Where are you from?

[fajrdrako]

A meme from vands88, and I really love this one: I've long been delighted and impressed that the people who read my journal originate from far and wide. What I'd love is for you to comment below, and tell me which region/country you are from. And I'd love if you could add to that one particular thing that makes your part of the world unique. It might be music, a TV show, a recipe, a landmark, a specific historical fact. Anything you are proud of, whether other people might be aware of it or not....

Please do post something - I'd absolutely love to learn something about where you are.

Comments

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

Los Angeles is famous as a city designed around the automobile. Well, there's a neighborhood in LA that starts a block from Venice Beach -- the Venice canals. They're a patchwork maze of canals, built in the 1900s out of an eccentric desire to re-create Venice, Italy; now you can walk along them, past old bungalows, a few oddball ultra-modern houses, and the occasional flock of ducks or geese, with not a car in sight. Here's a link to a couple of pictures:

http://www.hillhaus.com/index.php?cat=83

And here's a more historically oriented link:

http://www.westland.net/venice/canals.htm

That particular page notes, "When Venice of America was first conceived by Kinney, life was literately in the horse and buggy age. By the twenties, the automobile had made its mark and was here to stay. The canals were not practical for the horseless carriage. In 1929 the majority of the canals were filled in and converted to roads."

But a few remain. And besides the ducks and the arching bridges, you can look inside people's houses and see pianos, artwork, and the occasional Emmy or Grammy award.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Los Angeles is famous as a city designed around the automobile.

A matter of historical accident, I imagine? That automobiles came in at about the same time as Los Angeles was growing?

They're a patchwork maze of canals, built in the 1900s out of an eccentric desire to re-create Venice, Italy

I love eccentricities like that - based on the beautiful and the fascinating.

now you can walk along them, past old bungalows, a few oddball ultra-modern houses, and the occasional flock of ducks or geese, with not a car in sight.

Oooh, now I want to! How beautiful. I never saw areas like that in southern California, but my visits to LA have been mostly en route to one convention or another.

Thanks for the lovely links - the pictures are great and they make me think of Raymond Chandler - probably the era - definitely a great connotation!

It amuses me that the trees and vegetation in the LA area always look so... spikey.

The canals were not practical for the horseless carriage.

What, they couldn't import gondolas at the same time they built the canals? Or just get canoes?

And besides the ducks and the arching bridges, you can look inside people's houses and see pianos, artwork, and the occasional Emmy or Grammy award.

Ooh, yes, that's LA For you!

Now nice to get a glimpse of a world that isn't covered in ice and snow at the moment. thank you.

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

And as long as I'm here... I'm originally from New Jersey, the home of Lucy the Elephant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_the_Elephant).

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm originally from New Jersey

I've been there - again, usually going to or from a convention, usually Eclecticon! (Good times.) Never met the elephant, though. Thanks for the glimpse!

Oh course, these days, New Jersey makes me think of Stephanie Plum. Which is not a bad thing, but I hope it gives me a skewed view of the place - where little old ladies carry firearms and funerals are seen as entertainment.

On the other hand, the place has Ranger. That's incentive to immigrate.

My other memory of New Jersey was in travelling from New York to Philadelphia by train with my friend Tovah. We stopped for a snack in Trenton, and walked down a street. "Is this the state capital?" I asked. "It looks like a government town."

"You'd know a government town to see it," said Tovah.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

I'm originally from New York City. What makes NY different?

We're famous. For our skyline, for our food and clothes, for the frenetic pace we live at. The thing that makes NY special to me besides the fact that it is my family's home is its variety. With thanks to L M Bujold "There's 6 of everything here."

New Yorkers are very cool. A UFO could land in the middle of Central Park and no one would blink an eyelash at it.

However when trouble comes we pull together and help each other. I guess in some people's mind's NY is the heart of America. Otherwise why would 9/11 have happened.

Wall Street is here, the Statue of Liberty is here, so is Ellis Island, Broadway, Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Columbia University and thousands upon thousands of dreams. "If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere."

