Hows about you show us some personal pictures of your home?
 

Since so many of us here are scattered around the world, I thought it might be cool if we all posted some personal pictures of the area we live, and what we do there.

**edit** I just realized that I don't seem to take any pictures without cars in them... sorry.:lol:

This is the central coast of California, San Luis Obispo county, as I see it:

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Yes, we love hot rods around here. Poor Europeans don't know what your missin!

Anyway, I would love to see pictures of where you all live, as well as the kind of things you do to have fun. Personal pictures only please. (I.E. not some generic picture grabbed off google.)

Don't know what you're missing? What you want is one of these:

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That's my 1972 Land Rover parked outside my house in crappy old Cheshire, England, and below is what it looked like when I found it and bought it in Oxford:

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You did a good job! Nice.:up:

Yup, the upgraded suspension means it has unrivalled off-road capability, look:

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Alright I admit it, that picture is not near my home

:-) Chock

Wow they really mean it when they say those things can go anywhere!

Bit of a cheat this one, but since there is photo-realistic terrain of the UK in Flight Sim, here's my house:

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The plane is flying roughly South. The road under the port elevator of the plane is the A6 main road south to London (185 miles away), Manchester is about 8 miles North along that road (i.e. out the bottom of the picture). The railway line under the starboard engine is the line to Manchester, if you go south on that line, it runs to Buxton (where you get the spring water from). West (i.e. off the plane's right wing is Manchester Airport (about 2 miles away) and about 35 miles past that is Liverpool. If you go off in the direction of the top left, you get to the Peak District and the Lake District is near to that. That's where the Dambusters practised for their WW2 raids, it's also where I go gliding and is also the place which inspired the William Wordsworth poem 'Daffodils' amongst other things. Almost directly right of the plane's nose, about two miles away, is Woodford Aerodrome, owned by British Aerospace. It's where they test fly stuff and make some bits for Airbus aeroplanes. If you watch the war movie '633 Squadron', Woodford is where they filmed the Mosquito fighter-bombers 'crashing', by taxying them across the grass at high speed and retracting their undercarriages (which they probably regret now, since there aren't any more airworthy ones!) Since there are two airfields nearby, aircraft industry places and the main city of Manchester all pretty near me, I imagine one of Mr Putin's MIRV warheads is probably aimed right at my house.

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300yds from here. In the good direction.:|\\

I don't have any of my current one; I'll start with my room here though:

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view from the outside:

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And then a few recent pictures of locations from my past life in Russia:

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2nd floor on the left is the actual place (maternity ward) where I was born :D
(I always also like to point out that this building is rather correctly modeled in IL-2: Forgotten Battles :p)

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The first view out the windows I remember (I lived here between ages 1 and 5)

My kindergarten and my school:
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Turrets from the cruiser Kirov, at which I played as a kid all the time :p
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And me sipping Kvas in my grandparents' tiny derelict kitchen
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Wow, that little table brings back memories. I stayed in a flat in Moscow, the small kitchen had the same 2-person table.

This strays from the topic, a little, but since we're talking about Mother Russia... me in Red Square, Sept 28, 1993, about 4 days before Khasbulatov and Rutskoy tried to stage a coup against Yeltsin. Tanks in the streets... ah, memories :)

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/images/neal.h4.jpg

I'm currently between homes, but let's see what's left in my Photobucket :)

This is my home town in Ireland, I live at the foot of the mountain this picture was taken from. The border with Britain is about half a mile behind me.
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For the last year I've been living in Boston, this was the view from my window. The tracks are from the busiest light rail line in the country, and there was a fire station around the corner. Thankfully I'm slightly insomniac, otherwise.....
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The reservoir was beautiful around 5am

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Normally, I'm in college in a small town outside Dublin, this year I studied in Boston. From this
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To this
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Right now I'm staying with friends before flying home, basically stretching my visa until my savings run out :). It's nice here
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In three weeks I move back to my parents house in Ireland, to start job-hunting. Moving out as soon as I can, then final year.
Here it is in the snow.
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Second roof from the left :)
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Some nice shots there!

This is the view from ouside my front door, I'm going to make sure the next house I live in is closer to a pub.

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And there's a castle just across the brook:

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Some random shoots from Thuringia:
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Some more from in and around town where I live:
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The walls of this castle have seen among others Patton, Eisenhower (1945)
and Erich Honecker (SED party chief 1971-89) as guests.
When arriving in April 1945 the US-Army was hoping to find Hitler here (but he was not there at that time).
In the year 2003 the Ordo Militaris Teutonicus e.V. symbolical conquered the Burg
and declared it to the home castle of the order.

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Another of the many castles in this area.

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In the wooded hills near my home. Thuringian Forest (mountain chain) in the far background.

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Old city gate. My town was first mentioned in 704 A.D. and is the oldest in Thuringia (whole
East Germany actually)

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Church with romanic and gothic features in the same building.

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From the place of this house the plague broke out in 1625, killing 1265 people.

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City Town Hall

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Some pics from the streets near my home.

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Old Tower and ruins of the Schloß.
Building left is the school where I went.

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In the church in the background of this last pic a young man called Johann Sebastian Bach
started his carreer as an organist in 1703-1707.