What's so special or cool about your state and/or city?

[neomits]

What's something pretty cool that your state or city has that no other has. Something you're proud of.

Please don't say something like "uhhh lots of hot chicks" or "the beach"

Try to think of something original other people wouldn't know about...


I'll start

Ohio's the birthplace of 4 presidents, birthplace of the Wright Brothers, and has 2 Awesome Theme Parks with some of the top 10 rollercoasters.

I think we may also have had the most Playboy Playmates but I'm not 100% on that...

 

[PsychoAndy]

Florida- Tourist Traps, Oranges and Old people. 'Nuff said.

-PAB

 

[pyonir]

Arizona: ummmm we have the Grand Canyon.

 

[neomits]

 

[Vortex22]

Lots of hot chicks... and the beach.

 

[Evadman]

Illinois good:

90% of the population lives within 50 miles of Chicago.
Chicago is home to the original Polar Bears who go diving in lake Michigan in the middle of the winter.
Route 66.
Home of the brain damaging rollercoaster, Shockwave.
Snow in the winter, and sun in the summer, best of both worlds.
Home 'O Prez with stove pipe hat.

Illinois Bad:
2 seasons, Construction and winter.
No hidden compartment in car law passed.
Everyone thinks if you live in illinois, you grew up in the city. ( not nessisarly a bad thing)

 

[DougK62]

My hometown - Mishawaka, IN: Every Hummer you see on the road or on the battlefield is made less than a mile from my home. Very proud

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: DougK62
My hometown - Mishawaka, IN: Every Hummer you see on the road or on the battlefield is made less than a mile from my home. Very proud

I saw an H2 yesterday. Looks awesome in real life.

 

[NogginBoink]

Texas: We have the death penalty, and we USE IT!

 

[Mister T]

NYC

nuff said

 

[JustinSampson]

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada: Home of the biggest environmental disaster in North America (the tar ponds, created by a steel plant over the course of 100 years), and the biggest salt water lake in the World. Go us!

 

[pyonir]

oh yeah, and we also have the worlds tallest water fountain in Foutain Hills, AZ, and the London Bridge in Lave Havasu City.

 

[amdskip]

Uhhh, I'm from Illinois in a small town of 4000 people.

We have a windmill thats an authentic Dutch windmill, I'm dutch but don't support the $1 million thing!

 

[notfred]

Do I really need to list everything that's cool in California? It'd be a long damn list...

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Illinois good:

90% of the population lives within 50 miles of Chicago.
Chicago is home to the original Polar Bears who go diving in lake Michigan in the middle of the winter.
Route 66.
Home of the brain damaging rollercoaster, Shockwave.
Snow in the winter, and sun in the summer, best of both worlds.
Home 'O Prez with stove pipe hat.

Illinois Bad:
2 seasons, Construction and winter.
No hidden compartment in car law passed.
Everyone thinks if you live in illinois, you grew up in the city. ( not nessisarly a bad thing)

You forgot about the first ever McDonalds being built in Des Plaines? Or John Wayne Gacy who lived in the same suburb?

 

[loup garou]

I live in New Orleans. I couldn't list all the special/cool things about it if I tried.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: guapo337

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Texas: We have the death penalty, and we USE IT!

that cracked me up. i have no idea why.

maine: umm.. desert of maine? 90% of the people live in 10% of the state..

the beach.. hot girls.. you know how it goes..

you have Stephen King too!

 

[MagicOnline]

South Sacramento is so beautiful this time of year...

Ghetto houses that cost $250,000.

Gang Bangers, drug dealers, crack whores, and pervs that snatch little kids.....
(and those are the good neighbors)


Could be worse, I guess I could still be living in Detroit

 

[CubicZirconia]

Minnesota: The land of 11,842 lakes. We also have more than 90,000 miles of shoreline. Wheaties, waterskiing, snowmobiles, and masking/scotch tape were also invented here.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: CubicZirconia
Minnesota: The land of 11,842 lakes. We also have more than 90,000 miles of shoreline. Wheaties, waterskiing, snowmobiles, and masking/scotch tape were also invented here.

<---used to live in minnesota

i met the two guys that invented the snowmobile.

 

[911paramedic]

Do I really need to list the stuff here in Las Vegas?

 

[Jfur]

Hawaii

-it's an island (beaches!)
-great weather
-on average, people here are nicer than most places I've been
-in a sense, it is extremely diverse (ethnic "minorities" are the majority here) -- yet is is also somewhat of a culturally conservative place
-SPAM is an honored and serious food preference (for many)
-we have an active volcano (that is generally quite friendly as long as it is respected)

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Do I really need to list the stuff here in Las Vegas?

*checks map to see when Las Vegas became a state*

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
Do I really need to list the stuff here in Las Vegas?

well AZ and NV share the Hoover Dam...

 

[CubicZirconia]

*checks map to see when Las Vegas became a state*

*checks thread title to confirm that it askes for cool things about states or cities. Confirms that indeed it does.*