What's it like where you live?

[Lore-Lei]

I live in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, otherwise known as the Rushmore state. We are also known as the "great plains"

Oh wow. I looked it up, it definetly is greater than the one we have here in Hungary. 

[Moonbreeze]

^ Except when we suddenly got 38℃ last summer. That was BAD...

Don't go there... Ugh

I live near the Hague. In the province of South-Holland in the Netherlands. Most of the land here... is flat and below sea level and consists of towns, farmlands and tulipfields. Of course the occassional wind mill pops up. The beach is nearby too (30 min by bike) The dunes and forests are great places to take a break from the daily hassle.

The town of Leiden close to where I live, was just like Amsterdam used to be in the 'Golden Age'. The centre is still pretty much intact and I believe it boasts one of the oldest castles around in this region. Aprox 1100 AD. The border of the Roman Empire used to be there as well, but all the archaeological remains are burried underground.

[BethyVic]

I live in Bloomington, Minnesota.  It is a suburb of Minneapolis and home to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and the Mall of America.  The area is called the Twin Cities and we have some of the best medical centers and colleges/universities.  We have museums, theaters, and a huge variety of restaurants and shopping.  I love living here where I can be close to so many things.  The winters are cold and snowy and the summers can be hot and humid.  But, I like having a change of season every few months.  We have good public transportation and I feel very safe and secure where I live.  I live alone in a nice apartment building where I feel cozy and comfortable.  Out my living room window, I can see a car lot, Target, Walgreens, Jimmy John's and a number of other stores and restaurants.  There is a nice grocery store across the street so I can walk there and get groceries easily.  Bloomington is a pretty upscale area, although not as upscale as Edina, where I grew up.  I live 10 minutes from my parents, which I love.  We have a cabin in a rural area in Wisconsin, surrounded by farms and lakes.  I feel lucky to be able to spend time in two different kinds of environments.  Having an airport 10 minutes away is so convenient.  And every kind of doctor or specialist I need is within 30 minutes.  There are nice green neighborhoods and strip malls and highways that make everything easy to get to.  I think that the term Minnesota nice is quite accurate.  Most people I encounter are somewhat friendly and smile at those around them.   

[LightingElectricDream]

We live in a small town in colorado.
Canon city to be correct.

It's alright we have our ecenchel stores
Walmart, city market, hastings..
Lots of restaurants most go out of business.
It's sorta dry and bland here.
To many of the same things here like 9 different
Hotels, 50 restaurants, lots of shops with expensive
Stuff no one can buy and it's just junk in my opinon.

It's a retirement town so I guess crime rate is fairly low
At least to colorado springs by far. Springs is like a 45 min drive from here.

We live in a nicer part of town by by no means expensive
Or snop hill.
The town is fairly clean.

Some nice people some rude people.
The teenagers for the most part are meh..
From what I've seen kinda not so nice.
But then again the nice ones hide under rocks..
So maybe it's just the crazy come out all day everyday.

So basically it's not really a grate place to shop per say
Depending on what your looking for.

It's not got a lot to do unless you like gardening,
Lawn care, farmers market, river walks, quite days, grungy old towns, oh and like no employment, that's the big one.

Don't get me wrong I am ok with this town.
It's not really the town to live it up in if you wanna have a well paying job or career.

I make minumum wage at a job here as where I could move to the next town have the same job and get paid $3.00 an hour more.

Oh and I've only ever found ponies like twise
In this town..maybe I've got to be in the right place at the right time.

[buttonso]

I live in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA. It's very much your typical Midwestern town.. About 70,000 people, just big enough to have decent restaurants and shopping but not so big it's hard to get around, we're about a 50 minute drive from Kansas City so if we need big city stuff, it's not hard to get.

Our town's two big claims to fame (such as they are) is that the short lived Pony Express started here back in the day, and Jesse James was killed here. Not the best claims to fame but you work with what you got!    we're also getting an extra fancy extra huge McDonalds this summer that is being touted as "the McDonalds of the future" and it will apparently be one of the biggest in the world! O_o

The seasons are pretty much what you'd expect.. Winter was much milder than normal this year though. Today is a perfect spring day and the weather is looking to be mild the rest of the week.

[Nebula Light]

Oh this subject is so interesting, I love learning about other lands!

I live in middle Tennessee, close to Nashville in a highly populated college town. I hail from the North, so coming to the mid south was a bit of a culture shock at first, but I've been here for around a decade now, long enough to acquire a slight drawl (according to Northern family  ).
I encountered a bit of animocity at first because of my Northern accent, was called a Yankee plenty of times, but for the most part, people are friendly and hospitable.
There are two large age groups here: the free thinking teenage "hipsters," many of them coming to mid TN to seek a music career, and then there are the good 'old boy conservatives who are very traditional in thinking. Thankfully, people are becoming more open minded . Due to the influx of college kids, the population has skyrocketed, and so has crime and traffic. There is more construction, more music venues, more vape shops (very popular right now) and apartments, but it is hard to buy a house or even find an affordable 1 bdrm apartment. Smaller outer lying cities are the best places to buy houses.
There are many different cultures and people and the number grows by the year. Nashville is the ultimate melting pot, absolutely full with small businesses, art, vegan shops, clothing stores, restaurants, music venues, bars and parks. There is always a concert going on, some kind of gathering or another. Its a nice place to be if you're in the right part of the city. There are some rich and poor areas, large mansions owned by celebrities and plantation houses that can be toured. The city I live in is particularly full of history, which I find fascinating. What I love about Nashville and TN is that it is full of both history and modernism, and a high concentration of creative individuals. I can't get enough of the Nashville scene, it is a city of creativity and music!

As far as things to do, there are loads! I honestly don't know how I got along up North. There are tons of state parks, hiking trails, lakes, rivers, bikers, kayakers, campers, you name it. Horse back riding, tractor pulls, farm fairs, flea markets, some very TN traditions. Wonderful historic places like the Belle Meade Plantation can be visited and toured.

The scenery is gorgeous. Rolling hills, pastures, cliffs, plateus, waterfalls, rivers, and some close mountain ranges. Tennessee is both arid and tropical, with wild magnolias, vines, pines and cacti. It is truly beautiful and I'm in love with it.

The weather here is fascinating to me, but that might be because I'm a weather nerd.
 TN is part of the South, which means they are prone to severe weather. We get plenty of thunderstorms, monsoons and tornadoes. Winds can be very damaging, and flooding is a huge issue here. This stuff is freaky compared to Northern tame weather.
Winters used to be tame with some sleet, maybe a few inches of snow, but these recent years have brought freakish ice storms that leave everyone buying all of the milk and eggs. They seriously freak out at any inclement weather, but these ice storms are dangerous, especially if you don't know how to drive in the stuff. This past year, we almost got a foot of snow, which is absolutely unheard of. I enjoyed it, but not a lot of people did! 
Summers can be brutal, but like I said, TN is a weird mixture of arid and tropical. It can rain and storm like a monsoon, literally raining sideways, then a week later everything will dry up and a short drought takes over.

Tennessee has its ups and downs, but I really do love it here. I only wish there were more anime shops!!

[Koudoawaia]

I live in Eastern Kentucky. Lots of beautiful mountain scenery around here.