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Posted on 30 July 2009 | 3:45 am 
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Where in the world do you live?
Where do you live and why are you living there?
How many different places have you lived?
Are you happy where you are? How many times do you think you will be moving in the future?
And, finally, where do you plan to live when you retire? (assuming anyone can afford to retire – lol)
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I live in the country and the city. I have a place in both. New York City for working, Lithfield Hills in Connecticut for nature.
I’m too old for the East Village of Manhattan, still the Left Bank of students. I’m too young for the conservative, rich, retirees in Connecticut.
Don’t know where I belong. Yet.
I’ve also lived in Stockholm, Sweden and the Burgundy region of France.
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I was born and raised in Columbus Ohio. Columbus Ohio is ‘no’table for having no coast, no mountains, no lakes, no cathedral forests….why do people build cities in such places? It was all very suburban and whitebread for me. How white bread? The drive to downtown was pungently punctuated by the aromas arising from the massive Wonder Bread bakery/factory just before you get downtown. Not sure if it’s still there.
I live in Tokyo now, and have spent nearly half my life here. In Japan you’re NEVER very far from a mountain or a coast. This is nice. Tokyo is endlessly fascinating, because it has almost thirty million people living in the metropolitan area, a commutable distance from the city center. That’s a lot of people, and so they manage to figure out some pretty interesting ways to keep busy.
Someday I may live in Hawaii. Mountains? Check. Coast? Check. Thirty million people? Nope. Wonder Bread Factory? Nope. A strange morphing of America and Japan? Check. Just like me.
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July 31st, 2009 at 6:55 am
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How could a Wonder Bread factory smell pungently? That is truly, truly scary.
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July 31st, 2009 at 7:36 am
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Yeast…lots and lots of yeast…. pre-baking. ???
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I was born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1983. I moved to Miami, FL when I was seven & was raised there until I enlisted in the Navy in 2001. I was stationed in Pearl Harbor, HI for four years. Finally I moved to Coram, NY in 2005 after my discharge & I’m still here.
The main reason I’m here is because my family moved here. I would have liked it better to not live in a town that was once the national HQ of the American Nazi Party.
I will most likely move back to Miami, but don’t know when.
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Born and raised in Chicago,the windy city. Relocated to Bloomfield, CT in 1988. Currently living in East Windsor,CT. May return to ChiTown now that I’ve retired…I have never been able to develop a sense of direction in CT. Unlike ChiTown I always knew if I was facing north, south, east or west….
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Born,raised,educated and married in Missouri,
BUT
Turkey for 3 yrs…birthed my first-born there,
back to MO for 2 years…birthed my second-born there,
East Lansing, MI for 3 yrs …birthed my third-born there,
Minneapolis, MN for 3 years,
Kansas for 20,
DC now since 2004. I was OVERJOYED to move here, love my job, love living on Capitol Hill…
next stop India?
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July 30th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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Never move for a man. Make him come to you.
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July 30th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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You should have told me that 30 years ago!
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Born in upstate NY…my grandparents were German immigrants..they literally sneaked out of Germany because my maternal grandfather was a pacifist and didn’t want his six sons conscripted into the German army. They had escaped, literally, with everything they owned turned into jewels sewn into the hem of my grandmother’s dresses (both of them). There were also three girls. They made their way north after a dam project on the Hudson river washed out their farm…and there the remnants of my family still live.
I lived with my first husband in Italy (Naples) for almost two years ( He was a naval officer attached to the NATO base there) and after the Vietnamese war was over in a 22 room house ( with a name, no less ) on the Philadelphia Main Line, and after we divorced I moved to Southern NJ where I still live (pretty spiffy for a woman with hay in her hair). I’m an hour from the ocean and would move closer to the waves should the chance arise. But only if it’s close enough to see them. I’m happy where I am…here in the woods with my pond and forest critters.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:42 am
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That’s a great story, MsDoc. Do you have photos from your grandparents era? I love going back to the old photos from my family.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:46 am
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I have something even better than photos. My great-grandparents had an eight millimeter camera. They started using it in the late forties and early fifties, and used it all the way up until my daughter’s fourth birthday. I had the film converted to a DVD.
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July 30th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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I do, actually, and I would love to have them saved in some way. I have no technological skills. I do have an ancient picture of one of my uncles who was gored to death by a bull shortly after it was taken. My mother always cried over that picture.
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July 30th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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By the way…this thread should be archived in some way. The stories are incredible and the odds of so many divergent people finding their way here are astronomical. I got goosebumbs just reading them.
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July 30th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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If you will note on the front page, there is a link to the archive for The Daily Question. Should be findable from there.
