Soooo... Where are you from?

[not1not2]

Thought it'd be interesting to see where everyone was from, so I started this thread.

I currently reside in Jefferson City, MO, USA. I'll be moving to Columbia, MO in August.

Sooo... where are you from?

_/\_
metta

[YogaMama]

Get out of here! I am in Blue Springs, MO. Small world. My aunt and cousins live in Columbia. Have you always lived here? My husband and I moved here from Phoenix, so it's been quite an adjustment!

Will you be going to school in Columbia?

[not1not2]

Get out of here! I am in Blue Springs, MO. Small world. My aunt and cousins live in Columbia. Have you always lived here? My husband and I moved here from Phoenix, so it's been quite an adjustment!

Will you be going to school in Columbia?

I grew up in St. Louis, went to school at Truman State (in Kirksville) and moved down to the Columbia/Jeff City area with my wife. I work in Jefferson City for the Dept of Revenue. We're moving up to Columbia because a friend of ours bought a duplex and we'll be renting from him and sharing a 4 bedroom duplex with another friend. Our friend who owns the duplex lives in a 2 bedroom accross the hall. So we'll all have a little mini-commune where we can buy in bulk, garden and share utilities (and high speed internet too).

Also, Columbia is a great town. Downtown is great during the warmer months. They have a good sitting group there too.

Good to know I'm not alone here in MO.

take care

_/\_
metta

[YogaMama]

How neat! Your little mini-commune sounds great. There was another member on here that lived in Lees Summit, but he has not been on this site for a while. Good to know I am not the only Buddhist left in Missouri...it sure feels like that sometimes! :)

[Elohim]

not1not2,

Born: Detroit, MI
Moved: Warren, MI
Moved: Roseville, MI
Moved: Hazel Park, MI
Moved: Detroit, MI
Moved: Warren, MI
Moved: Pineville, KY
Moved: Warren, MI
Moved: Santa Cruz, CA

Jason

[questZENer]

I like Elohim's format:

Soon: San Francisco, CA
Currently: Los Angeles, CA (a.k.a., Urbanopolis)
Via: Austin, TX
Via: Soria, Spain
Via: Olympia, WA
Via: Oklahoma City, OK

[Looking for Answers]

Born in Hyannis, MA
Lived in Harwich, MA
moved to Hyannis, MA
moved to Orleans, MA
moved to Hyannis, MA
moved to Boulder/ Colorado Springs, CO
moved back to Hyannis,
moved to Dennis, MA
moved to Yarmouth, MA
moved to Knoxville, TN
currently in Morehead City, NC

[dawn&mike_239]

Mike, myself and our wonderful (most of the time) two year old Amaya are from a little town called Statesville in North Carolina. We were actually both born and raised here. I moved to Charlotte for a brief period but ultimately decided Statesville was nicer. I don't really do well in a big city. I guess I'm just a small town girl - just call us Jack & Dianne!!! Sorry, my humor gets really dry when it gets late. :crazy: Looking for Answers, we are pretty close I think, that's really cool. Anyway, it's past my bedtime now so may all of you be well.
-Dawn

[federica]

Born: Bromley, kent, UK
Moved: Milan - three years
Moved: Rome - two years
Moved: bromley, Kent five years
Moved: Chelsea, London - 3 years
Moved: twickenham Middlesex UK - 7 years
Moved: Hounslow, Middlesex, 1 year
Moved: Farnborough, Hampshire, UK - 2 years
Moved: Aldershot, ditto ditto - 15 years
Moved: France - 6 years and counting...

I guess you could call me fairly cosmopolitan... A true European if ever there was one....!

EDIT NOTE: I missed out a load of years in my County of Birth - !!

[Padawan]

Born: Croydon, South London, UK.
Moved: Chatham, Kent, 1986.
Moved: Faversham, Kent, 1988.
Moved: Dartford, Kent, 1990.
Moved: New Ash Green, Kent, 1992.
Moved: Mottingham, South London, 1994.
Moved: Forest Hill, South London, 1995.
Moved: Sydenham, South London, 1996.
Moved: Bermondsey, London, 1999.
Moved: Lewisham, South London, 2001.
Soon: (I hope!) Bromley, Kent......

[colleen]

not sure!

[colleen]

tehe...
well last time i checked i live in a box that resides in lil village in ontario
canada..
think brigid and i are one of the few canadians..

would rather live in the hot south.. may one day
but for now i make the best of the four seasons..

[Airmech]

Bedford in England at the moment but ive been around.

Nicest place I have memories of when I was a kid was Sardenia, lovely place.

[MrsKarmadillo]

Born: Huddersfield, Yorkshire UK.
Moved: Newcastle (Poly). 1989
Moved: Back to Huddersfield, 1990.
Moved: Altrincham, Cheshire 1996.
Moved: Back to Huddersfield, 1996 *yawn!*.
Moved: Birmingham, UK. 1997-now!
Aiming for: Secluded finca on a mountain somewhere in Southern Spain...... well, I can dream.... :)

[Xrayman]

Here. And never moved from here-boring.

