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    Posted: January 17 2007 at 20:26
    Ok, this has been done before, ages ago.

Lets's see pictures of your home town.

Here's Bolton,UK.



The Town Hall:


A Pub I frequent:



A local "mill" (factory):



Bolton at night:


And during the day:




and of course Bolton Wanderers Premier Lge Football Team:



Local people queing up to view the first ever color TV sold in Bolton (circa 1999)




actually they are watching the football results at 5pm on a Saturday..


Anyone else?






    

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The city I was born and live is well-known, I guess, but here are some different views:

 
Guigo

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Is that the great Brazilian City of Buenos Aires, Guigo?
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Originally posted by Tony R Tony R wrote:

Is that the great Brazilian City of Buenos Aires, Guigo?
 
LOL 
 
Anyway, Buenos Aires (Argentina) is a beautiful city too! Wink
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Ventura CA-

I climbed that statue its right in front of city hall:

sunset with the channel islands in the background:

ventura harbor:

a piece of town from a landmark on the hills:


    

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This is Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, also a place where i grew up

Above is probably the most famous shopping centre in Jakarta


a glimpse of the city view


this is the National Monument

i must warn all of you though, DON'T FALL FOR THE PICTURE !, The reality is worse than that !
The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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OK, to counter all you city folks, here's some views of my home village .....





this one is an aerial view of my junior school (left of centre) in 1965 (just before I left)



and this is the church
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It's a little Embarrassed for me 'cos i see the beautiful pictures of your cities, but... Here's my: ANTOFAGASTA, CHILE... Not that beautiful but we have summer weather most of the year and the people is very nice here!!!

A night view of the old pier...


Part of our central square and out cathedral...


Another view of our central square and the Big Ben imitation gifted by the UK government in 1910...


Our soccer stadium...


Our natural monument La Portada


Well, that's all...
... E N E L B U N K E R...
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Ok, guys. I'm affraid the place where I live isn't so exciting as the ones already posted... Ouch But here we go, anyway:


The central place of the town




The remnants of a former linen factory (the table on the second pic says "Have a nice work")














In a part of the factory there's a supermarket now




The Town's museum (it was the factory owner's residence at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries)






One of the streets near the factory





Edited by Tuzvihar - January 18 2007 at 08:44
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    My "home place" (where I used to live)





Where I live now.....

(A little work has been done on the homestaed since this picture though



It's not necessarily you where you live that counts, but how you live that is important...... and now, I am very happy!!!
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Bodø is my hometown!


The city seen from above:



The island Landegode, just outside Bodø, at dusk(or dawn?):



couldn't really find more nice pictures(right now at least)
The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes
Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 15:46
BTW, my town's name is Żyrardów. It derives from the surname of a french engeneer and inventor Philippe Henri de Girard who worked in the factory in the XIX century introducing his linen spinning machine.  Smile
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What's the derivation of your town's name?
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Points: 3278 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 18:08
Melborune

Fed Square:


A section of the MCG during a Cricket match. Pakistan against Australia, Australia won very comfortably.


The city along the Yarra River at night:


The view standing outside my house:



    

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Some amazing photos guys.

    

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Originally posted by Australian Australian wrote:


Some amazing photos guys.

    


Which ones?
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My city is pretty lame compared to yours guys... Ouch

It is a Montreal Suburb called Repentigny. Couldn't find a lot of photos on the internet.

Here are the islands surrounding the town :



Here is one (if not the one) of the oldest churches in America. It's about 2 blocks from where I live :



And here is a windmill that's also really close to where I live :



And here is a view from above that shows the proximity to Montreal :

RIP in bossa nova heaven.
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Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

My city is pretty lame compared to yours guys... Ouch


Oh, really? Have you seen mine? Ouch
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Points: 7659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 18:47
What a great thread, here is my hometown The Hague:
 
 
Bij-zon
 
 
This is 10 minutes from my home: the beach-place Kijkduin, a few miles from Scheveningen.
 
 
 
A more and more rare scene in Holland because of the global warming: snow!
 
 
Het Buitenhof, the famous residence of our politicians.
 
 
This is my view from our appartment on the 6th floot in Kijkduin (The Hague), Holland.


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Points: 11979 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 18:51
I cant believe people dissing their home towns!

Home is where the heart is....be proud of your heritage.

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