Where You Live.

DubersDubers Pet Shop BoyEdinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
edited May 2003 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Dont be shy!</div> Post pictures of your cities/towns/villages. I'm just curious about where people on this forum come from. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Here is my home city Edinburgh:

<img src='http://www.picturesofedinburgh.com/pictures/oldtown/oldtown-castlefromgardens.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

How many people can sya that they have a castle in the middle of their city?

<img src='http://www.picturesofedinburgh.com/pictures/newtown/newtown-marketstreet.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

<img src='http://www.picturesofedinburgh.com/pictures/oldtown/oldtown-royalmile.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

<img src='http://www.picturesofedinburgh.com/pictures/newtown/newtown-bankofscotland.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

<img src='http://www.picturesofedinburgh.com/pictures/newtown/newtown-monument.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

<img src='http://www.picturesofedinburgh.com/pictures/newtown/newtown-caltonhilltocastle.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

I love my city. BTW it's in Scotland for all you nubs!
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    That's AWESOME! I guess I'll be your neighbor some day! ^_^
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Sunny Seattle! Wait...

    <img src='http://adfilmworks.com/images/seattle.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    <img src='http://www.komotv.com/weather/viewer_pics/images/6453-seattle.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    <img src='http://depts.washington.edu/psychweb/internship/rain11.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    I love it here. I live a couple of streets from Paul Allen. Makes me even geekier.
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  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    Since I don't live in a city, I'll tell you about the area I live in

    <img src='http://www.agilitynut.com/longab3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Building shaped like a basket
    <img src='http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~doron/amish.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Amish people (I don't like the amish)
    <img src='http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/b94c4181.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    FARMS!! (Yes, I can drive a combine <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> )
    <img src='http://www.jaredstory.com/pics/brandon2a.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Dangerous Fun (not me, but I can drive one)
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  • CatpokerCatpoker Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 816Members
    Webcams of <a href='http://www.galveston.com/webcams/' target='_blank'>Galveston</a> Texas


    meh... i am on the beach.....
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Awesome Basket Building!
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  • Dr_ShaggyDr_Shaggy Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1340Members, Constellation
    May 6, 2002: Calgary Alberta.... heres some nice Calgary weather to kick off springtime.

    <img src='http://tdeen.hostmb.com/Data/OutsideWide.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    <img src='http://tdeen.hostmb.com/Data/Back.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    edited May 2003
    I would post some pics if I could find some nice pics. Really it's that hard...
    but I will try.

    {edit}

    Ok, Lets see...Lots of pics.

    <img src='http://www.climber.org/Feature/Ritter1997/images/wfall2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <img src='http://www.clovisnews.com/trails/wetlands/skybirds_sm.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <img src='http://home.earthlink.net/~andybern/art/sanj.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    And probably the best looking places you'll find here is the Blossom Trail
    <img src='http://gocalifornia.about.com/library/graphics/fresblos2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <img src='http://gocalifornia.about.com/library/graphics/fresblos3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    Don't be mistaken, its a beautiful area (the city isn't) but you have to look for it sometimes.
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  • NuketheplaceNuketheplace Join Date: 2002-09-02 Member: 1266Members
    Woot Seattle best place to live if your a geek because of ALL the rain you get there.
    Oh wait we aren't getting rain here anymore. Why game gods why do you have to punish me with the devil sun PLEASE just a little rain that's all I'm asking we haven't gotten any in so long just a little
    *backs into a corner and cry's*
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  • DArtagnanDArtagnan Join Date: 2002-12-22 Member: 11336Members
    Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
    <img src='http://www.dhahranhomepage.com/images/mosque2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <img src='http://www.dhahranhomepage.com/images/khobar_14.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <img src='http://www.dhahranhomepage.com/images/sunset2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Nothin' fancy.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Nukethepalce+May 13 2003, 12:21 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nukethepalce @ May 13 2003, 12:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Woot Seattle best place to live if your a geek because of ALL the rain you get there.
    Oh wait we aren't getting rain here anymore. Why game gods why do you have to punish me with the devil sun PLEASE just a little rain that's all I'm asking we haven't gotten any in so long just a little
    *backs into a corner and cry's* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    AAH! Is that where you live too? *Runs far, far away*
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  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--TychoCelchuuu+May 12 2003, 07:10 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ May 12 2003, 07:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Sunny Seattle! Wait...

