My Town

[GigglesNSwing]

I was born in NYC & grew up in North Jersey.

I also lived in D.C. for a few years.

My grrlfriend & I live in North Jersey now.

We are hoping to move to Vernon soon.

We love Action Park/Mountain Creek!

[BeatNikJackie7777]

I live in Miami, Florida. And I have to say, I've lived here all my life and like it to a certain extent, but this living in this city is like living in a madhouse. It's like some crazy city you'd expect Alice to have stubled into on her visit to Wonderland. We've got absentee balot scandals, election fiascos, little Cuban boys washing up to our shores, huricanes and random thunder storms (Florida's actually the state with the most anual sightings of tornadoes and lightning, go figure)...we have Key West, which has one of the highest populations of homosexuals in the US and thousands of homosexuals living all over Miami, and yet bible-thumpers manage to get enough signatures to get an Human Rights bill regarding homosexuals reversed, which would allow discrimination in terms of finances, housing and employment on the basis of sexuality. Then you hear on the news that the campaign was beign held under suspicion for possibly forging signatures, and yet, the issue is still left on the ballot!? there's the beach, which is madness. This is a place where no one ever goes to be themselves...its almost as if you have to become someone else at South Beach. So everyone is better-looking and better-dressed than they normally are, and you'll see random 14 year old girls walking by at 3AM wearing outfits they must have borrowed from their 2 year old sisters. Its all madness!! Growing up in this city was madness...Imagine sitting in math class in high school, and having a fellow classmate get up because her beeper went off. Now imagine the teacher asking her where she's going. Seems tame enough right? Well, now imagine that girl saying, "I have to go; my pimp is calling me!" and never coming back to class again. Or imagine your art teacher getting arrested while in class for allegedly smoking weed in the parking lot, and your once tame art class turning into Dangerous Minds suddenly without a teacher. Imagine a girl walking into your 6TH GRADE geography class so high she cant sit so falls out of her chair. Imagine a fight in junior high where one guy stabs another guy in the eye with a pencil!! And I went to relatively good, suburban schools. Or imagine starting school weeks late, because your town was nearly decimated by a category 4 huricane that practically leveled a whole city, and left the rest of Miami without power, sanitary water and phones for nearly 2 months. Miami's a crazy place to live, but you get used to it and actually start to like it. And then again, its not all bad...we've got the Dolphins. 1972 undefeated season. Most Winniest Team in NFL history, with the most winniest coach and the most record-setting QB, who defeated our biggest rivals, the despised JETS this sunday and pratically shut them out and are now 3-0. So yeah, this city's not all bad we have our moments of glory.

[Tara Croft]

Aceivan, you seriously like rolls and mince??

Now, deep fried mars bars....yum!! Louise, don't knock it til you've tried it

An epiphany of one so pretty

You are a shining light

[saule77]

Well, I live in Dublin, Ireland (HI Molly!! *waves and agrees that the Curragh is nice*) and have lived there for the past 3 years.



Originally, I'm from La Rochelle, France.

Lived in sunny Germany (Regensburg, Bavaria... Loved it!) for a year and in rainy Bristol (England) for another.



What I'm REALLY trying to say is that... I'm a European Kitten more than anything...

Season 7: "Is this supposed to be some sort of sick joke?"
"Please continue with the story of failure"

[JulesP600]

Sorry Sweetjane, only just saw your reply!!



There are a few of us in North Wales....



Sorry but, I don't know much Welsh either. But I do get liking Willow and Tara

The only way to have a friend is to be one

[Lola19]

Well it looks like Im gonna have to try it then!

Who's for holding me down and making me eat a deep fried mars bar?!!

Are they really that good?



Louise xxx

[X Lynz X]

hey, ive not posted for a while, but since there was a few scottish kitties, i thought i may as well join in!

i'm from glasgow also.

don't fancy deep-fried mars bar, but hey is deep fried pizza a scottish thing?! *boak* i think our country is naturally drawn to fatty foods. hey we aren't called the heart disease capital of the world for nuthin!!

i absolutely love 'chewin the fat' aaand the new programme 'still game' is so funny as well.

oh well take care kitties,



Lynz x x x

[dizzysyd]

Hmmm...



I'm originally from Pine Bluff, AR (recognized by "20/20" as "Worst City in the Country" a few times many years ago).

Left Pine Bluff LITERALLY the first day I could, and moved to Jonesboro, AR to attend ASU.

Got into radio and moved to Cape Girardeau, MO.

Got fired. Moved to Laurel, MS.

Left there to move to Little Rock, AR for a job that lasted 6 months. Went to the station across town, been there 2 and a half years, and I've lived in Little Rock for 3 years now.

One of these days, I WILL live in New Orleans.

I will NOT live in Birmingham. Heh.

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"everything happens for reasons that she will never understand

'til she knows the heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man"

- vanessa carlton

[Always E]

I'm a Northern Californian originally...born and raised in a city called San Jose. **Waves at Rally because I know where San Bruno is and even have a few friends that live in Sunnyvale**



I went to college in San Luis Obispo...spent about six months in Glendale working for Disney as a co-op...then moved to Las Vegas, NV right after graduation. I've been here ever since...still wondering where the last eight years went...



