Where were you born?

[Silver Fire]

Cloquet, MN. You?

[Anniz]

Stockholm, Sweden.

[scratch1300]

Leominster, MA. "Pioneer Plastic City" and birthplace of Johnny Appleseed.

[MsRobyn]

Los Angeles, California. (Specifically Westwood [UCLA Medical Center], if anyone cares.)

Robin

[Tommy the Cat]

Carpet Capitol of the World,

::drumroll::

Dalton, GA

Really, I'm not as redneck as my birth town would suggest.

[Ethilrist]

Newman, CA, a little town just outside Gustine, CA, which is a medium-sized town near Merced, CA, which is famous for being the place you turn on your way to Yosemite.

[OESGal]

Washington, DC, at Geo. Washington Hospital.

[Tymp]

Idaho Falls, Idaho

[Pucette]

Los Angeles as well. Specifically, Culver City.

[gobear]

Well, my facetious reply is, "I was born in a crossfire hurricane, and I howled at my ma in the driving rain,"
but actually, I was born in Doniphan, MO in the Ozarks in 1961.

[Gadarene]

Sierra City, CA--a tiny, tiny (250 people!) mining town in the Sierra Buttes. Actually, I wasn't born in the town, but in a log cabin along Highway 49. There were eight-foot snow drifts outside, and my dad delivered me himself.

My brother was born in town, two and a half years later, in the room above the bar/pizza parlor my dad owned. During Happy Hour. My dad delivered him, too, and my mom came down after the birth to have a glass of wine.

I swear to God that I'm not making any of this up.

[AngelD112]

Irvine, CA.
~Lisa

[Mauvaise]

Fort Ord, California (Monterey County)

[Lowellster]

Originally posted by Silver Fire
Cloquet, MN. You?

Duluth, MN. Neighbor.

[Necros]

Seoul, South Korea.

[Gunslinger]

Longview, TX. I'm still there.

[Demo]

Escondido, CA. I think phouka lives there now.

[Nocturne]

Tuscaloosa, AL.

[Simetra]

Newport, RI.

Hi Silver. Haven't seen you around much lately. :)

[Twist Grip]

Granite City, Il

[Silo]

Richland, Washington.

[Gazoo]

Omaha, Nebraska (We lived in Papillion though, and moved when I was 6 months old, so don't ask me anything about the place.)

[MissBHaven]

St. Louis, MO

[Silver Fire]

Hi Sim. I haven't been around much lately. :)

Lowellster, do you still live in Duluth?

[TruePisces]

Kingston, NY here

TruePisces

[Tabithina]

Waukesha, Wisconsin

[Arden Ranger]

San Angelo, Texas

[Ayesha]

Killeen, Texas

[Skelji]

Franklin, Mass.

[psycat90]

Walson Army Hospital

Fort Dix, New Jersey

Both my parents were in the Air Force.

[Odieman]

Gull Lake Saskatchewan
Keith

[CWN]

The Bronx New York at Fordam Hospital(torn down a long time ago)

[andyman]

Baton Rouge, LA

Geaux Tigers!

[WickedAngel]

*transilvania*

yup it does exist...

Oradea, Romania to be exact

[Silly Rabbit]

San Mateo, California.

[Bumbazine]

Lansing, Michigan

[Amp]

Cleveland, Ohio

[racinchikki]

Hudson, NY.



Really, I'm a lot more redneck than my birth town would suggest

[Tally-Ho]

Fort Rucker, AL

Military brat, through and through

[Shagnasty]

Logansport, LA

[Alessan]

Jerusalem, Israel.

[Freyr]

Poughkipsee, NY, USA. December 16th, 1958

[iampunha]

Oakland, CA. Specifically, Kaiser Permanente hospital.

[racinchikki]

Originally posted by Freyr
Poughkipsee, NY, USA. December 16th, 1958

Thought it was "Poughkeepsie." Haven't lived there for a while, eh? ;)

[UrbanChic]

University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

[tiggeril]

Moline, IL-- World headquarters of John Deere. We've got a lot of tractors. And corn. And soybeans. And hogs. And a Starbuck's.

[Lowellster]

Originally posted by Silver Fire
Lowellster, do you still live in Duluth?

Yes. Yippee. You're in the Twin Cities area somewhere, correct?

[Jophiel]

Hindsale Hospital, Hinsdale, Illinois.

