Where do we live (again)

Yonks ago we had a thread about where the various regulars at this pub call home. In the last week or 2, some of our most recent members have been wondering where we all live. Rather than dig through 10 000 old threads looking for the one to revive, i thought of starting this new one. So can I invite anyone interested to tell us where they live?

I'm in the outer western suburbs of Durban, South Africa, at about 29° 45' S, 30° 50' E.

I'm in Canberra, the capital of Australia (that's right....it's not Sydney).

I'm in Wales, 10 miles south of Aberystwyth.

I'm in Malvern, (Not Quite Middle) England, 52:06:35N, 2:18:32W

Leicestershire, dead centre of England.

Seattle, Washington, USA - the northwest corner of the USA

Suburb of Minneapolis, MN - center north of the USA

Northfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A. New England, which I love (except in the winter).

Lidingö, just outside Stockholm, Sweden.

Amsterdam, the Netherlands (also known as Holland).
For the Geographically challenged: left top of Europe, just at the side of the North See, opposite to the UK.
Headquarters of Ikea, Nike and Rolling Stones.
Proud of its culinary products Kroketten, Haring met uitjes and Patatje Oorlog.
Famous for its Van Gogh museum, Anne Frank house and Red Light district (including the coffee shops where the weed is great and the coffeee lousy).
Notorious for its bicycles, beer and tramrails

Chicago, Illinois in the USA, north of downtown and about a mile and a half west of Wrigley Field. Home of the Obamas.

Outside of Seattle, Washington, in a suburb. Seattle is world known for Starbucks, Microsoft, Boeing and rain. Near me is Woodinville becoming world famous for wine.

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Thunder Bay is on the northwest shore of Lake Superior, one of the five Great Lakes. A major inland port, sitting in the middle of the Canadian Shield, population 120,000. The nearest community with more than 100,000 people is a 3.5 hour drive at highway speed away (Duluth, Minnesota). We're surrounded by a LOT of NOTHING. Or, to put it another way, the population density of northwestern Ontario, the part of the province in which I live, is considerably less than 1 person per square kilometre.

Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. A very small town in south central PA.

Nuuk, Greenland. The capital of Greenland, where summer has almost arrived. Have been living here for over a year and loving it.
Am from Denmark.

I'm in rural South Georgia, about an hour north of the Florida line. The population of the county I live in, the entire county, is approximately 12,000. It's not a bad place to live if you don't mind traveling to do anything! I can be at the Georgia coast in 1.5 hours, Atlanta in 3.5 hours, University of Georgia (GO DAWGS!) in 4 hours, and the North Georgia mountains in about 4.5 to 5 hours.

The nearest book store is approximately 45 minutes away. :(

Rochester, Minnesota.

Denver, Colorado, US. With a great view of the Rock Mountains.

Start spreading the news....New York, New York.

But originally from Houma, Louisiana an hour southwest of New Orleans.

I'm in the piedmont triad area of North Carolina, USA.
Home of Krispy Kreme, Maya Angelou, and Rosemary Harris who I saw shopping at Costco last weekend :o)

Wishing I were in England!

I live in Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada, which is on the east coast of Vancouver Island, about 186 kilometres (or 118 miles) north of Victoria, the capital of the province. Courtenay is nestled in the Comox Valley, we have the gorgeous Georgia Straight to the east of us, dividing the Island from the mainland, and then the Beaufort Range of mountains to the west where Mount Washington offers some pretty nice skiing (I'm told) in the winter. In the valley there are salmon rivers, wonderful farms, lots of wildlife and bookstores! - it's a beautiful place.

I'm in Hoorn, north of Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. But I am originally from Helmond, also in the Netherlands, but more in the south. Only about 200 kilometers, but a big difference ;)

I'm from Cheshire, England (about 65 miles from Manchester)

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, latitude 53N, longitude 113W. Capital city of the province. About 3 hours drive north of Calgary (which is a much inferior place, not that I'm biased or anything ;) ) and 4 hours east of Jasper National Park and the Rocky Mountains.

We're sometimes called "festival city" because the summer is one long string of great festivals - The Works (art), Street Performers, Capital Ex (midway and exhibition), Jazz Fest, Blues Fest, Cari-West (Caribbean), Heritage Days (local citizens with heritage from dozens of nationalities show off native cuisine (YUM) and culture), Celtic music festival, Edmonton Folk Music Festival (my personal favourite), and of course the first (and biggest) Fringe Theatre Festival in North America. And probably some I've forgotten.

I'm from Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Yorkshire, England.

Another UK resident here, living in Winchester, Hampshire (Central Southern England) - former capital of England.

Dalarna, Sweden. (2 hours drive north from Stockholm.)

I live in Victoria, southern Vancouver Island, on the Canadian West Coast. I can vouch for the wonderful skiing on Mount Washington! There's also a gorgeous view of the Georgia Strait and the mainland from the top. Totally unexpected the first time I skiied there; took my breath away.

24 - Tardis, I grew up in Fort McMurray! (4 hours drive north of Edmonton for those who don't know.) My parents live in Edmonton now and I haven't been back to Fort Mac in over a decade. But I remember going to Klondike Days in Edmonton as a wee one. Do you still have that?

