# What's Your 20? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154 "2012-01-20T18:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/41 "2012-01-21T00:18:50Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > It depends. If you’re driving north on the road nearest me, I’m in Arcade GA. If you’re driving south, I’m in Jefferson GA. > > If you go by the fire/police department, I’m in Arcade, but the post office says Jefferson. I’m sorta stuck in a place that really doesn’t belong anywhere. > [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > Heh. Must be something about Georgia. My previous 20 was Bloomingdale, but if I’d lived about 200 yards west, I’d have been in Faulkville according to the posted signs, but still in B’dale according to the post office. I’d have also been in a different county. Oy… (BTW I’m not dissin GA, no really…) ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/42 "2012-01-21T00:25:31Z")
I am just north of Higgins Lake, Michigan, in a valley, a fresh-water marshland bowl and tamarack grove; where the evening chill descends, like a ceremonial march, procession of silent soldiers, currents entranced and summoned by the frozen lows. The region is perched, situated on an north/south inland ridge, where the basins fall either west, or to the east; waters making steady way, playing and percolating along, building in crescendo, eventually meeting Huron’s western shore, or west to Lake Michigan. 25 miles from here in another spring fed bog, much like this one only greater in size - is the birth place of the rivers Au Sable, and mighty Manistee - one making its way east - the other, west. Okay. In a nutshell: I am basically out in the middle of no damn where. I tried to describe my location poetically the best I could. But what I am really experiencing right now is cabin fever, and delusions of grandeur, in this what is little more than an ice-box hell hole. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/43 "2012-01-21T00:30:31Z")
Oakland, CA. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/44 "2012-01-21T00:31:15Z")
Take a left turn at Albuquerque\* to find me. \*On Alameda Blvd. from northbound I-25, then go 7-8 miles ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/45 "2012-01-21T00:33:46Z")
> [@the lone cashew](#): > > I am just north of Higgins Lake, Michigan, in a valley, a fresh-water marshland bowl and tamarack grove; where the evening chill descends, like a ceremonial march, procession of silent soldiers, currents entranced and summoned by the frozen lows. > > The region is perched, situated on an north/south inland ridge, where the basins fall either west, or to the east; waters making steady way, playing and percolating along, building in crescendo, eventually meeting Huron’s western shore, or west to Lake Michigan. > 25 miles from here in another spring fed bog, much like this one only greater in size - is the birth place of the rivers Au Sable, and mighty Manistee - one making its way east - the other, west. A+ ETA: Wait… I take that back. . ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/46 "2012-01-21T00:38:20Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > How do you folks procreate in your world? Between a rock and a hard place? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/47 "2012-01-21T00:39:09Z")
About a mile outside the DC border in Takoma Park, MD. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/48 "2012-01-21T00:40:01Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Between a rock and a hard place? Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/49 "2012-01-21T00:40:18Z")
39.92786,-86.061005 so sayeth [GPS Visualizer's Easy Batch Geocoder: Convert addresses to coordinates](http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/50 "2012-01-21T00:42:16Z")
Monck’s Corner, SC, by God. I wish the primary’d get over with already. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/51 "2012-01-21T00:43:40Z")
Bucktown, Chicago ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/52 "2012-01-21T00:44:21Z")
Philly. Northwest Philly, to be specific. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/53 "2012-01-21T00:51:54Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > About a mile outside the DC border in Takoma Park, MD. You’ll have to excuse me if I’m faux pas-ing but what’s “ **DCnDC** ” stands for? Just curious considering you are technically a Marylander. 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/54 "2012-01-21T00:55:31Z")
Currently in front of the TV on the 32nd floor of an apartment in downtown Chicago. Normally, in the Valley outside of (well, technically inside of) LA. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/55 "2012-01-21T01:04:16Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Currently in front of the TV on the 32nd floor of an apartment in downtown Chicago. Normally, in the Valley outside of (well, technically inside of) LA. Aren’t you going outside to make a snowman? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/56 "2012-01-21T01:11:28Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Aren’t you going outside to make a snowman? If I could find some place where people wouldn’t look at me like I’m crazy (not that it isn’t true), I would. I was actually discussing that very idea with some coworkers today. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/57 "2012-01-21T01:17:21Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > You’ll have to excuse me if I’m faux pas-ing but what’s “ **DCnDC** ” stands for? Just curious considering you are technically a Marylander. 😃 > > . My initials and the city I self-identify as my home are both “DC”, thus I am “DC in DC”. I was born in the city, and when I was 7 we moved out to the Maryland 'burbs (MoCo). At the time I joined the board, I was living in Petworth, a very exclusive (:D) neighborhood in NW DC. I still own the house there, but I rent it to some friends. I currently live in Takoma Park, Maryland, the “Berkeley of the East.” ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/58 "2012-01-21T01:18:35Z")
I’m eastbound and down, good buddy. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/59 "2012-01-21T03:41:08Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > My initials and the city I self-identify as my home are both “DC”, thus I am “DC in DC”. > > I was born in the city, and when I was 7 we moved out to the Maryland 'burbs (MoCo). At the time I joined the board, I was living in Petworth, a very exclusive (:D) neighborhood in NW DC. I still own the house there, but I rent it to some friends. I currently live in Takoma Park, Maryland, the “Berkeley of the East.” Ah, okeydoke then. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154/60 "2012-01-21T03:45:26Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Lincoln Park, Chicago, watching the snow fly. I should be on the south side at my office, but I saw the forecast and said “F\*\*\* that!” Yeah, remember LSD last winter? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-20/610154.md?page=4)