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Where ya stayin?  Where ya been?  What are you lovin/did you love about that place?

I'm American.  Totally a southern gal though.

What I love about the USA?

McDonalds

J/k

I like being in a country that's got balls and ain't afraid to show em.

But, I really wanna give the UK a shot, and Italy is top on the list!

SoCal. Love it. I have the beach 10 min. west. LA 1 hour north. Snowboarding 2 hours east. San Diego 1-2 hours south. What else do you need?

Quote from: Annwyn on December 06, 2008, 03:05:55 PM
I like being in a country that's got balls and ain't afraid to show em.

I'd rather like a country that had brains instead of balls ;)

Indiana :D

Hmmmm what I love about this place????? uh... well, Lots of jobs!  Oh wait, crap there gone. Yeah that was before the RV industry took a dive. :(

OK, what else? CORN! yes! that's it! we have lots of corn. I love corn. Corn on the cob, Corn bread... Ethanol...

*sigh*.... I hate this state :(

Louisiana, unfortunately.

England, east midlands

it's alright here, lived in better, lived in worse

Quote from: SarahR on December 06, 2008, 03:12:29 PM
SoCal. Love it. I have the beach 10 min. east. LA 1 hour north. Snowboarding 2 hours west. San Diego 1-2 hours south. What else do you need?

THIS!
sun, surf, sand and snow all within an hour.

but sarah, if you go snowboarding 2 hours west, you are gonna get awfully wet!  :icon_giggle:

Quote from: eliza beth on December 06, 2008, 04:38:32 PM

Quote from: SarahR on December 06, 2008, 03:12:29 PM
SoCal. Love it. I have the beach 10 min. east. LA 1 hour north. Snowboarding 2 hours west. San Diego 1-2 hours south. What else do you need?

THIS!
sun, surf, sand and snow all within an hour.

but sarah, if you go snowboarding 2 hours west, you are gonna get awfully wet!  :icon_giggle:

Haha, wow, that was a total mixup of east and west. You know what I mean ;)

Michigan.

It's cold and boring. :C

If everything goes the way it should, I'll be moving to New York in a couple years.

im Italian...mostly

den-co  (303) 5280ish ;D

I'm a U.S. citizen, currently living in western Wisconsin (Go ahead.  Get the cheese-head jokes out of your system.  ;))

However I spent most of my formative years in northern CA, and in Europe. (Germany, England, and France, plus most of my 8th year traveling to about 30 countries.)  I've also lived in Seattle and Chicago, and had the great misfortune to have been born in Ohio.

So, yeah, where am I from?  Most of the northern hemisphere.  ::)

Hey Group,

I live in God's true country.  Oregon.  1 1/2 hours to the coast, 45 minutes to the mountains.  5 minutes to the river.  And green everywhere.

I have lived in Washington ( the state, not DC ), Arizona ( great motorcycle weather ), Indiana ( 2 minutes from the Indianapolis 500 ), Michigan, Northern Cali (  yes I lived in Paradise, it is a town in northern Cali ).  I have been throught most of the lower 48.

Janet

Third generation American currently living just north of Seattle but previously of Montana, California, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Michigan. I've also lived in Japan and visited China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, the Philipines, Australia (Perth and Sydney), Italy, Spain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. 
TMI?

Karen Lyn

South African, currently living in Durban on the hot, humid Indian Ocean. I lived and worked in Taiwan for a year in 2004-ish, and I lived in London till about June this year. I'd LOVE to go back to the Orient. Hong Kong ... Tokyo ... Seoul ... sigh. Taipei was awesome. Once you get used to the bustle.

~Simone.

Quote from: Dawni on December 06, 2008, 04:19:40 PM
England, east midlands

That's where I'm From!

Quote from: Janet Lynn on December 06, 2008, 11:32:36 PM
Hey Group,

I live in God's true country.  Oregon.  1 1/2 hours to the coast, 45 minutes to the mountains.  5 minutes to the river.  And green everywhere.

