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Roy, Utah

I live in boring as hell, Utah. And no offense to anyone, mormons are everywhere. You can't even say hell or god without someone scolding you :(. My town doesn't even appear on the F'ing weather map and the only cool thing about it is that we have a Del Taco ;D. Moving, is happening as soon as possible unfortunately I am 14 and that won't happen for a while

I was born in Wichita, KS.
The only thing you need to know about it is it is full of terrible drivers. For serious. And we fight through talking in the news paper.

Right now, I live in Mount Hope, KS, the only mountain in Kansas. Look, this place is such a Nobody'sville that even Wikipedia has nothing to say about it.


...My dream is to move to either the West Coast or the East Coast. Not sure which yet.

Ekenäs, Finland
The town I was born in. It's a small coastal town. Probably the biggest town with a Swedish speaking majority in all of Finland. But that's not saying much. It's a fairly pretty town, especially in summer. There tends to be a lot of tourists hanging around in the summer. There isn't really anything famous or known in the town. There's the Raseborg Castle of course and uh... well. Yeah.
The people I guess can be nice enough. Not American nice, but nice enough.
We have a couple of schools (about seven 1st-6th grade, two 7-9th grade (One Finnish, one Swedish), one High School and one Polytechnic), no game stores, no malls, except if you count the one from the early 70s that only has two stores in it (It tried at least). There's not a single fast food chain in the town except if you count gas stations as fast food chains.

Karis, Finland
Karis is the neighbouring town to Ekenäs and I moved here a month ago. Though my dad has lived here for a while and I mean it's the neighbouring town so it's practically the same place. I don't really know much about the town really, except that it has a railway station, which is handy. (and that it's the last stop for the Helsinki local traffic trains, which is also handy since those trains are a lot cheaper)
This town has a fast food chain present. It was fairly recent.

Raseborg, Finland
When the years change in a couple of weeks both of the towns above will be united into a slightly bigger town. Named after the castle. There's been a lot of politicking back and forth about it and it's sort of a big deal.


So this is my home area. And a lovely place it is. Next year there's even going to be a Karjaa Bad Joke Festival (Karjaa is Karis in Finnish). Hopefully.

White Plains, NY

This is where I go to school. It is basically a soulless demon city where rich businessmen live who want to commute to NYC but don't want to live there. It has about a thousand malls and none of the character of the rest of "upstate New York," which it is termed to be a part of despite being in the southern 16th of the state. It is not nearly as charming as Harrison and Rye, which are within 15 minutes of this pseudo-city. Yonkers is also nearby.

I much prefer the entire rest of the state of New York to this place, especially up near Putnam County.

Littleton, CO

My hometown. I love it here. Colorado is famous for snow, mountains, prospectors, and Matt and Trey. Littleton is unfortunately famous for Columbine, a high school which I live within walking distance of. Denver is getting to be a pretty sprawling metropolis, and has one of the largest theater complexes in the country (obviously dwarfed by New York's theater district).

Colorado, being nearly in the middle of the country (despite its being a WESTERN state, not mid or south-western), gets access to almost every food chain across the country. This means we get not only Fuddruckers and Red Robin but also Breuggers Bagels and other Eastern companies. We are also home to the best restaurant ever, Noodles and Co, which features noodles of every nationality (from the best Mac and Cheese ever to Stroganoff to thai noodles to spaghetti). We also eat buffalo which is really awesome.

Coloradans like to shoot rifles or be hippies. You can basically fit Coloradans into those two very broad categories. Sometimes they overlap. Also, we are seasonally overrun with Californians who love to ski.

Colorado is geek-friendly, especially Littleton. There are about 10 comic book/tabletop gaming stores within easy distance of me, and I don't know how many video game stores.

This state is a desert and also a mile above sealevel, which makes it hard for visitors to come up without getting sick/dehydrated. Also it's hilarious to watch people from the coasts try to drink booze here (most can only drink about half what they usually do back home due to the altitude).

The mountains are West of Denver, which makes it easy to tell what direction you're heading. In the year 2008, we hosted the Worldcon Science Fiction Con (and the Hugo awards), as well as the Democratic National Convention. The music groups Flobots, 3Oh!3, and The Fray are from here.

I grew up in a small town called Cabot, Arkansas. It's not a very interesting place, it was just spawned because of the airforce base so close to it. Most of the people that live there are white God-fearing people that seem to believe that the United States is the only country that matters and... ah, forget it, I can't write anything NICE about that place. The only nice thing about it was that all I did was stay at home and play video games because I felt alienated. I don't have a very noticable southern drawl (it only really comes out when I'm angry - it's how you know I'm pissed off), and I was treated like I just moved into town even though I lived there way over 18 years. I moved away soon after I turned 19 when I could do it on someone else's pocketbook, and I've only been back once since then... and it's still the same old crapfest that it was when I was a kid.

Right now, I live in a place called Frankfurt, Germany. It's a big city full of Germans, Turks, and a lot of other people from all over Europe. It gets really cold at winter, really hot in summer, and it's humid year round. I don't know why people like living here yet, I'm sure there's some big secret about it hidden here that I have yet to find! I'm not a native here, of course, but some of my ancestors were German. This doesn't mean much, as it's not helping me learn the language any faster. Germany is ruled by a democracy with a lot of socialist ideals. I don't mind this, really. The healthcare is much more affordable than in the united states, most of the time it doesn't cost anything. I don't understand a lot about government, so please don't try to ask complicated questions about how it functions here - feel free to ask Asa if you like. All I know is that there are much more strict rules so much paperwork it makes a person's head spin. I like to eat out here because of the forgien food available - Chinese made by actual Chinese, Turkish made by actual Turkish and so on!

I have grown up and lived in three different places. Longview, Washington; Riddle, Oregon; and Eugene, Oregon.

When I lived in Longview, I was a little kid with a couple of good friends and knew some awesome old couple. But the downside was, I was also friends with a kid who kept stealing my toys and lived next to an typical old angry woman, not the same woman from the awesome old couple I knew.

I pretty much lived in Riddle, for the majority of my life. It's a nice small hicktown with nothing to do within my interests. Also, I was one of the person who didn't fit into any social groups, but I was friends with most people of my class in someway. I recently wished we had more school years to go cause I miss those classmates. :'(

Lived in Eugene for a year, and let me tell ya. I am not a city person in some shape or form. I couldn't stand living here and when I was, I was still too young to even have my driver's license so it suck. Especially where we lived. I still think it was just a big ass ally with houses on it... Luckily, father's work there only lasted a year. ;D

Suwanee, Ga

Suburbs. It is a nice area though, and it is growing larger. Close by is the Mall of Georgia, the biggest mall in the southeast.

The only really notable thing about here is that it was in Money Magazines top ten places to live in 2007. But I like it, although it is not as exciting as the city life.