My hometown is culturally insignificant.

[BayConRong]

You and I have the same hometown, apparently . My parents still live there.

That's great. If your parents lived here for a while then my family would probably know you. what is your last name? my mother's maiden name is Moorhead.

 

[TB]

my mother's maiden name is Moorhead.

Must... Resist...

 

[Jondot]

Right, my hometown:

• was home to the world's oldest railway bridge (before it was demolished in 1970)
• was where Alan Davis (QI, Jonathan Creek, Abbey National adverts...) first performed stand-up comedy
• is/was supposedly home to various other worthless celebrities too - Ross Kemp, Janet Street Porter, Harry Hill, the bloke that wrote a load of Robbie Williams' songs... etc
• was also home to Peter Cushing and Somerset Maugham
• has been the filming location for a number of things, including 18th century Lesbian drama Tipping the Velvet and the video for annoying-khaki-wearing-elf Ann Lee's song Two Times
• is the birthplace of TV property guru Naomi Cleaver and, apparently, the guy that designs Wilkinson Sword razors.

To the North, you've got the sea.

To the South:

Canterbury, famous for...

• the Archbishop of Canterbury
• the Canterbury Tales
• being Orlando Bloom's birthplace (until recently, his mum still lived here actually)
• Christopher Marlowe
• Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine, all of which were produced and filmed just a mile or so outside of the City

To the West:

Faversham, interesting because...

• Bob Geldof lives there (I've seen him... once)
• That annoying new Capri Sun advert was filmed there
• I go to school there

To the East:

Herne Bay, interesting because...

• Parts of the first series of Little Britain were filmed there
• [/end]

 

[McLaren]

My home town is:
-The 9th largest in Texas.
-The 69th most populous in the US.
-Declared Most Affluent City last year by US Census Bureau.
-Name means Flat in Spanish....
-Home of

• Dr. Pepper
• Frito Lay
• Cinemark Theatres
• JCPenny
• Rent-A-Center
• Gearbox Software (Half Life, Brothers in Arms (Seen the owner before; has a nice Viper)).
• Texas Instruments
• Flextronics
• Ericsson

-1983, our schools had a huge heroin & suicide problem....
-Apparently, we gave the world Lance Armstrong. Every neighboring city gave country music stars or football players.

 

[CDailey]

Jacksonville, Florida

-Biggest city in Florida in area and population
-Biggest city in the Continental US in area
-Twelfth most populous city in the US, with 794,555 residents. 1.4 million in the metro area
-Named after Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the US
-Home of the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team
-115th most dangerous city in the US


The metro area I live in now is a tad more interesting.

Huntsville, Alabama

-Home of the Marshall Space Flight Center aka the original home of NASA
-Home of Space Camp
-Redstone Arsenal
-Hometown of Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder; Brian McKnight, grammy award winning singer and writer; and Fred "Rerun" Berry, Best known as "Rerun" in the "What's Happening" Television sitcom.

Decatur, Alabama (where I live) is pretty cool too.

-Home of Meow Mix cat food
-Approval of the United Launch Alliance combined Lockheed-Martin and Boeing's rocket manufacturing contracts to a central location at the plant in Decatur. All satellite launching rockets used by the U.S. government will be built in Decatur.

 

[Smallhorses]

My hometown:

• Has a museum about Salt, and the town motto 'Sal est Vita' - Salt is Life.
• Is prone to having bits of it collapse due to subsidence because of salt mining and is currently undergoing a Land Stabilisation Program!
• Is the home town of Steve Hewitt, the drummer for the band Placebo and the adopted home of Tim Burgess, lead singer of The Charlatans.
• Has 2 swing bridges mounted on floating pontoons and also has "The Floatel" (a floating hotel!)
• Has a football team that was named after the reigning monarch when it was founded.
• Is where the first industrially practical method for producing polythene was accidentally discovered in 1933.
• Hosts a motorcycling event which it claims to be the biggest street-bike festival in the world.

 

[Azuremen]

My real hometown has... nothing. And I mean nothing. My effective hometown, being as everyone from around there says they are from there has a bit more to it...

Random notable things...

