Your Hometown.

Los Angeles, California. And I think Patrick Stump put it best when he wrote, "From every corner to every block yeah, and whether it's warm or storming or downright stupid hot. From the problems all the way to the solutions yeah, forget all the drugs and gangs, corruption and pollution no. Cause this city is my city and I love it, yeah I love it. I was born and raised here, I got it made here And if I have my way, I'm gonna stay here for life."

This town, especially my area, isn't very safe though it is a little better than other parts. There are so many problems here but I've grown out of the "I hate this town" phase and man I really love this city. And with me wanting to make it in Hollywood as a writer, this really is the place to be.

Stockport, Greater Manchester.

Once the epicentre of the UK's hatting industry (oh yeah, that was a thing), it was basically a dirty, smokey cotton mill town in the 19th century. It's still very working class and I feel like no matter where in the city you go, you can see the tower from the hatting museum in the distance.

The one cool thing is Strawberry Studios. It's long closed but the building's still there as a heritage site now. Joy Division, the Smiths, the Stone Roses, etc recorded there so it was pretty big for the Manchester music scene once upon a time.

I hated growing up there but I don't think I would've liked growing up anywhere else.

I live maybe an hour away from Los Angeles, California. Obviously I'm not releasing the exact details for reasons.

My town is fairly big but not many people are aware of it, which I'm fine with all the same. I love my town, I love it's personality, and I can't see myself moving away from it ever (unless I went to live with the rest of my relatives in Georgia). My town is fairly stereotypical. We all know each other in some way. The unfortunate thing is everybody hates my town that lives here! We call it a Bubble, since if someone actually leaves, they always end up coming back to it. It's inevitable.

My hometown is San Diego in California, not Texas and I love it. I know I complain about wanting to move away but in all honesty San Diego has a lot to offer: museums, beaches, art galleries, and you are always hours away from anything, you have the mountains, the dessert, the beaches, and you can drive up to Disneyland and LA, or even Mexico. It has a lot to offer.

I currently live in Porto, or Oporto as English speakers call it, Portugal. To me, it's a really beautiful city, the second biggest in Portugal, after Lisbon, but really not that big when compared to other major European or American cities. I love pretty much everything about it, just as I love almost everything about my country. People are friendly and the city is filled with history and culture. It's also the home of the Port Wine and its famous cellars.
I've always wanted to move to the United States but honestly, I think I would end up missing the Portuguese cuisine and its lifestyle, where everything is bathed by the ocean breeze, the enduring sunshine and where people live life without a hurry and enjoy what they got.

I love in a really small town in southern Missouri. I like it here, but then again I hate it since I live in the country(somewhat) The good thing is that it's quiet most of the time other than hearing trains and planes. But then again there is nothing to do here. We have an airport (ironically enough, it's not even our town's airport, but the bigger town 10 miles from here), a post office, gas station, fire station and several churches. It actually used to be the biggest town around here in the early 1900s. We still have some of the old buildings, another gas station that went out of business in the past year, one of the old schools, and a burnt down truck stop. I think a guy from around here has apartments too. (he keeps changing what it is. it was a cafe for a few months.) I actually live off the old highway which is now a dirt road. (the highway is behind and from what I know has been since before I was born. my grandparents remember the old highway so they got rid of it sometime from the 60-80s i would guess)

Since I've lived here (or born I guess) they built a bridge across the train tracks for the highway. (guess where the equipment was when they did this?! RIGHT BEHIND MY HOUSE! do you know how loud that was?!) The old truck stop also burnt down. Umm, a few tornadoes have hit here. The recent was last year just up the road from me. It was never reported from what I'm aware of since it only destroyed trees. An f-4 hit down the road from me a few years ago. A train derailed right up the road from me as well a few years ago. We constantly had trucks going by. I think that's all.

I currently live in a small community 8 miles from our town. Trust me, I hate it. If I could move, i'd be moving faster than anyone could say. But the economy sucks and no one is buying our home. Days I wanna move days I don't. I've been in this house for 17 years, and I recently moved out and then moved back in to help my mom. When my dad passed away she was left with absoutley nothing. She can't get any money help or anything. Being an only child, I seen I needed to step up and take care of her like she did me for 18 years.

