What's it like where YOU live?

[Flames of Hyperion]

Phi: I may have to, one of these days!

To stop this being the first non-picture post in the thread, some images of where I grew up. An arcade very close to where I lived when I was a kid...



Osaka, the most generic city in all of Japan.



Typically Japanese, where tradition meets modern.



The northern suburb of Minoh, where I spent my teenage years, is famed for its waterfall and autumn colours.

[Philomel]

Though its never going to be as awesome as living there for years ...

Here is a picture, taken by 18 year old me, when I lived in Japan for 8 months. Its of Nagoya, a city further east than Minoh. Kind of close, geographically speaking :P

[Roht Mirage]

Non-snow Edmonton pictures:

Muttart Conservatory. Basically a group of interconnected greenhouses with some really awesome plants. Simulates everything from tropical to desert conditions. Some guy got into the shot in a rather epic way.


Across the river, we have downtown. It's very... boxy... and unimaginative. Also very corporate, I realize. Companies gotta put their names on everything.


Then there's West Edmonton Mall. At one time, it was the largest mall in the world, or North America... I'm pretty sure it's been eclipsed somewhere. It's got some cool things.










That giant dragon lives above the concession stand in the movie theater. It gets a bit toasty below when he does this dragony thing. I couldn't find a proper pic of the entire theater lobby for scale, but trust me. He's a big boy.

[Brand]

I live in Syracuse, as on man on this site sorta* knows.

We're home to the Carrier dome, and snow. And the orangemen. Sometimes #1 team in the NCAA...

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We also have snow. Though, like, none this year. Maybe four inches, nearly two weeks into the time where we'd normally have a foot or so.

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We were once home to one of the most polluted lakes in America. Now, you can eat one fish a month from it!

It is indeed a pretty lake, and has a nice park near it.

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We *also* have "Destiny USA" (It was supposed to be like, Mall of Murica' scale. Then the guy who was building it lost the funding. Well. We have a bridge over Hiawatha Boulevard now.

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Oh. And there's a Salt Museum. Aren't you just dying to go to the Salt Museum? You can look at. Well. Salt. Machines related to Salt. In museum format. And, guess what? More salt.

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EDIT-Fuck, i'm bad at pictures.

[Luned]

Thanks so much for sharing all these awesome pictures, guys! Scotland with your castles, Japan with your pretty everything, Canada with your... giant ass malls?

Tonight I went for a walk because it's perfectly December here (cold but not too cold yet, just a touch of ice and snow). They do the lights up real pretty this time of year.



This weekend is the start of the prelude festival in my old hometown and I'm sooo glad not to be there to deal with it.



Santa shows up on a lobstering boat and, instead of elves, he has...



Lobsters. duh.

[Rayleigh]

I'm from Michigan. We have some pretty spectacular skies. Here's one I took at a football game this past fall.



We also have trees. Here's the view from a chair lift. This mountain is my second home.



Also, snow. I can't imagine living somewhere that doesn't experience all of the seasons.

[Zook Murnig]

Richmond, Virginia

Here's the skyline in the early morning.


A shot of the canal, and a peek at Brown's Island.


Another shot of the skyline, with the Christmas lights up.


The Science Museum of Virginia, which used to be the main train station of the city. The big ball out front is a scale model of the Earth suspended a few inches in the air by a fountain, so you can turn it if you don't mind getting your hands wet. There's an identically scaled model of the Moon off the left side of the picture, at a to-scale distance from the Earth, similarly suspended.


The beautiful clock tower right off of I95. I used to drive by this every day on my way to work in Petersburg (about 30 miles south).


A few shots of Maymont Park, a privately owned park and petting zoo in the middle of the city. It's 100 acres of rolling hills, beautiful gardens, and Victorian architecture, with a few animal exhibits at one end.







And some selected graffiti from around downtown Richmond.

[black shadow]

@Rayleigh: Michigan state!!!! Go green!!!

[Hysteria]

I'm from Michigan. We have some pretty spectacular skies. Here's one I took at a football game this past fall.

You might very well have picked your name for this reason, but Rayleigh scattering is what makes the sky blue.

[Rayleigh]

You might very well have picked your name for this reason, but Rayleigh scattering is what makes the sky blue.

Haha! No, I didn't make that connection when I selected this name. I vaguely remember learning about that though!