20-Somethings - Where is everyone from?

Sorry if this has already been done. But I thought it would be interesting to see where everyone is from. Maybe we can make some new friends in the same city as us and have workout buddy's!?!! Who knows..





I'm from Phoenix, Arizona! :carrot:

(If you are from Phoenix or surrounding cities please PM me!)


Raised in Minnesota and Iowa. Small town girl :)

Currently located in Charlottesville, VA. (Was born in Mississippi, have lived in TX, FL, CA, VA, and Ottawa, ON and London, ON... where I am "from" is a hard question to answer! :D)

I'm from Houston, Texas (unfortunately)

GA!

:carrot:

I live in Milford, OH. Born and raised in Cincinnati. Married and moved to Tennessee before coming back. Yankee by birth, but my heart's still in the South.

Originally from NY... currently in SW FL!

Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Cananda. Spent 4 years in London, Ontario going to university....but I'm a prairie girl at heart! I love my blue skies (even when it's -40! so decieving), my mountains and the chinooks!

South Shore of Long Island, NY. Born and raised! :D Though a big move to Maple Grove, Minnesota is in the near future!

San Antonio, Texas!

I'm from Phoenix, Arizona! :carrot:

(If you are from Phoenix or surrounding cities please PM me!)


I just moved from Phoenix a few months ago!

I've lived in many states (and hopefully will live in many more!) but right now I'm in Northern New Jersey

I'm from Houston, Texas (unfortunately)

:lol:

I don't tend to hear that from people from Houston. I'll be there in a couple of weeks (my dad lives there and I'm a former pseudo Houstonian.... unfortunately).

I was born in South Texas, raised in beautiful Western Colorado. Live in Denver.

I was born and raised in Cincinnati, but go to school in Bowling Green, Ohio.

I love my blue skies (even when it's -40! so decieving), my mountains and the chinooks!

Oh man. There is something deceptively beautiful about there being two feet of snow on the ground, and you're wearing shorts and a tank top and calf-high boots. I miss living in Calgary if for NOTHING else than the chinooks!!

I've lived all over the place since my dad was in military, (Calgary, Ottawa, North Bay, even the middle east for a while) but my real hometown type place is Orillia, Ontario, and I go to university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

...I spent a whole summer in Ireland, and everytime I told people I was Canadian, they would refer to my country as "Canadia." By the end of the summer, they had me doing it accidentally. Crazy Irish folk.

I was raised in Ohio, currently attending school in Jax, FL!

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Hey Jelb. I probably live a few blocks from where you did in calgary. I recently bought a condo on what used to be the military base, CFB Currie Barracks.

We have a chinook going on right now... Yesterday it was -29 with the windchill today it's +2! Not warm enough for shorts but still better than yesterday.

-29? -30? +2? That is waaaay too cold for me. :lol:

I am originally from North Central Mississippi. Live in Chattanooga, Tennessee now. I'm def. a southern girl..haha.

Originally from just south of Charlotte, NC. Went to University of South Carolina (the original usc) for four years in Columbia, and moved to Florence, SC in August.

And yes, I don't think I could survive those cold cold winters either. When its 50 here I start whining.

Sgregg: don't forget that's in celcius! -29C is -20F, +2C is about 36F. Still freakin cold though no matter how you calcuate it!

Hey Jelb. I probably live a few blocks from where you did in calgary. I recently bought a condo on what used to be the military base, CFB Currie Barracks.

We have a chinook going on right now... Yesterday it was -29 with the windchill today it's +2! Not warm enough for shorts but still better than yesterday.

In Calgary we didn't live right on the base, but we did when I lived in Manitoba..
This is where I lived in Calgary:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&formtype=address&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&cat=&address=erin+woods+dr+se&city=calgary&state=AB&zipcode=
Bit further away from you?

And yeah, Ontario's never quite as cold as Alberta was, but we're rockin' about -15 to -20 with the windchill I think in the last little bit...
Plus 2, that's some nice weather, though! Not a phenomenal chinook, but decent! :D

I live in northern Manitoba (the prairies are a good 600 km's south of us) -- I'm 5 degrees latitude away from the arctic circle actually and there isnt much up here. So it's -50 with the windchill right now... only -35 without the wind :) I grew up here.. did university in Vancouver, BC and now I'm back living in the winter weather testing capital of north america ;) (and -40 celsius is -40 F... it's a quirky little fact that the two systems meet up at that point)

Born and raised in Kansas...small town USA.