I have lived in Washington ( the state, not DC ), Arizona ( great motorcycle weather ), Indiana ( 2 minutes from the Indianapolis 500 ), Michigan, Northern Cali (  yes I lived in Paradise, it is a town in northern Cali ).  I have been throught most of the lower 48.

Janet

No offense but according to Christian beliefs... wouldn't that be Israel...?

Quote from: Tamara on December 07, 2008, 07:59:02 AM

Quote from: Dawni on December 06, 2008, 04:19:40 PM
England, east midlands

That's where I'm From!

I'm in Leicester too, just read your profile, small world  ;D

Quote from: Jamie-o on December 06, 2008, 10:52:05 PM

I've also lived in Seattle and Chicago, and had the great misfortune to have been born in Ohio.

Ohio.  I'm so sorry.

Anyways, me, because that's who matters.  I was born in Cincinnati, moved to West Union when I was a youngin' (1, I believe), moved to Japan when I was three, moved to Germany when I was four, moved to a pathetic suburb of Cincinnati when I was 5 and haven't moved further than down the street since, although I have traveled to Latin America for vacations.

I love America because we are the freest country in the world . . . oh wait, that's not true anymore (thank you, government and people, for ignoring the Bill of Rights).  Well, it still has that je ne sais quoi, and will always be my country and I will probably live here most of my life, although I want to live in the Netherlands for a while (Amsterdam!)

According to Christian beliefs, yes.  But according to Christian beliefs, we are an affront to God.  But to those who live here, this is God's country.

Born in Brooklyn NY

Z

North Carolina

What I like about NC where the bio-tech mecha of US and we voted for Obama

dislikes being in the middle of the bible belt lots of backwater itolerant thinking

US, currently in Oregon, have lived all over northern Cal and a bit in Asia. To me doesn't matter where a live because everythign is just a plane ride away.
Myles

QuoteBorn in Brooklyn NY

Then you will have to deal with Ms Timbers to get your birth certificate changed, good luck.

England! East Anglia!

Country boy!

Quote from: lisagurl on December 07, 2008, 04:27:09 PM

QuoteBorn in Brooklyn NY

Then you will have to deal with Ms Timbers to get your birth certificate changed, good luck.

At present time, I'm still non-op, so I don't have to talk to her.... Are you from Brooklyn too?

Z

NorCal, San Francisco Bay Area, mostly the City and Sonoma County.  I lived in Iowa off and on too.  So I've lived in huge cities like SF and Oakland, smaller cities like Des Moines, suburbs, small rural towns (2) and way, way out in the country.

In terms of nationality though, I'm Irish and German, so I can start a fight with myself and I can finish it too.

i'm jovanian!

English, but havent lived there for 6 years now,I left the UK in 2002.

I know Leicester well, went through the GIC there.

Buffy

I'm in Tennessee right now but soon to be moving 40 miles south to Alabama to be closer to work and school.

I was born in Florida I was there for 2 months if you count prebirth it would be almost a year.
Then to Michigan for 15 years. Then to Tennessee for 18 years.

Anna

was born in dc.. live in frisco now. moved here after my top surgery last yr. :icon_dance:

hi..  the land of the long white cloud   waimate new zealand ...  just over the water  to australia .....
                       ...noeleena...

Adelaide,. Australia.
So called city of Churches.
Lots of beach
Mainly tolerant
History of weird murders
Good Shops
Beaut Climate
losing drinking water
Flat - high heel friendly!

Originally from Liverpool UK - nice to be away from it

Cindy James

London in england. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, but I would like to be in a different bit of london.

London in england. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else, but I would like to be in a different bit of london.

Perth Western Australia

Quote from: tekla on December 07, 2008, 07:03:13 PMNorCal, San Francisco Bay Area, mostly [...] Sonoma County.

Me too!

Currently living in Oakland.  But I've also lived in Seattle, and I absolutely loved it there and would like to go back.

Vancouver Canada!!!

