Let's show everyone where we live and why it's so great!

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2004-10-15 07:55am

OK here's some info on where I live.

Korsnäs(Finland, Europe) covers an area of 146 square miles and has a population of 2300.
It's a coastal county, as counties go we're the most western of all mainland counties in Finland, 98% of the population speaks swedish, a ratio which strangely enough exceeds all counties in sweden as well, making it the most swedish county on earth.

We also have the largest sweetwater lake in western finland, I live 100 meters from it.

It is actually a very strong and growing community, 50% of the people here are small bussiness owners, mainly fur farming and greenhouses, though we also have some metal industry and a whole boatload of other companies in everything from soap and shampoo to IT.
All in all there's around 200 small bussiness here or so.

Pics
Our shield of arms:
http://www.korsnas.fi/Turism/img2.gif

Some wind..thingies:
http://www.gastrolab.net/9819-17.jpg

One of the local schools, I used to go here(grades 1-6):
http://www.korsnas.fi/kommun/filer/jpg/Taklax%20skola.jpg

The coastal areas:
http://www.fma.fi/virtualboat/merenkurk ... /molpe.jpg

A beach, during the summers they sometimes have these dances here and we usually go there to get drunk and try and find some slutty girls:
http://www.uwasa.fi/ktt/lasktoim/photof ... 061103.jpg

Molpe, the second largest town, also the most northern one, like all towns here this is the centre but it's really, really spread out over a huge area:
http://www.uwasa.fi/ktt/lasktoim/photof ... 061120.jpg

Windmills! yay!?
http://www.suomiopas.fi/matkailuhaku/ku ... rsnas1.jpg

A map of the county:
http://www.vaasa.fi/pohjanmaanmuseo/kuv ... orsnas.jpg

This is country livin' and I wouldn't have it any other way, I have to travel 15km to get to the nearest gas station and thats the way I like it!

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-10-15 10:06am

The Glorious North East

Well, I just threw this together for shits and giggles, couple of pictures on there are other peoples from tourist sites etc on the internet, the bridge at night, hadrians wall and the castle shots, but the rest are mine. Nothing special, but it's home.

More castles than you can shake a stick at, remote, with Newcastle Upon Tyne at it's heart, definately European Capital of Culture 2008, as I refuse to acknowledge the victory of Liverpool.

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2004-10-15 10:33am

My Complex of Evil

AKA, my grandma's farm. Yes, those are cornfields, and dammit they're boring!

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-10-15 10:43am

i live in Stuttgart.
it sucks.

the city was assrammed in WWII and rebuilt to be ugly as fuck.
we have the nekar, the local river. sadly the urban developers decided not to implement the river into the city at all and planned a bunch of industrial sites around it. even the river is ugly.

population: 600.000 or so people live in stuttgart. they tend to be dickheads. loads of schickimicki shit whichis particularly annoying for the nightlife scene. snot nosed, hand bag carrying, over make uped snob chicks with an "i´m proud to be arrogant and let everybody know"- attitude.

fuck you stuttgart. fuck you to hell!

p.s.: the uni is good. for architecture anyway. that´s why i´m staying.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-10-15 11:32am

salm wrote:i live in Stuttgart.
it sucks.

the city was assrammed in WWII and rebuilt to be ugly as fuck.
we have the nekar, the local river. sadly the urban developers decided not to implement the river into the city at all and planned a bunch of industrial sites around it. even the river is ugly.

population: 600.000 or so people live in stuttgart. they tend to be dickheads. loads of schickimicki shit whichis particularly annoying for the nightlife scene. snot nosed, hand bag carrying, over make uped snob chicks with an "i´m proud to be arrogant and let everybody know"- attitude.

fuck you stuttgart. fuck you to hell!

p.s.: the uni is good. for architecture anyway. that´s why i´m staying.

The inner city with the Old and New Castle is very nice, we have a very pleasant geography, and the Stuttgart region is one of Europe's biggest economic boom centers around.
So it's not bad.
I actually very much like my city.
Munich is FAR worse when it comes down to snot-nosed people.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 2004-10-15 12:25pm

Well here in Kansas, we have...

...Boeing.

But then the city bends over to the company at every opportunity.

We also have...

...little or no rednecks.

But then again...

...we have no shortage of fundies...

...including 2 senators.

The traffic isn't too bad, but in certain places roads are very shitty.
We actually have a nuke plant, but we'll never hear the end of antinuclear bitching.
And all the while enviro-nuts are clamoring for wind energy, and when people start putting up turbines, they whine about it "detracting from the landscape" and killing birds. Well it was your fucking idea in the first place!

Yeah, Kansas has its tradeoffs.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-10-15 12:29pm

The Denver

i wouldn't go so far as to say my city's great by any stretch of the word. though it's at least mildly tolerable to live in, except for the incredibly shitty job market.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-10-15 01:04pm

Jerusalem

We don't have much, only 600,000 people, who get killed, so its all cycled.

What we do have is fundies, of all 3 kinds, and we do have a nice history and all, and some awesome museams.

