Boast about your hometown

Mr Gray, northern Wisconsin is very beautiful as is where you live. I also love La Crosse and the Hayward/Ashland area.
 
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I grew up in a town that was 650 people. Nothing famous about it but I couldn't of grew up in a better place. If I had to describe it, it would be Mayberry the famous TV show of the 60's. It is still productive little village, but smaller, and still has everything you need with the friendliest people on earth.
 
W2R said:
I guess my hometown is New Orleans, since I have lived here longer than anyplace else. I have lived here for the past 20 years, or 23 years if you count Baton Rouge as being part of New Orleans (it isn't! but some people have a great imagination when defining what is within New Orleans).

Probably I don't need to tell anyone here about New Orleans, our fabled food, architecture, history, music, and culture. But few are familiar with the people here in the older generation (over 70) who have lived here all of their lives. What an amazing, amazing people, and they should be declared a national treasure or some such thing IMO.

Then there's the other side of the coin. Some aspects of living in New Orleans are nothing to brag about. I would imagine that just saying "New Orleans" brings scenes to one's mind such as the one taken after Katrina, that I got off the internet for this post, and attached below. Katrina was such an awful experience for everyone here.

But hey, you can take REWahoo's list of disadvantages to living in Texas, and almost cut it in half for New Orleans.
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I grew up there, it is quite the place.
 
Teacher Terry said:
Mr Gray, northern Wisconsin is very beautiful as is where you live. I also love La Crosse and the Hayward/Ashland area.
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Thanks, Terry. Your old hometown of Kenosha has seen quite a bit of resurgence lately. The old Rambler plant site on the lakefront has been redeveloped into some lovely condos and a museum campus. The city has an Amazon distribution hub ("fulfillment center") and plans for the new Foxconn plant seem to be moving forward. Economically it's one of the more dynamic parts of the state.

"Fulfillment center" reminds me of a little song by a local musician, Ramblin Deano (a Kenosha native, IIRC). "The fulfillment center is ironically named..."

 
Mr. Gray, yes I actually have been there 3 of the last 4 summers for a visit. I still have many good friends there. I also took my husband to all my favorite places up north.
 
My hometown is Clear Lake Tx. Home of mission control and all the neighboring chemical plants and oil refineries you’d ever want to see (or smell depending on wind direction). And home to Clear Lake of course. I’m told back in the day you watch a dime drop to the bottom and come to rest. Certainly not the case when I grew up there back in the late sixties and on. Guess back in the day was way back in the day.
It was a good place to grow up. Used to feel like a good distance to go to Galveston or Houston. Now it is part of Houston. My parents and in-laws still live there. We go to visit and hardly recognize the area
 
Since I graduated from High School 30 years ago, the population has gone from 782 to 822. Not bad for 30 years of growth.
 
Tough choosing a home town after many moves so I guess my home town is the place I currently live.

My town smells like lavender and salt air, elk roam the fields and locals call it the Shire.
 
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My hometown is near Utica, NY. Was a nice place to grow up in the 1970s and 1980s but glad I don't live there now. It has not progressed much.

Now live in a bucolic mountain valley in Vermont and love it. Much stronger sense of community.
 
My hometown and surrounding towns were at one point booming coal regions. Now, they're depressed areas where most people are poor and meth/heroin are thriving. Oh...and approx 25 miles from me, an entire city was evacuated because of an underground fire that started in the early 60's and still burns to this day. If you drive through there on a cool day you can see steam coming up from the earth. Centralia, PA...look it up.
 
ponyboy said:
My hometown and surrounding towns were at one point booming coal regions. Now, they're depressed areas where most people are poor and meth/heroin are thriving. Oh...and approx 25 miles from me, an entire city was evacuated because of an underground fire that started in the early 60's and still burns to this day. If you drive through there on a cool day you can see steam coming up from the earth. Centralia, PA...look it up.
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Been through there, pitiful. My parents are from Carbondale, another PA mine fire disaster. When I was a little kid I remember going up there to visit family, every now and then a new section of the town was cordoned off as the fire took over new parts.

I remember being about 6 and thinking about the preacher's sermons about hell, fire, and brimstone. Wondering why mom and dad were taking me to hell.
 
MRG said:
Been through there, pitiful. My parents are from Carbondale, another PA mine fire disaster. When I was a little kid I remember going up there to visit family, every now and then a new section of the town was cordoned off as the fire took over new parts.