I love this city. It's hip, liberal, left coast, plus I can walk down my street and get any variety of asian cuisine I could want: thai, sushi, Indian, Chinese, Malaysian, whatever. I can even find a burger joint if I wanted. LOL

This place would be perfect except for the rain.

-Shan

What part of Oakland?  I lived near Lake Merritt for a few years.

Lakeshore side. :P

I lived on Lee, near coffee a beat, which I hope is still there, and the Grand Theatre, which is a great place for films and political commentary on the marque.

Ah, on the Grand side.  I don't know a lot of the streets over there but we're hoping to move to that side in the near future, looking into buying a condo.  Because of foreclosures there's lots available now.

We haven't been to the GLT but go to the Parkway Speakeasy at least once a month.  Love that place, watched the Presidential debates etc. there, good times.

Yeah, Parkway used to have some huge Rocky Horror deal there.

Still do, every Saturday.  But that's not my scene, so I haven't been.

Its not bad for what it is.  I ran into the troop that does it at some other event and watched them run a few, they were good.  Not much me either, at least anymore, I saw the sucker when it came out, even saw the theater production before the movie, but it didn't age well I don't think.

I have a dream of getting them to do a double feature of the Buffy musical episode and Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog one Saturday instead.  I'd love that. :P

Your post is a little confusing, I checked German cause that's my nationality 2 of my 4 grandparents never set foot outa Germany, but I was born and raised in the US Hawaii, SoCal, Arizona and now Mississippi talk about a southern girl, Mississippi is actually the furthest north I have ever lived =)

If you were born and raised in a country that's your nationality.

Ethnic background of your family is something different.

UK :)
Home is south east England, but I'm up in the Midlands for University.

California.
I was  born in the north but raised in socal.  I'm back in north cal right now going to school.

Ireland so that makes me a loser I guess :D, but seriously I am out of this country as soon as I can.

I'm from the USA and I'm black. ;D

I'm from good 'ol New York in the U.S. of A.

By "good" I mean terrible, and by "'ol" I mean soul-rendingly expensive.  :P

Ireland so that makes me a loser I guess

You mean everyone in the world is not American?  I'm going to have to rethink this foreign policy stuff now.

Quote from: tekla on December 11, 2008, 10:29:37 PM
Ireland so that makes me a loser I guess

You mean everyone in the world is not American?  I'm going to have to rethink this foreign policy stuff now.

I think Ireland is part of the "Axis of Not Evil-Fascist-Anarchist-Maybe-Terrorists", so we haven't tried to kill them all and annex their territory yet.

They must have oil, or votes.

Maybe it's the potatoes.

Quote from: Kaitlyn on December 11, 2008, 10:40:42 PMI think Ireland is part of the "Axis of Not Evil-Fascist-Anarchist-Maybe-Terrorists", so we haven't tried to kill them all and annex their territory yet.

No, they're "New Europe", so they get to be friends. "Old Europe" types are commie sympathisers who support terrorists as well by not invading foreign countries. :P

~Simone.

Quote from: MOODYGIRL on December 11, 2008, 09:56:22 PM
I'm from the USA and I'm black. ;D

Like, OMG I'm white, that's such a big deal cuz skin color is SUCH a big deal!

::)

Quote from: Annwyn on December 11, 2008, 11:01:25 PM

Quote from: MOODYGIRL on December 11, 2008, 09:56:22 PM
I'm from the USA and I'm black. ;D

Like, OMG I'm white, that's such a big deal cuz skin color is SUCH a big deal!

::)

I vary between ashen and pasty :P

Really depends on how much time I can spend by the pool.

I am brownish red skinned and just about as North American as can be. I was born in a little place, a dot on the map, named Fauquier in Northern Ontario, on the border of the province of Quebec. I am both of French decent and Iroquois.

