Your city or town

What is your town known for or what is the most unique thing that your town has? For instance, my town is known for their roses and a junior college drill team called the Apache Belles.

Well Twink, my city is known for it's cheesesteaks and pretzels and for the worst sports fans in the country(we can't help it that we're overly emotional-Go Eagles!). In my city you will also find Indepenpence Mall( the place where the Declaration of Independence was signed) and the Betsy Ross house and wait, I can't forget about the Liberty Bell. So Twink,if you haven't figured it out yet I live in Philadelphia aka Philly.

i dont know what my town is known for..but i do know that my city is known for its pollution ring around it.. xD Los Angeles BAby

My city is know for smiling faces and beautiful places! Not kidding this is true.

smiling faces? how scary. lol

Why?

-_- im just joking

SMILING FACES AND SHINING BRACES, THIS IS OUR TOWN, WHERE NO ONE FROWNS, AND WE DANCE AROUND, DANCE AROUND....

I don't know.

LOL Kandy! That sounds like the Twilight Zone...I like your jingle though! I have been dancin' ever since I read it!!

I think we're known for our pears here. Also our blackberries. Actually those are more statewide things...hmmm. Sadly, we're known for having a very high percentage of methamphetamine abusers here. But my city is very pretty for the most part...let's forget about the meth and just go with the pear thing...yeah. lol.

I am too embarrassed to tell you what my city is known for...
But, my state is known for water...lots and lots of water!

Star let me guess, your from Baltimore, Maryland? Maryland is surrounded by water and your embarrassed because Baltimore is known for a high STD rate. lol

Oh well, Im just trying to guess.

I wish it was as sophisticated as that, romeclone!! LOL!
All right...what's the big secret right?
I live in Minnesota (land of 10,000+ lakes). I live in a town/city whose nickname is SPAMtown! (gag me with a spoon!) I hate spam. It is that meat that isn't meat at all! Yuck! I don't know what is was about pigs that they thought they should eat every part of them...including their feet! Although they do sell the brains and tongues of cows too! Does anyone understand why? I will stick with fish and poultry!

You are right though, romeclone, STD's are on the rise everywhere! Minneapolis/St.Paul too!

well, my area is known for the FDR library and other FDR stuff (can't remember exactly what) but my city is known for the second highest crime rate in the country last year. And a mile past you see cows. What is the world coming to?

So, out of compete boredom Star, I went to someplace like minnesota.com or whatever it was, and you're so lucky to live there! dxp too! Anyway, you have neato parks and lots of lakes. lol. Of course, you already know that. But anyway, I was looking at all these pretty photographs of the city, and, I'm jealous. We have maybe 3 parks in my city. Most of them are for teenagers to roll blunts and wax poetic. lol.

Gwen, I will take a wild, completely uneducated guess and say you're from Washington, D.C? I could be way off...

Oh and about my post above...not trying to make it seem like my whole city is all about drugs or anything, just saying that there are certain areas where, if you're needing a fix of some kind, you're pretty much guaranteed to find one. lol. It's amazing, I just keep digging the whole deeper and deeper. :0)

i did a job in minneapolis like two years ago. some mall, i think it was near or around brooklyn street or something with brooklyn in it. i thought it was a beautiful area, gets pretty cold though from what the people there told me. then again anywhere i go it gets colder than florida. my area is known for old people, oranges, and tourists.

No not Washington DC (they have the highest smoking rate in the country). I'm from right by the city of Poughkeepsie (pronounced Poe-kip-see). It's upstate New York, an hour from the city. You drive along the hudson river, beautiful nature, trees and water all around, and then you enter Poughkeepsie...sirens...guns fire... crime.... prostitution... drugs transactions.... we even had our own serial murderer a few years back- he was the school janitor. Our claim to fame, other than FDR, is Vassar college an-almost IV League school.

Phoenix, you are right. Minnesota is beautiful...perhaps not all of it...but, the lake areas are without a doubt! Rochester,MN is full of parks and bike/walking paths thanks to the brothers Mayo. They donated land etc. for such things. That is so cool! I love the Mayo bros!
I live in a city 45 miles from Roch., where Hormel and Spam exist...luckily I am outside the city limits and away from the SMELL!! LOL! I will live in Roch someday...just not in the cards yet!

OMG, Gwen! That is awful about the school janitor! I hope it didn't get far before he was caught! The bastard!

