I was born in( your city here)...(your state/country here)

[SoCalDem]

Smoky Hill AFB (later to be named Schilling AFB..then closed) Salina Kansas

[arcane1]

Richmond, VA

USA!

[Aristus]

1. San Antonio, Texas.

I hate the fact that the Connecticut Cowboy has trashed Texas to the dogs and back. Even though I don't live there anymore.

[GOPisEvil]

68. I used to live there!

:hi: Not born there though!

[efhmc]

146. So where was it or did I miss the post? I'm betting not Texas.

[efhmc]

145. My sentiments exactly.

[zekeson]

196. I lived there, too

and still have family there and also hate what ol' whistle-ass has done to the rep of the state of Texas. At least SA was pretty Dem in the 2000 elction (for Texas)

[Rick Myers]

2. Youngstown, Ohio

A GREAT place to be FROM!!!

[Lady President]

8. Y-town

My mom's side of the family is from Youngstown and they alway use the "from" joke too. The city is just sort of sad now.

I was born in Ravenna, Ohio which is a tiny town near Kent State and Akron.

[Rick Myers]

16. Yeah, I've got friends in Ravenna

Nice quiet town! Close enough to Clevo...

[5thGenDemocrat]

50. I was born in Saginaw, Michigan

I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay
My dad was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman
Too many times he came home with too little pay
John
All true except for the things about the house, my dad's occupation and the amount of his check.

[ScreamingMeemie]

95. And I bet your father in law isn't up there in Alaska, digging in the cold

cold ground. Crazy fool, searching for the gold you never found. ;-)

[5thGenDemocrat]

122. But it serves him right and no one here is missing him

Least of all the newlyweds in Saginaw, Michigan.
John
Actually, I have two ex-fathers-in law. One, Orville, is a retired Airborne sergeant living in Huntsville, AL (and one of the first thousand non-Green Berets to land in Vietnam in 1965) and the other, Tom, a Marine draftee (yes, it happened) who got two tours over there himself (1968-69). Tom, incidentally, LOVES to go gold panning, but in the UP -- not Alaska.

[TrogL]

3. Toronto General

Toronto, Canada

[curlyred]

4. Macon GA

[DemExpat]

5. Beaumont, Texas

n/t

[Loki]

6. Kansas City Missouri

I wish I was still there.

[MercutioATC]

7. Ridgewood, New Jersey

Now in Westlake, Ohio (west 'burbs of Cleveland)

[kmla]

9. Muncie, IN

At Ball Memorial Hospital. Not too far from Ball State U.

[tnlefty]

10. Decatur, GA

under a full moon....

[Mr. McD]

11. Ainsworth, Nebraska

[Droopy]

12. Landstuhl, Germany

On a U.S. military base. Dad was station in the army over there.

[Kellanved]

23. the state: Rheinland-Pfalz

or Rhineland-Palatinate
:hi:

[short bus president]

13. Durham, NC

in a hospital that is now the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

[CO Liberal]

14. Montclair, New Jersey

At Montclair Community Hospital (now closed).

November 28, 1952.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. San Diego, CA

at the Naval Hospital

[dolo amber]

27. Me too!!

Palomar Memorial? :o

[Richardo]

17. East Rochester, PA (downriver from Pittsburgh)

On Thanksgiving Day 1956.

Go Bucs!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Denver, CO

Don't remember anything about it. I've been in the DC area since I was 2.

[nono]

19. Bastrop, La.

Grew up in south Ga.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Albany, New York

I wish it had been San Diego!:-)

[ilpostino]

21. Dual citizenship

Most of us Enfield, CT babies were born in Springfield, MA and lived there for about 72 hours.

[LynneSin]

22. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

[MiltonLeBerle]

24. Elgin, Illinois

[greatauntoftriplets]

57. My father was born in Elgin.

His grandfather was a foreman at the old watch factory.

I was born in Evanston, Illinois.

