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[Eagle]

Born in Tyumen, Russia. Western edge of siberia, right on the Eurasia border, right next to the Urals. Currently living in Houston, Texas, where the ground is so damn soggy we cant have a subway, a fact that i hate. I also hate the fact that there is so little public transport where i live.

[Heron TSG]

My town has 18 churches, 2 bars, and a temple. Seriously, I can prove this.

[Siquo]

My town has 18 churches, 2 bars, and a temple. Seriously, I can prove this.

That ain't much...

Count the dots.

[Aqizzar]

I can top both you.  Dallas may or may not have more churches, but it invented The Rapture.

Eat it, everyone who wants to one-up each other on how oppressively Christian your town is.

[chaoticag]

I am from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
And while we are on religion, the ministry of education here doesn't let Muslims pass highschool unless they pass the Islamic Studies course, whether or not they are practicing Muslims.

[Aqizzar]

Not to speak out of line, but do you still have to pass the course if you're not a declared Muslim?  Because I believe the proper interpretation would be that a non-practicing Muslim is not a Muslim at all.

But then you'd get ostracized and stuff.  Little from Column A, little from Column B.

[chaoticag]

Not to speak out of line, but do you still have to pass the course if you're not a declared Muslim?  Because I believe the proper interpretation would be that a non-practicing Muslim is not a Muslim at all.

But then you'd get ostracized and stuff.  Little from Column A, little from Column B.

If you are not a declaired muslim, then who is to know?
Of course, if you declair yourself to be an atheist then god help you... there are already "honor killings" for women that are pregnent but not married, to the point that women choose to abandon their children right after birth.

[mendonca]

If hull had an underground you'd need a snorkel.

Glad to hear we have at least one more East-sider on this here board.

I was born in Louth, Lincs, UK, now live in Manchester (Northwest England).

Hull is indeed a fairly ropey place, but I always use to go there on a night out with my Dad on his birthday. Use to go to a great Thai restaurant followed by the Casino, then back across the bridge to finish the night in Swigs in Grimsby.

Good times.

Surely Grimsby must rank down there with Hull in the lower leagues of UK towns?

[Awayfarer]

Public transportation in the Boston area is pretty handy. The "T", as we call it here, has some foibles but it's a hell of a lot better than driving in Boston. The roads in beantown were apparently designes by spiders on meth.

It doesn't help that New England drivers are the worst in the country. Now, before you start telling me about how bad the drivers are in your area, I would like to add that previous statement has been studied and confirmed, and I have a little anecdote to go with it.

Connecticut 2005, IIRC: I was in the parking lot of an Autozone, having just left after not finding a hubcap I needed. The lot has two exit lanes; one that goes straight ahead, across the street and into the grocery store parking lot opposite. The other lane is a right turn only lane. I get in the turn-only lane. A pickup truck pulls up beside me in the other one.

The radio was on, PBS, the news. I listen for a while. The light is taking a long time to change. They're reading off a report that states what I said above: "New England drivers, worst in the country." The light STILL has not changed.

The guy in the pickup gets pissed, throws his truck into reverse and *CRASH*, slams into the car behind him. To his credit he did trip the light. I got to go only a second later. It was like the universe was trying to say "See?"

[Aqizzar]

My father, who used to live in Boston, believed that phenomenon evolved from Massachusetts' no fault insurance, so irate drivers could just smash the hell out of each other without worry.  Which, I have to say, sounds awesome.

For everyone's benefit, especially yours if you've never heard it - "Charlie on the MTA"

[Mephansteras]

My father, who used to live in Boston, believed that phenomenon evolved from Massachusetts' no fault insurance, so irate drivers could just smash the hell out of each other without worry.  Which, I have to say, sounds awesome.

That would explain so much.

I have a good way of describing New England drivers to people from the rest of the country. San Diego drivers, for instance, are pretty careless and likely to cause accidents by not paying attention. LA drivers are flat out crazy. But New England drivers...they're actually out to kill you.

[chaoticag]

My father, who used to live in Boston, believed that phenomenon evolved from Massachusetts' no fault insurance, so irate drivers could just smash the hell out of each other without worry.  Which, I have to say, sounds awesome.

That would explain so much.

I have a good way of describing New England drivers to people from the rest of the country. San Diego drivers, for instance, are pretty careless and likely to cause accidents by not paying attention. LA drivers are flat out crazy. But New England drivers...they're actually out to kill you.

Drivers here are actually some of the worst. They have almost no regard for traffic laws, and sometimes even the laws of physics. They seem to think that given enough tries, two objects can occupy the same space at the same time.

Lebanon is worse, where police men have to regulate traffic at junctions so that people actually stop for each other, and Egypt, from what I hear, seems to have a bounty on pedestrians, collectable by running them over.

[Creamcorn]

Public transportation in the Boston area is pretty handy. The "T", as we call it here, has some foibles but it's a hell of a lot better than driving in Boston. The roads in beantown were apparently designes by spiders on meth.

It doesn't help that New England drivers are the worst in the country. Now, before you start telling me about how bad the drivers are in your area, I would like to add that previous statement has been studied and confirmed, and I have a little anecdote to go with it.

Connecticut 2005, IIRC: I was in the parking lot of an Autozone, having just left after not finding a hubcap I needed. The lot has two exit lanes; one that goes straight ahead, across the street and into the grocery store parking lot opposite. The other lane is a right turn only lane. I get in the turn-only lane. A pickup truck pulls up beside me in the other one.

The radio was on, PBS, the news. I listen for a while. The light is taking a long time to change. They're reading off a report that states what I said above: "New England drivers, worst in the country." The light STILL has not changed.

The guy in the pickup gets pissed, throws his truck into reverse and *CRASH*, slams into the car behind him. To his credit he did trip the light. I got to go only a second later. It was like the universe was trying to say "See?"

I can prove that statement true as well, as there are more Rhode Islanders that are killed by cars than there are guns. They even did a story on some hit and run boat style in Barrington, (where all the rich whiteys are at) on the news a year back.

[LASD]

I was born and raised in Nurmijärvi (which translates to Grasslake) in Finland and while being the biggest town in it's region it still has most likely the smallest centre of any town's posted here. Take a look, this is really the whole town centre, and in fact a bit more than that:

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Beat this.

And this place is only some 30 kilometres north of my current habitat, the city of Helsinki (578 126 inhabitants), the capital of Finland, which is a really small city in world standards and it's tallest building is measly 26 floors and 86 meters high.

However Helsinki has an awesome public transportation system, It costs students (like me) about 0,50€ a day to travel between 5 am and 2 am as much as they want and there's loads of trains, buses, trams and also a metro to get them quickly to any place in the city. It's so good that I haven't got any reason to get a driver's licence.

[Heron TSG]

everyone wants to one-up each other on how oppressively Christian your town is.

Nope... my town is oppressively indecisive. we got mormons, lutherans, catholics, christians, a bunch of cults, and a republiclub.

Also, 18 churches is a lot for a town of 10000-12000