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It's a small suburb, where we don't have any banks, and just one ATM.

Half of the shops have been closed down due to the council's decision to rebuild a bigger shopping mall and apartment complex.

Quite a number of residents feel this is taking away our "village atmosphere".

There is a train station, but the trains do not really run on time or often enough, and there are usually no train services during the weekends, so it's not of much use.

There are not many street lights at night, everything feels dark and quiet.

On some nights the sky outside is rather clear, and you can see quite a number of stars with your eyes. I have a telescope but have never brought it outside to try it out. I probably should, at least once.

heh heh.

I live just on the edge of my city of 62,000 (county of 210,000). One side of the city is nice, with a large soccer complex, many stores and a mall, as well as numerous parks and two bike trails. suburban, but getting close to urban.

the other side, the true 'city ,' was ranked 9th in the nation for violent crimes in 2004, and for the first quarter of the year this year was 1st, thanks to some random gunmen that shot around 20 mostly random people in a after-new-years shooting spree. several competing gangs have marked territory across the city, and the roads as well as the buildings are in a state of major disrepair.

i live approxamately in the middle of these two areas, but farther south so not as much crime in my imediate area.

lots of activity at night, hmm... not muhc more i can think of. (no, i don't live in detroit)

I live in a small town, although it's not as small as it could be. The grocery store is closeby. The traffic near the grocery store is TERRIBLE. We have a library but it's small and never has the books I want. But I love it. It's very quiet in my neighborhood, but there's a lot of dogs that bark at night, but after six years, you learn to tune them out. We live on a dirt road that every car that passes seems to enjoy making more dust than is absolutely neccessary by going faster than is absolutely neccessary.

In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit...

Just kidding.

I live in a very green, tree-filled area with a sub-tropical climate on the side of the Magaliesberg mountains. Most houses are at least 30 years old. There are many shops here, but also a big mall / thingie and a several large roads. Towards the north you can see the never-ending grasslands of the Springbokvlakte, Wonderboom Airport. To the South lies the City of Pretoria, completely obscured by the mountainrange. Whoohoo! I love this area.

I live in a nice, open city of around 200,000 people with lots of trees and greenery (for a city). I live close to downtown, and the area is covered by a somewhat random collection of buildings associated with a college (the buildings range from almost-unrenovated buildings from the early 20th century to brand-new state-of-the-art facilities). Downtown consists of a good mix of large chain stores and local businesses, the campus Union, and the State Capitol. During the school year college students are everywhere and the city is quite busy. In the summer, things get pretty quiet.

Meh, my town is boring. Our library blows, we don't have sidewalks, and we are just starting to get stores by us. I think I am a library snob though. We used to go to a Grade A library (which is the best in the country) then we decided to build our own library and we werent allowed to go to the nice one anymore. Our current library uses a golf course banquet hall.. I think. There shelves a 3/4s empty. So meh. It is nice in the summer though.

I live in a River Valley with about... hmm... maybe 25,000 on each side of the river? It's really a lovely place with evergreen trees and a nice trail that goes along the river. Right now the mountains in the valley are coated with a soft green covering of grass. There's a large forest about 20 mins away or so with great camping spots. There's also some good hiking trails around. I feel priviledged to live here, even though some find it dull.

I don't live in town in my home town. It takes me no less than 15 min. to get to town proper from where we live.
My town has about 4500 people and is shrinking (no jobs).
We live over 100 miles from the nearest city (I checked map quest).
Average age is about 43, average income (household) about $27,000, only 75% of the population 25 or older has a high school diploma, only about 17% has a bachelors degree. When it comes to higher, don't ask.
We are considered the big city snobs of our area. Truly.
We have a farm museum, river museum, state park, and nice little library (the only one in the county).
The town seems bigger than it is because it is long and narrow.
The nearest taxies are an hour away.

Our town is situated in a mountain valley in Northeastern Washington.It's right on the State line with Idaho.We have a river that runs through it.The river is called
the Pend Orielle river.(Pond Ore Lay).We are about 45 miles northeast of Spokane and 300 some miles east of Seattle and 300 some miles south of Calgary.Our girls
team won the State A in Basketball several years ago.
Some of the churches in town include:
*Southern Baptist
*Baptist
*UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST(guess which is my home church lol!!:))
*Catholic Church
*American Lutheran Church

The town I grew up in is made up of 3000 people. (Funny fact, for the last census, they had to count the prisoners at the local 'honor camp' so that the population wouldn't go down from the previous census, lol). We used to have two stoplights, but now only have one. The town is pretty western, being in Wyoming and all (well, duh, Sara. *pokes self*); we have a rodeo arena and a couple feed and tack stores. 4H and FFA are both really big. (I was in 4H for 10 years).

There's never anything to do, as there is nothing in the town. The theater gets movies in really, really late (sometimes as late as three months after the release). The library is decent, though.