Manhattan is only one part of NY City. It is an extremely complex city.

I'd to say that I was born and raised there.

PS Just for fun watch Ghostbusters I. It has a wonderful parade scene in it where you see many of the different types of people who live there.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What makes NY different?

Maybe just... everything?

New York is a world unto itself!

So whatever took you from NYC to Texas? That must have been a shock to the system!

With thanks to L M Bujold "There's 6 of everything here."

Exciting!

Thanks for the tip on "Ghostbusters". I'd love to live in New York for a while... the theatre! the people! Overwhelming but fascinating.

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

Where I'm from: A small town near Niagara Falls, Ontario. Need I say what makes that region unique?

Where I am: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Nearly 35% of the population of the city was born overseas. It's the most diverse city I've ever lived in (that includes Toronto, Vancouver, and Los Angeles), and even though there are the usual ethnic enclaves, you don't have to be in one to hear the language or eat the food. It's wonderful.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Need I say what makes that region unique?

Hmm... a lot of running water?

Mind you... the Niagara Peninsula is beautiful. So green. That lovely escarpment. I used to visit a friend who lived in Grimsby: the town was so pretty I was totally enchanted.

Nearly 35% of the population of the city was born overseas.

Wow - that's amazing.

and even though there are the usual ethnic enclaves, you don't have to be in one to hear the language or eat the food. It's wonderful.

It sounds fascinating. Makes me long to see it.

What took you to Australia?

[nuptse.livejournal.com]

I'm in Ft. Worth, Texas, aka "Cowtown". Was once the major hub of cattle drives-trail to rail (stockyards to train). There are cow pastures less than 1 mile from my house, and 2 stables within that same mile. I write for The Cattleman magazine, which is published by a cattle association founded in 1877. So in conclusion: Moo, y'all.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm in Ft. Worth, Texas, aka "Cowtown".I write for The Cattleman magazine, which is published by a cattle association founded in 1877. So in conclusion: Moo, y'all.

Cows! Lots and lots of cows! Funny, just at breakfast we were talking about how bad cows smell. I don't meet a lot of cows. Not that we don't have them around here - though on nothing like the same scale. You know, tiny dairy farms. And I don't hang out there often. (Well, ever.)

Are they mostly any particular type of cow around there? Are they all brown?

[luthien.livejournal.com]

I'm in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. The "city" of the Blue Mountains is a string of little towns hugging the highway going west beyond the edge of Sydney, surrounded by a world heritage listed national park. The most famous landmark in the Mountains is a rock formation called the Three Sisters, at Echo Point in the town of Katoomba on the edge of the Jamison Valley. These are the Three Sisters:



And this (http://www.aussie-info.com/places/nsw/bluemts/legend.php) is the Aboriginal legend about them.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So very beautiful. The picture looks like Chinese art - such grandeur! There are no mountains anywhere near me - I suppose the nearest are the ones in New York State. Not very close.

Good legend!

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I lived all my life til ten years ago in Tampa, Florida. The last neighborhood I lived in there features prominently in the opening credits of COPS!** XD XD XD

**US TV show following police teams in various cities and showing real-life, invariably stupid criminals getting arrested for half-assed crimes

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

If I should ever happen to see COPS! - I'll think of you. [g]

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

I'm in the lovely (but expensive) city by the bay - San Francisco. Waves hello and offers you all a latte if you ever make it to the coast.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ah - I have visited to San Francisco, and love it. It's one of my favourite U.S. cities. I saw a production of Kiss Me Kate there - what a treat!

[dave7.livejournal.com]

I'm in Sydney, Australia. One thing that makes us unique? Our most famous icon is a building that was designed by a Dane - Jorn Utzon - to look like the sails of a ship. It took 30 years and over $100 million to build and is both an architectural wonder and one of the oddest buildings in the world.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Our most famous icon is a building that was designed by a Dane - Jorn Utzon - to look like the sails of a ship.

It's beautiful. Why was it designed to look like a ship? Was it a tribute to the history of Australia, or was it just considered and interesting and unusual design?