Right now, I live in Oxford, MS (Hotty Toddy, y'all).

I grew up in the MS Delta, moved to Alaska when I was in junior high, moved to New Orleans to do university/grad school, went and lived all across Europe (farming work-stay programs) for a few years and now I'm back in the Magnolia State in professional school.

Though I still summer in Alaska.

Sgregg: don't forget that's in celcius! -29C is -20F, +2C is about 36F. Still freakin cold though no matter how you calcuate it!

Oh yes, thank you for reminding me...but still cold..haha!

San Antonio, Texas!

I just moved to San Anto!

Born in New Jersey, lived in several states all over but raised mostly in Alabama. Proud 'Yankethern' here! :carrot:

Right now, I live in Oxford, MS (Hotty Toddy, y'all).

I grew up in the MS Delta, moved to Alaska when I was in junior high, moved to New Orleans to do university/grad school, went and lived all across Europe (farming work-stay programs) for a few years and now I'm back in the Magnolia State in professional school.

Though I still summer in Alaska.

:lol: Hotty Toddy, whatever :lol: I'm a state fan. I grew up in Yalobusha county, so not too far from Oxford!

I live in Toronto and it is freezing today!

San Francisco

be sure to wear some flowers in your hair :flow1:

I live in small town Arkansas! wooo pig sooie!

i should correct mine. I'm from hawaii but currently live in houston, texas (yuck)

Virginia... nothern... RIGHT outside DC

Born, raised and still living in Southeastern Louisiana. :)

Originally from just south of Charlotte, NC. Went to University of South Carolina (the original usc) for four years in Columbia, and moved to Florence, SC in August.

And yes, I don't think I could survive those cold cold winters either. When its 50 here I start whining.

i lived in charlotte for 2 years... still have friends and family i visit down there

sgregg: My family's had some land and a cabin out at Enid Lake for a long time, it's a fun little county over there. And I can definitely do with a plate lunch from Lawler's Grocery in Silva Rena.

Born and mostly raised in Northern Jersey, moved to Amish Country, Pennsylvania when I was 16. Now living in Columbus, OH with my hubby.

I live in ohio. best state ever lol

Born and raised in Columbus, GA and now live across the Chattahoochee in Phenix City, Alabama.

I'm in Chicago now. I was born and raised in a town near Southern Illinois University - Carbondale. Go Salukis!!

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada!!! Can't beat the capital and Toronto is NOT the capital of Canada... and never will be :) It's cold today here too and snowing again.

Born in Booklyn ,NY. Moved to Staten Island for 15 years. Than moved back to Bensonhurst in Brooklyn. And now I live in Stroudsburg, PA for school. (Want to go back to ny)

Jelb yeah that's a little far from where I live now... but I know exactly where you're old place is. A good friend from highschool lived just a few blocks away from it. I've probably even driven past your old house once or twice.

I'm another canadian and I live in Ottawa too Laura!

It's interesting to see where everyone is from.

Born in the Whitehorse Yukon.

Raised in Kamloops BC.

And going to University here in Victoria.

It makes me happy to see so many Canadians. :)

Go Gators! I'm a South Florida Girl born and raised (attended the University of Florida - clearly a state that is better than Ohio...curvaceous!!!)

Anyways - I only moved 3 hours into North Florida for my college years, further into South Florida for 2 years, then back to my small ocean side town 2 years ago. I'm a whiner when it gets to below 70F here...yikes! I cannot stand the cold nor could I imagine living in it.

I hope I don't sound too stupid, but what the heck is a chinook? I tried googling it - but it just kept talking about wind...so that was confusing to me...how can wind be beautiful? I love a nice toasty breeze myself...but cold wind? I'm lost :(

I am confused about what a chinook is too!

I currently live in Atlanta but I spent 9 years in FL and 5 years in Houston.

I thought it was a helicopter... could be wrong though... *shrugs*

Slimming & gatoramand: I think only people who have lived in western canada know what a chinook is, sorry bout that. Basically a chinook is a warm wind that generally comes from the west. Calgary, where I'm from get's them all the time in the winter. A chinook can bring the temperature up 15 degrees or more in the span of a day. For example it was appox -20F yesterday with the windchill and by noon today is was 36F. Chinooks are most common in south central alberta and become less common the further south, and east you go. As a side note chinooks often cause the coulds to form beautiful arches in the sky. Go to Google images and goodle chinook arch and you'll see what I mean. Chinooks also cause migraine headaches, due to the the change in barrametric pressure.

