Looking over the driving thread got me to wondering where everyone is from. If thing has been done before then ignore it. It is my first visit to the Officer's Forum. I usually hang out in Starships. Anyway, I am in Salt Lake City, home of the Buy-Your-Own Olympics. Feel free to list your own home towns.
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Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :
It has been done before, but what the hell!
I'm from Birmingham, England (home of the make a crap bid for the Olympics and then complain when you don't get them), but am at university in Bristol.
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[This message was edited by Orion Syndicate on April 27, 1999.]
Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :
I'm from Buffalo, NY...home of Buffalo wings, Buffalo Bills fans, and Wind Chill Factor Capital of the World.
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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
I was born in San Jose, California, but now live in Moron Hell^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMorgan Hill...
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
I live in New Britain, Connecticut, but I want to live about where CC lives. (I mean, the general location, certainly not "Moron Hell").
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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I'm from Cypress, Texas. It's about thirty miles northwest of Houston (where I spend all my time thanks to college).
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Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
I'm from Houston, but attending the University of Texas at Austin... in other words, I'll be back in Houston in two weeks or so for the summer.
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Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
I live in a small town is Southern California called Lomita. Near Palos Verdes...I wish I lived there
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Posted by Brigman on :
I was born in Oakland, California, and was raised in Alameda, California. I've lived several places in the last ten years but am now in San Bruno, CA, just up the road (so to speak) from our illustrious Charles Capps...
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Posted by StationMaster (Member # 63) on :
Okay.......
Originally for Barnsley in South Yorkshire UK Lived in Cumbria after that Then moved to Indiana (bloomington area) USA Then moved back to Barnsley UK Then went to Liverpool Uni UK Now resides in Warrington UK
I am from an almost totally inconsequential, one-stoplight town in southwest Pennsylvania known as Perryopolis. Besides myself, the town's only claim to fame is the fact that it's original plans were laid out by George Washington himself, who owned a great deal of land in the area (later sold and/or given away), and hoped that it might be considered as a site for the capitol of the new nation. It wasn't, unfortunately, as the nearest river proved to be unnavigable at the time. Washington later granted a large slice of land near Perryopolis to my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, who helped survey the boundary between Virginia and Pennsylvania, as payment. Parts of the family still live there. Oh, and it's name used to be Washington's Bottoms, until a victorious Commodore Perry stopped by on his way back from Lake Erie, and the honored local yokels renamed the place. *end history lesson: Thanks, Grandma*
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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :
I'm from Monterey Park, California. (Inside the Los Angeles County)
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
Born: O'Conner Hospital, San Jose, CA.
Moved to Chico, CA at age 5,
Mineral, CA, at age 7,
Sacramento, Ca, at age 8,
Somewhere else in Sacramento, CA, at age 10,
Auburn, CA, at age 20,
Lackland AFB, at San Antonio, Texas and Keesler AFB at Biloxi, (Pronounced B'luxee) Mississippi at age 21,
Ramstein AFB near Ramstein Village in Germany at age 22,
Seymout Johnson AFB outside of Goldsboro, North Carolina at age 24,
Shaw AFB outside of Sumter, South Carolina at age 25,
Mather AFB in Sacramento, California (when my dad died) at age 30,
Fairchild AFB outside Spokane, WA at age 31,
Osan AFB right up next to Songtan Village in South Korea at age 33,
Cannon AFB west of Clovis, NM, from age 35 to the present.
Yikes! I sure have moved around a lot, haven't I?
--Baloo
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Posted by Warped1701 (Member # 40) on :
I reside not too far away from Baloo, actually. Lubbock, Texas, the city in the middle of nowhere. Only thing around our city is farmland, and the occasional tumbleweed.
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
(Most of the topsoil blew in from New Mexico.)
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Posted by Curry Monster (Member # 12) on :
Born, Bombay India. Umm, lived there, moved to Australia. Live in Melbourne. Story of my life.
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Posted by Chimaera on :
As for myself, I'm from Kelowna, British Columbia, on the shores of Okanagan Lake. Home of the Ogopogo. And one of the longest floating bridges in North America. But for the past few years I've been studying at the University of British Columbia here in Vancouver.
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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :
Born in Glasgow, Scotland; Still there now, but soon I will learn if my escape plans are viable....
BTW, Caldos colony in "sub Rosa"? It's nothing like that.
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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
Siegen, Germany Attractions: - Siegen - the place for concrete lovers - Krombacher Brauerei (I know the beer is available in the USA, try it) - 110m tall autobahn bridge - birthplace of Peter Paul Rubens (you know, he painted those fat women) - first exhibition of another famous painter named Paul (I think I will open a separate thread for this extraordinary event) - my website
1971: Move to Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paulo, Brasil (bit vague about this)
1971: Move to Bexley Heath, Kent, UK
1975: Move to New Delhi, India
1978: Bathgate, Scotland
1978: Accra, Ghana
1980: Boarding school near Haywards Heatch, West Sussex, UK - there except holidayds until 1989
1982: Move to Burgess Hill, UK
1985: Rio de Janeiro again
1988: Burgess Hill again
1989: Brussels, Belgium
1989: Newcastle University (people there ask me "where I'm from." Never did figure out a short answer)
1993: Leave Brussels, back to Burgess Hill
1994: Leave Uni, ditto. . .
1996: Brussels (work), then back to B Hill
1999: Move to Haywards Heath.
Home town, shmome town. . .
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Geez... You can't even give a continent when people ask where you're from! Might as well just say "Earth"... :-)
As for me, I've lived my entire life in Webster Groves, Missouri, just outside St. Louis. And I mean just outside. The only town between Webster and the city limits is Shrewsbury, and I don't think it's much more than a mile across, if that much. :-)
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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :
Yeah man!
"Lee Kelly - International Man of Mystery!"
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Posted by monkeyboy on :
From Burnaby, Canada but I like to claim I am from Vancouver, which is like a bus ride away.
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Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :
I live in Wheelersburg, OH. It is on the Ohio River, two hours south of Columbus off of U.S. 23 South.
Its only claim to fame is Gene Bennett; the famous scout of the Cinncinnati Reds who brought most the Big Red Machine together. Former Ohio Speaker of the House Vern Riffe lived here all his life. That's it except a few high school state championships!
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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :
Born in Rhode Island, USA. Raised in Groton/New London, Connecticut, USA Moved to Jewett City, Connecticut about 8 years ago... Am currently in College in Massachusetts ...
Hope to someday live in CA.
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Posted by LB4747 on :
I was born in Manila, the Philippines, but I was raised and still live in New York City. For the past 3 years, I've spent part of the year living with my parents and younger brother overseas -- in 1996 and 1997 in the Philippines, and last year (and later this year) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia where they currently live.
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I live on a hill overlooking the "town" of Granger, Washington. I was born in a hospital a handful of miles away. I went to school in Granger. I'm going to college in Yakima, a handful of miles in the other direction. I will continue to eke out an existence here until the cold hand of eternal night touchs my shoulder, at which point my corpse will no doubt find a comfy earthen home in Zillah, which is, yes, a handful of miles away.
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Posted by Captain Stark (Member # 70) on :
I currently reside in Washington Terrace, Utah. Its about 45 minutes north of Salt Lake, but still within a stones throw of Galen's house.
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Posted by Trinculo on :
I live in Walnut Creek, a city east of San Francisco about 30 miles, and in a year I plan to live in the triangle of Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington DC.