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I'm in Oxford, UK, where you pretty much just have to walk down the street to fall over a couple of hundred years of history. And more than a few undergraduates.

All the colleges are beautiful (well, most of them - we don't talk about St Catherine's...) but my favourite building is the Radcliffe Camera (http://pics.livejournal.com/jadesfire2808/pic/0000x080/g8). It's now a history/theology/English library, and is simply the most wonderful building in Oxford to study in.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oxford - connotations of history, Shelley, and Inspector Morse!

Must be a wonderful place to study. Gorgeous.

[justinej.livejournal.com]

I live in a beautiful part of Wales, place called Llandybie one hour from Cardiff at the end of the M4.

You can find out more about my life here: http://pics.livejournal.com/justinej/

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I live in a beautiful part of Wales

Aren't all parts of Wales beautiful? All the pictures I've seen look utterly gorgeous. I've been to the west coast - in December, I remember it as being pretty dark - but still gorgeous. Someday I hope to see the rest. I almost went to the University of Aberystwyth for my postgraduate studies, but ended up going to London instead. Makes me want to go there just to visit.

Love your pictures of your area - and your lovely house! Oh, how I would love to live in a house like that!

[chatona.livejournal.com]

'm from Cologne and I love this city so, so much. When I went to Ireland, more people asked me how I was going to survive outside of Cologne than how I was going to survive without my family. Talk about priorities *facepalm*

We have Carnival. And thousands of traditions connected to that, most of which people have forgotten. We have a church with a clock in form of a face that, every day at twelve, sticks out its tongue into the direction of where the Bishop used to live. We have giant ice cones (http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n91/Chatona/Photographs/Cologne/IMG_2466.jpg) on top of buildings and cars with wings on top of others. We have a Cathedral (with another legend connected to it ♥) and an absolutely unique atmosphere in the traditionally cologne-ish pubs, where snarkiness is the main requirement for a waiter.
And, really. It's a damn pretty city (http://www.spanier.eu/koeln.jpg) when you ignore all the ugly stuff *grins*

In conclusion: I love my city ♥♥♥

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful place! Interesting history, too. I always think of Cologne as a crossroads.

You're lucky to be there.

[gillo]

I live in Kenilworth in Warwickshire, England. Shakespeare was born a dozen miles down the road and we have a very pretty pink castle which was built by Henry II in the 1150s, extended into a palace by John of Gaunt in the 1300s and extended again in the 1560s so it would be upmarket enough for Queen Elizabeth I to visit.



It's a great place to take small children as it's big, has lots of grass and interesting walls to clamber on and jump off.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of having a castle 'down the road'. And Henry II is 'my guy'. I visited a bunch of castles from his time when I was studying in England - but I guess that one wa sjust a little too far away. It's gorgeous!

I'd like to climb on the walls and jump off myself, small child that I still am.

[trialia]

South Staffordshire, England. *picspams you!* (Sorry about the size!)

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

bloody hell!! lovely pictures, but I can almost count the leaves. Just in case you ever want to use large size pictures again that you'd like to appear smaller when you insert them. All you need to do is insert size instructions in the code, just make sure you get the proportions right. So in this case your pic is 2272*1704, divide those by 4 andyou get a pracical size of 568*426 just add: width=568 height=426,/b> after you've written the URL and before the closing bracket. No " or anything like that)

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

I am from Amsterdam, born and bred. One of the things I love is the architecture. Not just the stuff we are famous for, like the grachtenhuizen (canal houses) but also the "newer" stuff like the work of Berlage. I love it that the street plan of my district is designed by this (by then famous architect) even though it was a social housing project to rehouse people from demolished slums.
I particular love the Berlage Brug, a bridge over the river Amstel (one of my other loves). his is an architecture of straight lines and lots of little details, so I am not sure whether a photo can convey its specialness

or alternatively a panorama view on panoramamsterdm (http://www.panoramsterdam.com/panos/berlagebrug.html)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Amsterdam is just so historical and unique and interesting and beautiful. I looked up Berlage - turns out I've seen pictures of his buildings, but didn't know his name. Nice bridge - a little reminiscent of the bridge over the canal near my place - I'll try to take a picture for you.

