# Where's everybody from? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597 "2011-07-28T06:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/61 "2011-07-29T04:09:41Z")
Conceived in Lima, Perú, born in Paris, France. Raised in the following places in this order – Lima, Barcelona, Cologne, Germany, Bogotá, Colombia, back to Lima, back to Bogotá and finally Toronto, Canada when I was 12 yrs old where I learned English and where I left home at 16 and finished raising myself - myself :). Phew…it makes me tired just thinking about this. No my parents were not in the military. I’m not sure exactly what my father did for a living when I was really little. He could have been a goddamn spy for all I know. I now live in Oregon and I am currently coming up on 12 years of being in the same city. The longest I have ever lived anywhere. It feels as suffocating as much as it also feels stable. I like where I work, and I have made some wonderful friends here. I think I am here for the duration. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/62 "2011-07-29T08:57:31Z")
Nørrebro, København (Copenhagen), Denmark. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/63 "2011-07-29T09:58:34Z")
Small village nobody knows in Westphalia, Germany. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/64 "2011-07-29T10:00:44Z")
born and raised in East Tennessee. anybody who knows anything about TN (or cares lol) knows it’s sort of 3 states in one; East TN—mountains, bluegrass; middle TN–plateau, country; west TN–on the Mississippi, blues. Oh, and we always capitalize “east.” Reverse snobbery I guess, since we’re a bunch of “dumb hillbillies.” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/65 "2011-07-29T10:04:49Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I’m pretty sure I’m the only doper currently in the Falkland Islands! Wow. What you doing there? Do an “ask the…” thread maybe? I’m from everywhere and nowhere. Born in London, raised all over the place. Lived all over the place as an adult. Currently in transition between Oxford and the Far East. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/66 "2011-07-29T10:17:56Z")
I’m living about an hour out of Melbourne, Australia, but I’m a foreigners in these parts having only moved here a couple of years ago… I was originally born and raised about two hours out of Melbourne, Australia. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/67 "2011-07-29T11:04:55Z")
Sunny West Midlands of the UK here…born and raised in Kent, slowly working my way north. ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/68 "2011-07-29T11:13:01Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Just looking on Google Maps street view of my Gran and Pop’s old place on Kilbrennan Drive in Hamilton, last house before the loch. Jesus, what a small world now. Strathclyde Loch? I’ve walked around that for exercise. Only made it all the way around once so far, with Parkhead and his mum. 😉 Nice park. Not much else to do in Hamilton, I’m afraid. Yeah, that address is in Motherwell now, apparently. They must have changed the postal boundaries or something. They do that sometimes, I guess. But looking at our postal code, you’d think all of Hamilton was in Motherwell anyway. My mom lives in a place in the US that’s twelve miles outside the actual borders of the town which is her mailing address, and actually closer to a different town. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/69 "2011-07-29T11:15:59Z")
Born in Foxboro, MA Now a Damn Yankee in SC since 1997 ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/70 "2011-07-29T11:16:12Z")
> [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > Sunny West Midlands of the UK here…born and raised in Kent, slowly working my way north. Kent is beautiful, we’ve thought of moving down there someday. I first visited PaulParkhead when he lived there eight years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/71 "2011-07-29T11:39:01Z")
Born on the Swedish West coast. Have spent most of my life on the East coast, presently Stockholm. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/72 "2011-07-29T12:14:37Z")
Born in Philadelphia, just blocks from City Hall. 4 years of college in Madison,NJ. Back to Philly for 2.5 years. Then 2+ years in Nagoya, Japan (which, believe it or not, is where I discovered the Straight Dope). Brief stops in Montgomery county, PA and Delaware county, PA, before landing in beautiful, bucolic Chester county, PA. What a long, strange (roundabout) trip it’s been. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/73 "2011-07-29T14:00:07Z")
> [@Jeneva](#): > > Kent is beautiful, we’ve thought of moving down there someday. I first visited PaulParkhead when he lived there eight years ago. I have a friend in Somerset. Isn’t that in Kent? That’s where she is from originally. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/74 "2011-07-29T15:00:12Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I have a friend in Somerset. Isn’t that in Kent? That’s where she is from originally. Somerset is lovely - but Kent is a county in the far south east of England, while Somerset is a county in the north West Country. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/75 "2011-07-29T16:20:55Z")
Raised in Texas, last place lived in the US was Hawaii, in Thailand for many, many years now. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/76 "2011-07-29T17:30:57Z")
I’m in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not the city of S.F. itself, but a suburb close to Silicon Valley. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/77 "2011-07-29T17:53:25Z")
I am British, but lived in Southern California (Pasadena area) for about 20 years.Very recently I have moved back to the UK (Essex, where I was born). I am still re-adjusting. ---
**Author:** ![BDBoop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@BDBoop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BDBoop)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/78 "2011-07-29T17:58:13Z")
> [@lacortadora](#): > > Conceived in Lima, Perú, born in Paris, France. > > Raised in the following places in this order – Lima, Barcelona, Cologne, Germany, Bogotá, Colombia, back to Lima, back to Bogotá and finally Toronto, Canada when I was 12 yrs old where I learned English and where I left home at 16 and finished raising myself - myself :). Phew…it makes me tired just thinking about this. No my parents were not in the military. I’m not sure exactly what my father did for a living when I was really little. He could have been a goddamn spy for all I know. I now live in Oregon and I am currently coming up on 12 years of being in the same city. The longest I have ever lived anywhere. It feels as suffocating as much as it also feels stable. I like where I work, and I have made some wonderful friends here. I think I am here for the duration. 😃 I was reading your post, and my brain started playing this song. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ov4epAJRPMw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGAgZShVMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDbzoAui21agfkqoEONr7RfD0NlKA "J-O-H-N-N-Y C-A-S-H - I've Been Everywhere - With Lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4epAJRPMw) ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/79 "2011-07-29T18:04:14Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Somerset is lovely - but Kent is a county in the far south east of England, while Somerset is a county in the north West Country. Somerset is hardly north. Agreed, it is in what people call the West Country, whereas Kent is the furthest south east corner of England, but Somerset is about as far south as Kent is, and other west country counties (I would certainly count Gloucestershire, and maybe Herefordshire as West Country) are to the north of it. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-everybody-from/590597/80 "2011-07-29T18:20:37Z")
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