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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nice park. Not much else to do in Hamilton, I’m afraid.