Post your Hometown, Pride or Hatred Thread

[ill-advised strategy]

[P_McPoser]

The other "mountains" at the foot of the valley. Don't know who the chick is. Wish I did.

Why, got a can that needs opening?

[ICEHOCEY77]

Move from Nashville, TN to Fort Mill, SC after 6th grade...you guys might know Fort Mill from these few pictures...




Go to school in Columbia, SC


Don't foresee myself living in SC much longer..

[skipast75]

Duluth was the richest town (millionaire per capita) in the early 1900s. Its filled with mansions all over the east end of town from that time. Now skyline parkway is lined with new mansions that sit 600 feet above the lake and overlook the great lake and northern wisconsin. After the economy fell in the 1970s and 80s the city has been rebuilt as a summer beach city that draws tourists form all over the world. Freezing winters are offset with hot humid summers and the spring and fall are great for surfing, biking and fishing. Catching king Salmon is always fun. The downtown area and canal park districts are blanketed with shops, pubs, nightclubs and a 6 mile long board walk. Everytime I go home I am amazed with progress that began in the 1990s. If you dropped someone off in canal park, most would have no clue they are in northern minnesota. The northshore starts here and eventually the 600 foot hills turn into 1500 foot bluffs and peaks toward canada. If you ever travel across northern midle america, this is a must stop in the summer months.
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[Snowbeaver]

grew up here:





almost done with my 4 years here:

[montanamike]

Duluth is cool. That's where I learned to ski. When the lifts shut off in Montana I head to Kodiak Island though. That place kicks ass...

[jon turner]

Grew up in Valparaiso, IN. Not a bad place as a kid, but wouldn't move back. Only thing I really miss is being so close to Chicago.

Now I live in Leadville, and as the earlier poster said, it's a pretty sweet place to live.

[schindlerpiste]

Born and raised in Short Thrills (I mean Hills), NJ. Many pretentious people. Very suburban. Close to NYC. Great H.S.
Other than the mountains, not all that different from Park City (my current "hometown").

Here are some pics:




Ms. Schindler's hometown: Rothemann: a suburb of Fulda, Germany: A great place to live.
Pics:

[ImSearchingforPowder]

Bruce Pearl


Great Smokies

Mt. Leconte

Ober Gatlinburg..OoOoOyahhh!!

[Max6721]

Born and raised in the city where it poures and rains, seattle. i live in utah for the winter, i basically live at solitude during that time. more or less.

[brice618]

I live in lubbock texas. we don't sell alcohol in the city limits, we have a horribly designed traffic system. Actually one guy just bought all the houses the poor people used to live in and destroyed them displacing the poor to an even worse part of town. And when we get a west wind it smells like cow shit.

[AfroMullet]

Ahh Cincinnati, OH. Dirty water and even dirtier streets.
A good place to get mugged, raped, or shot. I'd recommend walking through Over the Rhine with $100 bills taped to your t shirt.
DAMN did I have fun causing trouble here.

Good music, art museums and institutes, and DAMN GOOD eating.


HOLY CRAP MONTGOMERY INN@!!!!!!






Then there's the other hometown, Wilmington, Ohio.
DHL's North American base, and lots and lots and lots and lots of farms separating you from the normal world. Cool architecture from the 1800's, however. Check out Lost in Younkers...actually filmed in Wilmington.

[MOHSHSIHd]

Lived in both Holland Twp, NJ and Hopewell, NJ...now in CO.

My dad's place in Holland Twp fucking rules. 900 feet of elevation (very high for NJ) on 100 acres. Can see for almost 30 miles on clear days. Did alot of hunting and ATV/Dirt Bike riding growing up. Also have a house at Beaver Lake in Sussex County, adn you would swear it was in VT. Many many Beaver Lake residents come from CO, AZ, AK, CA, Europe, etc to spend the summers there, thats how nice it is.

My mom moved us down to Hopewell when I was 12. Very very close to Princeton, so a much different and more intellectual scene than Holland Twp. Really good public school system and scenery.

