Central Time Zoners only:What's unique about where you live?

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This would encompass anyone who lives in a central time zone; whether in North or South America or Australia. How do you feel being the middleman? (Yes I know there's mountain time!)

What state or Provence do you live in? What's good about where you live? What's bad about where you live?

I live in Minnesota, the roads are clean during winter but the public transportation connecting to small towns is abysmal. I'd say where I live is unique in that there are two tracks going through this small town.

I live in south Texas. It's pretty different from what most people associate with Texas. This part used to be part of Mexico, and the Mexican culturally influence is still prevalent. The majority of people here are of Mexican heritage. Spanish is widely spoken.

It seems like there's a Mexican restaurant on every block. There's more carne guisada than pizza. Tamales are the typical Christmas food.

Chickens and roosters are normal backyard pets.

It is normal to see cars with Mexican license plates among the traffic.

At night, you here tejano and conjunto music blasting on people's stereos. On network TV, there are as many Spanish channels as English channels.

Grocery stores sell as many Mexican sodas as American ones. People peddle small bicycle-carts around town, selling Mexican popsicles. They come in weird flavors, including pickle.

In the spring, there is a multi-day holiday called Fiesta. The whole city shuts down and everyone goes downtown to watch parades.

I live in Wichita Falls, Texas (population 105,000)--home of Midwestern State University, Shepherd AFB, and formerly home of the Dallas Cowboys training camp. WF was featured on an episode of King of the Hill.

In April 1979, 8 months before I was born, a deadly F4 tornado devastated the town. It is still a popular topic here today.

It can get down into the teens in January and up to 110 in August. There is not much humidity here.

Nearby Lawton, Oklahoma (population 92,000) is home to Fort Sill, where Geronimo is buried. The Wichita Mountains, a very small mountain range, is near Lawton.

On the TX-OK state line, there are a couple of casinos run by the Kiowa tribe.

Here in New Orleans after the fall. What folks will do to break up a voting block. Kill a city, then elect a Republican Govenor. Napoleon the Anit-Christ sold us to Massa Tom Jefferson, since then we have been continully invaded.

Sure, we are American, you have a Bill of Sale.

We have renamed Dante's Seventh Level, it is now for FEMAs.

FEMA killed more people than the invasion of Iraq.

Still think, eat, and live European.

Now the city is shrinking, and sinking, down around a third of the population of a couple of years ago, with Yankee troops in the streets.

The American Bagdad.