I live in Wenatchee, WA on the sunny side of Washington, snugggled up against the east side of the Cascade Mountains. Hiking is wonderfu!

Photos: Wenatchee basking in evening light. The Enchantments (8,000 - 10,000' are nearly in my backyard. Mt. Rainier (14,127' from the air, framed by the Enchantments.

I loved america too - I live in Ballycastle Northern Irealnd I am about four minutes from the sea and I can see Rathlin Island, and also Scotland.( I do like Southport too)

I'm in Colorado Springs. A religious town full of idiots.

Conroe, Texas, just north of Houston. It was an oil town, now not so much. The county seat of one of the US’s fastest growing counties, there is a lot of income inequality evident here. Some wear cowboy hats and ride horses, but mostly it is a suburban area full of the cookie cutter ‘culture’ that has developed in the state, if not the country. Heavily religious, I’m in enemy grounds. It is very easy to lose friends here, but there is a seedy underbelly of counterculture. That’s where the fun is. Rational thought is not extremely hard to find, but you still have to look.

I live in a smallish, spanish-moss festooned Florida college town which is also the county seat. We have a fantastic main street culture which is walkable with many cool shops and restaurants. Because it is also a big area for retirees, there are a lot of services for older folks. That's downtown. Outside of downtown, there are a lot of people that want to live on some property and I find them mostly wanting to keep to themselves and not be very friendly. So I would say my town is pretty bipolar! On the positive side, local places to put a canoe or kayak in the water and go hang with the Manatees are very accessible, and you can be walking on the beach with your toes in the sand in about 45 minutes. This part of the state is one which is growing a lot. It's still red when it comes to voting except for that little slice of college-influenced downtown. Every Friday night, there is a farmer's market in town and the fundies stand on the corners with signs and pamphlets and try to evangelize you as you are treking from the parking area to get some fresh veggies or artisanal sausages and cheese. Maybe on one other corner, there are some atheists shouting back at them about the non-existence of God. I find both groups are interfering with my pursuit of artisinal sausages. :/ So mostly I just keep my head down, grab my items, and like The Dude, abide.

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I live in Carrollwood, a suburb of Tampa, Flrodia. Tampa is a city of around a million people with ehavy auto traffic. Fall and winter are the best times of year here -- cool and dry, with highs in the the teens to twenties Celsius, and lows typically in the low teens. Summers are hot and humid with lots of rain.

Our neighborhood is a quiet one, with little traffic, green lawns and lots of big trees. And, we have almost everything we need for living within 2 to 3 miles.

I didn't see anyone representing California here yet, so I thought I'd add to the mix!

I live in northern California, in the northeastern part of the Bay Area just across the bridge from San Francisco in a city called San Leandro, right on the border of Oakland. The city itself, as is most of the Bay Area, is incredibly diverse; within arm's reach you can find someone from any walk of life--all religions (or lack thereof), all ethnicities, all political beliefs (though most tend to be liberal or moderate), etc. The best part about living where I do is that in any direction you go, you're either less than an hour, or just a few, away from any recreational activity one might enjoy. Beaches line the coast, though the water is freezing even in the heat of summer, lakes and rivers abound, and you can find mountains, hills, forests, sand dunes, and even snow just a couple of hours north. California is home to world's tallest, largest, and oldest trees on earth, some well over 1,000 years old. The weather stays fairly temperate, with very low humidity--summers are warm to hot, 24-35 degrees Celsius, it doesn't snow in the Bay Area itself but does get a lot of rainfall in the winter (despite CA's recent droughts) and the hills that surround turn green, with the coldest temperatures during the day staying between 10-18 degrees Celsius. When things dry up, the hills turn a golden yellow; a friend of mine from the Eastern side of the US once said she couldn't picture the scenery from many Ernest Hemingway novels (who often wrote about the velvet-golden rolling hills) until she came to CA for the first time, and everything just clicked.

