Is your hometown known for anything?

[Sebenko]

Harrogate, UK.

Known for: Getting rich tricking rich victorian douchebags into drinking sulphur water. Now full of rich modern douchebags driving porsche. Also hosted the Eurovision song contest sometime in the 80s. Home to Betty's, a fantastic tea room.

 

[blankedboy]

Tauranga, New Zealand.
-The drummer for AC/DC lives here (FUUUUUCK)
-Some very famous author lives here
-Largest port in New Zealand
-National Jazz Festival happens here every year
-Dame Susan Devoy lives here

That's about it.

 

[Legendairy314]

Unfortunately we're just the brother to one of the worst cities in America. The house I first lived in? A 2 minute walk from said city. OUR city is just find and dandy but in comparison most people put all their amazing efforts towards that city to try and make it look better. Because of that we're pretty boring.

 

[Cronqvist]

Her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalie_Dietrich

Amusingly the german version of the page doesn't contain the controversy part.

 

[HuntrRose]

The Black Plauge came to Norway through here in 1349.

The leper research that was done here cured the disease.

Bergen, Norway. Prevously known as Bjørgvin

 

[shaneriding]

Patrick Stewart need I say more?

 

[Eternalsun]

I live in Stowmarket. its in ENGLAND!
The queen came here once
One first towns to have a train station when they newly invented.
I live there.
yearly STOWFEST and Carnival,

 

[KurtzGallahad]

Perth, Western Australia,
It has a reputation of being really boring, and I can't say it's untrue

 

[Zef Otter]

Attleboro: became known for jewelry manufacturing "The Jewelry Capital of the World" Also known for threatening an elderly blind woman with fines and a lien on her home for an overdue utility bill of one cent.

 

[zyfyn]

forced gold mining, people used to cut their thumbs off to get out of it, back in the late 1800's that is

 

[Blue Musician]

racism and intolerance.

This, along with that it has a drug war right now...

 

[junkmanuk]

Welwyn Garden City has little to be famous for except Shredded Wheat, but they fucked off and now there's a factory with giant silos with listed status cluttering up the middle of the town.

They could at least turn it into a giant laser-tag zone - that would be awesome...

 

[MasTerHacK]

Read the subject! Is your hometown known for anything or did something kinda cool happen thats worth sharing? Like a historical event, somebody well known getting born there, etc.

Just a random thread, the most embarassing thing about your hometown thread got me curious.

Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics...

 

[Colin Lehman]

... Sauder's Furniture Company. That's all.

 

[Hosker]

Robin hood

 

[GriZZlyWulF]

Teignmouth, Muse are from here (and went to the same secondary school, 5 years before me). Layla Jade...pornstar.. . The guy who invented the first working computer (before it's time, I think), a film director, an EA CEO came from here (also went to the same secondary school a few years before me), they're the ones I know of, we're a weird town so there may be more xD

 

[shadyh8er]

The heavy metal band Norma Jean was formed in my hometown of Douglasville, Georgia. That's all I've got though. If I lived in Atlanta I could write an essay. (Invention of Coca-Cola, MLK's birthplace, Sherman's march, etc.)

 

[MiketheBassMan]

My city is the "Chair City of the World." We're known for having been the largest manufacturer of furniture there ever was, however most of that production is gone now.

 

[Radelaide]

My town is the biggest coal exporter in the southern hemisphere!