One of the oldest Dutch cities it has more history then you can shake a stick at:
Started off as a Roman Fort
Place of formation of the Republic of the Netherlands (I received my 1st years degree in the room this was signed)
Birthplace of the last non-Italian to become pope up until John Paul II (We have a papal palace due to it)
Big ass Churchtower... that is not connected to the church for centuries.. become the middle part collapsed during a storm in 1674.
The city is surrounded by early 19th century forts, an effort to make a line of defense behind floodable plains against invaders. We kept with that plan even when the Germans went about with that whole flying business.
I visited Utrecht for a couple of days last year on holiday. It is an amazing place with the same kind of feel to Amsterdam (lots of young people, bars and coffee shops), but without all the obnoxious drunk Americans
It's a university town, dominated by the University of Michigan. And football:
That's Michigan Stadium, aka The Big House, capacity (unofficially) 111,000 or so. I was part of the crowd that set the all time attendance record (112,118) for on campus college football in the 2003 game against Ohio State.
That's Angell Hall, which was originally going to be the state capital before Lansing was chosen over Ann Arbor (we got the better school though). It's home to a ton of lecture halls and is actually part of a four building complex that makes up most of the humanities.
North campus, where engineers and similar people have classes. Also, all the music types in a bit of an odd combination.
Back on central campus, legend has it that if you step on this block M, donated by the class of 1953, before you take your first blue book exam, you're destined to fail it. I carefully avoided doing so for 19 years (seriously!).
This is The Cube. It rests just outside the Michigan Union and the Administration Building (more on that in a second). It's a massive thing, but can be spun on that corner by say, a six year old. You'll frequently see people spinning it if you watch broadcasts of Michigan sporting events.
That's the Fleming Building, where the University Administration works. Those weird slit windows? Rumor has always been that the building was designed as a bunker during the Vietnam War when Ann Arbor was a focal point of the protest movement and SDS. There's also supposed to be a secret passage from the Fleming Building to variable the grad library, that block M in the Diag, the President's House, and North Campus.
The original Borders book store is actually right down the street from here, but it's gone now, so I'll choose this picture. It's probably the most famous of the businesses in Ann Arbor, but among foodies it's...
this place, Zingerman's deli. Great food, if kind of outrageously expensive. Members of my family will drive 200 miles to get bread from here (well, and see my parents and a few cousins who live around here).
On the north end of central campus, there's Nicholls Arboretum, a lovely place to wander around and quite possibly smoke pot. Ann Arbor IS the location of Hash Bash, after all. It's been a declining tradition in recent times, but used to be a huge deal. Ann Arbor has also mostly legalized marijuana possession for a long time, but you have to make sure that you do so on city property and not university property as the university cops will go after you with state law, which is much more harsh than the $25 ticket the city will give you.
After you've done that, you might want to visit...
My favorite pizza place in town (though they serve a bunch of other stuff), though there are a few solid competitors. Pizza House is also quite good. I recommend the Best of Cottage Inn.
There are other parts of the city that aren't really University related, but they're not very interesting. It's a college town, through and through.
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I'm surprised I haven't seen Seattle here yet, considering how many forumers we have scuttling about our fair city.
This is our amazing skyline as seen from Capital Hill:
Here it is again except from the viewpoint of West Seattle, which is technically part of Seattle but across Elliot Bay from the downtown proper. It is also where I grew up, we're almost like our own separate town as the only way to reach the rest of Seattle is a bridge.
You may have heard of this place, this is where the guys who throw the fish sell fish, also it has the best piroshky place in the city, as well as the oldest Starbucks.
Pioneer Square is where you see a lot of the older city, Smith Tower is near there and it used to be the largest building this side of the Mississippi, it's also where you can tour the Underground or get wasted as there's a ton of bars.
Smith Tower, not so impressive nowadays.
And this is where I go to college, the University of Washington, you've probably seen our library unless you've never watched any of the Harry Potter films as they used the reading room in the main library to film parts of the movie.
And the room in question, it does look pretty cool.
I live north of there in the Ravenna neighborhood, this graph sums up what it's like pretty fast.
It's full of young people with families who throw dirty looks towards the college students and the college students like me being given dirty looks for such indiscretions as walking down the street late at night or being awake after 10 pm.