I'm in rural Northern California on the west coast (only I'm about 4 hours away from the coast) of USA. Red Bluff, famous for... not much. But we're the home of the Red Bluff Roundup, which means something if you are a rodeo fan, the Western Open Fiddle Competition, and some sort of speed boat race thing which I've always heard, but never attended. We are on the Sacramento River and were big stuff in the days of the Gold Rush when the river was the fastest way to travel.

I'm just outside of Manchester in the north west of England. Famous for being rainy... except we are about fifth on the actual list of rainy cities in england.

28> K-Days is gone - they finally decided that the "klondike" theme wasn't working (and, frankly, it hadn't worked for some time before they finally admitted it) but they wanted to keep the midway and exhibition part so now it's called "Capital Ex" which is a dumb name, but I guess nobody could think of anything better. They still do the parade and the sourdough raft race, although I wouldn't be surprised if the raft race dies one of these years. I don't know if they can even run it this year - the river is pretty low.

My mum lives not far from you (relatively speaking, and as the crow flies LOL) on Salt Spring Island.

If you ever come to Edmonton to visit your folks drop me a message - we could meet for coffee or something. I don't think I'll be going west this year.

I currently live in southern New Hampshire, but I'm a Midwesterner born and raised and whenever I get down, I long to go back home to Michigan.

Middletown, New York, USA.
Famous for being approximately between NYC and Albany (New York state capital).

Dunning, Nebraska. North-central part of what is probably the most central of US states. We are in the Sandhills, a geographically unique area that takes up a big chunk of Nebraska's ranch country. (I taught for 25 years at Sandhills Public Schools). The 'Hills are grassed-over sand dunes that sit on top of the Ogallala Aquifer. We are semi-arid, with lots of natural lakes and ponds. (Sounds contradictory, doesn't it.)

We're a long ways from most everything, including any Nebraska city you've ever heard of (4.5 hours from Omaha). My doctor and my grocery store are in Broken Bow - 41 miles away.

We're famous for great beef (where do you think Omaha Steaks come from? Omaha? Give me a break!!) and wonderful people - just not very many of them.

Born and raised a Noo Yawkuh, but now live down the shore.

http://www.barnegat.net/

I'm near Houston, TX, US. :o)

Somewhere in between Philadelphia, PA and Wilmington, DE.

The Blue Mountains, a popular tourist destination west of Sydney, Australia.
It is home to the Wollemi Pine, one of the world's oldest trees (only rediscovered in 1994 and from fossil evidence it is thought to have existed 90 million years ago). We will soon be celebrating the Winter Magic Festival and apparently this year there will be a Zombie Ball,lol.

A bit west of Columbia, Maryland. Roughly equidistant from Washington, DC, Baltimore and Frederick, Maryland.

#31, ah tardis, I'm sad to hear Klondike Days are gone, when we lived in Cold Lake we used to come down and have a great time at the celebrations.

We're going to Salt Spring tomorrow, does your mom live in Ganges? I'll wave in her general direction as we walk through ;-)

Richmond, California, "City of Pride and Purpose." (West coast of the USA, part of the San Francisco Bay Area.) I think we're famous for Rosie the Riveter (women workers building ships during WWII.) There is a "Homefront" National Park in Richmond, which sounds more exciting than it is at the moment, because not too much of it has been developed yet.

40> I don't miss the Klondike theme - I liked it as a kid but as an adult it always seemed a bit lame. The Exhibition and midway was the bit I liked and we still have that. Not that I ever get to go anymore - my husband hates it and the kids wouldn't be caught dead going someplace like that with mum.

My mum's not in Ganges, not that anything is very far on Salt Spring. My stepsister and her husband live in Ganges, though. You can wave in their general direction (pick one - I haven't seen their new place yet so not sure exactly where it is LOL). Enjoy your visit. I always like going there. Too bad you weren't there today - they have a great Saturday farmers market. If you see any Sea Change tinned or packaged smoked fish (or other products) you should buy some - it's so good it's going into space with the latest batch of astronauts!

Upstate NY, in a small town where there is nothing to do and winter lasts about seven months. I spend a lot of time looking at other places to live and dreaming about the day when I can move.

On the positive side, I guess, is that I really do love my house. I just wish I could pick it up and move it to someplace else!

Closest thing of much interest is Cooperstown, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Nice town, but about an hour away.

Down the hill from #38 in Sydney, which dreams of being the capital city of Australia, but alas they built that is the sheep paddock...what were our forebears thinking....#2!

Lincoln, Nebraska. Practically the dead center of the country. Decently sized town - not too big, not too small. Go Huskers! But my fiance and I plan on moving to Omaha in August (where I was born & raised).

34> MerryMary
I think I've gone camping in the forest by Dunning. I've definitely driven through Broken Bow, Hyannis and Alliance. I love the Sandhills, and need to plan another roadtrip!

In retirement (after many hometowns along the way) across the Bay from San Francisco at Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, CA. (We have more than 9,000 residents over 55 and one description is "Summer camp for grownups all year 'round.")

Omaha. Its in the eastern part of Nebraska on the Missouri River very near the geographic center of the Lower 48 US states.

In the summer the city is blanketed in trees. In the winter it looks like death. I always love it.