Mind you, it has construction on it right now. It's had construction every summer for ages now, and this year they're getting an early start, not even waiting for winter to end.

[elebridith]

Germany here! The town - never mind, you wouldn't even find it on a map... Next biggest town - probably Hannover.
What do we have? Gorgeous castles like Neuschwanstein in Bavaria come to mind... or the sweet little towns on the North Sea coast. Or the Isle of Rügen. :-)
What am I proud of? Easy. The way in 1989 East and West Germany got united again. Peaceful demonstrations (mostly), people uniting and when they finally opened the Berlin Wall on 9th of November, I sat there and cried. Still do, if they show it for anniversaries. And I think they should show it again and again, to remind the people who are complaining today about the sheer rush of joy we all felt back then. OK, I have a lump in my throat now...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

How wonderful about the peaceful reuniting of the country. I remember when it happened: I was in Orkney at the time, watching television with a friend in a Bed & Breakfast near Kirkwall, with a dog in our laps. I think we cried, too.

[majkia.livejournal.com]

Where I'm from.... Born in a poor part of Pennsylvania, coal mining town, raised and think of Connecticut as home, and after living in other places now live on the Emerald Coast of Florida, the Florida panhandle, the 'Redneck Riviera.' This is a view out my window of Sarah Ann Bayou and Osceola Bay, taken in the fall.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Beautiful picture - and how wonderful to be near an ocean. I love oceans.

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I'm from Liverpool in the UK. South Liverpool to be exact, which is Beatles country. George Harrison used to live on my road, Paul McCartney and John Lennon both lived within 5 minutes drive.

We also have a beautiful half-timbered Elizabethan manor house also about 5 minutes drive away (right next to the airport!).

(http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc176/a_lanart/bits/?action=view&current=Speke_Hall1.jpg)

(http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc176/a_lanart/bits/?action=view&current=Speke_Hall2.jpg)

Liverpool is also the home of a rather unusual Catholic Cathedral, locally known as Paddy's Wigwam (the majority of the RC population in Liverpool is of Irish descent). I think it's official name is the Metropolitan Cathedral Church of Christ the King so it's no wonder it's known as Paddy's Wigwam!

(http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc176/a_lanart/bits/?action=view&current=paddys_wigwam.jpg)

If you go here (http://www.andrewcusack.com/blog/2007/01/the_greatest_bu.php) you'll find the story of the original design of the cathedral aka The Cathedral That Never Was...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Woo, what an interesting building!

The Cathedral That Never Was...

Good story.

Liverpool looks quite wonderful. I'd love to visit it some day.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I'm originally from Linlithgow (meaning loch in a damp hollow) in Scotland, birthplace of several historical characters like King James V and Mary, Queen of Scots. Practically every member of Scottish royalty from Malcolm IV to James VI have stayed in the palace, plus some evil sassenachs such as Edward Longshanks, Edward II, Edward III, Cromwell and the Duke of Cumberland (allegedly responsible for burning down the palace after staying) have also been visitors.

Palace with loch and St Michael's Church spire (http://www.loveofscotland.com/pics/linlithgow1.jpg) and from a different angle (http://www.scotsaver.com/scotland/cards/231097.jpg). James IV prayed in St Michael's before going to the Battle of Flodden and the story goes a ghost appeared to him and warned him that if he went he would die, a prophecy that came true. His wife, Margaret Tudor, had a bower on the highest point of the palace where she watched for him to return, but he never did. The shiny top of the spire is made of aluminium and catches the light in a striking way - originally it was oak.

According to Star Trek lore, it is also the bithplace of Scotty in 2222. I believe there is going to be a plaque of some kind.

