Tell us A Bit About Where You're From

[xSilverPhinx]

I have heard that the streets are unfriendly to pedestrians, and the two parallel streets in the photo often have pedestrian accidents. Is that still true?

Yes, you could say that Brasília was not designed for pedestrians. They tried to remedy this, or make it less worse, by introducing a law that says that cars must stop when there are pedestrians at zebra crossings. An attempt to look civilized, think, though obviously the fact that just painting a few strips on the floor is way cheaper than installing traffic lights cannot be understated. One consequence of this is that actually more pedestrians started dying. Must be because of the Southerners that migrated there

And no, the two roads that are notorious for people being hit by cars are the two main roads that cross the city from the South Wing to the North. Those in the picture go from East to West, and are not part of a populated residential area, just governmental buildings, in which most people have cars.

[Melmoth]

Not a lot to say really. I'm from the West Country, just outside Bristol, on the coast of the Severn estuary. Everyone speaks like a farmer or a pirate. It's the native land of Blackbeard, the British slave trade, cider and English country yokelism. This is the street I live on:



I'm a few doors along. The road on the right goes down to the coast, which looks like this:



You can see the abandoned Battery Point lighthouse over in the distance there, which acted as a makeshift climbing frame when I was a kid. And here's my favourite pub, the Windmill:



It's in a field near to where I walk the dogs. These two were taken last winter. Battery Point again:



And the big hilly land mass over there is Wales:

[Chronos]

I grew up just over an hour from there.....

So how did one end up in Sissonville, of all places?

[Xjeepguy]

I grew up just over an hour from there.....

So how did one end up in Sissonville, of all places?

Was born here in WV, my Dad moved us to Cecil County MD when I was young. I just recently moved back home to WV and a simpler life. I liked MD, and still love my Ravens and O's, I just missed the mountains.

[xSilverPhinx]

I grew up just over an hour from there.....

So how did one end up in Sissonville, of all places?

Was born here in WV, my Dad moved us to Cecil County MD when I was young. I just recently moved back home to WV and a simpler life. I liked MD, and still love my Ravens and O's, I just missed the mountains.

I love mountains Something that is unfortunatly lacking in Brazil.

[The Magic Pudding]

I love mountains Something that is unfortunatly lacking in Brazil.

At least your continent has some.
But then earthquakes seem to be part of the package, I don't mind being without them.

[Tank]

I grew up just over an hour from there.....

So how did one end up in Sissonville, of all places?

Was born here in WV, my Dad moved us to Cecil County MD when I was young. I just recently moved back home to WV and a simpler life. I liked MD, and still love my Ravens and O's, I just missed the mountains.

I love mountains Something that is unfortunatly lacking in Brazil.

And you're in the biggest flat bit in the country too, which makes matters worse.

[MariaEvri]

Here I am too.
I am from Cyprus, which is the only country who s capital is half occupied. Or so we're tought!
I would post piccies, but must hurry
adios!

[xSilverPhinx]

I love mountains Something that is unfortunatly lacking in Brazil.

At least your continent has some.
But then earthquakes seem to be part of the package, I don't mind being without them.

In the Southern part, only in Chile, I think. The rest are hills.

Our geology is very old, and we're not close enough to any tectonic border to expericence any such landmass adventures.

Here I am too.
I am from Cyprus, which is the only country who s capital is half occupied. Or so we're tought!
I would post piccies, but must hurry
adios!

Cyprus, wow. I've met people from all over, but never one from there. 

[DeterminedJuliet]

Here I am too.
I am from Cyprus, which is the only country who s capital is half occupied. Or so we're tought!
I would post piccies, but must hurry
adios!

I've heard it's beautiful. Please post pictures when you get a chance!

[KingPhilip]

Hey all! I'm from a small, small, town called Logan located in scenic West Virginia. Also known as the poorest/2nd unhappiest state in the US. However, Logan does have Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. So there's that.


The area around here is ungodly mountainous, so much so that if you were to flatten all the mountains in WV, it would cover all of the US and some of Canada. It's awesome for anyone that loves the outdoors.






A curious feature of Logan is that its hotels are spontaneously combusting. Of the three major hotels around the town, two have burned down in the last six months or so. Including this one, located conveniently about 400 feet from my house.


And that's Logan, not a lot to show as the whole of the town is about three streets. We recently moved, but I fly back enough that I still count it as my home. Not a bad little place I'd admit.

[Tank]

Evidently somebody wants to kill the tourist trade!
Look very pictureskew.

[Too Few Lions]

Not a lot to say really. I'm from the West Country, just outside Bristol, on the coast of the Severn estuary. Everyone speaks like a farmer or a pirate. It's the native land of Blackbeard, the British slave trade, cider and English country yokelism. This is the street I live on:

hi Melmoth, I live in that fair city built on cider, tobacco, piracy and slavery! I live a ten minute walk away from Brunel's suspension bridge, which is by far the best thing in the city (IMHO)





although it's grey and / or rainy most of the time, so tends to look a bit more like this;



I struggle with the cold wet climate and am currently looking forward to selling my flat and doing some travelling around sunnier climes (ie anywhere else in Europe!) for a year or more, and will hopefully settle somewhere a little warmer and sunnier

[Tank]

I quite liked the SS Great Britain and the walk down the river beside it.

[Too Few Lions]

yeah, it's quite nice down by the waterfront, particularly on a summer's day. Gotta confess that I'm quite looking forward to not living in a city for a while though, the traffic in Bristol is horrendous and because most of it's Georgian / Victorian houses that have been turned into flats, parking's a nightmare. I do dream of a nice simple life out in the country!