You may have heard of this place, this is where the guys who throw the fish sell fish, also it has the best piroshky place in the city, as well as the oldest Starbucks.
It also has (or had in 2005 when I was out there), an honest to God Leftorium!
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Here are some places that are apparently noteworthy.
Beale Street. Overrated in my opinion. It holds a music festival every year, but I haven't been, and as time goes on my desire to fades even more.
There's also a BBQ fest held near it every year, which is slightly more interesting because there's food (if you can get into a decent booth.)
Graceland. Also highly overrated. 'Never been, and I don't plan on going any time soon.
What most tourists don't know is that it's in a pretty seedy part of town, like some of our other famous spots.
National Civil Rights Museum. This one has some significance, but I've only been via school field trips.
The Pyramid (It might have another name, but I don't know it. It's an eyesore, anyway.)
The city was tricked into making this and it's been virtually empty for years, draining the city of money. It might become a Bass Pro Shop.
Here are some places I'm slightly more interested in.
Overtone Square. This place apparently use to be a popular hangout back in the day. I've been told that my father had a hand in making it what it was.
My mom tells me he came up with the name, but I don't have any proof outside of that. It's now a shell of it's former self, but I still enjoy going there. More than Beale Street, atleast.
Cooper Young. A kind of artsy district that holds in own festival every year.
Also has a Gay and Lesbian Community center that I've never been in. Not much to it really, but I know a lot of people who would like to live there if they don't already.
This is East Memphis, the place I grew up and lived in until the age of about 11.
It's the best part of Memphis to live in, IMO. It's one of the safest places you can live without having to move to the suburbs.
Here's my old school.
And here's where I'm going in the fall.
Technically I live in a small town next to Memphis, but I can't find any decent pictures of it, and it's practically just another part of Memphis, anyway.
I'm really hoping I move somewhere else in the next few years, I don't want to live here my whole life. It's not that I hate the city, I just have never known anywhere else, and have this strong desire to move as far away as possible.
I live in Bentonville, Arkansas (for the summer, anyhow). It's only known for being the location of Wal-Mart headquarters. Just about everyone here works for either Wal-Mart or a Wal-Mart vendor.
That dude's face is all over photos and portraits inside the Wal-Mart home offices.
ahh somewhere where it's easy to get to tribeca or union square (places of respective employments)... aka, 2,3,orA,C and 4,5,6,orN,R. or L.
This is where my family is from!
Back on central campus, legend has it that if you step on this block M, donated by the class of 1953, before you take your first blue book exam, you're destined to fail it. I carefully avoided doing so for 19 years (seriously!).
Back on central campus, legend has it that if you step on this block M, donated by the class of 1953, before you take your first blue book exam, you're destined to fail it. I carefully avoided doing so for 19 years (seriously!).
Penn has the same tradition, except its finals.
I imagine it's fairly common as absurd superstitions go. There's another one about making out under a certain archway = automatic marriage.
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Is that a man in a pith helmet mounting a penny-farthing in front of the church?
Yes. That part of Oamaru has a really well kept Victorian area, which has become a tourist spot. The local shopkeepers often dress up in period dress during the week or for festivals
Man... I ALWAYS got speeding tickets through Oamaru.
It's all like "Hey, enjoy our wide southern roads, arent they a joy to cruise down? Hey, did you see..." BAM! TOWN! FLASH! NOW YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO YOUR GIRLFRIENDS FATHER WHY YOU WERE SPEEDING IN HIS CAR WITH HIS DAUGHTER!
*sigh*
Dude, it has got even worse. I was back there a month or so back and they've added 80km zones on either side, one of which goes for about 4-5km. So now it is even slower!
[beach image]
A big lake that you can almost never swim in because it is too damn cold. And possibly full of turds.
Two things make you a Wisconsite: immunity to cold and getting pissed off at FIBs.
Lake Michigan is usually a scorching 60-65° (around 16° for anyone not using archaic means of measuring average kinetic energy). That's plenty warm. That's shorts and t-shirt temperatures. Of course, you don't swim at Bradford beach because it's a cesspool. You've got to go to less polluted places like Door County or the UP.
I'm from a small ass town in Ohio, so these are far from impressive.
Here's a shot of uptown, including the theater that has been closed for a decade or so.
An old Iron mill outside of town.
The Catholic church. Also the private school I attended until high school.
