. There is no local football team here, so people of Durham tend to be in support of the nearby Newcastle or Sunderland football teams. Unless you want to get punched in the face, I wouldn't recommend trying to guess if people were Geordies or Mackems though. The accent here is Pitmatic, sounds rather like Geordie in most aspects.

The weather here is typical of the North East - its fairly cold, although we're not strangers to the occasional heat wave, and fairly dry. We seem to get all our rain in the form of snowstorms after Christmas - which is kinda dangerous because Durham is a very hilly place! The council normally issues a warning telling students not to travel out unless its necessary.  

All in all, Durham is either a place you go to if you're a student or on a day trip out.