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July 30th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
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Wow, look how popular and interesting you made the Daily Question.
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I was born in Lansing, Michigan and moved to the west coast of Michigan, my Dad’s hometown, when 4. I lived there until I was 13 when my divorced Mom picked the four of us(3 boys 1 girl) up and chased a man to Texas. We lived there for 3 years before I came back and lived with my Dad until I graduated from HS. I lost a scholarship to college and moved back down to Dallas in 1982 and have been here ever since.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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Texas must be where all the divorced moms with 3 boys and 1 girl end up.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:25 am
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All my exes live in Texas, apparently has logical premise.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:29 am
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Born and raised in southern Cali. Although…
Now would probably be a good time to admit I spent two years living in Texas. My parents split up and divorced the summer I was 9. To make the split a little easier, if there is such a thing, my mom brought us to spend the summer on Galveston I. She thought it would ease us California kids into Texas life. Not sure that worked. When it came time for us to start school, we moved to Houston. THAT really was a cultural shock. But thanks to cousins, namely Kibbs, that’s one of the reasons Kibbs and I are so close, we got through that time until my mom and dad got back together again, remarried, and we moved back to Cali.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:40 am
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And I might possibly have a move overseas in my future. Not sure yet. But it looks like I’ll more than likely be moving and living…somewhere besides L.A.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:40 am
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That’s good news, otherwise I guess we would have known you as “OilerKit”.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:42 am
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OilerKit? I don’t think so. Not even I am THAT corny.
Maybe TexKit?
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:47 am
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We almost moved to Dallas when I was a kid. So close to almost that we went there for a few days looking at houses. I was pretty young, and all I remember is that it was very hot and very flat, and I knew that I didn’t want to live there
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:52 am
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Dallas tried to kill me – the first of many.
My dad was stationed there when I was 6 months old. I caught Scarlett Fever. I was running some super high temperature – 106 or something, and the doctors were preparing my parents for the worst, but I showed my first signs of stubborness, and refused to die. Then there’s the part about my first babysitter being a prostitute and my Mom not knowing, but that’s for another time.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:00 am
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It was culture shock. A slew of family made it better. The school I went to was very progressive. When I got back to L.A. I was actually ahead of everyone else for a change. Who knew there would be a plus side to divorce?
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My standard response is – “I live on Earth, but I wasn’t born here.”
Actually, I’ve lived in Los Angeles for about 30 years. Now, I’m in Koreatown, directly on the cusp of that and a Latino pocket. It’s a nice little neighborhood. So far the people have been very welcoming. Next year, they’re even thinking about letting another white person move into the neighborhood.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:30 am
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Then you must have heard about the murder of Lily Burk, how tragic and sad that was. She was only 17.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:33 am
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Yes. Her picture really threw me. It showed a sense of peace and kindness, along with her youth, and it just brought home the senselessness of this sort of crime.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:39 am
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So sad. So young. Such a waste of life.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:38 am
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Be on your best behavior exeye. You don’t want to screw it up for all the white folk that will be following you there.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:40 am
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I keep Jackie Robinson firmly in mind at all times.
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Born in Virginia and lived most of my life there — bouncing between Richmond and a couple other towns. Lived in Mississippi for three years (an interesting experience to say the least), and then spent a few years in Los Angeles and now the Bay Area. Pix and I have toyed with the idea of moving farther north, say Portland.
I’d love to move back to Virginia at some point, but I doubt I ever will. My wife doesn’t care for the humidity.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:31 am
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Portland is a great town, “City of the Roses” or some such also too. Another town I knocked around in putting in a tunnel for the rapid transit rail. Put a shaft in right up to city zoo, some 500 feet in elevation above the rail. Very clean city.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:33 am
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It’s something we’ve been talking about. I think it’s a place that we’d both enjoy living in, although we’ve really no complaints about where we are now, either.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:37 am
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The humidity in Portland is fairly high as well.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:39 am
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It’s one of those “liquid sunshine” cities.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:39 am
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Uh-oh. That might be a deal-breaker, then. Although I’m guessing it’s not as bad as Richmond in August
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:47 am
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There is nothing like the humidity the south has in August.
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Born in eastern Washington, I have lived in California, and Florida. Spent two years of my youth, traveling around the country. I always ended up back here in Washington State. I have no plans to move at the present time.
I am already pretty much retired at this time.
