Hey, we usually vacation in Englewood in October!
I’m in Bartow, FL. County seat for Polk County. Smallish town, lots of cows, orange groves and phosphate mining around here (and rednecks). Closest city anyone might have heard of is Lakeland (about halfway between Tampa and Orlando on I-4.)
Checking in from Anchorage, Alaska.
Lots of spectacular scenery. 5000 foot mountain peaks at the edge of town. Wild animals all over the place. We have the world’s 2nd greatest high tide/low tide differential (>33 feet IIRC, second only to somewhere in Scandanavia). Also home of the strongest recorded earthquake in modern history, 8.6 on the Richter scale and supposedly it has been upgraded to magnitude 9.
SUVs rule this town. Always have. Long before they had such a cute tag-line “SUV”. They were all called “trucks” It used to be just Jeeps, Blazers, Broncos, Suburbans and regular pickup trucks. All 4-wheel drive. Subarus have always been wildly popular here too. To see a truck that is not 4 wheel drive is positively rare.
Anchorage is also where the world-famous Iditarod begins every year. That’s the 1049 mile sled dog race that the winners finish in about 10 days.
Lots of diversity here. Large communities of Koreans, Filipinos, Latinos, many from SE Asia, the South Pacific and Eastern Europe too.
About the most annoying thing has got to be the transplanted Coloradans. They like to wear shorts in the winter, and turn down the office thermostat to 58°F and pretend they’re not cold. As if being from Colorado makes them a tougher breed of man. And their stories of how much snow will fall in a single night. Funny, they never mention that it all melts the next afternoon. Here, it melts the last week in April.
Anchorage is close to Settle. 3.5 hours by air or 3.5 days if you drive.
VA Beach… Surf, Sand and Sea… Oh and lots of Sailor’s, with one that we all know and love… 
Just had to do it for the Chief…
::giggles:: I get that too, but for a small town near the Gulf Coast. Last year when I told a classmate that my home was in Inverness she started asking me questions about Scotland. She didn’t realize there’s one in Florida, too.
Let’s see … Inverness … lots of clear sky and open fields (at least in the part I live in), not too far from the beach, and, oh yeah – sometimes you can see cows grazing behind our house. 'Nuff said.
As for Gainesville, Florida (where I am right now), I can tell you that:
I want to add that the weather has been absolutely gorgeous here for the last week ot two. I love having temps in the high 70s-low 80s and sunshine in the middle of February.
Floridian #1003 checking in.
Maitland. 30 minutes north of Disney. My house is in Orange County, and a 1 minute walk from Seminole County.
Small community, great schools, quiet, virtually crime-free, not too many old folks, nice weather (heat and 'canes are the only trouble), etc.
Sports are nice here:
1.) My teammate is the fastest highschooler in the State.
2.) The Magic are going for their ninth straight win against the Knicks tonight (I bet they get it).
3.) Hi Opal! 
4.) The Rage are/will be the XFL’s best.
5.) The Bucs… we’ll we’re working on that.
Dammit. I meant to add my city*:
Kinderhook, New York
[sub]* Calling it a city is hopelessly optimistic…[/sub]
My city went through several names including Frog Level and Icee before being named for a French general.
I’m in northwest Alabama, home to red clay, fanatic Christians, and Golden Eagle syrup (good stuff)!
We’re not known for much else except for our (sigh) football team.
I’m 45 minutes from Tuscaloosa and almost 2 hours from Birmingham.
Virginian here. Vying for the ‘smallest town 2001’ award.
Hillsboro, VA
Nearest Town someone might have heard of:
Purcellville, VA (9.2 miles away)
or
Nearest Town I KNOW you’ve heard of:
Washington, DC (64 miles away)
So do I win the smallest town award or what?
I live in a little town named New Baltimore, although it’s not so little anymore. Ten years ago, the population was roughly 6,000. On this decade’s census, the population is estimated to be 15,000+. It’s middle to upper middle class mostly. I don’t think anybody famous has ever come from this town, although Kid Rock grew up in the Richmond/Romeo area which is about five miles from here. We have an air force base in town. Our town’s nickname is “Boat Town” because our town sits right next to Lake St. Clair and the town’s biggest industry is its marinas and docks. Just about everybody in town owns a boat. We have the annual Bay-Rama Festival and the air shows on the base every year.
