Your neighborhood

mpcarres14 · Post 04 Apr 2007, 17:29

God Real_Zidane, that place looks like a crackhouse. Why is it an attraction now?

Real_Zidane · Post 04 Apr 2007, 18:02

Lol. Well they fixed it up a bit, took the boards off the windows and doors etc. I'll take a pic of it today and it's a lot different.

rzadzinski · Post 04 Apr 2007, 18:56

Foxmero wrote:calgary is boring i wish i lived in edmonton or vancouver.... that would be awesome

Trust me, I hate Edmonton. I almost would rather live in Calgary...but not really. I don't like either city. Vancouver is a bit too stretched and too crowded. It takes forever to get anywhere far, so you really have to stay within your part of town or else it takes forever to get anywhere. At least there is close access to more there though, since it is bigger. so there is more in Vancouver, but it takes a while to drive around. In Edmonton especially, and Calgary a little bit less, you can drive anywhere you really want to go in less then an hour. Probably 45 minutes to go from North to South.

But I do lke it that Vancouver is already warm, but Victoria is even better if you want greenness. I was just there, and it looked a lot nicer at this time of year then Vancouver. It's just a pretty place I guess. My family wants to move!!!

Real_Zidane · Post 04 Apr 2007, 21:16

Okay, I got me exercise in and went for a bike ride/sightseeing.

Here is my backyard

HAHA jk

The pitches

Ahhh, here is where the magic happens

My beautiful wall

This is pretty much what is happening all over my city

Don't ask me why they are that big...cause I have no idea

This is very close(not in my neighborhood), I like to go here sometimes

And this is about as close as you get to a catholic cathedral around here

Does this look familiar, mpcarres14? Lol

Don't ask me what the hell this is doing here... I like taking pictures, Damnit!

That's about it, really.

Foxmero · Post 04 Apr 2007, 21:24

where is that?????
i'd love to live there
id rather live there thats like an awesome place. The nearest pitch is like 20000000 miles away (jk)

cesar · Post 04 Apr 2007, 21:32

real zidane!!!!!!!! damn your place owns..that little field is niiice ..congrats

Real_Zidane · Post 04 Apr 2007, 22:03

It's in Texas, we moved here about 15 years ago. (I was a few months old)

Yeah, it's great, i'm about a 30 second walk away from tons of pitches.

ajc · Post 04 Apr 2007, 22:14

I'm going to look around for some pictures, but in the mean time I found an entertaining video of some random moments that some kids filmed at my school a few years back. This was one year before I started going there, but nothing has changed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvAF39FJ3o

rzadzinski · Post 04 Apr 2007, 22:16

Wow!! Real_Zidane, that looks like paradise!!

iwannagopro · Post 04 Apr 2007, 22:31

ajc wrote:I'm going to look around for some pictures, but in the mean time I found an entertaining video of some random moments that some kids filmed at my school a few years back. This was one year before I started going there, but nothing has changed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvAF39FJ3o

Wow... pretty funny. Also I see why you drink. Brandywine high school! Get it!! Brandy, and Wine!!! OMG LAWLZ! Yea, anyways I am going to take some pictures and upload them shortly.

jcdenton · Post 04 Apr 2007, 22:42

and these pitches are actually free to use?

you live in a very nice natural area...

but when i think a bit more, i'd never change my dorcol for anything...
once Dorcolac - always Dorcolac...
yeah i'm a local-patriot...

btw, here's what Wikipedia says for my neighborhood:
Location

Dorćol begins already some 700 meters north of Terazije, the central square of Belgrade. It roughly can be divided in two sections, Gornji (or Upper) Dorćol, which covers the area from Studentski park to the Cara Dušana street, and Donji (or Lower) Dorćol which occupies the area between the Cara Dušana and Francuska streets and the right bank of the Danube. It borders (and largely overlaps) the neighborhood of Stari Grad (east and south) and the fortress of Kalemegdan (west), which is sometimes considered as part of Dorćol as well. The population of the neighboirhood in the widest sense was 22,707 in 2002.

History

The name of the neighborhood comes from Turkish words dört (four) and yol (road), literally meaning "four roads" or colloquially "intersection (of four roads)", "crossroads". There is a town in Anatolian section of modern Turkey with the same name (Dörtyol). During the Turkish occupation of Belgrade, Dorćol was a well known trading centre, with many markets and traders of different nationalities, among others it was a center of Belgrade's Jewish community, remnant of which is the modern Jevrejska ("Jewish") street in Dorćol. After Belgrade became a capital of independent Serbia, Dorćol kept its multinational character for a long time. Eventually the old low houses and narrow streets were changed into modern buildings. Still, some parts, though vanishing one by one, resemble the old look.

Real_Zidane · Post 04 Apr 2007, 22:51

iwannagopro wrote:
ajc wrote:I'm going to look around for some pictures, but in the mean time I found an entertaining video of some random moments that some kids filmed at my school a few years back. This was one year before I started going there, but nothing has changed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvAF39FJ3o
Wow... pretty funny. Also I see why you drink. Brandywine high school! Get it!! Brandy, and Wine!!! OMG LAWLZ! Yea, anyways I am going to take some pictures and upload them shortly.

jcdenton wrote:and these pitches are actually free to use? Smile

you live in a very nice natural area...

Lol, yes they are free.

Yeah, but there are too many rich people here... too many people in general.

jcdenton · Post 04 Apr 2007, 23:11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQfu8CVWOY
this is what happens to you if you lose street football match in Dorcol gymnasium...
this one was hosted by my old friend, he was goalkeeper in our local club during our best season... he's the guy on the left at the end...

and PLEASE take a look at this video, it almost made me cry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDE16kqJSro

iwannagopro · Post 04 Apr 2007, 23:37

jcdenton wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQfu8CVWOY
this is what happens to you if you lose street football match in Dorcol gymnasium...
this one was hosted by my old friend, he was goalkeeper in our local club during our best season... he's the guy on the left at the end...

and PLEASE take a look at this video, it almost made me cry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDE16kqJSro

Wow, those guys got owned. Hilarious.

jcdenton · Post 04 Apr 2007, 23:45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxyiFKnX07s

this is the other part of that Belgrade movie, i'm crying right now...
i've just watched it, and you can see that kid in blue shirt, in the tram he was asked how it is to live in Belgrade, and he says "good", and in Serbia "awesome"... and it was filmed mostly on Dorcol...

i never want to leave my hometown...

and this one, they even mention Dorcol in the song (between 00:15 and 00:20)...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3dE8ogd ... ed&search=