Another Nebraskan heard from. Cool. I knew about goddessladyj, but not you, k_e_t. My daughter and her family live in Council Bluffs, just across the river in Iowa from you. If you can't live in the 'Hills, Omaha's not bad! ;-)

Panama City, the capital of the Republic of Panama, in Central America. A tiny strip of land smack dab between Costa Rica to the West and Colombia to the East, the Caribbean Sea to the North, and the Pacific Ocean to the South -- supposedly the only country in America that is right-side up and not laying on its side. ;)

Famous for the Panama Canal, one of the modern-day wonders of the world, and for its beaches... among other things, maybe. :P

Norf Lahndahn, mate. Born and raised.

More specifically, currently residing in a suburb called Southgate, the place that gave the world Amy Winehouse. I hope the world is grateful.

Canberra, Australia (like Dreamlikecheese).

Canberra is known for its four Ps - politicians, pot (marihuana - decriminalised in small quantities), porn/prostitution (legal under government regulation) and pyrotechnics (fireworks are legal here one weekend a year, but not otherwise).

#50 We'd have to balance that against booting Michael Portillo out of parliament and into a TV/radio career :-)

ETA: (A kind of "good news, bad news" joke at the time)

I think this thread is more dangerous than 'What are you reading now'. At least that thread only adds books to my TBR. This one is adding places to visit...much more expensive. :)

More surprisingly, it's stayed more-or-less on topic for over 50 posts with nary a smurf nor a roomba! ... but there are said to be SPITTING COBRAS down in the valley below us.

hfglen thanks for starting this thread. I was one of those newbies who seemed to prompt it. I jumped in pretty early with my nearest town and didn't get into anything interesting about it.
Let's think:Aberystwyth is home to the National Library of Wales; a university; at the end of a railway line (very popular for holidaying Midlanders); on the coast and as it is a university town some interesting stuff in the second hand bookshops and charity shops. I also like the local museum which is housed in an old theatre building.

I'm a Jersey girl... but not the American type! Jersey, Channel Island - about 100 miles south of England and much closer to France. Famous for....um... Jersey Royal potatoes? Jersey cows, Lily Langtree, Gerald Durrell, being occupied during WWII and just generally being a stunning place.

Yeah, I'm a little island proud, sorry!

Thank you, calm. Yes you were one of the prompts to what seems to be quite a popular idea.

And Durbs is famous for? All the inland people who come for our "spans of sea and sand and sun / and fush un the aquarium/ Thassa lekka place for a holiday", to quote Jeremy Taylor of a long time ago. I cackle quietly because every time the Gauties come en masse. the weather turns miserable until they go home. We also have Africa's busiest port, the place where Mahatma Gandhi grew up, a university and a gorgeous climate.

Lidingö is famous for being home to a lot of rich people, which means most people are prejudiced about anyone living there. Even when the majority of us are average-income people, living in leased flats.

People who've grown up here call it 'The Island', have a funny upper class dialect, and show utter disregard for any law as they cannot by any means be written to mean me.

;-)

Another of the prompts here.I live in Thessaloniki(alias Salonica),Greece,where summer is hot and humid and garbage heaps stink to high heaven.But I quite like the rathole.

#59 - ooh I've been to Thessaloniki - liked it.

#59 We have the same problem - everyone thinks Jersey is just full of rich people etc... they are here but are so so not the majority of us!

BekkaJo: Were you aware of Lily Langtree's prominent place in Texas history??

ETA: I think it is actually Langtry.

#60 It was not summer then.No one likes Thess. in the summer.Not even we mice.

I'm in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (UK), famous for it's ruined abbey, brewery, sugar factory, and Britain's smallest pub. It's also the birthplace of actor Bob Hoskins.

I'm in Melbourne, Australia :) I think we're famous for our un-predictable weather, which I dont think is really that unpredictable, but then again I've never lived anywhere else...

No Arizonians? Well there is now... Tucson, AZ home of The Nerds (filmed on the U of Arizona campus) and the place where Dr. McHottie had love trouble in the 1980's (Can't Buy Me Love was filmed at Tucson High School).

#56 "I'm a Jersey girl... but not the American type!"

I'm a Jersey girl....the American type. About an hour south of OldSarge, at the Jersey Shore.

I'm in Reston, Virginia, which is famous for being a planned community. I can paint my deck Oxford Brown or not at all. Luckily, I like Oxford Brown; it blends into the woodsy areas.

Reston is about 30 minutes from Washington, DC, except during rush hour, when it is about 1 hour from DC. Despite being in Virginia, it is not Southern.

I am in Middletown, CT which is the middle of the state.

I am in Woodsfield, Ohio...SE corner of the state on RT 78...about an hour from the WV border....not famous for a damned thing......the only reason i stay is that the house is paid for...and i love my farm...and the lack of neighbors.

Joining the other Brits I'm in a little village in Staffordshire which is about halfway between Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent which is famous for its Pottery factories or was considering how few are left nowadays.
There's nothing very famous around here but it's an alright place to live.

I'm in Kentucky, right at the point where Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia meet. This area is famous for . . . not much, as jdthloue says.