The only real employer in the town is a factory where they make and package these:
I'm pretty sure that it's the sole source of those cardboard flavored things.
Now, I live in Athens, Ohio, which is much more aesthetically pleasing and the home to Ohio University.
Here's a nice overhead shot of the city and university:
Uptown:
It's home to a fairly famous (probably just in mid and southern Ohio) block party every year for Halloween featuring much debauchery.
Some more shots of the school:
Google Earth's take on the town:
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edited May 2010
My little town of Windsor, VT. Home of around 3500 residents. There's no industry since the tire plant closed years ago (which is right across the road from our apartment), few jobs, and hey, few people. But it's kinda nice...
It's also the birthplace of Vermont, here, specifically:
This is the old mill, where they made some pretty big (as I recall from our visit last year) advances in firearm technology.
And this is the bridge across the Connecticut River to Cornish, NH, where J.D. Salinger lived out the end of his life.
Yes, the sign says "walk your horses or pay two dollars fine."
This is a 2009 picture the building they're replacing my high school with. It opens this September:
This is our library:
These are the statues next to my library:
This is Bullough's Pond, which legend says was named after a criminal who used the area as a hide-out:
This is norumbega tower, which was built by Vikings in 1000ce.
This is norumbega park:
It used to be a pretty big deal, as it had one of the most popular ballrooms in America during the swing era and used to be Boston's premier spot for swimming and canoeing.
We have a really tall tower:
And this one village (Newton Centre is one of seven villages of Newton) has three colleges alone:
There's more, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow.
The rest of you, I fucking hate you for the fact that I now have a blue dot on this god awful thread.
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edited May 2010
Behold...Ft.McMurray, AB, Canada. I bring you: Hell On Earth.
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“Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.” - Loren Eiseley
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edited May 2010
Guelph, Ontario, Canada. About 15 minutes from the previously posted Kitchener/Waterloo.
We'll start with probably the most impressive building in the city, Church of Our Lady.
Next we have the University of Guelph, a horribly hippie infested place. But still an awesome school, and home to (I believe) the largest residence building in North America.
This is Old Jeremiah, our cannon. It's tradition on campus to paint the cannon. It gets painted by a different group of people every single night.
This is one of our residence halls. Not the big one. I can't find an adequate picture of that.
The (clearly bustling) downtown area. And our fountain.
The house of the most famous person who lived here, John McCrae. He wrote the poem In Flanders Fields and I'm distantly related to him through marriage.
It's actually a bigger city than it seems. Just kinda generic.
Two things make you a Wisconsite: immunity to cold and getting pissed off at FIBs.
You left out the cheese hats.
And the alcoholism.
I can deal with cold air, cold snow, cold wind, etc. But jumping into a 65 degree lake and calling it a good time? Fuck that, and I've lived here for why whole life.
Pics from the net because I am an incompetent photographer.
Financial District
River Thames
Hyde Park
Canary Wharf
Parliament Square
I love only being 2 hours away on a train from London, it's one of those places that's just got a buzz. I remember Ricky Gervais was saying that people in London and New York have more in common than with people from their own countrys who live in small towns. They are truly global citys.
That said I would only want to live their if I was rich and didn't have to work, cos fuck the tube at rush hour!
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Well, You know, they have to defend themselves against the terrorists and such.
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Daejeon is the 5th largest city in South Korea. But its not Seoul so who cares amirite?
It does have a World Cup stadium
And a big science park from when it hosted some World Expo in 1993
Daejeon is called the Silicon Valley of Korea. One part of town, Daedeok Science Town has over 200 research institutes.
We also have some big universities, the biggest being KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology).
The actual town I'm from, Kingsport TN is far to unimportant to warrant me finding pictures of it. It has a big chemical plant.
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It is pretty cool.
I too am an un-scientific Sci-fI lover. For living in I think I prefer cozy, old buildings though. Tradition, atmosphere, history etc.
I visited Utrecht for a couple of days last year on holiday. It is an amazing place with the same kind of feel to Amsterdam (lots of young people, bars and coffee shops), but without all the obnoxious drunk Americans
The large building on the left is actually still there and in use.
During the Fall:
The fountain:
The capitol building:
The lake:
The old brewery (falling apart):
The new brewery (for sale and falling apart):
It's a university town, dominated by the University of Michigan. And football:
That's Michigan Stadium, aka The Big House, capacity (unofficially) 111,000 or so. I was part of the crowd that set the all time attendance record (112,118) for on campus college football in the 2003 game against Ohio State.
