What Makes Your Area Unique?

[NotQuiteCockney]

Our neighbourhood has a "Buddhist Village", complete with health food store, alternative health centre, Buddhist temple, and a couple of vegetarian restaurants. Oh, and an ethical gifts shop.

Our street has a man who always sweeps outside with no shirt on, while singing loudly. Think Pavarotti, but only in appearance, not singing skills.

What's weird about your neighbourhood.

That looks cheerfully futuristic, hausfrau. What does it do? Some sort of mind control thing?

what is it hausfrau??[i am stupid emoticon]

I love this thread.....I love 40 minutes from DisneyWorld, 40 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean and 1.5 hours to the Gulf of Mexico. I live 4 hours from one of the top shelling spots in the world, Sanibel. We are the lightining capital of the United States I hear, with more strikes per square foot than any other part of the nation. My home office looks out onto our pool...and sometimes I still have the nerve to be depressed about life and money and my sexlife!

Well, if she lives under it, it must be her tv aerial, mustnt it

I LOVED Sanibel when we went there many moons ago!

I live on the old airfield that was used for the filming of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. Also the home of the jet engine apparently. And Hatfield House of course, supposedly where Elizabeth 1st was when she found out that she was going to be queen.

not wanting to kill the thread and want to let it be known I do not agrre with ANYTHING they EVER do or say but the BNP used to have their headquarters in the road next to mine.
Also the first person in england to be run over by a motor car is buried in a nearby cemetary which featured in a tv prog over christmas about victorian murders

LOL Hausfrau!

pocahontas was buried died here and the thames whale lost the will to live here too.Anyone know where it is yet?

sounds a grim place dosen't it?

NQC- you LIKE the smell of suplhur? Have you never driven down th M5 on a warm day? yuck.

The only thing that springs to mind is the amount of rubbish dumped locally, can't believe there is anywhere worse for people randomly tipping their rubbish, and

will try to think of something else...

oh yes, the man who runs the charity shop round the corner is being investigated by the UN, accused of raising funds from shop sales to fund terrorism!

We are absolutely desperate to move!!

PC, Iceland smells of sulphur. That's where we honeymooned. So for me, that's what sulphur means.

Why would the M5 smell of sulphur? Where is the M5? (My map of the UK consists of London, and then some warnings about dragons.)

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you wear a cone on your head, too, Mars?

we have a six acre mere (lake) that dates back some 12,000 years to the ice age.
Can you tell I had to google?

and we have bell ringing on a Thursday evening.

hausfrau-blimey thats some mast!

there is an enormous house on the way to school that houses mental illness patients to rehabilitate them into society. One of their patients does a circuit round the high street and surrounding roads twice a day and counts his steps the whole way round.

we have an enormous radio transmitter and a giant water tower, just down the road, damn great thing, you can see it for miles.

ponies/cows and donkeys on the bloody road,accompanied by tourists in the summer