# Which state do you currently live in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400 "2014-10-04T20:37:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/1 "2014-10-04T20:37:33Z")
By which I mean of course where do you live NOW…[might request a title edit if need be]… [Inspired by this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=736232) Poll forthcoming-be patient. Poll is public. ---
**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:** [October 4, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/2 "2014-10-04T21:39:17Z")
I was born in Illinois. Since then I’ve lived in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri. Now I live in New Mexico and this is where I intend to stay. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/3 "2014-10-04T21:49:45Z")
And Florida takes the early lead! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/4 "2014-10-04T21:53:07Z")
NSW ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/5 "2014-10-04T22:09:25Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I was born in Illinois. Since then I’ve lived in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Missouri. Now I live in New Mexico and this is where I intend to stay. Yeah, where I live now has little or nothing to do with where I hail from. I’d choose Maryland, since I was born there and lived there again for about 15 years from my early teens off and on through my late 20s. But I’ve lived in Maryland, New York, Florida, New York, Virginia, Kansas, Virginia, California, Sicily (Catania), Massachusetts, Maryland, then I spent about 6 years hitch-hiking and bumming around throughout both the U.S. and Canada with a lot of time in Toronto, Maryland, Colorado, Massachusetts, Virginia, Massachusetts, Colorado, Ohio, Colorado, Canada (Ottawa), Ohio, Missouri, Colorado, Ohio, Massachusetts, Ohio. Per the OPs rules, I voted Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/6 "2014-10-04T23:27:34Z")
Born in Michigan. Raised in Washington. In Washington still. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/7 "2014-10-04T23:31:05Z")
Utah (currently). FIRST! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/8 "2014-10-04T23:43:08Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > And Florida takes the early lead! CA’s got it beat already. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/9 "2014-10-05T01:08:55Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > CA’s got it beat already. 🆒 I was born and raised in California, and lived there most of my adult life. I’m living in Washington now. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/10 "2014-10-05T01:20:02Z")
Per the OP, I voted New York, but I’d still rather move back home to New Mexico if I could find a way. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/11 "2014-10-05T01:36:00Z")
New York. Unarguably the greatest country. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/12 "2014-10-05T02:48:34Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > CA’s got it beat already. 🆒 I figured I needed to celebrate while I could! 🙂 Um…at least of Floridians are quick and responsive? Yeah…we’ll go with that! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/13 "2014-10-05T05:08:48Z")
I now live in California, and have been for several years. _ **GO GIANTS!!!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/14 "2014-10-05T05:14:13Z")
Previous to Maine (where I live now), I’ve lived in: Alaska Tennessee Mississippi Illinois “If” I “get” or “have” to relocate again, it “could be” Hawaii or out of the USA entirely to Japan, India or points unknown to me at the present time. or back to Sweet Home Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/15 "2014-10-05T08:35:59Z")
Arizona. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/16 "2014-10-05T11:30:16Z")
It will be interesting to see if, here in 2014, there is still a little geographic effect in the SDMB of the fact that the SD column has its 1970s roots in Illinois. (Although any overrepresentation, if any, could also at this point be just from the existence of a “Chicago” forum in the SDMB – obviously an indirect expression of the column’s roots and Cecil’s favorite city.) ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/17 "2014-10-05T17:52:16Z")
Why are not: confusion fear wonder ecstasy hunger inebriation Listed on the choices? Why is everyone talking about birth place, where they would like to be or where they have lived the longest? The OP was quite clear to me and I feel that I am dishonest if I give my birth place which is not what was asked? ::: cornfussed :::: ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/18 "2014-10-05T19:17:57Z")
Per my request, a mod got the title all nice and unambiguous… Tho that alternate universe list of yours, **GusNSpot** , would make for a fun poll… ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/19 "2014-10-05T19:37:22Z")
California; I’ve lived here all my life, except for a few years in New York when I was too young to really remember it. I’m surprised CA has taken such a lead. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400/20 "2014-10-06T01:50:25Z")
I apologize for leaving DC out folks; esp. since I believe in you guys getting Congressional representation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-state-do-you-currently-live-in/700400.md?page=2)