I currently live in a small village in NE France very close to the border of Luxembourg and Germany (where I work sometimes). In fact we're about 5 km from the Luxembourg village of Schengen where a very important European treaty was signed and where they also make some scrummy wine. But I also live about half of the week in Gustavsberg in Sweden, just East of Stockholm.

Reading all of these messages makes me realise that I really should try to settle down a bit as I've lived near quite a few of you at some time or another including Pennsylvania, Manchester, Netherlands, Paris and a few other towns/countries. At least we've been here nearly three years now.

#70 oh and I've often worked quite a distance from home so I've worked in two of the towns in your area both "Pottery factories" one of which is now a housing estate and the other is about to become so I know what you mean....

#61.... can't believe I spelt that wrong... I am so ashamed :/

In Seattle, Washington, just South of Woodland Park.

Apple Valley, Minnesota - southern suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul. (Technically a St. Paul suburb.)

I live in the North East of England, in a town called Doncaster in South Yorkshire.

#74 - Monohex, I was planning to send you a message today, haven't seen you post for awhile. Glad to see you are okay hun.

Minnesota! for a long time in Bemidji, but for the last 10 years south of the cities, currently in the country side several miles outside of town (nice and quite!)

Barry forgot to mention that Gustavsberg, where he lives one half of each week, is famous for it's china factory - at least in Sweden, where most people have no idea their tableware is no longer made there.

Also, and more fitting, an euphemism for vomiting is "hugging the Gustavsberger", suggesting another way to use porcelain ;-)

Howard, Ohio, USA. A very tiny town about 1.5 hours NE of Columbus (capital of Ohio). And I work in the next tiny little town over, Gambier, which has a lovely little college bookstore and a most delicious little deli.

Highland Park, Illinois, about 30 miles north of Chicago. Home of Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

I live in paradise, AKA Santa Cruz, CA.

31 - Tardis - If you do change your mind about coming out west, some of the PNW GDers will be meeting in Victoria the weekend of Sept 12. It'd be great to meet you too.

I will be going to Edmonton in August but at the moment we'll be only there a couple or three days and we already have to visit three households (Mom, Dad and brother). But maybe another visit when we can be there longer. Or if you are ever in Victoria let me know and we could meet up here.

82 - thanks! I'll keep it in mind, but unlikely I will make it in Sept. I know I'll be out that way in February, though - it's my mum's 80th birthday. Not the best time of year for a visit, but if I have a chance I'll let you know and maybe we can meet somehow.

As far as your trip to Edmonton - I hope you have a great visit with your family, even if it is short. If you do have any spare time (even breakfast is possible) let me know.

I live in a town called Dagenham, which is about an hour east of central London.

Blimey I hadn't realised how many northern englanders we had. Maybe we should have a North UK meetup in addition the GD european one in london!

I'm currently residing in a southern suburb of Manchester, having moved slowly northwards over the years. It definetly is colder and wetter than other places I've lived in.

79 scaifea

I haven't heard of Howard, but I've heard of Gambier. My mom grew up in Mt. Vernon and my sister and I went to college in Wooster :)

Like momom248 I live in the great (but small) 'Nutmeg' State of Connecticut. I live in an itty bitty town about 15 miles north of Hartford. (Mark Twain's chosen home.) I love it here, except I miss being near salt water. Like ejj1955 I'd like to move, but instead of picking up the house and relocating it, I'd like to take the entire town with me, and head right down to the Long Island Sound. LOL

To take off from Little Geek's comment, I live about a half hour north of paradise, (but that half hour is driving up and over a pretty big 'hill') in an area about 10 miles southwest of downtown San Jose, California.

@ Teazle (63)- I am unbelievably homesick right now thanks to you! ;) I grew up not far from Bury, and it is my most favourite place in the world! I'd give anything to be in the abbey gardens right now- enjoy them for me next time you see them...

As for me, I currently live on the third planet from the sun, known for its changeable climates, unique ability to support somewhat intelligent life, and its interest in intergalactic communications (the natives refer to this as "space travel"). It is mostly harmless.

I'm about an hour and a half east of BritAnnia, in the triangle rathe than the triad, in north central NC.

84 Neverbaby
I used to live in your corner of the world up until I married! We had homes in Chadwell Heath and Goodmayes, to be precise. My husband has relatives in Hornchurch, so we regularly visit the area.

I live in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark (just south of Sweden). Or to be more precise, one of those monied suburbs like Busifer mentioned, just up north of Copenhagen instead of Stockholm, named Søllerød. Not particularly known for anything interesting as far as I'm aware - the saying that describes the area is "Den der lever skjult lever godt" meaning "living quiet is living well" so probably for money and discretion:-)

#20 and #90 - I live between BritAnnia and Jim53 but south of both, in Pittsboro, NC. Definitely in the Piedmont.

I love where I live. After LA, acres and acres of land and no street lights are very appealing.

I am now realizing that not only would I rather live almost any place mentioned in this thread rather than where I am, I would also rather live any place I used to live than where I am.

>87 clamairy: That definitely includes shoreline Connecticut--I lived in Clinton, Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, and East Lyme. All nice but Old Saybrook was the best--I was a block and a half from an association beach and it was wonderful.

Here is . . . cheaper.

