What do you like best about your home town?

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Mr. Vista [UK]

The fact that my close family and many of my friends live their.

I think that there are quite alot of nice people where i live but there are also some not so nice ones no too far away. The history of the town is never something that has interested me perticularly so i've never paid alot of attention to it.

It's a nice area, has a good school, places to play football (when they're not flooded because of rain), and some good shops, cinema, bowling not too far away.

Overall it's a nice place to live and it's fairly quiet - which is bliss compared to the city centres. I wouldn't be too pleased to live right in the centre of any big town.

DONNA L B

It won the American City award. Every year when they have their Veterans Day Parade it is attended by 1/2 the population. Which is about 48,000. Per ca-pita Porterville, CA had the most lives lost in the Vietnam war. This is a town that supports its Veterans and has a park dedicated to them. Our high schools all have award winning marching bands. They have marched in the Rose Parade and the Hollywood Christmas parade a number of times. Porterville High School has been invited to play at the White House. I guess you could say this is a town that loves a parade and its people.

Sonshine!

I never had a "home" town. I was in an orphanage
and I don't call that home. I have my own little apartment now all fixed up nice n cozy and this is my 1st home to me.

Roxas of Organization 13

It's nice, small and quiet. It's a nice community with friendly people and good restaurants. There is a lot of history in this town since it celebrates cheese days every September.

The Evolution of T.

Family and lifelong friends who are like family live here.! Everyone either knows everyone or they know someone who does.

Small town atmosphere that is getting larger with the influx of businesses coming to the area and creating jobs, providing diversity and boosting our economy. Along with the "big businesses" coming our way, we have many locally owned restaurants, bakeries, bike shops and specialty stores makes my home town unique and welcoming to visitors and people wanting to relocate

With the rapid growth of industry, we have many people accompanying the businesses who are used to having a variety in restaurants and entertainment. Within the last five to ten years we added to some of our already existing wonderful restaurants of Buck Owens Crystal Palace, Rosa's Pizzeria, Mexicali and The Great Castle, several new eateries such as The Elephant Bar, P.F. Chang's, Outback Steakhouse, California Pizza Kitchen and Logan's Roadhouse Grill.

We have an arena in town that hosts many sporting events and concerts from the Lakers Pre Season matches to Elton John and Disney On Ice Shows. The arena is also the home of our semi pro hockey and basketball teams and our Division I Men's College Basketball Team.

If you like a more intimate venue, we have a theater originally built in the 1930's that was recently restored to it's original grandeur which has hosted jazz concerts, comedy shows and is now also being utilized for weddings and other gatherings.

I love my hometown. It's a great place to raise a family!

Kate

I don't have one. I'm actually from no where and i've lived everywhere. I wish i knew what it was like to have a "Home Town".

Sar616

everything is in walking distance and there is alot of places near by. Hospital, shopping stores, video/movie theaters/stores, bike paths, places to hang out, fields

hahunter88

I life in Redlands, CA and the history here is awesome. It was named Redlands because of the red clay like dirt. The people are for the most part very well educate - population of around 50,000 people. Much art, crafts, downtown market nights, many orange groves, and the Mormons actually founded the town over 100 years ago. The layout of the streets are north/south - east/west. Have the County Museum here and many live theaters , and a 20 screen multiplex theater, fantastic variety of restaurants, the people are friendly for a town this size, low crime and as an added bonus about 50 miles to the beach, Los Angeles, 30 miles to Palm Springs, great roads and live 4,7 miles to work (one way). Education is fantastic here, we have the University of Redlands, 2 top rated High Schools, Middle level schools, with the added bonus of Loma Linda University 6 miles away. I just love living here, although housing prices are high, my wife and I are thinking of moving about 10 miles to the east of here where you get a greater home for the dollar value wise.

mcelhinp

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crawdaddydoo92

I like that my home town, Portland ME., is true to it's heritage. Also the local gov't tries to give everyone a fair shake.

untitled

It's not too big and not too small. not too dirty, it's right on the lake, everything is within short drive. lots of freeways, but not right on top of you, lots of culture and history if you look.. people aren't jaded, it's a good mix of blue-collar and white collar..

snflower2001

I live in a small town in Iowa, and the folks are super friendly and are ALWAYS willing to help each other out. It's very quiet, and a very safe place to live.

Lori_blue_cat

Hello Ask Mike
Nice to have you again
I have lived in Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan which is in Canada
most of my life.
This is what I like best about my hometown
its the history.
1906 Saskatoon became a city
in that time there is much history

1905 Saskatchewan became a province
in the one hundred years that is alot to convince.

Clone(can't decide whose)

i like the people,they are warm and loving care!!

saskia r

I like the fact that we had a real Trojan Horse thing going on here a while ago now.
I live in Breda, a small city in the south of Holland (The Netherlands).
When the Spanish came here and invaded our country and also our little town was emptied of it's citizens and given to the Spanish army. But in 1590 our voivode came up with the idea to hide men in a ship filled with peat. Peat was delivered weekly to the town as fuel for the fires. So the men hid under the peat and were brought into town where they came out and defeated the Spanish army. They opened the gates and the rest of the Dutch came in.
Cool huh? It's what marks our town as special.
So that's why I like it, it's a great story to tell peope when they visit. PLus our town has a new harbour now and it's really pretyy with a cafÃ©s and restaurant by the water.

