Quirky things about where you live

[BobISMyUncle]

I have discovered, quite accidentally, that I live in a recently designated Market Town. I love this! We have one market stall, on a Saturday. It sells trousers. Sometimes, it sells plants. Sometimes it sells tartan stuff. On Thursday, but might be Tuesday, it sells fish. Sometimes, none of the above is true.
We're a Market Town now!! Do not be messing with me, I've developed webbed feet

My village has a sanctuary ring in the church so if you break the law and the rozzers are after you, you can run to the ring and if you grab it before they get you then they have to leave you alone. I'm not aware of anyone using it and even if someone did, I don't know what happens once you let go of it!

Wish I had something interesting to add but love both of these!

I found out today that I live 15 minutes from the first residential properties in my city to have ground source heat pumps. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen written on a blue plaque.

We have 2 primary schools in our town. There is a river that runs through the middle of the town but not in a straight line. One school is on one side, one on the other and depending which side of the river you live on, dictates which primary school your child will go to. Even if you live much closer to the school on the other side of the river, it makes no difference, children are automatically placed in the school on their side (their catchment area). You can request a place at the closest school, but your not guaranteed one. It's pretty annoying actually.

Oh and another one! I was reading a article on the local history of our village. I read all about the legend of the Witch of Whitehall Lane (slight name change). All very interesting, except when I was a child we had a Halloween party to which all the local village children came. Sounds grand but there weren't that many of us! During the party my mum made up a scary story to tell us. You've guessed it, the Witch. Mum's story has now achieved the status of a local legend!

Also, for the size of the town and the need of shops we have on the main street, which basically is just one street, there is a crazy amount of hairdressers and barbours. I would say they make up about 40% of the businesses. No.odea how they all turn a profit.

Number of shops, not need 🙄

I live on an island where chickens roam EVERYWHERE, like pigeons. Chickens and iguanas.

Last year the Loch just up from the small town I live in had whales in it.

I can see polar bears from my bedroom window (I live in the UK )

We have sharks in our river.

We have drainage canals all around our town that they call bayous and they have gators in them. Also we have coyotes in the neighbourhood, pretty sure they’re responsible for the disappearance of our cats 😞

My suburb has one Of the worst child immunisation rate in the whole country even worse than the super hippy alternative areas.
It’s weird because you can’t send your kids to school or childcare without them or get any childcare rebates from the govt.

@Strokethefurrywall

I live on an island where chickens roam EVERYWHERE, like pigeons. Chickens and iguanas.

I'm guessing that's not one of the Scottish islands then, @Strokethefurrywall ?

The quirky thing where I live is...
erm, you can often smell chocolate in the air?
It's a city suburb that's modelled on a Somerset village. Quite different to other parts of the city.

We sometimes see rays being eaten for breakfast when we go to do our shopping if we go by boat instead of driving.

Our little hamlet is on the county border with different services either side. Half have recycling collected, half don't. Half the dcs are charged for the school bus, half aren't. Half can apply to the grammar school, half can't. We have different police, ambulance, planning. MP, When the road through the village was dug up and rebuilt, even that stopped at the line.

It's a constant source of communal entertainment 'working the system' to get the best out of each council.

Wow! @IHaveBrilloHair that must have been incredible!

There is nothing quirky about where I live atm. Absolutely nothing. It's a boring commuter town with an utterly uneventful history.

A few years ago my town was officially the safest town in the safest state in the US.

It's all gone to shit since then and it's now the third safest town in the safest state.

TooManyButtons You live near a zoo?

There are no rats where I live.
I can see lots of wildlife here - bears, moose, wolves, lynx etc. Too far South for polar bears sadly.
And the ravens are fecking massive. I call them trash turkeys.

There are no snakes, no moles and no weasels.

A couple of hundred yards up the road from me, a plaque announces that, on that very spot, a bride was murdered in a bath.

When the tide is out you can pick up fossilised sharks teeth.

My backyard is apparently sex central for skunks. There was such a palaver last week DH eventually threw water on them. Several times, through the slimmest of openings in the sliding door.

Our doorbell has been rung by both a black cat wearing a red velvet collar and a raccoon.

We have video evidence of all of the above 🥱

My neighborhood has declared itself as a village!
Top that in sarf east London.
It ain't no village 😂

The building I live in is an old printworks and it was used a safe store for textiles that belonged to the British museum. There are photos of what is now one of the groundfloor flats in the museum.

The flat that Ciara Porter lives in in Strike is one if the flats in our building. Our building also has fairly regularly been in magazines, newspapers and TV as we have a famous resident.