[Crusoe]

Harold Wood Hospital, Essex, UK

[Ad Noctum]

Brainerd, MN

June 21, 1985

really- you don't hafta get me anything.
seriously
__________________
Ad Noctum, Board Young'un and cutie-pie

[Silver Fire]

Originally posted by Lowellster
Yes. Yippee. You're in the Twin Cities area somewhere, correct? [/B]
No, I'm in Mora. It's not great. It's really not even very good.

[SoMoMom]

City: St. Louis
County: None
State: Missouri
Country: USA

[C3]

Washington, D.C.
Sibley Memorial Hospital

[Saint Zero]

Jackson, MS
The OLD Baptist Hospital
Same Year King and Kennedy were shot.

Don't even accuse me of being a redneck.

[DynoSaur]

Elgin, IL
St. Joseph's Hospital.

Do I win anything?

[Demo]

Originally posted by Ad Noctum
Brainerd, MN

June 21, 1985

really- you don't hafta get me anything.
seriously

Whoa, cool. As in the same Brainerd that was in the movie Fargo? Sweeeet!

[The Tof]

San Diego, CA-- Couldn't tell you what hospital though.

[Silver Fire]

Originally posted by Democritus
Whoa, cool. As in the same Brainerd that was in the movie Fargo? Sweeeet!
Hey, Deminem, remember the part in that movie where the female cop says that she's taking a drive through Moose Lake? Yeah, I lived in Moose Lake for years and, believe me, that wasn't any part of Moose Lake I've ever seen. I hate that damn movie.

[StephenG]

Quincy, MA, and my permanent residence is still 10 minutes away.

But actually, I'm just chiming in to say: Dire Wolf! I know people in Franklin!! Are you still there?!

[Lowellster]

Originally posted by Silver Fire
[QUOTE]No, I'm in Mora. It's not great. It's really not even very good.

Ah, the suburbs of Hinckley. You could do worse.

I must actually like Duluth. It's the only viable explanation for the fact that I'm still here. Definitely more fun to complain about it than admit to liking it, though.

[VaHermit]

Not that anyone really cares but,

Rockingham County, Va. (turkey capitol of the world, no comments please). City of Harrisonburg (then a small town).

I've lived in many places so far in my life, but the beauty and history of the Shenandoah Valley always calls me home.

[TroubleAgain]

Yokusuka, Japan, in the Naval Hopsital there.

[Ringo]

Salt Lake City, Utah. Go, bees!

[Solkee]

Tiel, Gelderland, The Netherlands

[Lsura]

The fine town of Chattanooga, TN

[tomndebb]

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away. . . .

[yosemite]

Glendale, California. (Suburb of L.A., near Pasadena and Burbank.) In the Glendale Adventist Hospital, I believe.

[woodstockbirdybird]

Santana, Macapa, Brazil.
I have no idea why. I've asked my mom what she was doing down there, but I always forget, probably because, knowing my mom, it was a boring explanation.

[Sofa King]

Long Beach, CA.

My first residence was the building that girl jumps off of at the beginning of Lethal Weapon. Nicholas Cage stole his GT-500 out of the parking garage, too.

[demanton]

Jackson, MS as well, St. Dominic Hospital. Born too late to be a redneck.

[porcupine]

The South Side of Chicago, the Baddest Part of Town. ;)

[Eutychus]

Yokahama, Japan.

[Permission to Engage, Sir]

Baaston

[Jkayla]

Raleigh, NC

Lived here my whole life....Nice weather, easy access to the coast, easy access to the mtns and lots of trees.

[Palmyra]

Dallas, TX... a looooooooong after the JFK thing AND that damned TV show....

[MysterEcks]

Detroit, Michigan...or that's what they told me, anyway.

[Homer]

I think it was St. Lukes. Somewhere in Overland Park or Olathe, KS. Suburbs of Kansas City, KS.

--Tim

[Broken Doll]

Goulburn Valley Base Hospital, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia [to be exact].

[AndYrAStar]

Vorhees, New Jersey. West Jersey Hospital.

I wish I was born somewhere cool.

[kawliga]

Hawthorne, California

[socpro69]

Cornwall, Ont.

[tsarina]

Toledo, OH.

Never lived there though; mom just drove across the border from Michigan to pop me out.

[Yossarian]

Palacios, Texas

I'm the son of a son of a shrimper.

[BornDodgy]

Salzburg / Austria

[Persephone]

Flint, MI.

I live here now, and have for about 10 years. But I wasn't raised here. Thank goodness. Don't ask me what I'm doing here now.

[Spider Woman]

Springfield, Illinois

[rackensack]

Newport, Arkansas

[zyzzyva]

Norwich, CT. About 2 hours east of NYC.

