What's Great about your Country/ Town

[The Midnight Walker]

I'll do this for the country I originate from:

The Netherlands

One of the smaller countries (square miles) in the world. From North to South it's about 250 miles. From East to West a mere 175. Still a population of 17 million. Extremely good at sports. We're high flyers at football, speed skating, swimming, hockey, baseball, korfbal, darts. We've had world champions in about every sports there is to be found under the sun.
The Dutch have always been a seafaring country. A certain village with the name of New Amsterdam (later renamed to New York) was founded by Peter Stuyvesant. Tasmania was named after Abel Tasman. Piet Heyn was famous for hijacking the Silverfleet of the Spanish. The Dutch are the only ever country to attack the English fleet in its ports in London.
Indonesia was once a Dutch colony. New Zealand had its name originating in the Dutch language. The most infamous South African word (apartheid) is in fact Dutch.

The Dutch were, unfortunately, one of the first to start the slave trading to the New World.

Nowadays we're, also unfortunately, known as a country where tourists go to smoke weed and go to the Red Light District. (I hate amster**** with a passion, but that has other grounds as well).

Places to visit: Den Haag, Utrecht, Maastricht, Groningen, Nijmegen & Eindhoven (of course, my home town).

Places NOT to visit: Amster*** & Rotterdam.

Eindhoven is brilliant..... I'll admit that does stem from the cheap cigarettes..... but some of the architecture there is awesome.

Anyway, the mighty ol' England;

Pros;
-We have a royal family!
-People may complain about the weather, but I like it! Cold and rainy in winter, cold and marginally less rainy in summer
-We do make the most brilliant beer.....

Pros about my town specifically;
-It's like a mini London, has almost everything you could want
-There's like 150 pubs in the city itself (or were until the recession hit)
-Within 8 miles, you can go from the inner city, to complete countryside, so it's very variable.

Cons;
-Most English youths are complete expletives.
-The government is about as useful as a chocolate teapot
-We're turning into America-lite

Cons about my area specifically;
-I live next to the biggest council estate in Europe
-The second most densely populated district in Great Britain
-Havant (the borough) has the highest concentration of chavs per square mile in Britain. For you american people; http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chav (Warning: Colourful language at points)

EDIT: Side note about chavs, no-one hit the exact origin on UD. CHAV is actually a police acronym, it stands for Council House And Violent. Just thought it might interest someone.