Your Hometown.

My hometown is a reasonably suburban-type village about an hour south of London. It's one of those unbearably awful middle-class British villages where everyone is much richer than us and there are about three times as many private schools as there are state schools. It's a great place for children - safe and not too urban, and everyone seems to know everyone, but it's also one of those places where everyone lives in massive houses, and they all have too much spare time so they end up talking about each other, and the idea of a big news story is that they're putting in a new speed camera.
And then there are all the kids who behave like complete chavs despite being ridiculously rich - drinking and doing drugs and partying every weekend.
In short, I'm not planning on staying here any longer than I have to.

I still live there :) I'm from a suburbian town In Victoria; Australia.
This is a town full of trees! trees everywhere hills too :| losts of hills. People walk on my street all the time - people even drive to my street to walk on it. all there walks smile and say 'hey' when you go past; i love it.

This is a town where I'd love to live for the rest of my life, everyones so friendly and the landscape is AMAZING.

My hometown's Las Vegas.
I actually really like the heat so I didn't mind the really hot summers.
Now we're in incredibly-cold-and-rainy Seattle.

I miss it.
It just felt more comfortable.

I live in San Francisco, California. And while I have only lived here a few months, I consider it my home. I absolutely love it here. According to Wikipedia, this city has a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 census. We're the thirteenth most populous city in the U.S and the fourth most populous city in California. San Francisco is a fairly popular destination for tourists from all over the world.

I grew up in small towns, so moving to a city like San Francisco really shocked me at first. I'd visited here countless times though and always loved it, it's one of the places where I wanted to go. San Francisco is just beautiful. The beaches are very beautiful and I love going down to one from time to time. There's a lot of interesting places to visit in the city. The city is pretty diverse, there's a lot of different cultures you can experience here and I love it. Another thing I love is the weather, it stays fairly cool all year round. My parents run a hotel and it's pretty funny, in my opinion, to watch people when they start talking about the weather. So many people expect us to be hot like the majority of California and are fairly shocked to find out we're not, it catches a lot of people off guard when they actually get here. We usually stay in the 60s and 70s. We occasionally fall into the 50s during winter time and very rarely hit the 80s in the summer. It gets pretty cold when night comes. A lot of people don't like our weather but I personally love it. I've always hated extremely hot weather, so I'm very happy with the cooler weather. We're kind of in the middle, we're not overly hot but not overly cold. San Francisco is a very liberal city that seems to pride itself on the freedoms it gives its citizens, the creativity we have, and the caring nature of a lot of the citizens.

I absolutely adore the city and intend on being here for a long time.

I was born in Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. It's on the coast and it's one of the liviest and 'chillest' cities in KSA. I love the diversity of people that're always passing through Jeddah, seeing as it's a port and a major commercial city. I've only lived there for the first 2-3 years of my life, before we moved to Riyadh, KSA for another year or two and then New York. We would visit family and friends every summer or every other summer. The weather can be extremely hot and humid most of the year, although the winters can also be pretty bitter. The beaches and resorts are lovely, and you can always get the best ice cream at any time on Jeddah shores, even at 3 AM! There's also the lovely Old Jeddah, which my dad would take me to from time to time. It still holds traditional buildings, stores and a small 'play ground' that's always buzzing with kids and old carnivals rides. It's just beautiful.

To be honest, although Jeddah holds a special place in my heart, I consider London my hometown, since I spent the longest time - 4 years - I had ever spent anywhere there in the same house and school. I also did most of my 'growing up' there - transitioning from an angry, oblivious 12 year old to a more open-minded, knowledgable, mature 16 year old. I know my way in and out of London, and I know most of it's nooks and crannies. Where I'd never imagine going back to Jeddah to settle down, since I've been living abroad for so long and I'm always the odd puzzle piece when I try to fit back into that society, I could see myself living in London or New York again. I miss them ):

I come from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It's not (or it wasn't) a very diverse place. African American's make up a huge population of the place. Most of the people I lived around were African American. They ranged from very wealthy to very poor. I went to school with the poorer handful. But I love Maryland because I just do. There's no way I can explain why. I learned a lot of good lessons as a young child while there because from what I've witnessed, black kids tend to grow up faster. One of my best friends still lives there. But the crime was kind of high (typical in northern states) and crack crimes were high.
Most of my life was spent there, and it'll probably be that way for a long time. A part of me is still there. Most of my family on my moms side lives there. Baltimore is a very rough place, but I want to live there for a while for material. Southern life in American is nothing like Northern (Maryland is considered northern now) life. While southern life is peaceful and all, northern is more fast pace and everything is right where you need it (most of everything). I'm accustomed to it too.

