My Town

[dorksrcool]

I grew up (17 years) in Green River, Wyoming. It's a SMALL town in southwestern Wyoming, population 12,000. The nearest "big city" is Salt Lake City, which says a lot about how lame it was. I had to drive three hours to go to the airport, or to a mall, to a concert, and even to Olive Garden. I really feel like I'm in The Twilight Zone when I go back there. I left as soon as I graduated from high school. The only positive thing I can say about my hometown is that the air is really clean and smells really good. And you can see every last star in the night sky.

I now live in sunny San Diego. I've lived here for about a year, before that I lived in the Bay Area. I like SD a lot. It's a big city with lots of different kinds of people. There's plenty to do and the gay community is awesome! It's also really chill and laid back which is something I love.

[umgaynow]

My town is...REALLY FREAKIN' BORING! A tiny town, pretty much dead center in New Hampshire...called Hooksett...put it this way...we are most well known for two things...number one - the tollbooths (how sad is that?) and number two for having the name pronounced incorrectly...I know it's an Indian origin (I have a friend who is 100% Iroquois and she says Indian, so I do too...she says only pc white people say native american) so it's a little bit of an odd name, but still...

It is pronounced HOOK - sett NOT Hook - SETT...I attribute this mistake to the huge number of french canadian immigrant stock in the area...actually the town with the highest number of french canadians in the entire country is just two towns over

A really dismal place to live if you are queer...then again when it comes to New Hampshire the only good places to live are major college towns or in Portsmouth on the coast...otherwise we are talking stealth lesbians...plus given the weather, most of the straight women dress like big butches anyway (flannel etc.) also like they are trapped in the 80s...there is far too much big hair with crispy bangs still in existence here...come to think of it, I have never been intimate with a woman who actually lives in this state...hmmmmm

Anyway, it was founded back in the 1800's during the height of the naturalist movement, as a resort town because of the small mountain (more of a huge rock really...not even 1000 ft.) Pinnacle Point, across from my house (at the time there was a dance hall and zoo at the bottom and an observation tower on top) and the Merrimack River, which runs through the center of town, plus lots of good woodland for hiking...but that was in the 19th century...now it is mostly condos and stripmalls...also the home of Southern New Hampshire University, which oddly enough lends none of the usual college town coolness factor that generally occurs in such situations...anybody wanna adopt me and get me outta here?

umgaynow/Sandi

[Leafsdude]

I live just northwest of Toronto in the fastest growing city in Canada, Brampton (http://www.city.brampton.on.ca/)! It's a 45 minute drive to Toronto from here. Just take highway 410 to the 401 interchange, and then drive til you see the Metro Toronto sign. You can get almost everywhere in the Greater Toronto Area on the 400-series highways, but I'm getting sidetracted...

I was born literally a walk's distance away in William Osler Hospital (formerly Peel Memorial Hospital), which is located on Lynch street, near the corner of Queen Streen East and Centre Street North (http://www.williamoslerhc.on.ca/health_centre/health_centre3.htm).

The town is relatively small in size, with only six major intersections within the city limits, JFK Road/Steeles Avenue to the south, JFK Road-Queen Street and Main Street (Highway 10)/Queen Street in the middle, Queen Street/Airport Road to the East, Main Street (Highway 10)/Bovaird Road (Highway 7) to the northwest and JFK Road/Borvard Road (Highway 7) to the north.

I have lived in 3 houses, twice in between the Main/Bovaird and JFK/Bovaird intercentions, and now not far from the Kennedy-Queen intercection.

There's five "hangout" spots. The biggest is the Bramalea City Centre to the southeast on Peel Centre Drive not far from the Queen/Airport intercetion (http://www.bramaleacitycentre.ca/), There's also Shoppers World to the south at Main and Steeles, which is smaller, and less visually appealing (http://www.shoppersworldbrampton.com/). To the north, there's Heart Lake centre, with north of Bovaird, Fletcher's Creek, with is to the east on Bovaird, and lastly there's four corners, which is the corner of Queen and Main. That intercection was where Brampton was first started back in the 1700's,and has some of the oldest buildings in the Southern Ontario region, not to mention some of the crappiest buildings.

Anyway, that's my ugly town. It's rather boring after 20 years here, but on the bright side, it's about an hours drive to the DeltaTree Plaza Hotel in Toronto, where TCON will be heald and Amber is gonna be.

[Smilis]

I've moved around a bit but the first 20 years or so I lived in this small town in the southest part of Sweden called Trelleborg. Though it is really small it still has one of Sweden biggest harbours. In just three hours you're in Germany and just a couple of hours from Central Europe. Of course Trelleborg is also known for its palms since basically no other city in Sweden have palms. Ok, so they are just outside during the summer but still its a tourist attraction.

Not to forget is the fact that the bridge from Malmoe to Copenhagen is just 20 minutes away.

Nowdays though I live in Hassleholm which is about 70km north of Malmoe and about 600km south of Stockholm. Basically a town in the middle of Skane. However nothing really interesting ever happens there, it is q rather boring town.

[Alcy]

I live in Wellington, capital city of New Zealand - the southern most capital in the world! It has a population of about 160,000 which is big by New Zealand standards!!
Wellington is the culture capital of New Zealand with a great GLBT scene, its open and accepting - the queers flock to Wellington for some reason! There's theatre, dance, symphony and a great number of movie theatres and restaurants.
it's also surrounded by the sea on three sides so the views are beautiful...although it also sits on an earthquake faultline so its not perfect!!
I moved here 8 years ago to go to university and havent left!

[FineyMcFine]

The kitten Frappr map is pretty impressive - 33 kittens so far.

http://www.frappr.com/kittens

[Trom DeGrey]

I've moved around quite a bit, but this is home now. Very snooze-worthy.

[writerfreak]

right now i reside in lexington kentucky for a few more days but im moving back home to my little nothing town in the boring state. i hail from alexandria, indiana. went there my whole life. i moved here a year ago and now i miss home so im going back.

writerfreak

[Sandman78]

Born in Chicago,IL 1970
Lived in Santa Ana, CA (Dad's a jarhead)1972-1980
Moved to Harlingen,TX 1980
Now I reside in Austin,TX since 1996
Hook'em Horns!!!

[Candleshoe]

The kitten Frappr map is pretty impressive - 33 kittens so far.

http://www.frappr.com/kittens

That map is very impressive - up to 47ish now, the Kitten really looks like a global phenomenon!