The nearest big city is well over an hour and a half to two hours away. (hehe, we measure distance in time-to-get-there, rather than miles, where I'm from.)

The people are very opinionated in my home town. e.g. One of the churches went through two splits within 5 years. School, especially sports, was never any fun, as name politics are very big. Even fairly talented kids wouldn't get play time for team sports if they didn't have the right name. *shakes fist*

Claims to Fame (XD):
We have an oil refinery that had missiles targeting it in Russia during the Cold War, since it supplies jet fuel to the nearby air base, the largest in the mid-west (supposedly).
We had an infamous lynching back in 1903: hanging of Diamond L. Slim.

My town is awesome. Every store you can think of and the mall is only 5-15 minutes away. (Of course, it's right next to Houston, so it's pretty highly populated.) The difference though is that it's a lot cleaner than much of Houston.

My town is a Chicago suburb of 50,000 people, nicknamed church-town by inhabitants. We seriously have a church on every street corner. On one block there are 4 churches side by side by side by side. I believe we hold the record for most churches per capita. Our public library was rated in the top ten a few years ago (but their graphic novel section stinks...)
There are two high schools in my town, (North and South....I go to north) so we have a great cross town rivalry going. My freshman year the day of the North V. South football game some seniors made a fake edition of South's school Newspaper and distributed it at their school, and it was all about why North was better.

The only thing I don't like about my town is that there is no bookstore. I need to go like 15 minutes away to get to the nearest bookstore...

I live in a bit of a busy town, I guess. There's a riverboat about 5 minutes away from my house, but I'm not saying that to brag. It's more of a complaint. There are Mexican stores everywhere. Most of the good stores are 10-15 minutes away (the mall, nice restaurants). There are schools and churches all over.

Thus far, it seems Bigsleepj and Syreth live in the most intriguing locales (to me).

Due to being in college, I suppose I have two "towns" to describe. The less exciting one to describe is where I'm at in college. I live on the hillside behind the mall (INCREDIBLY CONVENIENT). My "town" is basically a bustling shopping exit right off the interstate, but it's peaceful at the same time, with low crime.

My hometown is much more "homey," though. It's a very small town, built around old railroads. Main street runs along a river and opposite to an old train station that is now a community center. Farther from the center of town is where we live, nestled back against a forested mountain. An abandoned railroad runs right next to our house (on a plateau of sorts), and the railroad runs to a rushing river below a broken bridge in one direction and back through the woods to a tunnel in the other direction. That railroad makes it home to me. Without that, it wouldn't be home. I want an abandoned railroad in the woods when I get to Heaven.

Rogie wrote:Thus far, it seems Bigsleepj and Syreth live in the most intriguing locales (to me).

Except those nice green moutains I was telling you about -- well, the greener they get, the more stuff is liable to burn in the summer.
It looks great now, though! XD

I live in sort of a small Western town in Washington state, that's about an hour and half drive north of Seattle and at least just far South of Vancouver, B.C. It was founded over a hundred years ago. We have this little one-screen movie theatre that's been there since like the silent film days. We have a decent enough number of churches, restaurants, fast food joints, supermarkets, gas stations, banks, convenience stores, real estate offices, etc., but nothing big like a Wal-Mart or Target or Barnes and Noble or Borders, and certainly no mall.
According to Wikipedia, we have a population of 11, 713 as of the 2000 census, and are, unlike most small towns, an enployment center with approximately 2.2 jobs per household,

A boring town in North Texas. Most of the people here are narrow minded, the letters to the editor in the paper are crazy; they're weritten by the same people all the time about the same thing they wrote about last time. Oh and the paper sucks, our school paper in high school had better reporting. There are three high schools. 2 of which (according to the local news, which is barely better than the paper in their unbiased views, Ha!) have the second largest football rivalry in the state. We're starting to get fairly decent concerts here since we got a rock station a few years ago. It's not just country anymore. The concerts are held at the Coliseum which is named after the mayor who got beaten by an old farmer dude who ran because his land was annexed into city limits. She demanded a recount, of course. Every Air Force person comes here for their second part of training. I forget what it's called. That's about it, I guess.

I live in the capital city of my state, which is where about 75% of the state's population lives. It has all the stuff you'd expect from a city of 1.1 million.

As for my suburb, it's a residential suburb, with some areas being relatively old (20-30 years), and also a number a new housing areas. It's about 30 minutes' drive to the city centre, and 10 minutes' drive to the largest shopping centre in the state. We have 7 primary schools, one high school, about 8 churches, 2 main shopping centres (and probably three micro-shopping centres). Fast food places have only arrived in the last five years. The roads aren't very busy, and the only traffic lights we have are pedestrian crossings. It's situated just on the edge of a (gently-sloped) mountain range.

Where I live, a 3 Bed 2 Bath can go for $490-580k.