Ha! We can say bastard!

I thought Vassar was Ivy League...Oh, well, shows what I know.

I thought it was IV League too... but I don't think it is. Maybe. Oh and the serial murderer didn't kill children, he just worked with them. He had mutiple body parts hidden all over the house... the kids always said he smelled a little funny.

Minnesota sounds a lot like Ontario with all the nature and parks and lakes.

Well, I now live (for 2yrs) 10 min's from the town that Billy Joel is from ~ Rare_Gem you should know this one..... 😉

Rare Gem! Where are you??!!

Huh, Gwen, Although I live fifteen minutes from Vassar, I would have said the most unique thing about my town was the amount of dear that get hit by speeding vehicles at night and early morning. Shoes how much I enjoy living here.

hmmm... Saggirl was it cold spring harbor long island?

*shows, not shoes. And I ment deer. Did anyone ever notice that deer have a negative fifty IQ? Why aren't they extinct?

Miss Post,

I grew up 60 miles north of New York City, but Salem, NY, and Pound, Ridge NY were just a stones throw away. I have been all over that state, and it is as pretty as Oregon and North Carolina too. I think my favorite town was Ithaca. That was my first adventure away from home when I was only 15. I use to take off alot and drove my parents crazy. I wasnt running from them; I wanted to see what was out there! Where you live, Gwen, you really have the best of both worlds.

Hey gwen, he was the janitor of Arlington middle school right?

We have to watch for deer all the time here too! Some of them I swear do look both ways before crossing though!! LOL! Trouble is there is usually more than one...the 2nd or 3rd one usually ends up as roadkill.

lol. We have to watch out for deer here, too, except not really in the city but outside the city limits and also in many of the surrounding cities/towns (I guess you could call them large towns or small cities). I love deer, which is totally off topic...my boyfriend's dad hit an owl once, which I guess is almost as bad as a deer when it's flying toward your windshield at a million miles an hour 😛 It died.

Where my boyfriend used to live, people would have to stop for cows all the time in the middle of the road...the cows would just stand there looking at you like, "what. what are you gonna do, huh?" lol. Sometimes they would get hit, and sometimes they would have to call special people to come out and force the cow to move, because yelling at it and honking wouldn't do anything...

That's pretty funny about the cows. All of the cows here are pretty well fenced in.

I once hit a wild turkey in a Ford pickup. The turkey was fine, but I cracked my bumper.

I've been to poughkeepsie!!!

LOL - well not really to poughkeepsie - I've stood at the train station a few times in one of the designated 12 second cigarette breaks of the new york to toronto train trip!!!

My town is known for strawberries, koalas and the stradbroke island ferry - woo-hoo!!!

Yes Suzy... and I like Woodstock and Bethel a lot!

HI GWEN,

I WAS ESCORTED OUT OF WOODSTOCK, BY THE POLICE, FOR HAVING TO MUCH FUN! THAT IS WHAT I REMEMBER. IT WAS A PRETTY LITTLE TOWN. THAT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1975. I HAVE LIFELONG FRIENDS WHO I GREW UP WITH IN BETHEL, ANOTHER BEAUTY. I LOVE ONIEONTA AND DELHI.

My favorite place in the world is New York City, and hopefully I should be moving there pretty soon! (cross your fingers)

Morganofmind ~ nope....LOL....I guess no one knows where Billy Joel grew up & still visits.....hehe....

~deer~ well you should live where I am now....LOL....we have a doe and her "doelings?"....lol...they were fawns in the spring but now are growing up...come to visit the backyard every day...we put mineral and salt licks out for them and they also eat the apples off the apple tree....one day I was cleaning the kitchen and walked inline of the side door (it's up on a 5ft deck) and had to stop and back up because I thought I "saw" something......yep I did!....LMAO!! one of the "babies" decided he wanted to see what was going on in the house and had climbed the stairs and was peeking at me through the the door!! It was hilarious!! Scared the bejeezus out of both of us...I went one way and he went flying off the deck!! 🙂 Had a stag come up one day, who started snorting and stomping against the side of the house where I had been weeding just the day before...apparently he didn't like the fact that I had been in "his" territory!! and then there were the 3 "juvenile deliquent" wild turkeys who tried to stand me off when I was trying to come off of the deck one day......The wildlife is definatly WILD around here & I LOVE IT!!.............