At the moment, I live in Manchester (the original British one), home to the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Man United football team, the gay district of Canal St as seen in Queer as Folk, and a major centre of the Industrial Revolution. It was also the site of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 and a 1996 bombing by the IRA in the town centre. Apparently the largest bomb detonated on British soil, it actually failed to kill anyone and is largely responsible for the regeneration and redevelopment of the city centre. Traditional Manchester terraces can be seen all over Life on Mars which was set and filmed in Manchester. There is also the Curry Mile, a large road full of various curry houses, Chinatown, and a fairly significant population of ethnic minorities. We get a lot of fireworks at Eid and Diwali - one year we had both of them and Guy Fawkes day all in the same week and I didn't see the cats for days.

It is also home to a huge number of British bands - Oasis, The Smiths, The Buzzcocks, Joy Division, New Order, The Happy Mondays, James, Take That etc. Past and present students or employees of Manchester universities include John Dalton (who came up with atomic theory), Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford (they still have his desk, and it is radioactive), Hans Geiger, Alan Turing, Anthony Burgess, Wittgenstein, architect Norman Foster and Martin Amis.

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I was in Manchester the day the bomb went off. It was one of the scariest things I've ever experienced especially as I had no clothes on at the time as I was trying on underwear! I couldn't get back to Liverpool until after midnight as all major road and rail links out of the city were closed.

The funniest memory of that day is this elderly lady saying

'Call this a bomb? We had worse during the war you know!'

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

I am from Marion Virginia.
Picture 1 (http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles24750.jpg)
Picture 2 (http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles14482.jpg)
Picture 3 (http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles26532.jpg)

We have one of 3 Mayan Revival Theatres in the States, the other (the Barter Theatre) had Gregory Peck (from to Kill A Mocking Bird). Both have been around for more than 75 years. We also have lots and lots of museums, the Appalachian Trail nearby, the highest mountain in Virginia (Mount Rogers), and more than 10,000 acres of State Park surrounding us.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pictures!

Old theatres - among the best things in the world.

Sounds like good hiking country.

Do you have flowers now? I envy anyone who has flowers. All we have is snow.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Born outside of London, England (don't think I need to say much about what is unique there!). Moved all over the place growing up. Finished high school in Niagara Falls, Ontario (ditto comment about London!).

Now live in Mississauga, Ontario. Canada's 6th largest city, but doesn't have have a daily newspaper, any professional sports teams, tv station, etc. We do have one of Canada's most colourful mayors, Hazel McCallion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_McCallion) who turned 87 last month and is still going strong!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

London, England, is one of my favourite places on earth. Niagara Falls is beautiful - not my favourite part of Ontario, but lovely. I wish it was a little closer, as I'd love to be able to see plays at Niagara-on-the-Lake.

I used to visit a cousin who lived in Mississauga. Is there a Winston Churchill Drive? I remember thinking it was a long trip on the Go Train from Toronto - which it probably really isn't. (Maybe it was because I'd usually spent the whole day making the trip from Ottawa.)

Do you know what the 5 Canadian cities are that are bigger than Mississauga? Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa - Hamilton? Edmonton? Okay, I'll look it up. Okay, I found it here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_100_largest_municipalities_in_Canada_by_population - Hamilton is way down at #9. And Vancouver is only #8. Who'd have guessed? Interesting.

[fl-zed.livejournal.com]

Location: Sweden, Malmö.
Unique: Uhh... Diplomacy? I kid, I kid... No idea, but one of my fav things about my city is the vast array of various architecture styles (it's an old harbour city that's just grown and grown over the centuries). It makes the buildings feel a lot more personal, like individuals. The contrasts between the different styles makes each style far more interesting and appealing to look at.

If all goes badly/well, Co (http://susning.nu/Bok/CoMa)-Ma (http://lexin.nada.kth.se/swe-eng.html) lies in the future (local cyberpunk stories and dystopic delusions of grandeur FTW, especially as I am not aware of any other such fiction about the region).

