Tell us A Bit About Where You're From

[The Magic Pudding]

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)

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

I like the bridge without the lights.

I grew up in Sydney, maybe someday I'll take a deep breath and try to describe it.
Our society is supposedly built on rum sodomy and the lash but I suspect there's a flaw in that argument.

[hismikeness]

I live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, USA.

It's the green area.


It is bordered by the coast range to the west, the Cascade range to the east, the Calapooya mountains to the south, and the Columia River to the north. Most people in Oregon live in this region, and it houses Portland, Salem and Eugene, the three largest cities in the state. The ending point of the Oregon Trail is inside the Valley, and the area is fertile land for farming.

The weather leaves something to be desired for a lot of people, but personally I like it. From October-ish through May, it is cool and wet, and the rest of the year is warm and dry. In between the change from winter to summer and summer to winter, there are two week transitional seasons that other more varied climates call "spring" and "fall". Those don't really happen around here. It's a 9 month winter and a three month summer. I've always told people that the rain the rest of the year is made up for in August. You just can't beat August in the Willamette Valley, IMO.

I can only imagine what it must have been like to be Lewis and Clark and get to the top of the Cascades and look down on the valley, especially if it was during the green season.

I live in a small farming town called Sublimity.

[MariaEvri]

okay here's some piccies from home:

we might have water shortage problems, but after the rains, cyprus transforms from a brown dry land to a beautiful green landscape

Limassol


medieval port at pafos

Limassol again. Building the future


celebrating the new year

[Tank]

Woot! I love Cypress.

[xSilverPhinx]

The scenery does look fantastic, makes me want to move from here.

[Tank]

The scenery does look fantastic, makes me want to move from here.

??? But aren't you there already? I'm confused 

[xSilverPhinx]

??? But aren't you there already? I'm confused  

Cyprus and Newfoundland both look very appealing. I love that type of scenery.  

[Ecurb Noselrub]

I'm from Belton, Texas (central Texas).  Here's the official website of the city:  http://www.ci.belton.tx.us/

Belton is the county seat of Bell County, Texas. It's located on I-35, about 60 miles north of Austin.  Normally, it's beautiful this time of year.  But we've been through the hottest, driest 6 months in the past 85 years. Everything is dead or dying. Very sad.  I contend that it is because we elected Rick Perry as governor again.  God is punishing us severely.  My suspicion is that we can only appease God by impeaching Perry.  If the USA elects him as President, it will not rain anywhere for at least 4 years. Beware!

EDIT: Activated hyperlink - Tank

[MathKat]

I'm currently a stay at home mom, living in Woodland Hills, CA, part of the San Fernando Valley.  My son is 4. He is my main focus.  He started showing signs of autism when he was 18 monthes old and started in therapy a month before he turned 2.  Now you'd never suspect that he had those problems to begin with.  He's a well adjusted little boy in school.  He does have a private tutor as well, but at this point her purpose is to push him ahead of the game.

My husband works in Santa Monica as a web developer and is often gone for anywhere from 12 to 16 hours a day, which is what prompted me to decide to stay home at least until my son is in school full time.

[BullyforBronto]

  My son is 4. He is my main focus.  He started showing signs of autism when he was 18 monthes old and started in therapy a month before he turned 2.  Now you'd never suspect that he had those problems to begin with.  He's a well adjusted little boy in school.  He does have a private tutor as well, but at this point her purpose is to push him ahead of the game.

Hi, MathKat,
Good luck to you and your son. You're doing the right thing with early intervention treatments. My son is on the spectrum, too. We've had him in speech, occupational and ABA therapy since he was 18 months, too. Now that he's five, he's beggining to 'get it,' as it were. Keep up the good work; it's a tough (and expensive) journey.

[Norfolk And Chance]

Well I live in a small town in North East England, and just to bust the stereotypes on this thread wide open, it isn't a miserable town, it isn't a miserable country and it isn't always raining.

[Ildiko]

Well I live in a small town in North East England, and just to bust the stereotypes on this thread wide open, it isn't a miserable town, it isn't a miserable country and it isn't always raining.

It sounds lovely - do you take in lodgers? 

I was born in a small port town in Cornwall, not far from Penzance but on the north coast. After too many moves to count, I now live in a small town in the North East of Italy. But who knows where I'll be this time next year?

[Sir_Nuttingham]

I'm from the proud small city of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, which inhabbits about 165.000 people (so that's onehundredsixtyfivethousand, I'm never sure if a dot's a dot or a comma in the US). It's the oldest city in the Netherlands, we celebrated our (estimated) 2000th birthday in 2002. The Romans founded the city, it being part of the northern border of the old Roman empire. Unfortunately there's no actuall buildings left of those times, only ruins and graves, but we do still have some buildings from the 7th-15th century period. It's the 10th city of the Netherlands. We have a well respected university, and the biggest outdoor festival of the Netherlands, the four-day marches, which attracts more than a million visitors in the third week of July each year.

Our town in the Netherlands has the nickname "Havana at the Waal" (the Waal being the river the city is located at). This is because it is one of the most politically left orientated towns of the Netherlands (I for myself being more liberal, which isn't left in the Netherlands, because left people here ACTUALLY are socialists and are not only called so in an insulting manner). Some people from abroad might know the Second World War battle "A Bridge too far". The Nijmegen bridge is the bridge that wasn't too far (see picture below). Here's some pictures:


The Waalbrug, which wasn't too far  . Built in 1936 and was the largest of it's type in Europe when built.





View of the historic downtown area:






And us trying too be modern also, this is an office building of NXP chipmakers (big chance you have some of their chips in your remote control):






In between, I've also lived in Madison, Wisconsin, USA for three years and now actuall live in Utrecht, of which I can also show more later, but Nijmegen being my home town at heart, I thought it would be most logicall for me to show.

[xSilverPhinx]

2000th birthday? 

I find old cities to be fascinating, there's a lot of living history there

[Asmodean]

2000th birthday? 

I find old cities to be fascinating, there's a lot of living history there

I like old castles and the like. Unfortunately, not too many of those here :-(