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Old 08-19-2014, 09:57 AM
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I'm always confused when someone asks where I'm from–you mean now, or originally? Anyway, Nottingham, England for the first 25 years, then Guildford for a year then into London for 10 years. Then moved to Paris, France for 4 years. Then to California (Silicon Valley) for 5 years and now in British Columbia for nearly 3 years. I've worked in about 35 countries around the world and managed to visit about 31 of the 50 states of the US.

It's interesting reading this thread and seeing just how few people stay where they were born...
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Old 08-19-2014, 10:07 AM
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Old 08-19-2014, 10:11 AM
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Currently I live in Eula, a little farming community just outside of Abilene, TX.

I'm originally from Roswell, NM. Moved to Eula in '99 when I was 12 years old; stayed here all the way through undergrad. I then went to Idaho State in Pocatello, ID for grad school; spent two years there and moved back to Eula.

I won't say I have a particular attachment to this town, but I feel like I'm needed here. When I moved back I resumed my roll as Pipe Sergeant of the Abilene pipe band and that was also about the time the old ringing master of our change ringing guild stepped down and I took over, so I feel I have a "place" here.
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Old 08-19-2014, 11:47 AM
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Native New Yorker all the way - born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, moved to Bensonhurst/Gravesend (Brooklyn) in 1957, Staten Island in 2007; still work in my old Brooklyn neighborhood...

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Currently I live in Eula, a little farming community just outside of Abilene, TX...I'm originally from Roswell, NM. Moved to Eula in '99 when I was 12 years old...
Moved - or teleported...
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Brooklyn-born-&-bred (Brownsville, then E. Flatbush). Spent my early 20s in Seattle; lived here in Chi-beria since summer of ’78.....moved here just in time for the Blizzard of ’79. Lived in three different n. side neighborhoods, but have lived in our current home (just burned the mortgage) longer than I’d lived in NYC and Seattle combined.

Looking at moving back to the PNW when my husband retires. Both Seattle and anywhere decent in NYC are way too expensive, so considering Eugene or Portland.
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Old 08-19-2014, 10:09 PM
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I was born in Minnesota but over my 66 years I've called Wisconsin, Alabama, California, Nevada, and Puerto Rico home.
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Old 08-19-2014, 10:55 PM
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Born and raised in Long Beach, California. Currently living in the SF Bay Area. I've resided in various cities in California for 55 of my 60 years...I lived in Salt Lake City, Utah the other 5.
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Old 08-20-2014, 02:49 AM
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Old 08-20-2014, 06:20 AM
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Staten Island NY,9th generation ..........hey Steve DeRosa...
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Born in Springfield, MA, USA. Grew up in/around Philly. Lived/Worked in a dozen different US states and acoupla other countries. Like others on AGF, been a road warrior, based in one place but spending 40-60% of time on planes, in hotels, at meetings in fluorescently-lit rooms, etc. In the wake of the Great Recession lived/worked in 3 different cities in 3 different states in 3 years. A guy's gotta work. Based in north central MN now. Happy to never move again.
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:18 AM
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It seems as though the UG forum is mostly European. Im kinda curious what eh demographics look like here.

Don't bother to post if you intend to answer USA. Be just a little more specific, like Massachusetts, USA.

I'm from Massachusetts, USA.
Originally 'burbs outside of Detroit, MI, USA. Now Redwood City CA south of San Francisco, north of San Jose, CA, USA.
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:34 AM
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Moved - or teleported...
If I had a nickel for every alien joke I've ever heard...
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