• Hosted the 1974 World's Fair, which was environmentally themed.
• Penny Arcade creators are from Spokane
• Within driving distance you have 76 lakes, 33 golf courses, 11 wineries, five ski resorts, five major national parks, the Columbia River gorge, and Grand Coulee Dam
• Hoopfest, the largest 3 on 3 basketball tournament in the world
• Gonzaga university resides there.
• Film Benny and June was shot there.

There are some other historic things, like being key in trade for a long time and random other tid-bits I don't much care to repeat here.

 

[Thiele]

My hometown could holf the record for the least amount of rain. We'd be lucky to have had 100mm this year.

 

[F1GTR]

My hometown is has had 28 fatal teenage stabbings last year. And another one last week.

Though I really love London, can't imagine living anywhere else.

 

[Tornado]

It seems like Michigan is pretty much defined by two cities, Detroit and Grand Rapids.

Of course it is! They even made some documentary about it in 1987.

 

[BayConRong]

Where was jack the ripper? wasn't that in london too? and wasn't the guy impersonating jack the ripper from london as well?

 

[Klostrophobic]

My hometown produced two presidents and John Hancock and other stuff like home to the first commercial railway in the US. Howard Johnson and Dunkin Donuts were started here. They filmed Gone Baby Gone in the quarries here.

 

[BayConRong]

the only cool thing about washington in general is that we made one of the largest dams in the world and we are named after a president... maybe that we took money from stupid gold diggers too.

Forgot: we also built one of the atom bombs dropped on japan.

 

[Keef]

Where I live:

• West Carrollton was formed from two towns combining, Carrollton and Alexandersville.
• One of the cities the Miami and Erie Canal flowed through.
• Suburb of Dayton, Ohio.
• That's about it.

And because WC is terribly uninteresting:

• Dayton's namesake, Jonathan was a signatory of the Constitution of the United States of America
• Home of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Has been supposedly involved in otherwordly goings on in connection with Area 51. Also, had much influence in the cold-war era, being very high on the USSR's places to annihilate, partly because of the B52 wing assigned armed with nuclear bombs during the cold war. From Wikipedia, cited from BBC News: In 1994, Wright Patterson Air Force Base research laboratories sought $7.5 million to develop a weapon known as "The Gay Bomb", a hormone bomb intended to make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other so that they would be unable to fight.
• The Great Dayton Flood of 1913 (up to 20 feet) was cause for the state to establish the Miami Conservancy District, which is one of the first major flood control projects in the US, and makes people from New Orleans cry with jealousy every time they visit the Dayton area.
• Birthplace of Orville Wright, deathplace of Orville and Wilbur, and workplace of the Wright brothers. Huffman Prairie is where they trained themselves to fly their gliders and airplanes. Some of their buildings are still in place at Carillon Park
• And original Wright Model B is on display at Wright Patterson AFB
• Home of the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, which ended war in Bosnia
• Home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Home of John H. Patterson, founder of National Cash Registry (NCR), and home of the company's headquarters. Patterson was also infamous for hiring and firing Thomas Watson Jr., who eventually became President of CTR, which turned into IBM
• Home of many other well-known companies: Reynolds and Reynolds, Cargill, NewPage Corporation, Huffy Bicycles, LexisNexis, and Mead, before becoming part of MeadWestvaco
• There's a Monsanto plant in Miamisburg, which was involved in figuring out how to produce Polonium for use as triggers in atomic bombs
• Home of Charles F. Kettering, inventor of the automobile electric starter.
• Birthplace of some others; Roger Clemens, Billy Strayhorn, Andrea Thompson, Martin Sheen, Nancy Cartwright, Edwin C. Moses, Mike Schmidt, Allison Janney, Ron Harper,

 

[TB]

Forgot: we also built one of the atom bombs dropped on japan.

Please tell me you're not grouping that in as one of the "cool things."

 

[BayConRong]

Hell no. It's just culturally significant. The same way Hitler and Mao Ze-Dong are culturally significant

 

[Rykon Zero]

We also have two aircraft carriers based around here.

 

[Azuremen]

We also have two aircraft carriers based around here.

And Fairchild, and Microsoft, and Starbucks, and massive port, and one of the rainiest places on Earth, and almost entirely hydro power, and a huge selection of apples, and so and so forth.

Washington actually has a lot of things. Though mostly on the west side of the state.

 

[BayConRong]

I mean historically, like the Pig war. nothing before 1950. And what is Fairchild?

We also have the widest range of climates in the entire USA.