[MiltonLeBerle]

59. I used to live in Evanston.

Until we bought our house in Chicago.

[greatauntoftriplets]

61. I am also in Chicago.

You should come to the next DU get-together we have. The one in June was great fun.

[Skittles]

173. I enlisted in the Air Force in Evanston

I was living in Vernon Hills at the time. My mum still lives there.

[Nay]

25. Tampa. Florida

[TheBigGuy]

26. Chicago, Illinois.

n.t

[corarose]

126. I was born at Swedish Convenient Hospital

What part of town are you from?

[XNASA]

149. Our two boys were born at Illinois Masonic.

Within spitting distance from Wrigley Field.

[Capn Sunshine]

161. Swedish Convenient Hospital?

Do they have drive-thru delivery? :):):)

[SoCalDem]

162. No.. THAT was the Norweigian Slightly InConvenient Hospital

:)

[XNASA]

184. Er. That's Swedish COVENANT Hospital.

Swedish Convenient Hospital. :eyes:

[MiltonLeBerle]

186. I live about 3 blocks from Swedish Covenant Hospital.

that's where I got my sack snipped.

[treefrogjohn]

28. Highland Park, Michigan

But San Jose, CA today

[catzies]

29. Miami Florida

Way back when it was the sixth borough of New York and not the capital of Latin America. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying I'm that old.

[Alenne]

30. Norfolk VA

[carolinayellowdog]

140. Another Norfolk here n/t

[cosmicdot]

152. Norfolk, Va

[bobja]

31. Point Pleasant, New Jersey

But not conceived there

[mlawson]

32. Asheville, NC

[arwalden]

33. Boston, Mass... Oh Two One Three Four

[arcane1]

35. send it to ZOOM!

ok, I just regressed 30 years :silly:

[MaineDem]

34. Portland, Maine

Ayuh, I'm native!

[KoKo]

36. Charleston, South Carolina

Long since gone except for visits........

[KamaAina]

37. Baltimore, Maryland.

Don't ask me what county. That's a trick question. Bawlmer is an Independent City (as is St. Louis, and several in VA).

[SiobhanClancy]

38. Portland,Maine

:)

[MaineDem]

159. Another Portlander

Did you live in Portland long?

[SiobhanClancy]

191. I grew up there

born at Mercy Hospital,went to school at Cathedral and Waynflete. Living in Cambridge,MA now:)

[starroute]

39. New York, New York

Doctor's Hospital -- right across the street from Gracie Mansion, where the mayor lives.

I left New York when I went off to college and never went back, but I'm still proud of being part of that New York spirit.

[ButterflyBlood]

40. Bismarck, ND

[Birthmark]

41. Albany, NY

[NYYFan]

42. Winston-Salem, NC

[CBHagman]

43. New Haven, Connecticut

...in the same hospital as G.W. Bush, no less. That aspect makes me want to hurl, but I'm proud enough of being born in Connecticut.

[devilgrrl]

44. Hartford, CT

n/t

[booksenkatz]

45. Ft. Worth, Texas

*

[efhmc]

147. Are you still in Texas?

[utopian]

46. Portland, Oregon

[ScreamingMeemie]

47. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

And I lived on 44th street the first years of my life.

[ronnykmarshall]

48. Bakersfield, California

[caledesi]

49. Newport, RI

[wellstone_democrat]

128. providence RI for me

with the entire rest of the state at Lying In Hospital (now defunct)

Native RI'er here!

[Cheswick2.0]

51. Dumas TX

[progressivejazz]

52. Worcester, Massachusetts.

Pronounced "Wustamass"; one word.

[kainah]

53. Mineola, NY

see, remfan, I *do* know!!! (Little inside family joke there.)

[MountainLaurel]

54. Colorado Springs, CO

Fort Carson Army Hospital, to be exact.

[CO Liberal]

116. I Drive Past Fort Carson Twice Every Weekday

Commuting between my office in Colorado Springs and my home in Pueblo West.

[Nikia]

55. Tiffin, OH

It's a nice town.

[5thGenDemocrat]

60. My stepson played football for the TU Dragons

Circa 1991-94.
John
Been to Tiffin several times. Plus, it's not far from Cedar Point.

[TSIAS]

56. West Palm Beach, Florida

[VelmaD]

58. Greenville, TX

Population 23,071

County seat of Hunt County Texas.

And THE wide spot on I-30 between Dallas and Texarkana.

Darth Velma

[Kellanved]

62. Frankfurt Hesse/Germany/EU

[ploppy]

63. Fargo, ND

It was cold there.

[SmileyBoy]

86. Hey, ME TOO!!!

See my North Dakota bashing thread.:-)

[ploppy]

131. I missed that one!

Where did you live there? I grew up on 19th Avenue N.

[SmileyBoy]

157. I'm a student at NDSU. I live on campus.

I grew up in three different places in Fargo: In an isolated apartment block in West Fargo, back when there was just field around it (today, that building is in the middle of sprawl-zilla), on 11th Ave. North in a little rented house, and on 8th Street South in a large and beautiful (and cheap) Victorian home. I also lived in Minneapolis for half my life.

[ploppy]

158. I went to

Holy Spirit Grade School - a long time ago! My Dad was an ag engineer on campus. I used to love to go to work with him and hang out.

what are you studying?

[SmileyBoy]

165. I study architecture.

My immediate career dream is to design a 20-25 storey office tower in downtown Fargo.

[ploppy]

185. Would that be the tallest building

in downtown Fargo?

[SmileyBoy]

195. Yes.

That's why I want to design it.

[ploppy]

198. Good for you!

See you there!

[Crewleader]

64. New Bedford, Massachusetts

I just recently visited the area after being away for 20 years and I found how depressed the area as become with alot of sadness to see once a vibrant place called The Whaling City is now with closed down shops, mills and high unemployment. :-(

[BigMcLargehuge]

91. Huzzah for the Whaling City!!!!

I knew there were other DUers from my home city.

Yeah, it's in rough shape. Terrible city government, Fred Kalisz is a shithead and the city council operates only to nullify any small gains he might make. The worst part though is the MA Governor Mitt Romney, he's taking out a lot of anger on NB.

Cancelled their Purple Line rail stop on Purchase Street half way through construction.

Refused to release funds to allocated to the several drug treatment centers in he city including the big one in Melville Towers.

Refused to release allocated funds to New Bedford High.

The City just lost UMass Dartmouth's downtown campus proposal to fit into the old Star Store building AFTER the building refurb.

The guys running the "Oceanarium" project burned through 8 million bucks in three years without a single thing to show for it other than a scale model and high salaries. They aught to string these bastards up by their toes and dip them into the Acushnet River.

The Acushnet River and NB Harbor are in danger of losing their Superfund cleanup funds (along with any thousand other sites in the US),

And Union Street looks like a neutron bomb went off there.

The fishing fleet is in the shitter, new regs mean no one can make a living from the banks. Georges Bank is closed to shellfishing (scallops) and the Grand Banks can only be fished 1/3 season.

They are trying to get that north-south monstrosity, i.e. the JFK memorial highway, removed to free up livable real estate between and recreate the Acushnet Avenue of old when it ran South to North. But, hey, the funding fell through.

It's bad there... Really bad. I estimate at least 20% unemploytment and at least 50% underemployment. It's really sad, really really sad.

Still, all that said. I still LOVE that city.

Am I insane?

[iluvchicago86]

65. Chicago,Illinois

USA

[Solly Mack]

66. Villa Rica

Georgia

[Character Assassin]

67. San Francisco, CA

[GOPisEvil]

69. Athens, Greece!

:-)

[carpetbagger]

70. East Setauket, L.I., New York

On the North Shore, even republican presidents are progressive.

[leftist_rebel1569]

71. Coon Rapids, MN

I still live here and....boy, I hate it.

