So where are we all from?

I was born in Tennessee, because we were visiting a lot of my mother's family. We lived in Florida, although we spent one year in North Carolina, for my father's job. He died when I was eight. Then, when I was twelve, we moved back to my mother's hometown in Tennessee. She was the oldest of ten. The bulk of the family was still there, so she decided to go back. The End!

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I'm one of 10, but not from Tennessee.

I was born in Lithuania. I have lived in Cambridgeshire, England for 8 months; Dorset, England for 2 years; Lower Saxony, Germany for 5 months and London, England for 4 years. I'm in Lithuania currently.

Born in Virginia, moved to California as an infant, then back east to Maryland when I was five. Have lived most of my life here in Howard County, Maryland, in the towns Columbia and Ellicott City. As an adult I have also lived for stretches in San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR.

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Columbia, MD was sort of famous in its heyday, the late '60s and through the '70s, as a planned community, designed by James Rouse, who is the grandfather of actor Edward Norton. Norton grew up here (we never crossed paths), as did Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon (Wonder Boys, The Adventures of Cavalier & Clay), artist/writer Aaron McGruder (The Boondocks), and musician Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio). I have met Chabon a couple times and even had lunch with him once, through one of my Portland friends actually (and we had lunch in San Diego at ComicCon). Though I didn't know Edward Norton or Aaron McGruder I did know David Sitek. Our brothers were friends and he and I spent a couple summers working together at a stage theater, though I haven't spoken to him since the 1990s. If any of you are bug TV on the Radio fans, I can share a pic of Sitek and me as skinny teenagers goofing around the theatre.

Here is an essay Chabon wrote back in 2001 about how Columbia captured his imagination as a kid.

https://fmarcial.wordpress.com/2009/...n-columbia-md/

And here is a very 1970s educational film about my town. They start talking about Columbia at about the 9:35 mark. You can see the suburban utopia I grew up in. I live in Columbia, now. It has certainly expanded and changed over the decades, but the core elements of the original planned community are still around.

My town is known for our prisons (technically there are two of them, a state prison and a "medical facility.")

Long Island, New York

Or as we call it, Lon Guylin, New Yawk.

Hi neighbor.

I'm on Long Island too. I'm right on the Queens/Nassau border, up near New Hyde Park, but I'm sometimes in the Westbury/East Meadow area on the weekends.

Where are you?

I grew up in Suffolk on the south Shore. But now I live in Westchester (the BEST chester!)

Hubby and I used to go up to Dave & Buster's in Nyack, but they finally opened one here on the island, so we haven't been up that way in a while. We also used to stop at Stew Leonard's supermarket on the way sometimes, but we finally got one of those too.

It takes a while, but eventually the good stuff comes here. We're finally getting a Sonic Drive-In in East Meadow and a Golden Corral in Levittown. They're not open yet, but the signs are up that they're "coming soon".

Now all we need is a Cici's Pizza, and we'll have all the places that Hubby and I used to visit out of the area.

And then you will be sick of them because you will realize the food sucks. Meanwhile I wish we had a decent deli to get a simple yet delicious turkey sandwich for lunch.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Oh, in case anyone reading this is anywhere near Pittsburgh, or even will be, lunch is on me. Standing offer for any MoFo who's ever in the area.

Deli sandwiches around here are available everywhere. You can't walk a block or two without passing a good deli.

I work in Toronto at PS Production Services. .

Not directly but they did sub rentals from us.