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    Live a couple hours away, in Tacoma <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Man, if I could just get some pics of this horrendous North Hollywood I live in you'll see the pain I go through.
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  • p4Samwisep4Samwise Join Date: 2002-12-15 Member: 10831Members
    Well, I was born in San Francisco, and lived there till I was 19 or so.

    <img src='http://www.breakersinn.com/images/san-francisco.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    The famous bridge.

    <img src='http://www.davidpaulmorris.com/webphotos/sf%20web/cablecarsf.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    The famous cable cars.

    <img src='http://www.umass.edu/tei/ogia/gallery/sanfrancisco/chinatown.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Chinatown pagodas.

    <img src='http://www.naturephoto.com/images/library/web167.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Pretty buildings.

    I currently live in Berkeley (just finishing up my EECS degree), and will be moving to Alameda soon. If anyone wants I'll post pics of those places too, but I've hit the image limit for a single post. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
    <img src='http://hamber.vsb.bc.ca/library/Vancouver1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    - Vancouverite here...
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  • ElvenThiefElvenThief aka Elven Thief (ex. NS Programmer) Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8754Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Man. The little city of Beloit WI where I live has a wal-mart, and that's about all it's got going for it...
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  • folkfolk Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8603Banned
    <img src='http://users.frailart.net/folken/tedor_map.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--E-Th33ph+May 13 2003, 12:27 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (E-Th33ph @ May 13 2003, 12:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Man. The little city of Beloit WI where I live has a wal-mart, and that's about all it's got going for it... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    ha, ha. new berlin has a Kohls and TWO mcdonalds.
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    It's near Paris, France


    <img src='http://www.culture.fr/culture/regions/dracs/idf/78/photos/ip159a.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Part of my school

    <img src='http://members.rogers.com/jacobites1/stgermainchateau.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Castle where Louis XIV was born (I think)

    <img src='http://www.furansunocafe.com/images/ville/Saint-Germain-en-Laye2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    view of the city where you don't see anything really. (especially by the fact the shot is from the city to a neighboring city)

    <img src='http://mrs.umn.edu/~seniorm/paris/Paris%2099/metro.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    our lovely subway (of Paris) Take the big red line to the west and you land at my home. It's really close to Paris really.
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  • TrojanTrojan Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4611Members
    Near Sydney, Australia <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Been around most of the world (and im only 18 <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> ) and I have to say Sydney > everywhere ;D
    You might remeber it from such movies as Mission Impossible 2, Matrix, Matrix: Reloaded, Matrix: Whatever the third one is (reveloutions?) etc etc etc

    Our harbor:
    <img src='http://www.sydney.com/Images_RichMedia/Perfect_Pictures/Landscape_Medium/103784.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <img src='http://www.wla2002.com/images/sydney.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <img src='http://www.sydney-cruises.com/sydney-cruises-2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    Skyline:
    <img src='http://www.sydney-cruises.com/sydney-cruises-4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <a href='http://www.fish.com/~brad/aus/sydney/sydney-skyline.jpg' target='_blank'>Bigassed image</a>

    Bondi Beach:
    <img src='http://www.sydney.com/Images_RichMedia/Perfect_Pictures/Landscape_Medium/100498.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    <a href='http://images.google.com.au/images?q=sydney&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en' target='_blank'>googlesearch Images</a>

    <a href='http://www.ourshire.com.au/suburbs/gymeabay/gymeabay.htm' target='_blank'>A little closer to home, my suburb</a>
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  • TrojanTrojan Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4611Members
    I feel I should add this images, cause well... mnnn..... This is here at New-Years;

    <img src='http://www.rssc.com/ports/port_images/sydney.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • Dirty_Harry_PotterDirty_Harry_Potter Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9500Members
    Gl.rye:
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <a href='http://www.holmesdale.acs.btinternet.co.uk/waters.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.holmesdale.acs.btinternet.co.uk/waters.htm</a>
    <a href='http://www.holmesdale.acs.btinternet.co.uk/waters.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.holmesdale.acs.btinternet.co.uk/waters.htm</a>

    some lakes in my area i reside in Sevenoaks and my better half is in Chipstead.

