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digi · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:51 am Post subject: Location, Location, Location

So, this has probably been done before, but I'm wondering where everybody hails from. [!?]

I myself sit on my ass in the general area of Kelowna, BC, Canada.

[anybody slummin it in our nation's capital? i'm headed there this weekend and am curious about any TGQ relevant sights and spots]
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I am in the San Francisco Bay Area. Namely, uh, Oakland, right now.

Before that, I was in San Francisco. Before that, I was in central Maine. Before that, I wasn't anywhere!
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Louisiana. Woooo! Calcasieu Parish, to be exact.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Location, location, location

VA
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Yes.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

I'm from eastern Tennessee. I wouldn't recommend it. Now I'm living in northern Virginia. I would recommend it!
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sediment · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:54 am Post subject:

Riverside, IA.
before that, Richmond Hill, GA.
before that, Ft. Leonard Wood, MO.
pre that, McComb, MS.
Schtammheim, Bavaria, Germany
Hawthorne, CA
Junction City, Kansas
San Antonio, Texas
Anchorage, Alaska
Hampton Roads, VA
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Kangaroo, AU
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The Great Unwashed · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject:

Kangaroo is not a town Cycle, stop lying to the outsiders.

Unless it is.

Perth, Western Australia, in the house.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

From Atlanta/Alpharetta/Athens, Georgia

Now and for any forseeable future: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Live in Northeast, teach in Southwest. I hate my commute.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Stafford, England

bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

Bay area of California, namely Santa Clara.
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FortNinety · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:35 am Post subject:

The Big Apple. I just ate the worm.

boojiboy7 · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject:

Northwest side of Cleveland, Ohio.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Currently, and for the foreseeable future, I'm in the Chicago Suburbs.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Houston, Texas.
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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:54 am Post subject:

yay area

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mslano · . Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Chicago

I've been in Chicago since August for grad school. I'm not quite a fan of the city just yet, though everyone is excited by the fact that I live there.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Possible corollary to this thread: What's your favorite place to have lived, and why?

San Francisco is the first place I ever actually chose to live, and I immediately fell in love with it. Now whenever I ride the escalator up from the BART station and see the buildings of Market Street rise before me, it's like being wrapped in a warm blanket and given a head massage.

Despite the rampant and aggressive homeless problem and the too-rich-for-you attitude to most of the other people wandering around (talk about class division), and the way-too-high prices, the place just has such an atmosphere to it. A sense of place and history and vibrancy. Anything you want that isn't a videogame, you can find with a minimum of effort at pretty much any time. At least two corner shops per block, each of which with its own distinct wares. Keep going and you'll find what you want. Perfect temperature and weather, year-round. It's green. It's quirky. It's sexy. It's a city where Democrats are considered ultra-conservative tyrants. And for all its weirdness, MUNI is by a running leap the best bus system I've experienced.

Every time I go back there, I feel inspired. I am truly in love with the place, and I probably always will be.

Oakland... not so much.
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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:26 pm Post subject:

booj come back we have ot spend more time in san francisco

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sediment · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:59 am Post subject:

My favourite location (thus far) is definitely Germany.

it's kind of hard for me to succinctly describe why. i was young, so i was probably impressionable but even then i was very struck by the countryside, and how accessible so much history and so many other places were- with the US, everything's so young and so far away because white people steamrolled a thousand insular, small cultures and built weird little shantytown versions of their homelands in their places. Comparatively, Germany - and specifically Bavaria - was tremendously cozy and full of friendly people. In retrospect it might help that I'm white and blonde. And friendly.

Savannah's not bad, either. It's definitely a lot less violent than Atlanta, and is something of a goodish sign of development in the south. Sadly I haven't actually lived in Atlanta, only visited.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

friedchicken · . Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 496 Location: Port Land, OR

I live in southeast Portland, OR. Before that, it was Washington, DC, and before that (for many many years) it was Baltimore, MD-- specifically Towson, MD, for those Maryland enthusiasts out there.

Portland is by far my favorite place I've ever lived-- and I say this in the midst of the six months of drizzle we get here every year. It's totally walkable/bikeable, it's really clean and the air is breathable, and best of all there are so many vegan/vegetarian restaurants that I can afford to never go to some of them because I don't like the food. Oh, and it's cheap and fast to fly to LA or SF, or to drive to Seattle or BC!

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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I live a few minutes from the Gulf of Mexico, and I've found that not being around water bugs me as well. I feel trapped whenever I fly anywhere and see nothing but land below me. It would be nice if we had more than Hot and Hot with Humidity for seasons though.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

daphaknee · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

fuck seasons, i miss berkeley though

maybe someday ill move back

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Berkeley is pretty tight. I've lived there twice (growing up and then for a brief period after college). It's too bad that housing is so ridiculously expensive there.

Other places I've lived:

Santa Cruz - Great place to live for a short-ish period of time, like when you go to college. I couldn't stay there much longer though. Too much of a small town. There's also a real weird social split, where you have a pretty divided community along these lines: students, aging hippies, locals of the following varities: normal, white-trash, surfers and the various Mesoamerican immigrant communities.

El Cerrito - A small, quiet city of old people* with one main drag; however, it's on the BART line and right next to 80/580/880, which makes it extremely easy to get around. My wife's commute to Santa Clara actually go better even though we moved 6 or so miles further away just because we're so close to the freeway.

* - Signs that you live in an aging city: when the top two issues in local politics are the senior center and the library system.

daphaknee · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:04 am Post subject:

scratchmonkey, you need to come out for the russian party in may

mslano · . Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Chicago

sarsamis · . Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

Southwest side of Chicago.

Like mslano, I also go to UIC, but I live kind of distant from it. Takes around 45 minutes to an hour to get there every morning via CTA, but that's with the time spent waiting and such included.

elvis.shrugged · . Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Stratford, CT

I live in Stratford, Connecticut. It's a nice, mid-size town about 45 minutes from NYC (though I've never been there for some reason) and about twenty from New Haven (CT's best city, IMO, and where I go to school).

I've never lived anywhere else. Though I do want to travel, I doubt I could live anywhere else besides New England.

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Various Boston Suburbs.
Moved around a lot as a kid, but Cleveland (Euclid) was it for me in middle school and high school, so that's my honorary hometown, when convenient.
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