[Magwang]

Born: London Ontario Canada
Moved: Toronto Ontario Canada
Moved: Vancouver British Columbia Canada
Moved: Adrian Michigan USA
Moved: Rochester Minnesota USA
Moved: Georgetown Ontario Canada
Moved: Guelph Ontario Canada

[gregc]

I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent ALOT of time in Warsaw, Poland with my family. I live in Baltimore though.

[angulimala]

born bandung,indonesia
in 2000 temporarily working surabaya for a year
2001-now back to my hometown
love my hometown, could be paradise on earth if we dont make mistake

[federica]

Born: Croydon, South London, UK.
Moved: Chatham, Kent, 1986.
Moved: Faversham, Kent, 1988.
Moved: Dartford, Kent, 1990.
Moved: New Ash Green, Kent, 1992......

Soon: (I hope!) Bromley, Kent......

A kent baby! Like me!!
When you get to Bromley, Go to West Wickham, visit kelsey park, and see the chinese garage...
if they are both still there....
kelsey park and me had a fun childhood together!

[sharpiegirl]

born and raised in a little village called, Youngstown, New York. It's located on the tip of Lake Ontario and the Niagara River.
For one year I lived in the city of Buffalo, but missed the quiet, peaceful, and beautiful village. So I moved back.

[Simonthepilgrim]

Born: Welbeck Street, London W.1, UK
Lived: Harley Street, ibidem.
and Dieppe, Normandy
plus travel.

4 years at: Brasenose College, Oxford
1 year at: Grenoble University.

1968-1988:
Warwick, UK
Juniper Green, Edinburgh
Leamington Spa, UK
Maidenhead, UK
London, UK:
Richmond (Surrey)
Teddington (Middlesex)
Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove
West Hampstead
Paris (XIXe)
Plus travel.

1988-date: Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK

[buddhafoot]

When you get to Bromley, Go to West Wickham, visit kelsey park, and see the chinese garage...


The old, dilapitated garage where Freddie lost her... um.... you know...

Is that old, smelly mattress still there?

-bf

[Palzang]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm from my mother!

Palzang

[Michelle]

Michigan

Namaste,
Michelle

[Brigid]

Venus.

[federica]

.....Many a true word spoken in jest.... ;)

[buddhafoot]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm from my mother!

Palzang

She told me she found you under rock.

Hmmmm...

-bf

[buddhafoot]

Better to have known one sweaty afternoon of passion in an old Chinese garage than to spend a lifetime in opulent boredom.

-bf

[federica]

That's sooooo wuuuuude!

[Palzang]

She told me she found you under rock.

Hmmmm...

-bf

Hudson?

[Palzang]

Venus.

Well, that proves it then...women are from Venus, and men are from... their mother!

Palzang

[Brigid]

LOL!!!

[Palzang]

However, on a relativistic, mundane level, I was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. Ever heard of it?

Palzang

[buddhafoot]

However, on a relativistic, mundane level, I was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. Ever heard of it?

Palzang


Yup.

Born in Hammond.

Raised in Gary and East Chicago.

-bf

[YogaMama]

Definitely know of Rockford. Have you heard of Byron? I went to high school there. My dad moved us all there when I was a freshman because he was responsible for starting up and running the AO Smith plant in Rockford.

[Sabine]

Augusta, Georgia, USA - Home of the annual Masters Golf Tournament and Garden City of the South.
Also, the birthplace of James Brown - hence the city's new motto, "We Feel Good!" - as well as Jessye Norman, Hulk Hogan, and Laurence Fishbourne.
Also, to most high schoolers in the state, known as "Disgusta." (We have our reasons.)



The funnest city in Georgia.




Note the sarcasm there. There is REALLY nothing around here unless you're a rich golf fiend, you live on "The Hill" - the expensive, former historic summer-house part of town -, and you're part of the Augusta Country Club.

[Palzang]

Definitely know of Rockford. Have you heard of Byron? I went to high school there. My dad moved us all there when I was a freshman because he was responsible for starting up and running the AO Smith plant in Rockford.

Hasn't Byron been replaced by a humongous nuclear power plant? And it used to be such a nice, quaint place...

Palzang

[YogaMama]

Yes, there is a huge nuclear power plant there, but Byron still "exists". :) I am glad I don't live there anymore.

[Palzang]

Yeah, that whole area is a lot different than when I lived there - and not for the better!

Palzang

[Jizo Bosatsu]

A city called Regina (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Regina&om=1)in the province of Saskatchewan in Canada.

[x_natalie_x]

I live in the United Kingdom.. England in a place called Hertfordshire

[Iawa]

tehe...

would rather live in the hot south.. may one day
but for now i make the best of the four seasons..

Be careful what you ask for, from what I understand Canada could soon be having Texas like summers.