[Brother Buzz]

72. Greenbrae, California

[supernova]

73. I was born in Durham, NC

in the old Watts Hospital which is now the NC School of Science and Math.

[short bus president]

80. Hey Supe!

Who knows? We might've been squeezed forth into this world in the very same room!

[Zhade]

74. The Netherlands

Amersfoort, to be exact. However, I am not Dutch (parents were USAF).

[Kellanved]

119. AFAIK that makes you Dutch

ius solis - you could apply for Dutch citizenship (ok you'd have to learn the language first).

[polmaven]

75. Lynn, Massachusetts

Friends say that fact explains a lot!

Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin,
You never come out the way you went in!

A few years ago, people tried to change the name of the city because of that rhyme...They wanted to call it Ocean Park...until...well...

Ocean Park, Ocean Park,
Don't go there after dark

Oh, well....(Don't live there anymore...moved next door in 1959..(just a little while ago)

[maveric]

81. OMG that brings back memories.

Almost as bad as "Dont bend over in Andover".
There are some sick individuals from the bay state.

[maveric]

76. Methuen MA

Between Lawrence MA and Salem NH.

[polmaven]

90. Ah, good old Metoon...

Just undah Noo Hamsha!

[TheBigGuy]

93. is that how its pronounced?

thanks!

[maveric]

105. Meth - oo- en

Funny name. Its from an English Earl or Duke of some sort.

[polmaven]

164. Well, thats how its pronounced

in New Englandese.

[AnnabelLee]

77. Cudahy, WI

[LincolnMcGrath]

78. CLINTON

Iowa

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

187. Hey! Me too!

Maybe we're twins

[angka]

79. San Bernardino, CA

:smoke:

[Drifter]

82. Syracuse, New York

East Syracuse

Cheers
Drifter

[Ediacara]

83. Seattle, WA

[SmileyBoy]

84. Fargo, North Dakota.

Yep.

[maxanne]

85. Hamilton, MA

the east coast polo capital of the US. Just call me Muffy.

[Skittles]

87. Chanute AFB, Rantoul, Illinois

also closed.

[Tom Kitten]

88. Boston, MA

lived in Boston, Lynn, and Revere until I was 5 years old...Visited my relatives when I got out of high school and do not intend to ever go back...Still have a fondness for the Sox, though...

[Spirochete]

89. Seattle

[ornotna]

92. Ankara, Turkey

[devarsi]

94. Santa Monica, California

graduated Venice High, class '81

[ScreamingMeemie]

96. Reading these posts, I get all warm and fuzzy inside. All of us here

hanging out, from all over the world. It's nice to know there are pockets of sanity and caring folk all over this world.

:hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

109. I agree. DU is one amazing place

I remember being on, late one night, where everyone was welcoming a girl from England, on her very first post. Another time, this young guy was reaching out because he was visiting relatives in Thailand, for the first time, and did not feel he belonged there and was very homesick. I told him to think, as long as he was there, of DU as his home. It's not such a stretch.:-)

[Catherine Vincent]

97. Lafayette, Louisiana...near Bayou LeBatrie!

...just kidding, I don't even know where in Lousiana Bayou Lebatrir is!

[Aristus]

133. Forrest Gump was from Alabama, not Louisiana.

So Bayou LaBatrie (sp?) would be along Alabama's Gulf Coast. If it exists, that is.

[Devlzown]

139. It does exist and it's Bayou La Batre.

And it is a shrimping town! As far as I know, however, there is no Greenbow, AL. I was born in Pascagoula, MS, which is also on the Gulf Coast and about 30 or 45 minutes away from Bayou La Batre.

[curse10]

98. Houston, Texas

but wasn't there for long

[efhmc]

148. What area of Houston?

[thebeaglehaslanded]

99. Washington, D.C.

When the Democrats ran the show...Roosevelt was president (Franklin, not Theodore). The good old days.

