Do you know your city well?

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28 Aug 2014, 10:23 am

sorta, i know where everything is downtown and in the residential sections but i've still got a lot to learn when it comes to the backstreets in the foothills. i still don't drive yet, so i only see what i need to. i've lived here for 17 years-all my life.

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28 Aug 2014, 10:42 am

I have NO sense of direction. I can only tell east from west in Denver if I can look at the mountains. Now that I live in the mountains, I have no clue.

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28 Aug 2014, 1:19 pm

antarticanrepublic wrote:

Me & my friends decided to throw an end-of-summer party to our class & we held it at a slightly far off place; 17 miles across town.

That's one big city. That's the exact distance between my home smalltown and the nearest actual city; and the city is in a different province!

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28 Aug 2014, 2:19 pm

I've been living in Portland all my life, but even though there are areas of Portland I've never visited, I know Portland well enough.

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28 Aug 2014, 5:04 pm

CyclopsSummers wrote:

antarticanrepublic wrote:

Me & my friends decided to throw an end-of-summer party to our class & we held it at a slightly far off place; 17 miles across town.

That's one big city. That's the exact distance between my home smalltown and the nearest actual city; and the city is in a different province!

That's nothing! Sydney has 320kms of coastline! From the east to west is about 80kms and north to south about 100kms or more

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29 Aug 2014, 3:13 am

CyclopsSummers wrote:

antarticanrepublic wrote:

Me & my friends decided to throw an end-of-summer party to our class & we held it at a slightly far off place; 17 miles across town.

That's one big city. That's the exact distance between my home smalltown and the nearest actual city; and the city is in a different province!

Not really.....That's not even half-way across our city.

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29 Aug 2014, 4:59 am

I've always been good with directions even as a young kid. For me it take me a trip or two to memorize where I am and going I tend to look for landmarks (buildings power line/polls etc) and often use numbers for HWY's and exists rather then the given street names.

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29 Aug 2014, 8:33 am

Yes, I do know it fairly well. Haven't been lost yet, but this is probably due to the fact Riga isn't exactly a big place anyway.
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30 Aug 2014, 7:33 pm

I know my city, which is small, very well on maps. But in real life I get disorientated and lost very easily. There always has to be someone with me every minute or I'll get lost and most likely step out into traffic. It really sucks.

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30 Aug 2014, 8:49 pm

I only live in a small town and I can't grasp knowing exactly where everything is yet still despite living here for 26 years.

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30 Aug 2014, 10:10 pm

I live in Massachusetts, to say the least, it is easier to navigate through other states or countries or whatever because the roads are totally random here.

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30 Aug 2014, 10:32 pm

BeggingTurtle wrote:

I live in Massachusetts, to say the least, it is easier to navigate through other states or countries or whatever because the roads are totally random here.

^^^ Confirms what I said about Boston. Total nightmare to get around in.

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30 Aug 2014, 10:52 pm

My town isn't classified as a city yet but I definitely know my way around. Makes sense seeing I was born here. I could be a taxi driver if I wanted.

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30 Aug 2014, 11:16 pm

as much as i know my city i cannot stand giving directions.

whenever someone asks me and i don't know how, or don't want to explain i just pretend i'm a tourist.

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30 Aug 2014, 11:28 pm

The area of the city I live in, I get lost very easily...

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31 Aug 2014, 1:19 am

The ocean is over there *points East*
the desert is that way *points West*
lots of people there *points South-East*

Well enough.

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