I was told I manifested this animalia form in a place called Southern California. I've arrived at various places in time in locations called Albequerqe, NM, Bremerton, Wa; Great Lakes, IL; Orlando, FL; Hawaii; Philipines; Australia; Mombasa, Kenya.

I'm raising a family near a place called Dallas, TX.

I'm currently, wherever you're reading this.

[MrsKarmadillo]

Welcome Natalie

I'm just over here in sunny Birmingham :)

Sas :buck:

[Simonthepilgrim]

Welcome, all!

We've got enough British members to think of planning a garden party! (Sorry. The onset of summer has addled the ageing brain)

[Brigid]

Hi, Natalie!!

Welcome!

Brigid

[comicallyinsane]

Born Pomona, CA

Moved Rialto, CA
Moved Fontana, CA
Moved Rialto, CA
Moved Las Vegas, NV
Moved Porterville, CA
Back in Las Vegas, NV


Future: To some beach on the pacific coast, I hope!!!!

[buddhafoot]

Welcome, all!

We've got enough British members to think of planning a garden party!


Easy Ricky... you're dating yourself.

-bf

[Hodgetts]

Worcester, West Midlands, England. Always intended on moving somewhere colder though, this country is quite often too hot for me and far too crowded although immigration makes that concept seem quite impossible these days.

[Craig]

born in texas, raised in the pacific northwest and living in oklahoma

[Adiana]

I was born in Melbourne, Florida but I lived on base at a lot of different Air Force bases that I can't remember the names of since my dad was in the Air Force. I have also lived at Tachikowa (SP?) Air Force Base in Japan---I was six years old, so I really don't remember that much about it. My family and I also lived at Clark Air Force Base in the Phillipines---I was a toddler then so I definitely have no real memories about living there, either! LOL! Other than these two times we were stationed overseas, Dad was stationed pretty much on the eastern side of the U.S.
Dad was stationed at Charleston Air Force Base in Charleston, South Carolina but we lived in a dinky little town called Great Falls, South Carolina. While there, I attended high school for three years and I graduated in May of 1975 (yeah, I am telling my age, here!). Dad retired from the Air Force after I graduated and we then moved back to Florida, living in a little town called Dundee, Florida. There was nothing there but orange groves! After about six months in Dundee, I got a job at Walt Disney World as did my dad and we all then moved to Orlando where I met my first husband, Norman. Norman and I got married in 1979 and after Norman's death in 1992, my two oldest kids (who are now 26 and 24) and I decided to move to Daytona Beach, Florida in October of 1995 after I met and married my second husband, Sonny, the father of my third and youngest child, who was born in November of 1996. After nearly three years of living in Daytona Beach, Sonny came up with the idea of us all moving to Anderson, Indiana where I currently live. This happened in August of 1998 and we have been here ever since. There have been times that I felt like moving back home to Florida and especially after Sonny's death in January of 2003, but the kids and I all have made some really good friends here in Anderson, so I believe we are here to stay at least for now! As one can plainly see from reading this rather long post, I have lived in a lot of different places! LOL!

Adiana:usflag:

[Palzang]

Yeah, I know Tachikawa well. That was my first view of Japan when I got there in 1970 in the Air Force. I was stationed at Yokota (a few miles down the road), but I was housed temporarily on Tachikawa. My first night was very memorable - listening to a Japanese country western band blasting my eardrums at the NCO Club right outside my window! I also visited Clark AFB once on a typhoon evacuation from Okinawa. Didn't care much for the place, to be honest!

Palzang

[inthedharma]

Born in Independence Missouri
Lived Levasy Missouri 2yrs.
Moved to ?? Kansas 1yr.
Moved to Gallatin Missouri 12yrs.
Moved to Green Castle Missouri 10yrs
Moved to Kirksville Missouri 2 months
Moved to Green City Missouri 2 yrs.
Moved to Centerville Massachusetts (Cape Cod) 4 yrs.
Moved to Cape Girardeau Missouri 16 yrs.

It's great to know that there are other Buddhists from Missouri here.

[Jerbear]

Being one that bats for the right team.............URANUS! (Don't ban me Fede, Please!)

[buddhafoot]

Being one that bats for the right team.............URANUS! (Don't ban me Fede, Please!)

Hmmm...

I always love hearing about Uranus, Jerbear...

I just didn't get what it had to do with this thread.

Maybe we should just make a new thread to discuss Uranus.

-bf

[Palzang]

Uranus, isn't that where the Klingons live?

Palzang

[Jerbear]

Yes, on the mountain range known as Hem Roid

[Brigid]

(groan)

I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada.
I've lived in Wales, U.K., Alberta, Canada, B.C., Canada, and Ontario, Canada.
I now live in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

[Sabine]

Yes, on the mountain range known as Hem Roid
*giggle*

[Sabine]

would rather live in the hot south.. may one day
Ahhhh! You've GOT to be kidding me!
Come hang out with me for a summer, and you'll definitely change your mind.

In Georgia, the only times of day when it's safe to go outside are before 8:00 AM and after 8 PM!