Hey DUers: Post a pic of the city you live in!!!

[SmileyBoy]

I've been hanging out around the skyscraperpage.com forums looking at photos of cities around the world, and I thought I might ask DUers to post the pics of the cities they're currently living in. It might be interesting to see pics of cities than the ones I've already seen on the internet.

So here's my native home, and current residence: Fargo, North Dakota. Population 102,000. This pic was taken in 2001 during a minor flood. (Don't mind the swollen river, something like that happens here every 5 years or so. It's a common occurrence.)

[zbird]

1. Here's a picture of lovely downtown Three Oaks, MI.

My current town of residence, population about 2000, conservative hell. One stop light in the center of town. "Prancer" was filmed here (before I moved here). It was quite the culture shock after living in Cincinnati for 12 years. My apartment complex had more residents than this town has!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. hope this shows up...my house is just beyond the trees across the lake

population oh about 75 for 100 square miles...this is colgate lake in the Northern Catskill Mountains...elavation 2,700 ft...actually my backyard...general store/post office 1 mile up the road that's all there is in downtown East Jewett, NY...nearest traffic light is 20 miles away

[NightTrain]

8. Hartford, Connecticut

[Wcross]

26. Beautiful!

I am in a similar location in Tennessee- nearest post office is 8 miles, I can't even see a neighbor and I love it to death!

[dutchdemocrat]

3. Groningen, Netherlands

Founded in 1150 AD.



Map from 1625



Groningen is a cultural and commercial center in the northern region of The Netherlands (Holland). This city of over 170,000 people was founded over 950 years ago. Just two and a half hours by train from Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and about three hours by train from Hamburg, Germany, Groningen is a center of culture, education and science. The city has several theatres, museums, art galleries and bookshops, specializing in all European languages. Groningen is a University city (University of Groningen founded in 1615): the presence of its faculty and students can be felt in all aspects of city life. This gives the city a special and particularly youthful character.

Bike capital of Netherlands


The surrounding countryside offers many sights within easy reach: woods and meadows to the south, the Frisian lakes (for sailing and surfing) to the west, the sea, the islands and dunes of the Wadden tidal flats, and the unique wetlands to the north.

[SmileyBoy]

4. Damn, that's a beautiful town...

Bet I could find some quality hash there, eh???:smoke::smoke::smoke:

[dutchdemocrat]

23. Delivered by bike

If you want. Dial a Dope.

Dude brings it to your door.

[bubblesby2002]

29. Oh My GOD!!!!

I'm moving there :smoke:

[Whitacre D_WI]

20. Groningen Rocks!

http://www.grunnenrocks.nl/

The website above is like Mecca for trash-rock hounds such as myself.

So... do you know Evert? ;)

[dutchdemocrat]

21. No... I don't know him.

But will email him.

We both have communities online run out same city.

Cool site!

[Robb]

5. Here ya go!

Here's what it looks like right now!






















(it's snowing and blowing, total white-out. I can't see across the street!) ;)

[proud patriot]

6. snarf

;-)

[SmileyBoy]

7. We're in a whiteout over here as well.

A foot of snow expected by tomorrow morning.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. New Freakin York`

for one.

[SmileyBoy]

10. Nothin' like it in the world.

Awesome place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

BTW, I love your sig line!!!

[Kellanved]

11. ok

from http://www.atpm.com/7.11/berlin/



A few years ago:


today:



It's darker, colder and with a lot of snow right now ;-) .


Panoramas:
http://www.berlin.de/stadttouren/en/panorama.html

One from my neighbourhood:
http://www.berlin.de/stadttouren/en/przl_b.html


Berlin has 3.5 million citizens, more bars than any other city in Europe, no legal closing hour for those bars and covers an area larger than NYC.

[SmileyBoy]

14. Berlin looks nicer now after the wall came down, I guess.

Hey Kellanved, did you live in West or East Berlin???

[Kellanved]

16. I live in the east

I moved to Berlin to attend the Technical University; I didn't grow up in the city. However it's hard not to fall in love with it :loveya:.

[citizen snips]

12. Raleigh, North Carolina.

[elperromagico]

13. Hot Springs, AR

Here's a nice view from Central Avenue:

[ChoralScholar]

32. cool pic

my father met my mother in the building in the background

[1monster]

15. St. Augustine, Florida

One of the most beautiful cities in the US and these are the only picts I can find on the web that will transfer here... :eyes:

[citizen snips]

17. St. Augustine is a nice city.

I go there every year.

[JohnLocke]

34. Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

[HEyHEY]

18. My cherished Vancouver

Yeah so I don't live there now, I couldn't find any pics of this little town...but Damnit Vancouver will always be home.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

19. Morgantown, WV...

here ya go!



