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sometimes it seems like 90% of ilxors are from the metroplitan area aka 'that london'. i'm just curious, where (be as vague or as specific as you like, i'm not a potential stalker) is everybody from?

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:41 (twenty-two years ago)

London, via York, Sussex and Cambridge (cor, what a middle class set of locations)

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

west london!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Camden Town, NW1.

But adolescence in Tavistock, west Devon.

and now in a little Wiltshire village.

(well not right now, actually - right now, a cost office in sleepy Swindon).

... but folks still in NW1 - or NW3, to be accurate. There's nothing like a decent pension.

― jon (jon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

(haha the real answer to this question is that painting by courbet (?) that upset dr c when anthony posted it!!)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Glasgow, via London, Wales, Manchester, Sheffield and London again.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and originally from West London. Lived within a 5 mile radius my whole life.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

nz australia nz

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Northampton, home to DJ Skully, Britain's representative in this year's DMC world championships. Living in Lancaster at university, though.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

theres a whole bunch of us from new zealand

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i am from the agricultural west midlands btw

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

dublin (though i was born in london).

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

swansea, bolton, newton aycliffe, darlington, ryton (near blaydon in gateshead), low fell in gateshead, cambridge (green street, st paul's road, courts, somewhere way out in little shelford, back in to gwydir street, mill road, green street again, milton road, gilbert road), then down to london (nw2, w9, w4 and soon.... somewhere else "w").

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Glasgow (well West Dunbartonshire if you wanna be picky) brought up here, never lived anywhere else (except briefly in Exeter) I feel completely dull and unadventurous now......

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Melbourne.

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

we're a cosmopolitan lot, eh? i'm from that most cosmo of cities liverpool. i've been elsewhere for varying periods: derby, sydney, but essentially just passed through.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

London, via Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Harare and Johannesburg.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the agricultural west midlands of continent 5, subsector b12, zaxxos, medullian cluster, that is

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

from bradford, now in london

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Born and raised in Edmonton, north London. Three years at uni in Bristol. Then Oxford for almost nine years.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

(he kept failing his resits)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

south east london

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Manchester, via Aberystwyth-ish, Taunton-ish, Bexhill, and Rye.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

to set the record straight, N., I have never been a student in Oxford. Those nine years were all spent as a working person.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Working towards the entranc exam then? But that's even WORSE!

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I shall be more specific, in case it's of interest.

0-18 mths: St John's Wood, London
18mths - 2yrs:Hampstead, London
2-6yrs: Nantmel, nr. Llandrindod Wells, Mid Wales
6-18yrs: Peckham, London
18-21yrs: South Manchester (Whitworth Park and Rusholme, with university holidays back in Peckham and then my parents' new home in near Charlbury, Oxfordshire)
21-22yrs: Withington, South Manchester
22-23 yrs: Crookes, Sheffield
23-25yrs: Hackney, London
25-29yrs: Stoke Newington, London
29yrs- : Park Circus area, Glasgow

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Leiden, The Netherlands via Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, York, Southport, Portrush + Coleraine (N.Ireland), Fartown - Huddersfield, Liversedge.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I did spend two weeks at the university of kent in 1994.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

0-1: Stroud, Glos.
1-4: Park St., Herts
4-11: Honiton, Devon
11-19: Sidmouth, Devon
19-23: Leeds
23-28: Lancaster
28- present day: South-East London.

Everything of any interest about me can be deduced from the above (i.e. not a great deal).

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Where am I going? is a more relevant question at the moment.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Auckland New Zealand West Coast REPRAZENT Word to the Mutha etc etc

― gazza, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

0-11: Wallasey
11-22: a different street in the same area of Wallasey
22-23: Loughborough
23-25: back to Wallasey again
25: Seascale, Cumbria
25-27: Hensingham, Cumbria
27-29: Whitehaven, Cumbria
29-30: Brixton, London SW9
30-32: Greenwich, London SE10
32-: Crystal Palace, London SE19

What a waste that first quarter-century was. And then it got worse before it got better.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Alang, you lived in Newton Aycliffe? my deepest sympathies.

0-7 Dronfield (North Derbyshire)

7-18 Newbold Chesterfield

18-21 Bournemouth and Newbold

21-22 Walton in Chesterfield and Bournemouth

22-23 Just Walton

23-26 Willesden Green

26- now Walthamstow

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

1-2 Christchurch, 2-24 Auckland, New Zealand.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

0-2 Exeter, Devon
2-18 Wolverhampton, West Mids, with from the ages of 12-18 frequent weekends at my Dad's house in Ironbridge, Shropshire.
18 -21Broomhill/ Crookesmore Sheffield
21 -22 New Cross, south London
22 - to date Crouch End, north London.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

0-18 : Barton On Humber, N. Lincs
18-24 : Reading, Berks
24-25 : Stoke Newington and Leytonstone, London
25-28 : Ealing, W. London
28-40 : Twickenham, SW London.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

this is like a document of the gravitational pull the capital holds on the provinces. it's remarkable.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Except for me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

0-5 : Nelson
5-17 : Rotorua
17-19 : Dunedin
19-19 : San Francisco
19-20 : Dunedin
20-(as soon as humanly possible) : Rotorua

re : immediate future, weighing up a) Dunedin b) Melbourne c) London

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris, Newton A wasn't for v long, and it's not something I remember a great deal of either. apart from cycling into an algae swamped pool in the park. perhaps i should have added dates...

1969/70? swansea
1970/3? bolton
1974? newton aycliffe
1974/9 darlington
1979/89 ryton (near blaydon in gateshead)
1989/92 low fell in gateshead
1987/8 cambridge, green street
1988/9 cambridge st paul's road
1989/90 S staircase, tree court, caius college
1990 somewhere way out in little shelford
1990/1 back in to cambridge gwydir street, mill road
1991/2 camb. green street again
1992/3 camb. milton road, gilbert road
1993/98 then down to london nw2
1999/01 w9
2001/02 w4

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, N. but they know where you are, they'll drag you back in!

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

0-18 mths: Crystal Palace,London - above a pub run by parents
18mths-22yrs: Dundee - shitey tenement slums, cooncil estates
22-24yrs: Ash Vale, Surrey - rentshare horrible little brick shithouse
24-25yrs: Farnborough, Hampshire - rentshare nicer larger brick shithouse
25-28yrs: Yateley, Hampshire - rentshare worse smaller brick shithouse
28-35yrs: London W11 - lodger in converted-from-Victorian-townhouse flat
35-36yrs: Romsey, Hampshire - rent little flat in modern brick shitblock
36-37yrs: Dundee - back with family on cooncil estate
37-38yrs: Edinburgh - lodge with friends in Leith, then rent a flat in the town centre.
38yrs-present: Edinburgh, my own flat in the centre - AT LAST

22-28yrs (1982-1988): Nightmare years - trapped in redbrick thatcherite cul-de-sac suburbia paying Daily Mail readers' mortgages for them while being psych-sandblasted by 80's ideologies of 'style' and 'dynamism'.
Whoopee.


― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

0-13 Fetcham, Surrey
13-18 Winchester, Hants / Fetcham
19 Fetcham
20-22 Oxford / Fetcham
23 Wood Green, London
24 Fetcham
25 Wood Green, London
26 Southgate, London
27-28 Oxford
29 Vauxhall, London

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad went to Caius, Alan (isn't that exciting?)

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

0-3 Bethania, Dafydd, Mid-Wales (Where the Ty-Nant comes from, rarrrr)
3-16 Milverton, Somerset
16-17 Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
17- Rye, East Sussex
18- Salford, Greater Manchester

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

My god Alang, I was also living in Ryton in 1979.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

auckland, new zealand, my entire life. how boring. hey i moved down the street once!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

0-4: Stevenage
4-22: 3 addresses in Bedford
(11-17: School near Horsham, W Sussex)
(18-19: University of Durham. A shorter than normal stay.)
22-now as I am losing the detail of the dates: Stevenage, Southsea, Banbury, Oundle, Chelmsford. The last of which may be the longest spell in one house as we have been there over 10 years now.

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam - this is why I'm glad I ramped up the detail - it aids such six degrees of separation ohmigods. And as far as I can work out, not stalking.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Ray: do you remember the name/location of the pub in Palace? Not that it won't have been renamed/demolished in the interim, but you never know...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I have lived my entire life in or around London: Sidcup-->Brockley-->New Cross-->Greenwich-->Palmer's Green-->Fulham-->Acton

Not that I think London is go great or anything, but if you're a confirmed city type like me then I can't really see the point of living anywhere else but the capital...

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

HU10
HX3
HD6
BD9
BD18
RM7
BD18
N3
N4
SW1
N1

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

0-18 tewkesbury GL20. *1
18-21 loughborough L11. *2
21-31 hemel hempstead HP2.
31- london. W4, W12.

*1 family still live in the house that grandad bought (newly built?). at one stage there dad's two brothers and father lived in the same road, mother's siblings and mother lived one and two roads over.
*2 met mike. hopefully didn't contribute to the 'waste of time' he mentions.

andy

― koogs, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

0-19 Acton
19 - Hanwell

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

OK this is the breakdown:

0-13 Brazilia, Brazil
14-23 Welling, kent

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

met mike. hopefully didn't contribute to the 'waste of time' he mentions.

Oh blimey no! That year was the exception (but academically it was wasted). Strictly speaking we didn't meet while you were a Lufbra resident tho'.

I wonder what proportion of people who move to London from the provinces get sick of the place in their mid-late 30s (or earlier) and move out? I was told years ago that many/most people* who move to the capital describe this arc into disillusionment. I think I must still be on an upward trajectory. Glasgow sounds awfully nice though.

(* - 'people' probably just restricted to middle-income UK citizens in full-time work with looming adult responsibilities).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

doesn't it just!

I'm not nbored of London in the slightest..... yet. I fear I may be at some point though, unless I become more "comfortable"

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

School near Horsham, W Sussex

was that Christ's Hospital by any chance?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I plan to move out of London when I am filthy rich.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Addis Ababa > DC metro area > Philadelphia & NYC > Addis

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm moving to London one day.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

0-4 - Forress, Inverness, Scotchland
4-5 - Bitterne, Southampton, Sarf Engerlaaaand
5-18 - Preston, Lancashire, North-West Engerlaaaand
18-19 - Kingston, Surrey, South Engleeend
19-20 - brief spell in Isleworth, Harrow on the Hill, Motspur Park, Brixton
20-21 - Vauxhall

That doesn't seem quite right somehow. Perhaps I got some times wrong. Those are all the places though!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

And I would have liked to live in Manchester.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My whole world is falling down. Why? Because Tim isn't really from Sidmouth. Fascinating stuff though. I'm trying to think of something interesting to say about Loughborough. Meanwhile, here's my arc of disillusionment: village in NW Leics, Glasgow, Hastings, Bournemouth, Prague, Bournemouth, San Sebastian, Renteria, Hondarribia, Castelldefels. Some of them were for very short periods, but I put them in to make me look interesting.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael J, Glasgow is awfully nice. I have stayed briefly in London quite a few times and the people were like soooo mean (example: if you get on a bus in London and you don't know which stop to get off, people make a point of ignoring you like you have lepracy or sumfink, in Glasgow helpless bus passanger cause almost riots of friendly people trying to outhelp each other). But you lot are starting to change my opinion on Laaandon folk....

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Miller has lived in three of my favourite cities *sobs*

but he's also lived in Bournemouth! When were you there Peter? I was there from 91-95.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Montreal

Looks like I'm the only North American that reads ILX at breakfast.

― Miss Laura, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sam, how old were you then? I would have been in the 4th year at Ryton Juniors and only just moved up at the end of year. went to the comp in 1980 (i think that's right)

Ns dad went to Caius. rock on! (actually i think this was brought up when we did the whole terrifying oxbridge threads about a year ago)

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm... Let's see:

0-1 RAF base in Stafford
1-4 Stamford, Lincs
4-21 Around Wakefield, West Yorkshire
21-29 Tulse Hill, West Norwood, Honor Oak, Gipsy Hill - Sarf London.

Also curious about Ray's Birth-Pub and MJ's current whereabouts.
Michael see the Local Pub thread - the two I mention are the Railway Tavern and the Railway Bell.

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris, I was in Bournemouth for two summers, probably 91 and 92. We've discussed this before, I lived on that Brookside Close thing at the polytechnic for one of the two summers. Which are your fave cities?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

oh christ yeah, my memory is like a sieve.

Barca, Prague and San Sebastian (mmmm, great Tapas) Funnily enough I was talking to a bloke from San Sebastian at the black and white balls, terribly nice chap.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

More accurate rundown:
0-9 Wilberfoss, Humberside/East Riding
9-15 Billingshurst, West Sussex
15-17 Bilbrough, North Yorks
18-21 Cambridge and Bilbrough
21 Kings Cross, London
22-23 Wimbledon, London
24 Oxford
25 Farringdon, London
25-now Shepherds Bush, London

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I plan to move back to London when I am stinking rich.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Michael & Simeon: I'm sure the pub was called 'The Blue Anchor'.....location, er, think it was on the southern side, towards an area called 'Thornton Heath'(?) 'cos that name is in my head too. (I bet it turns out that my folks borough boundary geography is crap and it was actually miles away from Crystal Palace)

London: Yeah, I moved there at 28 and left at 35, but it was as much due to financial/life frustration as to 'disillusionment' - but then what do you mean by disillusionment, I suppose....
I couldn't ever see myself being able to have a life of my own because I could never afford a flat of my own, and being near so much casual opulence and other people's comfort was driving me into crazyness and embittered misery. The arts/cultural life was great, but after a while I always felt like a lower-class eager moth fluttering round self-assured middle-class lightbulbs.
I left through making a major break in my work life - going freelance to try to make more money - going to Southampton for an 18-month contract.
Then 'that thing' happened - as I came back to London less and less for weekends througout '96, it began to 'wear off' and seem unpleasant to me, both for exactly the reasons that some visitors report - crowding, dirt, rudeness, urban crazies - and because the area I knew and had lived in (off Powis Square) kept changing, and got even *more* trendy and poncified and expensive and less cosmopolitan than it had already become over the previous 7 years.
So I lost my sense of (and desire for) 'connectedness' to W11......

I don't even like visiting London much now. A couple of my friends from those years still live there (N1), and tell me that even they are finding it more and more brutal to deal with......

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

0-13: Brighton
13-18: Lewes, East Sussex
18-21: York
21-now: Brighton again.

I did technically live in Streatham for 6 weeks once, but that's as far as my London existence went or will ever go.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

0-1: Madrid, Spain
1-6: Vigo, Spain
6-11: Minneapolis, Minnesota, EEUU
11-12: Seattle, Washington, EEUU
12-21: Minneapolis, Minnesota, EEUU

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry Alang I lived there from ages 2 to 5 and so unless you were at Crookhill Infant School and have a phenomenal memory there is no hope of any bells ringing.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

1980 - Born in Washington, DC
1980 - 1995 Alexandria, VA
1995 - 1999 Alexandria, VA and Sheffield, MA. (Boarding School)
1999 - 1999 Park Slope, Brooklyn, NYC, NY (Year Off)
1999 - 1999 Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC, NY (Year Off)
2000 - 2000 Alexandria, VA (Year Off)
2000 - 2002 Alexandria, VA and Worcester, MA (College)
2002 - 2002 Alexandria, VA (Left College)
2003 - 20?? New York City (Hopefully!)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

??-00: Unaccounted for.
00-38: Canada -- North.

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

What Miller said re. Hopkins.

I mean - Stroud? *Hertfordshire*??

The Nipper's full breakdown would be interesting to read.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What about you Joe?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

0-4 - Forress, Inverness, Scotchland

I've spent a long weekend a couple of miles from there, Sarah (assuming you mean Forres). It was beautiful.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

1973 - 1974 Akron, OH
1974 - 1975 St. Paul, MN
1975 - 1991 Hastings, MN (although our mailing address says Welch and the census says Ravenna Township)
1991 - 1997 Cambridge, MA (summer 1991 spent in Stuttgart; summer 1992 spent in Hastings, MN; June/July 1993 spent in Hastings, MN; August 1993 spent in Japan, Korea and Taiwann)
1997 - 1999 Somerville, MA (includes summer 1998 spent in Arlington, VA)
1999 - 2001 Dorchester, MA
2001 - present Somerville, MA

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes I do, what's with the extra s. I also have vague memories of a park in Elgin. There are such cute photos of me there, I was in mittens and reins! So cute! And Dan do NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT SAYING A WORD!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(drat.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

0-18 Annapolis, Maryland
18 Winchester, Virginia
19-24 Annapolis
24-25 Baltimore, Maryland
25-26 Somerville, Massachusetts
26-27 Cambridge, Massachusetts
27-28 Somerville & Cambridge, Massachusetts (the town line ran right down our hallway. I ate in Somerville and slept in Cambridge.)
28-29 Baltimore
29-30 Cologne, Germany
30 Wiesbaden, Germany
30-present Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Next: Vienna and Hinterbrühl bei Mödling, Austria.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

0-3 portsmouth
3-17 farleigh hungerford (a small village nr bath)
17-21 cambridge
21-22 golders green, london
22- willesden, london (+ 3 months in somerville, ma)

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I didn't know Archel was proper Brighton-ish. I like the way people's breakdowns start off like pretty one-sided football scores before turning into really tight rugby matches. No doubt they will eventually settle down into leisurely one-day cricket internationals as medical science improves.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Born and raised on the Maryland side of the Washington, DC metropolitan area (except for a year and a half in West Berlin).

College years: Williamsburg, VA.

Since graduation: Washington, DC.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed, no Johnny-come-lately I. This means I get to remember Brighton when there was no Starbucks, and dirty dreadlocks were still the dominant headwear.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, stupid me forgot to mention that I'll be living in London for a few months next year.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

MarkH: was that Christ's Hospital by any chance?Yeah - CH, Housey, The Bluecoat School, call it what you will.

We used to travel to RickyT's Billingshurst (to buy fags/shoplift them if no cash), on trains with carriages with separate compartments. Occasionally this funny old bloke would offer us magazines to look at ...

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

small: des moines ia
small - 18: polk city ia
18 - 23: ames ia
23 - 24: st paul mn

― Josh (Josh), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Currently living in Philadelphia. Originally from the Philadelphia area, more or less.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Southern California, mainly.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

10924
10950
07940
WC1
SE14
SE16
07302

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

0-35 : England (always in or within 30 miles of London)
35- : Bruxelles, la Belgique

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Simeon: the next-to-the-station one = Railway Tavern (I can only think of the the Gipsy Hill Tavern down there, and the rough one across the road), the '1981 Pub of the Year' = Railway Bell? The latter is my favourite in the area. I'm south of Central Hill, just off the triangle.

Ray: yeah, that pretty much catches what I guess I meant by 'disillusionment'. I suspect there comes a point for a lot of people where they simply get sick of being almost continuously broke for a lifestyle (even if that lifestyle is no more luxuriant than a 2-bed flat in Z3, a travelcard and a few meals out/cinema trips) and a locale that holds no thrill for them any longer. I still love going over Westminster Bridge at night, (nearly) all my friends are here and the idea of moving any further out (other than *away all together*) is a non-starter (rest of South East England = rubbish).

The meanness of Londoners is a chimera in my opinion.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like I'm the only North American that reads ILX at breakfast.

Hardly. ;-)

In order -- Bremerton, Washington; Coronado, California; Aiea, Hawaii; Coronado; Mare Island, California; Coronado; Saratoga Springs, New York; Coronado; Los Angeles; Irvine, California and now Costa Mesa, California. Spot the pattern.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

first 14 months (Aug 1980 - Dec 1981): Elephant and Castle, sarf Landahn

1-14 (Dec 1981 - Aug 1994): Swanscombe, Kent

14- (Aug 1994 onwards): Portland, Dorset

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

born, Shreveport, LA
since, in and around Dallas, TX

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

0-20: the house that am in now, in johannesburg, south africa.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

0-13 Brazilia, Brazil

Julio got so used to writing Brazil he forgot Brasilia is written with a s!!

― vic (vicc13), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1979 to 1981: calgary alberta
1981 to 1986: fort mcmurray alberta
1986 to 1987: edmonton alberta
1987 to 1997: fort mcmurray alberta
1997 to 2000: edmonton alberta
2000 to 2001: hertfordshire u.k. and also briefly SE20, SE8
2001 to 2002: edmonton alberta

*sigh*

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

very little, denver, colorado
little to old - greeley, colorado
now - back to denver again. i stay within a 50 mile radius, but i hate it.

― Mandee., Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

dirty dirty!!

― simon trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

NY via Illinois, MA, London, NY and LA.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

0-2: Milwaukee, WI
2-3: Pella, IA
4-7: London (Great North Road, I fink)
8-18: Pella, IA
19-21: St. Peter, MN
22-24: Minneapolis, MN

― g.cannon (gcannon), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

''Julio got so used to writing Brazil he forgot Brasilia is written with a s!!''

hehe...yes of course!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Toronto by way of New Brunswick.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

1971 - 1988 mt. eden, auckland, aotearoa
1989 tokyo
1990 - 1995 mt. eden + grey lynn, auckland
1996 dunedin
1997 - 1999 titirangi, auckland
2000 - now hackney + west norwood, london

― cameron, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Dublin.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

west calder.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

1959 Born in Bristol. Family lived in Weston-super-Mare.
1962 Move to Sherston, Wiltshire. Family stay there, but...
1973 Boarding school in Bristol/hols still in Sherston
1978 Cambridge, briefly
1979 Malmesbury, Wilts
1980 Bristol
1989 Leicester
1999 East London (Manor Park, the East Ham, moving to Leytonstone soon). I don't imagine I shall leave London again.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

1971 - 1973 Sutton
1973 - 1990 Wallington
1990 - 1991 Leeds
1991 - 1994 Croydon
1994 - 1996 Anerley
1996 - 1997 Tulse Hill
1998 - date Monte Carlo um, I mean Streatham Hill

― Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Los Angeles (born at County Hospital - my first pediatrician was Dr Paul Fleiss! then lived in Los Feliz, North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks) 1973-1991, 0-18

Berkeley/Oakland/SF (UC Berkeley, then dot-com mania) 1991-2001, 18-28

Los Angeles (Happy Return - South of West Hollywood, but North of Park La Brea - no real name for it - West Hollywood adjacent?) 2001-? 29-?

feeling the need to live someplace completely different - top choices are Shanghai, Paris, or Berlin. But California is perpetually rather nice.

I will pint anyone in LA.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

vancouver bc via west lothian scotland

― mbosa, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I will pint anyone in LA.

Ah, now you tell me. ;-) Seeing the Chameleons at all?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

1981-1999 Fairfax, VA
1999-2002 Blacksburg, VA

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Houston, TX
San Antonio, TX
Milwaukee, WI
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
San Antonio, TX

Eep. Am I the only Texan on ILX?

― JC (JC A.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

0-1 San Jose, CA
1-3 Christchurch, NZ
3-8 San Jose, CA
8-9 Castle Hill, NSW
9-11 Manly, NSW
11-12 Surfer's Paradise, QLD
12-16 Skowhegan, ME
16-18 Los Angeles, CA
18-19 Greenville, SC
19-20 Westminster, CO
20-30 Los Angeles, CA

― luna.c (luna.c), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

0-1 Edwards AFB, CA
2-3 Waco, Texas
4-5 Kansas City, Kansas
6 St. Ste. Marie, Michigan
7-9 Mainz, Germany
10 Merced, CA
11-17 Port Hueneme, CA
18-21 Isla Vista, CA(summers back in PH)
22-25 South Pasadena, CA
26-present Pasadena, CA

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Ned, Chameleons possibly, but whuddabout The Streets at the Troubador 10/24? So-Cal FAP?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only Texan on ILX?

Nope

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

London - SW4, E1, SW4 (again), E8, N4.

Michael J. interesting to read that you spent four years in West Cumbria. Is that what you mean about it getting worse? I used to visit my grandmother in Maryport every year.

― David (David), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Born - Toronto, then to Gormley -> Bolton -> Belleville -> Kingston -> London -> Burlington, then back to downtown Toronto.


― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Born in Gloucester Road/Earls Court, grew up in Putney and Southfields (all SW London). Schooled in Coventry and Leamington Spa, with a year in Bologna, Italy. Now back in Putney. I love it.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Dekalb, Illinois
Portales, New Mexico
Pueblo, Colorado
Big Rapids, Michigan
Chicago, Illinois

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Born in Germany, living on a small island near Portugal. But you knew that.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of my life> Suburbs of Pittsburgh
Last 6 years> Northampton,MA

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Linton, Vic -> Ballarat, Vic -> Melbourne, Vic

Total distance: about 150km

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Neenah, Wisconsin (youth)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina (one year of ballet boarding school)
Neenah, Wisconsin (rest of youth)
Evanston, Illinois (college)
Chicago
New York (current)

― nory (nory), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Sussex (Mooro was two years above me at school, I've just discovered), then Oxford (twelve years), then Edinburgh (1989- ) and Leith in particular (1993- ).

― Rex, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

grew up in suburbs of detroit, spent two years in dc then back to the detroit are but now in denver. i've never met mandee.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Groton, CT till I was 18.
All over New York City 18-26.
Los Angeles--Hollywood, Silverlake 26-29
New York--Lower East Side 29-35
Los Angeles--Highland Park, Montecito Heights 35-41

I hope to be back in New York in a couple of years.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

whuddabout The Streets at the Troubador 10/24? So-Cal FAP?

Most tempting, if I can make it up there. Start a separate thread!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I would answer, but it's all so baw-ring. My mother had lived in four different countries by the time she was my age. Le sigh...

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

1975 Boston & Sudbury, Mass
1977 Southern New Hampshire
1993 Kansas City, and Amherst, Mass
1997 New Orleans

The benefit to the States is that you can move Very Far Away at the drop of a hat, without needing new currency, fluency, or shoes.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

David: Maryport? ::shudder::

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Sherston! Farleigh Hungerford! (and my village) Ogbourne St George!

Maybe the NE Somerset/NW Wiltshire/SE Gloucesertshire border is the real missing metropolitan black hole to which all ILEers must be drawn.