Woo.

[PRNYouth]

Tampa, Florida. Left the state when I was three.

[flodnak]

Originally posted by DynoSaur
Elgin, IL
St. Joseph's Hospital.
Hey, I was born in St. Joseph's Hospital too! Well, except that it was the one in Lancaster, PA.

[chique]

Milaca, MN - the hospital there has since closed.

[chique]

Originally posted by Silver Fire
Originally posted by Democritus
Whoa, cool. As in the same Brainerd that was in the movie Fargo? Sweeeet!
Hey, Deminem, remember the part in that movie where the female cop says that she's taking a drive through Moose Lake? Yeah, I lived in Moose Lake for years and, believe me, that wasn't any part of Moose Lake I've ever seen. I hate that damn movie.

Of course you do, Silver Fire :p Most people who live here hate it...'Cept for my aunt and I, but we've both lived away from here for a while and can see the humor :)

[hypergirl]

Park Ridge, New Jersey.

[spluurtaf]

St. Louis,MO

[11811]

Temple Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

[TVeblen]

Columbus, Ohio

[Phrogge]

Also Washington, D.C.; Garfield Hospital

[RickQ]

Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

Specifically, the living room of the house at the time. I was a month early :P

Beat that.

Rick

[Anake]

Originally posted by BornDodgy
Salzburg / Austria


Hey, neat, Mozart's birthplace!!

As for me, I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
2/8/82

[DVous Means]

Port Lincoln, South Australia.

[Silver Fire]

Originally posted by chique
Of course you do, Silver Fire :p Most people who live here hate it...
I thought the accent thing was really bad in Fargo. Until I saw Drop Dead Gorgeous. Ugh, that movie is just so wrong.

[Wicked Blue]

Brooklyn, New York

Rose

[Frannie]

Originally posted by Lowellster

I must actually like Duluth. It's the only viable explanation for the fact that I'm still here.

Ah, Duluth! Bob's town! :)

Oh, I was born in Youngstown, OH. I now live in Cleveland. I'm a woman of the world.

[Typo Negative]

Kettering, Ohio, just outside Dayton in 1964.

[zenith]

Goodland, Kansas

[dropzone]

Originally posted by chique
Most people who live here hate it...'Cept for my aunt and I, but we've both lived away from here for a while and can see the humor :)
Yeah, we can see that it's NON-FICTION! Not the plot, but the people. Worked with a Tennessean woman who adored it and quoted it at length, then we had to go to Mankato on business and I pointed out LeSueur (Le-SEW-er) as we passed. Then the receptionist could have been one of the hookers! A priceless look on my friend's face.

Can anybody explain the over-representation of Minnesotans on this board?

BTW, St Paul, Minnesota.

[HannibalV]

Originally posted by RickQ
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

Specifically, the living room of the house at the time. I was a month early :P

Beat that.

Rick

Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. And I was a month LATE. :D

[dwyr]

Louisville, Ky. (For non-Kentuckians, that's pronounced loo-uh-vul. :))

[Xgemina]

North Bend, Oregon

(it's merged with Coos Bay these days) and now I'm freezing my ass off in South Dakota...

[Commander Fortune]

Phoenix, Arizona.

[imthjckaz]

Originally posted by dropzone
Originally posted by chique
Most people who live here hate it...'Cept for my aunt and I, but we've both lived away from here for a while and can see the humor :)


Can anybody explain the over-representation of Minnesotans on this board?

BTW, St Paul, Minnesota.

I was born in Redlands, California, and now live in St Cloud, MN.
Chique, I loved the movie Fargo. Not being from here, I could see the humor and I have met people who do talk like that, doncha know.:)
dropzone, the reason there are is an over-abundance of Minnesotans on this board, is; when it's zero fricking degrees outside(F) and the snow is piled up to our arses, there is not much else to do, except have sex and post on this board.

[Rysdad]

Originally posted by dropzone
Can anybody explain the over-representation of Minnesotans on this board?

What imthjckaz said, 'cept I ain't got no Spidey-type around here.

Minneapolis, MN

[Booker57]

Canandaigua, NY
We have a lake

[dropzone]

Originally posted by Booker57
We have a lake
A lake? That's not going to impress the Minnesotans, you know.

[racinchikki]

Originally posted by HannibalV
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. And I was a month LATE. :D [/B]

Ahhh, another Capital District Doper? You still live up here?

[dropzone]

Originally posted by imthjckaz
...there is not much else to do, except have sex and post on this board.
Beats the hell out of murder/suicides, the negative side of cabin fever.