Couldn't find any good pics of my hometown, Elkins, but here's an old painted picture.



Things look a little different in the ol' hometown now.

Foamdad

[SOteric]

22. Seattle

[Cleita]

24. This is it, my little village.

[Bertha Venation]

36. Damn. So homesick.

:cry:

[Jack Rabbit]

25. I live near and work in Sacramento

Photo from Wikipedia

[Bertha Venation]

30. Homesick.

Maybe someday I'll be able to see images of my home state without aching with homesickness. Having moved away just over three years ago, I have a feeling it'll be a long time yet.

Nice image of the state capitol.

[PhishWithLemon99]

27. Harrisburg, PA

Harrisburg is home to the tallest buildings in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. For a reference, the green dome of the PA Capitol is about 25 stories high. The city, located on the mile-wide Susquehanna River, is 11 square miles, has a residential population of 49,000, and a working population of 150,000. The Harrisburg metro area stretches about 35 miles west to east, from Carlisle to Hershey, and is home to 500,000 people.

[Cannikin]

28. For what its worth.....Little Rock, Arkansas.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/460492/M/

[ChoralScholar]

31. Russellville, Arkansas

Home of Arkansas Tech University - from which I will graduate in May!

[GOPisEvil]

33. Austin all lit up!

[sonias]

53. Hey GOPisEvil let's add a pic of the newest member

of the Austin skyline family - The Frost Bank tower, which I think is totally cool.



Sonia

[corporatewhore]

63. DOnt you know its a pagan owl god?

according to alex jones it was made in the image of a pagan owl god that is used as a symbol in an occult secret society that dubya is a part of that is called the bohemian grove society

[Bertha Venation]

35. best I can find from Waldorf, Charles County, Maryland

This church, St. Paul's Episcopal, is about a mile and a half from my house. It was established in 1754 and the current church building was built in 1833.



Waldorf is also the home of the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Home -- the doctor to whom John Wilkes Booth fled with a broken leg after the actor murdered President Lincoln. This home & museum is about five miles from my house.



If I had any handy, I'd post photos of my favorite spot: a little pond next to the church, where ducks of many varieties, white geese, Canadian geese, little pond turtles, and magnificent blue herons hang out. The pond is frozen over right now, and the other day Mrs. V. & I saw a goose land on the ice and skid about half the length of the pond.

Although it's vastly different from life on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, I like living out here.

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Detroit, Michigan...and it's not usually this pretty...

[Bertha Venation]

38. and a couple of photos of my hometown, Huntington Beach, CA

Bolsa Chica State Beach



Huntington City Beach -- The Surfer



Huntington Beach Pier



This thread makes me wish I'd scanned some of my own photos of home. They mean much more to me than these. I have some great photos of the pier before the end third was torn off by a storm -- the one shown above is the pier as rebuilt in the '90s.

[Flaxbee]

44. I spent 4 years growing up in San Juan Capistrano...

then the rest of my life thru high school in Redlands, then went to San Diego for undergrad and LA for grad, now I'm out in the boonies in Virginia. Sometimes I just ache to see the Pacific, I really do miss it, though I don't miss the congestion of SoCal... I remember SJC, Newport Beach, San Clemente, Dana Point, all still semi-rural with orange trees and open fields. Now it's all McMansions and highways; I love to go back but I miss what SOuthern Cal. used to be, not what it has become. Sigh.

[Bertha Venation]

45. "I miss what Southern Cal. used to be, not what it has become."

Hear, hear. I remember orange groves. I remember oil fields. McMansions have taken over both -- and believe it or not I'd rather see the oil fields, just as I'd rather see the orange groves.

And what they have done to downtown Huntington Beach is downright criminal.

Still, it is my hometown, and I miss it. Desperately.

[Flaxbee]

52. Yup, me too. I miss L.A./Santa Monica every day

... I miss La Jolla where I worked my way through college, I miss Dana Point and San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano. Redlands used to be the orange capitol of the country, over and above Florida and springtime was just heavenly (if you like the smell of orange blossoms).

Virginia is a pretty state, but there really is no place like home, nothing that makes me more nostalgic, or makes me feel more free, somehow, than a whiff of ocean breeze or warm evenings with honeysuckle still on the air. I'm gonna start to cry. Wah!

[Cleita]

59. I feel the same way.

I had no problem leaving Santa Monica because it had changed over the years into a place I hardly recognized as the city I fell in love with.

[foreigncorrespondent]

39. Melbourne, Australia

Rialto Towers:



The MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) Built for the '56 olympics:



The CBD (Central Business District) and Yarra River:



Flinders Street Station:



Philip Island Penguin Paraade (Ask Sappho about that):



The Tweleve Apostiles:



Lots more to see and do here, but I can't show you everything. ;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. Oooooooo, pretty.

