What does your home town have a lot of?...
Vancouver = Sushi restaurants.
There's literally one on every corner it seems. The main drag up from me has 3 or 4 in a 3 or 4 block radius and that's not unusual. Most are run by Chinese of course, the city is about 20% or more Asian but the Japanese population isn't actually all that large.
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here!
Sushi? Not so much! 
More than you can shake a tortilla at. But Houston is an international city and we have a wide variety. The only thing we need is Japadogs and Tim Horton's
it's a college town. It just made the list for top party school. So proud. 
trees?? ...maple syrup... loons... tourists, right now... snow in a few months (or maybe weeks 
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As the son of two IU grads, I take umbrage!
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I left in 1965 with my parents when they moved to Toronto.
Spend many days on the shores of Lake Ontario,
and swimming off the pier pictured below,
just a 10 minute bike ride from my old/first home.
Wintertime we would slide down the ice/snow that collected around the edges.
We were 4 kids within 3 years of each other,
All of us loved the outdoors.
Still do.
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I love regular Naan, didn't know of onion Naan, nom nom nom 
And yes good Kimchee is very good.
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Lots of musicians, artists, college students, LGBT and liberal folks -- I think of it like
West Berlin before the wall came down -- a big lake of Blue surrounded by an
endless expanse of Red desert.
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We're about to have a massive influx of snowbirds -- folks who just winter here.
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Now, growing up in Jackson, Michigan (1960's-70's 50,000 people, now about
35,000), the biggest thing we had were the Cascades -- I believe the highest
manmade waterfall in the country at the time. Beautiful lighting and every
night after the sun went down the local symphony orchestra would put on a
free concert -- synchronizing the color changes of the different levels and
sprays with the music. VERY cool.
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The backside of that hill had an official Soapbox Derby track (never entered,
but we made a LOT of dangerous, rickety and EXCITING Spanky & Our Gang
"cars" out of 2x4's and orange crates and tricycle or baby carriage wheels.)
Our moms would have FREAKED if they had seen us careening down that
hill, sometimes losing a wheel and skidding off into the big oaks and firs.
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The side of the hill -- right next to the falls was called Devil's Dip -- as it
followed the dropping of the falls themselves. We ruined many a toboggan
running headlong into the trees on the sides of the narrow pathways.
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During the day, we used to race each other to see who could climb the
concrete "steps" of the falls themselves the fastest.
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"The Cascades" ...loved to see the lights play there when a kid
Lol does indeed look low quality.
the nearby town "power structure" has a lot of desire for growth no matter the actual cost. that was one good thing about the economic collapse. holding steady at 3 stoplights and one walmart for now
If there were a Grand Theft Auto: San Jose, you'd pass one about every fifteen seconds.
That and box stores. 
They have big freaking calf and upper leg muscles.
Heh..
Just kidding. (TAXI!!!)
just to avoid taxis and lots of hill climbing
I could rent but I could never own. I would have to move way out east of SF to own anything.
Lucky you
Field workers, packing house workers, refrigeration mechanics... Every other person in our city works in some job connected to agriculture.
There are many Mexican restaurants too, everywhere. Push carts and folding chairs, catering trucks, small little places with a few seats, and bigger places with dozens of tables. And most of them are very good.
My favorite story: I was walking along when a tourist family driving a nice car stopped and asked me where a Mexican Restaurant was. I was sort of dumbfounded because I could see a few from where I was standing, and they must have seen a few more just driving along. Then they said, "You know, like a Chili's..."
I think they stopped and asked me because I was the only white guy around.
I directed them to the shopping center on the other side of the freeway, the one with the Outback Steakhouse, Chili's, and other chain restaurants.
It has grown a lot since I lived there as a child (population now in five digits!!), but most people have still never heard of it except for a vague reference or two in adventure novels or detailed Civil War stories that take place in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.
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coffee shops. I found out today we are now going to have 6th coffee house. I joke today that we are becoming the Seattle of the East. 
Some of the strollers here are more expensive than the dogs. 
I live in the Del Ray area of Alexandria, Virginia.
