Odd or strange facts about your hometown.

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We had a similar thread on states, so how about hometowns.

If you don't want to specify the exact hometown, just give a rough estimate.

For my hometown, I actually live in a small community and my hometown is 20 miles away.

Community (in Texas):

1: Population density is under 1.5 people per square mile overall (about 70 people in about 50 square miles).

2: Police visits to the community are very rare and are usually for specific purposes, not general patrols.

3: In the 2008 election, there was exactly one vote for the Democrat and one vote for the Libertarian. Everybody else voted Republican.

Town (in Texas):

1: Unlike many cities in the US, we have no ordinance barring you from dumping your trash in someone else's dumpster. If you complain about someone doing dumping trashin your dumpster, they will just shake their head.

One homeowner actually painted his name on his dumpster so the next time the city employees dumped it, they replaced it with one without his name on it and put "his" dumpster behind someone else's house.

We have two dumpsters at the office set out for everyone to use. City workers dump them at least once a day Monday through Friday and sometimes on Saturdays.

2: Getting a ticket for no drivers license is relatively rare for locals. If you don't do something else like have an accident or drive like a maniac, you are extremely unlikely to get a ticket for no drivers license even though the police know you don't have one.

3: There is no curfew for the kids. Kids can run around as late as their parents will let them.

4: Many people never lock their doors and often don't take their keys out of their cars.

There is no red light in the whole county.
We are the only county without a railroad track.
We have no jail,a tax was passed to build one but not enough votes for a tax to open it.
We are the biggest county in land mass in the state and one of the poorest.
The majority of the people here are families that have been here for generations.
We are a dry county but there are bootleggers.
Our county roads just now have signs with numbers on them,we knew where we were at,I guess the tourists needed help.
We have the first National River,the Buffalo.
About half the county is federal land.
There are only about 7,000 people in the county.
We just got our first fast food place a few years ago,a Subway.I refuse to eat there.
The county seat only has about 500 people living there.
The only people that regularly lock up their cars are the tourists.

it's full of neon hotels, casinos, strip clubs and sex shops and it's already past 100 degress - betcha can't guess where I live

Oh boy, have I got a good one....you know Billy Gilbert, the vaudeville actor in the 30s and 40s whose "thing" was that he could pretty much sneeze on command, and who did the voice of Sneezy in Snow White and the seven Dwarves? Well, my hometown is where he grew up. I'm surprised that it's not a fact that shows up on commemorative signs or any brochures in welcome centers.

Sin City. My family is there right now, they left me home alone. Sorry about the heat!

also about my town:
1) The Elliot Rodger shooting happened 8 miles from here

2) One of the only attacks on the US mainland during WW2 happened about 10 miles from here, in Ellwood, when the Japanese sub I-17 shelled an oil field there. a catwalk was damaged, a derrick and pump house were destroyed. Captain Kozo Nishino later radioed Tokyo that he "left Santa Barbara in flames"
There's a rumor that the captain targeted Ellwood to avenge a loss of face he allegedly suffered at the hands of oil workers when he captained an oil tanker that loaded at pre-war Ellwood.

3) During the silent film era, one of the largest movie studios in the world was the Flying A studios, located here.

4)Santa Barbara News Press is the oldest daily Newspaper in all of Southern California

Portland was named after a coin toss and it was named after Portland, Maine. If it had been the other side that won, this city would have been Boston, Oregon

The lady Bill Clinton had an affair with was from Portland and the Portland Z100 radio station did tours by her home

Tonya Harding was also from here and she used to practice her ice skating at Clackamas Town Center here

Our motto is keep Portland weird

I hear we are filled with hipsters but I never see them because I don't know what they are and what they do, all I see are just people

We tear down houses and build new ones fitting more onto the lot, we do this to avoid building out

We have an underground bunker here and it has been closed off. Instead of tearing it down, they sealed in all the entrances to keep people out and they buried the front entrance with dirt. We also have a closed park here called Kelly Butte Park and that is where the bunker is located. The park closed in 1994.

We have street names here with The Simpsons character names and that was where the characters got their names from like Lovejoy or Flanders.

The Ramona books took place here and the family lived on Klickitat st. and there are actually statues there nearby with Ramona characters. They are located in Grant Park.

You can only find a doughnut shaped like a cock with balls at a place called Voodoo Doughnuts

Derek Anderson (NFL player) went to my old high school, as some girl who won playmate of the year for playboy in 2007.

This one i don't have to look up...

If you decide not to lock your doors or to leave your car keys in the car, over here, you need to be put into an insane asylum asap.

I'm at the local internet company in my area. A number of customers, including the former sheriff, have on one or more occasions told me that if I got to their house and they weren't there to just let myself in.

Also, when I pull up to someone's house, I nearly always leave the keys in the car in case the car is in the way and they need to move it.

Once every year, there is a World Naked Bike Ride in Portland where every participant rides his/her bike naked.

Portland has the smallest park in the world. Mills End Park is only 3 feet in diameter, making it a glorified flower pot.

Oregon is the only state that has no sales tax.

The St. Johns Bridge is regarded as "Portland's prettiest bridge."
{I live by the St. Johns Bridge, so I can verify for this.}

Portland once had a 24 Hour Church Of Elvis.

Portland hosts an annual HP Lovecraft Film Festival.

sounds like a nice safe place to live in. i wish there was a jealous emotion.

St. John's is pretty. A sight to see indeed.

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we have a river that flows north and Cindy Crawford is from here....... we have a fest called "odd fest"..... but they're not that odd?

My hometown started Boost:

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It's disgusting. You can open a can of Coke and come back in a couple of days and it's the same thing. Of course it gives you energy, it's pure sugar and caffeine!

Where I just moved from and spent most of my life: Baltimore.
-Well, there's a lot. The one that really gets to me is how some people say the Westside is the worst and someone else then says the Eastside is a travesty. I grew up in the Eastside. There was some bad stuff that went on. From what I saw though, the Westside looked really scummy.

Where I am now: a community right outside of Baltimore.
-There's a bunch of strips of stores, fast food restaurants, other places to eat, etc. It's like a special little shopping city secluded in itself an not completely busy or ravaged with large sums of people.
-It was founded by an Irish immigrant int the 19th Century and the community bears his last name.

So yeah, that's all I have for now about my places.