HamsterHuey said:

Beautiful.

JustErin said:

Beautiful.[/quote]

I knoooow. I wish I could return there, but the houses there are amongst the most expensive in the country, buggery boo.

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MoniGram said:

I've been to Scottsbluff--we stopped there on a family vacation. I think my brother & I got our picture taken in an old-fashioned wagon or something. We were probably on our way to Wyoming or Colorado and had to drive through Nebraska.

DevotedPuppy said:

How very cool! I miss my hometown!

Nope i was born in a shithole called NY

I was born in Santa Barbara, California..in no way small, but cute as hell. My husband on the other hand was born in a small rural town in Mexico, one of those small towns where almost everyone is related in someway. It was dirt poor, no inside plumbing, the closest thing to a store was a couple of hours away. And most people got around by fricken horse back!! When he was 15 my husband literaly bailed and moved away alone to be with a cousin he had, who happened to live in, Santa Barbara.
He has gone back to visit his family that stayed in Mexico a total of 4 times in the last 30 years. He in no way shape or form misses his old life, he is a city boy!

Nope. But I strongly identify myself with this song:

Loving the stories ...

Byron said:

Oh damn, I just did pics. My village is a village in between of woods and meadows and heather. It used to be farmer country, until the 1920's when artists wanted to return to nature and they descended from Amsterdam in the little town next to mine.
But slowly some of them ended up in my village and slowly it became very popular with Dutch celebrities, making real estate in my village SO expensive that most farmers have left and most farms have been converted to pricey houses for the upper class.
Growing up there, in retrospect, was magical. Running around farms and playing in forests and heather landscape, in between cows, sheep and silence.

It's still small. It's still magical and it contains my favourite place in the world, which is the last pic in my previous post. I will not divulge it's history here on Org, as it is too personal, but let's suffice by saying that when I die, I want my ashes to be scattered at just that place.
You can probably imagine by that remark how much that place means to me and what a shock it was to find a pic of just THAT place on the net, when scouring it for pics just this evening.

Luckily I was at that same time invited to come and have dinner at my best friend's place. We went for beers after that and I am now happily drunk, sharing this all with you.

And my village is so small it does not have traffic lights. It mostly contains small, meandering lanes with lots of hedges and sometimes they are so small just one car can pass at one given time, as the entire plan of the village was created over the centuries.
The meandering nature of the oldest part of the village (where I grew up) can be so confusing at times people visiting ALWAYS get lost, esp after dark. It's like a maze, but one I can navigate still, after having left 15 years ago, with my eyes closed.

And I left cuz I had to. Sometimes a place in the world can harbour your heart, but not contain your soul. In the end, though, I will return there. And stay.

I was born and raised in South Detroit, but i met a small town girl on the midnight train going anywhere...


Actually, I was born in Pittsburgh and I now live in Darlington, SC, so you can imagine...

Byron said:

I only gave that much info because it's your thread, normally I'm all when it comes to talking about the hometown. No, it wasn't called Mayberry , it has a really, really stupid name which I won't tell.

Yeah, 29 people and my school district included two towns--mine and another even smaller town with a population of about 250! I could probably still list all of my classmates names as well as the names of their older and younger siblings. My grandfather had 10 brothers & sisters and a lot of their kids ended up living in the same area so at one point during my junior year, there were 12 of my second cousins in HS with me. The guys in my class were mostly dorks/non-athletic and my friends & I were all on the varsity teams, so we always hung out with the guys from a neighboring school (8 miles away) that played football with our school.

My dad graduated from the same HS in 1966 and my Spanish/Civics/World History teacher had also been his teacher his senior year.

the tiny town of San Francisco... probably never heard of it

I was born in a town of population about 30000, but moved to a small villiage 5 miles outside it when I was 9, population 127, apparently!! The villiage I consider home more than the town because I guess they were my more formative years. And although I don't know what Herman's story is with the picture of what looks like some woods, I can definitely identify with having such a strong bond with a patch of land We were surrounded by woods and fields there, which were interrupted by a disused railway line, and that played such an important part in our lives as kids. My dog, who I had from when I was 6 months to 13, is buried in those woods, the "Green Carpets".

As for growing up in said small town though, I hated it! I couldn't wait to get to the brights lights, and still, the bright lights I am in now (pop 50000 - 100,000 in summer) will never be enough. I have big dreams

Small town, one traffic light... and haven't escaped yet.

HamsterHuey said:

It's destiny that I started this thread then lol ...

Your hometown seems like a vacation spot...

DevotedPuppy said:

Orgnote me lol ...

CalhounSq said:

Oh, hun...

susannah said:

Oh, wow ...that's pretty touching.

matthewgrant said:

Why not?...

chillichocaholic said:

chilli
peak hour lasts 4 ten minutes here

my in -laws live 10 minutes out of the city- and they have horses and cows etc on their land
i spent a lot of my time growing up in a little town that u pass thru to get to Port Arthur- a one store town - no traffic lights

and i loved it

id love to see some of the world- but i'd always come home to tasmania

You'll rarely see a crowd in Tasmania, which has a very small population for its size. The total population is 474,400 (2000est)(there are 19,546,792 (2000est) in the whole of Australia). In contrast to other Australian states where the majority of the people live in the capital, only about 40% of Tasmania's citizens reside in Hobart. In greater Hobart there are 194,200 people (1999est); in Launceston 70,000; in Burnie 19,000; in Devonport 25,000. English is the language of the whole of Australia including, of course, Tasmania. As you walk around Tasmanian cities and towns you may hear other languages - people from many countries have settled here and brought their languages with them.
http://www.goway.com/down.../tasmania/

grew up in a town of about 8,000 people. 3 stoplights.

I was born in small town in Kent.





Even played for the village football team a few years back, they are all younger and fitter now





I took a pic of where my parents still live when we flew over on the way to racing one day a couple of years back


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I was born in Davos.

A lot of these places look like vacation getaways lol...especially Herman's, Phil's and sataninas' ...

Byron said:

Welcome anytime my friend

mdiver said:

You're gonna be sorry you said that lol ...

I moved back to the town where I was born about 14 years ago...it's small by most standards, around 10,000 people...it has grown alot over the last ten years because people have discovered the slower pace and minimal cost of living...
the two biggest industries here are farming and Rayonier...

it is the largest mill of it's kind in the US and is the sole reason for any economic development here...

the courthouse...


the drive-in...


the Altamaha River and Big Hammock wildlife management area...


one of many houses on the historic register...


an old post card...it still looks that way..minus a few trees...


state record catfish caught here...83 lbs...


the old gas pump at my great grandmothers place...


even with the recent growth, the town retains it's "small town" charm...it's a great place to raise a family and although I never imagined myself saying this, moving here was one of the best decisions I've ever made...
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roodboi said:

Why did you decide to move back?...

And an 83 pound catfish?!! lol

Byron said:

I agree, that had to be some fish fry!