I'm currently living in York, UK, but I'm moving to Wolverhampton in October to get married. We hope to come back to York in a year or so. I'm originally from a little suburb in northern New Jersey. =)

#95 My wife is from a little suburb in Northern New Jersey called, appropriately enough, "Little Falls" - were you close to that?

ejj1955 I used to live in East Lyme & Madison, CT and I love it down there near the Long Island Sound--I would move back in a second.

It sounds like Long Island Sound would be a good place for a GD commune. :)

Columbus Ohio!!!!!

Oh littlebookworm! I dream of living in York some day. It was the first large UK town I went to and I fell in love. The Shambles! The city walls! York Minster! Clifford's Tower! *sigh*

#86 blue: Cool! Yep, Howard is just 10 minutes east of Mt. Vernon. Wooster is a lovely town, too. If you're ever in the area, let me know and we'll have a (very) mini-GD-get-together.

I loved living in New London and Old Lyme Connecticut, but lived in Bridgeport and didn't like it at all.

I’m a multi-city dweller. Memphis, TN (middle-southern USA, blues music, barbeque, Elvis, Beale Street)/Southaven, MS (right over the MS state border from Memphis, umm…there’s a really nice little used book store)/New Orleans, LA (way south in the USA, Jazz music, great food, Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, longest entirely over water bridge, nice aquarium)/Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil (an island in the southern part of Brazil, where I am currently living for 3 months to conduct research, has 42 beaches, a big surfing destination, really good seafood)

#77-readafew: My whole family (mom, aunt, sister, me, niece) have gone to summer camp near Bemidji, an all girls camp called Kamaji.

I used to live not far from JPB, about halfway in between San Francisco and San Jose. Now I live somewhere... cheaper. (thanks, 94 ejj1955!)

101 scaifea

I have no idea when I'll be in the area again - possibly Thanksgiving or Christmas. If I am and have time, I will definitely let you know :)

83 - Thanks, Tardis. And will do :o)

103 > impressive, most people have no clue what state Bemidji is even in, much less been there (outside of Minnesotans that is).

35 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia, Southern USA

littlebookworm and dreamslikecheese: There is a town in Nebraska, USA called York (I was born there). The boys' high school sports team is known as the Dukes.

Wellington, New Zealand. Which until 10 years ago was famous within New Zealand for being where the parliament and the bureaucrats were and for it's windy weather (nothing between us and Antarctica expect for a lot of sea), which makes winter Southerlies quite cold.

Now world famous for being where Peter Jackson is based and where LOR was filmed (as well as King Kong and Waterhorse). Now where the Hobbit will be filmed. Unfortunately while I have friends who work for Weta I am one of those bureaucrats, that the rest of the country loves to hate.

#96 Not extremely close, but I've been there and do know where it is, so close enough!

#100 That's how I felt when I was deciding where to go for grad school. I love it here; I love practically everything about it in fact and more so the longer I live here. =)

#109 I wonder if that town's founder was originally from York, England?

Could be. I'll see if I can find out.

The girls' sports team is called The Ducks. But that's another story.

Suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Home of the AFL (Australian Football League) team, West Coast Eagles.
31° 51' 50S, 115° 50' 43E (um, I think).

Rodeo, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA - not far from aviddiva and Esta1923.

aviddiva, my mother-in-law and her sister were Rosie the Riveters during the war!

BekkaJo, I've visited Jersey - I've been addicted to Gerald Durrell's books since I was a kid, so we had to visit the zoo!

chione, I've been to Thessaloniki too, when I was about twelve.

dreamlikecheese - I loved York too! York Minster is my favorite English cathedral, and I adore the York Museum.

Joiedelivre, I forgot you were a neighbor! My mom wasn't a Rosie, but my dad was stationed on a barge in the bay for a while during the war. I always wanted to visit Jersey because of Gerald Durrell, too, but so far I haven't gone.

TheOneTree, I'll be in Perth (actually Claremont) next week! Do you have any great bookstore recommendations?

I have lived in southern New Hampshire for almost 40 years.I love where I live. I live 40 minutes from Boston, 1 hour to the Lakes Region,40 minutes to Hampton Beach, 1 and 1/2 hrs. to the beautiful White Mountains. However, I grew up loving the Conn but mostly Rhode Island beaches. My family had a cottage in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. I miss it very much.

TheOneTree - where in Perth do you live? I lived in Subi, South Perth and Dianella, though I left 6 years ago. Was last there on a visit three years ago to see friends and to go to a wedding at Geraldton.

Aviddiva, there used to be a number of second hand books (Elizabeth Books) around the city and Freo, but the best one I found was Serendipity books (http://www.serendipitybooks.com.au/), though that in part is because I live the name.

One of these days Spicy Cat i would love to visit your country. I love to be outdoors. New Zealand is such a beautiful country. I have never been to that part of the world. My son and I want to go together very much.Very expensive though so we have to save our pennies. Hey I heard Air New Zealand is running an ad for their company on the tube where some of their employees have there clothes painted on with a catchy tune to go with it.I saw it here in the states Have you seen it?

