Hometown Pride

[EverydayHeretic]

I'm from Niceville, FL. Yeah. You have no idea how many times people thought I was straight-up lying to them when I told them where I was from. It's the kind of town you pass though to get to other towns; we're nestled between an air force base (Eglin) and a semi-popular tourist town (Destin). Compared to where I live now, it's Whitey Old McCristiantown, but I do feel kind of fond of the place. They have a great school system there, a very accessible community college, really low crime, and somewhat recently won some award for being one of the best places in the country to raise a family. I don't think I would ever want to live there again, but as I get older I forget more of the boring, bad stuff about it and develop an appreciation for the place.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I have always lived in the 'High Desert' area of Southern California. I currently live in Barstow, a train/fort town, about two hours from Las Vegas, Nevada. If you've ever played 'New Vegas' , you know the landscape. It's kind of a dirty place with high unemployment, 6 dollar stores, and with an unusually high sense of pride that it was the birthplace of the the first ever 'Del Taco'. If you are also looking for a real sense of community, you'll be hard pressed to find it unless you are in one of the cliques, the biggest being the Baptist church. My neighbor looks at me like I'm a statue of assholes when I wave to her. We've lived on the same street for nearly three years and we've 'seen' each other plenty of times. I've never felt comfortable here, nor really any place in California and I hope to soon move out of State.

 

[KungFuJazzHands]

Born and raised in Casper, Wyoming, a smallish town of around 60K people, most of them fat, racist, and Republican. Let me tell you about Casper's local charms -- it's a town where

>there were only two black families living while I was growing up;
>skinheads prowled the alleys on weekend nights and robbed straggling bar-hoppers;
>the Phelps family showed up to protest the funeral of Matthew Sheppard and were greeted with cheers and clapping;
>the city council agreed to let the KKK put up a statue decrying MLK (a plan later dropped, thank Dog);
>being male and having long hair was likely to get you stabbed in the face by a drunk redneck;
>getting arrested with only enough weed to buzz a mouse would land you in the county jail for six months;
>local cops would rob meth dealers and sell the product for their own profit;
>nearly a dozen of my schoolmates killed themselves -- in various grisly ways -- within a decade of graduating from high school;
>there's a church on every street corner flanked by a bar or liquor store.

They filmed parts of Starship Troopers right outside of town, and we had some of the best LSD in the midwest. Those are the only two positives I can think of at the moment.

Great place to live, I tell ya.

It hasn't changed much in the last twenty years since I left, but they did get a Best Buy at one point. Still no Barnes & Noble though.

 

[piinyouri]

I'm from what was a tiny little watering hole in the desert known as Quartzite AZ.
Now it's a pretty decent sized city, though my relatives tell me the corruption didn't go anywhere.

I don;t think I feel pride for it. Nostalgia probably, but not pride.
Well, our school mascot was a scorpion. That's pretty fucking rad so I guess I'm a little proud of that.

 

[Dirge Eterna]

Hometown is a hard one as we moved a lot as a kid. The longest was a town in Eastern Virginia Named Dinwiddie, the county is also named Dinwiddie. 507 square miles and about 20k people in the whole county. The most interesting thing was the prevalence of Civil War battle sites around, a big reason why I am a history and military buff. We were the mixed area between an all white city and a all black city nearby so things got exciting at times. Lots of farms and some track housing here and there. I now live in L.A. and there are probably 20k people in the couple blocks around where I live now. Even though I hated growing up in the country and I had to drive almost 50 miles to my high school it was still miles above some of the places I lived previously. A little coal town in Western Virginia with a total of maybe 500 people over 30 or 40 square miles and a suburb of Chicago where all there was to do was drinking and breaking stuff.

 

[Bradmaster Flash]

I live in Tredegar, a small town in Blaenau Gwent, a county of South Wales. This article by the BBC accurately sums it up: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23028078?SThisFB

I honestly can't think of any particular benefits when it comes to living in Blaenau Gwent, at all. Tredegar was the town in which Aneurin Bevan (the man who effectively spearheaded the formation of the NHS) lived. Aside from that, I can't think of anything which would warrant any 'pride'.

 

[theevilgenius60]

Hattiesburg,MS; my hometown; is actually pretty nice. It's large enough that there's a lot to do and prices are competitive but small enough that you can know most of the people if you give it a try. Three universities and a few smaller colleges meant that after I got hurt, I had good choices for school without having to leave town. Several pro athletes live here just for those reasons(large, but small town enough to give them some space) and because it's Mississippi so there's plenty of land to be had(Brett Favre has a ginormous compound west of town)

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Greetings from Cincinnati. Land of chilli, a train station that became design for the Hall of Justice, and where cheap B movies are filmed. As Mark Twain put it "if I knew the world was ending, I'd go to Cincinnati because everything hits there 10 years later". We were dissed by Mark mother fucking Twain. We're also home of Over the Rhine, one of the most dangerous places in in the country

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Well, my home town (Peterborough, On.) played a large roll in the filming of the film Jumper... That's not really something that I can defend... I'm so sorry. On the upside we've recently seen an upswing in our downtown including great restaurants and interesting shops, not that any of that makes up for Jumper... They even used my high-school... Please make the memories go away.