Housing, though, is largely unaffordable for would-be home-buyers unless you're in the upper middle class or beyond; the boom of the Silicon Valley is pushing many people out, driving rent prices skyward, pushing many toward longer commutes to find the middle ground between affordable housing and adequate pay. Traffic is terrible, though not yet as bad as southern California in the area of Los Angeles, but you certainly won't want for things to do here.

Highly recommend a visit!

i live in enumclaw washington. unfortunately all we are known for is our large number of cows, and i guess there was a politician or something who got caught having sex with horses...that was weird...i heard there was some sort of club...but other than that mostly the people are pretty decent

I live in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This city itself has like 700,000 peeps and if you include suburbs the OKC metro area has like 1.1 million people. Think of a place that has nothing going on. Neither flora nor fauna. No entertainment. Nothing to do. Now add 1 million people. Thats OKC.

I live in Waco, TX. It’s in the southern Great Plains. Winter temperatures average around 55F, while summer temperatures average around 100F. It’s green during the spring and basically brown until late fall. We have one major river that runs through town; the Brazos.

I live outside Kansas City, MO, known as the City of Fountains. KC is not a big city we have a lot of crazy weather. It snowed today mixed with ice. MO does have some pretty areas but no beaches or mountains. Its home but I would like to live someplace warmer.

I live in Washington DC -- yep, the one w/ all the monuments and streets that are named after the states. Many parks, all the city trees are databased - so the history and varieties are known. Tis cherry blossom festival time - this city KNOWS how to do Spring. IF you visit -visit in the Spring or Fall - Summer is hot and humid and Winter is colder than the thermometer suggests. Luckily, we have a good Metro system, so in-town travel is not too painful -- and there is a lot to travel to! - Google maps has photos of nearly everything you'd want to see - but in person w/ several hundred school kids is, well, kinda fun.

Long before "here", I grew up on the Prairie in a dying dirtwater town that hated anything progressive -- and has paid the price. I wouldn't recommend the area to anything other than antelope and jack rabbits (be sure to google them -- btw - they are ineddible!).

I also live in the Pacific Northwest, in Tacoma, Washington, on the Puget Sound. Tacoma used to be a very polluted blue-collar town, and is still somewhat blue-collar, but is cleaning its waterways pretty well. The water pollution used to be so bad that the city was infamous for its smell, and Tacoma native Frank Herbert wrote the Dune series inspired by ecological extrapolations drawn from that pollution. It smells better, now, though it's not yet completely rid of the 'Tacoma Aroma.'
It's seen a population explosion recently because of all the people who moved here to work in Seattle but can't afford to actually live there. It's got its problems, the infrastructure can't quite handle the influx of people, for example, but I still really like it here. Sure, it rains a lot, but I like rain. It's green all year round, and so many surfaces are covered in this emerald-coloured moss. The most striking feature is nearby Mt Rainier, which is an active but slumbering volcano. We're assured that it's so festooned with sensors that we'd know of any activity well in advance, so I'm not worried.

I used to live on Neville Street in a top floor flat over the amusement archade.

Still in Engand though, just much further south in Northamptonshire in the small town that inspired the film Kinky Boots.

I live near the geographical center of the USA, in the great plains. Where I live it is hilly, I am in Omaha, Nebraska, near the border with the Missouri River and Iowa is on the other side. We were settled by farmers and other immigrants. My great grandparents came from Germany, Switzerland, Scotland, and England. We have a world class zoo. We have the College World Series of Baseball (apparently that is important to some.) We displaced indigenous populations to build our farms and run our railroad tracks across the land. There used to be large herds of bison roaming the land, those went away with the railroads, and the indigenous population was mistreated and herded onto the poorest land available and left to essentially starve.

I live in western Pennsylvania and always considered it s beautiful area.
But, with the fracking industry polluting our air and water, cutting our trees and putting ugly pipelines everywhere, I'm getting pretty disappointed in the lack of regulations.
Also, for some reason our citizens have as tendency to litter our country side.
Even our parks and lakeshores.
Riding around, it looks like a dump.

