That's Interesting...

@DaddyEvil How does one turn off AI? And incidentally you can ignore AI contribution as there will be more answers from other sources.

I've never used AI.

@allknowing You go into settings and turn it off. And yes, I know... Answers that can be trusted as long as you pay attention and don't pick answers from people trying to play with you/other people.

A cold wind from the North? That's still pretty interesting.

@DaddyEvil We are in the north of Italy here, the cold wind is called BISE and this place is called Bizzarone.

@LadyDuck Oh, I see...

You'd have a (very small) riot here if you started comparing my city to Vegas! That would be too funny!

@DaddyEvil — from “the city that never sleeps” to “the city that never wakes up.”

@FourWalls

Some things we never learn about and that's just sad. You still get a newspaper?

@paigea Oh, I see... I haven't seen any kind of newspaper in years.

@DaddyEvil Free weekly newspapers still are printed in a few small towns in the area. I like looking at them.

The house I grew up in was built before electricity was installed in it. But, by the time I was born, it had been wired for electricity. Even our tornado shelter was wired for electricity but still had hooks on the ceiling for gas powered lanterns. I remember us using lanterns down there when I was small. My parents and all my siblings were crowded in the storm shelter when a tornado went through. My youngest brother and I were put in the potato crib. I remember dad opening the shelter door so he could watch the tornado go past our house. Mom kept screaming at him to get inside and close the door. It took dad and two of my biggest brothers to pull the door to after dad came back inside. (Mom kept screaming she didn't want to be a widow with all these kids to raise. )

@Shivram59 Mom screamed about shutting the door because the tornado was trying to pull dad out of the cellar. There weren't any windows down there. I'm glad nothing hit your house.

@DaddyEvil I have seen tornados in pics and videos. They are so devastating. I can understand why your mom screamed to shut the doors and windows. I remember a storm long ago that broke the roof of a house and parts of the roof fell just in front of my house.

@Dreamerby Yes, that's true... I wish is wasn't true, though.

Oh, wow! That's funny! I hope you're never sad or never sad for very long.

@DaddyEvil yeah I think everyone has occasional periods of sadness.

I'm glad the streets have lights at every crossing but I do wish the lights at the restaurant at the end of our street didn't shine directly into my room if I look our the curtains.

@DaddyEvil So in technical words, it is a highly industrialized urban area !

Yes, the Electrical company for this area is headquartered here and we have fields and forests surrounding our city. This is a bedroom community for the big cities on either side of us. One city is 50 miles away to the East and another big city is 75 miles from us to the West. Most people live here and work in one of those two cities. There are factories here that manufactures different types of farm equipment, playground equipment, concrete and leisure goods factories.

@DaddyEvil It is amazing what we don't know about where we live.

@RebeccasFarm True... I mean, I'm old, but not that old.

Yes, I certainly thought so. I like finding out stuff about the place I live.

Well, that's a cute name for the village.

I was trying to find some cherry tomato plants for sale or for free... But nobody had any, apparently.

Sometimes you can find interesting information in the oddest places.

That is interesting, too. I had no idea. I wonder what he thought when he passed over Australia and saw all the lights?

@JudyEv Oh, how nice. I don't remember that, either.

@DaddyEvil I think he knew about it because he mentioned it on his flight.

Is there something interesting about the city you live in?

Yes, that's very true... I love reading and doing puzzles, too. It keeps my brain active and, hopefully, keeps dementia away.

Thanks... I was trying to find out if someone in the city was selling or giving away cherry tomato plants but found this instead.

I'd always assumed some first settler just picked a name they liked for the city when it "grew up" a little bit. And I had no clue how it got a nickname.

All thanks to you for telling me to try NextDoor. Thank you. Oh, nobody in my city is selling or giving away tomato plants but thanks for the idea.

You live in a bigger place than I do. We have a high school football team and they're called "The Houn' Dawgs" and, get this, they use a weiner dog as their mascot! They couldn't be bothered to find a Hound Dog to use as mascot! We don't have a shopping center. There are only 7,000 people in our city. The best we can do is a small-ish Walmart Super Center.

@Traceyjayne The closest big city is Springfield, Missouri. It's 46 miles from the edge of Aurora to the edge of Springfield.

@DaddyEvil wow, 7000.....that does sound small....i can imagine you don't need shopping centres etc then. How far is the closest ' big ' city.....

I don't know. The blurb didn't say.