Grew up in Chicago. Currently live just outside Chicago in Brookfield (“Home of the World’s Greatest Zoo”–that’s what the sign says anyway)
Chicago motto (maybe not a motto, but whatever):
“You don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes. It’ll change.”
Also: “Chicago–where the shortest distance between two points is under construction”
Arnold: Hee, dhud! 1000 arms of Avalokiteshvara waving with glee!
I’se born in LA, 4th generation Californian.
As a University brat, lived in New York, Maine,& North Carolina.
Currently in Mississippi.
State Motto this week: “The Male Member May Not Display Public Turgidity”
Although one rep has said that the bill “may have to be massaged a bit” to pass.
I expect to be outta here in the next six months.
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
I don’t think we have a motto, eh.
Well the sign headed into town says Bienvenue…but I don’t think that’s it.
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
Syracuse, NY, east of Lake Ontario. State Motto: “Excelsior”. City nickname “The Big Snowball” - or - “The New Orleans of the North”. Don’t ever come here to live, we have the country’s most polluted lake, one of the top ten poorest neighborhoods in the country, and one of the highest infant mortality rates in the USA. Hello to all you people from Syracuse who live in North Carolina now, there are lots of ya.
Lived most of my life in da Bronx. Now I live in the 'burbs.
New York State fossil: Eurypterid.
Permanant address in Mississauga, ON.
Current Loc: London, ON.
never lived anywhere else, but have worked in Coquitlam, BC.(trained in Nashville, TN).
Visited Israel(love it there :)), Hungary(family :D), Austria, Vermont, Cape Cod MA, Florida, St. Maarten
I am a fire whose flames lick and spit at the boundless sky forever desiring wonderous consummation
-me
Born in Fort Worth (TX)
Raised in Fort Worth
Went to college in Nacogdoches
Currently living in Usel… I mean Euless
and working in Dallas. blechh
Hey aha, have you seen the Dallas Doper Debauch thread? check it out.
Ahhh…Virginia Beach, VA
Motto: Virginia is for lovers…
Okay, so the motto is cheesy but living here is awesome…
-Chris
I agree with Totilhate…
Girlbysea (AKA: ChiefScott’s GBS)
Born in Southold, NY
Claim to fame: the oldest English settlment in New York state. It’s also the easternmost township in the state, if you count Fishers Island. About 80 miles east of NYC.
Now live in Schenectady, NY
So I can get ideas. 
“What we have here is failure to communicate.” – Strother Martin, anticipating the Internet.
New Mexico.
Latin Motto: Crescit Eundo (It grows as it goes)
English Motto: The Land of Enchantment
Unofficial Motto: Mess with Texas
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
Rochester, New York
“Home of Kodak, Xerox.”
R.J.D.
Born in Lenoir, NC (Furniture Capital of the South!!) to an British mother and American father. I now have dual citizenship. Whoo-hoo!!
Currently live in Johnson City, TN.
My life is excitement in its purest form.
I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it.
Like NTG, I also reside in New Mexico.
The land of Entrapment.
I finally got my visa to move to Colorado so in a couple months I will be near techchick68 (wutup?) instead of NTG.
Not that I have ever met either of them.
This big desert between Texas and Arizona has it’s charms, but I have been here way too long.
'Sides, my g/f lives in Co.
Anyway, I think there are a lot more dopers in Co.
There are like 5 here.
Including me and NTG.
This looks to be a long thread…
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
VvvV
“Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.”
I’ll go farther than that, i’ll give you the lowdown on the state bird, tree, etc.
I’m from California, “the Golden State”
-State Capital: Sacramento
-State Song: I Love You California
-State Tree: Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
-State Bird: California Valley Quail
-State Fish: Golden Trout
-State Mammal: California Grizzly
-State Flower: Golden Poppy (Eshcholzia californica)
-State Motto: “Eureka” I have found it!
