Geography Survey: Where have you spent the most time in your life?

Michigan: Lifer
I am either the most pathetic person here or should be awarded the **Golden Pothole Award. **

Sure. So I stretched the OP a bit. Leave me be, it’s the only real exercise I get. :slight_smile:

Cities

  1. Houston, TX (born and raised here, 34 years residence)
  2. Austin, TX (12 years residence, occasionally visit the area)
  3. Angleton, TX (7 years residence)
  4. Kwajalein, Republic of the Marshall Islands (2 years residence)
  5. Singapore (1 year residence, off and on)
  6. Jakarta, Indonesia (1 year residence)
  7. Sydney, Australia (4 months residence)
  8. Little Rock, AR (convention every year for last 15 years)
  9. Orlando, FL (convention every year for last 13 years)
  10. Las Vegas, NV (convention every year for last 13 years)

States

  1. Texas
  2. Arkansas
  3. Nevada
  4. Louisiana
  5. Florida

Countries

  1. USA
  2. Indonesia
  3. Singapore
  4. Australia
  5. Republic of the Marshall Islands

Cities

  1. Bristol, VT - Hometown, 17 years
  2. Troy, NY - College, 4 years
  3. Saranac Lake, NY - Current residence for first “real” job, 8 months
  4. Wells, ME - Family vacations there every summer for one week, I have missed this vacation only once in my life…so that’s about 20 weeks total
  5. Burlington, VT - Closest “city” to where I grew up, I would say I averaged about an hour or two a week when I was growing up, so that’s…a couple of months worth
  6. Malone, NY - Where I have been working since December. I spend ~40 hours a week here, so that’s…about a month of total time spent
  7. Albany, NY - Close to Troy, about two or three hours a week for four years. That’s almost a month of time.
  8. Cimarron, NM - Spent about 14 days there on a hiking trip
  9. Boston, NY - Probably acrued almost two weeks worth here
  10. Orlando, FL - A couple family vacations. As with Boston, almost two weeks total.

States

  1. Vermont
  2. New York
  3. Maine
  4. Massachusettes
  5. Florida

Countires

  1. USA (obviously)
  2. Italy (class trip - ten days total.)
  3. Canada (Almost a week’s worth, I would guess)
  4. Germany (just a few hours for a plane transer)

Counties/Cities
Stafford County, VA - born and raised there - 18 years
Richmond, VA - Attended college - 7 years
New Kent County, VA - Current resident - 15 years

States
Virginia

Countries
US

I’d say the odds were slim, hon! :wink:

Anchorage, AK: 16 yrs total, growing up and working
Juneau, AK: first ten years of life
Port Hueneme, CA: 7 years while in the Navy
Frankfurt, Germany: 3 years
Oak Harbor, WA: 3 years
Moscow, ID: 2-1/2 years
South Weymouth, MA: 2 years
Brussels, Belgium: 2 years
Lisbon, Portugal: 2 years
Bamako, Mali: 2 years
Kampala, Uganda: 1 year
Five countries (excluding the U.S.)
Germany
Portugal
Belgium
Mali
Uganda

Five States:
Alaska
California
Washington
Idaho
Massachusetts

Me either, but what the heck.

States (limited to states/cities where I’ve spent significant periods of time)

**Montgomery County, MD ** - I’ve technically “lived” here my entire life. Born and raised and this is where I live and work now.
**Salisbury, MD ** - 4 years for college
**Frederick, MD ** - where my parents have lived for 12 years, spent summers during college here
VA - this is really the only other state I’ve spent significant time in because half of my family lives here

Countries (limited to countries where I’ve spent significant periods of time)

Spain - 6 weeks in college on two separate trips
Germany - 2 weeks for vacation
Czech Republic - 3 months total (my ex-husband was from here)
Chile - 1 month for vacation
Argentina - 2 weeks for vacation
New Zealand - 1 month (I almost didn’t come back!)
Indonesia - 1 week for work
Armenia - 1 week for work
Ecuador - 1 month for vacation

And more recently…

Italy - about a week last summer, but it wasn’t enough time! :frowning:
Holland - 5 days this past November

  1. Hamilton, Ontario (born there, lived there off and on for 39 years)
  2. Toronto, Ontario (lived there when I wasn’t living in Hamilton, for a total of 10 years)
  3. Tallahassee, FL (going on 7 years)
  4. Jacksonville, FL (in-laws live there)
    • sorry, I haven’t lived or regularly visited anywhere else.

