[Twenty26Six]

I live in Buffalo, NY. Located on the northeastern shore of Lake Erie.

Weather.com Report: Showing Avg. Highs, Avg. Lows and Precipitation info. Strong Westerly breeze off the Lake makes it contnuously cold and bolsters snow storms, as well as adding to the humidity of the area. This is the 5-Day Forecast for Wed Feb. 8th - Sun Feb. 12th

Our "playable" soccer season is about from Easter to Thanksgiving. With the first and last 3 weeks of that season "questionable" in terms of playability. Those 6 weeks can be much like an English Dec-Jan from what I have seen on TV.

I'd expand more on culture and business, but at the moment I am consumed by thoughts of "cold".

Anyone else live somewhere as fascinating?

- Jack

[655321]

Beautiful San Francisco, CA. I love it...it's a bit dirty, but you can't beat it.

[kaisermohr]

Moline, Illinois. 3hours due west of the Windy City on the Mighty Mississippi.

[quentinc]

I live in San Antonio, Texas. This is our ten-day forecast. We do not have something called "winter." We just call it "February." I think most other people refer to this as "autumn" or "fall." Because the rest of the time, our temperature never goes below 75 degrees. In the summer, it's exceptionally rare for it to go below 85 degrees.

People like visiting our city. Supposedly, it's because we have a "Riverwalk," which is really just a bunch of eating establishments lined along the San Antonio River. Also, we have something called the Alamo. This is where the nickname, "The Alamo City" comes from. It's an old Spanish mission where, in March of 1836, about 150 dudes, mainly there for political reasons, as they were not Texan, decided to stay in and get their ass kicked by a much larger Mexican army. Apparently, this was a very inspiring event, as a month later, in the town of San Jacinto (which is in the vicinity of Houston), more of these out-of-state dudes came in and kicked the Mexican's ass, largely because their leader, Santa Anna, was getting laid in his tent.

Anyway, people like to visit it. It looks like this:



But really, the best tourist attraction in San Antonio is the statue of Samuel Gompers, the prolific president of the American Federation of Labor in the late 1800's. He really has no connections to San Antonio, except that he died in a train the night after he had given a speech in our fair city. But I don't want to tell you what is so fascinating about the statue, so if you ever visit, follow these instructions:

If you're downtown, go across the street from the Henry B. Gonzalez convention center, right next to the Marriott and Rivercenter mall. The statue shouldn't be hard to find, it's in an open, grassy area located next to the steps that lead down to the river (well, not really the river, but a tributary that has been developed for commercial purposes). It's also about two blocks down from the Alamo. Anyway, it shouldn't be hard to notice, as the statue hardly represents the pinnacle of American sculpting.

When you get near the statue, get behind his body roughly 30 degrees to the right - an excellent way to orient yourself is by placing the Tower of the Americas exactly to the left of his body. Now, I won't tell you what you're seeing, but let me say this: He's holding a rolled-up paper in his hand which is located roughly around the area of his waist. This paper faces up at an angle, and when you look at it, it strikingly resembles a sexual apparatus that is exclusive to males. There is also a group of kids that are around him, seemingly reaching up at this "paper."

I couldn't find any pictures on Google. But take one from a local.

[liverbird]

I live in Arlington VA about four traffic lights from the Lincoln Memorial. Right in the belly of the beast. When i go to football matches for DCU I drive right by the Pentagon. it takes me ten minutes to drive to the games. My town has five or six good local establishments to view European football.

[usscouse]

Up in the top left corner of the top left State (Washington, I don't want to cause headaches.) are a couple of island archipelagos (groups) The best know is the San Juan Islands, a land of airline pilots, film stars, and producers and others with bank accounts with lots of zeros behind the first coma. Paul Allen co-founder of Microsoft owns one of the freekin' islands.

Then there's Island county......... who's claim to fame is a bunch of Norwegian loggers came and cut the trees all down about 100 years ago. Don't know why, maybe Norwegians just don't like trees. What that did was cause a bunch of erosion from Camano Island which enabled a bridge to be built across to it. So instead of taking the scenic ferry ride. We drive on.

I live there. On Camano island.
A wonderful place of Orcas, Eagles and King Salmon, a great place to sail, go crabbing or salmon fishing.
Six months of the year!!!
Map: http://static.flickr.com/36/97390102_e7b8908565_o.jpg

Some photos from Monday night down at the park (refer to the map.) I was there all alone with my camera.
Kayakers and loons: http://static.flickr.com/11/97032445_c10ca01114_o.jpg
Park beach: http://static.flickr.com/42/97031026_2483f48178_o.jpg
100 miles away as Sissokos shots go and at 14,500 feet is Mt Ranier: http://static.flickr.com/27/97031028_75e3b0fc64_o.jpg
My crabbing grounds: http://static.flickr.com/23/97031025_951ed2a315_o.jpg
The sailing bay in the last of the sun: http://static.flickr.com/40/97031029_0079eabd21_o.jpg

[AndSomeAreAngels]

I recently relocated to Los Angeles, after spending five great years in Austin, TX. It was a bit of a transition at first (obviously), but it's grown on me quite a bit.

