Wiki your home town

jojo

I know a lot about where i live but i still found out some new info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy,_Massachusetts

Pegasus

the place I live in has entire library sections dedicated to it!

so Wiki is a bit lightweight

mind you, find a few trivia stuff on the area I live in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putney

kenshunt

ive done this before but ill do it again, this is where ive lived most of my life London On

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%2C_Ontario

Heres where i was born lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas%2C_Ontario

genie

and this is the place where i spent my childhood years, before moving to London

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevolozhsk

chinobaeza

here's mine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago%2C_Chile

Binaural

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengormley

sennin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Orchard%2C_Washington

decides2dream

the sleepy little town i grew up in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertson%2C_New_York

Brain of J.Lo

here's the miserable little dump that I called "home" for the first 18 years of life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon%2C_Illinois

sennin

decides2dream wrote:

the sleepy little town i grew up in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertson%2C_New_York

I seem to recognise....you're face....

cropdustress

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastav

Welcome.

I still live here...

Brain of J.Lo

It's interesting to see where everyone comes from...

nfanel

it is...i love these threads.

my hometown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scranton%2C_pa

Solat13

jojo wrote:

I know a lot about where i live but i still found out some new info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy,_Massachusetts

I read your link because I have family up in Quincy, but I didn't see anything mentioned on it about:

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ballpark/minifenway/index.jsp

The Red Sox are building a mini Fenway in Quincy next year for children for their softball, baseball and tee ball leagues.

I think that is one of the coolest things ever.

Ericastrada

Not much to it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%2C_Kentucky

DaytimeDilemma

I've never been(I mean since I moved away when I was a wee little chile), but decided to wiki the town I was born in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Valley%2C_IL

mookie9999

This is where I'm from. And no fuckers, I'm not Brian Boitano.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnyvale,_California

nfanel

Ericastrada wrote:

Not much to it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%2C_Kentucky

shaun alexander is from there...very cool!

Brain of J.Lo

DaytimeDilemma wrote:

I've never been(I mean since I moved away when I was a wee little chile), but decided to wiki the town I was born in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Valley%2C_IL

Not too far from me.

Ericastrada

nfanel wrote:

shaun alexander is from there...very cool!

Yes he is. I actually went to high school with him.

QuarterToTen

born and raised...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Ohio

DaytimeDilemma

Brain of J.Lo wrote:

Not too far from me.

Where would that be?

Brain of J.Lo

Brain of J.Lo wrote:

here's the miserable little dump that I called "home" for the first 18 years of life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abingdon%2C_Illinois

quoted for DaytimeDilemma

iamsampj

where i spent most of my childhood (8 years)...i'm an army brat. so much fun to run through the woods and look out over the gold vault:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox

where we moved after my dad retired...i only went to high school here, then got the hell out and moved to orlando :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Butler%2C_Union_County%2C_Florida

DaytimeDilemma

Since I'm bored at work, I'll also wiki the other main places I've lived.


Spent the majority of my childhood in this urban sprawl of a town:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%2C_TX


Now I live here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans%2C_LA


Next Spring, I'll be living here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%2C_IL

norm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia%2C_California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Madre%2C_California

jojo

Solat13 wrote:

I read your link because I have family up in Quincy, but I didn't see anything mentioned on it about:

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ballpark/minifenway/index.jsp

The Red Sox are building a mini Fenway in Quincy next year for children for their softball, baseball and tee ball leagues.

I think that is one of the coolest things ever.

yea it is kinda cool

did we have this discussion before about your fam in Quincy if you ever coe up for a visit i'll buy you a beer

pineapplesandwaves

I was born in and spent the first five years of my life in Oshawa, ON:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshawa

Courtice, ON, is where I was raised and currently live:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtice


I went to university in Ottawa, ON, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa) and spent a year on the Gold Coast, Australia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast%2C_Queensland) for grad school.

Solat13

jojo wrote:

yea it is kinda cool

did we have this discussion before about your fam in Quincy if you ever coe up for a visit i'll buy you a beer

Yeah, we discussed it a bit in the Red Sox thread. I should be shipping off to Boston - well Quincy - Thanksgiving weekend.

jojo

Solat13 wrote:

Yeah, we discussed it a bit in the Red Sox thread. I should be shipping off to Boston - well Quincy - Thanksgiving weekend.

ahhhhhh the 2007 world series champions' thread

well if you can sneak away form the family obligations i shall keep good on my word

dreaminincolor

well...my hometown is in the lovely lower peninsula of michigan at the tip..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheboygan%2C_MI

and where i lived five years of my college career....best beer in the state of michigan!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo%2C_MI