What makes you proud of where you are from?

[Drk_Wlf]

My family has lived in the area where I live now for more then 6 generations! I love Lake Champlain and telling people about our supposed lake monster! Champ

That our lake has been called the Lock Ness of America.

I love the diversity and open minded nature of our small city, one of the first to have an openly gay mayor. I love the yearly reenactment of the Battle of Plattsburgh and the changing of the leaves in the fall! I love that even though we are technically in NY, our community is practically an extension of VT, and that VT is only a bridge or Ferry ride away. I love that Montreal is only about an hour's drive away. I love the safety of my community, of not having to worry over break-ins or muggings.

 

[Damummis]

I found something else I am proud of.

After I came home from shopping where I saved $74.00 at Joann fabric because of coupons and then $62.00 at the grocery store because of coupons and sales. Not to mention the sales I hit for needed items. I can honestly say I have learned thriftiness from my Yankee upbringing. DH says I can squeeze a buffalo off a nickle I am so thrifty. In this time of economical woes I think this is something to be very proud of.

 

[WVchick71]

I am from a very small town in WV ......and I have to say the thing that makes me most proud to be from this town and to live in it is the way that everyone helps one another. If a family has a problem the whole town comes together to help them no matter what the issue.

 

[AngieChick]

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I am going to JoAnn's today, the coupons are already in my bag.

 

[oesdog]

Well I guess I better add mine to all of this. -

I am from two places each one is very dear to my heart.
I am originally from England - Sumerset the Cotswalds. The nearest City Bristol. Also Bath which I might add is much posher with a little help from the ROMANS!!!!!
Now how can I explain my love for that place? Rolling green countryside, lovely woodlands covered in bluebells, The Severn winding down to the Sea with its beautiful bridges and its famous bore. Scrumpy and cider apples and chedder cheese!!!! Maypols and Morris men and village fates. A history of witchcraft and magic, caves and campsites and river walks and sea. Beautiful hamlets and small villages dating back to medevil times with crooked walls and thatched roofs. Rolling hills that take you one way down to Cornwall and the coast and the other across the severn to Wales. Churches with spires and bell wringers and old gravestones with an abundance of history. Yes I love that place with silly village names like Fishponds and Mangutsfield and Osleworth. ( Who thought of these????) So that is where I was born and grew up chaseing butterflies through fields and catching sticklebacks and minoes in the streams.

Now I live far away from there across water but not so much as you guys from the states. My adopted home is Northern Ireland and I have lived here longer than England. - Infact may kids were born here and DH was born here so its my second home. We live on the most Easterly point of Northern Ireland. On one side of us is the sea and on the other side Strangford lough. It is a place full of beautiful countryside, big old houses owned now by the national trust, and loads of wildlife too. We go fishing in the sea and on the lough. We have a number of lovely sandy beaches not 5 mins walk from our front door and I can see the sea from the house and smell the water. Its a fantastic place even in winter storms. In many ways it is like my small village in England. Sadly were I grew up it is now very biult up and so I am even more blessed that this place is still wild and there are relitively few tourists. The beach is still wild and untouched here so there are loads of wildlife and fish and things in rockpools! Yes I am very very lucky to have lived in two of the most wonderful places in the uk and both places make me very proud to have been a part of.


Oesdog

 

[PineappleMama]

Down here pride is spelled T-E-X-A-S... or somedays it seems that way.

Pride to me is weird... how can a person be proud of their heritage? Isn't that pretty much taking credit for other people's work? YOU weren't the one that fought in the civil war... any more than you were the one who handed out germ infested blankets to Indians... if you don't take the blame for killing innocent children in one, why would you take the accolades for the other? I can 100% understand taking pride in your own actions, even your kiddo's actions (nature or nurture they came from you)... but taking credit for others' choices, that you weren't even around for... seems a little weird to me. Be like being proud that you have blue eyes? Like you did anything to earn them? It's just one of the many things that my mind doesn't get... but then we ALL know I've got a wiring problem so there ya go.

I can say this about Texas... I'm VERY happy with the bit in our STATE Constitution that prevents us from purposely putting ourselves in debt... that's a genius tidbit and one I'm very glad hasn't managed to be removed... I've no doubt we'd be in some serious doo if it was. Again though, can't say proud as I had absolutely nothing to do with putting it there.

I'm happy to live in a state that has everything from desert to oceanfront to woodlands... from vast cosmopolitan cities to tiny podunk towns (that ALWAYS have the best pie)... I'm very glad to live in this particular area that has few tornadoes, fewer below freezing days, and 'allergy months' are predictable. Again, not proud, as I've no control over the weather... but I'm happy.

I'm also happy that given my... shall we say diverse views? ... that I live in a state AND country where I can voice them without being executed... that's VERY nice and it's our Constitution that grants me that... before it went into effect there were some laws on the books that were just flat out scary to this outspoken weirdo... site Maryland Toleration Act... *shudder* ... I'm very glad I wasn't born in those times as I've no doubt I'd have been dead quick fast and in a hurry... I'm glad our country was able to move forward from those dark times and become a UNITED country where all were welcome, where diversity helped not hurt.

Anywho, few things I'm glad of anyways.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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Isn't Winnipeg the Land of the Three Forties? -40 degrees celsius in winter, 40 degrees celsius in summer, and 40 mph winds all year? Or is that somewhere else?

Well, -40 in the winter isnt abnormal. But we dont get more the 35 in the summer and thats not common. We do get very cold winters, and pretty hot summers though.

 

[Q9]

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There's nothing wrong with being proud of your heritage. It's not taking credit for what others did, it's being proud that your ancestors did it, and hoping that you can do a fraction as much. It's being proud of the fact that you are descended from these people, who did such great things.

 

[PineappleMama]

No worries Q9, I get the pride thing, I admire and respect my forebears strength/accomplishments, hope I'm half as strong... I DO get it... but I don't get the ones (NOT on here) that brag about their Great Gramps battle prowess while they flat out refuse to join the military themselves... it's folks like that that boggle me. I know it's in my head... this line between respect/admiration and pride... that most normal sane people don't see it that way at all... I just didn't want anyone thinking I was being weird by saying "happy, glad, etc" instead of proud when it came to the weather, topography, laws and people who live in the state I love so much.

 

[kla37]

I am in the piedmont of NC. We have excellent schools, a great university system, and the mountains are a short drive on one side and the beach a short drive on the other. The terrain and scenery are beautiful! I really love it here, but it can get VERY hot in the summer.