 

[ASH32]

Ok, as everyone else is posting properly I will, there is nothing that interesting however.

From Wikipedia

Nelson is a town in the borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 28,998 in 2001. ( I reckon it's quite a bit more now because of immigration ) It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Burnley on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
It developed as a mill town during the Industrial Revolution, but has today lost much of its industry and is characterised by pockets of severe deprivation and some of the lowest house prices in the country.

That's pretty accurate. As for the notable people there are a few

Footballer and manager Jimmy Hogan, former footballer and Manchester United Assistant Manager Mike Phelan and actor John Simm were brought up in the town.

Not alot really, can't say I am surprised.

 

[Omnis]

And Fairchild, and Microsoft, and Starbucks, and massive port, and one of the rainiest places on Earth, and almost entirely hydro power, and a huge selection of apples, and so and so forth.

Washington actually has a lot of things. Though mostly on the west side of the state.

And you guys have Bungie and The Terra Bite.

 

[Sureboss]

I can't post anything for my hometown (village, really) so I'll do the town it's a borough of. Worthing.

• Our pier is 147 years old.
  
• Former England keeper Peter Bonetti grew up in the town.
• A part of an episode of Men Behaving Badly was filmed on the seafront. It was the one with the massive fish at the seafront if anyone remembers it.
• The Ordinary Boys were formed in Worthing and went to the college up the road.
• The town was one of the first towns in the UK to have a Cannabis Cafe. My mum used to co-own a coffee shop next to it, that was an interesting experience...police raids were weekly, if not more frequent.

To the North:

Findon Valley. Home of some the oldest Iron age hill forts.

To the South:

Water, fish and the French.

To the East:

Brighton, gay capital of the UK, great nightlife.

To the West:

Littlehampton, the home of a shop which Ronnie Barker's sitcom, Open All Hours, was based on.

 

[BayConRong]

And you guys have Bungie and The Terra Bite.

I already mentioned that.

 

[boiltheocean]

Mine is useless:

xxxxx has been named "Ghost capital of Britain" with over 1,000 paranormal sightings recorded in recent years.

Basically we have lots of crazy people.

Bold Lane car park in xxxxx is one of the top ten most secure places in the world according to a study published in a science magazine.

But nothing is worth this security around here.

 

[TheCracker]

Mine is useless:
Basically we have lots of crazy people.

I always thought The Eagle Centre was twined with the mutant town in Total Recall

 

[boiltheocean]

I always thought The Eagle Centre was twined with the mutant town in Total Recall

Haha I wouldn't be suprised. Its the Westfield Centre now, but you know what they say "You can't polish a turd".

 

[Rykon Zero]

And you guys have Bungie and The Terra Bite.

And Valve software.

 

[nick09]

My hometown, Saratoga Springs, has quite some history.

• It is believed that potato chips were invented in Saratoga Springs, by Native American/African American chef George Crum, at Moon's Lake House on August 24, 1853.
• Walt Disney World Resort has a theme resort called Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, inspired by this city.
• The Figgs, a band formed in 1987 by Mike Gent, Pete Donnelly, and Guy Lyons, 1989 and 1990 Saratoga Springs Senior High School graduates(I never knew a band formed here).
• Horse Racing
• The Springs
• Battle of Saratoga, a major turning point in the Revolutionary war.

@SweetShopUnion, You can polish a turd. See this and this.

 

[stumpydino]

my lil village is pretty dull, apart from being the claimed 'gateway to the new forest' theres not much else of interest
southampton however..
- huuge port, lots of history in marine stuff too
- home of titanic, of which my great uncle was on, and the queen elizabeth and queen mary, bunch of other big ships too. qe2 was going to be in permanent dock before it was flogged to some people that have no respect for her.
- home of the spitfires
- ford transits made here, and ford did consider the area before they went for dagenham
- theres a geothermal power station in the city centre car park that helps it be one of the lowest carbon emitting cities in uk!
- also home to a really rubbish football team, of which the rival teams manager once took over to get us relegated then went back shortly after...
- birthplace of benny hill! and some bloke from coldplay
- crime is nearly twice the national average yay!

 

[boiltheocean]

Just like to add that I've heard of another crazy ghost sighting to go with the rest, apparently this one is doing some Patient Record Filing at the Hospital.

Back @ nick09, eww just eww.