Friday, 07 August 2009

  • What's Your Home Town Unique For?


    I live in a tourist town. In fact, there would be little reason for this place to exist if we lost both the military and tourism. We don't get just our own countrymen. The most common out of state license plates I see here are from Coahuila and Nuevo Leon. Where do I live?  San Antonio, Texas.

    We have the River Walk, The Alamo, (and four other historic missions), scores of museums, and friendly people. Sports, Festivals, History, Sea World... It's all here. If you like ethnic food, we have that too. There is even more here than I can list. I like my town. ("Town"? It's the 7th largest city in the US!)

    What about other places? Where do you live? Is it unique for something?

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  • d0llh0use@xanga

    quietness after 8pm...all day everyday.
  • S0N1@xanga

    I live in JC, NJ.
    I guess it's known for it's drug dealings, gangsters, illegal street racing, shootings, murders, and abandoned buildings. The good things? Well, you can see some NYC life in the downtown area, the best high school in the state, riverfront, boardwalk, diversity of culture and people, amazing food, just the plain old city life. I guess for me, I just love living in the city instead of the suburbs... I don't know why but I can't stand those places .
  • PsychedelicBreakfast@xanga

    Waterloo, Iowa. One of John Dillinger's thugs (Tommy Carroll) was gunned down in an alley downtown, but uh, other than that, nothing?
  • decembriel@xanga

    I live in Morton, IL, the self-proclaimed Pumpkin Capital of the World.  We have a good deal of tourism, mostly in the fall for our annual Pumpkin Festival.
  • Peridot21@xanga

    my hometown is Chicago...that speaks for itself, no? 

  • xa06@xanga

    DC - Political chaos, scandal, and conspiracies ... most days, anyway. Oh yeah, and the whole being the nation's capital thing.

  • Audiofreak18@xanga

    My city is unique for a number of reasons. The fair, the square, an AMAZING southern restaurant that is known throughout the entire state (Cracker Barrel has got NOTHIN' of it, believe me, it's just THAT good.), among other things.
  • nodnarbassoon@xanga

    3rd in the nation for car theft.  9th depending on who you talk to, and when you talk to them.  Highest in the state for teen pregnancy (2007)... A girl from the high school I went to was on ABC Nightline about it... We have some MAJOR gang problems, and crime rate is really high.  Illegal immigrants from Mexico (even though we're nowhere NEAR Mexico...).  Marijuana being grown in vinyards like it was nothing.  ...The typical woes of a gang-plagued, poverty-stricken town.


    Oh, there's the "Welcome to Yakima: The Palm Springs of Washington" sign that somehow everyone knows about, even people from as far away as California.  For the record, that sign couldn't be farther from the truth.  Someone had a very twisted sense of humor.


    Also one of the world's largest apple producers, and 75% of the nations hops.
  • ashleyannaka@xanga

    I clicked on this because of the picture, haha. I went to San Antonio (and that spot on the Riverwalk) a couple of weeks ago, but I'm a native Texan. I was born and raised in Houston, which has it's fair share of "tourist attractions" as well (Nasa, Various Museums, Houston Zoo, Reliant Stadium, Astrodome).


    I live in College Station now, though, for school. It's definitely not a tourist town, other than maybe the Bush Library and I guess Texas A&M University might be a stop on some people's lists. Though, we're fairly close to the Blue Bell Factory in Brenham? haha

  • landlockedeyes@xanga

    Having all it's residents banned for staying in a motel up the line somewhere. Seriously.
  • Erika_Steele@xanga

    ROOOOLLLLLLL TIIIIIDE.


    Other than that, absolutely nothing.
  • laminatedbunny@xanga

    I'm from Oakland, California. We're known for high crimes and violence. 
  • mmmhustler403@xanga

    I have family in San Antonio, TX. I love it there! I live in Calgary, AB, which is famous for it's summer festival, the Calgary Stampede.
  • xsherryxkimx@xanga

    CASINOS.

    You can guess that I'm from Las Vegas.
  • Tastes_Eclectic_Fashion@lovelyish

    Minneapolis. None for...F. Scott Fitzgerald. Prince. Josh Hartnet. My personal favorite, where Sarah Palin got ragged on for a shopping spree during the RNC.


     The Broader state connections Prarie Home Companion. The Mall of America. 10,000 lakes. The stupidity of Norm Coleman vs. Al Franken senate election that was not decided finally until less than a month ago.
  • windonyourbones@xanga

    Nothing that I know of.
  • erahslover@xanga

    "America's most historic city", because of all of the Civil War battles fought here :(
    its sad because its true.
  • MangoWOW@xanga

    I live in Miami Florida. I don't think we're very unique but we're known for our beaches, clubs, nightlife, and being one of the very few places that have 24 hour liquor stores. lol.
  • xueyo@xanga

    i live in singapore. i guess what's unique here is... singlish and maybe.. a multi-racial country? lol
  • jazziegal97@xanga

    I live in Raleigh, N.C. We are known for acorns & oaks. In fact I think we're known as "the City of oaks" or something stupid like that...
  • Honey14@xanga

    Will Rogers.  :)
  • Gentemann@xanga

    the civil rights struggle...oh and we are number one in per capita gun fatalities...I wish we had a river walk or Alamo.
  • utopiadeuncuerpoperfecto@xanga

    I live in Tijuana so we are know for our drug lords and shootings in the middle of a street full of people :) We used to be known for our wild nightlife but thats in the past now, no one wants to come to Tj anymore 
  • jetaime_briana@xanga

    I live in Oshkosh WI, and we have country USA and EAA so we get alot of tourists in the summer.
  • redmakesmeblue@xanga

    The city I live in is San Francisco!! Another touristy city. I like where I live, because you can go anywhere in the city through public transportation. Some things unique about my city is .. the cable cars, Alcatraz and Golden Gate Bridge? I've walked on only the GGBridge once though.

    Oh! And the city has interesting neighborhoods! Like the "gay" neighborhood Castro or the "hippie/beatnik era" neighborhood Haight Ashbury!

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