This home has sentimental value to me, cause it has all the memories of my daddy and everything. But the community used to be great many of years ago. Now it isn't so great. I'd love to find us a place out in the woods away from everyone, I'm odd I know. But that's how I feel, ::teheh:

Upside is that we know everyone around here except new people that move in. Downside I am so 8/9 miles from town and a hospital. So yeah. And we live straight up on a mountian... :/ ugh! Lol. Think that's it...

I live in one of the valleys just outside the capital city and not too far away from the beach. It’s not the most exciting place but I’m content with it because I have everything I need within a reasonable distance from me, unlike when I lived in a small country town for a year. If you wanted to do something fun or buy something decent you had to drive miles away to the next big metropolitan area. Not to mention there are so many more opportunities here for a career.

My town is bears the same name as the famous town in California (Hollywood) and let me tell you, whenever i tell people i live in Hollywood, they automatically think I live in Hollywood, California. Welp, there's no Hollywood Stars, real or the little stars on the ground that have the names of celebrities imprinted on them, and it's not nearly as big Hollywood either. It's actually rather small. It's like a country town beginning to turn into a small city (if that makes sense).

There's plenty to do in my town like going off to see a slave plantation (it's called Sotterley's(SP)), there's a beach (three of them actually) where we can swim at during the summer (gotta watch out for dem Jelly fish though), there's a small shopping center not even five miles away from my neighborhood (it would take me about half an hour to walk there and back), and of course, we have a lot of restaurants that're constantly changing (every three years this old restaurant called Perkins/Alice's would go under a new ownership or something) and there're plenty of hiking trails near Sotterley's.

If you have money, you can take the hour long trip to Baltimore to see the Aquarium and Science Museum there. Or if you really want to go get your nerd on, you can ride a bus for about three hours to Washington, DC, which has a lot of nice sites to visit (I've been up there four or five times within the past few years).

The only thing I don't like Hollywood is the snow during winter. We get snow pretty bad here and it messes with my electricity pretty badly. :( And the temperature, or rather Mother Nature likes to be a hormonal woman.

I live in Austin, Texas and it's one of my favorite places. I'm a huge Texas Longhorn football fan and as they play for the University of Texas at Austin, I'm in a prime spot. I love the fact that we're a big outdoors-y city and there's something to do every day, even if I don't get to do it. It's has an amazing music scene but a lot of big bands don't come here as we don't have a huge stadium for them.

I don't like that it's one of the fastest growing cities in the US. I'm glad that people are coming here and enjoying the scene but it's making it impossible for me to afford to live. We have the highest rents in Texas and the main highway, I-35, is almost always a parking lot.

Also, I don't have many friends here. As people are moving in, native Austinites are getting fed up and leaving. I've had friends up and leave quite a few times and I plan to leave myself some day. But Austin will always be my home.

My hometown was a small town north of Texas (not in the panhandle) that you couldn't even consider it a town. My family lived in a U-shaped neighborhood with no more than 50 houses in the neighborhood. As cliche as this sounds, all the kids knew each other and went to the same school since we only had one elementary school, one middle school and one high school that were right next to each other.

Later on, they built a larger neighborhood down the street, but wasn't connected to our neighborhood. From what I've been told, there have been more neighborhoods put in and a few big stores nearby. I guess it sucks since it got a lot bigger than it used to be, but I guess it's good for the schools and the town itself.

My hometown is about 40 minutes away from the big city and it's connected to a couple more small towns, so altogether, it's large-ish but as for where I lived, it was very small and actually kind of reserved. I wasn't very social so I didn't really know anyone and I didn't much care to know anyone, either.

I live in Midland, Texas, but it's not my hometown. My hometown is Lubbock, a metroplex two hours(give or take thirty minutes) north of here. It's a big town, lots of people, but I love it. My mom, way back when I was an itty bitty baby, would take me out to the air fields to watch the planes take off and land.

The one thing I miss the most about Lubbock is the way that the cotton fields look when the sun is going down. Reds, oranges, purples. It's just breath taking.