Provinces:

  1. Ontario
  2. Manitoba
  3. Saskatchewan
  4. Alberta
  5. British Columbia

States:

New York
Florida
California

Countries:

Canada
USA

Cities

  1. Portland, OR - lived five years
  2. Hayward, CA – lived one year
  3. Fremont, CA – lived 15 years
  4. Oakland, CA – lived seven years
  5. Sacramento, CA – lived one year
  6. San Francisco – lived 22 years
  7. Reno, NV – part of work territory while living in Sacto, and up there often to hang out
  8. San Jose/Santa Clara, CA – visiting relatives often when I was a kid. And quite a few trips down there as an adult. A little change of pace from San Francisco.
  9. Berkeley, CA – there’s a fun place over there that I’ve been going to on and off for nearly 30 years
  10. Los Angeles – vacation/hang out, mainly in the 70s and 80s

States
California
Oregon
Nevada
Washington
Tennesse (visiting relatives)

Countries
US
Mexico
Canada
Thailand
Taiwan

  1. Woodbury, MN
    2.Easton, PA
  2. Lexington, KY
  3. Rochester, NY
  4. West Lafayette, IN
  5. Albany, NY
  6. Hiawatha, KS
  7. Hendersonville, NC
  8. Lac du Bois, MN (though I’m not sure it counts as a city, I spent more consecutive time there than many other places I’ve been.)
  9. New York City?

States:
Minnesota
New York
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Indiana

Countries

U.S.
Israel
South Africa
Canada
Botswana

Not that it matters, but for the sake of my own peace of mind, I really should amend my list of cities.

Cities

  1. Waukesha, WI (Lived for ~12 years)
  2. Gothenburg, Sweden (Lived for ~6 years + family visits while living in US)
  3. Glasgow, Scotland (Study at University, spent 2 years there so far)
  4. Heppenheim, Germany (Born there, lived for 2 years - don’t remember it though)
  5. Vasteras, Sweden (Lived there for 1 year)
  6. Halmstad, Sweden (did my national service there for almost a year)
  7. Auckland, NZ (In the middle of a 1 year study abroad exchange here)
  8. Nelson, NZ (spent this past summer there working)
  9. Minneapolis, MN (visiting my sister who lives there on a few occasions)
    10 could be anywhere I’ve visited in my life - can’t remember staying anywhere for too long of a time period)

…can’t believe I completely forgot about spending a year of my life doing my national service in the army which puts Halmstad at no. 6 on my list.

Some of these places definitely don’t qualify as “cities”, but:
**
Vallejo, CA** - born & raised
Davis, CA - college
Cobb, CA - 3 summers
Hayward, CA - more college
La Honda, CA – home & work in a YMCA camp for 7 years
Danville, CA – 2 yrs
El Cerrito, CA – 2 yrs
Concord, CA - 4 yrs
Volcano, CA - 7 yrs
Pine Grove, CA - 6 yrs & counting

plus a few other seasonal stints in odd corners of CA …
States:
California
Nevada
Oregon
Washington
Colorado

Countries:
Canada, for 20 minutes in 1960*
Mexico - walked over the bridge & back from El Paso, just to say I’d been there
*actually it was 1959 and probably 4 hours, but I couldn’t resist

Cities

  1. Bremerton, WA - 12 years
  2. Chagrin Falls, OH - 8 years
  3. Danville, KY - 7 years
  4. Greenville, NC - 6 years
  5. Laurinburg, NC - 5 years
  6. Denver, CO - 3 years
  7. Bloomington, IN - 1 year
  8. Cleveland Heights, OH - a few months when an infant
  9. Tucson, AZ
  10. Seattle, WA
    States
  11. Washington
  12. North Carolina
  13. Ohio
  14. Kentucky
  15. Colorado