As far as heat goes...let me just say that when you're standing in the shade and you start slipping because the soles of your shoes are melting...welcome to Vegas in the summer.**GRIN**



-E

[Jennifer]

Amen to that. Only here in Vegas could you say to a tourist "It's only 105? It's nice out" (I did that in July. I think I scared the poor East Coaster)

Willow made a small fist and waved it at her (Tara), and the two grinned in that secret knowing way lovers ever did. It amazed him now, looking back upon it, that he had not realized sooner that Willow and Tara were more than merely friends. -Giles, "The Wisdom of War" My Journal

[aceivan]

Tara, rolls and mince with Branston pickle...the food of the gods!

[Tara Croft]

Incredibly sick Gods

An epiphany of one so pretty

You are a shining light

[hellmouthhottie20]

I live in a scuzzy town in the deep south of england, called Horsham/Crawley (if you want a job you say horsham, if you want to win a fight you say crawley)

We are right next to Gatwick airport and not far from Brighton.

Its FULL of rough pubs and "townies" (who dont like me).

The only good things are the skatepark and the mall.

Everyone who lives here either works in london or at the airport,

It rains alot, but when its hot its REALLY hot, cos theres no breeze and when its cold its even more miserable then normal.

So i was born here, i live here but theres NO WAY iam dying here, Iam off to Cornwall for the surf, or if i win the lottery then California



Caz

Kelly-"They make you like,feed a tree before you feed yourself

Ozzy - how the F**K do you feed a tree? What do you do, put a ham sandwich on it! -Kelly Osbourne to Ozzy about hippy camp

Edited by: hellmouthhottie20 at: 9/24/02 3:07:08 pm

[girlofp]

areslei - I am from a small coal town 2 hours northwest of Philly too... but there are so many of them... Are you anywhere near Pottsville by chance?

But at this very moment I live in a dorm room... oh the joy of college life.

to p: "I'm only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank You." A Beautiful Mind

[Puff]

Originally I was from a small town called Didcot stuck in between Reading and Oxford really; probably as far away fromt he ocean as you could get in England.



Now I am in Campbell CA pretty near San Jose. I like the weather here much better, but sometimes I miss the fact that there's no grass around here unless you water it.

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You know, it's a real deal relationship and that's why people can relate to it
Amber Benson

[Thespia]

I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and currently live in Niterói, a city nearby.



There's not much to talk about Niterói, though. People say that the best part of living here is having a perfect view of Copacabana... Anyway, I started coming to Niterói because of the university some ten years ago and ended up falling in love with a native... then I moved here. I intend to move to Curitiba, Paraná, in the future; it's not such a famous city as Rio, but it's extremely beautiful. People should go there more often for sightseeing, I really love it!

[aiscool]

Hello All!! I am currently living in Seattle.



I moved here a year ago from San Diego AKA:Land of the best mexican food EVER.

[JJtheCool]

friskylez wrote:

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Hmmm im an air force brat, born in Dayton Ohio, lived in Okinanwa when i was very young, texas, hawaii, texas, reno nevada where i graduated from high school, then to arizona..



then moved to california, joined the army and was stationed in korea and fort ord calif, near Monterey..stayed there for awhile after i got out, then moved back to arizona..lived there three yrs and moved to what will always be my home San Francisco..lived there 9 years, the longest of any place ive lived..



Then it was on to San Diego for 3 yrs and now full circle back to Phoenix

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So, you've come full circle too, eh?



Was born in Stanford, moved to Anchorage a year after that (1970), then my Dad got transfered to Phoenix (1974), where I lived for 20 friggin' years. After numerous attempts to make something of myself in other cities: Denver, the DC burbs {Silver Spring, Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church}, Philadelphia, Fort Wayne and Chicago {Lombard, IL}, I find myself back in the Valley Of The Sun again. Am actually in a job I love as an Intranet developer w/ U-Haul (or what lesbians bring on a second date, so the joke went). To think I hated the idea of moving back here; irony is kind of ironic that way.

JJtheCool

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[LeBuffster]

Hey all!

I'm currently living in a small town in germany not far from cologne. It's called Mettmann but I like to call it "the-most-boring-place-any-human-being-has-ever-seen"! And I'm really not exaggerating! I'm planning on moving to cologne in a year though. After I finished school I'll go to america for a year Columbus, GA, to be exactly.



& to you all!



Diane

You don't like me for who I am, then you don't like me for who I am...and all you can get...is who I am.
- Avril Lavigne

[slayer747]

i live in the philippines, here in Manila... it is a city but during weekends i go home to a small neighborhood outside the city. it's boring there!

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"Sometimes things happen between people that you don't really expect. And sometimes the things that are important are the ones that seem the weirdest or the most wrong, and those are the ones that change your life." - Jessie "Once and Again"

[sheila wt]

Hey Thespia! Great to see more Brazilians here.

I always loved Curitiba too, been there several times. I have a thing for Blumenau and Floripa too. Gotta love the south!