I always ended back up here because it is one of the most beautiful places in the country, and up until a few years ago the temperature was always mild.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:12 am
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Would that be around Spokane? Beautiful area, that and Coeur d’Alene. Spent a bizarre year at the DOE Hanford Site doing nukular remediation. The people in the surrounding little towns looked like something out of a 1950’s horror movie regarding radiation poisoning.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:20 am
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:21 am
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Being close to Hanford and seeing all of the crap that happened there, (spills, leaks, downright stupidity), is one of the reasons I am against nuclear power.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:26 am
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now i feel guilty for laughing….
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:32 am
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Don’t. It has been a source of amusement around here for years.
Conversation: “I live near Richland Washington.”
“Oh, so are you a down-winder?”
“No my family tree actually has branches.”
Ever see the movie Deliverance? Replace the trees with a high desert and you have the down-winders.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:27 am
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I always thought that if they made a movie of the Lord of the Rings, Hanford would have made a great Mordor. But Jackson did okay with his site selection (safer too).
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:24 am
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still
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Born and raised in Vermont, couldn’t wait to leave.
Did university in Paris then Washington D.C., lots of travel throughout all of it including over a year and a half in a research fellowship (circumnavigated the globe). Worked in D.C. for years before a chronic illness brought me back to Vermont; discovered I do like it. My family is here, so I doubt we’ll be on the move anytime soon. I’d love to retire to Wales, where my granddad was from, with lots of hops to Greece and the south of France. sigh.
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:33 am
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Wow, university in Paris. I wish i had dreamed bigger dreams for myself back then. That sounds tres romantic!
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:33 am
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i make up for it now by traveling a lot but it’s not the same as actually living in the country for an extended period of time……
*sigh* maybe next lifetime….
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:34 am
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that’s supposed to be the dream smilie….
: dream :
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:34 am
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me no likey!
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:02 am
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Wow, did you go to the Sorbonne, HB?
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I was born in Baton Rouge Louisiana, and was relocated to Beaumont TX shortly thereafter. Grew up in Beaumont, then followed my boyfriend/first husband to Norman Oklahoma for school. Moved back to Dallas with him. While my second husband was in rehab, i went on a roadtrip with my 2 yr old and her nanny and while on that trip I “discovered” Telluride. That was it. I would live here if it was the last thing i did. It wasn’t and i do. 12 years now in a ten block town is kind of weird, but my third and final husband is here and the mountains, which i take for granted sometimes, surround this town and cradle it in safety away from hurricanes, tornadoes, and cockroaches. I hope we can manage to hold on throughout this economic downturn and make it work. If we move, it will be to Chicago, an utterly different but equally fantastic place, where we own a small apartment in the city. I’ll take what life offers us and make an adventure out of it.
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:17 am
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Telluride is great. Attended a number of bluegrass festivals there many years ago. My dad worked in the mines there, pushing a wheelbarrow up and down the slopes starting when he was nine. My grandpappy had a lumber mill just down the road a piece outside of Placerville. He was the city magistrate for Naturita for 42 years. Pop went to high school in Nucla, before enlisting in the marines just in time to get stationed in Hawaii (Kaneohe Marine Air Station) one month before Pearl Harbor. He didn’t get back home until 6 years later.
Oh, my great granddad, had a bet with a fellow in Telluride that he could climb over Bridal Veil Falls via mule to Durango faster than this other fellow could ride a bike through Ouray over the trail that is now the Million Dollar Highway. Great-gramps won. There’s a picture of him in one of the bars there in Telluride as he was a tough old hombre with flowing white hair, dual gun belts and looked every bit the gunslinger. He had gotten into a card game fight and had shot up the bar. Bullet holes are still there.
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:21 am
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That is a FANTASTIC story. I’ll bet it was the Sheridan bar. It’s the oldest bar in town and they have pics of cowboys on horses “inside” the bar. It is the source of many similar stories.
It was that or the Last Dollar Saloon which we all know as “The Buck.”
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:28 am
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I think it is the Sheridan. It’s been years since I have been there. But grampa and I used to go up there all the time and fish for brookies.
My grandmother had married a wild and woolly gold miner in Durango where my dad was born and I guess was a mistreating sumovabitch, so she took Dad and his baby sister (6 months old) on horseback to Telluride where she ran into the man I call granddad. She spent a year there and then abandoned Dad and his sister, leaving them with my step-granddad. He raised them like his own. Dad didn’t meet his real father until 35 years later, living up in Alaska with an Eskimo and parcel of kids. (Long story that)
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:30 am
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Those are the coolest stories border, easy to see where you get your determination and sense of adventure from.
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:24 am
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i’m hoping for the best for you…whatever “the best” is remains to be seen…(for you and me, also, too)
but if you do end up here, if i’m not working multiple jobs, we’ll have to get together…
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:46 am
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Chicago would be a fun and exciting move. I keep telling myself O’hare is closer to anywhere i want to go than where we are now!