Countries

  1. USA
  2. Canada
  3. Mexico

Cities

  1. Fort Wayne, Indiana (16.5 boring years)
  2. St. Louis, Missouri (8.5 years)
  3. Canberra, ACT, Australia (2 years, 3 months)
  4. Garrett, Indiana (14 months)
  5. Wellington, NZ (11 days)
  6. Bateman’s Bay, NSW, Australia (9 days)
  7. Melbourne, VIC, Australia (7 days)
  8. Broadbeach, QLD, Australia (7 days)
  9. New York City, NY (7 days)
  10. Toronto, Ontario, Canada (6 days)

States

  1. Indiana
  2. Missouri
  3. New York
  4. Massachussetts
  5. California

Countries

  1. USA
  2. Australia
  3. New Zealand
  4. Canada
  5. Japan (22 whole hours!)

Cities

  1. Rochester, NY (15 years - birthplace)
  2. Berkeley, CA (5 years)
  3. San Jose, CA (3 years)
  4. Sausalito, CA (3 years)
  5. La Canada, CA (3 years)
  6. Los Angeles, CA (2 years)
  7. Ansbach, Germany (2 months)
  8. Neckarhausen, Germany (1 month)
  9. Boston, MA (1 month)
  10. London, UK (1 month)

States

  1. New York
  2. California
  3. Massachussetts
  4. Maine
  5. Washington, DC
  6. (If Washington doesn’t really count as a state :wink: ) Florida

Countries

  1. USA
  2. Germany (West Germany, as was the fashion at the time)
  3. UK
  4. Canada
  5. French Polynesia

Cities

  1. Redlands, CA - 25 years, born and raised
  2. Sauk Rapids, MN - 13 years, resided
  3. St Cloud, MN - 5 years, current residence(good lord, I have lived in MN for 18 years already)
  4. San Bernardino, CA - 8 years, work and school
  5. Becker, MN - 3 years, work
  6. San Luis Obispo, CA - visiting siblings on and off since 1974
  7. Minneapolis, MN, son now lives there, going to UM, have had many day trips there. St Paul is included here, as they are the Twin Cities.
  8. Laguna Beach, CA - a friend’s parents had a condo, we partied there, alot.
  9. Big Bear Lake, CA - same friend, parents had a cabin, when the parents would go to Laguna, we’d head for the mountain.
  10. Day or weekend trips to many places, San Diego, Temecula, Dana Point, Newport Beach, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Pasedena, Santa Barbara, and Avalon in CA, Brainerd, Fergus Falls, Alexandria, and Mora in MN, and I can’t forget Chicago2004, and the stuff that went on there.
    States
  11. California
  12. Minnesota

Countries

  1. USA
  2. Mexico - spent a week in Ensenada, many moons ago.

Cities I’ve actually lived in:
[ol]
[li]Tel-Aviv, Israel (lifer. Total of 35 years and counting)[/li][li]Haifa, Israel (3 years, college)[/li][li]Newton, MA, USA (2 years, non-consecutive)[/li][li]Rochester, NY, USA (1 year, college)[/li]
Other cities I’ve spent significant time in:
[li]Ramat-Gan, Israel (3 years, work)[/li][li]Rehobot, Israel (3 years, work)[/li][li]Herzelia, Israel (2 years, work)[/li][li]London (multiple visits as a tourist)[/li][li]Paris (ditto)[/li][li]Boston, MA (when living in Newton)[/li][/ol]

Countries:
[ol]
[li]Israel[/li][li]USA[/li][li]Britain[/li][li]France[/li][li]Italy[/li][/ol]

And I have actually spent nights in at least five US states:
[ol]
[li]MA[/li][li]NY[/li][li]FL[/li][li]RI[/li][li]CA[/li][/ol]

Dani