I wouldn't change where I grew up for the world.

I live in a quaint little town in California. I's called Oakley and we are growingg!! My favorite part of growing up in a small town is that you kinda get to see your friends grow up along with you and the town... You can see everyone change along side you. Kinda makes me feel alive. :)

I live in Haifa, the Northern capital of Israel. It stinks. I hate it. I only live here for the dirt cheap rent. I'd much rather have a nice big open apartment in Tel Aviv, but it'd easily cost 7 times what I'm paying now for a big fancy apartment here in Haifa.

The government has given up on Haifa eversince it got hit during the last Lebanon war; the economy sucks, streets aren't kept as clean as Jerusalem's, young people look for work and a future elsewhere for a reason and the only thing Haifa is good for nowadays, is cheap rent and stashing away any polluting industry. Also the "cultural diversity" - I feel like I'm in Russia - makes me want to curl up in a tight ball in my laundry room. I returned to Israel to be among my own people. If I wanted to see Russian on every storefront and hear it in every bus, I'd gone to Russia. Why did I even bother to learn Hebrew? In HAIFA?

I live in England too and its not as great as people say. I live in the town Oxford, its pretty crap if i'm honest. We get WAY too many tourists from every single country, especially Brazil and China -_- its really annoying. Plus literally anyone from somewhere else says, 'oh, Oxford? You're posh!'
Pahaha, no. No bloody way o_o

don'tworry-imawizard:

I live in England too and its not as great as people say. I live in the town Oxford, its pretty crap if i'm honest. We get WAY too many tourists from every single country, especially Brazil and China -_- its really annoying. Plus literally anyone from somewhere else says, 'oh, Oxford? You're posh!'
Pahaha, no. No bloody way o_o

No way.
Seriously, what is the likelihood of meeting another Oxfordian on a site this large?
Oxford is very boring. Although, the buildings are rather pretty.

Aw man, this has made my day!

I live in a town called Hyden which is in Kentucky and all I have to say is that it is hell. Everyone disagrees and judges each other. It's also a very close minded town. I still don't have city water or high speed internet. I hate it here.

My home.

Yeah, it's not so bad, particularly for myself, living in a fairly affluent neighbourhood, with a professional-industry father, public sector mother, decent schooling. Being white, mainly, probably.

The mining boom means the population has swelled more than anyone adequately planned for, so we have problems with congestion, poorly-designed suburbs/districts, ridiculous trading laws - I think there's the potential for the city to be very metropolitan and modern (i.e. global) but there's so much government waste and everyone panders to the state's population of racist, homophobic, economically/politically-ignorant and environmentally-devastating jackasses. We're basically seen as a state of 'cashed-up bogans', and if the rest of the world took any notice they'd probably laugh/cry at how we're wasting our beautiful land and limited natural resources to pack the overflowing pockets of a couple dozen executives at the top and putting a larger luxury ute into every douchebag's driveway. Meanwhile they slash mental health funding even more, renew $400 million of programs to help religious groups fight competition from corporations interested in taking on social welfare obligations (?) and complain that spending $200 million on education is far too much. I just, I don't even. The only way I really, personally, 'suffer' here is in not being able to get public transport after 11pm during the week or after 5/6pm on the weekend, and only having two or three reasonable options for late-night coffee in the city or surrounding suburbs. But the inequity that others face is deeply troubling and if I were a bigger person I would stick around and fix injustice, instead of opting to fly out of the country at my earliest convenience forever.

I took my boyfriend to my hometown this weekend. We drove through the entire town in less than a minute. Showed him the gas station/Godfather's hybrid building. Our Hy-Vee is the less than a quarter of the size of the Hy-Vee up the street from my current apartment. Our one school housed K-12.

Everything looks crappier than before. Paint gone from buildings. One of my best friend's houses was torn down. Our old house looks like shit. Apparently there's a lot more meth there now.

I live in a relatively small town in North East Yorkshire. We have about five primary schools, two secondary schools and one college. My yeargroup at school was one of the biggest, apparently, with about 250 students per secondary school. My entire school at its largest had about 1200 students.

There's a few streets of shops in the town center, two 'big branch' supermarkets, small fire and police departments and a hospital, but that's about it. It's an hour away from the nearest city over, which is still fairly small, and the nearest big city is Leeds, which is about an hour and a half away.