So come over, enjoy it.[/img]

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-10-15 01:08pm

This started out kind of borderline, but this has become an A&P topic, really. Sorry, HDS. *moves thread*

Edit: Maryland and its prettiness:

Beautiful farmland everywhere! At least out in the country where I live.

More beautiful scenery...

Charming historic towns like this area of Ellicott City.

The Inner Harbor

And...Fells Point, Baltimore, which is a GREAT place to party with friends.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-10-15 01:21pm

Dahak wrote: The inner city with the Old and New Castle is very nice,

i tend to disagree.

we have a very pleasant geography,

how so? the kessel? the fildern with its miles and miles of kraut?

and the Stuttgart region is one of Europe's biggest economic boom centers around.

true.

So it's not bad.
I actually very much like my city.
Munich is FAR worse when it comes down to snot-nosed people.

yep, munich IS worse. but just because we´re only second with the amount of arrogant fuckheads that doesn´t make it better.
i mean 95% of all places to go in the evening are loaded with these idiots. really, the only discos and similar places i like are: die röhre, wagenburg halle, sometimes the zollamt, and of course the palast in the summer. and the rockabilly and soul parties at the hiclub (and even that´s packed with said people).
that´s it. the rest is pure shit like the barcode, the climax the suite, the romy S, the palais, the bett, the ZAP, perkins park, the M1 (oh, how i despise it), proton, prag, zapata... i could go on for ever with clubs i hate in stuttgart.
don´t let me get started with lounges, either.
hell, stuttgart doesn´t even have a handfull of decent bars.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-10-15 01:28pm

oh, i almost forgot. we also have these two morons:

bohemianfey · Post by **bohemianfey** » 2004-10-15 01:37pm

Raven wrote:Well here in Kansas, we have...

...Boeing.

But then the city bends over to the company at every opportunity.

You stole our jobs, assfuckers. At least WA still has the largest boeing plant.

Mlenk · Post by **Mlenk** » 2004-10-15 01:59pm

Las Vegas
Population: 1.5 Million

j1j2j3 · Post by **j1j2j3** » 2004-10-15 02:52pm

Seoul

Population 13Mil.

Warning : Huge ass pic (1.4MB)

bohemianfey · Post by **bohemianfey** » 2004-10-15 02:56pm

j1j2j3 wrote:Snip

You have THE most phenomenal choir!

http://bohemianfey.frozenflame.org/songs/Seoul/

<3

Guy N. Cognito · Post by **Guy N. Cognito** » 2004-10-15 04:18pm

Here are some of the views I can see daily. Ahhh...... beautiful British Columbia. This is Vancouver.

The city at night looks pretty

These have been known to wander into stores, hospitals and houses, I kid you not

And here is where we feed disfunctional children to the pigeons

bohemianfey · Post by **bohemianfey** » 2004-10-15 04:20pm

Guy N. Cognito wrote:Here are some of the views I can see daily. Ahhh...... beautiful British Columbia. This is Vancouver.
<img src="http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/graeme.m/Im/ ... untain.jpg" border = "0" />

<img src="http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/graeme.m/Im/West%20Van.jpg" border = "0" />
The city at night looks pretty
<img src"http://www.physics.ubc.ca/graduate/imag ... ouver.jpeg" border"0"/>
These have been known to wander into stores, hospitals and houses, I kid you not
<img src"http://uwe.kloetzner.com/album/canada03/DSC04278.JPG" border = "0"/>
And here is where we feed disfunctional children to the pigeons
<img src="http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/graeme.m/Im/ ... island.jpg" border = "0" />

HTML doesm't work here, sweety. Use:

Guy N. Cognito · Post by **Guy N. Cognito** » 2004-10-15 04:27pm

Thanks, and that was the quickest response I think I've ever seen. I just left briefly to check how it was done here and you had already corrected me. Thanks for the tip.

bohemianfey · Post by **bohemianfey** » 2004-10-15 04:28pm

Guy N. Cognito wrote:Thanks, and that was the quickest response I think I've ever seen. I just left briefly to check how it was done here and you had already corrected me. Thanks for the tip.

Email notifications.

No problem.

Guy N. Cognito · Post by **Guy N. Cognito** » 2004-10-15 04:33pm

Notifications you say......... wow, what can't this board do? But I'll stop this tangent, I'm getting off topic off to make up for it, I'll throw on another pic. Winter looking at the city and Harbour

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-10-15 05:28pm

Behold Rhode Island!

downtown ice skating in Providence

in the summer we set the river on fire

the ocean is pretty

we build nuclear submarines

http://www.brown.edu/

and we have an Ivy Leauge University!

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-10-15 05:30pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:[img]http://www.naval-technology.com/project ... 10.jpg[img]

we build nuclear submarines

*Steals*

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-10-15 05:38pm

http://www.sochistdisc.org/annual_meeti ... rleans.jpg

http://www.beachscreens.com/Image-Archi ... dge-01.jpg

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2004-10-15 05:57pm

I live in Galway. We have bugger all.

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-10-15 06:06pm

Florida

Remember that home remodeling project you were going to work on, but never did?

No more excuses now, eh?