Where is everyone from?

[Barracuda]

Thought I would start a thread to see where everybody is from.

I'm from Wausau, WI. Actually I just moved to town.

On that note if anybody is from the area maybe you could pass along the names of some used game stores.

[Oi_Oi_Spanky]

The unconqured county of Kent in England. Home of the great invicta. Throughout history Kent has stood, stuckfast in defiance of all that should care to invade. Post Roman rule of course. Before that Kent was true England, the north of the estury to the tip of Wales was ruled by Danelaw. Just five minuites walk away is a medievil church where lay the body of a Knight from the crusade. Extremely rich in history is Kent. You have to walk along the cobble stone roads in Rochester, the home of Charles Dickens or visit Canterbury cathederal where Thomas A Beckit was slain due to a druken whim from the King. "Who will rid me of this priest!?".

Lovely place.

[Nazza]

New South Wales, which is a state of Australia. Although technically I'm from New Zealand as my parents are both from there.

[Genesis Knight]

Missouri - although you could tell that from my Genesis Around the World article.

[j_factor]

I'm from the east bay. That means the eastern part of the Bay Area, in norcal (Northern California). Specifically, I currently reside in a small town called Pleasant Hill. I'm only about 15 miles away from Berkeley, but Pleasant Hill is a lot more conservative and boring. I generally prefer to tell people that I'm from Concord, which is a larger city that borders PH. I used to live in Concord itself, and my current residence is at most a 10 minute walk from the Concord border. Not that any of this means anything to you guys. In short, I live in a small city approx. 15 miles out of Berkeley and Oakland. Eventually I hope to move "further in"*, like to Oakland or Berkeley. I would love to live in the city, but rent/property is just too damn expensive.

* - this is a local expression, I guess. The city (San Francisco) is "in town"; in the east bay, further east is "further out" and further west is "further in". This expression only applies to the east bay in relation to the city, and not the north bay or the peninsula or south bay.

[Melf]

I'm from sunny Cabo Rojo (Cape Red in English) in Puerto Rico, jewel of the Caribbean. Our town is sleepy during the week but comes alive on weekends, as we're the premier beach town on the island. I like it because it's nice and quiet but close to the mall and main urban center, which is Mayaguez.

[landstalkerx]

I'm Currently living in Encinitas, California, which is about 20 minutes from what is known as down Town San Diego. Eventhough its called Down town there isn't really much there, just the air port, Convention centre, Petco Park a bunch of parking garages and mabey a couple of buildings over 5 stories tall. I moved here a few years ago, I used to live in Burnaby, B.C. (5-10 minutes from Vancouver). I'll be moving again in 07, for University.

[David J.]

I live in Watertown, New York. The city is, well perfect if someone wanted to make an SOR movie. Not a lot of crime, but sure in crappy shape.

I still like the area.

[Joe Redifer]

I am from Denver, CO.

Melf I bet you are VERY familiar with rust.

[Melf]

A beach town in the rainy tropics? You betcha. :(

[Cataulin]

Norfolk Va. (United States)


Its currently 66F even tho its supposed to be summer.........wtf........

[Sega Saturn x]

I currently reside in buffalo newyork, sute the weather sucks and it's cold 75% of the time. But it really isn't a bad place to live, plus it's close to toronto which is also nice.

[ROBOTRON]

Detroit, Michgan...toilet of the midwest.

[David J.]

I am from Denver, CO.

Melf I bet you are VERY familiar with rust.

I know I am -- look at the fender of my car!

http://ourworld.cs.com/airbikecop/DCP00342.JPG

And Buffalo sucks, no Vault soda = bad place to live.

[TidalTempest]

I'm from (and live in) Perth, in Western Australia.

[Benjamin]

New Orleans, LA -- Going on 318 days without a natural disaster. :)

[Drixxel]

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Fun fact.. it's the fourth most expensive real estate market in the country, what with all the beautiful lake front property and rapidly developing suburban labyrinths, but it ranks in among the bottom 10% nationally for average yearly wage earned per capita. It's pretty well a paradise for credit card collecting attempted socialites living well beyond their means. That being said, there is a lot I like about this area, but Vancouver looks to be my habitation destiny in the next few years.

[Oi_Oi_Spanky]

I currently reside in buffalo newyork, sute the weather sucks and it's cold 75% of the time. But it really isn't a bad place to live, plus it's close to toronto which is also nice.

Come to jolly olde England where the weather is shite 90% of the time. Or if you're feeling completely suicidal, go to Scotland where it's grim all of the time.

[FishySaysSpoon]

North Vancouver Canada. Its a very rainy place here, think its worse than seatle.

[fruitsofherwomb]

California, Full of Illegals </3 FTL

[j_factor]

hmm... is Craigie anywhere near Perth?

[Disoblige]

I live in Orland Park, Illinois.

It used to be a good old quiet place, now its becoming bigger and bigger nowadays

[David J.]

New Orleans, LA -- Going on 318 days without a natural disaster. :)

Did your game collection survive the hurricane?

[djtwok]

Well I am from austria (no, not australia).

[Benjamin]

Did your game collection survive the hurricane?

Yep, though my cousin's and other's didn't, plus a few things I had lent out at the time were lost. I live close to downtown, so that really helps -- most damage was outside in surrounding areas.

[David J.]

Seeing that some parts of NY had flooding that was really bad, and my house has two HUGE trees surouding my house, I better take some percautions this winter, and my area is due for a hurricane!

A tornado touched down near NYC, so yeah... This winter might be hell. :eek:

[lemmy_kilmister]

North eastern Massachusetts. Basically the yuppie capital of the world.

[Nazza]

Well I am from austria (no, not australia).

Do you watch Kommissar Rex?

[Ghaleon]

Living in Norman Oklahoma, U.S.A., originally from a small town in southern Oklahoma.

We've got OU, which is a decent school, but I could give a *!&% about the football team--went to OU on and off for five years and never saw a single game, but it's not safe to tell people here that. ;-)

We've got a marinally decent chain of used game stores (that carry all the "oldies but goodies") in the greater Oklahoma City metro area (of which Norman is a part), so I've been kept supplied with cheap games to play...just quit working for them though (no regrets about that), so no more "first dibs" for me on the good stuff.

[gaMEthuselah]

The Netherlands. No, it's not a province of Europe, nor is Europe a country.

gMt - &#230;

[Zebbe]

I live in T&#228;by, a monicipality north of Stockholm, Sweden. Winters are cold, summers are hot or rainy. In T&#228;by we have the biggest centre of Sweden, a racecourse, a big 19th century style farm which kind of resembles a museum. There is NOTHING to get here if you are a retro gamer. Then Stockholm (30 minutes) is closest with a few stores with retro games.

[HetmanTancred]

I was born in Odessa, Ukraine but when I was 4 my folks moved here to Brooklyn, NY. This place is fucking terrible...

[ary incorparated]

im from the Nederlands.

[108 Stars]

@Nazza


Do you watch Kommissar Rex?

Don´t tell me Kommissar Rex runs in Australia?!

I´m from Frankfurt in Germany, a city with only about 500000 residents but crawling with people from all over the world since many major banks are located here. Therefor the place is often referred to as "Bankfurt" too. Through the city flows the dirty River Main, and since we are pretty proud of having the closest thing to a skyline in the country, we like to call the city "Mainhattan" as well.
You may have noticed that Frankfurt was one of the places the Soccer Worldcup took place recently.
I love this city. the smallest metropolis in the world...

[ary incorparated]

Germany is great a great vacantion country,the mautains in the winter and the nature it looks great and really nice germany is the best for vacations.

[Vyse of Arcadia]

I'm from the US. Alabama the Backwards, to be specific. The middle-of-nowhere part where one can't even get cable.

Somebody help me...I'm surrounded by people whose knowledge of video games is limited to "Deer Hunter Shotgun Game XTreme."

[Novaka]

Chilliwack British Colombia Canada. The person who's from Vancouver might know where this is.

[Nazza]

@Nazza

Don´t tell me Kommissar Rex runs in Australia?!



Yeah on the multicultural channel. We used to watch it in German class at school all the time. :D

[Garlo]

Monterrey, M&#233;xico. The industrial capital of the country has a high quality of life (one of the highest in Latin America) and it's located about two or three hours near the border with Texas, but unfortunatley is also damn expensive compared to most cities of the south of the country.

I really really hope I don't have to move to another city inside this country, as I'm perfectly happy here, but it is a bit boring heh. I just need a decent job to stay.

Wikipedia Link because I'm lazy for more info. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterrey,_Mexico)

[daminmancejin2]

New jersey Newark

[ThunderForce]

I was born in Odessa, Ukraine but when I was 4 my folks moved here to Brooklyn, NY. This place is fucking terrible...


I was born in Brooklyn and moved to Florida. Yeah man, get the hell out of Brooklyn ASAP!

[Elusive]

North Lincolnshire, England. On-off summers, cold winters - can't complain.

Great Britain - Sega's European stronghold :)

[XMARLTONX]

New jersey Newark

http://www.uscensusrecords.net/new-jersey-census.gif

Marlton, NJ

08053 REPRESENT! :D