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[AugustWest]

Here.  The dark square roof is the house.  The lighter, rectangular roof is a barn, as is the roof across the road.  Our li'l slice o' heaven is the roughly triangular plot described by the front of the barn, the almost horizontal fence row behind the house, the gravel road to the west and the road in front of the house.

Can you find your house?

[Limmo]

It is a little freaky to see the house you grew up in on Terraserver, especially when you can see the shadows cast by the bushes - from frikkin' outer space.  Yikes.

ETA: the picture, duh. The house is actually half an inch below the red tack, which is located at 1 Brownstone Way.  

<split hairs>

[andalucia]

That is super awesome.  I wish they had that in Canada form.

[Gimpson]

The current location of Fort Awesome can be found here.  You can clearly see the fire station across the street.  The fire trucks at this station have for some reason started using their sirens as late as 1:00 in the morning.  They used to be so good about waiting until they were up the street after 9:00 or so.

[jough]

(click me)

Holy crap.  I've actually never done this before.

You can see the little league field that I played baseball in at the bottom right.  And the local pool to the far left (if you change the map size to Large).  It's amazing.

This photo was taken four years after I moved away, but it's still frikkin' cool.

ed. to fix the scrolling issue. remember my sig that one time? -Choop.

[jay-ell]

Hey August, did your cows give a lot of milk this year?  

How about the chickens?  Lots of eggs from them thar hens?  

Seriously, is that where you live now, or where you grew up?  Is it really a farm, or are you just six miles away from your nearest neighbor for no good reason?

[Edit: Since Jough has already ruined the internet for everyone, I may as well post my childhood home:]

My Childhood Home

The red dot is actually across the street from where I lived.  If you put your penis on the dot, move it directly to the left, and then go up one house, that's the house I was raised in.  The small structure to the left of that (on the same lot) is a large tool shed -- the size of a four-car garage.  The monstrosity behind that is an eighteen-screen movie theatre.  When I was growing up, it was a drive-in, and I could watch the movies (sans sound, of course) from my bedroom window.  When I was nine, they tore down the drive-in and put in a driving range.  The cineplex went in the year after we moved.  

The largish structure to the lower-right of the red dot is a Presbyterian church with a preschool.

[AugustWest]

That is where I live now.  We like the solitude, peace and quiet.  We are plant people, so we have lots of space to grow things.  We have dogs and cats and yes, one rooster.  Our place is not a farm -- you can't do much farming on 2.5 acres -- but we are surrounded by real working farms.

I grew up in town, but I'm glad I live out in the boonies now.

[jay-ell]

Rock, Rock on, August.  

Here's a very nice shot of the home my parents lived in until last year, when they opted for a town home (being empty nesters and all).  They were still living there when this photo was taken, but I had moved out a year earlier.  The left "wing" was my parent's room, the right "wing" was intended for me and my brother, but he went and got married before they completed the move.  The structure out back was split roughly down the roof line.  The front portion was a "guest house" where I lived throughout college -- often with a roommate.  The rear portion was a workshop/tool storage unit, fully wired and stocked to the gills with construction equipment.  

My Parent's House

The guest house/shed was erected in a single week by a crew of four -- my parents, my brother, and myself.  It served as a storage area and base of operations for the construction of the main house, which was also built by the same crew of four over the course of eighteen months, largely while we were living in it.  

I changed bedrooms four times during the ten years I lived at that address.

This is where we live now.  Third house from the left-hand street, facing south.

[Limmo]

I'd post a pic of the house we're closing escrow on, except then you'd realize that I'm moving to what is essentially a suburb of LAX.

[AugustWest]

This is where we live now.  Third house from the left-hand street, facing south.

What is the facility that's kind of behind you with all the trucks parked at it?

[jough]

That is where I live now.

Excellent.  

This information will facilitate our bombing raid.

Carry on, citizen.

[V-Adore]

I grew up on the red dot. Well, on the house what has the red dot here, anyway.

We spent seven years at the end of this cul-de-sac...

... and now we live here. And yes, it is that totally middle-of-nowhere.

[jay-ell]

This is where we live now.  Third house from the left-hand street, facing south.

What is the facility that's kind of behind you with all the trucks parked at it?

I don't know, actually.  We hear odd banging noises coming from back there fairly regularly, but I honestly have no clue what goes on back there.  

Ignorance is bliss.

[Bozack]

This is basically where I am now, although here is where I was living when I chose my namesake.
Actually, I really really like the New York picture, and can actually identify my apartment better that I can identify my house in the Kentucky picture.

[CortJstr]

I zoomed out and panned a bit so that you can see the memorials/Potomac in relation to me. If you go one click south you can see the Pentagon.

From 2002.