Honolulu is a bustling metropolis like many big cities. On an island, traffic is one of the most major issues. I live very close to Waikiki on Diamond Head where many postcards depict Hawaii. Come and visit sometime!!!

Don't blink or you will miss it!

We live in a community about 20 miles East of Pittsburgh, PA. It is semi rural in nature. There are areas with housing developments and there are still some farms. In Many of the housing developments the lots are at least one acre or more. Beautiful area, very small local shopping area, lots of churches, wonderful high rated school district. We can be in downtown Pittsburgh in 30 minutes, depending on traffic for cultural events. Lots of shopping areas within 15 to 20 minutes. I love it here EXCEPT IN THE WINTER...brr I dont like winter.

We live in a little city, about 5,000 people in 2.5 square miles. Mostly residential, but we do have fast food, some offices, a Dollar General and some small manufacturing. We share a border with several larger cities, and share a school district with one. Because we are a suburb of Akron, and only an hour from Cleveland, we have lots of shopping nearby but don't have the traffic that goes with it. Two state universities, Akron and Kent, within a 15 minute drive. And Amish country is less than an hour south. More fabric stores than I can count, all within an hour's drive.

It is interesting to read about other's hometowns....I live in a rural area, a few miles from the 10,000 person town where our mail comes out of. We enjoy watching the cows and goats belonging to our neighbors, and the Canadian honker geese that stop here at the ponds. Our newest venture is the "fruit cocktail" orchard we planted last winter. Looking forward to having fruit to dry and sell one of these years.

I live in a village, consisting of a church with cemetary, a deli, a village park where they host a girls softball league every spring thru fall, have a community festival every June, and Santa at Christmas, a large Halloween party. There are 8 houses on my private lane, 2 unoccupied at the moment. I am 15 minutes from anywhere, WalMart, grocery store, gas station, and the next town is about 20 minutes. After living in a Phila. suburb, this is heaven.

Melrose Ny 12121,
Our town, its rural , I know of 2 churches, one post office
another business i have no idea what they do, an auto repair shop, Mike who owns it is wonderful to us and helpful not only with auto repair but things at our house
for which I'm greatful. We had a little store in town but
the owner well went to jail its closed.Then there was the arsonist that burned down an old farm house. Our immediate neighbor hood well its not, people live on our street, you Might say hello but I honestly feel like if I fell outside no one would notice you, its really sad. there are a few farmers around which I tend to do business with for produce during the summer if i'm not growing it in my own garden. We have a resivore that feeds Troy N.Y. water. can't put your feet in it, you can fish there. Would I say come live in our wonderful town NO. I can't wait for the day to come to move west.

I love reading this thread because most of these places are nothing like where I live. On a typical day, I can hear English, Creole, Russian, Chinese, Tagalog (sp? what they speak in the Philipines), and may be a little Spanish. And that's a typical day. Brooklyn alone has a population of over 2.5 million. If I had to list every store, post office and restaurant here, I think it might crash the QB server. I recently heard that in all of New York City, there's 24,000 restaurants.

There's negatives to living here such as congestion, some really bad drivers, and some very rude, opportunistic people. But there's also lots of positives as well. I've met some absolutely wonderful people since I've lived here, had experiences and talked to people I never would have in other places. It's a very accepting place to all kinds of people. You can find any kind of food you can imagine, and even some food you can't imagine. In addition to the famous skyline, there's also lots of beaches with amazing sunsets, so it is possible to get close to nature even here.

At one time my town had all cute little stores including a grocery store and ben franklin. by the time i moved here most of that was gone and the store fronts became bond bailsmen. i live in the county seat and all the courts are here. there is also the university of cincinnati clermont campus. it is not a college as there are no dorms. ther is a lot of history as batavia was part of the underground railroad. ther are markers on what was safe houses at the time. it is just over the ohio river and the river wasn't that wide at the time so tyhe slaves crossed to freedom. i wish my town was still a town with all cute shops but those days are gone. besides bail bondsmen there are 4 banks, 2 pizza places, 1 bar, 1 luncheon type eating establishment a florist a gas station/convience store and a hair salon. not much of a main street if you ask me.

I loved Brooklyn, my grandma lived on South 4th Street in Williamsburg when I was little. Then she moved to Manhattan Ave in Greenpoint. I LOVED walking up the Ave. eating pizza and window shopping. That is what is so wonderful about Brooklyn and Manhattan. My dad had a butcher shop on Atlantic Ave. I miss it all...........