All, in all still have mad love for the Dirty Jerz....minus the shitty ass "mountains" and fucking balls hot humid summers...unless you are at the beach (my mom grew up on Ocean City, NJ so she still has a little bungalow there). Guess I am from all over jersey, and only like 5% is actually like what every assclown's stereotype of NJ is.

[iceman]

There's not a nicer town in America than Duxbury. I'm not making any claims for the people, mind you.

[GoEhuge]

Concord, MA. about 20 min outside of Boston. Small and a bit quiet, but a great place to grow up. Tons of history, lots of elderly tourists.


Main Street


2004 Red Sox banner from Parade on my parents house


Fishing with my buddies is the only reason I ever go back


I've bounced around for the past 7 years, Burlington VT, Alta, and now in Breck. Just need the mountains, and MA doesn't really step up to the plate.

[emetic]

this was taken this morning from where i live.

[mtnjam]

spent 22 years in Appleton, WI born and raised. Most mornings you could smell the paper mills down in the "flats", we used to play along the Fox River never knowing how polluted it really was.

Claim to fame:

Senator Joseph McCarthy
Rocky Blier
First hydroelectic power
Harry Houdini
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
Pierce Manufacturing - makes firetrucks for most of the world
supposedly the first indoor mall - Valley Fair

[ZomblibulaX]

My hometown is Durango, CO. Its purdy.



We're right in the middle of the mountains and the desert, so we've got lots of stuff to do. Mostly we like to burn buildings downtown so everyone can see.


In the summer it looks like this:



And in the winter it looks like this:



But. as is the case with most mountain towns, this picture pretty much sums it up:

[yooper]

This is a pretty cool thread, actually....

Marquette, Michigan. I love it. Population of only 30,000, and that includes 10,000 college students.

We have a ski area 8 miles from my house that opens in mid November and closes in mid to late April. It's only 600 feet of vertical, but it is open till ten pm every night. It will definitely keep your skills sharp for western trips.

We get lots of snow in the winter:





We have a sled dog race that starts on the main street downtown, which is pretty much the social highlight of our winter... Drunken yoopers everywhere!



Summer is unbelievably nice:



My buddy Scott and his girlfriend, Kimberly:

[powder11]

There's not a nicer town in America than Duxbury. I'm not making any claims for the people, mind you.

Caddy Shack stole these words straight off Yacht Club Lane...

Oh Porterhouse, look at the wax build up on these shoes I want that wax stripped off there, then I want them creamed and buffed with a fine chamois, and I want them now. Chop chop.

edit: I grew up in Deluxebury too...

[iceman]

edit: I grew up in Deluxebury too...

Heh, we moved from Wellesley and I was like, "Finally, no more 'Swellsley' bullshit". First friend I told we were moving said, "Oh, Deluxebury, huh?"

[SkiOrDie]

You've all seen plenty of pics of San Francisco, which we call "The City" in total disregard of folks from New York who seem to think that they're town should be called by the same name. It is now, and has been for decades, considered the #1 city that folks want to visit in the US and it is WAY TOO FULL of screwball tourists in shorts in July - don't they know it's COLD in The City in July?

Enjoy, these are from my apartment window.

Our bridge.... one of five, but the most famous



Russian Hill, my neighborhood, not much skiing. But the boys built a ski jump on Filmore Street for Johnny Mosley's birthday one year.



Over across the Bay is Marin. The dark area is the Headlands, which was a military base until the '70s. Now, it is the land of runners, hikers, and mountain bikers who break the rules by riding there. It's really sad that the mountain (Mt. Tam) upon which the mountain bike was invented now doesn't allow any bikes at all on their trails - dipshits.

[MOHSHSIHd]

I am sorry, but NYC is the one and only "The City"....

[ole2planker]

Grew up in Lewiston, New York. A great place to be from. Learned to ski at Glenwood (?), now part of Kissing Bridge.

It is a lot prettier now than it was when I left 30 years ago. (But you can't see the photo because I suck at this.)

[couloirman]

heres some steel city pride(actually, maybe shame)