Cindy

Quote from: lady amarant on December 11, 2008, 10:59:53 PM

Quote from: Kaitlyn on December 11, 2008, 10:40:42 PMI think Ireland is part of the "Axis of Not Evil-Fascist-Anarchist-Maybe-Terrorists", so we haven't tried to kill them all and annex their territory yet.

No, they're "New Europe", so they get to be friends. "Old Europe" types are commie sympathisers who support terrorists as well by not invading foreign countries. :P

~Simone.

Well we are "neutral" but thats only because we are to chicken to take a stand and army is too backwards to do anything. In reality we are not neutral we just stand back and see what happens. Also at the moment old Europe hate us over Lisbon.

Quote from: KatherineOM on December 12, 2008, 09:13:40 AMAlso at the moment old Europe hate us over Lisbon.

ROFL. There's always something huh? :P

~Simone.

I'm from Pitcairn Island and you'd better watch out, all 50 of us are going to take over the world.

Just kidding!!

I'm from the better known Land From Down Under.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Island)

Quote from: Goldy on December 12, 2008, 11:54:08 AM
I'm from Pitcairn Island and you'd better watch out, all 50 of us are going to take over the world.

Just kidding!!

I'm from the better known Land From Down Under.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Island)

Wow, interesting read.

QuoteThere are allegations of a long history and tradition of sexual abuse of girls as young as 7, which culminated in 2004 in the charging of seven men living on Pitcairn, and another six now living abroad, with sex-related offences, including rape. On 25 October 2004, six men were convicted, including Steve Christian, the island's mayor at the time. See Pitcairn rape trial of 2004. After the six men lost their final appeal, the British government set up a prison on the island with an annual budget of NZD 950,000. The men began serving their sentences in late 2006, and all are expected to be freed by December of 2008.

So have they been freed yet?

I was born in the USA and I'm white. And my parents say I have a German background

Guten Tag  ;D

Wow.

This pole started out at 100% US, and now it's only 58%.  Seems like the longer this this goes on, the smaller my country becomes:(

Quote from: Annwyn on December 11, 2008, 11:01:25 PM

Quote from: MOODYGIRL on December 11, 2008, 09:56:22 PM
I'm from the USA and I'm black. ;D

Like, OMG I'm white, that's such a big deal cuz skin color is SUCH a big deal!

::)

Actually race is a big deal.  :-\  Especially as it interacts with nationality.  It's going to effect the lived reality of being a resident of the U.S. quite a lot.


Kaitlyn, what makes you a loser about living in Ireland?  I absolutely loved it there.

I thought that every one eventually came from Ireland. They left because the pubs were full


LOL
Cindy James

Quote from: whatsername on December 13, 2008, 12:48:59 AM
Actually race is a big deal.  :-\  Especially as it interacts with nationality.  It's going to effect the lived reality of being a resident of the U.S. quite a lot.

Actually you'll find the further south and east you go, the less the color of your skin matters.
Most people down here don't even register someone's skin color.

Race isn't a big deal unless someone makes it a big deal, as in someone pops in and says, "I'm white," or, "I'm black" as if that's an overly important part of one's nationality or self identity.

Quote from: Annwyn on December 13, 2008, 07:45:37 AM

Quote from: whatsername on December 13, 2008, 12:48:59 AM
Actually race is a big deal.  :-\  Especially as it interacts with nationality.  It's going to effect the lived reality of being a resident of the U.S. quite a lot.

Actually you'll find the further south and east you go, the less the color of your skin matters.
Most people down here don't even register someone's skin color.

Race isn't a big deal unless someone makes it a big deal, as in someone pops in and says, "I'm white," or, "I'm black" as if that's an overly important part of one's nationality or self identity.

Um.. sure. I'm almost as South and East as it gets and I can tell you here it matters a lot. Sadly, race-based tribalism is not gone, just gone under.

Quote from: Annwyn on December 13, 2008, 07:45:37 AMActually you'll find the further south and east you go, the less the color of your skin matters.
Most people down here don't even register someone's skin color.

I've heard quite the opposite from people who also live there myself.