I think it's fashionable to talk shit about L.A. but what a lot of people forget is that there's a reason why there are so many people here. In the 20's it must have been total paradise. The weather is always perfect. Seriously, I'm getting spoiled by the sunshine. I also love the fact that there is so much amazing stuff within a couple hours driving distance. I can go to the beach, go skiing, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, San Francisco, Vegas, San Diego, Baja, Big Sur, etc, all in a day's drive or less.

I also love all the fresh produce that is always available. I can go to the farmer's markets and get fresh, organic pomegranites, tangelos, strawberries, cauliflower, Anaheim peppers, etc that were all picked within a few hours.

I also love how much stuff goes on in Los Angeles. Any movie that's playing in the country can be seen here. We get stuff weeks in advance. Pretty much every tour rolls through L.A. at some point so there's always live music to see. There's also really great live comedy at many clubs, which I check out on a regular basis.

There are ************ things too: traffic, the general emptiness of people here, and it's huge. But overall I'm really starting to like it here.

[Twenty26Six]

Originally Posted by usscouse

Up in the top left corner of the top left State (Washington, I don't want to cause headaches.) are a couple of island archipelagos (groups) The best know is the San Juan Islands, a land of airline pilots, film stars, and producers and others with bank accounts with lots of zeros behind the first coma. Paul Allen co-founder of Microsoft owns one of the freekin' islands.

Then there's Island county......... who's claim to fame is a bunch of Norwegian loggers came and cut the trees all down about 100 years ago. Don't know why, maybe Norwegians just don't like trees. What that did was cause a bunch of erosion from Camano Island which enabled a bridge to be built across to it. So instead of taking the scenic ferry ride. We drive on.

I live there. On Camano island.
A wonderful place of Orcas, Eagles and King Salmon, a great place to sail, go crabbing or salmon fishing.
Six months of the year!!!
Map: http://static.flickr.com/36/97390102_e7b8908565_o.jpg

Some photos from Monday night down at the park (refer to the map.) I was there all alone with my camera.
Kayakers and loons: http://static.flickr.com/11/97032445_c10ca01114_o.jpg
Park beach: http://static.flickr.com/42/97031026_2483f48178_o.jpg
100 miles away as Sissokos shots go and at 14,500 feet is Mt Ranier: http://static.flickr.com/27/97031028_75e3b0fc64_o.jpg
My crabbing grounds: http://static.flickr.com/23/97031025_951ed2a315_o.jpg
The sailing bay in the last of the sun: http://static.flickr.com/40/97031029_0079eabd21_o.jpg

Does it rain as much as people say? I really would like to live in the Pacific Northwest someday. I'm all about consistent and moderate climates. I often think Washington State would be the place to live.

[usscouse]

Originally Posted by kold_77_krush

Does it rain as much as people say? I really would like to live in the Pacific Northwest someday. I'm all about consistent and moderate climates. I often think Washington State would be the place to live.

http://www.see-seattle.com/weather.htm

Seattle ranks 44th among US cities for rainfall with an average yearly rainfall of 36.2 inches (92 cm). This compares to 145 inches (368 cm) in the Hoh Rain Forest (part of Olympic National Park in Washington State), 129 inches (327cm) in Hilo, 65 inches (165 cm) in Mobile, 60 inches (152 cm) in New Orleans, 58 inches (147 cm) in Miami, 49 inches (124 cm) in Atlanta, 45 inches (114 cm) in Houston, 44 inches (112 cm) in Boston, 40.3 inches (102 cm) in New York City, 39 inches (99 cm) in Washington, D.C., 34.5 inches (88 cm) in Chicago, 19.5 inches (50 cm) in San Francisco, 15 inches (38 cm) in Sequim (on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, 12 inches (30 cm) in Los Angeles and 4 inches (10 cm) in Las Vegas Compare NE to NW..

How about those potatos? The NW weather is a carefully planned comunity effort to keep out the rif-raf (didn't work for us!) In fact where we live we get just about 20 inches, the rain shadow effect from the Olympic Mts. Trouble was this year we got it all at once..

In fact, just for you I'll go on the deck right now and take a photo. It's freeking wonderful out there.
As of 5 minute ago:

[wemess0]

I live in Lexington, Kentucky, a small city in the central part of the state. It's home to the University of Kentucky and Keeneland Race Track.

It's pretty much an overblown college town, but I enjoy it. And the surrounding country side is beautiful.

My biggest complaint is the traffic. It's amazingly bad for such a moderately sized city.