where did you grow up?

[tylerdf]

lets talk origins.
give us a tour of your hometown.
include pictures and how you feel about that special place.

for example:

I was born in Buckhead (an uptown district of Atlanta, GA). This area of town is known for ritzy high-rise apartments, up-scale shopping, and law firms.
We were very broke when I was a child, and why we lived in that part of town is still a bit of a mystery to me.
Here is Buckhead:
http://www.tinafountain.com/blog/uploads/buckhead.jpg
Here is the view of the rest of Atlanta as seen from Buckhead:
http://www.globalinterns.org/files/QuickSiteImages/buchead-at-nite-588x295jpeg1.jpg

I dont remember much of our home there, as I moved to the suburbs when I was six years old. We moved to Woodstock, GA (30 miles northwest of Atlanta). It was a quiet, family-oriented town with good schools and golf courses. There I went to Etowah High School:
https://img-https://img-s.foursquare.com/derived_pix/MZEXIHVOYHDU4VGCWRX15CPZH03E0IIN2FGP2LR0LCVYVEPW_3 00x300.jpg
The movie Remember The Titans was filmed at my highschool (because it was built in the '70s and had a retro look).
I remember going downtown for Braves and Falcons games and when I turned 16 (driving age in America) my friends and I would pile in my '97 Camry and charge into Atlanta to skateboard.
I've moved around a great deal since high school, but I am currently back in the Atlanta area and take great pride in my Southern heritage. I want to see the world, but could also picture myself staying here the rest of my life.
It's home. What more can you say?

[Basil]

I was born in Buckhead (an uptown district of Atlanta, GA). This area of town is known for ritzy high-rise apartments, up-scale shopping, and law firms.
As well as the occasional NFL linebacker stabbing folks to death.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

My formative years were spent in Oak Cliff a suburb of Dallas "across the river" to the west and southwest. That's the Trinity river by the way.
Education began under the 12 inch rule of nuns at St. Elizabeth's, but soon transitioned to the Public School system.
Let's see, what else can I ay about Oak Cliff? Home of the Vaughn brothers (Stevie Ray and Jimmy Lee). Lee Harvey Oswald for a short time, the Texas Theater.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Cliff

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[tylerdf]

As well as the occasional NFL linebacker stabbing folks to death.

Haha! As well as rap icons shooting at police officers. But for the most part these shenanigans stay south of I-20.


And Gilliatt, I've always wanted to visit Dallas! And the rest of Texas for that matter. I guess I can thank Robert Rodriguez movies.
Not to mention a lot of my favorite bands are from Texas: At the Drive-in, Sohns, and Explosions in the Sky just to name a few.

Have you ever attended SXSW?

[tylerdf]

And I forgot that Texas produced the amazing Daniel Johnston! Props to anyone who knows what I'm talking about.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...Not to mention a lot of my favorite bands are from Texas: At the Drive-in, Sohns, and Explosions in the Sky just to name a few.

Have you ever attended SXSW?

Well, if you are going to open this up to the entire Republic, then Kosse and Turkey Texas should immediately come to mind since they were the birthplace and childhood homes respectively, for the greatest musician and band leader that ever graced both sides of God's flat earth. I speak of none other than Bob Wills...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IXmPZSM07o

Heck, even the Rolling Stones acknowledged his greatness... (written by Waylon Jennings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBjeVvZ7Dgw

RE: "SXSW" - apparently not. I can't begin to guess what that means.

Anyhow, I digress from the intent of the thread.

[martunia99]

I was born in Poland in a small town called Nowe.
It is quite a boring town but I still love it, aspecially the view of the river Wisła.
I had a great life there before I moved to Ireland.
http://wisla.blox.pl/resource/NOWE_0809_kwidzyn.jpg
http://images.photo.bikestats.eu/zdjecie,600,99080,20100505,wiatrak-w-nowym-nad-wisla.jpg
http://www.arpis.pl/sklep48.jpg

[mona amon]

This is a nice thread. It's good to see the pics of all the different places! :)

I grew up in a lovely little place in the south of India called Lovedale. Yes, that really is the name!


http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/archive/00332/25MP_LOVEDALE3_Vall_332685a.jpg


http://www.ootytrips.com/images/Train%20at%20Lovedale%20station.jpg

[JuniperWoolf]

^The top picture looks kind of like a Disney version of my town.

[jajdude]

Yeah, those Lovedale pictures look like something out of a movie. I grew up in Newfoundland, where they're pretty much all small towns.

[Kyriakos]

Thessaloniki, capital of the north (of this country at least) :)

http://wooz.gr/sites/default/files/users/user14/Thessaloniki-27.jpg

http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/l/0/3999-thessaloniki-bay-thessaloniki-greece.jpg

http://www.villasforent.com/thessaloniki_clip_image002.jpg

[BookBeauty]

I grew up outside of a small city, in Ontario Canada, called Peterborough.

http://www.hanifworld.com/Peterborough/56-Peterborough%20Downtown-Ontario.JPG

http://www.mysticbond.ca/images/fs%20gallery/18%20Trent-Severn/Peterboro%20Lift%20Lock.jpg

Biggest freshwater lift lock in the world. People've climbed it for fun with climbing equipment for some reason.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3573386.jpg

I lived about fifteen minutes outside of the city though, out nestled close to a river, forests, and farmland.