How about Hometown check in? Where ya' from?

[triguy46]

Fairway, Kansas. You?

[rurallib]

1. West Liberty, Iowa

the only city in Iowa with a minority majority.

[triguy46]

3. I was born in Iowa

And lived there for a total of 6 weeks, never been back. Has it changed much? Would i remember it?

[rurallib]

47. not sure how long ago you were born, but we also have been

invaded by the greed and hate of the tea party types.
But most people are still nice. And we mostly farm. And the small towns are mostly dying.

[Fridays Child]

26. Love Iowa, Minnesota, too.

Many, many fond memories of childhood summers in Minnesota.

[femmocrat]

2. S.W. Pennsylvania.

Originally from Johnstown, now living outside of Pittsburgh.

[triguy46]

4. Johnstown as in flood?

[femmocrat]

14. Yes, same town.

There were actually 3 major floods: 1889 was the Great Flood (David McCullough wrote a book about it). The other two were in 1936 and 1977.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_flood

Fortunately for me, I missed all of them.

[Bertha Venation]

42. I read McCullough's book

The 1889 flood was a great tragedy as I'm sure the others were. I'm glad you missed them.

[rug]

5. NY, NY now Milford, PA.

[triguy46]

9. Wow! Great pic. Thanks.

[Odin2005]

108. Wow, what a pretty little town!

[Graybeard]

6. New York, New York

The town so nice they named it twice.

[triguy46]

8. A very nice town indeed.

[geardaddy]

57. I thought that was Walla Walla.

[IrishEyes]

72. Me too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. I was born in Ripon, Wisconsin...

We moved away when I was about 3 months old. I did get to return many years later......

It's a beautiful little college town.

[Scuba]

45. Ripon's about 20 miles east of me, home of the Republican Party ...

... and indeed a nice town despite that distinction. Have to remember, Republicans were the good guys (sorta) way back then.

[Odin2005]

109. The Pubs were the Liberals back then.

In the last 158 years the two parties have done a nearly complete 180, the only remnant of the old Antebellum Democratic Party is the fact that the party establishment is for "Free Trade" anti-tariff policies.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

10. I'm kind of like Romney

I've moved around so much, I don't know where I'm from

[triguy46]

11. Ha! I'm sure you are not like mittster at all.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

15. Well, I don't have a lot of money

I don't have any horses
I don't have any mansions or yachts
I don't have any Cayman or Swiss bank accounts
I've never fired anyone
I don't look down on working people
I've never given my dog a ride on the top of my car
And I'm not a Republican!

So maybe that's the only thing we have in common

[triguy46]

16. But you're here with the good folks.

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

18. So that's another thing I don't have in common with Romney

[Sedona]

12. Beauuuuuuuuutifil Sedona, AZ

[triguy46]

13. Thanks. It is beautiful there.

[hobbit709]

17. Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, Austria

[woodsprite]

19. Newark, Delaware. n/t

[ohiosmith]

20. Hometown: Columbus, Ohio. Current: Las Vegas, Nevada.

[HipChick]

21. London town...

Please, no-one ask me if England is in London... yes..more than few people have asked me that..

[MiddleFingerMom]

23. Do you know the Queen?

[triguy46]

85. Hey, I've seen the Queen and I'm not from London

Commonwealth Day, Westminster, 1996.

[MiddleFingerMom]

22. Born in Batimore, Ridgefield, CT 'til I was 6, then raised in Jackson, MI 'til joined the Army at 17

.
.
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50,000 people when we moved there -- failing economies have it down to about 30,000 now.
.
FANTASTIC place to grow up in -- safe and fun. I moved back at around the age of 25, found
I had absolutely nothing in common anymore with my old buddies who had stayed there (and
would probably ALWAYS live there), made a whole new circle of friends who had moved in from
somewhere else.
.
Bored to fucking tears as an adult. Work was scarce and I moved to the Philly area within a year.
.
Ridgefield, CT was a mixture of mostly lower middle class (us) and VERY wealthy people.
.
My best friend may have been the only black kid in town at that time and we used to freak our
Moms out with our nicknames for each other -- Chocolate Cake and Vanilla Cake. They ordered
us to stop it, but we could see no reason for that and refused. Pretty ballsy stance for boys
that were otherwise pretty good boys.