That's Angell Hall, which was originally going to be the state capital before Lansing was chosen over Ann Arbor (we got the better school though). It's home to a ton of lecture halls and is actually part of a four building complex that makes up most of the humanities.
North campus, where engineers and similar people have classes. Also, all the music types in a bit of an odd combination.
Back on central campus, legend has it that if you step on this block M, donated by the class of 1953, before you take your first blue book exam, you're destined to fail it. I carefully avoided doing so for 19 years (seriously!).
This is The Cube. It rests just outside the Michigan Union and the Administration Building (more on that in a second). It's a massive thing, but can be spun on that corner by say, a six year old. You'll frequently see people spinning it if you watch broadcasts of Michigan sporting events.
That's the Fleming Building, where the University Administration works. Those weird slit windows? Rumor has always been that the building was designed as a bunker during the Vietnam War when Ann Arbor was a focal point of the protest movement and SDS. There's also supposed to be a secret passage from the Fleming Building to variable the grad library, that block M in the Diag, the President's House, and North Campus.
The original Borders book store is actually right down the street from here, but it's gone now, so I'll choose this picture. It's probably the most famous of the businesses in Ann Arbor, but among foodies it's...
this place, Zingerman's deli. Great food, if kind of outrageously expensive. Members of my family will drive 200 miles to get bread from here (well, and see my parents and a few cousins who live around here).
On the north end of central campus, there's Nicholls Arboretum, a lovely place to wander around and quite possibly smoke pot. Ann Arbor IS the location of Hash Bash, after all. It's been a declining tradition in recent times, but used to be a huge deal. Ann Arbor has also mostly legalized marijuana possession for a long time, but you have to make sure that you do so on city property and not university property as the university cops will go after you with state law, which is much more harsh than the $25 ticket the city will give you.
After you've done that, you might want to visit...
My favorite pizza place in town (though they serve a bunch of other stuff), though there are a few solid competitors. Pizza House is also quite good. I recommend the Best of Cottage Inn.
There are other parts of the city that aren't really University related, but they're not very interesting. It's a college town, through and through.
This is our amazing skyline as seen from Capital Hill:
Here it is again except from the viewpoint of West Seattle, which is technically part of Seattle but across Elliot Bay from the downtown proper. It is also where I grew up, we're almost like our own separate town as the only way to reach the rest of Seattle is a bridge.
You may have heard of this place, this is where the guys who throw the fish sell fish, also it has the best piroshky place in the city, as well as the oldest Starbucks.
Pioneer Square is where you see a lot of the older city, Smith Tower is near there and it used to be the largest building this side of the Mississippi, it's also where you can tour the Underground or get wasted as there's a ton of bars.
Smith Tower, not so impressive nowadays.
And this is where I go to college, the University of Washington, you've probably seen our library unless you've never watched any of the Harry Potter films as they used the reading room in the main library to film parts of the movie.
And the room in question, it does look pretty cool.
I live north of there in the Ravenna neighborhood, this graph sums up what it's like pretty fast.
It's full of young people with families who throw dirty looks towards the college students and the college students like me being given dirty looks for such indiscretions as walking down the street late at night or being awake after 10 pm.
Oh, and GO SOUNDERS (I am not in this picture)
It also has (or had in 2005 when I was out there), an honest to God Leftorium!
Here are some places that are apparently noteworthy.
There's also a BBQ fest held near it every year, which is slightly more interesting because there's food (if you can get into a decent booth.)
What most tourists don't know is that it's in a pretty seedy part of town, like some of our other famous spots.
The city was tricked into making this and it's been virtually empty for years, draining the city of money. It might become a Bass Pro Shop.
Here are some places I'm slightly more interested in.
My mom tells me he came up with the name, but I don't have any proof outside of that. It's now a shell of it's former self, but I still enjoy going there. More than Beale Street, atleast.
Also has a Gay and Lesbian Community center that I've never been in. Not much to it really, but I know a lot of people who would like to live there if they don't already.
It's the best part of Memphis to live in, IMO. It's one of the safest places you can live without having to move to the suburbs.
Here's my old school.
And here's where I'm going in the fall.