[Minty Rae]

Bradenton, FL

Rae

[rjk]

Weyburn, Saskatchewan, in Mount St. Mary's Hospital (now a community arts centre).

Canadians might know about Tommy Douglas and W.O. Mitchell.

Dopers might know about Odieman.

[Cyndar]

Brooklyn, New York



Michi

[mangeorge]

Bakersfield, CA. AKA Nashville West. AKA Little Oklahoma. Don't live there anymore.
And I've known 3 or 4 people from around Fargo (that'd be most of you, right?), and you all do talk kinda funny.
:)
Peace,
mangeorge

[Narile]

spooje, I know Kettering rather well.

I was born at St. Elizabeth's Hospital outside of Dayton OH. on 12/28/71. I grew up in Beavercreek OH, which is just outside of Dayton, a bit north of Kettering.

[justwannano]

Burlington Iowa

Home of the First territorial capital of the Wisconsin Territory

[evilbeth]

Hickory, North Carolina

[StephenG]

[hijack]
Narile, happy birthday! :)

We had a birthday thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52916), too!
[/lojack]

[Crack'dOff]

I'm not sure where I was born. All my dad would tell me is that he found me under a hot rock.

My first memories are of Medford, Oregon, though.

[Emperor Penguin]

Prince George BC, Canada.

A town which I never left in my heart, but moved back to 14 years after I was born.

[Emperor Penguin]

Oh, and Happy New Year too !!!

[bunnymom]

Salinas, California.

But we moved to Texas before I was even a year old.Probably accounts for my obsession with Steinbeck.

[HannibalV]

Originally posted by racinchikki
Originally posted by HannibalV
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. And I was a month LATE. :D

Ahhh, another Capital District Doper? You still live up here? [/B]

Nope. The family and I moved to the 'burbs of Chicago in '85. But...<chceking quickly>...you're in Hudson? I'll be damned--my dad used to teach in Hudson.

[Juggler]

Jönköping, Sweden. Where Agneta of ABBA fame was born and Nina of Cardigans aswell. Ain't ya all impressed? :)

[Morrison's Lament]

Reykjavik, Iceland.

--- G. Raven

[Wallflower]

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Seems like an appropiate spot for my first post :)

[La King]

Baton Rouge LA

[absoul]

Sundance, WY.

...according to my mom it was the hottest day of the year, late August.

[elelle]

L Fwhoopin A, CA
Queen of Angels Hospital,
Seemed like a good idea at the time...

[Zenster]

Originally posted by Juggler
Jönköping, Sweden. Where Agneta of ABBA fame was born and Nina of Cardigans aswell. Ain't ya all impressed? :)

Didn't they have a large boxed match industry there for ages? Flew out of there on my way home in 1968.


Born in Berkeley, California at Alta Bates Hospital.

I know, I know, this explains a lot!

[Mamapotomus]

I think I won a "living farthest from place of birth" thread not too long ago. I had to guesstimate though, Exmouth doesn't show up on any milage finder website that I could find.



... I am still waiting for my bright shiny trophy....

[blur]

Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport Ct.

[Serendipity]

Originally posted by HannibalV
[QUOTE]
Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. And I was a month LATE. :D

I'm an Albany Med baby, too, only I was two weeks early. Hooray for the Capital District! :)

[Kyla]

I was born in a log cabin in Illinois...

Seriously, I was born in the great city of San Francisco, California, in SF General Hospital.

[Doug Bowe]

N.O. LA

[Boomfly]

Aerdenhout, suburb of Haarlem, the Netherlands

[FairyChatMom]

San Diego Naval Hospital - dad was still a Marine at the time. Two months later, we drove across the continent to Baltimore where I spent my formative years... Until I escaped at 19... but that's another thread

[cheezit]

Originally posted by Crack'dOff
I'm not sure where I was born. All my dad would tell me is that he found me under a hot rock.


Which rock? That's what I was told, also. Are we related? :D

I was born in Portland, Oregon.

[tigerlilly]

I was born in Gary, Indiana, which is now the murder capital of the US.

[Jonathan Chance]

Chicago, IL.

Hog butcher to the world!

City of big shoulders!

All roads lead to Chicago!

MY kinda town!

[Bottle of Smoke]

Green Bay, WI.

Cattle butcher to the world!

City of big beer bellies!

There are at least a couple roads that lead to Green Bay, and they are in lovely condidtion with low traffic!

My kinda town as well!

[Sn-man]

Patterson, NJ.