I currently live in Augusta, Georgia. Famous for the Augusta National and the Masters golf tournament. It also has a minor league baseball team, The Augusta Green Jackets and had (up until earlier this year) an ice hockey team named the Lynx. Not that their obsessed with golf here.
It's a pretty decent place to live for about 9 months of the year but turns into the 7th ring of Hades in June, July and August.
Like Barry I'm pretty Nomadic. I'm from Bolton, near Manchester in the North West of England, and have also lived in Central Germany, Upstate NY (don't miss the 7 months of winter Ejji), Maryland and Southeastern Georgia.

#116 jewels, my father's family lived in Lowell, and when we visited them (a l-o-n-g day's drive from suburban Maryland on the roads we had then), we would often go to Hampton Beach.

I live very very close to Nitnat #44 in Sydney, Australia almost on the upper part of the Georges River.

#38 Imager - Wow! someone less than 12 hours away by 747

- apart from the people in the sheep paddock, of course - Canberra (or "can't borough" as one of our radio announcers used to like to call it).

I live in Austin, Texas USA.
I love living here, as it's one of the few places in Texas where all are welcome and very few are discriminated - which is what most of the state is like (grew up in Southeast Texas close to the Lousiana border...scarry down there, we lovingly call it the armpit of america)

eta - cause i don't really know where i live it seems

I'm in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Spicycat - only half the country hates your guts- the rest of us are, or have been bureaucrats at some stage :)

Currently into our 3rd week of alternating fog-frost-drizzle. (The fog is the most bonechilling) Very pretty going over the bridge to work tho.

I live in the UK, more precise, Bath in zummerzet country. It's a very nice place to live near with my husband and our chickens.

I used to live in Pilton, the home of THE Glastonbury Festival! My parents still get there ticket's for free, it's a 10 minute walk to the main entrance and they have a great time!

I am a zider drinker, I drinks it all of the time!

>116 jewels: & 120 I'm a couple hours away from Hampton Beach as well. When I was younger my parents would go on vacation out there at least once a year. I love the ocean!

>124 viciouslittlething: Chickens are great, my neighbor up the road lets his run and they are frequent visitors to my yard. So cute!

#121 David and Nitnat.......if I drag a few more people down from the mountains we should be able to organise our own Sydney GD get together!!

I understand the looooooooog drive Jim53. My son went to college in Washington,DC. The drive going down to bring his college gear was a killer.I had to bring my daughter to school in Pittburgh,Pa from NH that was even tougher. I love the DC area especially Northern Virginia.

aviddiva - my two favourite book stores are in the CBD, White Dwarf Books and the other is Fantastic Planet, they have everything Fantasy or Fantasy Science Fiction, everything I like anyway. I find it difficult to get in the door without buying at least one book, let alone getting out. Welcome in advance (back?) to Perth!

http://www.librarything.com/venue/26963/Fantastic-Planet

http://www.librarything.com/venue/39501/White-Dwarf-Books

Spicy Cat - I can’t believe it. I’ve lived in Kelmscott, Scarborough, Balga, Wanneroo, Orange Grove & Ballajura. But from age one to seven, I lived in Shirley, Christchurch. I haven’t been back to NZ for 23 years, and I miss it dearly. My OH is an Aussie, so here we stay. What took you to NZ if you don’t mind me asking? Gero is almost as windy as Wellington!

I like Elizabeths book store too. It’s across the road from His Majesty’s theatre in Perth.

http://www.librarything.com/venue/39502/Elizabeth%E2%80%99s-Bookshop%2C-Perth

I’m was a public servant once, a long time ago. Hard way to earn a living ;-)

Apologies in advance if the addresses posted here don’t work. If they don’t, you can find them by going to my profile, and clicking on the links there.

I live in Webster, South Dakota. It is in the middle and north of the U.S.. Webster is in the Northeast corner of the state. South Dakota is home of the Black Hills, Sturgis and Mount Rushmore. They are both on the opposte side of the state than me though. In this corner we don't have much of anything...including people. We have great fishing and hunting, many lakes and campgrounds, and not much of anything else. Our population is only 2,000 people and we are the county seat. Think the middle of nowhere...

I live in Purple Valley just outside of Wiarton, Ontario, Canada, which is just a couple hours northwest of Toronto on the beautiful Bruce Peninsula where rocks and fossils abound and cars don't need to signal because everybody is either going to town or coming home but you have to train vehicles to watch for cows and horses on the road.

jewels they have just created a new safety video for the internal flights that does the 'bare essentials'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Mq9HAE62Y

TheOneTree I grew up in NZ, we moved here when I was 2 (well my Mum was a Kiwi, she just had to convince my English father to come here). I moved to Perth in 1996 with my Geology degree, in 1996 the price of gold went through the floor and Geologist were being laid off left right and centre. So I ended up doing other work. In 2002 I faced up to the reality, stay in Perth and buy a house or move back to NZ. So i blew my savings on a fantastic trip to Europe and moved back to NZ!

#65 I'm originally from Peoria, Arizona (suburb of Phoenix for those of you who don't know), I moved to Michigan 7 years ago, 2 months ago we moved to Lansing..