― jon (jon), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Kim - Burlington?!? Now I'm not embarassed to be from Oakville at all. P.S. I was a member of the Teen Tour Band for ALL OF THREE WEEKS.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, wait, a real answer.

1980-1983 St. John's, Newfoundland
1983-1988 Toronto (Brampton, actually)
1988-1993 St. John's, Newfoundland (It was better the first time)
1993-1999 Toronto (Oakville, actually)
1999-present Princeton, NJ

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

0-3 Huyton, Merseyside
3-4 Hitchin, Herts
5-18 Stevenage, Herts
18-20 Norwich, Norfolk
20-21 Portland, Oregon
21-24 Stevenage, Herts
24-? London (Balham->West Kensington->Dollis Hill->Kilburn Park->Queens Park->Bermondsey->Rotherhithe->Barnes)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only person who didn't realise who Jerry was until now? I am a big idiot.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspected a few days ago, due to comments by another member of this parish, but only now are my suspicions confirmed...

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

No, Mike, you're not the only one. My hand is up for the idiot call too.

This thread is getting like ILEFriendsUnited.

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

0 - 3: Hawea Flat, central Otago, NZ/aotearoa
3 - 5: Tarras, Central Otago
5 - 17: Windsor, North Otago
17 - now: Dunedin, Otago.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Meant to add - I suspect lots of retrospective googling for Nipper posts!

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?thread.php?showextras=true&msgid=3009870">This post gave it away, although I notice she explains herself here.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Lights go out, walls come tumbling down! The Nipper is not from Stevenage.

Top Tip: Vintage Nipper talk can be found in the recent thread about contemporary poetry.

I originally thought Jerry the Nipper was to Everett True what Little Frank was to Frank Sidebottom.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

0-2 Krimpen a/d Ijssel, NL
2-3 Auckland, NZ
3-16 Tokoroa, NZ
16-17 Hamilton, NZ
17-18 Tokoroa, NZ
18-19 Rotorua, NZ
19-23 Tokoroa, NZ
23-25 Horsham VIC, AUS
26-34 Auckland, NZ

― Perry Bernard (panterus), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Origins of The Nipper:

1) 'Bringing up Baby'(1938)
[In jail]
Susan Vance: Anyway, David, when they find out who we are they'll let us out.
David Huxley: When they find out who you are they'll pad the cell.

Susan Vance: Hey Flatfoot! You ain't gettin' no place. Come here...Yes you. Come on. Haul it over. Haul it over. You want someone to talk don't ya?...Get me out of this cooler and I'll unbutton my puss and shoot the works...Yeah, I kinda had you fooled for a minute, didn't I?...I could make a sucker out of a copper. What did I tell ya my name was? ("Susan Vance"). Vance...that's my society moniker. But the mob all calls me Swingin' Door Susie...Now ya pegged me. Come on toots. Open up, open up...Listen, I'll talk. I'll talk so much it will make your hair curl. Susan Vance: Aw, quit beefin', get wise to yourself, the heat's on Jerry.
Constable: Jerry? Jerry? Ain't his name Bone?
Susan Vance: Bone. Aww, you mean to say you don't remember Jerry the Nipper?
Constable: Jerry the Nipper. Make a note of that Doc.
David Huxley: Constable. She's making all this up out of motion pictures she's seen.

2) 'The Awful Truth' (1937)
Lucy Warriner(played by Irene Dunne, talking about her husband, played by Cary Grant): Well, don't look at me you like a little drink yourself. We call him Jerry the Nipper. Like's to sneak it when nobody's looking. So cute about it too.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Fascinating.... but I'm still hanging at the back with the idiots as to Jerry the Nipper's real identity. Loved that Nietzsche/Rhubarb post though.

― stevo (stevo), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Following Graham's link, all is clear. Now here is where I fear getting the spelling of earlier identities wrong again, since she will smite me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm from southend, essex. cultured!

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

this is when you know you're really an *outsider*.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

74 - Hutton Henry, County Durham
74-76 - Newton Aycliffe, County Durham (same time as alang...)
76-91 - Fishburn, County Durham
91-92 - Sedgefield, County Durham
92-95 - Cheltenham (3 different places) and Sedgefield
95-00 - Just Cheltenham (2 different places)
00-02 - Oxford
02 - N19, crouch end masseef etc

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

hm well i have lived in Chingford, Highams Park, Woodford (all London), Cambridge, Stratford (E15) and Shepherd's Bush. i am dead boring.

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Well -

0 - 4 months: N. London
4 months until 18: Heywood, nr Rochdale
18 - 26: Lancaster
26-26 and a bit: Kensington, C. London
26-27 and a bit: Hammersmith, W. London
27-27: Canonbury, N. London
27-now: Blackheath, S. London

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Carsmile, have you got a County Durham accent? I wasn't expecting that either.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Katie, I had a summer job at a plastics factory in Highams Park called Bissell Appliances.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

London... Ontario -> Markham -> Pefferlaw -> Pefferlaw ->Sackville -> Pigfuckering.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Miller, you could slice Carsmile up and sell him as stotties. If you'd only come and meet us all you'd know this stuff.

And I *so* am really from Sidmouth.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

grew up in suburbs of detroit, spent two years in dc then back to the detroit are but now in denver. i've never met mandee.

And we're going to keep it that way, aren't we, mack?