I remember being about 6 and thinking about the preacher's sermons about hell, fire, and brimstone. Wondering why mom and dad were taking me to hell.
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ah yes, Carbondale...my parents and other family were coal miners in Pittston.
 
aja8888 said:
ah yes, Carbondale...my parents and other family were coal miners in Pittston.
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I remember you mentioned that area. My parents generation were forbidden to work in the mines. I remember a favorite uncle saying how his father promised to break both his legs if he took a job in the mines.
 
Denver !

My birth city, Hartford, the former insurance capital of the USA is now a decaying dump. The population has declined continuously ever since I was born there.

My current city, The Socialist Paradise of the City & County of Denver, is growing and full of life. The population has increased 40% since I moved here 39 years ago.
The dry climate means NO BUGS.
Taxes are moderate with real estate taxes at only 0.6% of market value.
Government is relatively honest and works well.
 
MRG said:
I remember you mentioned that area. My parents generation were forbidden to work in the mines. I remember a favorite uncle saying how his father promised to break both his legs if he took a job in the mines.
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The way my father got out of the mines was by joining the Navy in 1943 and spending two years on a minesweeper in the South Pacific. My few uncles and grandfathers were all miners and all died early.
 
ponyboy said:
My hometown and surrounding towns were at one point booming coal regions. Now, they're depressed areas where most people are poor and meth/heroin are thriving. Oh...and approx 25 miles from me, an entire city was evacuated because of an underground fire that started in the early 60's and still burns to this day. If you drive through there on a cool day you can see steam coming up from the earth. Centralia, PA...look it up.
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Hello neighbor... but I live in a very pretty Valley which hasn't changed much in 60 years, except for the tremendous drop in the amount of small businesses. Like all small towns I imagine...
 
I came to the US in early 80s and settled in Portland OR. I guess it makes Portland OR is my hometown, where, people would insist you go first at 4 ways stop sign, people wave at each other on the road (walking or driving :) - If you don't believe me watch Portlandia :)

The weather is very mild, never get too cold or too hot - close to the coast, close to sky resort Mt Hood, close to the Columbia gorge (famous for wind surfing) - If you like outdoor activities, I think Portland has lots to offer.
 
aja8888 said:
The way my father got out of the mines was by joining the Navy in 1943 and spending two years on a minesweeper in the South Pacific. My few uncles and grandfathers were all miners and all died early.
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Exactly how my dad escaped. He grew up in the small town of Cadiz, Ohio, which is hard by Wheeling, West Virginia. My grandfather and all of my great uncles were coal miners, as were virtually all the other men in town. My dad did not want to be a miner, so he quit high school at 17 and joined the Navy. He stayed in for 20 years.
 
neihn said:
I came to the US in early 80s and settled in Portland OR. I guess it makes Portland OR is my hometown, where, people would insist you go first at 4 ways stop sign, people wave at each other on the road (walking or driving :) - If you don't believe me watch Portlandia :)
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Is this politeness still true? Seattle was always like this too but is much less an outlier today.

Ha
 
My home town used to be known as the "Home of the World's Largest Cash Prize Two-Day Rodeo". Also known for the infamous lady in the box. And one clock tower that burned to the ground. Back then, population was less than 10K.
 
Houston, home of the Astrodome, the first indoor domed stadium, which was also responsible for the development of AstroTurf and Astrolite, the first animated scoreboard. Also the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world. Also the Johnson Space Center and it’s mission control center, one of NASAs largest research and development facilities. Houston is the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the U.S. There are over 145 languages spoken by the residents of Houston. The city itself is about 669 square miles but the greater Houston-Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA covers about 10,000 square miles and is slightly smaller than the state of Massachusetts but larger than the state of New Jersey...
 
WestUniversity said:
Houston, home of the Astrodome, the first indoor domed stadium, which was also responsible for the development of AstroTurf and Astrolite, the first animated scoreboard. Also the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world. Also the Johnson Space Center and it’s mission control center, one of NASAs largest research and development facilities. Houston is the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the U.S. There are over 145 languages spoken by the residents of Houston. The city itself is about 669 square miles but the greater Houston-Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA covers about 10,000 square miles and is slightly smaller than the state of Massachusetts but larger than the state of New Jersey...
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You forgot to add the largest concentration of petrochemical facilities in the world on the Houston Ship Channel. Also, the center for oil, gas and chemical companies and the development of the $4+ Billion dollar Exxon Complex in The Woodlands employing almost 10,000 people.
 
haha said:
Is this politeness still true? Seattle was always like this too but is much less an outlier today.

Ha
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I notice a lot of aggressive drivers in the area now. But people still are very friendly.
 
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