SO "hometown" Lansing, Michigan.....for now ;)

I live in a village that is actually a private development/club, surrounded on all sides by the Los Padres National Forest, in Kern County, California, USA -- north of Los Angeles, south of Bakersfield. The US Postal Service decreed that we are a subdivision of Frazier Park, which is 15 miles (by road) away. "Greater" Frazier Park covers Quite A Bit Of Territory. It's gorgeous here, but really inconvenient for lots of things like medical care, banking, etc. Oh, did I mention that the Post Awful won't deliver to the street address? Everyone is required to rent a mailbox at the substation......

I'm originally from a small town in Texas called Dimmitt (it's in the Panhandle, on US 385).

>133 PkrImperatrix: Pkr, my sister has the same restriction of having to rent a post office box--she lives in Smallwood, a subdivision of Bethel, NY, famous as the place the so-called Woodstock concert actually occurred in 1969. The farm that used to belong to Max Yasgur, plus some surrounding land, now features the lovely Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center, as well as a Woodstock museum. Great concert venue; I haven't been to the museum yet.

I live just outside Edinburgh in Scotland :)

#133 It's quite common in South Africa. The then-new suburb I lived in when still in Pretoria still has boxes only. Here we had boxes only when we arrived, but they started street delivery about 18 months ago; it still isn't widely popular, and we've kept our box, though the rental has gone up 5-fold because of street delivery.

It's great to have our new members contributing here, welcome all!

#43 isn't that the truth - but then Cooperstown is about an hour from almost everywhere up there :) (being from 45 min across the mountains from there)

Oh and I guess I should address the actual query - I am currently residing in Toledo, Ohio (top NW corner) but hail from small town upstate NY (yes about 45 min. from Cooperstown) or half way between Binghamton and Albany - and indirectly (via parents) from Bayshore Long Island and Folkestone England (SE corner) respectively - as well as stints in Denmark (Frederikshavn - all the way north and Copenhagen) so a little here and there but mainly NY and Ohio now

#127 jewels, which DC college did your son attend? I went to Catholic U. in NE.

#140.We looked at Catholic U when we were college hunting in DC.The Basilica there is beautiful. He had all intentions to go to GW(George Washington University. However when we went up to Tennleytown to check American University that was it. It is a beautiful campus and great school. He lives in the Van Ness area of the city now and works about three blocks from the White House. I head down that way often and have really gotten to know the area.

#124- I loved Bath. Reminded me so much of the books that I read when I was younger and everyone went to Bath "to take the waters".

#126 anything is possible. We have three little GDs that insist on coming along everywhere we go!

#135 - I loved Edinburgh too. I found out AFTER I was there that I still had family living there. I had no idea they were there, which was really disappointing, but I think goes back to the family leaving Scotland and moving to Australia, leaving behind one daughter. They never talked about it.

>142 nitnat: Ditto for me on Bath and Edinburgh. One of the fun things in bath was being in the same building where one of the scenes from the film "Persuasion" was shot and having that pointed out to me--it was the long hallway that Captain Wentworth walked down at the concert, I believe. The baths were pretty spectacular, too!

I did some genealogical research in Edinburgh, which was fascinating. I found the street address for my great-grandfather's family in Glasgow but unfortunately went to Edinburgh after I'd been to Glasgow, so couldn't go check it out. Lovely city, though.

#133, #134, #136

Here in Panama we can only dream of street delivery. :) Either you rent a postal box from the government or you are not able to receive mail. Period.

I do feel spoiled in this: I can open my front door and get the mail from the mailbox without even leaving the house!

#142 Like you and how many tens of millions in the ex-Empah, I also still have (distant) relatives in Edinburgh. I've even visited them, and used to correspond at ever-increasing intervals.

#124, #142 & #143 - I've been to Bath! Loved it. After all these centuries the water still looks inviting. :o)

I was brung up in God's Own City (aka Liverpool - you all know where that is!)

Now in the green and lush county of Devon, but in the largely untrampled eastern end, close to the Somerset border, the 'unknown corner' :-)

Born in Fair Lawn, NJ; move to Ramsey, NJ when I was 9.
I went to college, married, and lived in Saranac Lake, NY for a couple of years.
My wife and I (sometime separately) rented living quarters in Prospect Park, North Haledon, Ho-Ho-Kus and Bloomfield (all in NJ) before we bought a house in Bloomfield. We lived there for 6 years before I took a job in Austin, Tx., 20 years ago. I've lived in this house/home/library for 20 years now. It's in Round Rock, less than a half-mile from the border with Austin, and 20 miles north of the city proper. The egos of the local city management have always referred to Austin as a suburb of Round Rock.

The first thing we did after all our possessions were in safely inside (and bed(s) were set up) was to get Library Cards.

>133 PkrImperatrix: Pkr, it's not that uncommon even in the more heavily inhabited areas of the U.S. I have lived in areas where that was the way it was.

>124 viciouslittlething:, 135 - Another lover of Bath and Edinburgh - I visited them both as a teen, and would love to go back. Though I understand they don't let you "drink the waters" in Bath anymore? Did they ever solve that problem?

#124, 135, 150. I third bath as a great place to visit. But Clam, when I saw the Roman Bath I couldn't help wondering what life forms were breeding in there (now there's a premise for a spooky sf tale!). And I'd love to go back and look at the trees in Edinburgh Botanics again!

#149 mike, you remind me of a good friend who grew up in the tiny coastal village of Isipingo, now hemmed in by factories, an oil refinery and the sea. He often refers to Durban (pop. some 3-million) as "that suburb on the northern fringe of Isipingo".

