I live in Queenstown, which is in the south of New Zealand. (We call it the Southern Lakes District.) It hooks around the bank of Lake Wakatipu. It's pretty close to forty five degrees south. Apparently if you were to sail west from Fiordland (which is four hours drive in a V shaped route) then the first land you would come to would be South America.
First the main industry was farming, then gold mining, and now it's tourism. Everything here is based around tourism and especially adventure tourism. (Jet boating, bungy, jumping off stuff.) So every Christmas the population swells to almost double. And every second building, it seems, is a hotel of some kind.
Now I want to know something first hand about where you live.
I live in Weston Point a village in Runcorn. It was built to accomidate the employees of a chemical plant. It situated just where the River Mersey becomes an estuary. It has two canals flowing through it aswell. It also contains one of (if not) the largest salt factorys in the world.
It has also been known to rain mercury here and the underground contains some deadly carcinogens. But it is quite a nice place otherwise.
And I live in the Pacific Northwest of the US, where I'm told the weather is much like Scotland's--wet, windy, and dreary, at least in the winter.
We actually have nice summers.
We just got out of a nasty snow storm that closed everything down. The main reason is because we don't have a lot of snow clearing equipment because we don't get snow that often any more. It was so nice, though, because it was pretty, and I still could get out in my 4 wheel drive (known as the Frogmobile because of the faerie frog sticker that my friends use to id my truck), and play. It's melted off, and now we're in the middle of a nasty wind storm that's blown trees down, and maybe will give us a nice day tomorrow after it's blown the clouds away.
I live next to a bay, in the foothills of the Cascades, south of the Canadian border, and deer eat grass in the yard, and raccoons chase the cats.
Metta, Jaye. 
The house I live in sits independently inside a city block. It contains six single room flats roughly 376 sq. ft. each. It was built in 1914/15. There is two flats on every floor and we share WC. The bathroom is in the house facing the street and all occupants of the house have to share this. I live on the first floor and below is an unheated basement where I keep a whole lot of stuff. I moved into the next door flat on december 29, 1989 and moved to the current flat in february 1991.
The town got its credentials in 1384. Its name is Norrköping. Running through it is the river Motala Ström which ends in the long and narrow Bråviken, a bay on the western side of the Baltic Sea. I grew up in a rural setting several miles outside town.
And the country - Sweden.
Mostly flat or gently-rolling hills. Lots of small wooded areas but no huge forests. Mostly farms---a friend of mine grows 1,600 acres of corn and soybeans.
Only a few dairy cattle, and fewer Black Angus for meat. Almost no sheep in this area. Chicago is seventy miles away, but I like the hick-town life better.
The current temperature is 49º F (10ºC) and it is raining. Last week we had snow, and we will have a lot of snow before next spring.
It is nice to be here after living in the desert for so long.
Nuneaton, burned out industrial armpit of the midlands
One site (chavtowns.co.uk) refer to it as the place that time, taste and good manners forgot.
The place I live in is spherical and infested with pink goo...
Nuneaton is really bad for violence everyone is fighting or causing a fight.
The trampest area in nuneaton is camp hill (tramp hill) its the scumiest place ever but the area that nobody would ever cause any trouble otherwise they'd get there head kicked in is hilltop.everybody knows the hilltop crew and the people who live round there cus it has such a bad reputation and everyone knows everyone round there so who ever lives in hilltop are safe cus its like a family area. The three hardest familys in nuneaton are ' harrisons' ' ginnellys' and the 'darbys'.Everybody knows who they are and everybody knows not to mess with them,all these familys are like the mafia!!!! Neway i think ive stated the main things of nuneaton,i hope you will come and visit soon............"
Quotes from chavtowns.co.uk about Nuneaton
I live in a large city in Canada. My home is in a large apartment block. It is surrounded by large fields of grass. Across the street are two schools and a huge park with a number of football (soccer) fields and a baseball diamond. If I walk through the park I have some swings and there is an underground water reservoir. There are very lovely bike paths and a creek nearby. I only wish I had a bicycle.
I can walk to the grocery store and pharmacy. There is a bus stop about one block away. I can take a bus to the subway and go downtown to shop in a huge mall.
It is very quiet where I live. No one bothers me. My building is very quiet. In some ways I love to be alone but often I am lonely.
The most important thing you need to know about New Britain is that Wojciech lives here. ^_^
New Britain is a Polish-American community.(Just check out Broad Street in downtown New Britain, one of New Britain's oldest streets, and populated with Polish people and even a church that has two Masses, one in English upstairs and one in Polish downstairs) The reason why is because in WWII, New Britain was a rather industrial city. The Polish were escaping Poland because of the Nazis invading the country, and they were able to find cheap, industrial labour here. The later generations of my family followed the older generations.
New Britain is a small city with at least two churches (Sacred Heart mentioned above, and Holy Cross), a lot of elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school. The closest movie theatre (Loews Theatres) is up in Farmington. I could even walk there!
The Board of Ed here sucks miserably and seems to love interfering with the lives of Autistic people.
The greatest place to take a walk here is Stanley Quarter Park.
Central Connecticut State University is located here, along with a shitload of parking garages for the University, and the New Britain General Hospital that is nearby.
Somewhere in downtown New Britain, along the way from my house to the highschool, is a large structure of modern art that looks like a shiny silvery ribbon. Shinyyyyyy....... @.@
CT is a beautiful state. I lived there for many years--Guilford, Clinton,Hamden, Northford, Woodbridge,Storrs, Yalesville, Wallingford. My sister still lives in Glastonbury.
I would love to take my daughter back there to visit sometime.
Odd, but I don't recall ever being in New Britain.
Yeah everyone talk about how bad Nuneaton is ;p
Nuneaton isn't that bad, at least it isn't controlled by a huge greedy corporation that doesn't think twice about poisoning its inhabitants, owns all the land so you can't go anywhere without being removed by its own private security force, blocks out the sun with plumes of steam and is currently removing every bit of grass in sight. Weston Point is alot like Midgar in that respect.
Anyway the mafia isn't so bad once you get to know them.
Nuneaton will be as Midgar soon enough :p lol