[elleng]

34. Went to summer camp in Ridgfield, CT!!!

[MiddleFingerMom]

38. We lived on a corner lot in a 2-story house (3 with the basement/garage opening out to the backyard)

.
.
.
It was a terrifyingly STEEP hill. The MOMENT MiddleFingerMomDad went into the house after
showing me how to ride my new bike, I took off my training wheels and pointed it down that
death-defying sidewalk run. I made it down, screaming the whole way... and then did it again
and again and again and again.
.
Thirty years later, MiddleFingerMomSis and her family moved to nearby Darien CT and once
while visiting, I went back to that old homestead.
.
.
.
That steep daredevil hill was this gentle slope barely capable of transporting a bike downhill
without some fierce pedaling.
.
.
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I was amazed at how much that hill had sunk into the surrounding countryside.
.
.
.

[handmade34]

49. ah, Cascades and the home of the Republican Party!

born in Lansing and spent much of my time at the VFW home in Eaton Rapids...

[MiddleFingerMom]

63. We lived about 2-3 blocks from The Cascades, so we were close to all it offered:

.
.
.
Sledding and tobogganing (to the right of that photo was "Devil's Dip", where the hill
followed the short outs-and-downs of the falls, so runs between its giant fir trees WERE
kinda death-defying) -- we cracked 2 or 3 toboggans there over the years. Warmer
weather offered EARLY dawn bike rides screaming down dew-covered slopes where
you didn't dare use your pedal back-wheel brake.
.
Those dark vertical bars in the photo are giant concrete flower beds -- during the
off-hours, we would race up and down the falls using those to climb them.
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The back of the hill was an official Soap Box Derby track, so we had Little Rascals-type
cars to build.
.
And the Republican Party WAS founded there by anti-slavery activists in 1854 -- Abe
Lincoln being their first President.
.
.
.,

[Fridays Child]

24. Been a 'Zonie most of my life...

...Tucson, to be specific. But I was born in Oklahoma City, and I'll always be an Okie, in some ways.

[southerncrone]

25. Chattanooga, TN

[Kali]

27. born in Flagstaff

mostly raised in Tempe
now I don't live in a town at all

5th generation Arizonan

[blueamy66]

61. just got back from Flag and Winslow

it was nice!

[kurtzapril4]

28. Wauconda, IL

native of Covington, KY.

[blueknight]

69. ME TOO!

born in covington ky, in 1957!

[stanwyck]

90. Watseka, Illinois - downstate

Iroquois County - the buckle on the corn belt

[Aristus]

29. Born: San Antonio, Texas. Live: Puyallup, Washington.

I'm an Evergreen Stater to the bone, Texas-born or not!...

[Populist_Prole]

30. Hastings-on-Hudson NY, White Plains NY, Montrose NY.

Spent the most time in the lattermost. Live in NC now.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

31. born Muncie, Indiana - live in Arlington, Texas

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[nolabear]

32. Mostly Pascagoula, MS and New Orleans.

I was an Air Force kid but extenuating circumstances kept me in one place, or at least one area, more than most.

[emilyg]

33. Round about way - ended up in Ga.

[AsahinaKimi]

35. I live in San Francisco

Sanfuranshisuko ni sunde imasau. サンフランシスコに住んでいます

Sanfuranshisuko de unmaremashita. I was born in San Francisco. サンフランシスコでうんまれました

[Odin2005]

112. I have dreams of moving to San Fran!

I would give my left arm to live there.

[davidb19766]

36. LA, California

[Chan790]

37. Hartford, CT by way of Brooklyn, NY.

I've also lived in Washington, DC; Philadelphia, PA; Annapolis, MD; Yonkers, NY; New Haven, CT; Houston, TX; Arlington, VA; Baltimore, MD.

[mnhtnbb]

39. Born in NY (Manhattan). Lived in White Plains, NY;

Chatham, NJ; Southern CA (various towns from San Diego to L.A. for 23 years); St. Joseph, MO;
Lincoln, NE; and now Chapel Hill, NC.

[IrishEyes]

71. I used to live in Chatham, NJ when I was a kid in the eighties.

Nice town.

[mnhtnbb]

76. We lived in Chatham Township from 1954-1965! Went back for 40th reunion of high school class

I would have graduated with (1969) if we hadn't moved to California. Couldn't believe
how BIG all the trees were! Duh...40 years of growth!

[bluedigger]

40. Grew up in Farmington, Maine.

One of your nicer New England small college towns, if you are looking to relocate.

Currently residing in cosmopolitan Cortez, Colorado. Been to the city - like the small towns.