[NightTrain]

100. Hartford, Connecticut

n/t

[SOteric]

101. San Francisco, CA

[Quahog]

102. Grand Rapids, Michigan

But was adopted by Mom & Dad who lived in St. Joseph, MI. That's where I lived until I was six.

Then we moved to the Bay Area, which explains just about everything.

[magnolia]

103. Linz, Austria

But have lived in the U.S. since early childhood.

[ulysses]

104. Tulsa, OK

Still an open-sky boy at heart...

[mrbill]

114. ardmore, oklahoma

in the same hospital as john w hinkley.

[rppper]

106. Ft. Bragg, NC.....army brat....

then after a month or so, when i was old enough to fly, we moved to dads next duty station...a place many DU'ers know and love....the school of americas in Colon, Panama, where my dad taught jungle warfare and guerilla tactics for the next 4 years. my early years were filled with dad battleing crabs in our yard and watching the ships start their journey through the canal. we lived right on the sea wall. we would later spend a few years in Jackson, Mississippi before dad retired to Texas, where i call home in my heart.

[Section_43]

107. Joplin, Missouri

as featured in the song Get Yr Kicks on Route 66

[Lady Freedom]

177. I lived in Joplin most of my life, but I was born in...

Baxter Springs, Kan.

[Terwilliger]

108. Penn Yan, New York

[RebelOne]

110. The City of Brotherly Love

Philadelphia, PA. Moved to Miami, Fla. Now live in North Georgia.

[Liberal Veteran]

111. Valdosta, Georgia.....

Grew up in Spalding County, Georgia.

Moved to Spokane, Washington to get away from my insane family.

[JNelson6563]

112. Grosse Pointe Michigan

longer ago than I'd like to admit.......

Julie

[ScreamingMeemie]

174. I am just up the street from Grosse Pointe.

Were you in the City, Farms, Woods, Shores, Park? I do a lot of work there.

[Bridget Burke]

113. Manchester, NH

But I've lived in the Houston area most of my life.

[DEM FAN]

115. Me. I Was Born In Burlington Vermont.

Great Great State But The Weather Sucks Though. :-)

[catmandu57]

117. Oregon Missouri

In a Drs. office, two months premature to a just turned sixteen year old mother. I've been paying for it ever since.

[XNASA]

118. Blue Island, Illinois

Home of Enuff Z'nuff.

[nykiera]

120. Ft. Wayne, Indiana

Raised near Van Wert, Ohio. Now in Upstate NY.

[DemOverseas]

121. Waterville, Maine

:hi:

[corarose]

123. Chicago

That's why I have a habit of saying YOU GUYS!

[MiltonLeBerle]

190. so was you borned over by there at swedish covennent ?

[Boudicea]

124. Nashville, TN

about 2 blocks from where I sit. Hey, that's kind of depressing.

[ilpostino]

125. Reminds me of a joke...

Political prankster Dick Tuck's line on Endicott Peabody's unorthodox run for the Republican VP nomination: "He's the only man in Massachusetts to have three towns named after him: Endicott, Peabody, and Athol."

[Bozola]

127. Tripoli, Lybia

in a place once called Wheelis AFB.

Colonel Muammar alQaddafi, at the time, was the base commander.

I sh*t you not.

[goobergunch]

129. San Francisco CA

[salmonhorse]

130. Los Angeles, CA

East Los ~

[Andy_Stephenson]

132. El Paso, Texas

and you can't make me go back! EVER!

[cmd]

134. Steubenville, Ohio

That's the only thing I have in common with Dean Martin.

[populistmom]

135. Omaha, Nebraska

At University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1972. I've lived in the Hartford, CT area though now for 16 years.

[Blue_Chill]

136. Santiago, Chile

Currently I'm chillin in Northern Virginia.

[smirkymonkey]

137. Utica, NY ...

same as Annette Funicello and home of Zogby International...that's it though, nothing else to see there.

[sexybomber]

156. don't forget the Boilermaker and Utica Club Beer!