I’ll keep you posted if we are heading that way. Work is picking up a little bit here so we are hoping to keep both places but we’ll see…
How is the work search going for you?
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July 30th, 2009 at 10:50 am
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2 really promising leads but due to corporate red-tape could take some time…
i haven’t really “searched”…been goofing off enjoying the summer…
but the money will be running out so i’ll probably do some contract work…
even thinking about teaching piano lessons a couple of days a week….
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born in Chicago, Illinois…parents moved to the ‘burbs when i was 2…vacated parents’ house at 21 to live in various apartments in oak park with my 2 younger sisters…moved back to Chicago 9 years ago to chase my new-born nephew.
have lived in my current little loft for almost 6 years.
best place i’ve ever lived.
a place in manhattan and san diego would be nice if i were rich.
but i would always come back to ohicago….except during the bitterly cold winter months.
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:59 am
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I think Chicago would be a great place to live — we’ve visited a few times (the American Girl Store, Shedd Aquarium)…
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I’ll tell you where I DON’T live: Orange County, California.
I lived there for 35 years and in many ways I miss it horribly. My memories of the OC are of beautiful beaches and orange groves.
When I got old enough to realize what OC really was, I hightailed it out. But I do miss it, or at least I miss my childhood version of it.
What a waste
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:58 am
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It’s changed a lot over the years.
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I live in London, Ontario, as of December 2008. Before that I lived on the East Coast, and before that, CA.
We moved to Canada because my husband lost his job last year and he couldn’t find work in the U.S. You’d think a PhD Chemist with an undergraduate degree in Chemical Physics and experience in drug discovery, toxicology, biotech, and quantum mechanics, would be able to find a job without a problem. However, Chemistry and science jobs in the U.S. have been declining every year for more than a decade, even when production was climbing. Only 25% of science grads ever find a job in their field of study, so obviously education isn’t always the answer to a rewarding or successful career.
I’ve also lived in the UK, France, Tokyo, Australia and Hong Kong.
I’d like to retire in Tahiti, by purchasing the entire island. FRT members, you could come and stay if you like.
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:54 am
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I had no idea about scientists being so under-employed. I wonder why that is.
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July 30th, 2009 at 9:16 am
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AFTA enabled the jobs to be shipped off to China and India in the 90’s.
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Born in Colorado. My work took me to places around the country, then around the world. Traveled and lived in various places for 25 years. Settled down in Dallas because that is where my company’s HQ is located. Always thought I would end up one day back in Mexico.
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Great questions, border!
I now live in Indiana, but I’ve lived almost my entire life in the west – Montana, Idaho, Washington, California. The only reason I moved to Indiana was because of a job. I’m OK there for now – it’s a good job, I like my colleagues, I have a house. The job market stinks, so I’m not even looking to go elsewhere. Re: retirement – I’ll probably settle down (in the general vicinity) wherever my daughter ends up. I hope it’s in the west.
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:36 am
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The “market stinks” I believe is a common denominator.
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Tokyo, Japan, Shibuya-Ku. Why, came with Japanese hubby to try our luck opening up our own business here, business doing well, hubby very talented.
Now many years later as it says in my profile, I wake up asking myself, “Koko wa doko? Watashi wa dare?”
I’ll translate another time or you can ask wts if you remember that is.
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:38 am
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“Where IS this place? Who AM I?”
What kind of business, if I may ask, Kalima?
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:53 am
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Not here wts, but I’m in contact with Q and will no doubt tell her soon, sorry I promised hubby I wouldn’t blab, there is a chance that you have heard of him, gomen ne?
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:56 am
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Got it! It sounds wonderfully James Bond-ish!
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July 30th, 2009 at 7:00 am
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LOL, not quite but he’s well known around the world in his field and I did promise.
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:46 am
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When I answered, there were only 2 parts to the question so, where have I lived, Germany, Derbyshire, England, London, England and Tokyo.
Question 3 and 4, yes I’m happy sometimes but I’m also very homesick for Europe and I don’t want to die or be buried here. I’m trying to convince hubby to move somewhere cooler or less humid when he retires, on my list Europe, U.K, Barcelona, Tuscany or I quite fancy Canada as it seems to have a similar climate to Europe. I prefer mountains and forests to oceans but a lake would be fine too.
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July 30th, 2009 at 6:51 am
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mmmm… Tuscany.
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July 30th, 2009 at 7:01 am
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We would find a place with plenty of guest rooms and you would always be welcome.
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