So, where are you from?

[Alexandra M]

I thought it would be nice to hear about where members are from --- their country or
state or province, etc. Tell us about it --- history, geography, what your area is known for; that sort of thing.

 

[Alexandra M]

I'll start. I live in Kelowna, B.C. (Canada). It is known as the 'Florida of Canada' and we even have desert. Okanagan Lake goes through the city and is a huge
tourist attraction for boaters from all over the world. We are also in the fruit growing industry -- just about every fruit imaginable. Oh, wineries too; many,
many wineries. Never liked wine until I moved here. The weather is amazing from April to October ---hot and sunny. The winters are an excuse; they average
about 20 cm. of snow a year in Kelowna. The people are friendly and very helpful too. Very laid back population .....

 

[HollyGolightly]

 

[blunthead]

No, I'm not from sowhere.

 

[not_nadine]

I come from the Land Ice and Snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.

 

[pegasus216]

I live in the lower part of Delaware. It's nicknamed
'slower lower' because we take life easy here.
We live not very far from Ocean City, Maryland which is a tourist town in the summer because of the beach.
This area is known for chickens, and blue crabs.

 

[TheRedQueen]

Reno, Nevada. The Biggest Little City in the World, the Battle Born state. We're known for casinos, fast divorces, Lake Tahoe and Virginia City. The Donner Party died near here. There's a lot of open desert, but there's a lot of forested mountains, too. It can snow in June here, or have eighty degree Indian summers in February. I've seen it rain out of a clear blue sky; Renoites really are used to all four seasons in one day! Wild Mustangs run free still, though they're not as numerous as they once were. And you just might sit down with your kids at a frozen yogurt shop, look to your left, and see a true Nevadan carrying a revolver on his hip. And old men that look like they were cryogenically frozen in some gold mine two hundred years ago are actually pretty common....

 

[GNTLGNT]

Cambridge, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[swiftdog2.0]

I come from the Land Ice and Snow
From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.

Are you our overlord?

 

[not_nadine]

Aiiiieeeahhhh, yes.

 

[Autumnlyn]

Northern California (just a few hours south of Oregon)....but originally from Southern Cali. Two totally different worlds. Where I live now, it looks like you could film a Clint Eastwood cowboy movie. Manzanita trees, scrub oaks and lots of yellow fields. Beautiful to me We have horses and chickens and used to have cows and goats. It gets HOT here, summers can range in the 100's and winters can range in the 30's.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Born in Boston and grew up in the surrounding area.

Still living in MA.

 

[not_nadine]

Pennsylvania. Outside of Philadelphia. Originally. I am still around there. Lived out by the Amish Farms, horse and buggys for awhile. Then moved to Maryland for a bit, then Delaware and then back to PA. Now it looks like I am moving to southern New Jersey (which is still considered a suburb of Phila.)

Lots of farm stands with excellent corn and tomatoes!

I think it's about time to stick around somewhere for good.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Southern end of the Poconos, PA, just down the road from the Blue Mt Ski Resort. Luckily we haven't been taken over completely, yet, by all the invaders from NY and NJ who seem intent for some reason on turning our area into what they escaped from.

 

[Spideyman]

West central Fl, just north of Duma Key. Land of sun, sand and fun. Great place except during tropical season. In a rural area of woods and wildlife.

 

[Neesy]

Born in Toronto, Ontario and spent most of my live in Ontario until the military moved us to Edmonton Alberta.

From there went to Winnipeg, back to Ontario for less than a year and then chose to move back to Winnipeg which I now call home.

Spoiler

Silly University students

Spoiler

but it's a dry cold...

 

[Walter Oobleck]

You can't see it as well on the U.S.A. map, but the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is designated IL...Illinois? Ill? Probably the ladder. The bridge connects us to the rest of the world, by foot, car, snowmobile, so forth so on. Was known, still is by many, as The Copper Country. I live on Torch Lake, at the point of that fish-hook shaped body of water, an inlet of the big lake, Superior. Area was big into copper mining...all save one at White Pine (not on the map) were closed by '68 when C&H went on strike. At the time, union workers at C&H qualified for food stamps...workers, not the union bosses. Calumet is the center of one of our newest national parks...Isle Royale is another, older park. Often, on maps, the U.P. is left out entirely...or mislabeled as in the one included here. People in the U.P. are called "Yoopers" and people in the L.P. (lower peninsula) are called Trolls...'cause they live below the Mackinaw Bridge, five miles of suspension bridge, that connects the two peninsulas. We get a lot of snow, winter...there is still snow here in places...and I've seen snow as late as the first week of June. There are other small towns not on the map, the one I spent most of my childhood, Tamarack Mills...the mills gone, all save large sections of concrete, one stamp-head, one out of nine, left in place for the curious. When all nine stamp-heads were operating they made a racket.

 

[Alexandra M]

Thanks for the contributions to my first Post of this sort. Not to worry, I am NOT a stalker just like to hear about different places; anywhere and everywhere in the
world. I thought by asking for info by country or state or province it was not as personal as asking for one's exact city. Just general information of an area...

Really enjoyed the entries; keep it going ? (please??)

 

[Alexandra M]

Cambridge, Ohio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nice pic of Peter's Creek

 

[Riot87]

I am from Kingston Jamaica but i've lived in Florida and now in Wisconsin