:hi:

[Bertha Venation]

41. I want to go to Melbourne.

I especially want to see those rocks on the shore. Wow.

Someday... when I can afford to take a ship. Don't like to fly.

Thanks for posting these pics, FC.

[foreigncorrespondent]

42. Well, when you come to Melbourne...

...let me know. I will be honored to show you and Mrs V. around.

[Bertha Venation]

46. The honor will be ours --

and allow us to return the favor if you've ever occasion to visit Washington, DC.

[name not needed]

43. bridgewater, nj

this is just one section- its a lot bigger

[MacCovern]

47. One of the best skylines in the USA.

Here's a pic of my hometown Pittsburgh. I live in Atlanta now, but
Pittsburgh will always be my town no matter where I am. Actually, Pittsburgh has one of the best skylines in the world.

[Bertha Venation]

48. dang, that's beautiful.

Who knew? Not me.

[ulysses]

68. Atlanta's got a nice skyline too.

:hi: from east of Decatur...

[prolesunited]

49. Here's some of Chicago

I shot these myself.



























MORE
http://homepage.mac.com/prolesunited/Through_My_Eyes/PhotoAlbum10.html
http://homepage.mac.com/prolesunited/Through_My_Eyes/PhotoAlbum32.html
http://homepage.mac.com/prolesunited/Through_My_Eyes/PhotoAlbum43.html

[mdmc]

50. Newburgh, NY

[baldguy]

51. Buffalo, The Queen City of the Great Lakes

Entering from the east:




At night from Lake Erie:




From the waterfront:




I work in the building on the left:

[creativelcro]

54. My city...

[AlFrankenFan]

55. Laguna Niguel, CA

[Bertha Venation]

69. Lucky son of a gun.

:harrumph:
;)

[AlFrankenFan]

77. it ain't the best place to live...

...but that's just me. Too many conservatives.

I'd rather be back in Colorado or Virginia.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

56. What you talking about,. man? I'm talking about...

(Brownie points for whoever gets the song reference)

[babzilla]

57. you're from Fargo? Cool.

the maternal side of my family is from Minot.

Here's a pic of where I live, and the ferry I ride to work.

[markses]

58. Brooklyn

[alwynsw]

60. I can't. I live on a farm.

Y'all can keep your cities and towns.

Not speaking from ignorance. Lived in Boston, D.C. burbs (Tysons Corners) and Phoenix.

I'll take the farm any old day.

eddited for spellin

[Bundbuster]

61. Denver

Full moon over downtown



Botanic Gardens



Washington Park

[otohara]

72. Ahhh...Denver

the pic of the Botanic Gardens is lovely -

[hellhathnofury]

62. Pasadena, CA

City Hall, built 1926.



Buildings in Old Town Pasadena, which is a regional center of restaurants and nightlife.



On Raymond, just south of Green Street, is the Moorish Castle Green, a relic of the golden age of Pasadena, when rich easterners would come west for the winter on the new Southern Pacific Railroad. The railroad (you will cross it in a moment) is now closed, soon to be reborn as a Light Rail route.



CalTech



JPL



The Rose Bowl



I like my city, despite the blatant racism in education and housing.

[corporatewhore]

64. Best and worst in austin from swimmin holes to tacos to owl gods

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=683254&mesg_id=683822&page=

[electricmonk]

65. Couple of my town

Sunrise from my porch 1/17/04


From the Blue Ridge Parkway looking north.


From a friends porch


From Mill Mt

[Samurai_Writer]

66. This is Fort Pierce, FL...

from the Atlantic ocean, looking over South and North Hutchinson Island towards the Intracoastal waterway and downtown Fort Pierce.

[JohnLocke]

67. I live in the Gardens. Funny, eh?

[LWolf]

70. Beautiful, isn't it?

[Amaya]

71. Canton, Connecticut

It's all brown and cold now. But isn't it purty in the spring and fall! :D

[Bridget Burke]

73. Famous sights of Houston:

The Beer Can House:



The Orange Show:



The Art Car Museum:



Ninfa's on Navigation (with the Late Mama Ninfa):

[Samurai_Writer]

74. Lived in Houston 26 years...

moved to Florida 2 years ago. Been to all those famous Houston landmarks. Damn do I miss Ninfa's... there is no decent Mexican food where I live now.

[LynneSin]

75. Here's Wilmington DE

I'm in one of those tall buildings right now

[name not needed]

76. More of Bridgewater, NJ

AT&T's Center of International Marketing:



This used to be a superfund site. Now its been cleaned up and a stadium was built there 5 years ago: