<p>Also a former NY'er - born in The City, grew up in the 'burbs (Westchester). College in Poughkeepsie. Moved to Fla for grad school. Now in Atlanta for the past 23 years. I think that qualifies me as a native here, as almost everyone is a transplant.</p>
<p>momofonly, here I am - the ONLY Louisianian! Live in metro New Orleans area suburb....born in Alabama...grew up in Mississippi...have lived in Louisiana since marriage. And I don't know if your name means that you have an only child, but I'm an only, too. We rock :)</p>
<p>I grew up in Delaware and have lived in every county in the state: all three of them! Lived in upstate NY four long winters, WV two years, Virginia one year and although we've owned three houses in the last 16 years, all have been in Pennsylvania and I hope we're settled. We live near Allentown and Bethlehem. I love this area and hope my kids end up here. I've never had family close by and would like to see how it feels.</p>
<p>Yes, I have an only child (and I LOVE my only, you're right, they're terrific!). I was born in Baton Rouge but only lived there until I was 3 so I don't remember it. I've added you and the others to the list but I won't put the list up again until I get some more names added, otherwise it would just clutter up the board :)</p>
<p>Born in the Bronx, grew up in Queens (for the uninitiated, both are NYC boroughs). Went to college in upstate NY and grad school in Ann Arbor. Lived in Princeton, NJ before moving to Oregon. Oh, and I spent some time in France while DH worked on his dissertation.</p>
<p>I'm a fifth-generation Minnesotan. I lived in Wisconsin a little more than one year while growing up, and went to college in Minnesota. Then I lived in Taiwan for three years, marrying dw there (and traveled to China and to British-ruled Hong Kong). I traveled EVERYWHERE in the United States for the next few years, as a Chinese-English interpreter. (I only have to set foot on two more states to have set foot on all fifty, and I've seen them all.) During professional school studies had summer jobs in DC and Los Angeles, and then lived and worked in Seattle, WA after graduation. Now back in MN, and had a second three-year stint in Taiwan with family (third son born there). I used to describe myself as a "fifth-and-last-generation Minnesotan," but now I'm resigned to being a lifer. I miss east Asia continually.</p>
<p>Born and schooled in Michigan. Lived in San Francisco for 10 years, Manhattan for 10 years, then Hong Kong, now Jakarta. </p>
<p>My favorite "where are you from" concerns a friend of my son's. His father is Swedish, his mother is Singaporean of Indian and Malay descent. The family lives in Jakarta and the boy studies in Dublin. When he and my son were traveling in Europe last summer and were at a loss to explain the whole complicated arrangement, they just said he was Mexican (for some odd reason, he speaks fluent Spanish) which seemed as believeable as any other explanation.</p>
<p>Born into the societal stiflement of the Philadelphia Main Line (my mother aspired to it, anyway), escaped to Cambridge, MA at 17, lived in Cambridge, Boston, and the western suburbs of Boston until 37 (including children both born at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital), 2 years of misery in the relentless sunshine of the San Jose, CA area, then finally arrived in the Pacific NW ten years ago, where we now live in the eastern suburbs of Seattle. </p>
<p>We could live anywhere now--and I'd still stay here. I love the weather, the scenery, and the people.</p>
<p>Gosh, DMD, I was following you around for years, until I made long trip to FL. Just when I thought I had put down roots, another path appears, pulling me west.</p>