I live in ND about two hundreds miles south of Canada on the high planes.
The combined population of the two towns and surrounding is about 125,000. This town is highly religious mostly Catholic (Republican). As a result, the local news often includes "blessed” or “god" in their nightly reports. Within a mile of my home there are more then a dozen churches.

Although I like to line dry clothes, toxic smoke from an in town store incinerator makes hanging laundry or opening the windows up at night to cool down the house a bad idea.

The increased Urbanization of this area has caused a light dome that now extends about 40 miles from the population epicenter. This has made star gazing (with or without a telescope) less enjoyable.

Years ago there was a small social group of atheists but most, like my friends that can not thrive in this environment, have left this very religious state. The atheist group has completely died out.
This is a (Republican) right to work (not a good thing, look it up) state so many professionals (nurses etc.) leave so they can make an honest living.

The weather here includes negative double digit temperatures in the winter and triple digit highs in the summer. As for beauty, if you go to the top of a hill, the sunsets on the planes are occasionally lovely.

A positive thing I can say about where I live is a rather nice heritage center and state museum. Think I’ve visited it twice in the last decade.

Living just outside of Cincinnati Ohio. We get all four seasons here. You do not have to go far to get to the sprawling countryside. We have a couple major league teams along with a hockey & soccer team if you are into sports.

We have a revitalized downtown with a new streetcar system. There are lots of local breweries that are fun to visit. The real estate is affordable we are experiencing an economic boon.

About 70 Miles our we have Mammoth Cave, which is a must see if you are ever near here.

I currently live in Battle Ground, WA (USA), which is a semi rural suburb of Vancouver, WA, which is across the Columbia River from Portland Oregon. Portland is where most things happen. Even person who live in Salem Oregon. go to Portland for activites and culture.

If you have never been to the Pacific Northwest, West of the Casccade mountains it basicaly rains from November thourhg May, and is considered a temperate rain forest. area. (Probably liek much of hte UK only with a lot more evergreen trees).

If you were to visit the area, I'd recommend your headign down to Silver Falls State Park Oregon, which has the best scenery for a day trip, as there is a 8 Falls hike or a 13 falls hike, dependign on how ambitious and energetic you are. The trail actually goes behind several of the waterfalls.

The Pacific Northwest is volcanic, although most active volcanoes are just calssified as active rather than showign any activity. Mt. St. Helens is probably the most active right how, which really hasn't doing all the much over the last few years. I've recently hiked through the blast area of the eruption a little over 35 years ago, and although it is stil impressive, a lot of hte area has recovered qutie a bit.

Blackberry vines grow as and liek weeds around here.

I live in Bowling Green, Ohio, where there is no bowling green, or place of any sort for lawn bowling. We just got a Villiage green space a couple years ago, but it will have mostly benches, flower gardens, and a gazebo, ostensibly for the citizenry to come out at night and appreciate. We do have a university which turns out excellent teachers and cracks the top 25 in American college football occasionally. It's pretty much what one would expect in a US college town.

I live in Merrimack,NH, about 20,000 people, a town in between two cities Nashua and Manchester. I am an hour from the ocean, 1 1/2 hrs from mountains and 1 hour fromBoston, MA.

Benton, Arkansas. A town in central Arkansas at the edge of the Ouachita Mountains. Beautifull hills and valleys. To the east the delta region of the Mississippi River and home of the Delta Blues. Ask Mick Jagger.

I live in Edison, New Jersey. A central part of the state, less than an hour south and west from New York City. Also less than an hour away from mountains and less than an hour away from the Jersey Shore. Edison is named after the light-bulb guy, who had his lab here in Menlo Park before moving to West Orange. Very much a commuter suburb.

Belgrade, Montana. It's a blue-collar town that is economically struggling, located among picturesque snow-capped mountains. Most of the residents are hunters and fishermen, and mostly conservative and Christian as well. A lot of us know our neighbors, and the crime rate is very low. Lots of bars, thrift stores, churches, and truck stops. Also lots of access to some beautiful wilderness.