what is unique about where you live

[stinkyattic]

Where I live in New England it's 20 degrees out and crisp and dry and beautiful on those nights in winter where the air is so clear and perfect and you can see every wrinkle on the moon and every star in the milky way.

There are 5 BIG colleges and several small colleges within a 40 minute drive of my house. People are hip and peaceful and well-educated around here, but they can get a bit long-winded at town meetings as a result.

Practically everyone in my neighborhood has a cool dog and right nearby there's a cross-country skiing recreation area where we all take the pooches for walks and playtime.

The houses in my 'hood were all built in 1900-1915 in the Shingle Style and are gorgeous. It's one of the reasons I bought there- my favorite style of architecture- keeps me motivated to work a lot and save my money for an upgrade!

There are 2 or 3 awesome ski resorts and maybe 10 microbreweries within an hour's drive.

There's 2 amazing rivers for whitewater or tubing within 15 minutes of my front door. Plus the Mighty Connecticut for when you're lazy and want POWER.

I've traveled all over and can't imagine a better spot than right here in the Happy Valley.

[D.Boone]

Iowa City, Iowa
well we got the university of iowa here its a pretty prestigous liberal arts school. and its athletics programs are among the best in the country. so its a big college town, lots of parties all the time infact the UofI was rated the #8 party school a few years in a row. we get some pretty damn good weed here way better then what you will find anywhere else in iowa but it is a lil pricey. on top of all that we are only a 41/2hour drive from chicago, minneapolis, st.louis, omaha, only an hour and a half from des moines, and about 5 hours from kansas city. plus interstate 80 goes right thru here. and iowa is one of the top producers of pork products, corn products including ethonal, and soy products including bio-diesel

[Cooler Then Jesus]

i want one of them scooters like coolerthan jesus got
sounds like fun

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heres on on craigs list right by you i think, youre in venice beach i think?

[TallulahGreen]

I'm from Ashland, OR. It is a VERY unique town, here are some snippets from Wikipedia.com

Ashland is also remarkable for being very politically liberal. It gave the hypermajority of its vote to Democrat John F. Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election. This potentially makes it more Democratic than Portland, and more Democratic than any other city in Oregon and neighbouring Washington outside of Seattle, Washington, which cast 80.61% for Kerry compared to Ashland's 80.60%.

Ashland is well-known for its annual Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), which brings thousands of visitors to the city every year. The festival has grown from a summer outdoor festival in the 1930s to a season which stretches from February to October, incorporating Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean plays in repertory at three theaters. OSF sells more tickets to more performances of more plays than any other theater in the country. In a typical year, OSF sells more than 350,000 tickets and attracts about 100,000 tourists.

The National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory, located in Ashland, is the world's only crime lab dedicated to wildlife, and serves law enforcement both within and outside the United States.


Lithia Park is a 100 acre (0.4 km²) park extending from the center of town ("The Plaza") up Ashland Creek to the foothills of Mount Ashland. It includes two ponds, a Japanese garden, tennis courts, two public greens, a bandshell (outdoor stage) and miles of hiking trails. The name Lithia comes from the natural mineral water in Ashland, Lithia water. Lithia water is famous for its strong mineral taste and slight effervescence, and the Lithia water fountains found on the town plaza are frequently tasted by unsuspecting tourists (often at the behest of residents or frequent visitors who use the fountains as a cheap, humorous Ashland initiation rite).[citation needed] As of October 2006, the fountains on the plaza are temporarily under construction due to vandalism and their allegedly curative water is available from an unmarked spigot nearby.[citation needed] Lithia water can be sampled from a fountain near the bandshell in Lithia Park as well.

The Ashland City Band is the oldest continuous city band in the United States, having formed as the Ashland Brass Band in 1876. John McLaren (Park Designer), designer of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, designed Lithia Park and included an octagonal gazebo-style bandstand which was used by the ACB until the bandshell was built in 1949.

The Bathroom Readers' Institute and Bathroom Readers' Press, who put out the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader books, are based in Ashland.



I live in a VERY VERY cool place.

[lil josh]

me :bonghit:

[Fengzi]

I'm from Ashland, OR. It is a VERY unique town, here are some snippets from Wikipedia.com

Ashland is well-known for its annual Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), which brings thousands of visitors to the city every year.

I was driving back to California, from Washington, when my car broke down on I-5, just past Ashland. It was right at the time of the Shakespeare fest and there wasn't an available hotel room for miles. I ended up sleeping under an overpass. NIce place though.

[TallulahGreen]

I was driving back to California, from Washington, when my car broke down on I-5, just past Ashland. It was right at the time of the Shakespeare fest and there wasn't an available hotel room for miles. I ended up sleeping under an overpass. NIce place though.

Yep, thats Ashland for ya. During the festival time-good luck with finding a hotel. We have a ton of little hotels, but they are always damn full.

That really sucks you ended up sleeping under an overpass, next time call me!!

It's a fun little place though thats for sure, glad you got to see it..sorry it wasn't under the best of circumstances!

[birdgirl73]

I live in the Dallas, Texas area. There's not much that's particularly remarkable here. Our terrain is mostly flat and dry. We're hours away from both the coast or the mountains. It's miserably hot here in the summertime, and the winters aren't snowy or pretty. They're mostly mild, and when we do get winter weather, it involves ice storms. There are lots of fundamentally religious types, political conservatives, and illegal immigrants here. As I write this, I'm wondering what in the world has kept us here for my entire lifetime, and the only thing I can think of is that it's familiar and this is where I was raised.

One good thing about this area? Excellent Tex-Mex cuisine. Other than that, I need to move to northern California, Oregon, or Washington. Fast.

[Dankmike]

well.......shady white pill snorting buster's wanna be thugs, corn, home of Gary one of the worst places in the country for murder....and michael jackson's hometown.

Guess's?

[timothylearyisdead]

chesapeake virginia. nothing really here in particular except great places to grow with a great climate, but drive 15 minutes in any direction and youll find some sweet shit. we have the crowded, touristy beach, the duney natural beach. the other direction is norfolk, which is like mini NYC with nicer people and the same amount of bums, but still sweet to chill at a couple times a week. DC is a daytrip from here and can be fun sometimes as long as you dont drive in the city. Probably the most amazing mountains in North America too. everybody around here always says "man this town sucks sooo bad i cant wait to get out" but really, this place could be a WHOLE LOT worse *cough*utah*cough*iowa*cough*ohio*cough*i could go on*cough*

damn that was a nice bong hit!:bong: