<p>Born just outside Philly, raised in south Jersey (very close to where soozievt is from!), lived for many years in Canada, and am now in the Northeast (my kids don't really want me specifying exactly where!).</p>
<p>Born in LA, moved to the Bay Area, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Boston (for a year at BU), Cleveland, and now Chardon, snow capital of Ohio. I'd like to move back to Boston someday.</p>
<p>Ok, born in NYC (Far Rockaway Rules!), lived in CT, OK, NM, CO, Toronto, SoCal, and now Oregon. Also spent a year abroad.</p>
<p>Live in SoCal. Born in NorCal and never grew up. Lived substantial amounts of time in Evanston (suburban Chicago) and some time in D.C. as well as various SoCal locations. Spent some early years in the South--Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas--and went to K & 1 in New Orleans.</p>
<p>Currently Seattle--NJ raised, LA, Chicago, Madison, Austin, Atlanta, Central VA, Boulder.</p>
<p>Born in suburban NY, moved to suburban Cleveland, finished high school in LA (which is all suburban). Came to No. Calif for college and didn't leave, though I did move around and across the Bay several times. Spent a college year in England, half a high school year in Hong Kong, always thought we'd find a way to raise our kids abroad...sigh. In same house for 20+ years and ready for a change, except that we actually do live in a place that grown kids come home to.</p>
<p>Central New Jersey born and bred. Spent my summer vacations at the northern end of the Jersey Shore in Lavallette (Hi, Garland!). I have lived in the western Philadelphia suburbs for more than 20 years but I just can't let go of my past. :-)</p>
<p>I prefer to not divulge my state of residence, although I wll say that "res" simply stands for "resident" and does not imply any connection to the medical field. :) </p>
<p>Yes, the "northern" part of the state.</p>
<p>14 years in northern California. Grew up on Longisland (one word). Lived in Chicago, Jacksonville, Long Beach area, DC area, 3 years in Dem. Rep. of Congo (formerly Zaire), 4 years in New Delhi before this.</p>
<p>Chicagos North Shore, here. Midwesterners, make your presence known! We are seriously underrepresented.</p>
<p>Born n raised in Puget Sound area.
Grew up in the burbs of Seattle, came back to the city to raise kids.</p>
<p>Also born and raised in suburban NY (there sure are a lot of us here), moved to the San Diego area 20 years ago where we live in one of the last rural small towns in Southern California.</p>
<p>Maybe we should change this thread to: you know you're from the U.S. when someone asks you where you're from and it takes a paragraph to list every place you've lived.:)</p>
<p>wjb - I live in Michigan - but I'm originally from the East Coast so I don't know if that counts even though I've lived here longer.</p>
<p>Boston, then rural Va.</p>
<p>I live near Houston. I was born in Houston. I grew up in Houston. I'm still near Houston. Husband has a job with 0% chance of moving. Am really, really hoping that daughter goes to college outside of Texas so I can visit (or pretend to visit).</p>
<p>garland-
you've got me mixed with someone else.....there ARE a bunch of Jersey folk here.
My Monmouth county hometown is closer to Routes 35 and 36.....Sandy Hook and Long Branch and Asbury were our destinations as teens on weekends/summers. :)</p>
<p>Ok, 35 and 36 both ran thru the town I grew up in. Brookdale college is in it, and SH and LB and AP were our destinations,too. My HS class was about 900+, and it broke up into two schools the year after I graduated. I lived in the North half of town. Oh, and Miami STeve went to my HS. So,, give my some hints and I'll figure out which one you went to, it must've been close by.</p>
<p>Mmmmm....Garland, maybe it is the same town:
MY graduating class in 1974 was 900+ also....and was split up into north and south in next year or so. Half day split sessions all 3 years there. (9th grade was kept at the middle school- although it was called the junior high then). We lived in north.
Graduation at the Garden State Arts Center- which of course, is no more- due to the class size.
One of those towns north on 35 above Red Bank.</p>
<p>Firelflyscout, I can get you a tourist visa for California.</p>