― mandee, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

my geordie accent is legendary

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

0-3: Kings Heath, Birmingham
3-17: Loughborough (and the only interesting thing to say about Lufbra is that Roy from Coronation Street used to live down the road in Barrow Upon Soar. That is all)
17-forever and ever (or so I think in my darker moments): Leicester

― Madeleine (Madeleine), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

0-17: princeton, nj
17-22: boston/cambridge/somerville, ma
22-present: new york city

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 3 October 2002 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

tuh- tuh- tuh TennesSEE

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Santa Monica, CA --> Pacific Palisades, CA (uggg) --> Irvine, CA (college.. yay) --> Costa Mesa, CA ---------> Seattle, WA

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 3 October 2002 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Loughborough has Britain's only working bell foundry. I knew there was something.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

surely not! there's at least one other. It's in London.

Loughborough = home of Ladybird books? There used to be a pic of a giant ladybird at the station.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Loughborough = home of Ladybird books?

Used to be, now situated about 20 yards to my right. (Strand, London)
Incidentally, I soon inherit (professionally) all the artwork for the old ladybird books. I'll get to scan and archive all those childhood memories - Rumplestiltskin, Chicken Licken, Yay!

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Miller, the folk down the Whitechapel Bell Foundry would no doubt be distressed to hear this Loughborough-related news.

http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

That's just nit-picking, Tim.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 3 October 2002 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

0-17 Edinburgh

17-18 Glasgow

18-21 Edinburgh

21-22 Greenock

22- present Edinburgh

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

0-18 Deeside, North Wales

18-20 Manchester

20-21 Portsmouth

21-22 Manchester

22-26 London (E3,N19,TW1,SW19,EC1)

― Chris rough, Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

0-18 Deeside, North Wales

18-20 Manchester

20-21 Portsmouth

21-22 Manchester

22-26 London (E3,N19,TW1,SW19,EC1)

― Chris rough, Thursday, 3 October 2002 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

0 - 8 Swift Current, Saskatchewan
8 - 22 Brandon, Manitoba
22 - 23 Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton (no, I wasn't a drifter, but almost!)
23 - 28 Brandon, Manitoba (again)
28 - present (31) Winnipeg, again.
Doesn't get any more exciting than that, eh?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Originally from Glasgow but just moved down to London

― Madam Plinky (Madam Plinky), Thursday, 3 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to have a friend from Loughborough and the bastard stabbed me RIGHT in the back. Nothing to do with this forum, though.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 3 October 2002 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Grew up in East Lansing, Michigan (with brief stays in Portland, Oregon and Basel, Switzerland); spent college years in Boston; have been in Queens for the last ten years or so.

― Douglas Wolk, Friday, 4 October 2002 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave M. Let the record show that I only lived in Burlington for a year and got my butt into the downtown as soon as humanly possible. A two hour car commute vs. 200 dollar per month GoTrain pass are not acceptable options.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 4 October 2002 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)

0-22 Mallorca, Spain
22 Notting Hill, London
23 Barcelona
24-27 Madrid
27- Mallorca

― joan vich (joan vich), Friday, 4 October 2002 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

hola joan. Yo tambien soy de Espa*a. (Aunque vivo en los EEUU) Creo que somos los unicos aqui en ILx. Que tal?

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

so since when we r trying to avoid googlers from España?

― vic (vicc13), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

dOOd i don't know how to make enyes!

uh... n~?

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

75 - 94 St. Louis, Misery
94 - 95 Warshington, DC.
95 - 00 Back in the Lou.
00 - 02 Westchester ghetto, NY

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

well wheres your keybord from? mybe they dont hve ñ in the US ones

― vic (vicc13), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Hewless Packurd

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven [just about] years old in [more or less] perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

hola gabriel y vic.
i guess i've seen someone else from spain contributing to some older threads, but yeah, it seems they're not there anymore.
whatever.
i'm glad to see you guys like tapas out there. hmmm. in two weeks i'll be in madrid again: unas tapas en el rastro y un vermut de grifo. that is heaven.

― joan vich (joan vich), Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Rangiora, Chch, NZ. Big ups to the Chch massive! (All two of us.) Yeah I always wanted to say that.

― Livvie, Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

george gossett is from chch too. and hamish and doorag count cos they used to live there.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 5 October 2002 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm glad to see you guys like tapas out there.

It's something that I discovered in San Francisco thanks to Esperpento. Then there was the tapas place in Seattle and my heart was forever given over to goodness.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 5 October 2002 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

0 Memphis, Tennessee
0-18 North Bellmore, New York
18 Annapolis, Maryland
18-19 North Bellmore, New York*
19 Santa Fe, New Mexico
19-20 North Bellmore, New York*
20 Annapolis, Maryland
20-21 Bay Shore, New York*
21 Annapolis, Maryland
22-30 Bay Shore, New York
30-31 New York City, New York

*Summers off from college, obv.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

You should be able to get a ñ on ILX or your own webpage with any keyboard layout by typing the following:
ñ


Don't forget the semicolon at the end or it won't work. If you want a capital Ñ (do they ever happen in Spanish? I dunno) then just capitalise the N at the start but not the rest:

Ñ

― hell, open a windle (reb), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(Yes, in the middle of entirely capitalised words, regardless of the correct answer to the question I was thinking it was equivalent to. DUH. Sorry 'bout that big space there too.)

