So, Where you from?
 

This thread has probably allready been done but I have never seen it and couldn't find it when I was looking a minute ago so I dunno. So... Where you from? Feel free to be as specfic as you want.

As indicated in the little location thingy to my left I am from Tulsa,Okahoma. Yee haw

where i'm from (born and raised) - MN, USA

where i live currently - Germany

:)

born - india
now - Texas

Born and raised in Great Neck, NY, USA.

Currently stationed in Virginia Beach, VA.

-Mikey

Foreign Service brat (ie all Freakin over)

MI, USA...representing!!

Born - Montreal, Quebec
Live - Brantford, Ontario

Chicago since birth. :)

Born and raised in South Western Pennsylvania
Currently living in Omaha, Nebraska (why? I dunno)

Born: Toronto, Canada
Raised: Connecticut
Partied: Huntington Bch, CA
Became an adult: San Simeon/Cambria, CA
Since then: Northwest of Chicago 'burbs

Yeah, it's time to move.

<--- like it says 613 "4 life"... or until I move to Vancouver

broome county, upstate ny...

Born in Bettendorf IA,

Lived in west suburbs of Chicago most of my life.

Now in Somers, WI. USA.

La Honda CA
Stockton CA
god I miss the ocean...

Born a cheese head in Wisconsin
Currently in Western Colorado.

BTW, BBtB - did you forget Pacifica?

Born: Los Angeles
Now: New York, New York

Lost Angeles

Pa·cif·i·

A city of western California on the Pacific coast south of San Francisco. It is mainly residential. Population: 37,670.

?

Born and Raised in Huntington Bch, CA, then Tempe AZ. for a few years...now Clearwater, Florida.

I got ten bucks on WK votes "other"

ME: Born and still in Fairfield, CT

Born = Buffalo NY
Now = Marietta GA

Grew up in Urbana, Illinois, but lived in Champaign(right next door) for the last 15 years.

Born:Northlake, Illinois
Now:Greenville, SC

oi oi oi

Auckland, New Zealand

All my life...

Born: Campbellford, Ontario
Raised: Tillsonburg, Ontario
Schooled: Belleville, Ontario
Living: Tillsonburg, Ontario

All of it within 200km of Toronto. Close enough that it's not an overly long drive, far enough so that I can't smell the city stink.

El Salvador :D :cool:

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapimage...l_salvador.gif

----------------------------------

For those of you that don't know, its there:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/loc-car.gif

Born and raised in Colorado. Living in Florida. Wishin I was back in Colorado.

(Great idea with use of maps Memalvada,as it gives people a proper understanding).
.........................................................................................................
I was born and raised on the NSW north coast.

Sydney has been home for many a year and to come.

http://asset.gov.com.au/healthcapita...ges/nswahs.gif

Wagga Wagga

Born: Merced, CA
Lived: Mississippi, Colorado, Alaska, Wisconsin (various parts)
Since High School: Manitowoc, Wisconsin

born, raised and currently living in Montreal, Quebec

yup, just another tilted friggin american for ya

hey BBtB, make sure you don't call Wagga Wagga, Wagga, coz calling Wagga Wagga, Wagga, ain't right!

although i have lived in Sydney for 20 years, i was born here...
<IMG SRC="http://go.hrw.com/atlas/norm_map/norfolk.gif">

which is a tiny island in the pacific between New Zealand and Australia.
heres another map...
<IMG SRC="http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/images/libpacific.gif">

the islands initials (ie AUS) are NFI - what does that tell you!!

for those interested, this is also the home of the Norfolk Island Pine (obviously), which looks like this...
<IMG SRC="http://www.dotrs.gov.au/terr/norfolk/images/sunset2.gif">

When the British decided to send their criminals to Australia, the very worst murderers and such were sent to Norfolk. When the island became too harsh for even these hardened convicts and soldiers, they were moved to the infamous Port Arthur in Tasmania.

sorry for rabbiting on a bit, but i am passionate about my little island.

It's not far from Dubbo,Dubbo.

Boston, MA born and Raised

Denver, CO

Home of the worst NBA team in history.

Austin, TX

born and raised in mesa, arizona, part of the phoenix metro area.

Raised in Seattle, lived all over the US. Currently somewhere beyond the sea...

Finland

Ieper, Belgium, Europe. And fiercely proud of it, too.

I think I'll post the first response from Dear Old England. (why do we always say that?)

Born, Bred, Educated and Working in Liverpool, the REAL Capital of England.

Actually, we've just been voted European Capital of Culture for the year 2008, so I expect there will be a lot going on between now and then.

And before anybody starts Scouser bashing - DON'T

I've heard them all, so don't waste your typing skills.

I am passionately proud to be a Scouser. Always have been, always will be.

Thank You.

just outside of Washington DC (in Virginia)

I looked it up and i still dont get it! Ah well can i just bash limeys in general?