#151 Some years ago there was a BBC radio drama about some ancient evil lurking beneath (and causing?) the hot springs at Bath. I have a vague memory of it being based on a book, and it was very good, but I don't remember what it was called.

Anyone know what it was?

#153 Dunno about the ancient evil; i was thinking of the assorted bacteria from the various specimens of diseased humanity that have passed through the Roman bath in the last 2000 years ...

@154: *grossgrossgrossgrossgross*

Planet - Earth
Hemisphere - Southern
Continent - Africa
Country - South Africa
Province - Gauteng
City - Pretoria

I live just outside Cape Town, also in South Africa.

Would like to visit Bath some day, but listening to Hugh, I'm having second thoughts. . .

Yay! More South Africans!

*waves flag*

#156 Emily, Bath is a wonderful and very beautiful place to visit. You don't *have* to get wet doing so. But I'd avoid the water in the Roman Bath like the plague, for abovementioned reasons, plus I have a thing about the products of corrosion in lead pipes. The plumbing for the Roman bath includes some lengths of 2000-year-old Roman lead pipe ...

Bath's baths. Have been totally redone, it's all wonderful now. It cost millions was subject to years of delays, subcontractor over-runs and arguments, but is now a first class public sauna type place, still using the natural waters. here my mum's been, and was very impressed.

#148 we've almost swopped places. I was born in Somerset and am now in Manchester

Hi. I live in Marblehead OH, at the tip of the Marblehead peninsula on the shores of beautiful Lake Erie. To those of you who preferred Bath before it was updated, I extend a welcome to the beaches of beautiful Lake Erie.

@154/155/158: The water in the baths is continually refreshed and cleaner then your average swimming pool (and in many cases drinking water). Remember, the water comes from springs and is more then 10000 years old rain dripping through earth before it ends in the baths. Over 1 million litres of mineral-rich water flow from the thermal springs each day, at an average temperature of 45°C or 113°F.

Just outside Cambridge, UK!

Haugesund, Norway. A town on the West coast.

The only claim to fame the area have is the fact that the copper used in the Statue of Liberty came from a mine on a island nearby.

#160 My husband is from Sandusky. Marblehead is lovely but I think the water in the Roman Baths is probably cleaner than Lake Erie!

Just to return to the mail box thing, many places in Australia are too remote to make having a PO Box in town a suitable option. Some people are so far out they don't go to town more than 2 or 3 times a year so they need to have their mail delivered (as it is they may still drive for over an hour from their house to reach the main road where their mail box is located).

As far as I'm aware, if you have a street address in Australia, they will deliver. I found this information on the Australia Post web site:

"Australia Post operates the world’s longest mail run. It’s 3000 km long and goes from Port Augusta in South Australia to south-central Queensland. This run delivers mail to only 88 addresses."

Now that's a mail run!

I've lived in Orange County, California my whole life, but in a few weeks I'm moving up to Humboldt County. Hooray, redwoods!

Anyone from Huntsville, AL. I've been hear a little over a year and would like to talk with other Huntsvillians(?).

I'm another one living in Manchester, England (and yes, south side too!). Maybe we SHOULD have a north of England meet-up sometime :D

I thought cD was from in or around Huntsville.

#168 well until we get that organised, the London meet is only 2hrs away by train, so you could daytrip it, if you don't feel like staying overnight.

#170 I wish... London gives me panic attacks. Too many people for my crowd phobia, and I'm too easily damaged/worn out. (I have fibromyalgia and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.) I appreciate the invitation though.

I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota and about five blocks away from St. Paul, Minnesota. It's really not as cold here as people say, esp. right now.

I live between Saugatuck and Holland, MI, USA... hold out your right hand, palm facing you, now find the top of the bottom quarter on the left side of your hand, on the edge, that's where I live. I've just told you a huge Michigan secret... hopefully no one comes after me!

What we're known for? Holland is one of the most conservative places in the US and Saugatuck is a summer resort for wealthy gays... yeah, it's fun!

>159 reading_fox:
ReadingFox, that looks amazing. I want to go there now!

I currently live in San Francisco, California, but may be re-relocating to Portland, Maine sometime in the not-too-distant future.

I was brung up in God's Own City (aka Liverpool - you all know where that is!)

Now in the green and lush county of Devon. But I'm expecting all the expatriate Scousers (of which there are legions) to come out of the woodwork and wave.

Well that was an interesting message wasn't it?? What the heck is going on?

Ok so What #177 actually said before it mysteriously disappeared was; I'm the daughter of two scousers but I only lived there for a few months (when I was 5). As most of my extended family lived there (still do), I did spend a fair amount of time there growing up. They still like to pick at me for getting sick on the landing stage waiting for the Ferry.

>175 kgriffith: I will be in your lovely city in just a few days! Excited, me, never!!

I hope you enjoy it immensely; it is a wonderful, wonderful place. :)

Thank you!

#178
It's a floating landing stage! (or was). Being sick there is allowed!

I always loved the scouse humour - like the bus driver who when asked "Does this bus stop at Pier Head?", replied "Well if it doesn't, we'll all be very wet". Lol.