where do you live: not as creepy as you think

Aodfionn · January 2015

Show the forums what your city, or hood, or local scenery looks like. I've always kind of pictured the IG geography based on stuff I know from the region I grew up in, and I would wager others do too. So, what's stuff look like where you're from?

I got a really pretty city.

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And two sets of mountain ranges, plus ocean.

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And rainforests. Rainforests are baller, especially when they aren't the kind that involve massive or venomous spiders.

Pretty cool stuff, but it's mostly all I've known. What kind of awesome stuff is in your neck of the woods?

Aodfionn · January 2015

Damnit. @Sarapis could you move this to the Membrane section? I switched up my windows while posting and didn't mean to put this here.

Tecton · January 2015

Moved!

Kayeil · January 2015

Same area as you Aodfionn, but a bit more north. Yeah... certain areas of Achaea, based on their descriptions, remind me of Washington a lot.

Krypton · January 2015

I get to see this a few times a week, on my drive home.

Amarillys · January 2015

I'll take some pictures in a couple weeks to show off my new hood!

Herenicus · January 2015

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Melodie · January 2015

Despite not quite being where I want to be the rest of my life, I can't deny that I live in a pretty area.

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Ellodin · January 2015

i live in honolulu, hawaii but i don't really imagine achaean locations as analogous to real world locations unless there's something i find rather distinct, like rafflesia (but that's not hawaii). i've put up various pictures over the years already, not sure if i've used these before or not, they're from some hikes a couple years ago. don't take a lot of pictures.

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Jovolo · January 2015

My hometown is not nearly as impressive as most of yours. I live in a village nearly an hour north of London. The village itself is relatively quiet, and the 'town' is about ten minutes outside of the village:

Our local church. I think Henry the Eighth got married there.

Living close to the countryside, we have a lot of fields... Here is one of those with a very old tribute to Richard the Lionheart.

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And my actual village. It's pretty small :P

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Everything above is pretty much the reason I love traveling to America, which is so much larger in scale in practically every single way. Speaking of which! I'm visiting my girlfriend in Ohio in 6 weeks, so if anyone is around the area and feels like hanging out one day/evening, let me know.

Taraus · January 2015

aha @Sarapis and his photographical wizardry do a pretty fair job of capturing the local terrain, perhaps he'll share some more of his Marin County snaps.

Ruth · January 2015

Overview of Singapore from my administration building:

Some pictures of Chinatown:

Haldon · January 2015

I don't live in a town or even near one so I get to see this on my way to where I need to work

Lookin' out my backdoor

Coming home one morning

Siduri · January 2015

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Khaibit · January 2015

Jovolo said:

My hometown is not nearly as impressive as most of yours. I live in a village nearly an hour north of London. The village itself is relatively quiet, and the 'town' is about ten minutes outside of the village:

Our local church. I think Henry the Eighth got married there.

Living close to the countryside, we have a lot of fields... Here is one of those with a very old tribute to Richard the Lionheart.

And my actual village. It's pretty small :P

Everything above is pretty much the reason I love traveling to America, which is so much larger in scale in practically every single way. Speaking of which! I'm visiting my girlfriend in Ohio in 6 weeks, so if anyone is around the area and feels like hanging out one day/evening, let me know.

Oh my god... Jovolo... that's Dunstable!!
I grew up in downside and houghton regis...

Amranu · January 2015

Picture I took from the escarpment (what we call 'The Mountain')

Picture I took across the little bay there, in a nature reserve in part of the city:

Same area

Image I found online facing towards the escarpment - the park where I took the first picture is to the top right

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Khaibit · January 2015

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Having stalked Jovolo by accident... the above pics are my super local area, 10 minute walk from my house (though in opposite directions)

and this is a 10 minute bus ride away
and the view from my last job

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Jovolo · January 2015

Oh wow! Haha. Small world. Still in the UK?

The 2nd pic looks like the Luton hoo.

Amranu · January 2015

Ruth said:

Overview of Singapore from my administration building:

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Eld · January 2015

Aodfionn said:

And two sets of mountain ranges, plus ocean.

Three mountain ranges, four lakes and a motherfucking Sound. (I actually don't know what third range that guy meant to include. Maybe he was claiming one of the BC ones, or maybe he just thinks Rainier is its own range.)

Khaibit · January 2015

Jovolo said:

Oh wow! Haha. Small world. Still in the UK?

The 2nd pic looks like the Luton hoo.

Nottingham. The second one is Wollaton hall... or Batmans house

Kellonius · January 2015

I don't have any real pictures to speak of, but I live in the same place that the movie Gone Girl was filmed. Go watch that and if you want a glimpse. The clock in the opening sequence is right in the center of downtown for us.

Achimrst · January 2015

The Park where all the fun stuff happens!

And of course the Mystery house!

Nicaara · January 2015

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Yeah buddy, does your city have an island that looks like a boat? No? Didn't think so!

Then again, sometimes it looks like this.

Saurrocene · January 2015

Melodie said:

Despite not quite being where I want to be the rest of my life, I can't deny that I live in a pretty area.

Would that last picture happen to be Lake Eola. Looks REALLY familiar and it would save me from having to look for pictures to post.

Melodie · January 2015

Hilariously enough, after a lot of looking around, I think it is. That's about three hours from me, then. Whoops! It looked like it was taken from the Saint Lucie River, from that view. I got tricked.

To make up for it, have a more accurate picture:

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My town has a river, and then a very thin stretch of sandbars and small isles that separate the river from the ocean. This is an inlet that's about twenty minutes away from my house, and while quite dangerous to boat in, it is quite beautiful.