    <img src='http://www.janksg.free-online.co.uk/guidedwalksinengland/Ighthammote.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    we have a Moat <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    <img src='http://www.philarmitage.net/kent/kent4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    now that is a beauty... that is the park around 200 metres from me


    <img src='http://www.english-inns.co.uk/images/RoyalOak-Sevenoaks.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    thats one of the 23 pubs in our town... this is the one all the little sh!ts hang out at.. like 13 yr olds trying to pass for 18..

    yeh well thats my tip.. i hate where i live it is dreary and NOTHING happens EVER!
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Bruchsal, Germany.

    Bruchsals castle. Believe me, when it's on your way to school, it gets old fast.
    <img src='http://www.bruchsal-xl.de/TOURIST/BILD_BR/RUNDFAHR/RF_INHLT/FOTOS/SCHLOSS/SchFront.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    The high security prison Bruchsal. My mother is a social worker there.
    <img src='http://www.bruchsal-xl.de/TOURIST/BILD_BR/RUNDFAHR/RF_INHLT/FOTOS/SCHLOSS/Knast.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    The inner city. 98 or so % of it were bombed away in 1944, hence the ugly buildings.
    <img src='http://www.bruchsal-xl.de/TOURIST/BILD_BR/RUNDFAHR/RF_INHLT/FOTOS/ZENTRUM/Fgzone2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    yeah castles get boring after a while. Especially when you wake up and see the castle that is part of your school outside of your window <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Tell me about it...

    <img src='http://www.sbg.ka.bw.schule.de/gif/luftbild.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • DocterJDocterJ Join Date: 2003-04-09 Member: 15357Members
    I live in midtown, NYC!!! The big apple, the city of schmucks, the big city. I laugh at all of you who live in kansas. Hwahahah.

    "its like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how i keep from going under"

    i live in a thirty story building, right by the east river.

    And i live 10 blocks from here- thats the most i will tell you.
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  • ScorchBcNScorchBcN Join Date: 2003-05-01 Member: 15985Members
    edited May 2003
    Greetings from Barcelona, Spain, one of the nicest cities of the world ^^


    <img src='http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/catalunya/barcelona/barcelona1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    (The Sagrada Familia church)

    <img src='http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/catalunya/barcelona/barcelona11.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    The Royal plaza

    <img src='http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/catalunya/barcelona/barcelona9.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    A nice view of the docks of Barcelona, with the Colon statue in the center of the image...

    <img src='http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/catalunya/barcelona/barcelona14.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    The Old dock (Port vell in catalan) and the Maremagnum

    <img src='http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/catalunya/barcelona/barcelona25.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    <img src='http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/catalunya/barcelona/barcelona18.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    The Güell park and "La Pedrera", both created by Antoni Gaudi (an important catalan architect)

    <img src='http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/catalunya/barcelona/barcelona26.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
    Barcelona seen from the Montjuic mountain

    I use to go very often to Bilbao, too, where is the famous Guggenheim museum...

    <img src='http://www.jorgetutor.com/spain/euskadi/bilbao/bilbao1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    That's all, i hope u like my pics <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • tseepratseepra Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10530Members
    I live in a small town called Kuopio, and if you don't live in Finland you probably haven't heard of it.
    But we do have some good things like:

    My house:
    <img src='http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/vesat/house.GIF' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    Ski-jumping jump:
    <img src='http://www.bbraun.cz/cesty/cestopisy/1991skand/obrazky/kuopio.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    A lake:
    <img src='http://www.fma.fi/virtualboat/kallavesi/tahkonvesireitti/vr_kuvat/03_kuopio.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

    Yeah thats about it <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

    And here is where it is on the map:
    <img src='http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/ilink/finmap.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    aren't your hands cold when you play? Is it to heat up your hands that you nordic people play so much? how much do you spend on heating per year?
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  • tseepratseepra Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10530Members
    edited May 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Cereal_KillR+May 13 2003, 02:42 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cereal_KillR @ May 13 2003, 02:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> aren't your hands cold when you play? Is it to heat up your hands that you nordic people play so much? how much do you spend on heating per year? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    My 21" monitor keeps me warm <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> Yeah if you step outside on some of the colder days, your spit will literally freeze before it hits the ground, and combine that with wind and snow you will wish you didn't step outside. But cold winters and hot summers give the year nice variation, so you don't get bored.
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