Eau de Pivoine

Well... a lot, actually. I was born in a little miner town, in NW Romania, called Baia Mare. Baia means Mine and Mare means Great. There were quite a few gold mines around, but this was the biggest of all. So, they called in the Great Mine. It's on a 7000ft elevation and surrounded by the most famous mountains - for their ski resorts. Albeit pretty rustic at that. It's a chain of mountains that are called Carpathians, there, but in the original they're called "The little Alps".
Along the city there are many places that were quite wild and hiking trails along virgin territory. Inside the city old and new architecture intermingles. You have the old side of town with paved roads built by the Roman Empire - (with the specific rocks), old churches, dating about 1000 years old.. and all that. I love the cheese that the shepherds make there. It's called cas (read: kash) and it's the best thing after pizza.
I love the parks, and the historical statues, but most of all I love my history that binds me to that place. I haven't been there for at least 20 years, but the trees along the drive that leads to my old place, are still there. Amazing, no?
Then it's the coffee you get at the coffee shops, and the pastries, you have never knows pastries until you had those.
I love this particular tree, called tillia. It's leaves and flower are therapeutic, they are used to make tea, that is considered a good remedy for a lot of stress related conditions, plus quite the anti- inflammatory. Every weed there has healing properties. And the superstitions of the people give them this mystic air of fantasia land.
The people are a great community oriented unit. It's like that song of the "Afrikan Children's Choir" - "It takes a whole village to raise a child" kind of a thing.
If you see some perversion from the norm and you call those bastards on it. Nobody falls through the cracks. :))
Communism robbed the country for 45 years, but never manages to imprison the spirit of the people. The Latin temperament, the aged precious wisdom, the tradition and proverbs and age old quotes that nobody claims as their own, passed from generation to generation... all those clishee's that help shape one's world and personality. People put a lot of thought into their wardrobe. Every traditional piece of clothing has a very specific and meaningful purpose. All to the boots, and scarf so to speak. With the head piece, for example, the way you wear it, tells the age of a woman. For example, if you're over 50 you tie the knot in the front. If you're very young, you have a small one, and tie it in the back. There's a certain way you wear that head piece that lets people know you're available for marriage... I don't remember it. :)) Also the bigger the triangle, the older a person is...
So... all that... for centuries. I miss that.
Excellent question!!

Tj T

what i "love" about my hometown is the fact that it is has been called the "Bush capital of the world" by the man himself

timeisthefire

the reason I best like my hometown(dunkirk)is also the reason I hate it!!!everybody knows everybody!!!!

Bibi

It's one of the best city for jobs!!!!

Jazzy12

I like the people and places in my hometown.its very calm and nice weather.

SoCal Attorney

There are so many things to like about San Diego like the beach, the diversity, the shopping and the people, but I would say the best the best thing is the weather. It is almost always warm here.

Just a few days ago, I saw a story with a couple of pictures on the front page of the. One pictured showed people riding bycicles in 70-degree weather on a board walk in Pacific beach, where my parents group up. The other picture was of a guy in New Hampshire that was shoveling snow off of his roof.

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melodi

Definitely the history. Lots of old homes and very friendly town. Good place to raise children and moderately priced and fairly close to big city so commute is good if you need to go to the city.

17 And Young At Heart

It's nice quiet and clean and they have some really nice resturants here too.

Daijiro

Hi Ask Mike,

I like my home town because it is small and everybody knows everybody. There's no hiding yourself here. It's nice, quiet, cozy and safe. The neighbors will always keep an eye out for your property if you are away. It's like a security system that's free. The people are always very friendly. They greet you with a smile and they are polite and respectful.

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I don't live in the US but I'll answer this question anyway...

I love Melbourne Australia for the culture, the diverse nationalities and the historic places.

I also LOVE the cold weather.

Oh and Melb has the BEST FOOD too lol.

Jesusfreak 93 (SFECU)

what i like best about my home town is that it is the home to the Soupbox Derby. it's full of history about that sport and when it is summer and th sport is going on we get TUNS of poeple here! that makes Ellet a popular place.
the other thing i love about my home town is that i know most of the poeple in it. because most of them go to my church! thats whta i like about my home town!

pizzaman200125704

My hometown is Crown City, OH. This is a great little town with a couple of restaurants and a gas station within walking distance. Not much crime here and a beautiful town.

Bet

The local colleges and the bookstores and libraries. Within 100 miles of home there are three community colleges (one of which I attend through a college-high school advanced study program), four distance learning colleges with classes on the campuses of the community colleges, and two state universities. It's the same thing with the libraries and bookstores, there are a lot of them not too far away (which is always nice when you are working on school homework).

Kat

The settings and the people. I come from a small town deep south in Texas called Tomball. I loved our neighborhood. People were always friendly and very welcoming. I also like our location, it was always nice and warm, sunny, beautiful, and there were lots of creeks and water holes around for us to go hangout at.

lovehunter56

mike i dont know what i m right know buty i m realy thanks 2 u budy thanks 2 alloff u work vth u so i m ready to execpt 2 my time is over tell may vt can i do sir , i meet u at a time. my all yahoo working peoples all 360* members .

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