Have some photos:
http://images.google.com/images?q=Malm%C3%B6
http://images.google.com/images?q=gustav+adolfs+torg
http://images.google.com/images?q=malm%C3%B6festivalen
http://images.google.com/images?q=malm%C3%B6+stortorget
http://images.google.com/images?q=malm%C3%B6+lilla+torg
http://images.google.com/images?q=malm%C3%B6+m%C3%B6llev%C3%A5ngstorget
http://images.google.com/images?q=Malm%C3%B6hus+slott (moat moat lol)
http://images.google.com/images?q=malm%C3%B6+folkets+park

Another nice thing: We have like half a dozen parks, or something. Obviously, not gargantuan ones, but still.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malm%C3%B6 for more data.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What a lovely place! Hope you don't mind me saying so, but my impression of Malmö is that it looks like Ottawa, only flatter: neo-classical buildings with green copper roofs, lots of snow and statues. Only Ottawa isn't nearly so old.

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They call it the Land of Enchantment - it's at the very eastern edge of the Mountain-and-basin west, trickling off into prairie somewhere well east of the Sandia Mountains which form the city's greatest landmark. When the sun is setting the mountains turn pink by reflected light. It is a very liminal state culturally as well as geographically. From one viewpoint we're at the very heart of MexAmerica. From another, we're the southeasternernmost tip of the Rocky Mountain West.

We have deserts and mountains, piney woods and river valley bosque. We have settlements and lineages dating back to the Conquistadores, some of which were Jewish refuges from the Reconquista. We have Pueblos, Navajos, and Apaches - have I forgotten anyone? Catron County's rancher individualism well mixed with greens and hippies and a pair of neopagan authors - northern New Mexico aging hippie country living uneasily (or easily - depends) with the people who have been there for 500 years.

We have the tourist trap known to the rest of us as Santa Fake, where the legislature also meets and the state government is located. We have a governor who has kept his name before the national public continuously for years. We have a thriving comunity of science fiction writers, of which (alas) I am not a member, having had my day back in the 80s.

Read Jane Lindskold's "Child of a Rainless Year" which brings all this out about just one town, Las Vegas, NM. Then spread it out.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

You also have the amazing Flying Star cafes with all those delicious cakes, mmmm. They were certainly a big feature on my visits. I never did decide whether the Raspberry Blackout or the Naranja were the nicest, and my friend put up a good defence of the German one that I can't remember the name of - but since this meant trying them all again, it wasn't a big problem!

And aside from the cakes, it's a lovely place. You're lucky to live there.

[mommimus-prime.livejournal.com]

Originally from Long Beach, Ca but now living in Erie, PA.

Erie is known for it's participation in the War of 1812, particularly the Battle of Lake Erie. Oliver Hazard Perry has a statue downtown. His Brig, the Niagara, was rebuilt (not the original), sails from it's port outside the main library and carries the flag that says "Don't Give up the Ship" and he famously said "We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop." Col. Strong Vincent died here and his body was boiled so his bones would fit into the box they shipped him home in.

A Photo Gallery. (http://www.visiteriepa.com/photogallery/photogallery.shtml)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

now living in Erie, PA

Hee! I remember Erie! Site of happy memories and good times.

liver Hazard Perry has a statue downtown. His Brig, the Niagara, was rebuilt (not the original), sails from it's port outside the main library and carries the flag that says "Don't Give up the Ship"

How wonderful. I'd like to see it sometime.

his body was boiled so his bones would fit into the box they shipped him home in.

Eyeu.

[vervassal.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm from Sacramento, CA, which is the state capitol (which means that everyone works for the state, yay!). Um, there's nothing very special about Sacramento- Tower Records started out here, and we have an adorable (if kitchsy) Old Town, and we seem to produce famous/popular bands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_entertainers) every now and again but otherwise Sacto is (IMO) boring. (My neighborhood (http://vervassal-pics.livejournal.com/10659.html))











Which is why I moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, which I think is self-explanatory.





At any rate, I'm heading back to Sacramento, and then hopefully moving to San Francisco or Seattle w/in a couple years. :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love both San Francisco and Seattle - and Edinburgh too, of course. Though I've never been to Sacramento. The only problem with the West Coast is that it is so very far away.

Lovely photos!