Scouser (skaus-sir)
Brit. Inf. ~n. a person who comes from Liverpool.

anyway heres ft pierce.....a little place i like to call home

http://www.cityoffortpierce.com/imag...w/picture3.jpg

http://www.cityoffortpierce.com/imag...w/picture8.jpg

i always liked this picture.

Born -- upstate NY
Live -- Near DC

North America

Flint, MI to be more exact.




...No, I don NOT know Michael Moore.

Born in Casablanca, Morrocco - Air Force brat.

Now I live in NC with the wife and kiddies.

Born in Tennessee
Going to school in CA.

Born in Houston, Tx
lived in grapevine, Arkansas
and a few other places down south that I don't know and then moved to Michigan. all before I turned two.
Lived in Greenville, MI until my sister was born then
moved to SouthWest Michigan where I've lived ever since.

Born on Galveston Island, TX

Grew up between Phoenix, AZ and Houston TX

Lived (Stationed) in Coronado, CA - Kaneohe Bay Hawaii

Now in Tempe, AZ

Born - Vancouver, Canada
Lived in several different places and now live near Vancouver...and happily so.

maryand,usa

Anadarko, Oklahoma

Rochester, New York

(home of uncle phil's favorite, Genesee Beer)

I'm in North America...and I'm representin' the cheesy state of Wisconsin. To get a little more specific...Central WI...Lincoln County. Yeah, that's me.

Here...since the place I live in wasn't built when the last ariel photo was taken, here's where I work...it's still some 5 years old, but it is all I can do. Deal with it.

http://skillz524.homestead.com/files/W_I_Arial_1998.jpg

CANADA
nova scotia actually
small town called antigonish
ive also briefly lived in new york and vancouver

Montreal, Canada

I'm from that little dull place they call England. Some call it Blighty, some call it LimeyLand, I call it CorBlimeyLand.

I would post up a map but you probably wouldn't be able to find it unless I cut it out and threw away the rest of the map!!!

:p

Don't wanna sound offensive here, but what exactly is Liverpool culturally famous for? It's just that I never hear of it in reviews, holiday shows, not even on the news, except when Liverpool FC win or lose or transfer or something...

I'd really like to know. I hear people on the news saying stuff like "oh, Liverpool...cultural centre of the EU in five years...etc....blah de blah de blah...", but I don't know why. I there something I don't know?

btw, this is not a sarcastic post. I am genuinely befuddled.

:confused:

Born: Portland Maine
Grew up: Philips Maine & Montreal West, Quebec
Educated: Montreal
Living now: 14 Island Lake, 30 minutes NW of Kingston Ontario

My "cottage in the city" is my boat in Kingston:

http://www.baylinerownersclub.org/al...asin.sized.jpg

I've lived in Chicago all my life. Gotta love the "stinky onion" (that's what the name means - it was built on a swamp)

I'm from a depressingly small town, Celina, Tennessee, but I assure you, I will get the hell out of here. But it is a beautiful place, its on a really nice lake, I gotta admit that.

Born in San Antonio, Texas (*air force brat as well*). been all over. Current residence, Hampton, VA. (*getting transferred to Colorado Springs in 3 months*).

Belgium, baby!

same as jam boy.

born and raised,probably will never move out of B.C.

it's too damn beautiful here.

Born: Shawano, WI, USA
Living: Fort Wayne, IN, USA

Canada's capital

Skåne, Sweden :)

Dublin, Ireland, Europe, Earth.

First person to mention drink or leprechauns gets a brick up the arse.

Born: Jersey City, NJ

Living: Brea, CA

Coast to Coast

Isn't Genessee Beer made in the glass-lined tanks of old Latrobe? That's what it says on the bottle.

Born and raised in Ohio, USA.

Bay Area, California. Aint no greater place to live. Maybe better to visit, but not live.

Born in God's own country - Australia.

Specifically, from Brisbane, Queensland. Beaches, beaches, and more beaches. With some rainforest thrown in. :-)

Belgium, that little nut-country several important Americans love to hate :D

for anyone that doen't know where, here's the location in 3 easy steps.




http://www.seaotters.net/~scout/graphics/weurope.jpg


http://www.immoview.be/media/site/belgium.jpg

In the area with "Gent" in it.

http://www.pietwoll.bewoner.antwerpen.be/aalst.gif


Born in Aalst, living in St-Lievens-Houtem at the moment.

Born in Little Rock, Arkansas
Lived in Wheaton and Lisle, Illinois
Currently living in Boulder, Colorado

Doesn't Gertie get a brick up the arse for mentionning drink?

Utah...born and raised.
And the answer to your next question....No, I'm not.

