Local culture you're proud of

This is where you share things about your locality, region or country that you're proud of, or simply want to share because look guys this is where I live.

Or, conversely, you could complain how sucky it is compared to everyone else's.

The New York City Subway should be named one of the Wonders of the World. Just sayin'.

... Not from what I've heard of it.

But anyway.

My city doesn't have a lot that's notable about it on a cultural level.

My province in general, though, has some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet. If not the most beautiful.

Americans, listen up: My school is older than your country.

Other than that? Can't really think of something at the moment.

The Mayflower set sail just a few streets away from where I live.

^^ Cool! Where do you go?

Kingston, Ontario has a high concentration of friendly non-posturing alternatypes who really make up for the rigid and pompous rich old bastards. If you ever want to meet a hippie you won't want to punch in the face you can find one in Kingston. True, there are assholish ones there too, but they're mostly among the young ones; anyone over thirty is probably nice.

Toronto, my home town, is ridiculously easy to navigate because it was planned that way. Everything's laid out in a grid.

This doesn't mean it's boring, though; there's always a festival somewhere in town, no matter what time of year it is.

Also, if Southern Ontario as a whole could be said to be local? Chip trucks. Fuck yeah fresh-cut fries.

Well, I would say the Clubmen from the civil war, but about bugger all people know about it and it's something that isn't really "culture" more History (obviously). That and it happened in other Counties, Dorset was just the largest.

Other than that... Thomas Hardye is pretty damn good apparently.

Can anyone else here say they live in the state that gave the world Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, etc.?

Springsteen and Sinatra are your fault? Where is this horrible place so I know where to deploy the Rent-a-Zillas?

I can't!

But I can say that my old Kentucky home delivered Muhammad Ali, Abraham Lincoln, George Clooney, and the world's best fried chicken onto the world.

edited 27th Sep '12 2:42:54 PM by DrFurball

Glasgow is a complete mix of past and present, and all sorts of different cultures. And it all comes together brilliantly and seamlessly, so that there's always something here for someone that is also completely unique to Glasgow.

Say you're enjoying a coffee at the Grosvenor after seeing a film there. You can head down the bargain shopper's paradise in Partick and through the student hub of Kelvingrove (stopping into the Art gallery) onto the city centre, with its blend of gorgeous Victorian architecture and modern culture. You go into the East End and the traditional Barrowlands market place before catching a Celtic match at Celtic Park. By then its dark, and time to drink the night away in the vibrant nightlife scene.

Then you can ward away the hangover the next day in a traditional British pub with an Irish stout and an Indian curry.

Yeah well mine brought for the authors of Phillip K Dick and Ursula Le Guin and currently Michael Lewis of Moneyball fame is a resident,same with Michael Pollan.

We give a damn about food quality of all sorts,that's why there are so many awesome restaurants everywhere.

And we'd be stuck in the fifties if it wasn't for my place,and the counterculture is still around.We are the good kind of Strawman U the ultimate university of all of the California University s

And we have the coolest nickname

On a more regional note is once again,great food quality,people who are as relaxed as the weather [and since it barely ever changes well],and we're very innovative (We house the Silicon Valley,though sadly that's on the other side of the Suburbia-ish area and its closer to Standford)

The community of Wat Suddhavasa is absolutely wonderful. It's warm and welcoming and proof of the capability of various religions and the religious and irreligious to work together and be friendly with one another. And, in the words of my abbot, not because we are all the same, but also because we are all different. We respect those differences and still work towards peace and happiness, sharing knowledge and kindness.

For the regular visitor it is quite very much a family. One that is open and loving and unabashedly Buddhist. There is no such thing as "privately Buddhist" with the community there and, from what I've heard, with Thai Theravada in general. It's comforting and lovely and I feel so glad to know that I can aid that family who has given me so much.

edited 27th Sep '12 3:48:48 PM by Aondeug

Though we as New Yorkers can be rude, we're also very willing to band together whenever disaster strikes.

No, but my state (Illinois) is more corrupt than yours.

As for something not bad: Home Alone and Ferris Buellers Day Off were filmed here.

And a few famous people are from here.

edited 27th Sep '12 10:30:18 PM by Malph

My home town was/is the home of Charles Schulz & Guy Fieri. Not sure if the latter counts; he seems cool on TV, but some people tell me he's a butt.

edited 28th Sep '12 7:50:10 AM by RTaco

I live very close to the area where the Jamestown settlers first landed. Oh, I live down the street from a historical monument. Other than that, my city if pretty generic.

I live in Milton Keynes.

... You're the newest modern town! :P

Oh! Oh!

Birmingham invented, wait for it...:

• The steam engine
• The Mini Cooper
• The bus stop
• The timetable to go with bus stops
• Duran Duran
• Other things

There was a point where half the world's guns had a bullet made in Birmingham. In fact, having a gun that says "Made in Birmingham" means you have a proper bit of kit in your hands.

I live in a rural area that has more cows than people.

Oh!

We're also the European Union's capital for weed.

All the good Toronto bands. Not the bad artists.

I thought that was Amsterdam.

@ Odd. Nononono. Amsterdam has a very tiny amount of weed. Its not a particularly large city, either, and its only tourists who really have a pop at the weed.

Birmingham is the capital because we farm several thousand tonnes of it per year.