Where are you from?
Sep 11th 2008, 10:42 pm
#196
Sleepless In Chicago
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Location: Chicago.
Posts: 3,601
Re: Where are you from?
Leeds
West Yorkshire
Independent State Of Yorkshire
England
Europe
Planet Earth.
Now in North West Chicago
West Yorkshire
Independent State Of Yorkshire
England
Europe
Planet Earth.
Now in North West Chicago
Sep 11th 2008, 11:31 pm
#197
Not living a 9 to 5 life
Joined: Jun 2002
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 11,061
Re: Where are you from?
Ah Caledonian Road. I lived in a dingy basement flat with a German, a Finn and an American back in 1971. It was in Penn Road, just round the corner from Holloway Prison. No TV, so Elmo (the Finn) and I used to wander down Seven Sisters Road to stand outside Radio Rentals on a Saturday night watching Match of the Day.
We were mad but we were happy.
We were mad but we were happy.
I liked that part of the Holloway Road and the market on Seven Sisters Road.
Sep 12th 2008, 3:26 am
#198
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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Re: Where are you from?
I grew up in Toledo (Ohio, not Spain), went to school in Oxford (Ohio, not England), lived in Luxembourg (the country, not in Ohio!) for 6 months while at school, then moved to Cincinnati where I live now.
Sep 12th 2008, 3:48 am
#199
Lapine Member
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Location: Austin, Texas in my own little world
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Re: Where are you from?
Born and raised in Corpus Christi.
Educated and have lived in Austin.
Tried to emigrate once but family ties stopped it -- visa and job in Toronto.
Married and imported a Dutchman.
Educated and have lived in Austin.
Tried to emigrate once but family ties stopped it -- visa and job in Toronto.
Married and imported a Dutchman.
Sep 12th 2008, 3:55 am
#200
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Location: Toasty in Texas
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Re: Where are you from?
LOL that really tickled me!!
The Coventry Blaze are doing well according to my nephew, he is a fan of them. I have to confess I have never really taken much interest in them.
Hope that you have a fab time catching up with your mates when you go over - if you havent been there for a while I am sure you will notice the difference!
The Coventry Blaze are doing well according to my nephew, he is a fan of them. I have to confess I have never really taken much interest in them.
Hope that you have a fab time catching up with your mates when you go over - if you havent been there for a while I am sure you will notice the difference!
Anyway...born and brought up in Rugby, went to Brunel Uni, Twickenham, then married and moved to Northampton, then St. Clair, Michigan and now Aledo, Texas (just west of Fort Worth)
Sep 12th 2008, 10:54 am
#202
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Re: Where are you from?
Belfast Northern Ireland for 13 years now Australia
Sep 12th 2008, 11:13 am
#203
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Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 98
Re: Where are you from?
Born and brought up in Dover, Kent, at the bottom of some big cliffs.
Uni in Southampton, stayed for one year after.
Now have been living in London for 7 years (Clapham & now Docklands).
Providing all goes well on the visa front will be in San Diego in 3-5 months.
Uni in Southampton, stayed for one year after.
Now have been living in London for 7 years (Clapham & now Docklands).
Providing all goes well on the visa front will be in San Diego in 3-5 months.
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Sep 12th 2008, 12:16 pm
#204
Cornish Pasty Lover
Joined: Jun 2004
Location: Atlanta Y'all
Posts: 93
Re: Where are you from?
Born in Cleethorpes (and proud to admit it)
Grimsby
Chelmsford
Southampton
Cardiff
Maidstone
High Wycombe
London
then Washington, DC 8 years ago......
Grimsby
Chelmsford
Southampton
Cardiff
Maidstone
High Wycombe
London
then Washington, DC 8 years ago......
Sep 12th 2008, 1:04 pm
#205
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Posts: 346
Sep 12th 2008, 1:07 pm
#206
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Re: Where are you from?
Sep 12th 2008, 2:07 pm
#207
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Location: Petersburg, TN
Posts: 163
Re: Where are you from?
I am from the Mighty, Mighty City of Leeds, in the West Riding of God's Own Country (Yorkshire). Born and bred.
I now reside in "the boonies", Petersburg, Tennessee.
I now reside in "the boonies", Petersburg, Tennessee.
Sep 12th 2008, 2:13 pm
#208
Sleepless In Chicago
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Posts: 3,601
Re: Where are you from?
It's the I.S.O.Y now 
We've given back the parts of Lancashire we swallowed up when it was no long the Ridings.
We've given back the parts of Lancashire we swallowed up when it was no long the Ridings.
Sep 12th 2008, 2:17 pm
#209
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Thread Starter
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Re: Where are you from?
I saw a tractor trailer recently here in Missouri that had the company name "Yorkshire Rose Trucking" and the white Yorkshire rose (same as the one on the Yorkshire flag) painted on the side of the trailer and cab.
Sep 12th 2008, 2:20 pm
#210
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Location: Petersburg, TN
Posts: 163
Re: Where are you from?
There are a number of "Leeds" in the US, we pass one every time we go visit the in-laws, many jokes are cracked (by me) about going home.
I do get sick of American's not knowing about the Mighty Mighty City of Leeds though, every time they here I'm from Leeds they think Leeds Castle in Kent.
I'm educating them one at a time.
I do get sick of American's not knowing about the Mighty Mighty City of Leeds though, every time they here I'm from Leeds they think Leeds Castle in Kent.
I'm educating them one at a time.
