How many dopers' home towns have you visited?

In My Humble Opinion
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I have way too much free time on my hands. I visited the USA map and the World map of doper locations and calculated the number of towns and cities there that I have actually visited. There were 38 towns and cities I have visited. I counted a place only if I’ve been within the city or town limits. In some cases, it was hard to tell if I met that qualification. For example, I guessed that I was inside Hudson WI when I passed through on I-94 and I guessed that I wasn’t inside Atlanta when I was at the airport there.[list=1][li]Los Angeles, ca[/li][li]San Diego, CA[/li][li]Challis, ID[/li][li]Laramie, WY[/li][li]Sioux Falls, SD[/li][li]St. Cloud, MN[/li][li]St. Paul, MN[/li][li]Minneapolis, MN[/li][li]Hudson, WI[/li][li]Ashland, WI[/li][li]Milwaukee, WI[/li][li]Marquette, MI[/li][li]Flint, MI[/li][li]Ann Arbor, MI[/li][li]Davenport, IA[/li][li]Chicago, IL[/li][li]Indianapolis, IN[/li][li]Columbus, OH[/li][li]Lakeland, FL[/li][li]Tampa, FL[/li][li]Coral Springs, FL[/li][li]Rockville, MD[/li][li]Baltimore, MD[/li][li]Columbia, MD[/li][li]Philadelphia, PA[/li][li]Mechanicsburg, PA[/li][li]Canandaigua, NY[/li][li]Albany, NY[/li][li]Saratoga Springs, NY[/li][li]New Brunswick, NJ[/li][li]New York, NY[/li][li]Providence, RI[/li][li]Fall river, MA[/li][li]Wellesley, MA[/li][li]Boston, MA[/li][li]Sanford, ME (of course)[/li][li]Toronto, ON[/li][li]Niagara Falls, ON[/li][/list=1]

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I believe the Atlanta airport is, in fact, within the city limits. It is certainly considered part of metro Atlanta, so you can easily say you’ve been here. :slight_smile:

I have been to:

  1. Boston, MA
  2. Wellesley, MA
  3. Providence, RI
  4. Albany, NY
  5. New York City, NY
  6. Pittsburgh, PA
  7. Columbia, MD
  8. Baltimore, MD
  9. Laurel, MD
    10)Washington, DC
    11)Johnson City, TN
    12)Columbia, SC
    13)Anderson, SC
    14)Augusta, GA
    15)Atlanta, GA
    16)Jacksonville, FL
    17)Tampa, FL
    18)Miami, FL
    19)Nashville, TN
    20)Jackson, MS
    21)Baton Rouge, LA
    22)Louisville, KY
    23)Cincinnati, OH
    24)Columbus, OH
    25)Cleveland, OH
    26)Kettering, OH
    27)Indianapolis, IN

I’d have thought there were more. As you can see, my travels have been primarily in the Eastern half of the country. I didn’t pull up the foreign map yet, because my connection is running slow. sigh

And, I believe I’ve driven through Sanford, but I can’t say for sure, so I didn’t include it in my listing. I did do a lot of traveling around Maine during my college years.

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I’ve got a very short list here…

  1. Honolulu, Hawaii (Although I know I’m not the only Hawaii doper, I’ve still got the whole state to myself! :D)
  2. Las Vegas, Nevada
  3. Los Angeles, California
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Let’s see…

[list=1]
[li]Chicago, IL[/li][li]Springfield, IL[/li][li]Milwaukee, WI[/li][li]Madison, WI[/li][li]La Crosse, WI[/li][li]Stevens Point, WI[/li][li]Hudson, WI[/li][li]St. Paul, MN (lived there for about 4 years)[/li][li]Minneapolis, MN[/li][li]Nashville, TN[/li][li]Omaha, NE[/li][li]Denver, CO[/li][li]Sioux Falls, SD[/li][/list=1]

I think that’s it.

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28, I think.

US: Baltimore, MD; Laurel, MD; Boston; NYC; Providence, RI; Fall River, MA; Chapel Hill (duh), Raleigh, Durham, and Cary, NC; San Francisco; Virginia Beach and Norfolk, VA; Chicago; Rehoboth Beach, DE; Rockville, MD; Vienna, VA; Washington, DC; Richmond, VA; Harrisburg, PA; Sanibel and Tampa, FL.

International: Dublin, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Salzburg, Belfast.

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Are we counting by smileys, or by the actual town listed? I counted by the latter, because

[ul]

  • some of the towns grouped together are really quite different places, eg North Hollywood and Pasadena
  • some of the towns grouped together are really nowhere near each other (Manchester is not in the “Leicestershire area”)
  • it makes my list longer :smiley:
    [/ul]

Anyway, I come up with:

  1. Dublin
  2. Belfast
  3. Glasgow
  4. Leicestershire
  5. Manchester
  6. London
  7. Toronto
  8. Montreal
  9. Sacramento
  10. San Francisco
  11. San Leandro
  12. Oakland
  13. Concord
  14. Berkeley
  15. San Jose
  16. Santa Cruz
  17. LA
  18. Pasadena
  19. North Hollywood
  20. San Diego
  21. Las Vegas
  22. Salt Lake City
  23. Albuquerque
  24. Omaha
  25. Cleveland
  26. Atlanta
  27. Richmond
  28. Rockville
  29. Washington
  30. Harrisburg
  31. Pittsburg
  32. Rehoboth Beach
  33. Columbia
  34. Baltimore
  35. Laurel
  36. Philadelphia
  37. New Brunswick, NJ
  38. NYC
  39. Albany
  40. Saratoga Springs
  41. Providence
  42. Boston

plus the following airports I’ve been through which I don’t know if they count or not:

  1. Amsterdam
  2. Phoenix
  3. Minneapolis
  4. Chicago
  5. Miami
  6. Dallas-FW

I should mention also as a small child I made a couple cross-US trips in a car with my parents, so there could be more that I don’t remember.