This is from wikipedia:
The eastern-slope chinook phenomenon is a Föhn wind that results from the movement of high and low pressure systems over the Rocky Mountains. As the wind moves over and through the mountains, the moisture in the air condenses and falls out as precipitation, warming the air by releasing latent heat. Then the air is warmed and dried by adiabatic compression as the air descends the leeward side of the mountain range.

Warm air descending the slope can also displace an existing cold, moist air mass, enhancing the temperature increase and moisture decrease observed with the Chinook.

The turbulence of the high winds also can prevent the normal nocturnal temperature inversion from forming on the lee side of the slope, allowing nighttime temperatures to remain elevated.

Quite often, when the West Coast is being hammered by rain, the windward side of the Rockies is being hammered by snow (as the air loses its moisture), and the leeward side of the Rockies in Alberta is basking in a chinook.

sgregg: My family's had some land and a cabin out at Enid Lake for a long time, it's a fun little county over there. And I can definitely do with a plate lunch from Lawler's Grocery in Silva Rena.

Lawler's had the best turkey legs...ever! I actually lived closer to Grenada than Enid or Silva Rena, but I know exactly where you are talking about...that is cool!

Thanks for the info Shantroy - what an odd thing....we definitely don't have anything like that in FL - just hurricanes and lots of heat! The pics on google are beautiful, unfortunately, with the headache issue...I'd be hauling out of town...I already get enough of those!!!

Born and raised (til I was 20 anyways) in Western NY, outside of Buffalo. Married, moved to Germany, then TX, back to Germany, to WA, to GA (I <3 GA), back to NY (Watertown, NY--yes, that is where **** HAS frozen over!) and now that DH retired from the Army in 2005, we've made our home in Podunk :D a.k.a. Valatie, NY

I'm from Canberra, Australia :D

Central Maryland... the only Marylander so far!

San Diego

i live in Reading, nr London, UK BABY!

I'm in Chicago now. I was born and raised in a town near Southern Illinois University - Carbondale. Go Salukis!!

i <3 chicago... i go there every july for work now... stay for over a week.... it's GREAT!

Central Maryland... the only Marylander so far!

where at? i grew up in southern maryland

Born and raised in California

Born and raised and hopefully to stay in Buffalo, NY----

You think dieting is bad--- try living in the city whose claim to fame is a spicy deep fried chicken wing!!!!! They're EVERYWHERE (and ohhhhh so delicious!) :lol:

Although, I wouldn't want to live in Philly--- those cheesesteaks would be WAY harder to avoid!

Guess I'm going to have to represent New England!

Connecticut here ^^

I'm from central Washington State. I just moved back to Washington this fall after living in Los Angeles for 5 years :)

Seattle, Washington--- aka health freak city

Born in Marietta OH, raised in Cleveland OH ( I heart Cleveland)..now freezing for my hubby in Green Bay WI.

I'm surprised to be the first Wisconsinite here, we are a pretty hefty state....way too much beer and even more cheese cheese!

Ocala, Florida "The Horse Capitol Of The World!" (or so they say)

:P

I was born in White Hall (Pine Bluff), Arkansas! WOOO PIG SOOIE! Now the Air Force and the hubby have brought me to Charleston, SC. Could be better, could be worse.:sumo::sumo::sumo: ( <-----I JUST LOVE THOSE GUYS!)

I am originally from outside of Pittsburgh (and I miss "da burgh" dearly - it's like a world and language of its own!) I currently live in York, PA, work in Maryland and will be moving to Baltimore this summer! The DB is in the Navy... and I saw a JAX somewhere... that's where I'll be a bulk of the summer!

North Carolina here.

Born and raised in southeast Louisiana in a tiny town called Folsom. About an hour north of new orleans and about 90 minutes east of baton rouge.

I'm in Missouri but am originally from Arizona, went to college for awhile in Phoenix.

Born in Marietta OH, raised in Cleveland OH ( I heart Cleveland)..now freezing for my hubby in Green Bay WI.

I'm surprised to be the first Wisconsinite here, we are a pretty hefty state....way too much beer and even more cheese cheese!

