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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)

Skipping 121 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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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