The where have you lived thread inspired this. I moved from NYC when I was a very small child to a coastal town about 45 miles outside of the city on Long Island Sound. 50k-60k population and a very cool little downtown. It's a very typical New England city with the downtown built right on the harbor (so as to be NOT directly on Long Island Sound) and with a traditional Green in the center

Milford, CT

The Waterfront:


Town Hall on the Lake downtown:


Downtown in the winter:


The suburbanization of the town. Cameron Village like shopping center just inland from the Waterfront district.


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8/3/2009 11:08:07 AM

Here is where I grew up:

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=551846

8/3/2009 11:10:39 AM

in before you fix that last image.

also, that looks like exactly the type of place i'd like to live. i'm midly jealous, being as i grew up in fucking megaburb charlotte and between strip malls in pennsylvania.

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There was no town.

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"i'm midly jealous, being as i grew up in fucking megaburb charlotte and between strip malls in pennsylvania"

Make some bank. I'd love to move back there, but unfortunately it is soooo expensive to live there now. People were trying to escape the INSANELY high property taxes and real estate in Fairfield County and basically made all the bordering New Haven County towns/villages so much more expensive.

We sold our house in CT in 1999 for like 375k. Two years later it was worth well over 600k. They get cheaper as you move down the coast further from NYC. You'd probably like Old Saybrook, Lime, etc, etc if you like true New England villages on the water.

marko, where is that? That's an awesome house/location.

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8/3/2009 11:29:06 AM

^^^strangely, i know where that is.

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8/3/2009 11:31:27 AM

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"where is that?"

off of skyline drive in Virginia

Appalachia is full of these sort of little houses tucked in the hills

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8/3/2009 11:34:16 AM

Housing on base are nicer than when I was there... They've got 2 car garages instead of a single car carport now!

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8/3/2009 11:48:47 AM

^ i KNEW that place looked familiar! your mother and/or sister used to "entertain" there, didn't she/they?

8/3/2009 11:49:33 AM

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"^^^strangely, i know where that is."

I mean

It's in Winston, near the mall, just off 40 and one of the busiest streets in town

It's not like I posted a picture of Atlantis or something

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"I mean It's in Winston, near the mall, just off 40 and one of the busiest streets in town It's not like I posted a picture of Atlantis or something"

i've been to winston once. i'm saying it's strange for me, specifically, to know that spot.

it just surprised me is all

8/3/2009 12:08:30 PM

^^ Mystic?

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8/3/2009 12:22:53 PM

^notice how there's no one around?

it's because deys all out pikin dat cottin

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don't walk...RUNNNNNN!!!!

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8/3/2009 12:28:12 PM

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"^^ Mystic?"

Mystic/Stonington

8/6/2009 11:17:07 AM

I was raised in the projects, projects.

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for four years anyways..

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8/6/2009 11:40:01 AM

for some reason city-data.com has a random picture of my front old front yard with a lovely power transformer. we didn't take it, definitely didn't post it. very very strange

8/6/2009 11:40:43 AM

hell yea dweedle, me too

8/6/2009 11:46:24 AM

i used to go down there to the whirlygig place w/ my spotlight at night when the wind was blowing. that was always fun.

8/6/2009 11:47:18 AM

So this is generally where I'm from. It's often referred to as the Milky Way Galaxy. Below is a picture of it from our point of view.



And this little ball of shit is where I'm from. We call it Earth. The continent in focus is my current location and where I grew up, but I like to think of the whole thing as mine.

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Used to get ice cream in mini baseball caps here all the time when I was a kid:

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