<p>After reading Backhandgrip's thread "should I bow out of here" I thought maybe we should post where we are from as I don't remember it being done before. If so, I apologize for repeating a thread. But if not, then here goes!</p>
<p>I live in Indiana (but I'm from New York originally - specifically, Long Island).</p>
<p>Maybe we could all edit our profiles to show our state or region, then it would always show, in all postings.</p>
<p>I've lived in Southern California for 27 years, grew up in Michigan.</p>
<p>From New Jersey. Lived in the NY-NJ-CT tri-state area for 24 years; before that lived in the middle of a desert in an isolated campus for 5 years (in college) in Northwestern India; before that in a middle-sized industrial town (very cosmopolitan) in Bihar, India for 17 years.</p>
<p>Orginally, Brooklyn, NY. now, Queens, NY</p>
<p>sybbie, was there culture shock making that move?</p>
<p>Madras, India (till I got my undergrad degree); then Rochester/Binghamton NY for 10 years, Chicago (5), Amsterdam@Netherlands(2), Valparaiso IN (3), and back in Chicago (8).</p>
<p>...but I still haven't picked up a Midwest accent, my daughters say...</p>
<p>Oh gosh yes, Nahtans in coney island still has the best hot dogs. Better transportation and parking</p>
<p>Grew up on the North end of the Jersey shore, spent a few years in Michigan, back to NJ, and have now been in North Jersey for ~20 yrs. And yes, the culture shock from Jersey shore to North Jersey is staggering.</p>
<p>somemom....good idea.</p>
<p>Oh, how I miss NY food .....</p>
<p>SoCal, but grew up in NorCal and lived in DC and the Second City</p>
<p>I've lived in Maryland for the last 20 years. Before then, I lived in Wilmington, Delaware; Beaumont, Texas; Baton Rouge, LA, and Toledo, Ohio. But I grew up in New York.</p>
<p>Scottsdale, AZ, for last 2 1/2 years; Los Angeles for 5 years before that; Jakarta and London for 3+ years before that. </p>
<p>I've also lived in Boston, Chicago and Jacksonville, FL, for varying amounts of time.</p>
<p>Born in NY but grew up at the top of the Jersey shore (way back when Springsteen was playing at Brookdale CC!)</p>
<p>Living happily in Northern NJ for last 26 years.....
As Garland says, Northern NJ is way far from the Jersey shore in all ways but miles!</p>
<p>Born and raised in So. Cal, except for the year I lived in Poitiers, France, in college. But if I could move anywhere, it would be Boston. Love that city! (Chicago is a close second.)</p>
<p>Now in upper midwest but grew up in L.A. and have lived at the 4 corners of the U.S. and a few places in between (MA, CT, FL, CA, AZ, OR, WI, MI).</p>
<p>Kids both graduated from college recently and have declared that they'd be more likely to visit us if we moved someplace more interesting. They actually do live in interesting places at this time -- NYC and Chicago.</p>
<p>Grew up mostly in VA, ten years outside of Chicago, and seven and a half in Texas. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm "from" anywhere!</p>
<p>Born NY, NY, moved to Florida, then to several places in Indiana (including Valparaiso, Optimizerdad), on to North Carolina for high school, then to middle Tennessee for the last 30 years. Still have my Yankee accent, somewhat modified.</p>
<p>Musicmom: was it you whom I realized grew up in the same town as me? (where Brookdale is?</p>