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Thought it would be interesting to find who is local to who, and some of the strangest places people live now. It may prove a resource as we will tend to be experts on our local area/customs, speech patterns ans word usage.
I live in Exeter in the UK--that's in the south-west of England.
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Funny, my brother lives in Exeter - works at Sainsburys. I live in Murrieta, Southern California, about halfway between San Diego and Los Angeles. Don't see my brother too often but his kids sure figured out how to get here. We'll be hosting 3 of them for the summer.
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Rural Maine. Not much happens here either. If you ever need one, you should know that I'm an expert on culture shock.
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Midwest suburbia. Crazy. Still can't believe I'm here. I also still have jet lag (former Chicagoan.)
I lived overseas in the Philippines a few years while in high school. It was right after the EDSA Revolution (which was in 1986) when Marcos was kicked out. It was an amazing time to live in another country.
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I live outside Detroit, Michigan but I drive a truck long distance. And now that I know where you live, I'm stopping by unannounced. Hopefully during dinner.
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New Hampshire. On top of a mountain. How rural is rural. No cable, hence direct TV. No highspeed except through satelite, hence hughes. My stone house looks like a radio station. Have deer, moose, and the ocassional bear in the back forty. As far as the weather here, now its hot, humid, and black fly season--that'l give you a few welts.
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Cape Coral, Florida. Born elsewhere, dragged here against my will as a teenager, stuck here ever since.
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Berkeley/ Oakland, California. Been here pretty much my whole life. Have spent a decent amount of time in the 'burbs of Tokyo as well--my extended family lives there and when I was a kid we used to spend our summers there.
Geez, I really envy you folk living out in isolation. Tiergan, a stone house on a mountain in NH? Sounds like heaven! As does 20 miles of acreage in Canada.
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IB--I'm in central Maine. Not far from Augusta, actually. Not much here except me and some trees. I'm only half an hour from the coast, so I bet we're not far from each other.
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quote:Sounds like heaven! As does 20 miles of acreage in Canada.
Annepin: I'm not sure about US usage but in Canada the word acreage denotes a small ranch. I have 5 acres situated 20 miles from the city. Posts: 340 | Registered: Jan 2008
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Coming out of lurkdom to say that I live in hotter-than-Hades ARIZONA. However, I was born in Georgia, and raised in Southeastern Idaho. (That's the part of Idaho that's NOT pretty, just covered in spud-- er, potato-- farms.)
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Grew up in South Texas. Live in Portland, Oregon. So I know hot and hurricanes and incessant rain. Posts: 1588 | Registered: Jul 2007
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Started off in North Central Illinois, then Boston, then Northeast Tennessee, and now in North Alabama. Hope to get back north before it is all over with.
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Utah. I've also lived in Texas (near the coast) and West Virginia (near the Kanawha River), and my idea of heaven is the Oregon Coast.
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quote:Hey, annepin! I'm outside Sacramento. What time is dinner? Do you have accomadations for an 18 wheeler?
Lol! Give me a heads-up next time you're in my hood. We could go get coffee or something. We could probably find some place to ditch your truck!
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Show Low, AZ, about fifty miles awaay from I40, which is the big route across the state. Our doors are always open (usually by the kids - if anyone is thinking of dropping by, you're fore-warned).
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quote:Give me a heads-up next time you're in my hood. We could go get coffee or something. We could probably find some place to ditch your truck!
Oh now you tell me! I got to get to work. Got to load something in Sacramento then make it to LA in the morning. I will take you up on that next I'm here though. I am out to meet all my fellow writers that I can. I got two checked off my list thus far.
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You want a weird place for me to live in? How about this? I'm living in a country which is half covered by forests in the middle of Europe and most people don't even know it exists.
Maybe this will help: US president Bush was here just this week.
quote:You want a weird place for me to live in? How about this? I'm living in a country which is half covered by forests in the middle of Europe and most people don't even know it exists.
Oooh, now I'm interested. Slovakia? Slovenia? Montenegro (not exactly the middle of Europe but people still seem to think it's part of Serbia)
I used to live in Switzerland. If I had a penny for each time someone asked me if I can speak Swedish...
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I'm up here in Northern Virginia for work - Sterling but am just outside NOVA for home - Midland. Since Midland is still mostly farm land nothing much happens which is why I like it.
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Born in DC. Raised in College Park, Maryland. I never attended UofM, but suffice it to say I spent a small degree of time on the campus and in the student union building.
I've lived in various spots throughout northern Virginia the past 20 years, and am now in Manassas. I'll probably stay there until my oldest daughter graduates high school, then it's anybody's guess where I'll move to. Leading candidates are the Austin area of Texas, and the Delmarva coastline.
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Pyraxis; I'm about 6 miles north of Huntington and about 4 miles from a little spot in the road called Bippus. Ring a bell? We're also about a 20 minute drive from Wabash, and I grew up in North Manchester.
Not very many people realize that this area is also the birth place of two U.S. vice presidents. Thomas R. Marshall was from North Manchester, and Dan Quayle hails from Huntington.
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i use to live in vienna va 5min walk from wolftrap before i joined the army. i workd at the gient in town, but quit for getting in truble for yelling at a old hippy woman who kept asking me the same question. and getting the same answer
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