I'd say those are two very excellent reasons to visit Utica.

[ScreamingMeemie]

166. My father used to take us to the Utica Club Brewery (he worked for

Schlitz in Syracuse) every summer. Somewhere I have a picture of us with straw Utica Club hats on. Thanks for blasting me back to the past.

[smirkymonkey]

192. Of course UC for me! Does anyone...

remember the Matt's Beerball?? And the boilermaker has come to be know as a serious race...who knew! Also, great REAL Italian food!

[smirkymonkey]

194. Of course! They go hand in hand :)

eom

[Bombero1956]

168. Hey I lived there too

Lived on the corner of Eagle St.& Seymour Ave. Favalle's liquor store was across the street as well as Salerno's market. That was in 1968-69. Drove through there a couple of years ago and was depressed at how bad it had become.

[smirkymonkey]

193. Yes, very sad...

eom

[MissMillie]

138. Gardner, Massachusetts (USA) (n/t)

.

[DinahMoeHum]

141. Brooklyn, New York

:-)

[efhmc]

142. Sherman Texas

Although I never lived there.

[Skittles]

172. I go to the moves there

my boyfriend lives in Whitesboro, 20 miles away. Sherman is the closest theater. It's not a bad town for Texas.

[efhmc]

181. I haven't been there for about a year . I attended a funeral for my Uncle.

My parents actually did not live there but had me there because they were from Sherman (DAD) and Denison (MOM) and my mother wanted to use the hospital and Dr. there, so I have had many visits but no time living there. I like it and I like the name of the paper if it hasn't been changed. Is it still the Sherman Democrat? (If you only attend movies there, you might not know.)

[meow2u3]

143. Brooklyn, New York

God's Country if you ask me!

[RetroLounge]

144. Chicago, Illinois

But grew up in Niles, Illinois

[Braden]

150. West Roxbury Massachusetts

[varun]

151. Cuttack, India

a town on the eastern coast of India.

[plcdude]

153. Lockport, New York

and no I live in Oklahoma now and do not miss the snow.

[SammyWinstonJack]

154. Whittier, California

On Friday the 13th.

[sexybomber]

155. Albany, New York

[Capn Sunshine]

160. Hollywood, California

good old Hollywood Presbyterian.

[noiretextatique]

163. los angeles, california

east los angeles, to be precise.

[Shanty Oilish]

167. Maracaibo Venezuela

The stinky side of the lake.

[Bombero1956]

169. Westfield Massachusetts

nicknamed the Whip City (no we're not into S&M) at Noble Hopital. Home to Columbia bicycles.

[SilasSoule]

170. Weslaco, TX

8 miles north of the TX/Mexico border

[Dimsdale]

171. Trenton, NJ...

15 August 1950.

Trenton Makes. The World Takes. (A Neon Sign still on one of the Bridges over the Delaware River.)

Manufacturing? That was then. Now? HA! Made in China.

[bleedingheart]

175. North Huntingdon, PA

but technically I was born in McKeesport Hospital in Mckeesport PA

[DoctorBombay]

176. Mount Clemens, Michigan

Lived there until 3 or 4, then Cleveland, now LA.

[amandae]

178. Rochester, New York

[Syn_Dem]

179. St. Louis, Missouri

n/t

[newsguyatl]

180. Durham, NC

at Duke University, but i'm a Carolina Tar Heel, not a dookie!

[Susang]

182. Dee-Troit, Michigan

Mt Carmel Mercy Hospital on Outer Drive. Strangely, the hospital was only three blocks from our house, so my Mom insisted on waiting until the very last minute to go. She went into labor when Johnny Carson's show started and I was born at 1:05 AM, five minutes after the show ended. :-)

[newyawker99]

183. Brooklyn, New York!

YAY!! :bounce:

[meti57b]

188. NYC

[Seneca]

189. Seneca Falls, NY

n/t

[Imalittleteapot]

197. Baltimore, Maryland

I love crabs.