Describe your city/town in two words

[AnthrSolidSnake]

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania- 'Help Me'

There's plenty of two word phrases that I could use, but they all add up to that. 'Can't Read' (might be cheating a bit with that one), 'Safety Hazard', 'Socially Inept'

 

[Darren716]

Home town- old & abandoned, It's glory days of being the number one rug manufacturer are far behind it and many young people are realizing it has no future and are moving away, leaving an aging and declining population

College Town- classic & hilly, Still has a main street filled with Mom and Pop stores which do quite well and the town's nickname is literally "City of the Hills" since it's in the middle of some mountains.

 

[Demagogue]

Auckland - Superb Mathematical Education

Seriously, it's great. I was top of my class and everything.

Can't tell if trolling or seriously didn't get the pun he just made... "Top of my class".... uses three words instead of two. *twitches before busting a gut*

OT -

Currently city - Gateway North (North Bay, ON) It's where the people in Southern Ontario think the province ends essentially. >.<

Home city town - service town (Geraldton, ON) We had the high school, hospital, etc for all the little town around us to flock to.

 

[erbkaiser]

Bikes & Tourists.

Spoiler

Amsterdam!

And NOT Drugs & Sex... you need to go looking for that shit, but living here you will either bump into a bike or a tourist -- or both -- within one minute, guaranteed.

 

[Timeless Lavender]

Ummm I lived at:

Speightstown- Hurricanes lover (It is at the coastline where hurricanes loved to hangout {A very sick joke but a sad reality})

Belmopan- Beautiful Yawns (It is boring but beautiful)

 

[Jux]

New Orleans: Drive-through daiquiris (drive-through counts as one word right?)

 

[FPLOON]

San Diego, California - What rain?

Southern California - Bodacious, Brah!

My Apartment Complex [NAME REDACTED] - Loner Couples

I have no idea what I'm doing, but that last one's becoming more accurate the more I think about it...

 

[Parasondox]

London (East) - Sirens Everywhere.

I know the city has a higher crime rate than rural towns but fuck me all I hear are sirens every 10 minutes. Mostly it's police sirens and it's like I live in Gotham. Or they just turn it on to get out of a traffic jam.

 

[sam42ification]

Gold Coast - 'Tourist central'

Or maybe 'beautiful beaches' or 'decent shopping' I dunno...

Spoiler

I would go with tourist central.

Brisbane: 'not sydney', despite trying so hard, or maybe 'tries, fails'. A few weeks ago I would have described it as 'Campbell Newman', luckily enough I don't have to any more. If I had a few more words I would say 'The runt of Australian cities' but that's just me being pessimistic.

 

[FalloutJack]

Aaand that's my take on Pittsburgh. Sometimes, it really sucks for weather...

 

[Eomega123]

Austin - Liberal Island.

Anyone familiar with the political climate of Texas knows exactly what I'm talking about. Smack in the middle of a conservative sea - dyed hair, hippie dudes, smoke shops, street art, and douches playing acoustic guitar as far as the eye can see.

 

[Nemo Atkins]

Alnwick, UK - It Exists

Not even being funny with that. Alnwick's a town with a population of about 8,000 people, has a castle which Harry Potter had some filming done at...and that's really all you need to know about it, as there's nothing else of any real interest there (unless you count the international music festival in the summer, but even that's not a big festival by any measure).

And yet that's not the quietest place I've lived at in my life. That would be the hamlet of Warenford.

 

[DocJ]

Gourdon UK - Seagull Crap (Terrible Bandwidth also works.)

You will be pooped on by a bird at least once here. And your car will never be clean again. Also we're kinda far out from anywhere useful so we can't get decent ISPs.

 

[Daft Ada]

Reading - Mini London

 

[Dragonbums]

Walmart nation

with it's royal delegates of Target and Mcdonalds, and their main means of production are teen moms

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Bristol? Gert lush, I suppose.

Between the endless hipsters, hills, clouds of marijuana smoke (people seem largely oblivious to its illegality, you'll see people smoking up just walking down the street fairly often) and ridiculous 20mph zones, it's still pretty good. It's just the right size, there's lots of cultural stuff going on all the time, it's not too gentrified just yet, there's a ton of cool graffiti everywhere (I've never been that big on Banksy, there's some much more impressive stuff around) and it's not in the goddamned North. It's not even in the fucking Midlands. You get to live in the South, whilst not living in overpriced London or somewhere as characterless as Reading.

 

[Mezahmay]

My home town of North Haven, Connecticut: wannabe Italians

I don't know the city of Worcester, MA well despite attending college here the last four years since I don't wander far from campus. It's scary out there :S I can say this much about Worcester though: Not Lowell.

 

[Fijiman]

Many hills. I know that could describe just about any city but there aren't too many cities in the US (or at least as far as I know) that are know/nicknamed for their hills.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Amsterdam/Netherlands - Open minded. Tourists probably know it for the obvious reasons, but other than that it's a really nice town with lots of history and culture. Also if you like tall blond chicks on bicycles, you've come to the right place.

And alot more chaotic than London from my experience. To be fair, I haven't seen the whole city.

Belfeld, NL - Hole, boring.

Hole as in: pretty unknown village, population is around 5000. Did I mention that you have to do your best to find even some decent information about this place?

Boring as in: nothing to do, mainly populated by older people or families with young children and no proper events going on. Not even a proper shopping area.

 

[Nemo Atkins]

Alnwick, UK - It Exists

Not even being funny with that. Alnwick's a town with a population of about 8,000 people, has a castle which Harry Potter had some filming done at...and that's really all you need to know about it, as there's nothing else of any real interest there (unless you count the international music festival in the summer, but even that's not a big festival by any measure).

And yet that's not the quietest place I've lived at in my life. That would be the hamlet of Warenford.

I spent a weekend there last year. Did the Alnwick Gardens thing and then was at a bit of a loss for the evening. Is there anything to do there in the evening? Went to the pub in the end, but it felt a little too local.

There's the Playhouse. There's a play (usually some sort of musical) or a live music event (usually folk music or something paying tribute to an artist from the 50's, 60's or early 70's) on most nights and films get shown there as well. There's also some restaurants around Alnwick which can be tough to find, but are worth a look into if you don't feel like cooking, and there's several pubs around the town (most of which have a strong local vibe to them).

That's really about it for regular stuff, though. There's folk music gatherings in several pubs every month or so (and rock and pop-punk gigs by local cover bands sometimes), ceilidhs occasionally happen in the town hall, there's a nightclub (I've not been to it, as I'm not fond of nightclubs at all, so I can't say much about it), there's the music festival I mentioned earlier and there's a few clubs (although most of them are more aimed at local people than visiting people), but that's about the extent of it.

Personally, I tend to stay at home in the evenings, but I'll admit that I'm somewhat reclusive and don't like going out much anyway, so that's not necessarily all down to there being so little to do in town in the evenings!