Born in Houston, TX. Lived in many places including Dundee, Scotland. Currently reside in Phoenix, AZ.

born
in
New Brunswick,
Canada
now
living
in
Vancouver,
Canada

I sorta' live out in the middle of nowhere. My closest (semi) major city, and airport, is Amarillo, Texas. This is a really interesting thread - it is really neat to see where people live. One thing I noticed (and I'm not attempting to start a flame war - just mentioning a fact!) is that many people who were born in Canada now live in the U.S. and those that live in Canada live within 50 miles of the US-Canadian border (That's not anything unusual either since the majority of Canada's population lives very close to the border). Canada is a breathtakingly beautiful place - or at least what I've seen of it is! I can't speak for all of Canada but I have been in the Prairie Provinces (which are just like where I live but farther North!), I've been to Toronto and Ontario, and spent nearly four years at NAS Argentia (FPO 103) in Newfoundland. I hope to have the opportunity to go back there some day. Everyone lives somewhere (that was just pretty damned deep for me!) and many of you live in areas that most people only dream of visiting. Australia is a place I've always wanted to visit. The closest I've gotten to Australia was Hawaii and that was at 3 AM, running from a typhoon, and only on the ground long. enough to get enough gas to keep on truckin'. My son did have the good fortune when he was in the Navy to go places I've never been, and a couple I'm glad I missed - 3 times to Kuwait. I'll shut up now - just really cool to see where some of ya'll live!

Shameless Plug:
Post Your Local Photo here---

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...=&threadid=420

Don't know too much about Latrobe, but right across this bridge is the world famous (?) Genesee Brewery.
[IMG]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QgCoGGcUTrUXz5ET3vUR4P5fTfGpvdVeA0UD2keDvWyPCGvgXODMIeDBGoi6dp4PBs4U8bejqVfI4XpotT*ZKQ8KBKj34wzbf6ktn7ixWsc/brewery.jpg?dc=4675427421006234736[/IMG]

And there, in all its glory, on the opposite side of the same bridge, is KODAK!!!!!
So there is my town. Beer and photos, my life in a nutshell.

[IMG]http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0QADGAnET8Xe4*nXcCTS7zKcGyKjV8b51sV3XgcZYpTLTsS4AMBWY64J5cO0ockIwzPXQd44i4C8oxeTxbISk6GdQKCb0JGZ2zozGAgBwyBg/kodak.jpg?dc=4675427421087341217[/IMG]

Ha ha, that's the same as me saying the closest I've got to USA is New Zealand! Why don't you just come over? With the exchange rate between us it would cost you bugger all...

I was born in Deniliquin, NSW, and grew up both there & in Old Bar (a coastal town of 400 near Taree). I'll try and show you where...

On the NSW map (below), Deniliquin is about where the first 'g' is in 'Wagga Wagga'. Old Bar is about 27kms from Taree, on the coast...

http://asset.gov.com.au/healthcapita...ges/nswahs.gif

I hope that sort of makes sense. For interest sake Wagga Wagga is where i'm working at the moment. It's got about 60,000 souls and is a long way from anywhere...

Holland. :)

Antarctica - me and Oderous Urungous

(Ohio sucks)

Born in Wisconsin Rapids, WI.
Joined the Air Force and lived in San Antonio, TX and Clovis, NM for 4 years. Most of that time spent in New Mexico. I was stationed at Cannon AFB and a common phrase was that we were 7 miles from Hell (Clovis) and 100 miles from anywhere else. It was true too. Lubbock and Amarillo, TX were both about 100 miles away.

Now, I live in Madison, WI and have been here for about 2 years. State Street in the summer... doesn't get much better... ;)

All I can say Pyrate is that you are more than welcome to come and visit our little port anytime. I accept that you live in the capital of our land and that alone carries so much history that there just isn't enough time to go into that. Liverpool has an amazing amount of history too. Again, if I had all day I could bore you to death I'm sure!

In a nutshell, Liverpool is a growing, dynamic, warm, friendly and exciting city. I'm very proud to be a Scouser as I've said before. I've not met many people who are as passionate about where they live as Scousers are about their home town, and I talk to people from all over the UK during the working day.

Be sure of one thing though. The stereotypical Scouser is a distant image. Yes we buy more Trainers than any other city, but hey, we have a thing about sports shoes!

Live long and prosper!

West Palm Beach, FL ...been here all my life.

i crawled out from between my momma's legs in Virginia, mn usa
raised in Pike, mn (just west of Embarrass, mn)
now live north of Mlps, mn

Nah...that's Rolling Rock. I grew up less that 30min. away from Latrobe. Genessee is, I believe, brewed somewhere in upstate New York. Rochester, maybe. Both are fairly good beers, though. ;)

Born and Bred in Northern Virginia. Got the beach (which is pretty shite) about 2 hours away, Mountains about an hour away, and the city about 45 minutes away. Can't really ask for anything else.

Nebraska, but going to skool in MI

Hey! Stop bagging out Wagga! I lived there for 4 years... great place!

Don't make me start with the Norfolk-neck scar jokes...

haha!
didn´t mean to poke too much fun, mate.
just noticed that your no longer located in the Coogee Bay.

I live in Canada,EH?

Great place to live,eh?

I was born in Enid, Oklahoma (yes, it's about as hick as it sounds) and am currently living in Dayton, Ohio.

Having lived in New York, Hawaii, California, Florida and the Philippines, I'm not sure why I decided to stay in the oh so exciting world that is Ohio.