***** please. Wild Hogs was filmed in my home town. Wild. Hogs.

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

***** please. Wild Hogs was filmed in my home town. Wild. Hogs.

To be honest that is really only as bad, not worse. Maybe we should form some sort of Anti Bad Movie Filming Coalition, our stated goal would be "We don't want your shitty films. Sod off!" What do you say, you in?

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

To be honest that is really only as bad, not worse.

Yeah, I guess that's true. But to my ever lasting shame I heard Wild Hogs used the phrase "who dey"

Maybe we should form some sort of Anti Bad Movie Filming Coalition, our stated goal would be "We don't want your shitty films. Sod off!" What do you say, you in?

Its a little too late for my town. Family Guy even made a joke about it (I can't find the clip, though I did find this weird Wikipedia [http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Danger_in_Cincinnati] that mentions it). Though they did film part of The Ides of March and Rain Man but 9 out of 10 movies made here are crap

 

[DugMachine]

I'm from a tiny little town in Southern Texas and the only thing going for this town is our football program which is top notch apparently... and I could give two shits about football. That said I still love my hometown. Real sense of community here as it's such a small population. All the stores/restaurants know you by your name and it's relatively crime free so it's quiet. Not many city lights so you get a gorgeous view of the stars and lots of open space for miles around.

 

[Dirge Eterna]

I'm from a tiny little town in Southern Texas and the only thing going for this town is our football program which is top notch apparently... and I could give two shits about football. That said I still love my hometown. Real sense of community here as it's such a small population. All the stores/restaurants know you by your name and it's relatively crime free so it's quiet. Not many city lights so you get a gorgeous view of the stars and lots of open space for miles around.

Same where I spent a few year when I was a kid. The town had maybe 500 people but was the state champion in wrestling for 12 or 13 straight years. The school didn't have any other sport besides wrestling not even cheer-leading for the ladies. I tried it for a semester but I wasn't into sweaty guys all over me and balls in my face lol.

 

[pyrosaw]

I hail from Tucson, Arizona. I don't really have any pride for this place, besides Eegees(a really kickass sandwich joint), and the huge hippie culture that's sprouted in downtown. Seriously, downtown Tucson is like if someone cut out a chunk of San Francisco and dropped it in the Sonoran desert. Also, if by any chance you guys come to Tucson, DO NOT GO TO SOUTH TUCSON WITH SOME KIND OF PROTECTION, YOU WILL GET MUGGED AND POSSIBLY HARMED. The local goverment does not give a ratsass about South Tucson, like there's this park that's been turned into a homeless shantytown near the jail and it is really dangerous at night. But yeah, it's decent place to live as long as you live on the East side or the Foothills. Gang violence is normal here but it's managable.

 

[ninjaRiv]

I don't even have any home country pride, really... But I'm from any area that has a lot of pride in the whole region but still keeps itself separate from the individual towns... Weirdly.

 

[The Funslinger]

Yeah, Hull can be very... unpleasant. A huge number people were downright horrible and stupid when I lived there and I've met people online who are vile from Hull so that really doesn't surprise me. No offence to you of course, I'm sure you're just smashing.

The city centre was fabulous and I loved all the shops but as you got out of it, it was awful. It got to the point where we were getting broken into every month. We had absolutely nothing to steal downstairs after the second time they (turned out it was the neighbours opposite AND two doors down who were taking it in turns doing it) robbed us but they just liked smashing up our house and scaring us. We couldn't go to the shop without having the chavvy neighbours shout abuse at us so we had to start leaving through the back door. After the fourth time we left, I would have bricked their windows but someone had beat me to it.

That sounds bloody awful D:

You'd have been justified in breaking into their houses on the sly to return the favour, I think. And yes, I will say hai to you at MCM!

OT: Well, my village has a Dickensian festival in the Winter, and a village festival in the Summer (we're midway through it now actually) the latter of which garners some big name shit. I saw Jack Dee live a couple of days ago. Also, Patrick Stewart keeps a house near here.

 

[Alssadar]

Lake Orion
It's a rather rich and conservative place north of Detroit and is not a shit hole. It's not a bad place, really; we've got lots of lakes, plenty of parks, and a good public education system. The only problem with it is that many of the kids are pampered rich brats who think they're from (Confederate) South, and skater/swag kids. Also, our leadership class was all about YOLO, which was rather annoying.
Some of my friends say it is rather boring with nothing to do, but they also just stay home all day and play video games. I mean, I did the same thing, but at least I participated in school supported activities and such. There are things out there, you just needed to look for them, as the people are rather shut-in.
We got a good Marching Band and (American) Football program.