[Scuba]

46. I miss fly fishing in the Kennebec.

[Bertha Venation]

41. Huntington Beach, California

Where is Fairway?

[pipi_k]

43. Born in Springfield, but...

not where Homer Simpson lives.

Springfield, Mass.

Now I live about 30 miles west, in one of the small Hilltowns in the foothills of the Berkshires.

Love it here.

[sarge43]

44. Bay City Michigan

/on edit/ from there, San Antonio TX, Greenville MS, Omaha NB, San Bernadino CA, London UK, Wiesbaden WGer, San Tone again, Tampa FL, Syracuse NY, Lincoln NH, Thornton NH

[LiberalEsto]

48. Grew up in Wayne, NJ

About 15 miles west of New York City, but like a different planet.

[geardaddy]

50. Born in Minneapolis, MN

Went to college in Geneva, NY


Lived in Beijing my sophomore year.


Taught English in Taipei for four years.


Then back to Minneapolis.

[handmade34]

51. born Lansing MI

now my home is here... about center to the right of the pond... Northeast Kingdom Vermont

[calikid]

52. Colusa, California

On the banks of the Sacramento River, fishing, hunting and CLEAN rice fields is about all there was/is. Oh, and the oldest continually used county Court House in the state. Population of about 3,000 when I was born, a little over 5,000 now. The one bad thing about the area is all
the repubs.

[Go Vols]

53. Manchester,Tenn.

[southerncrone]

91. Hey, Vols!

My dad lives in Manchester. I lived in Tullahoma for a couple of yrs in the early '80's.

Bon Aqua, TN now. I know you've never heard of it, but it's a wide spot in the road outside Dickson.

[ceile]

54. Born and raised Houston, TX

Go Texans!

[NightWatcher]

55. Savannah, Ga

[PRETZEL]

56. Born and raised in Coraopolis, PA

but have lived outside Philly since the early 80's

[bigwillq]

58. New Haven County, CT

[UrbScotty]

59. Kentwood, Michigan!

[RebelOne]

60. Born in Philadelphia, PA,

Grew up in Miami, FL, and am now living in the Atlanta, GA, area where I moved in 1989.

[blueamy66]

62. born in Buffalo, NY

home of awesome wings, hot dogs and the Bills

[bamacrat]

64. Lacey's Spring, AL

[hifiguy]

65. Born and raised in Minneapolis MN

Though I lived in Cambridge MA for three years of law school. Other than that never lived more than a few miles from downtown Minneapolis.

[jonpaulprime]

66. Flori-Duh

Unfortunately I live in the state of Rick Scott. Worst governor in the entire country.

[byeya]

67. Born in Baltimore and went through the Baltimoe City Public School System.

Left at age 18 to take a job in SW Utah with the federal government.
Lived at Fancy Gap the longest time.

[Raven]

68. Belmont, Massachusetts...home of

you-know-who.

[MissV]

70. Mabank, Texas

[Courtesy Flush]

73. New Iberia, La

[sakabatou]

74. Stanford-ish, CA

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

75. Born in Milwaukee, resident of St. Paul/Minneapolis for most of my life.

[cheezmaka]

77. Born in Chicago, IL...

Live in Memphis, TN for over 30 years. Now I stay in Detroit, MI...

[derby378]

78. Garland, Texas

Today, I live in Dallas, which is right next door but considerably bigger.

[triguy46]

86. Got in-laws in both places!

[Honeycombe8]

79. You mean originally? Welsh, Louisiana! Population 1,500!

And I'm alive to tell the tale!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

80. Was from Joplin, Mo.

Now in Tucson, AZ.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

81. Was born in Baxter Springs, KS.

[triguy46]

87. I know where that is!

Though mainly driving through on way to Pittsburg where daughter went to college.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

89. Ah yes, PSU.

I am a Lion myself.
Graduated Missouri Southern State University in 2007.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

82. The Smokies, baby!

[cynatnite]

97. Kingsport, TN. We're not far. n/t

[Duppers]

102. where zactly?

I've been in Virginia for decades and am moving back to those mountains.

[tavernier]

83. Gulf of Mexico.

I live on a boat.

[triguy46]

84. (Yawn) Thanks, y'all.

I fell asleep after starting this last night, I'm now awake and wine powered, I'll start working the thread again. Glad to see it still going.