QuoteRace isn't a big deal unless someone makes it a big deal, as in someone pops in and says, "I'm white," or, "I'm black" as if that's an overly important part of one's nationality or self identity.

I don't know what "overly important" means, but it is intrinsically important, just as much as class or gender or dis/ability etc., so I'm going to have to disagree.

I currently live in the south, and I rarely encounter racism.

The only times I've encountered it face to face are from black people, who seem to think they can blab all they want about us crackers but if we even mention anything condescending about someone of color(regardless if it has anything to do with that or not) then the double standard is slammed in your face and you're suddenly a racist.

I only have a view from my age group, but from my age group and my college experience and my professional experience, I've never encountered racism from an institution or of a violent kind.

To be honest, I agree with Annwyn. I live in Louisiana. How much more southern can you get than that? Oh what am I saying!! Even through I'm from the south and have been here all my pathetic life, I guess I can't possibly have an opinion about it.

As far as I know living here, I see plenty of "black" people daily when I go to places. I don't really notice them nor care unless they are trying to be noticed. I talk just as easy with a "black" person as I do with a "white" person -- which isn't much at first. I tend to take quite a while to open up to people.



Don't believe this post if you don't want to. I live a fairly sheltered life as it is. So, I could very well be wrong in many ways.

Seems like the longer this this goes on, the smaller my country becomes:(

No dear, the longer it goes on, the bigger the world gets.  It is after all, The World Wide Web.  As John Cleese says talking about the American World Series "When England hosts a world championship, we actually invite teams from other countries."

And that South is less racist because a) only black people down here are racisists, or b) I talk to black persons, so that can't be true.  Ya'll so cute.

Quote from: tekla on December 13, 2008, 06:12:18 PM
And that South is less racist because a) only black people down here are racisists, or b) I talk to black persons, so that can't be true.  Ya'll so cute.

Go eat some raw chicken and get salmonella.

-_-

Raw fish maybe, sushi yeah.

Quote from: Annwyn on December 13, 2008, 05:24:24 PM
I currently live in the south, and I rarely encounter racism.

No offense meant here, but since you're white, exactly what sort of racism would you expect to experience except from races other than yours?  ???

It's almost a clichie that white people never notice racism down South.

Quote from: tekla on December 13, 2008, 07:53:57 PM
It's almost a clichie that white people never notice racism down South.

*crosses out the "down South"*

It's definitely a cliche. :\

I say 'down South' as opposed to South, because where I live, if I say 'south' everyone assumes LA, not Mississippi.  Remember, for most of us on the West Coast, America ends pretty much at the eastern edge of the Rocky Mtns.  Except for New York is out there beyond that somewhere.

I'm crossing that out only because it's true across the country.  White people here in CA are just as blind to racism as in the South.

Quote from: tekla on December 13, 2008, 06:12:18 PM

And that South is less racist because a) only black people down here are racists, or b) I talk to black persons, so that can't be true.  Ya'll so cute.

ROFL  :D

I'm from Turkey and and therefore have been categorized as a ''loserface''  :o :(

Yep. I am North American Native decent, how much more American can that be, but since there isn't a specific category for Natives I'm a ''loserface''  "Hee, hee, hee." Like my dad use to say when I was little and was watching a sad movie and I would be crying. He would say, don't worry, it's all set up by the guy that makes the movies. ;D

Cindy

Well white people in California have a lot more choices, for sure on that.  And, depending on where they live, they may well be a minority.  But it seems more insidious and less institutionalized than the South.

North America, the US.
"They" say it is the smallest town in the smallest county in the smallest state.

Warren, R.I.?

My guess anyway

Quote from: tekla on December 14, 2008, 01:54:39 AM
Warren, R.I.?

My guess anyway

DOH! An educated guess, at that.
and I was going to post a topic on who rides motorcycles, with a pic of mine,,,

ok, tekla, here's another fave lyric of mine,
" And then as the sail is hoist, You find your eyes are growing moist. All the fears never voiced say you have to make your final choice." 

