Where in the World?

[purplephoenix]

Well, I'm pleased that at least someone knows this small city.

[Falchion]

New York, New York. Need I say the nation?

[ColBosch]

New York, New York. Need I say the nation?

Yes.

[Worktroll]

We have a suburb here call Dingley. It's in the middle of a flat plain, with the main feature a wetland (eg. well-behaved swamp). Tens of miles outside town, medium industry and cheap houses.

There's a big hotel there - called the Dingley International. I mean, it just rolls off the tongue - New York, London, Monaco, Dingley ...

W.

[Toolian]

New York is not so new anymore.

 

[Welshman]

New York is not so new anymore.

 

Compared to old York, it's just a wee puppy.

[Conteshard]

New York is not so new anymore.

 

please! 300 years of history, and it wasn't even called New YORK back then.... I have wargames in my collection that are older than that! (well, I don't, but I could! )

Shard (from the ancient and distinguisced Celtic\Roman metropolis of Mediolanum)

[ledzepplingunner]

Germany.

Near the city of Wiesbaden, the capital of the federal state of Hesse.

But my second home is near the city of Alicante in Spain.

Guten Tag. Ich war auf Wiesbaden geboren. . . .

But I'm an army brat without dual citizenship. . . so I guess I'm from the second exit after nowhere, but if Colorado wants me, I'm a Coloradoan through and through. . . in the purple mountains majesty.

[Toolian]

New York is not so new anymore.

 

Compared to old York, it's just a wee puppy.

Yeah, but it is still not New

thus York should be old york

and new york should be york

or build a city on top of new york and call it New New York
 

[Tonbo Karasu]

Or name a planet after it and try to get your mercenary regiment safely off...

[Worktroll]

Yeah, but it is still not New

thus York should be old york

and new york should be york

or build a city on top of new york and call it New New York
 

At the expense of derailing this thread with actual relevance , York in England is one of my favourite cities. The old city wall is mainly intact, it's a wonderland of Age of Steam buildings, the railway station almost deserves it's own movie to star in ...

And then there's the church. Now us Colonials (Aus/Can/US, not Caprica etc) just don't get the whole Old thing. 200 years? Deep ... except in Europe there are guys walking around wearing watches older than that. Heck, 2000 years ain't uncommon.

Especially the church.

It's currently an Anglican church. It's made from the stones of a Catholic church knocked down during the English Civil War.

The Catholic church was built from the stones of a Mithraic temple, built by the Romans around 100AD.

The Mithraic temple was built from the stones of a Druidic temple, built around (IIRC) 700BC.

And the Druids built their temple by knocking down dolmens put up sometime before that.

All on the same place..

That's old York.

W.

[Tonbo Karasu]

Which church?  There are several in York.    York Minster is the most well-known, but there are a number of other ones dotted about the place.  It doesn't get to the ridiculous extents that you find in some Scottish towns (there's a joke about this, but I'll only tell it if everyone promises not to kill me when I get to the punchline).

Of course, despite rumours to the contrary, you are not allowed to shoot a Scotsman from the walls of York with a longbow with impunity.
You need to have spent your however many hours per week carrying out drilling and longbow practice during the last year, as also set out in law.

That's one of the many differences between Scots and English Law: under Scots law, if no-one is prosecuted for an offence for 50 years, then the law lapses into disuse and must be put through legislation again.

[Conteshard]

York Cathedral is the second greatest Gothic church in the world.... guess were is the first? ^____^

Shard

ps. great town by the way: was ther some years back

[chrisxa]

philippines

[neko128]

Hey, only minor threadcromancy!  Yay!

I'm in the Capital Region, NY.