But, it is on the seaside, and loads of tourists show up in the summer months.

I kind of like it, I guess, but I'm moving away for university next year to a city of some description. I guess I'll miss it.

My hometown is a suburb north of Dayton, Ohio. Unlike most of the people in my city, I really like it, but at the same time despise it. It's a suburb, but it's also MASSIVE. We have about 38, 000 residents, two major highways, cover a rather large expanse, and have all kinds of shops and restaurants. Unfortunately, it's been going to crap recently. There are a lot of drugs and generally stupid people. A woman was killed around the corner from my house.

The weather is so incredibly wishy-washy that you can end up wearing shorts, a hoodie, and rainboots all at the same time.

Probably the worst thing about the city is that you NEED a car or you're not going anywhere. Virtually no public transport and everything is super spread out. I'll always have a place in my heart for Dayton, but I'm excited to be moving to Columbus in August. :)

I was born in Rapid City, South Dakota, and when I was nine months old, we moved to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and then we moved back to Rapid City when I was five. We lived there until 2004, and I absolutely loved it there. It's the second most populous city in South Dakota, and I could see Mount Rushmore from my house, although it was very distant. The city, which was more of a town, was split in half by Rapid Creek, which is where the name of the town came from, and all of the stores, for the most part, were the the cutest little brick buildings with cute displays in the windows. I remember that there was this gun store called First Stop Gun Shop. Since it was in SD, and all we did was play outside, even if you were an adult, we hunted, rode ATVs, and played in the creeks. We knew everyone at First Stop by name, 'cause we were in there so often. Also, the old fire station was turned into a restaurant, which they fittingly named, The Firehouse. They had this amazing beer bread, which, if I think about it, I can still taste. There was this park called Storybook Island, where there were different slides, playgrounds, and stuff, with the themes of different fairy tales. My father had these friends, who were an elderly couple and owned a ranch with Arabian horses and peacocks, and he helped them bale hay, and build corrals for. In return, they let him hunt on their property, and they probably owned a few hundred acres. We went there a lot. Also, there was this canyon called Roughlock Falls, where in the autumn, would turn all these beautifully warm colors as the leaves started to change. The many waterfalls never froze over, no matter how cold it got, and the water tasted so good. Probably the cleanest tasting water ever. I don't remember much else, since we moved when I was ten, but I really miss it, even though I'd never move back, if that makes sense... haha

My hometown was Mt. Rainier, MD (I don't live there now, so I don't mind telling you).
Honestly it wasn't a very safe neighborhood, it wasn't the ghetto but it was near enough. It was smack next to D.C, so sometimes it would get a little too loud and crowded.
I'll start with the downsides first;
-There were three registered sex offenders in the neighborhood and one lived across and down the street from my house.
-There were mini gangs, and a couple members lived in the houses next to mine.
-When I was seven, a creeper climbed up the side of my house and tried to get in through my window >.>
-Someone got shot there.
-My brother's childhood friends joined a gang.
-A sniper decided to make a little hideout in the neighborhood :( (I had to cancel my eight birthday party!)
-Someone decided to go all pyro and set houses and sheds on fire, right after my garage burnt down.

The upsides?
Uh...Well at that point my family owned a house (which was awesome!), but then we had to move, cause it got repossessed. (Now we live in an apartment *sigh*)
Ooh and when I was like five, my mom, brother and I found a kitten! (But my dad told us to kick it out)

My hometown is literally like the asshole of America. It's a little town called Hyden which is in Kentucky. It's a really pathetic town. We don't have city water or high speed internet, I have dial-up still. We get the funding for such things but the town is so corrupted by greedy fuckers that all the funding for such things goes straight into their pockets. If you want to know what I have to deal with when I go to the store or into my college classes go on Youtube or Netflix and watch a little movie called 'The Wild and Wonderful Whites' which was produced by Johnny Knoxville.

Aix-En-Provence, France.

I absolutely loathe my hometown, not too far from Hollywood. It's crowded, hot, and everyone is so vile. People have no respect and let their rugrats run everywhere, train their dogs to be vicious, and don't even get started on the men. They are pigs and shamelessly taunt young woman by honking their horns and whistling, you can never go for a walk in peace. Had it not been for us actually getting a house for once, I would've never EVER moved there and SO happy I moved away for school. I fu**ing hate this place with a passion and rarely do I ever describe hometowns this way. Creepy old perverts, oh how they piss me off. Never again will I choose to live in a place like this.