Sheila

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“Come and put the ‘hot’ in my tub.” Tara winked as she whispered. ("Bookmarks & Broomsticks" by The Rainbow Writers)

[cassiopeia191]

I was born in Munich, Germany (the place where the German cliches come from...and no, I don't drink beer for breakfast) and live 30 miles north of it in an 'idyliic' little town called Pfaffenhofen where 65% vote for the conservative party. It's this side of boring but well, it's my home town.



I stayed in Greenville, SC for a year and loved it!

[snuggle79]

ok, does anyone know a town called "Gelsenkirchen" in German? No, well, i guessed that. But no problem, i forgive you. It's not that big but not that small either.

But it's ok. It's near to cologne.

Tara:"Maybe we dreamed it."

Willow:"Right. Right. Wrong! (points at her head ) Different Brains." Tara:"Oh yeah."


"You could at least say sorry, rude-o!"

[Arwen]

I was raised in this little village (Mapleton) in southeastern Ontario, Canada that if you drove through and hiccuped you'd miss it. A very small farming community that I miss so much. *sigh* The city really does suck. I'm now living in St. Thomas, Ontario. The town known for killing Jumbo the elephant! Yeek! It has some nice things though, like my favourite cafe called The Beanery, and it features some really nice parks, etc.....



*waves to all Canadian kitties*

[LeBuffster]

snuggle, I know Gelsenkirchen. I don't live that far away from there. It's near Schalke isn't it? My aunt lives there, I think. Great to know I'm not the only german one here



&

Diane

You don't like me for who I am, then you don't like me for who I am...and all you can get...is who I am.
- Avril Lavigne

[snuggle79]

LeBuffster, cool! you know it!

Yeah, Schalk 04, the best soccer team of the whole world ...ok...whole Ruhrgebiet!

Well, we are not the only german people around here, actually here are a few more.

Where do you come from?

Tara:"Maybe we dreamed it."

Willow:"Right. Right. Wrong! (points at her head ) Different Brains." Tara:"Oh yeah."


"You could at least say sorry, rude-o!"

Edited by: snuggle79 at: 9/25/02 3:11:23 pm

[Indygo]

Hey QuOS, Bagheera... More Novocastrians, that's what I like to see.



I went to University in Newcastle for 5 years, so I know exactly where you're coming from. I go back whenever I can to visit friends and have a cold Ginger Beer down at the brewery.



But now I'm a Sydney girl... home of the "Best Olympics Ever" *yawn* and currently about to host the Gay Games (which I'm WAY more excited about! ) Yes, we of the weird Opera House and coathanger shaped bridge.



But I love this damn city, faults and all. It kind of protects us in a way. I come from a small coastal country town and the freedom and openness of Sydney saved my life and made me the person I am today.



Indygo

[Katty]

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Tara Croft: There seems to be a lack of UK kittens posting in this thread so....



I live in Glasgow Great city, great people, rains a lot!! Think that sums it up perfectly

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I can't quote all the others because we'd run out of room, but I think the tally of Glaswegians (or Glasgow residents, at least) is now officially 6 on this board including me and my gf.



I've never had a deep fried mars bar OR a roll and mince, but I have had deep fried pizza (in my younger more adventurous days!). Ugghhh!



I only just qualify as a Glaswegian, despite having been born here. I've only just made it to the milestone (in the last few months) of having officially spent more of my life in Glasgow than in England!



I was in the forces and other places I've lived include: Aldershot, Swindon (near to Westbury which features in ep 7.01 ), Woolwich (SE London), Victoria (Central London - round the corner from Buckingham Palace), Port Stanley (Falkland Islands), Ripon (North Yorkshire), Hull (East Yorkshire), Scarborough (North Yorkshire - I went to school there and for a long time felt it was truly 'home'). I've also spent time in Chester, Krefeld (Germany), St Thomas (Ontario) and NYC, although all of these four were much shorter stays but I still love all of these places.

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I'm now living in St. Thomas, Ontario. The town known for killing Jumbo the elephant! Yeek!

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Yeah, Arwen. They erected a life size statue of Jumbo (I've stood under his belly, which is officially 5ft 5inches high - my height) and they pointed his butt at the main road into the place, so that's the first thing anyone sees - Jumbo's butt! I have friends who live there too.



I've travelled a bit but now I belong to Glasgow and Glasgow belongs to me... (lol... the Glasgow kitties will get that).



If we won the lottery, we'd buy a place in NYC and travel all over the world but we'll always keep our flat here. It really is a great city.



(Edited to include the Jumbo bit)



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Katty

Not a catty person, just a bit

older than the average Kitty!

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PS - Lola... why would you want to leave Glasgow to go to Uni? We have THREE of them!

Edited by: Katty at: 9/25/02 4:35:50 pm

[Puff]

My Nan lives in Swindon It's a small world.

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You know, it's a real deal relationship and that's why people can relate to it
Amber Benson

[X Lynz X]

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I belong to Glasgow and Glasgow belongs to me

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lol, images of drunken men singing this totally steamin' with their fish supper in one hand, can of tenants superlager in the other, staggering along the road. ahhhhhhh home sweet home!!

"Glasgow's Smiles Better"

I'm very seldom naughty - Willow, Restless