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12vmanRick wrote:It was an awesome place to grow up in during the late 60's and the 70's, with houses just far enough apart to not feel smothered and close enough to get to friends fast. We all had nice yards and stayed outside a lot. There were a lot of kids in the neighborhood and we lived on a street where you could walk all over without worry of some child molester or some other freak.

Conley, Ga.

Now it's nappy headed ho central and crack ho heaven.

Implying what?

Or a spoof on Don Imus, meaning it's where girl basketball players live?

Hundred, WV (yes, like the number)

Population 344.

Graduted in a class of 35 students. Mascot is the Hornet.

I live in and am from Aspen Hill, Maryland which is a essentially the northernmost bit of Silver Spring, MD where it meets Rockville, MD.

Silver Spring is a the fairly large northern suburb of Washington, DC. Both places I've lived are within 5 minutes of each other. The biggest national news I know of to come out of Aspen Hill/Silver Spring is the DC sniper shootings. There were 5 shootings I can think of within a 5 minute drive from me. The nearest 3 were walking distance.

Lewis Black said years ago that Silver Spring is the largest unincorporated city in the country. Discovery Communications is based out of downtown SS. The Fleetwood Mac song "Silver Springs" and REM's "Don't Go Back To Rockville" got their names from here.

Aspen Hill is a nice enough place. 20 minutes South and I'm in DC. 20 minutes North and I'm in the sticks.

Famous people in/from SS or immediately nearby that I know of:
Goldie Hawn
Joan Jett
Lewis Black
Dave Chappelle
Ben Stein
Dominique Dawes
Spike Jonze

Town of Goshen, CT Incorporated 1739

Goshen is a very quiet town in the Northwest hills of the state. I haven't lived there for over 10 years but a lot of my family is still in Goshen (our surname can be traced back to the founders). Goshen does not have a stoplight (there is a rotary in the center of town). The town did not get cable until 1993. There is no gas station in town. Typical small, swamp Yankee, New England town.

Population: 3007 estimated

Land Area: 26,548 acres 45.6 square miles

Situated in the Northwest Hills of Connecticut

Elevation at Goshen Center: 1,333 feet (highest town center between NYC and Boston)

Number of Miles of Road: 73

Estimated median household income in 2005:
Goshen $73,900
Connecticut: $60,941


Estimated median house/condo value in 2005: $342,000
Goshen $342,000
Connecticut: $271,500

OystersandBeer wrote:

12vmanRick wrote:It was an awesome place to grow up in during the late 60's and the 70's, with houses just far enough apart to not feel smothered and close enough to get to friends fast. We all had nice yards and stayed outside a lot. There were a lot of kids in the neighborhood and we lived on a street where you could walk all over without worry of some child molester or some other freak.

Conley, Ga.

Now it's nappy headed ho central and crack ho heaven.

Implying what?

Or a spoof on Don Imus, meaning it's where girl basketball players live?

no implication, fact and word play on Don Imus too. Oh and let's make sure we understand where nappy headed ho originated, from RAP music.

I was born and lived in Buffalo, NY until I graduated from college.

Buffalo's greatest claims to fame are being 20 miles from Niagara Falls and being the place where deep fried chicken wings were mixed with Franks Red Hot sauce and a small amount of butter to result in perhaps one of the greatest of culinary contributions to mankind. Here's the story on how chicken wings became Buffalo wings:

www.anchorbar.com/origins.asp

Buffalo's other claims to fame - President Wm. McKinley was assassinated there and Teddy Roosevelt was sworn in as President in Buffalo. Tim Russert is from Buffalo. Otherwise, there's not too much going on there and I'll likely never move back. But Buffalo has the BEST junk food of any small city I've ever been to. I do miss the amazing junk food and teh great fly fishing for smallmouth bass in Lake Erie and teh old Welland Canal.

Now I live in Grand Haven, Michigan which is on the shores of Lake Michigan. We've got nice beaches and a couple of OK restaurants. Just a sleepy, Lake Michigan beach town that fills with people from Chicago and Detroit during the summer. But we like those tourists as without em, there would be no restaurants.