Born in Mountain View, CA
Grew up some in Gainesville, FL
Grew up some more in Villa Maria, Argentina
Went to college in Northfield, MN
Did a semester in Moscow, USSR (was back then!)
Worked in Washington DC
Went to grad school in Bloomington, IN
Worked in Chicago, IL
Now living in Tampa, FL
whew!
Wisconsin. “Eat cheese or die!”
New Jersey
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!
'Nuther Georgia boy here, living in the suberbs east of Atlanta.
State motto: Liberty, Justice, and Moderation
State nickname: The peach state
State bird: Brown Thrasher
State flower: Cherokee rose
State tree: Live Oak
State song: “Georgia on My Mind” (doubles as State tourism slogan)
State quarter: Peach Butt (well, have you seen it?)
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
“suberbs”? Geez…
Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle (although Seattlites won’t acknowledge the fact – we’re sort of country cousins).
Grew up across the state in Spokane.
Went to school in Provo, Utah.
Worked for five years in Peoria, Illinois (wonderful people, horrible town).
Have lived and worked in Seattle area since 1985.
Permanent residence: Chicago, IL
Going to school in: St. Louis, MO
Motto: Gateway to the Midwest
Oh, and our state motto is “Alki!”, which is an Indian word meaning “We couldn’t think of a motto!”
Our state bird is the geoduck and our state flower is the umbrella.
he sleeps on that pile/of newspapers/in the corner/and when he
takes off his/shoes you cannot/smell his breath
“king nicky”, archyology
Don Marquis
Up your butt and around the corner.
Pittsburgh (motto:we’re not as polluted as we used to be)
Washington DC (motto: the bitch set me up)
Umtata(RSA) (motto: nothing like an undeclared civil war to make your life interesting)
Goshen IN (motto: yes, you’ve never heard of Goshen)
Ghaborone, Botswana (motto: Pula! (only real slogan presented in this post))
Lancaster, PA (motto: the locals are nicer than the tourists. but not much.)
Northfield, MN (motto:have you heard about Defeat of Jesse James Day?)
That about sums it up…
Thats a good one pluto! And I am pretty sure the state motto is “Seattle and Alabama!”
-Frankie
I’m a wholesale dealin papa, but I retail on the side.-Brownie McGhee
Hey Nu Vo, when/why were you in Northfield? Anything to do with Carleton? Not that it’s any of my business…
Having ahieved extinction of desire and of individual consciousness, I am posting from the transcendent state of freedom known to you poor souls, condemned to dukkha, as nirvana. But in obedience with the precepts of karuna, this bodhisattva remains here to help with your own personal enlightenment.
I’m in southeastern Pennsylvania in a suburb of Philadelphia.
for some ridiculous reason it is traditional for the governor to change the state motto everytime a new one is elected
i think it’s “you have a friend in Pennsylvania”
for a short while it was “the UNcommonwealth of Pennslyvania”
I am D.B. Cooper
Born in Texas (The Lone Star State)
Lived in:
California
Oregon
Florida
Ohio
Kansas
South Dakota
Arizona
Kentucky
Back to Florida to grow old and die.
Houston, Tejas
Okay, here goes. Being a military brat(some say still a brat), I was raised all over the world, except China, Russia, and Australia.
I have lived in or been in every state, including Alaska and Hawaii. Been to Canada and Mexico bunches of times, spent a week in Panama, lived in Germany, Philippines, and Chile.
After I got married(to an AF guy who was SUPPOSED to take me to see the rest of the world) I’ve lived in San Antonio, Tx. and Omaha, Ne. And, San Antonio, and Omaha, and back to San Antonio again.
Here I sit, having just bought a house. It was here, or up in the COLD of Ne. I chose here, my bones don’t like that much cold anymore, though I still do.
Still wanting to get to Paris…
Changing my sig just 'cause…
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.—Anon.
I was born in St. Louis, MO, them moved to Alexandria, VA, then on to Minneapolis, MN, for 6 months, then back to Alexandria, then on to Cincinnati, OH, for 9 years, then down here to Sanibel Island, FL (hence my name), whose motto is “Do Enjoy, Don’t Destroy.”
And for Arnold:
Bodhisattva, won’t you take me by the hand?
Bodhisattva, won’t you take me by the hand?
Can you show me the shine of your Japan,
The sparkle of your China,
Can you show me?
Bodhisattva!
Bodhisattva!
I’m gonna sell my house in town…
Bodhisattva!
I’m gonna sell my house in town…
And I’ll be there to shine in your Japan,
To sparkle in your China,
I said I’ll be there,
Bodhisattva!
Bodhisattva!
Bodhisattva!
(Thanks to Steely Dan)
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“All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
I was born in Iowa City, Iowa, lived in various boring towns in Iowa, and spent a few years in a boring town in Colorado before moving back to the biggest boring town in the state of Iowa, which is Des Moines, where I currently dream of living elsewhere.
(But not too far elsewhere…Midwestern Doper bashes are too good to miss.)
“I like toast.” 
Yes, I have! My wife is from New Haven, and we spent ten years in Peru, stationed at Grissom AFB. We have three not-so-little-anymore Hoosiers born in Logansport.
Me:
Born in Ruislip, England of a British mother,
Grew up in:
England
France
Germany
Italy
Arizona
Colorado
Ohio
Oklahoma
Texas
Lived as an adult in:
England
Idaho (Current)
Illinois
Indiana
South Carolina
VB
Cowabunga Buffalo Bob!