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  11. My official address is Chicago, but I am a surfer trying to live the life of the Endless Summer in retirement. So, I tend to be where the waves are (and there are not good waves in Chicago). The most accurate response is Chicago, SoCal and Hawaii.Report

  29. Mostly lurking from Tokyo Japan, and occasionally from the in-laws’ in Fukushima. Small world, wouldn’t want to paint it.Report

  31. Mostly lurker, occasional smart-ass drive by commenter.

    St. George, UT via Salt Lake City, UT, via Des Moines, Ames, and Iowa City, IA.

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      1. Yeah, I gather I’m bit beyond you in years but took some pride in knowing a fellow Des Moinesian was hitting the big time on the intertubes.  I’m a south-sider.  Southridge Mall, Brody Jr High School, etc.Report

      1. I hate to have to admit it, but I could have an affair with Texas.  I mean, I know she’s all wrong for me, with the cowboy boots, and too much makeup, and the capital punishment and all.  She’d never love me. She’d probably wreck my life.  But still…..Report

      2. I like Austin just fine. I can get good bbq within a mile of my work in pretty much every direction, there’s a lot of green space for a city its size, and the Bible thumping is minimal given where the city is located, but it’s not as great as it likes to pretend. The people are distinctly impolite for a city this far south, the great music scene is really only legend at this point (sure, there are a lot of musicians, but for the most part the quality musicians realized that in order to make a living at this stuff, you have to move to Nashville, L.A., New York, or New Orleans, and so they did), the city’s racism has become more and more palpable over the years, and the homeless population is growing (conservative estimates put it at 2300 or so, but more accurate surveys put it at closer to 5 digits) and underserved despite the fact that all of the west Austin liberal well-to-do’s run a charity 5k 3 times a week. Aside from the BBQ and a few South American restaurants, the food kinda sucks, too. Plus, as the city has become more wealthy, its political makeup has changed. It’s no longer any more liberal, and perhaps less so, than Houston proper or San Antonio. Really, San Antonio is the new Austin, but with a shittier bus system and no major university.Report

        1. I should note that Austin’s live music scene does return to real, from legendary, status 3 times a year: SxSW, ACL music festival, and the one I just spent the weekend attending, Fun Fun Fun Fest. This reminds me, if you have a moment, everyone who reads this should look for Soul Kahn’s battles on YouTube.Report

          1. I’m long familiar with SxSW (hence, my yt link), I don’t recognize the other two.

            You’ve certainly made a convincing argument. I guess Austin sucks only marginally less than the rest of TX. 😉Report

              2. I have the audacity to hope. I’ve always found the idea of a Personal Jesus to be at odds with the sorting hat mechanism of that selfsame mainstream evangelical Xianity. Like, what if my Personal Jesus likes beer and golf? Should I try and be more Christlike?Report

              3. Mr. Carr, we’re above my paygrade.  Heaven is God’s call, not man’s, thank God [if there is one].  Me, I’d rather take my chances on Him even existing in the first place than on the mercies of my fellow man…

                 

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    2. Of course. Vegas is about the easiest place to access, and the easiest place in which to find accomodations. Come to think of it, I have some Vegas.com cards saved up. I’ll suggest we meet for dinner at Border Grill in the Mandalay Bay.Report

      2. Hah… Deep south almost always means Alabama or Mississippi. People from Georgia aren’t embarrassed enough to avoid naming their state.

        I kid, Farmer, I kid. I’m from Tennessee (originally), so I have a biological urge to mock Alabama.Report

          1. Oh, sure. My Dad’s from Macon, and he’s said it on occasion.  I’ve heard people from northern Florida use it as well, and I’m sure someone from South Carolina has said it at some point. I was mostly just making a joke about Alabama and Mississippi for the hell of it.

            I remember getting an email many years ago with alternative state mottos. Alabama’s was “At least we’re not Mississippi.” That wasn’t as good as Iowa’s, though: “Iowa: Gateway to Illinois!”Report

            1. The cliché is that we nothern libruls disdain the deep south, but I have fond memories.  I used to go to Pascagoula on business about twice a year, and the food was good and the people amazing. The second time you’d go to a restaurant, you were an old friend..

              Jaybird might appreciate this: one of the fellows I worked with was tall and rather heavy-set, and one night after he’d left and the rest of us were finishing our desserts, the waitress came up and asked, shyly, “Was that Tiny Frazier?”Report

      4. I used to think that Argentina was a southern state. It sounds like a state (Georgia, Carolina, Argentina) and I was introduced to the existence of the state during the Olympics and they referred to it as being in South America.Report

  41. So, I notice nearly everyone lists a large city, does pretty much everyone live in the main metro or are they reporting the nearest city to them? I feel like the only small-town hick in the big city here. Honestly I could see it either way.Report

    2. I live in the middle of an eighty acres that my wife’s grandfather bought around 1927 for the unheard of price of 3.00 an acre.  There are two towns between me and Baton Rouge that, unless you are from here, nobody has ever heard of.   That is the reason I said Baton Rouge instead of Central.  I can see three other houses from my front porch so I guess one might say I live in the country.Report

      1. I’ve lived here since 2009, but I am not, I’m afraid, a Komets fan. My hometown is Hershey, PA, home of the Bears, who have the most Calder Cup victories in the AHL. So even though they don’t actually compete with the Komets, my minor-league hockey loyalties lie elsewhere.Report

  46. Zaandijk, Netherlands

    It’s about 15km north of Amsterdam, which I thought of using. But why not use the the dreary suburb where I live instead of the romantic capital a 20min train-ride away?

    And to answer the previous census question, I got here fairly recently via Google Reader’s Recommended Sources, liked it and stayed (as a lurker until now because I do not have anything interesting to say).Report

  50. As of about 6 months ago, my body resides in San Juan, Puerto Rico. My heart, however, forever remains in Chicago. Still looking for my mind.Report

  51. Pittsburgh, PA Squirrel Hill to be precise (that’s a neighborhood in the city…)

    “I open my door and the world walks in” (Russian/Polish/Chinese/Sudanese/Israeli etc.)Report

  55. Accokeek, MD (outside of DC, wherein I work, and just across the river from G Washington’s house) and New York City.  I go back and forth.  So I guess that makes me one of them East Coast elites that hates real Americans.

    I like living in Accokeek because it’s fun to say out loud

    And I’m a Gentleman novitiateReport

  58. Originally from the Bay Area, California, currently by way of Pasadena, CA.

    Spent the first 18 up there, the last 22 down here.  I’ve lived just about everywhere in the Los Angeles basin except the Inland Empire, and I had a long stretch where I commuted out there every weekend ’cause that was the buddy hangout.Report

  59. Shout-out from the fictitious city of Callie in the fictitious state of Arapaho. Yeah, I don’t think you’re going to be able to put that on the map.

    It seems that a number of people here live in places that I used to. A shame to learn that too late.

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