The nearest big city is Detroit, about 15 miles southwest. To their credit, they have spent billions of dollars over the last few years rebuilding the downtown area. They recently opened up three casinos, so a lot of restaurants and clubs have opened up downtown near the casinos and it’s starting to boom down there. But the rest of the city is falling apart. Crime is still really bad. There are literally thousands of abandoned and burned-out building all over town that sometimes sit for years before the city finally tears them down. Public transportation is a joke.
Another Michigander checking in.
Flint, MI. About an hour north of Detroit. Home of the Buick, before, of course, GM moved it. Homke of Grand Funk Railroad. Home of the world’s stupidest mayor whos direct quote on why the roads weren’t plowed a WEEK after the blizzard was “Hey! I’m not the Messiah!”
AND Home to the inimitable Persephone (who ALWAYS helps me out whence I most need it)
“Inimitable”? You’d better watch your mouth, bucko!
I was born in Flint, but I was not raised here. I moved here about ten years ago. It’s a long, depressing story that I shan’t go in to here.
I live just a stone’s throw from the world-famous Grand Funk Railroad overpass. As a child, I saw it all the time, when we would come up to visit family. But I was not a hip child, and until I was in my late teens, I never knew that Grand Funk Railroad was the name of a band. I always thought it was a railroad. Silly me.
My city, Saskatoon:
[ul]5 bridges, the most for any city in the province.
Largest in the province, at +210,000.
Named after berries, which I don’t really like.
Has a really nice archaelogical site nearby.
Nicest University in the province.
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Rancho Cordova, CA.
Pop: around 100,000
Formerly known as Rancho Cambodia due to an unusually large SE Asian immigrant population.
We are pulling out of a financial drop caused by an AFB closure… now we’re starting to pull in Tech businesses like E-Trade, and my own EDS site is putting up new buildings…
The gang wars of the early 90’s are finished, and the gangs have for the most part moved on. The gov’t subsidied apartments are starting to get torn down or renovated.
In 2001-2 we should get a bill put to public vote on whether or not to vie for independant cityhood, rather than being a cast off part of Sacramento. I’m hoping we get it.
It’s also the former home of Even Sven (woo hoo!) who graduated from the same High School I did, but several years later.
I have the good fortune to live in Palm Cove, a beach resort area, between Cairns and Port Douglas in Tropical North Queensland, Australia (Oz).
What it has- (just the highlights)
great beach (coconut palms, islands in the bay,)
clean water (Coral sea)
clean air (Breezes from ocean)
half hour by boat from Great Barrier Reef
surrounded by world heritage listed rainforest.
great bars
What it hasn’t
Crime
Dirt
Cold
Noise
Overpopulation
Having read where other posters live and the descriptions given, no way I am offering to swap with any of you.
North College Hill, Ohio
We’re the town that’s just north of College Hill, Ohio.
O.K. College Hill is now a neighborhood of Cincinnati, but I like to say it my way.
Austin, Texas… you’ll never know you’re in Texas!
Suffers from a marked lack of restaurants serving good Sicilian-style pizza. But I get to see the wildflowers when I’m driving to Houston for a pizza fix.
-fh
It has the sixth largest population of any city in the U.S. (now - although the hubby will debate that San Diego is still bigger).
It is nice in the winter, but stinking hot in the summer.
It has teams in all four major sports.
It is growing much more quickly than freeway construction can keep up with.
Once you leave city limits, there’s nothing around but desert.
It IS the biggest city around.
It is Phoenix, Arizona.
Queen city of Canada.
Second city of the Francophonie.
The French metropolis of North America.
Home of crisp delicious bagels and smoked meat that means something different here than anywhere. And poutine.
The prettiest metro system in the Western world.
The most spectacularly ugly stadium in the universe. (With the tallest inclined tower in the world. Of course, unlike Pisa’s, ours was on purpose.)
The French-English translation capital of the world, and one of the most fully bilingual cities anywhere.
The knot of a unique mixing of cultures.
As close as you will come to Europe in North America.
Population 3 million.
Montreal.
Santa Rosa, CA
I am still fairly new here, but I’ll tell you what I know.
It was home to Luther Burbank, who apparently is some kind of god in the horticultural industry.
It was home to Charles Schultz.
There are lots of vineyards and wineries, hence this area is considered part of “wine country” along with Napa and a few other neighboring towns.
Sorry, that’s all I know.