What is your area known for? The good, bad, and indifferent.

In my place (Hungary), it's not downright rude to make eye contact to people you don't know, but most people don't really like it, because they equal it with staring at them... and if you say hi to a complete stranger, they're likely to think you're crazy :D. I don't think there's too much the world knows about our country... I think ome of the most famous things are the Rubik's cube and the Kodály system for teaching music.

im from Vegas, also known as Sin City. Here, people gamble, smoke all the "smokables" and sniff the "sniffables". People are misleading or misled. If you look closer, there are still those people who live in respectable subdivisions who greet people on the street or somewhere. But also there are those who don't. In my case, people do not seem friendly to me in the streets because I am an asian. We cannot deny that racism happens even to my young son. He is a very friendly out going kind of kid. He likes to play with all kids, although it saddens me at times that there are those caucasian kids who deliberately ignore him, avoiding him in playgrounds. I guess their parents tolerate it cause they would call their kids back when my kid is eager to befriend them. I guess a 4 year old wont bite them. But even though this happens, I teach my kid not to discriminate people just for the color of their skin, nationality, position in society. All we can do is just do good, be friendly and remember that there are many fishes in the ocean.

We are known to be a friendly and artistic community. There are lots of different churches in our area. I guess if you look at the county, you are reminded of all the immigrants. . . the Swedish, the Polish, the Czechs, the German Mennonites (that actually came here from Russia). The things that brought them were opportunity to have rich farming land, and freedom from religious persecution. The Mennonites brought Hard Red Turkey Wheat which is noted for bread baking all over the country.That was their gift to America. We still have a mill on a river, it is not used now, but is open at various times during the year. There is a museum on that property. Our opera house, where early road shows were booked has been wonderfully restored, it took over thirty years. We have a vibrant Main Street. Just in my town alone we have two colleges, both affiliated with churches, and many more throughout the county. We have model train exhibits, visual arts organizations, outstanding theater, even at the high schools. We have beautiful city parks, a freshly remodeled library that is a joy to visit. One of the colleges has an auto restoration degree program. Jay Leno set up an endowment or a scholarship for it. Our town is named for a Civil War General of Scottish descent. For the last several years we have had an internationally known Scottish Festival. All things from the UK are promoted, including genealogy. Clans, and the Irish and Scottish Dance forms. Our school district was the first district to set up an alternative plan to No Child Left Behind, and to opt out of that program. Bad things. . . hmmmmm. We have poor people, we have joblessness. We have had some bad housing situations. I just have a hard time thinking of bad things about my home area.

We used to have the logo "Famous Potatoes" on our license plates. I thought we were famous for the saying 'If you don't like the weather just wait five minutes' but I have heard people from other states use it too. White water rafting is one thing we are famous for here. We have a beautiful range of mountains called the Sawtooths. We have have alot of bascques in the area. Used to have a wonderful bascque restaurant. We do have a greek restaurant and alot of mexican, japenese and Vietnamese. Known as the Gem state because nearly every gem has been found here. We have some of the oldest arrowheads and other artifacts found dating back as far as 14,500 years.

It’s just an average mid-sized suburban area. My neighborhoods are mostly one story 3 or 4-bedroom houses with large back yards. Even though I live on the main street of the suburb, it is not that busy and surrounded by parks and large grounds where people can enjoy playing football/soccer, walking/running their dogs, or simply sitting/chatting around the benches. It’s nice and quiet, yet it’s only 15 minutes away if we need to go to the Central Business District/City or downtown area. And within walking distances, there are schools and shops conveniently located.