Your city/hometown

[Kimmyt]

My hometown where I was born was supposedly the place that Ben Franklin flew his little kite thinger?

I don't know much about the town I live in now, but the next town over and the town that I really really wanna live in, is the town where The Blob was filmed! The theater in the movie that everyone runs screaming out of is the still in operation and every summer they have a Blobfest where theres a parade and people dress up as characters and then they load people into the theater and watch the film and re-enact the running-from-the-theater scene. I'm totally gonna go this year.

K.

Also: I saw Rabbit Proof Fence and OMG was that the saddest movie ever...

[AllezGirl]

Curious about missouri for some reason...)

I grew up in Camdenton, Missouri. There really isn't much to brag about, but it is on the RAAM route and the people are extremely friendly. That's the aspect that I miss the most about the Mid-West.

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I have lived in Phoenixville, PA for the about 10 years (yup, home of the blobfest!)...I love it here!

[SJCzar]

Hometown : Milwaukee, WI

Everyone thinks beer, brats, and Friday Fish Fry when discussing Milwaukee but there really is a lot more.

We are also known as the City of Festivals. We have a beautiful lakefront area which hosts a different ethic festival every weekend of the summer.

Our main festival, Summerfest, which runs for ten days from the end of June into July is really worth coming to town for. There are multiple stages with all different types of music going on all day. It really attracts some great acts. A few years ago Billboard Magazine even rated it as the best music festival in the country.

We also have a first class zoo and excellent museums. Our art museum got a fabulous makeover with an new addition designed by Santiago Calatrava.

[caligurl]

i was born and raised in herkimer, ny.... in the mohawk river valley of upstate new york.... right smack in the middle of the state!

herkimer was named after a revolutionary war general.... his home is still a popular place to visit on the mohawk river/barge canal..... the whole area is rich in history.... a lot of people don't realize that upstate NY has a lot of agriculture and dairy farming... most people think of NYC when you mention NY (hubby fell in love with the area when he visited.. all the older colonial homes.... the green grass... trees.... cows.... far from what he stereotypical pictured for "new york") even though we lived in the middle of town, we was fortunate that our grandparents had a small "hobby" farm with a few cows.... my sister and i would spend our younger summers at their house during the day... playing in the hay barn... in the neighbors corn fields... with the cows! (one of my most traumatic memories was walking through the middle of a neighboring barn and a cow with runny poop splattering ALL over me! UGH! yes... i was a priss even back then and that was VERY traumatic! another traumatic memory.... when i found out that one of the little cows had actually been purchasefd for and meat! i NEVER ate ANY of it! if my mom was cooking that meat.... i got to eat spaghettios.... i look back now and wonder how i would have known the difference?????? but she appeased me for some reason and didn't make me eat it!)

we are "famous" for herkimer diamonds..

we are close to remington guns (in ilion... where my mom grew up) and utica.... which, of course had the fx matt brewery.... home of utica club beer *rolls eyes* and the boilermaker race.....cooperstown and the baseball hall of fame is also just a short drive away... all in all... a nice area to grow up in and to be able to go back and visit!

oh... we're also an exit on the new york state thruway! lol!

[Popoki_Nui]

Hometown: Victoria BC
http://www.tourismvictoria.com/

Originally a Hudson's Bay Company trading outpost and Gold Rush staging point in the 1800's, Victoria was built largely by Chinese and Kanaka labourers and ruled by the British. Today Greater Victoria is the capital of British Columbia and a city of 350,000 laid-back, slightly off-centre folks, most of whom have ended up here on the island to escape from the harsh climate in the rest of Canada, as well as ex-pats and wanderers from all over the world.
Some of our most notable events are the Swiftsure and Victoria-to-Maui yacht races, Tall Ship Festival, FolkFest...a celebration of multiculturalism, and the Victoria Cycling Festival (yay! )
Hope you can visit sometime!

[bikerchick68]

Popoki... also the Gardens! I love Buschart Gardens (sp?)... and Stanley Gardens in Vancouver... as well as Capilano Suspension Bridge... Victoria and Vancouver are both just gorgeous!

[Popoki_Nui]

Popoki... also the Gardens! I love Buschart Gardens (sp?)... and Stanley Gardens in Vancouver... as well as Capilano Suspension Bridge... Victoria and Vancouver are both just gorgeous!

...bikerchick...did you actually cross the Capilano Susupension Bridge?? Wow...you're made of stronger stuff than me. I made it about ten feet before freaking out...I just can't deal with the height!
D'oh...I forgot about the Buchart Gardens! Pretty spectacular, for sure. Did you visit in summer with the fireworks? This past winter they put in a refrigerated outdoor skating rink...now we can ice skate among the palms and cedars. Bizarre but neat

[jobob]

Hometown: Victoria BC
Today Greater Victoria is the capital of British Columbia and a city of 350,000 laid-back, slightly off-centre folks, most of whom have ended up here on the island to escape from the harsh climate in the rest of Canada, as well as ex-pats and wanderers from all over the world.

PN, you lucky girl, I adore Victoria ! Hubby and I spent a few days there early June last year, on our cycling tour. It's a fabulous area for cycling. One day we rode around the perimeter of the Saanich Peninsula, with great roads and gorgeous scenery (and some of those homes - wow). Another day we rode out to Butchart Gardens - that hill you have to climb on the way out sure is fun, oy! - and the Butterfly Museum. It's such a cycling-friendly environment, with lots of urban bike trails. We stayed close to downtown and we had no trouble cycling through the city. I need to go back there !

[LittleBlackDuck]

Here'e the second Aussie contribution to this thread ....

For the past 10 years I've been living in the coastal tourist town of Busselton in the state of Western Australia. It's about a 2 1/2 hour drive south of where CrazyCanuck lives (I grew up in Tuart Hill Canuck )

Busso, as us locals call it, is famous for having the longest timber jetty in the southern hemisphere. As you can see, it also has a glorious white sandy beach and calm, crystal clear ocean. The four boatsheds that you can see in the photo house the interpretive centre and for those that don't want to walk, or can't walk, the small dinky train takes you to the end of of the jetty.



The jetty is almost 2 km long (about 1.2 miles) and at the end of it is an underwater observatory.



The observatory is a chamber that takes you 8 metres below the surface of the water and has about 3 levels and 11 viewing windows allowing you to see the unbelievably beautiful coloured corals that habitate the pylons of the jetty.



I haven't been inside the observatory but have scuba dived under the jetty and the marine life just took my breath away .

Oh.... and Busselton is host of IronmanWA (Ironman Western Australia) .

[Popoki_Nui]

PN, you lucky girl, I adore Victoria ! Another day we rode out to Butchart Gardens - that hill you have to climb on the way out sure is fun, oy! - and the Butterfly Museum. It's such a cycling-friendly environment, with lots of urban bike trails. We stayed close to downtown and we had no trouble cycling through the city. I need to go back there !

I hope you do come back! We'd love to have you Yeah...we have a 'few' hills here. Personally, I'm allergic to hills. It is a cycle-friendly area though...so bring your bikes when you come!

~S.