Wolverhampton, smack bang in the middle(ish) of England. Anyone from Great Britain may recognise it as being named (apparently - the person who wrote the article hadn't even been here) the 5th worst city in the world. Honestly, it's not THAT bad and although I moan about living here constantly, I'm really defensive about it.

This is my hometown, where I was born and raised, so insulting it is on par with insulting the people who live here. It may be thought of as a bit of a dump, the 'not-quite-Birmingham', with an up-and-down football team but it's home and it's certainly not all doom and gloom. It can be quite frustrating to hear people laugh about it because we're not just working class hooligans who all claim benefits. We're actual people too, you know.

Although, really, our accent is horrendous.

I am originally from Miami, Florida. A lot of people don't realize just how big our county is and mainly think of South Beach, but we forgive you!

My house is about 30 minutes away from the beach, but it should really take less time if you take away the stupid pedestrians, short traffic lights, and one-way streets. I grew up in a mainly Hispanic suburb and unfortunately there was a lot of discrimination around when I was growing up. I am Hispanic as well, but I don't really "look the part" so it was a bit tough. It's a terrible city to drive in and if you are black and happen to be stopped by a Hispanic officer, you are screwed.

However, I found a new love for the beach when I was in high school and I had a great group of friends (we're still a semi-group), but I was ready to get out of there. There is a lot to do there theoretically, but some things are quite expensive and my friends and I just didn't have the money. The football teams are overrated and I dislike the Miami Heat.

For my freshman year of university, I moved to London and I absolutely loved it. I really can't explain it but it felt like a real home away from home. It was during that time that I found a new appreciation for Miami. I guess absence does make the hear grow founder. I only go back for the winter and summer break and I do miss it sometimes.

My hometown is this really small town called "Kirke Hørup" in Southern Denmark (about 40 minutes from the German border). And I really don't like it.

Wikipedia says that there live 253 people in that town. I don't believe that. But anyway, I don't like it because everybody know each other, and every single old people in that town knows about me because my granddad and grandma lives theres and so did my great-grandma until she moved, and I myself lived there for about 13-15 years. It's a town where you as a citizen can't make one single mistake without everybody talking about it. Rumours are spread constantly, even when you don't live there. It's just terrible really.

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Oh God, I've heard so many positive things about Portugal and I've actually always wanted to go there! All the tattoo artists' in the tattoo shop I go to are actually Portuguese, and they're all so incredibly friendly I can't believe it!

I don't live there anymore, but I'm from Berlin, Germany.

A funny thing about Berlin is that I've actually lost count of how many times I've had people telling me "that's cool you're from Berlin, you know, I really like Germany I want to go there one day" and then when they finally get to go and visit Germany they normally describe how much they liked Munich, Hamburg, Köln and everywhere else, but when I ask about Berlin 99% of the times I hear they didn't like Berlin very much. Then I'm giggling inside because I totally saw it coming.

I'll just say that I don't think Berlin is for everyone. If you want to visit your stereotypical German city, go somewhere like Munich and you'll be happy. Berlin has its own logic, lives at its own pace, has its own culture and history and has its own sense of identity, people who are too attached to that "typical German" stereotype normally end up disappointed when they go there. And I guess that's precisely why I like it so much, because it's so different from everywhere else in Germany.

Besides, despite the fact that it is a capital and a fairly big city, it doesn't feel like it at all.

I've lived in Kilmarnock, Scotland my whole life. We're famous for being the originator of Johnny Walker whiskey, even though they moved the business out of town. Every time a non-Scottish person realises where I'm from, the conversation inevitably moves to whiskey, it's weird. We are also pretty famous throughout the UK for a TV show called 'The Scheme' which pretty much sums up the dodgy part of the town in a nutshell. My work is a 5-minute walk from the council scheme they filmed it in.

Despite that, it is pretty cool. We're renowned for some damn fine football pies (even though our team are pants), Biffy Clyro (or two-thirds of them, anyway) are from here and it isn't a complete tip. We've got a half-decent town centre and there are trains to Glasgow every half hour that take about 40 minutes to get into the city centre. Completely average. Still proud of where I come from though.