What do you LOVE about your city/town?

[yvr girl]

It is a perfect day in Vancouver - bright and sunny with a temp of about 53F. This is my idea of winter. I also love that it is green here all year round. We don't have to wait for spring to have green grass and trees. I can see the mountains from my living room, and I'm only minutes from the beach.

[RetroLounge]

1. Milwaukee? Not a damn thing...

I'm coming to Vancouver...

RL

[Texasgal]

2. Come to Austin...

The music capitol of the world!!!

[yvr girl]

3. Not that I don't like that idea...

There must be something you like...

Or are you just having a bad day? :hug:

[RetroLounge]

28. I like the fact that I'm not from here...

:hi:

RL

[jane_pippin]

10. I'm glad it's not just me.

I'm due for a change of scenery. Other than the friends I have here, there's not much in this town I'm excited about.

[RetroLounge]

27. If not for the kids, I'd be off to Seattle or somewhere...

RL

[jane_pippin]

38. Aw, Retro.

I'm sorry. :hug:

I'm trying to escape to San Francisco, but who knows if that's going to happen. Maybe we'll feel better about the joint when summer comes back.

[RetroLounge]

44. I'll probably feel better about it after I move out

in 2 weeks...

RL

[yvr girl]

41. Mmm...Seattle

Perhaps everyone would like a change of scenery.

[Magrittes Pipe]

29. Try moving to Cleveland.

You'll cry just THINKING about the Riverwest pub crawl or Brady Street Pharmacy or Farwell Music or Gus Fucking Gnorski for the love of God, I MISS GUS GNORSKI!!! :cry:

Not to mention the fact that Milwaukee has RIDICULOUSLY good dining for a city its size.

[jane_pippin]

37. Haha! Gus Gnorski! I forgot about that guy.

I know there are great things here. I shouldn't be so down on it. I have good friends, there are good shows to see, good bookstores and libraries, free brewery tours, and the people are pretty hilarious.

I love being from here. I've just been here all my life and I need a change for a while.

And I'm sorry you have to live in a Gus-Free Zone.

Look. He misses you too:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. It doesn't have a Wal-Mart

Other than that...

:dilemma:





:shrug:

[yvr girl]

5. Vancouver proper doesn't have one either

Our city council won't let them in. (We do have them in the burbs.)

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Why did I think you lived in Saskatchewan

or Manitoba? :shrug:









Should I :hide: ?

[yvr girl]

13. You might have me confused with GirlinContempt

She lives in Manitoba.

[no name no slogan]

19. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nunavuut

It's all pretty much the same once you get north of the 49th parallel, isn't it?

:popcorn:

[yvr girl]

21. Not so much

I love popcorn.

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. I could never, ever confuse you

with anybody.



That makes two hamina-hamina-hamina women I know in Vancouver.

O, Canada, our home and native land...

Startin' to sound even better. :thumbsup:

[begin_within]

6. The climate is the only good thing about San Diego.

[huskerlaw]

7. It's February 10

and I'm going to the beach tonight. As I have for the past 2 Friday nights. Because it's serene, it's gorgeous...and just because I can. :)

[doc03]

8. That it's not either one!

[taught_me_patience]

9. 80 degrees today

Great Jobs
Hot women
Fun Nightlife
Tons of outdoor activities
Ethnic Diversity
LIBERAL


Los Angeles, CA

[Pale Blue Dot]

11. Our town Democratic committee's official censure of Lieberman last month.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=35765&mesg_id=35765

Plus: Lieberman Lapdog Act Not Playing Well

:woohoo:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. What do I love about Manhattan Beach?

Lots of things.....the nearness of the ocean, the views of the local mountains....the weather....the politics......

Similar to what you have in Vancouver, my dear yvr girl.....

:loveya: :hug:

[GOPisEvil]

15. Great live music, no harsh winters, lots of liberals.

:)

[Rowdyboy]

16. Bunch of movies made here because the town square looks like 1920....

"O' Brother, where art thou"
"A Time to Kill"
"My dog Skip"
"The Ponder Heart" (Masterpiece Theater version of Eudora Welty)
and
"Thieves like us"

I was an extra in "O, Brother" and "Ponder Heart"

Currently, a director named Lance Hammer is filming "Ballast" in town

http://tdb.berlinale-talentcampus.de/tdb/index.php/profile?tid=20043572

[Maddy McCall]

17. That I can drive down my driveway and see deer playing in the field.

Saw three day before yesterday. An old buck trying to fend off a young buck from a doe...must be rut. Anyway, they went on and on for about 30 minutes. It was fun to watch.

[BlueJazz]

18. St. Petersburg..Warm and a Newspaper* that (pretty Much) tells the .....

..Repugs to go Fuck themselves. :applause:

*St. Petersburg Times

[leftofthedial]

20. it's where my daughters live

[miss_american_pie]

22. It's a union town

The rivers, the hills, the inclines, winter.

[KamaAina]

23. It hasn't snowed here since... since...

uh, since records have been kept, anyway. Who knows what the weather out here was like during the last Ice Age?

Plus, you get to see mountains and the ocean in the same place, you've got about fifteen different kinds of ethnic food, and there are few enough killings, arsons, etc. that something like a missing hiker can dominate the headlines for days. (It doesn't have to be a cute, blonde one, either. :P )

[ZombieNixon]

24. The Italian Village - 71 W. Monroe, Chicago, IL!!

Mmmmmmmm! YUM!

[Digit]

25. Raleigh has nice weather, although LOVE is too strong of a word

I have lived in San Diego also, but missed having four seasons and hated the threat of earthquakes and firestorms.

[mdmc]

26. the river!

Newburgh is on the western bank of the Hudson. Around the bend from West Point, sixty miles north of ground zero...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. A great system of lakes and parks, and the fact that city elections are

always contests between Democrats and Greens, plus a great theater scene.



I live just a few blocks from where this picture was taken (Lake Harriet)



And this picture shows the other lakes in the so-called chain of lakes, the big one being Lake Calhoun, and the ones to the north being (left to right) Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles.

[musical_soul]

31. What I love.

I love that it has a lot more of things that I didn't have when I lived in smaller towns.

[musical_soul]

32. Also love that my city is blue.

That's a comfort in a red country.

[Aristus]

33. Puyallup Public Library, fronting onto Pioneer Park.

They give my city a nice old-timey small-town feel.

[LeftyMom]

34. The rivers are beautiful

and we have huge pretty trees everywhere (well except the burbs, but I'm not really a tract house kind of girl so they barely count IMO.)

[swag]

35. The glory holes.

[u4ic]

36. The library system

It's really top notch, an incredible catalogue, and very progressive books and documetaries.

The River Valley area is lovely, too. There are some incredible trails right in the heart of the city. Too bad this shot is from late fall, and most of the leaves are gone.

[Broken_Hero]

39. I miss everything....

I'm from Ketchikan, Alaska...I miss the rain, the rain, the snow and ice, and the ocean, and the rain, and the rain!...:) I miss my family, my friends....i miss a whole bunch. SW Missouri BLOWS!!!!

[Omphaloskepsis]

42. Bike-friendly..

I can get anywhere in town without driving..

[Inspired]

43. Des Moines...visiting politicians

I swear there is a presidential hopeful or two here every day. Interesting if you want to really get to know the candidates.

We don't have an ocean, mountains or anything visually stunning but we do host the Iowa State Fair.