[Flaxbee]

88. I spent most of my childhood in Redlands, California

(was born in California, not there, and spent several years also in San Juan Capistrano)

Now I'm on the east coast. I miss California, but the place I remember from my childhood....not necessarily the crowded and over-built tract-home-on-every-hill state it has become.

[ButterflyBlood]

92. Bismarck, North Dakota

I now live in Minneapolis unsurprisingly, as it takes much of North Dakota's liberal and cosmopolitan seeking population.

[Odin2005]

111. Howdy, neighbor! Uffda!!!

[av8rdave]

94. Jamestown, NY

I share my hometown with Lucille Ball, Natalie Merchant and Roger Tory Peterson.

[greatauntoftriplets]

95. Chicago.

I now live in the suburbs of Chicago.

[GoCubsGo]

103. Me, too.

But, I live in West ArmPit, South Carolina now. Been stuck here for 25 years. Must have done something really shitty in a previous life.

[fizzgig]

96. fort collins, co

haven't left yet, either

[crunch60]

98. Don't know, my mother was a traveling gypsy.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

99. BOBTOWN, PA

Bird's eye view of Bobtown with the patch on the left and the ruins of the coal mine on the right.

[benld74]

100. Its the first 5 letters of my DU name

and its in Illinois.
Its one time distinction back in the 20's, was Guiness Book of the highest number of taverns per capita in the US!

[graywarrior]

101. The City of Sin, Lynn MA

[SteveG]

104. Wilmington, DE

Have lived in Wilmington, Brandywine Hundred, Newark, Dover, Milford and currently in Bethany Beach, all in DE.

[GreenTea]

105. San Francisco.

[Spike89]

106. Springfield, Oregon

Yup, probably the model for the Springfield in the Simpson's. To be accurate though, Springfield/Eugene is the metro area--Eugene is where I work, where I went to high school, college, etc.

[Odin2005]

107. Ulen, Minnesota.

Tiny town of 532 souls an hour's drive NE of Fargo, near the White Earth Indian Reservation. Boring as hell and got out as soon as I started college in the Fall of 2004. My mom used to be the manager of the local VFW before the bar closed last year, my stepdad was the VFW's commander for a good number of years before he died 3 years ago.

I currently live in Moorhead, Minnesota, Fargo's "twin" city on the other side of the Red River, famous for the Hjemkomst museum and the replica Viking longboat it houses and the replica of a wooden medieval Norwegian cathedral on the museum grounds.

[kwassa]

110. Detroit, during its population peak and greatest prosperity.

Things have changed.

[HeiressofBickworth]

113. Born in Joplin MO

but never considered it "home" as we moved when I was six weeks old. Lived in South Bend IN until I was 10, then (Dad became a Boeing engineer) we moved to the Seattle area. Although I've also lived in Germany and Australia, I consider the Seattle area "home".

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

114. I'm from nowhere

My dad was a career officer in the Air Force. I was born in Munich, West Germany while he was transferred there. A few months later, he was transferred back to the U.S., to Oklahoma, then Texas, then back to Germany. Then Wisconsin, Colorado, and Georgia. I lived in Arkansas, his place of birth, for a year while he was transferred to Greenland up near the Arctic Circle and in France for a year (my mom’s French) while he spent a year in Vietnam, then back to Arkansas while the Air Force put my dad through a degree program at the U. of Arkansas. I now live in California. In my mind, I have no home town or place I’m from.

[angel823]

115. Corsicana, Texas

Still live in Texas - one of the "purple" cities.

Angel in Texas

[hibbing]

116. St. Cloud, MN, Raised in Lincoln, NE

Howdy,
Moved to Lincoln when I was four after a stop in Chicago. I like a lot of things about Lincoln.

Peace

[sinkingfeeling]

117. I guess you mean where we consider our hometown to be. Mine

will always be London, Ohio.

[dinger130]

118. Alas, never a blue state.

22 years, Gulf Shores, Alabama. Past year, Mount Sterling, Kentucky

[ellisonz]

119. Hermosa Beach and Pasadena - CA

[applegrove]

120. Ottawa, Ontario

[ArnoldLayne]

121. Bridgeport Ohio reside in Wheeling WV now.

[bif]

122. Grosse Pointe Park, MI

My high school.

[easttexaslefty]

123. Dad was stationed at Camp Lejeune, north Caroline

So that's where I born. We moved around several times before settling in Garland Tx during his time in Vietnam.
I call a small town approx. 30 miles NE of Dallas Tx home now.