No educated guess.  Google.  You just have to know how to ask.

and I'm very weird, but I've always thought that Obscured by Clouds and Meddle were the best Floyd records, the later ones just sound overproduced and more overproduced, and then, way overproduced. 

OMG! No, you're not wierd, for I whole heartedly agree. The memories of a man in his old age, are the deeds of a man in his prime,, all this and here I am considering making history herstory.

I figured some one would google it, the state reference that is. I love google. My girl hates that when ever a question comes up that can't be readily answered, I go google it.

We did it (googled) last night in the middle of the load out for The Killers to answer the question "What is the correct plural of cactus?" -- which for us, was really slowing down the effort.  And since I was the one moving the spiny little deals around, it was really slowing me down. LOL.

Try having not dated a black individual for more than a few years, once again the only racism encountered has been from across the fence.

Now you people can kindly begin supporting your claims besides making jabs at the south.

No "jabs" intended, just relaying information contrary to what you said from people who also live there.  Clearly it is a different experience for each of you.

Institutionalized racism like the kind experienced by people of color in this country on a regular basis doesn't discriminate against you, in fact it prefers and privileges you.  So, again, I can only really repeat my question, as a white person, exactly what kind of racism would you expect to encounter except from non-white people? 

If by those assertions you mean you've never seen a white person say or do anything racist, I would be astonished to learn that's true.  I have experienced white people saying and doing things ranging from mildly to overtly racist many times.

I am curious about the first half of that first sentence though, "trying having not dated a black individual for more than a few years..."  what exactly do you mean by that?  You dated a black person and now you don't?  And your experiences of racism came while you were dating that person?  If so, from whom?

I am Canadian

Our Neighbor to the North, as opposed to Mexico, the Sleeping Giant At Our Doorstep.  I like Canada, very clean. 

QuoteIt's almost a clichie that white people never notice racism down South.

I live in Mississippi and yes their is racism but in a more cloudy way. Yes you see blacks and whites in public together all the time. But if you check out the local municipal government you will find discrimination in hiring and promotion. You will also find segregated neighborhoods and churches. Partly due to culture as each keeps to their own. Just as the schools in all black areas have a harder time scoring on Sat or Act as they favor culture.

and churches
Hell, the most segregated time in America is 10:00am Sunday morning, and that's as true in Oakland and SF as it is in Mississippi.

I'm the only kiwi in the village  :(
Although most people think NZ is a state of Australia, anyway.

I don't think I can handle the idea that there are real people outside the U.S.  It goes against everything we're taught in America (i.e. Earth).   ::)

Quote from: Kaitlyn on December 14, 2008, 04:05:10 PM
I don't think I can handle the idea that there are real people outside the U.S.  It goes against everything we're taught in America (i.e. Earth).   ::)

Well, we've already taken over the western hemisphere by annexing the term "America." ;)

Hey, to me there is CALIFORNIA, and Southern California.  Where the hell is South America anyway?  Other than South of course.

Quote from: SarahR on December 14, 2008, 04:20:36 PM

Quote from: Kaitlyn on December 14, 2008, 04:05:10 PM
I don't think I can handle the idea that there are real people outside the U.S.  It goes against everything we're taught in America (i.e. Earth).   ::)

Well, we've already taken over the western hemisphere by annexing the term "America." ;)

Well, aside from teh e-ville enemy that is Venezuela, what else is there?   :P

Tierra del Fuego and San Francisco, for starters.

Quote from: Kaitlyn on December 14, 2008, 07:42:59 PMWell, aside from teh e-ville enemy that is Venezuela, what else is there?   :P

I hear Brazil is nice!

Quote from: Kaitlyn on December 14, 2008, 07:42:59 PMWell, aside from teh e-ville enemy that is Venezuela, what else is there?   :P

Giggle. Only because they took control of the petroleum industry back form big business. Oh, and Chavez likes Castro. ;)

~Simone.