Facts about your place of residence

Lets all learn at least one fact about the places we live.

I will start

Place: Southend-On-Sea

Fact: Southend Pier is a major landmark in Southend-on-Sea. Extending 2,158 m (1.341 miles) into the Thames Estuary, it is the longest pleasure pier in the world

Let me be second then.

Gothenburg: The city where Bruce Springsteen managed to get the crowd so excited that the foundation of the stadium broke. (Ullevi)

erm ok

Place: Royal Tunbridge Wells, England

Fact: Tunbridge Wells is only 'royal' because the queen visited it a LONG time ago, to drink from the pantiles, the area's only natural spring, which was meant to have 'healing qualities' but ive tasted it and all it did was make me feel sick

Niles, Ohio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles,_Ohio

Bruiser Bob wrote:

Niles, Ohio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles,_Ohio

Now now Bob...that's cheating! lol

Funny topic.

I live in East-Friesland, which is a small part of Germany. But even though, in a place very near we have a very special bridge. It is said to be the smallest bridge in Europe which is allowed to be passed via car.
I had to drive it once with a Mercedes, and I can tell you, if you don't put down your side-mirrors, it's more then just narrow...

Just a short video to show the bridge...

I live in a small village in lower austria with only a bit more than 2000 habitants. The village is directly by the danube and so you can do a lot of different water sports here. We also had some great events because of this.

Take a look

Also an important fact is, that here still live direct descendants from the governing Habsburg in a really old Habsburg castle.

Kaluani wrote:

Funny topic.

I live in East-Friesland, which is a small part of Germany. But even though, in a place very near we have a very special bridge. It is said to be the smallest bridge in Europe which is allowed to be passed via car.
I had to drive it once with a Mercedes, and I can tell you, if you don't put down your side-mirrors, it's more then just narrow...

Just a short video to show the bridge...

I can't believe you can drive across that bridge!

Atlanta Georgia, USA


Hmm Atlanta hosted the 1996 Olympics, It is also the home of the Worlds Largest Aquarium..Hmm what else..OH! It is one of the best city's to be single in (recent poll) Atlanta's pretty cool lots of stuff to do, I love it

Clover South Carolina had some people at one of the factories here win the lottery and it is close to Charlotte North Carolina which is the home of most Nascar drivers and home of Ric Flair who I have met in a restaurant before. Not much else it is pretty boring here.

Leon Heart wrote:

Bruiser Bob wrote:

Niles, Ohio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles,_Ohio

Now now Bob...that's cheating! lol

Sorry Leon I didn't know there were rules.

Whittier, California is a suburb of Los Angeles.
Interesting Fact: Birthplace of Richard Nixon

Whittier College - Home of the Poets, They're not even the Fighting Poets or anything They're just Poets.

Longview, Texas:

One of two Major Hub Cities of East Texas. From the '06 census, estimated population of Longview was around 77,739.

Home and/or Birthplace of a lot of people I don't know (xD) but most notably of:

Neil McCoy(Home)
Dr. Bill Bussey(Home)
Rodney Carrington(Born)
Forest Whitaker(Born)

Southampton ( England)

Has the second highest amount of university students in the country behind London

Leon Heart wrote:

Kaluani wrote:

Funny topic.

I live in East-Friesland, which is a small part of Germany. But even though, in a place very near we have a very special bridge. It is said to be the smallest bridge in Europe which is allowed to be passed via car.
I had to drive it once with a Mercedes, and I can tell you, if you don't put down your side-mirrors, it's more then just narrow...

Just a short video to show the bridge...

I can't believe you can drive across that bridge!

*gg* You actually can, and if you look at the video, there is a jeep coming from that direction - the most funny fact about that bridge is: There is a small village behind it and the bridge is the fastest connection to the more greater cities and stuff (Over the bridge it takes you about 15 minutes to the nearest city, driving all the way round takes more then 30) - so it's usual all people drive that bridge, and if you once dare and ask someone from that village to take you home or anything, you will have the fun of driving with someone who is really FAST when he passes that bridge, no matter how great his car is.
The best thing I ever seen was a friend (she actually lived in that village) of my GF - she passed that bridge with more then 60 KmH ...

But you may wonder, the number of accidents related to that bridge is very small (especially if you look at what happens all around).

Sierra Vista, AZ

fact : about 16 miles away from the famous Tombstone. (well atleast it's famous around here haha)

liverpool,england

liverpool is famous for its football club

Turku (Åbo in Swedish), Finland.

Three 'boring' facts and a couple of facts I think are quite funny:

- A coastal city located in the southwest Finland. About 175 000 people of which 30 000 are students either at one of the universities or polytechnic institutes (this is the official translation of ammattikorkeakoulu, where people can study pretty much any profession that requires some education, excluding academic education).

- Oldest city in Finland and was the capital of Finland until Russians (Finland was then a part of Russia) wanted to move the capital closer to them (and remove the Capital-status from Turku because Turku had very close ties to Sweden) and made Helsinki capital in 1812. The people in Turku have never really gotten over that.

- A candidate for European Capital of Culture in 2011.

- Has a rivalry with the city of Tampere, often dubbed the "Manchester of Finland" due to its industrial nature in the past. The university of Tampere has a students' association of un-Turku (a clumsy translation). They make a trip to Turku every year and, as a part of their trip, jump at the main marketplace in order to "further the sinking of Turku into the sea".

- Tampere is not the only place in Finland which has issues with Turku, as Turku is widely considered to be the a**hole of Finland.

Freelancer wrote


liverpool is famous for its football club

Yeah Everton Tranmere...................sorry Free couldn't resist i'm a man.utd. fan meh

I live in a "city" which has 2 names depending on your religion

Protestants say Londonderry

Catholics say Derry

No big deal to me but over here to alot it is

i live in little city called Kerava in Finland..well..nothing worth of mention really..lol

Russell, Ohio is home to the ASM International geodesic dome, one of the 20 largest geodesic domes in the world.

Cleveland, Ohio, which is close enough to where I live, is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (or Rock Hall as the people here call it).

Tampa, FL - close enough to where I live

Home to a multitude of wrestlers and former wrestlers
Hulk Hogan
Randy Savage
John Cena
Christian Cage
Edge
Brian Knobbs
Luna Vachon
Eugene
Jimmy Hart

and the list can go on and on.

Kannapolis N.C. - Home of 7 Time Nascar Racing Champion Dale Earnhardt and his son, Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Concord N.C. (sister city to Kannapolis) - Home of Reeds Goldmine, 1st major gold discover in the United States.

Charlotte N.C. (17 miles away) - Carolina Panthers NFL Football, Charlotte Bobcats NBA Basketball, Claimed home by The NATCH, Nature Boy Ric Flair.

One more for Charlotte, N.C. since it is close to me like 20 miles away. Home of the NASCAR museum.

One more for Concord, N.C. home of Lowe's Motor Speedway

Brampton, Ontario Canada.

Once considered 'Flowerton' due to the large amount of greenhouses in the city.
Er, also the birthplace of Michael Cera (Arrested Development, Superbad, Juno).