Technically I live in a small town next to Memphis, but I can't find any decent pictures of it, and it's practically just another part of Memphis, anyway.
I'm really hoping I move somewhere else in the next few years, I don't want to live here my whole life. It's not that I hate the city, I just have never known anywhere else, and have this strong desire to move as far away as possible.
Sydney and Melbourne were too damn hot...
That dude's face is all over photos and portraits inside the Wal-Mart home offices.
If you all have $1400 on it you can find a nice 3 bedroom for $4200 easy. What neighborhood are you looking for?
This is where my family is from!
Penn has the same tradition, except its finals.
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I imagine it's fairly common as absurd superstitions go. There's another one about making out under a certain archway = automatic marriage.
Dude, it has got even worse. I was back there a month or so back and they've added 80km zones on either side, one of which goes for about 4-5km. So now it is even slower!
Our art museum is pretty cool looking. The upper part actually closes during bad weather.
Skyline's okay, nothing very tall.
Miller Park with the roof open.
A big lake that you can almost never swim in because it is too damn cold. And possibly full of turds.
The Harley Davidson Museum. I should go. I should get a bike, too.
Then there's winter.
I also gis'd 'milwaukee bars' and got 1.2 million results.
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Lived here five years now & loving it.
Pics from the net because I am an incompetent photographer.
I just got stationed up in Goose Creek and I hate Charleston. Maybe I'm crazy though. I at least hate the night life.
Two things make you a Wisconsite: immunity to cold and getting pissed off at FIBs.
Lake Michigan is usually a scorching 60-65° (around 16° for anyone not using archaic means of measuring average kinetic energy). That's plenty warm. That's shorts and t-shirt temperatures. Of course, you don't swim at Bradford beach because it's a cesspool. You've got to go to less polluted places like Door County or the UP.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Here's a shot of uptown, including the theater that has been closed for a decade or so.
An old Iron mill outside of town.
The Catholic church. Also the private school I attended until high school.
The only real employer in the town is a factory where they make and package these:
Now, I live in Athens, Ohio, which is much more aesthetically pleasing and the home to Ohio University.
Here's a nice overhead shot of the city and university:
Uptown:
It's home to a fairly famous (probably just in mid and southern Ohio) block party every year for Halloween featuring much debauchery.
Some more shots of the school:
Google Earth's take on the town:
It's also the birthplace of Vermont, here, specifically:
This is the old mill, where they made some pretty big (as I recall from our visit last year) advances in firearm technology.
And this is the bridge across the Connecticut River to Cornish, NH, where J.D. Salinger lived out the end of his life.
That's really it. We're boring, but we're quiet.
This is my high school:
This is our library:
These are the statues next to my library:
This is Bullough's Pond, which legend says was named after a criminal who used the area as a hide-out:
This is norumbega tower, which was built by Vikings in 1000ce.
This is norumbega park:
It used to be a pretty big deal, as it had one of the most popular ballrooms in America during the swing era and used to be Boston's premier spot for swimming and canoeing.
We have a really tall tower:
And this one village (Newton Centre is one of seven villages of Newton) has three colleges alone:
There's more, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow.
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We'll start with probably the most impressive building in the city, Church of Our Lady.
http://www.electricscotland.com/canada/guelph/images/F11.jpg
Next we have the University of Guelph, a horribly hippie infested place. But still an awesome school, and home to (I believe) the largest residence building in North America.
This is Old Jeremiah, our cannon. It's tradition on campus to paint the cannon. It gets painted by a different group of people every single night.
This is one of our residence halls. Not the big one. I can't find an adequate picture of that.
The (clearly bustling) downtown area. And our fountain.
The house of the most famous person who lived here, John McCrae. He wrote the poem In Flanders Fields and I'm distantly related to him through marriage.
It's actually a bigger city than it seems. Just kinda generic.
And the alcoholism.
I can deal with cold air, cold snow, cold wind, etc. But jumping into a 65 degree lake and calling it a good time? Fuck that, and I've lived here for why whole life.
I love only being 2 hours away on a train from London, it's one of those places that's just got a buzz. I remember Ricky Gervais was saying that people in London and New York have more in common than with people from their own countrys who live in small towns. They are truly global citys.
That said I would only want to live their if I was rich and didn't have to work, cos fuck the tube at rush hour!