Tell us A Bit About Where You're From

[Squid]

I live in San Antonio TX.  More churches than gas stations (hypothetically but still debatable) and everything else is about religion.  Minor league team?  The Missions, after the missions that around the city of various historical significance (think Alamo!).  if the US is approximately 85% believers in general then here in TX it's probably closer to 95%.  Everybody is religious from the little fish on every small business' front sign or on every other car bumper across the state to religious culture coming up in discussions with complete strangers. 

On the street, I'll say what I believe and ask you not to discuss it with me.  With my family I'm a huge closet atheist afraid to lose them to some silly book.  Online I'm forced to conceal my identity due to repercussions with work and my clients or from my family discovering my true beliefs, or lack thereof. I don't fear for my life but I do fear loss of clients/income and never seeing my family again and in some ways I think that is worse.

Another Texan!  I used to live in Converse.  I had a research job at Ft. Sam but got laid off in 2010.  Ended up back down in Victoria working a considerably lesser paying job for the State.  I did enjoy my time up there but I'm trying to work my way back up to Dallas....that way I can pester Whitney 

[texasatheist]

Hey Squid, I drive by Victoria all time on my way to Houston.  Sounds like a nice place though!  Kidding of course.  Hope you make it back to Dallas, I'd love to move that way but our company doesn't have a branch there and I'm not willing to quit so I can move up there. 

Are you going to any of the meetup stuff here like the Separation of Church and State rally this weekend or anything else?  Perhaps we'll meet up at an event here in TX, I'm trying to be more actively involved with the community. 

[Buddy]

I guess it is time that I did this.

Right now, I live in a little town in northwestern Indiana named Plymouth. The Yellow River runs right through the middle, and the downtown has been around since the 1800s. Population is 11,000 people.

This is Michigan Street, which is our main street. I live right off of it and I pass this area when I walk home from school



This is our local park:



This is the best diner in town:



And this is our fire department:



Overall, it's a pretty nice place to live. I dislike the general flatness of it though.

[Amicale]

Budhorse, great pics! It reminds me SO strongly of a few smaller towns I've been in or lived in, I love smaller towns like that

Like the song goes, "Let's take a drive down the middle of Main where there's no lines to mark the lanes... and they've never heard of rush hour, and the tallest building is the water tower... and at the end of any westbound street, you can still see the sun go down. I'm moving to a small town..." 

[Buddy]

Budhorse, great pics! It reminds me SO strongly of a few smaller towns I've been in or lived in, I love smaller towns like that

Like the song goes, "Let's take a drive down the middle of Main where there's no lines to mark the lanes... and they've never heard of rush hour, and the tallest building is the water tower... and at the end of any westbound street, you can still see the sun go down. I'm moving to a small town..." 

Thanks, but I just got those off the website.

[Amicale]

Budhorse, great pics! It reminds me SO strongly of a few smaller towns I've been in or lived in, I love smaller towns like that

Like the song goes, "Let's take a drive down the middle of Main where there's no lines to mark the lanes... and they've never heard of rush hour, and the tallest building is the water tower... and at the end of any westbound street, you can still see the sun go down. I'm moving to a small town..." 

Thanks, but I just got those off the website.

Hey, I just figured something out! At one time, Indiana was about 15% prairie... and you live in a flat area.... and you have a little horse...

So... you have...

A little horse on the prairie! 

*Ba dum tsshhh*

[Buddy]

Hey, I just figured something out! At one time, Indiana was about 15% prairie... and you live in a flat area.... and you have a little horse...

So... you have...

A little horse on the prairie! 

*Ba dum tsshhh*

LOL!

[xSilverPhinx]

Budhorse, great pics! It reminds me SO strongly of a few smaller towns I've been in or lived in, I love smaller towns like that

Like the song goes, "Let's take a drive down the middle of Main where there's no lines to mark the lanes... and they've never heard of rush hour, and the tallest building is the water tower... and at the end of any westbound street, you can still see the sun go down. I'm moving to a small town..." 

Thanks, but I just got those off the website.

Hey, I just figured something out! At one time, Indiana was about 15% prairie... and you live in a flat area.... and you have a little horse...

So... you have...

A little horse on the prairie! 

*Ba dum tsshhh*

Does it also run on caffeine?

[Buddy]

Budhorse, great pics! It reminds me SO strongly of a few smaller towns I've been in or lived in, I love smaller towns like that

Like the song goes, "Let's take a drive down the middle of Main where there's no lines to mark the lanes... and they've never heard of rush hour, and the tallest building is the water tower... and at the end of any westbound street, you can still see the sun go down. I'm moving to a small town..." 

Thanks, but I just got those off the website.

Hey, I just figured something out! At one time, Indiana was about 15% prairie... and you live in a flat area.... and you have a little horse...

So... you have...

A little horse on the prairie! 

*Ba dum tsshhh*

Does it also run on caffeine?

Psh, I wish. Then feed costs wouldn't be as high

[Amicale]

Budhorse, great pics! It reminds me SO strongly of a few smaller towns I've been in or lived in, I love smaller towns like that

Like the song goes, "Let's take a drive down the middle of Main where there's no lines to mark the lanes... and they've never heard of rush hour, and the tallest building is the water tower... and at the end of any westbound street, you can still see the sun go down. I'm moving to a small town..." 

Thanks, but I just got those off the website.

Hey, I just figured something out! At one time, Indiana was about 15% prairie... and you live in a flat area.... and you have a little horse...

So... you have...

A little horse on the prairie! 

*Ba dum tsshhh*

Does it also run on caffeine?

Psh, I wish. Then feed costs wouldn't be as high

A horse who wants carrots instead:
"Hay hay hay hay??? Neigh neigh neigh neigh!"

[Squid]

Hey Squid, I drive by Victoria all time on my way to Houston.  Sounds like a nice place though!  Kidding of course.  Hope you make it back to Dallas, I'd love to move that way but our company doesn't have a branch there and I'm not willing to quit so I can move up there.

I'm hoping to find something up in that area and move up there afterward.  I have family and friends up there so I'd have somewhere to stay right away until I could get a place. 

Are you going to any of the meetup stuff here like the Separation of Church and State rally this weekend or anything else?  Perhaps we'll meet up at an event here in TX, I'm trying to be more actively involved with the community. 

I haven't been to anything in a long while.

[AlisonFox66]

I am from Alloa

Just realised that if you don't know the UK well you won't know where it is

It is a small town near Stirling which is in central Scotland
It is not quite in the highlands but quite close

We have some great hills nearby

We also have a newly opened railway line  to the town which must be unique in the UK

[Tank]

I am from Alloa

Just realised that if you don't know the UK well you won't know where it is

It is a small town near Stirling which is in central Scotland
It is not quite in the highlands but quite close

We have some great hills nearby

We also have a newly opened railway line  to the town which must be unique in the UK

Bloody hell you are in Scotland!!! 

[DeterminedJuliet]

The downside of the internet is that I don't get to hear everyone's cool accents. 

[The Magic Pudding]

The downside of the internet is that I don't get to hear everyone's cool accents. 

I have to be careful when I request three kilos of thigh fillets please.