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Old 04-10-2010, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Orlando - South
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Post images of the nicest mansions in your area.

You can also list which celebrities own homes or live in your city or metro.
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Old 04-10-2010, 06:34 PM
 
Location: Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
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I never saw their homes, but these celebs/athletes lived in my town growing up:

# Craig Biggio - Major League Baseball player
# Lillian Caran - Veteran of Broadway, Radio, Early Film & TV and Renown Acting Teacher
# Frank Catalanotto - Major League Baseball player
# Dan Corbett - Weather broadcaster for the BBC
# Bob Costas - American sportscaster
# John Curtis- American baseball player
# John Daly - Olympic athlete: skeleton
# John Hampson - Nine Days Lead Vocalist
# Christopher Higgins - National Hockey League player (I played hockey with him in HS)
# Melissa Joan Hart - American actress
# Kevin James - Actor
# Keith Law - Sportswriter and blogger
# Lori Loughlin - Actress
# Marty Lyons- National Football League player
# Michael P. Murphy - Medal of Honor recipient
# Jim Mecir - Major League Baseball player
# Soledad O'Brien - CNN News anchor
# Rosie O'Donnell - Former talk show host and GLBT rights activist
# John Petrucci - Dream Theater guitarist
# Jodi Picoult - Novelist
# Jai Rodriguez- ***** eye for the straight guy/Broadway actor
# Matt Yallof- SNY Sports Broadcaster



And where I live now:

Billy Joel
Eddie Money
Kevin Covais (from American Idol a few years ago, the one who they called Chicken little, lol)
Billy O'Reilly
the Gotti family (you know, the notorious mob family)
Howard Stern
Nas
Criss Angel (the magician)


A lot of famous people like to have homes here.
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Old 04-10-2010, 07:03 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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Just do a Google Street View of Great Falls, VA and Potomac, MD.
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Old 04-10-2010, 07:32 PM
 
Location: Orlando - South
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In my area:
Tiger woods- Golfer
Arnold Palmer- Golfer
Many other golfers
Joey Fatone- Nsync and dancing with the stars (at one point the bands Nsync backstreet boys and otown all lived in Orlando)
Ashley Drane- Actress
Mandy More- Actress
Kelly Slater- pro surfer
Kristen Storms- Actress
David Eckisten- MLB player
Jack Kerouac- American author, poet and painter
Johnny Damon- MLB player
Shaq- NBA player
John Travolta (small town outside of Orlando)- Actor
Wesley Snipes- Actor
Wayne Brady- Actor
Vienna- From the bachlor (if that counts)

There's more, that's just all I could think of.

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Old 04-10-2010, 09:25 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, TX
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There's this guy in DC, his name is like... Barracks Alobama or something like that... IDK, he's in the government and on TV a lot. I think you may have heard of him.
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Old 04-10-2010, 10:33 PM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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John Travolta (small town outside of Orlando)- Actor
Jeez, I dont think I would classify Ocala as a "small" town......
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Old 04-10-2010, 10:59 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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John Elway is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I've never seen his house, but he lives is a fancy area of the Denver metro area.
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Old 04-11-2010, 07:21 AM
 
Location: Orlando - South
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Jeez, I dont think I would classify Ocala as a "small" town......
Its more like a large town/small city. I just said that because its much smaller than Orlando and its just outside of Orlando, but its covered on the Orlando local news. So its still part of the Orlando "area".
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Old 04-11-2010, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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Its more like a large town/small city. I just said that because its much smaller than Orlando and its just outside of Orlando, but its covered on the Orlando local news. So its still part of the Orlando "area".
Actually, Travolta's house is in Anthony, which is a pigpath.
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Old 04-11-2010, 02:55 PM
 
Location: Orlando - South
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Shaqs Orlando house:

http://www.floridalakefront.com/library/images/Shaqs%20house.jpg (broken link)

Tiger woods house:



Dwight Howards house:



Other mansions in Orlando:
















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