Post your city, and some interesting facts about it.
>Sudbury, (Northern) Ontario, Canada
>largest city in Northern Ontario (165 000 pop.) >second tallest structure in the country (Inco Superstack; 380m | 1 250ft) >Sudbury Basin, second largest known impact crater on Earth >mineral training area for NASA astronauts during the Apollo missions
We also have some of the highest rates of smoking, drinking, obesity, drug use, and sex toy purchases in the country. And we've been rated "happiest city" a few times.
>WELL, THE GIRLS ARE OUT TO BINGO, AND THE BOYS ARE GETTIN' STINKO >WE'LL THINK NO MORE OF INCO, ON A SUDBURY SATURDAY NIGHT...
Is that song still famous up there?
Justin Gray
>Medelin, Antioquia, Colombia >part of the metropolitan area of the aburra valley >home of Pablo Escobar >11% of the national GDP >highest white admixture in the country >named "the most developed city in the world" by the Urban Land Institute. >known for its beautiful girls and prostitutes
>Name of the little city - Kargowa >Previous name - Unruhstadt >Population - 3000
Taken from Germans in 1945, the town was Polish long time ago, but it was German for long time too. German Wikipedia can tell you more about it than Polish wiki. It's been a battleground for many times, we even have a plate stating how many Poles had their butt kicked by Prussians when they invaded.
My house is an ex Nazi house, I don't know what my grandfather did to get the house during commie times and I prefer not to ask. All I know is that he became a police officer after 2 guys in suits came to chat to him, he never spoke of what they spoke of. Knowing commies it wasn't anything nice.
The town has an awesome castle that is slowly rotting because no one has money for it (thanks Ruskies).
But we do have a 17th century town hall which is nice. Nestle has a factory here.
Brayden Turner
looks insanely suburban for a city with that population
Angel Cook
"the most developed city in the world"
in what sense?
Colton Williams
If by "famous" you mean "everybody knows the song", then yes. But it's not really popular.
There's a statue of Stompin' Tom downtown by the arena, but that's about it.
Cooper Reed
because now it's a modern city (buenos aires or sao paulo tier) with regular crime and a lot of opportunities when 30 years ago it used to have 500 murders per month, people didn't even have a TV o radio and education was something very exclusive
Benjamin Ramirez
A lot of the time, houses aren't just for one family. There are two apartments upstairs, maybe four on the main floor, and one or two in the basement. The apartments are also pretty small (for North American standards).
As an example, look at the bottom right. See those three apartment buildings? Each one has over 30 units. Those white townhouses near them? Upstairs and downstairs are two different apartments. And so on, across the city.
Julian Barnes
>Edmonton
>One of the coldest cities on earth, record low is -55.5 celsius >Northernmost city in North America with over 1 million people >Location of the first airport in Canada (Blatchford Field, later City Centre Airport) >Largest shopping centre in North America, formerly the entire world >Largest parking lot in the world located in said shopping centre, along with the largest indoor amusement park >Hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1978, hasn't ever really hosted anything relevant before or since
Grayson Morris
yeah i believe you but "in the world" ?
Liam Allen
it looks like there are a lot of parkish areas close to the center. how is public transport? does everyone drive like in most of the usa?
Isaiah Adams
i guess it means the one who has innovated and progressed the most
Jason Rodriguez
The public transit is honestly phenomenal. Buses every 15 minutes on major routes (every half hour on others), covering the entire city and the neighbouring communities.
There are still a lot of people who drive, though. We're a major nickel mining city, and so a lot of people work in the mines (which are outside the city and not covered by buses, so you need to drive). Then there's the neighbouring communities, which have next to nothing as far as services go (Skead doesn't even have a corner store), so they all come into Sudbury for things. And with Winter for half the year (usually), a lot of people prefer to drive over taking the bus. There's also the fact that Sudbury is the only city of note within 300km in literally any direction (I'm not joking, check it out on Google - wilderness as far as you can see).
There's a lot of parking, yes, but it's mostly because the city needs to accommodate EVERYONE around it. We also can't easily build parking garages underground because of the soil (or lack thereof; the ground is mostly solid rock), and building up is costly (compared to ground parking, at least).
Logan Gutierrez
>Iligan, Philippines >"The City of Majestic Waterfalls" >Because we have 24 waterfalls >In fact, the most famous one and the city's landmark---The "Maria Cristina" Falls---is used to power the city >Waterfall hopping is a thing for tourists >We have swimming pools (Timoga Springs) that uses fresh, cold spring water that flow to them from the mountain, before continuing downstream (no need for chlorine!) >One of the very few places in the country that still has horse-drawn carriages, and is the only place on the island (Mindanao) which still has them
>Domodedovo, Moskow oblast >midsize city-satelite of Moscow >120k population, 10 years ago it was only half of that >The biggest airport in Eastern Europe is here and has the same name >city was founded only in 1947 >There are many building that were built by german captives after the war. >Basically one of the suburbs of Moscow.
Zachary Howard
Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod oblast, Russia the capital of the Volga Federal district, the center of the people's militia in 1612(Yes, we conquered Moscow and destroyed the poles), the center of trade in pre-revolutionary Russia, a former closed city, working for the defense of the country