SOOO true with the beer and the cheese.. I love their cheese even though I'm supposed to stay true to my state.. lol I'm from Minnesota baby!! I am loving the cold! seriously.. I love the snow..! Born and raised in Minnesota and except for a yearlong stint in northern Cali, I've been here my whole life..

mandyleigh: My aunt and uncle live in Folsom. She's supposedly a big artist in St. Tammany.

I'm in central Louisiana. Born in south central Louisiana. Pure Louisianian

born and raised in cork, ireland, went to university in Edinburgh, scotland and now live in Brighton, in the south of England

toronto canada..
am i only one in canada?

HappyMomma05 -- who are they?? We might just know each other!! lol How funny that someone here even knows where folsom is!!

Another Minnesotan here! Born and raised in southern Minnesota! I am not such a big fan of the cold-it bites more with the wind. BUT-gotta love the sleds and hockey (go Wild!!!!), and in the summer time there is no better place to be than on the lakes!

I am originally from outside of Pittsburgh (and I miss "da burgh" dearly - it's like a world and language of its own!) I currently live in York, PA...

Bwahaha. I lived in Punxsutawney for like two months...PA is very...scenic place. :p

I currently reside in the ever soo gorgeous *rolls eyes* Arlington Texas....the city that sits directly inbetween Dallas and Fort Worth (although I think it's closer to Dallas).

I was raised in Oklahoma on a farm, so this was a big change when I moved down here five years ago!!

Breathe There are tons of people from canada on here. I'm from calgary, but I lived in london, ont for university. There are lots of others from the southern ontario area.

Connecticut shoreline... I would ADORE a workout buddy if anyone is interested!!!

Another Minnesotan here! Born and raised in southern Minnesota! I am not such a big fan of the cold-it bites more with the wind. BUT-gotta love the sleds and hockey (go Wild!!!!), and in the summer time there is no better place to be than on the lakes!

WHOO HOO GOOO WILD!! I watched the game against Colorado last night while working out! haha Where abouts in southern MN? I'm south eastern..

Born and raised in southeast Louisiana in a tiny town called Folsom. About an hour north of new orleans and about 90 minutes east of baton rouge.

I'm 90 min west of you! ;) ...so here's another person who knows where Folsom is! ;) Yay, Louisiana people! I love our state but our delicious food is our downfall.

Gainesville, Florida, anyone...?

WHOO HOO GOOO WILD!! I watched the game against Colorado last night while working out! haha Where abouts in southern MN? I'm south eastern..

We missed most of that game-we only get the fox channel that it was on on our upstairs tv with the rabbit ears and it tends to come in really fuzzy! I grew up in Lyle, MN, just south of Austin. Me and DH moved to Mankato for college and kind of stayed here! Where are you from?

I'm "from" Lloydminster, Sask but live in Red Deer, Alberta. :)

Born in New Jersey, lived in several states all over but raised mostly in Alabama. Proud 'Yankethern' here!

JasonsLea -- whereabout in Jerz?

Born and mostly raised in Northern Jersey, moved to Amish Country, Pennsylvania when I was 16. Now living in Columbus, OH with my hubby.

And Mandajuned?

I'm from South Orange...a Jersey girl through and through, Rutgers grad. Currently living in Boston, though (am I seriously the only boston girl on these boards??)

Any Iowans out there besides me?

I'm from Wellington New Zealand!!! Yay =P

So far I am the only user not from America/Commonwealth here. I'm European, born and raised in Montenegro, then at age 12 moved to Slovenia where I've lived for 15 years now. It's a lovely little country (there's only 2 million of us) in a hug between Italy, Austria and Hungary. You might have seen one of those tourist destination commercials on CNN about it. I must say that I do love it here. If anyone ever comes here, please bring me some American ice cream, because I hear it is much creamier than ours...

Limnestone, Maine formerly called Lorring Air Force base.

I understand the 35-F or with winds the other day we had -52F Calgary sounds nice. -52F is appox -46C

I have lived In Maine all but 3mos when I moved to NH oh and the 1 month durring Marine Boot camp which ended quickly when I found out about a bunch of allergies I had and got the boot. I had a major reaction to wool hives from head to toe from just a little touch.

English here :) Currently situated Stratford Upon Avon.

Also lived in Osnabruck, Germany when my father was in the British Army.

OH-IO here :) ... Columbus

Originally from NY. Stuck in the Philly area for the time being.

central New Jersey here :)

Oregon

I was born in the UK. moved to Middleburg VA in 2000, married hubby and moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada in 2006