-State Rock: Serpentine
-State Marine Mammal: California Gray Whale (Migrates from Alaska to
Mexico)
-State Fossil: Saber-Toothed Cat (Smilodon)
-State Insect: Dog Face Butterfly
-State Mineral: Gold
-State Reptile: Desert Tortoise
-State Nickname: “The Golden State”
-State Gem: Benitoite
-State Dance: West Coast Swing
-Highest Mountain: Mt. Whitney (14,494 ft. above sea level).
-Lowest Elevation: Death Valley (282 ft. below sea level).
-Ribbon Falls: 1,612 feet (In Yosemite Valley)
-Donner Pass Deaths: 41
-Largest City: Los Angeles, which is the 2nd largest city in the U.S.
Any questions? 
I myself am an incorrigible conlang slut. I love oral lex.
I’m from California, but have nothing to say about it. Thanks, Doob.
I was born in San Francisco.
Grew up there and in Petaluma (35 miles north of SF, in fantabulous Sonoma County).
Presently living/studying in Santa Cruz (60 miles south of SF - I’m only here for another couple weeks, though, YAY!). Santa Cruz may be the goofiest town on the face of the earth. I have a suspicion that the entire California steretype of surfers, granola-eaters, and new age meditators is based on Santa Cruz. It was fun when I was a freshman, but I’m really tired of it by now. Good thing I graduate in a couple weeks!
I’ve also lived in Jerusalem, Israel. Jerusalem’s nickname is the Holy City. I know, big surprise. I love Jerusalem, I want to go back.
BTW, Goshen is a Biblical name for Egypt.
~Harborina
“Don’t Do It.”
Indiana here, which for some reason is called the Crossroads of America -don’t ask me
I’m in Illinois now, Naperville to be exact and I have my own name for it - Home of the Rudest People and Worst Drivers in the World
I rode Omni in Springfield, IL
Currently living in the NE suburbs of Atlanta, along with (apparently) several other Dopers, including Doctor Jackson, who said:
That’s not a Peach Butt. It’s the . . .
(wait for it)
. . . hind quarter.
BTW, spoke-, depending on how long you’ve been in the Poncey Highland area, we might have been neighbors. Used to live in those grey apartments on the opposite corner from Manuel’s (nearly ten years ago now, however).
Before I came to Atlanta, I was born and raised in Arkansas. Clarendon and Fayetteville primarily, with stops in 9 other towns along the way.
“Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.” –Satchel Paige
Québec Province :0
Motto: Pissing off the rest of Canada.
Just kidding.
The motto is not just “Je me souviens”, as you can see on our licences, it’s
“Je me souviens que né sous le lys, je croît sous la rose.”
translated: "I remember that born under de lily (France) I now grow under the rose (England).
Flag: Fleurdelysé
Flower: lily (don’t remember which kind)
Animal: snow owl
Song: not quite, but “O, Canada” was actually written in French first and to this day only the French lyrics are official, unless they fixed that.
To Enright3, Dr. Jackson, spoke, Rackensack, and I believe Mouthbreather (though i don’t think he’s posted on this thread yet),
–hello to back home.
Grew up in a small town in Georgia - Statesboro, kind of near Savannah. (rushed to get out)
College in Athens at UGA (had no idea what I wanted to major in college so I took their scholarship).
Lived in Atlanta briefly to finish college after returning from my 6 month stint in England. My little bro lived there (Atlanta) when he was at Tech (now he’s living outside London).
Now living in Albuquerque, NM. Been here almost 6 years. Ready to leave. So is my wife. She lived all over (military brat), but her family settled in Atlanta (we met out here in NM). Both families are back east so we’re looking to move that way. Not Georgia; maybe NC or Virginia. Depends on what the job search reveals.
Where I’d like to be: where Coldfire is.
If I could live in Europe, I’d try the Netherlands (or Belgium or Ireland).
jeesh, I’m rambling…
I am large,
I contradict myself,
I contain multitudes.
~Walt Whitman