[Jack Batty]

Ni-a-ga-ra Falls. Slowly I turn ... step by step ...

[Andy]

Lancaster, Lancashire, England (NW), UK.

Never, ever go there.

[Le Sang]

Since I am a military brat, I had my people do a little research to find this out. They searched everywhere, and after much dispute, we have narrowed it down to the two most likely candidates: under a wandering star, according to my people in Broadway
in Shadyside, PA (Pittsburgh for the uninformed), according to my 'family' contacts

[mrblue92]

Bay City, Michigan

Famous for:

1. The Bay City Rollers
2. Madonna's childhood residence (called it a "stinky little town", most likely due to the sugar beets)
3. The bar there last year that couldn't get a license to polka. Don't ask.

[Missy2U]

Evanston, Illinois

[Silver Fire]

I really enjoyed this thread, so I'm going to give it 1 (one) bump to see if more people would like to contribute. It was fun the first time around, why not try it again right? Uhh, RIGHT??

[Eo Echo]

Nazareth hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[Fern Forest]

I was born in a 6 foot by 6 foot shack in Fern Forest 5 km uphill from Kilauea caldera on the Big Island of Hawaii. Imagine that in 1974.

[straykat23]

Best place of all, San Francisco, California. Unfortunately, can't afford to live there any longer.

Gadarene - Sierra City is both beautiful and funky! Probably a good place to grow up in but I'd still take San Francisco any day.

[Sir Rhosis]

Frontier Nursing Service, Hyden, Kentucky
They didn't get a hospital until 1971.

[zub]

bombay, india

[UncleBill]

Tripler Army Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sep 3, 1966. Nine months after my Dad's Christmas leave from Viet Nam. Ya think my parents did the nasty?? Naahh. It was a stork!

[Eliahna]

Traralgon, Victoria

[Jenericho]

Kirkwall, Orkney (a tiny island to the north of Scotland). And, if you're wondering, I'm an oopie, not a doonie.

[Milossarian]

Wayne County General Hospital, just outside of Detroit.

[clayton_e]

Plattsburgh NY

my e-mail is cs302b@yahoo.com for anyone else stuck in this frozen hell that want's to contact me.

[VitrolicBump]

I was born in Hell....

Sorry, I mean Phoenix, AZ.

[Ice Wolf]

Ice Wolf entered this cool ol' world in Old National Women's Hospital, Cornwall Park, Greenlane, Auckland, New Zealand

[callie]

Toledo, OHIO USA

[Coldfire]

I was born in Goirle, the Netherlands. 25,000 inhabitants now, and about 9,000 when I was born. The village dates back to the Bronze Era. It's surrounded by woods and farmland, and it's quite a lovely place.

[fenrir]

Chicago,Il

[dubs]

Langley AFB in Hampton, Virginia. Same birthdate as Charles Dickens although NOT the same year...;)

[brachyrhynchos]

Whittier, Californ-i-yea.

[Tequila Mockingbird]

Hayward, California.

[dublos]

This page needs another Minnesotan...

St. Louis Park, MN (a Minneapolis suburb)

[Ann Onimous]

Danville, KY. Home to the great Vice-Presidential debate.

[Derleth]

DuQuoin, IL, the same day Albert Einstein was born, but not the same year.

[sewalk]

White Sands Missle Range, New Mexico, 27 September, 1968. No it wasn't anywhere near Trinity Site, thankyouverymuch.

[ITR champion]

Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, Ky.

[Pammipoo]

Born in Pensacola FL, and raised across the bay in Gulf Breeze. A sleepy little town known for it's UFO sightings. Oy...what a claim to fame.

[Tyklfe]

Home of the Bay of Fundy and the worlds highest and fastest rip tides
Middleton, Nova Scotia, Canada
(now residing in Atlanta, Ga)

[City Gent]

West End Hospital, Lake County, Ohio. (I think it's now called LakeWest Hospital or some shit like that.)

31 years, 361 days ago. Same day as Descartes. Different year, I think.

[D18]

Markdale, ON

The golf course in Markdale owes it's existence to me. The town doctor was in Owen Sound (25 miles away) playing at the nearest golf course, and they had to chase him down to deliver me. He decided he needed a closer place to play golf, so he donated a farm he owned on the outskirts of town to set to course up.

D18

[LindyHopper]

Cincinnati, OH. (Christ Hospital, I think)

The day I was born, there was an earthquake in Cincinnati. Portents of things to come, I'm sure...


Or maybe that was just Nixon's impending first election.