― Rebecca (reb), Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm from Alexandria, VA.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 6 October 2002 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

And you'd need a capital Ñ every time you say "Ñyah nyah nyah" too.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm... but his computer got a ~ key. mybe you just need to press the ~ once and then press the n. thts how i do in mine anyway

― vic (vicc13), Sunday, 6 October 2002 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

my co durham accent is about as pronounced as alangs, although i can do a reasonable "hoy yer hammer ower here" and "are thes gannin doon tha bigg market"...

the idea of slicing me up for stotties appeal though for some bizzarre reason...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

im from southeastern pennsylvania, lived around philadelphia all my life. except three years of college in nyc. ill get back someday.

― amy (amy), Monday, 7 October 2002 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, the eventual goal is southern california. by way of grad school abroad, and maybe a short stint in brooklyn.

― amy (amy), Monday, 7 October 2002 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Grew up close to Detroit and now live very close to Detroit.

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 7 October 2002 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, the eventual goal is southern california.

Very wise. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, sez you. #>i&

I want to make my emoticon look like a drunken clown with a moustache. Why can't I do it, why?

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

<(8-$()X

(Clown with moustache and bow tie.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

1981- mt st helens, oregon...

tsk aw alright. london w10 all my years

― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 7 October 2002 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...
Hitchin, Letchworth, Colchester.

Why is there no mention of Letchworth on ILM? Disgraceful!

― dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Born in Bahrain, family left there when I was about 2

Moved to Cheltenham (Dad was with GCHQ). Family home still there.

Manchester Uni at 17 to to Mod Lang. Hated it. Dropped out half way through first year

Oxford Brookes Uni for three years, somehow emerged with degree in German and French despite partying too much and not doing nearly enough work

Melbourne, Australia for 2 years

Hong Kong for 4 years

Returned to Oxfordshire, where I now live happily in a little hobbit hole in depths of the countryside

― C J (C J), Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Sovici, Bosnia And Hezegovina. There you have it.

― robotchant (sine), Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Why didn't I see/do this before?

Not giving any dates coz then I'd have to stop lying about my real age.

Harlow, Essex (only to be born)
Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (only for a summer, though)
Cheshunt, again
Fairfield County, CT
Slingerlands, NY
Albany, NY
Queens, NY (LIC and Astoria)
London - Swiss Cottage, brief spells in Tooting, Harpenden Herts, Islington and now Hoxton

― kate, Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ILM in particular, dog latin? My exhousemate and her boyfriend were from Letchworth but I have never been there. This post is not interesting but it is another mention for you.

― Rebecca (reb), Saturday, 9 November 2002 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate, you're an Essex girl? It's not obvious.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheers for mentioning LETCHWORTH rebecca. Yes LETCHWORTH is not mentioned on ILM at all but LETCHWORTH is metioned about once on ILE. It really is about time people started mentioning the word LETCHWORTH at least once a sentence on ILX. After all LETCHWORTH is the world's first garden city and LETCHWORTH is an okay place to live and LETCHWORTH is slap bang inbetween Cambridge and London so LETCHWORTH must be quite a great town.
LETWCHWORTH!

Sorry, it's getting late. /coat

― dog latin, Sunday, 10 November 2002 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's assume any stay of about two months or more constitutes living somewhere.... I'm not even going to try to assign an age or date to these, although they are in roughly the right order:

Minneapolis
Rural Minnesota
Rural South Dakota
Colombus Ohio
New Jersey (too young to specify where.... close to NY city?)
Colorado
Park City Utah
Rural Oregon (mushroom farm)
Olympia Washington (convent)
Northern Minnesota (native american reservation)
Berkeley, CA
Minneapolis

― Dan I., Sunday, 10 November 2002 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

I was considering starting a thread called "Where are you from?" to discuss the question itself. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who can't easily answer the question.

Earlier, I was thinking about how as of next year, I will have been living in the Bay Area twice as long as I've lived anywhere since I was 11 years old. Yet I have always been a renter here, and it seems unlikely that I'll ever be able to buy property here. I don't know that many people and it kind of still feels like I just got here.

I was born in Chicago, so I have often answered the question with "the Chicago area" (if I just say "Chicago", and they are familiar with the city, they will immediately start asking me about certain areas, and I'll always have to explain that I haven't lived there since I was a kid and am not familiar with the geography, and then I'll feel like a putz for talking so giving them so much info about me in the first few minutes of the conversation).

Lately, I've just said "nowhere in particular", but that might even be worse than opening with specifics.

I don't even know what sports teams to root for. I always used to root for Chicago teams, but they all suck in the sports I like, and I really care less and less about being associated with the city in any way as I get older - even though I still have a lot of extended family there.

Anyone else have this problem, or even care about this sort of thing?

― Highly trained BBQ chef (rockapads), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

it's not where you from but where you at.

― carne asada, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 02:58 (fifteen years ago)

The longest (by far) that I've stayed in one place was the six years before, during, and after by last bout of uni. So that's usually what I answer when prompted. Much simpler than attempting to answer honestly.

― A Foul Night-Weird (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 03:18 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

West Oakland, CA. Currently residing in Berkeley and looking forward to going back to Lundun.

― Blancminaj (Spinspin Sugah), Monday, 31 May 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

Born in Portland, Oregon. I've lived either in or near it more or less all my life. Currently I live in a bedroom community south of Portland's city limits, but I've also lived in SE, NW and SW Portland at various times.

― Aimless, Monday, 31 May 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago)


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