What's it like where YOU live?

[Luned]

Otto recently took/shared a whole bunch of super cool photos of a park in Perth (http://imgur.com/a/dDHtl) and it made me want to see where other people are from, too! We're spread out so widely, I bet there are some really neat places people could share.

I've lived in a handful of places, but right now I'm in Portland, Maine. If it looks how I describe Radasanth, that's because it's what I always end up picturing, haha.

Lots of brick!
http://anjouclothing.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/theoldport-768299.jpg

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And we have ocean! Lobsters live in there.
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Cobblestones look nice but I trip on them all the time!
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And I guess we have lighthouses, too. Tourists like those.
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[Aurelianus Drak'shal]

This is about a ten/ fifteen minute drive from my house. Wallace's Monument. I'm also about the same length of drive from the Bannockburn war memorial.

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[Aurelianus Drak'shal]

Bannockburn memorial. Robert the Bruce.

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu84/Anarchist147/bruce-9_zps7f9326e2.jpg

[hoytti]

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North East is known for it's farming, but mainly of Grapes.

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Now known as Mercyhurst North East. Thousands of students come to St. Vincent Hall and Chapel to learn many different subjects.

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Gibson Park is in the center of town. It is the centerpiece of Historic North East where most of the shops in North East are.

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The Lake Shore Railway Museum Use to be a Train Station. But with the decline of Passengers coming to North East and most companies having a direct line to the railroad, it has been turned into a museum. With General Electric being based in Erie little over 14 miles from here you can find trains that was never sent out by GE here.

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The Cherry Festival is one of the biggest events in North East. It has a parade at the end with fire trucks from all over Erie County PA, and even some from Chautauqua County NY, in it. It's rival for the biggest event is the Wine Festival where people from all over the world come to North East to sample wine from North East's wine cellars. I don't know which is the biggest, however, I do know which has the most kids. The Cherry Festival is more kids driven as it has a fair and plus the parade. The Wine Fest is more for the adults, though it does have a few events for kids, since it is mainly about tasting the wine from the local cellars.

[Philomel]

So I could give you two places. Glasgow is where I live, but a small town called Dollar is where I am from. My parents still stay there and I have been going to the local school since forever. Literally, as it is a primary and secondary (elementary and high) school.

Here is a picture of the school. It is the oldest co-educational boarding and day pupil-accepting school in the world. Yes, it is posh and my grandparents paid for me to go there.
http://www.mhairiclarkepr.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Dollar_Academy_Playfair_Building.jpg

This is a picture of the main river that flows through it, aka the Burn of Sorrow.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2328/2477071718_6b444a607c_z.jpg?zz=1

Here is a picture of the old, and apparently famous, Castle Campbell on top of Gloom Hill. It is in autumn just to show you how everything goes ... brown.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Castle_Campbell_01.jpg

Lastly, have a picture of the main street. Isn't it pretty? Its a town of about 3000 people, and everyone knows everyone else, pretty much :D
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/78/89/2788998_8b325936.jpg


So yeah, I have gone from that, since the age of 6, to Glasgow, the biggest city in Scotland. Its been a bit of a change.

[Mordelain]

http://media.europeanrailwayreview.com/wp-content/uploads/newport-station-aerial-shot.jpg Our train station in Newport looks like genitals.

[Flames of Hyperion]

Edinburgh, also known as Auld Reekie. City of the Scottish Renaissance...

http://waimhcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/edinburgh_-_calton_hill_nov_12_0.jpg

... hills rising up in the middle of town...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Arthurs_seat_edinburgh.jpg

... grey stone buildings and a grey stone castle...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Edinburgh_Castle_from_the_south_east.JPG

... and a grey stone university.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Old_College_of_Edinburgh_University.JPG

(Okay, okay, it's more than grey stone.)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Informatics_Forum_University_of_Edinburgh.JPG

[BlackAndBlueEyes]

*Sees Hoytti mention North East, PA and Chautauqua County*

*Spits his Diet Pepsi all over his keyboard*

What the hell, y'all were twenty minutes from me for the eight months I was in Jamestown?

Anyway, here's Lawrence, Kansas.

Here's a view of KU.

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This is Mass Street, in the heart of downtown. Good eats, lots of neat little shops and boutiques, and the Granada Theater, which hosts musical acts pretty much every night of the year.

https://www.planning.org/greatplaces/streets/2010/gallery04/image01.jpg

Rather than fancy castles and buildings like the Scots have been showing us, here's the Oread Hotel, which is located on the KU campus and is the highest point in town. There's outdoor pavilions on the fifth and ninth floors, where people can actually host weddings with a very neat view of northeast Kansas as their backdrop.

http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/The-Oread.jpg

Here's Allen Fieldhouse. I think they play basketball games there.

http://jayhawk-talk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Allen-Fieldhouse1-680x250.jpg

[Roht Mirage]

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There's some pseudo-interesting stuff around here. I just need to find some pictures of it when it's actually visible.

[Philomel]

HEY LOOK!

So this is where I live, not where I am from. Its Glasgow University, my university, and it looks like Hogwarts. In fact, it is Hogwarts so ... I win :3

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/University_of_Glasgow_view.jpg

Also Flames ... you should totally come to Glasgow to meet Twitch and I ... if you dare :3

[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...

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Osaka, the most generic city in all of Japan.

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Typically Japanese, where tradition meets modern.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Osaka_Castle_02bs3200.jpg

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

http://www.osaka-info.jp/en/facilities/assets_c/2014/02/meiji_mino-thumb-1200x800-850.jpg

[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

http://i.imgur.com/oLfjPlE.jpg

[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.
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Across the river, we have downtown. It's very... boxy... and unimaginative. Also very corporate, I realize. Companies gotta put their names on everything.
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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.
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http://www.capebretonpost.com/media/photos/unis/2011/09/19/2011-09-19-12-57-06-mall.jpg

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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[Zook Murnig]

Richmond, Virginia

Here's the skyline in the early morning.
http://plusmgt.com/wp-content/gallery/richmond/richmond-pre-dawn-for-dill-ad.jpg

A shot of the canal, and a peek at Brown's Island.
http://tourfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Richmond-Virginia-canals.jpg

Another shot of the skyline, with the Christmas lights up.
http://www.globallighting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/100-Miles-of-Lights-Richmond-skyline.jpg

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.
http://soulofamerica.com/soagalleries/richmond/attractions-family/Rich-Science-Museum-VA.jpg

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).
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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.
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And some selected graffiti from around downtown Richmond.
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[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!

[Rehtul Orlouge]

This is my home town's entire downtown district.

https://vanishingsouthgeorgia.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/vanishing-south-georgia-arabi-crisp-county-ga-ghost-town-country-store-water-tower-copyright-brian-brown.jpg?w=450&h=337

This is our most infamous haunted house.

https://vanishingsouthgeorgia.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/vanishing-south-georgia-wiregrass-victorian-arabi-crisp-county-ga-copyright-brian-brown.jpg

This is one of our two churches, the one I grew up attending.

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This is our only restaurant.

http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/p6Idx2QPqsycAeAWeDbRXA/ls.jpg

And finally, this is the old as dirt city "museum."

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