Are your from Brooklyn? If not, where are you from?

ruska b

Why did you move here?

Just curious. I'm not working out any theories or looking for angles. Truly, I am just curious.

ruska b

I'll go first. Moved from the west coast 15 years ago for school. stayed for work. and here I am.

stacey

I have lived here all my life and never had a reason to leave

urbancowgirl

I'm from Knoxville, TN. I moved here after college to work in book publishing, but I wish I could make a career out of my Saturday walks around Brooklyn. Midtown stanks.

caseopele

Born in Maine, moved to Manhattan at age 6, moved to Brooklyn at age 8. Still in Brooklyn 25 (it'll be 26 in 2 weeks) years later and can't imagine living anywhere else.

gculliss

If you're not from BK, you don't exist ;-)

<---born in Queens, lived on LI for many years, in WT since 1997

livetotravel

Birth to Now:
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Atlanta, Georgia
Charlotte, North Carolina
Medford, New Jersey
Cliffside Park, New Jersey
Manhattan - UES
Manhattan, East Village
London, U.K.
Manhattan, Greenwich Village
Los Angeles, CA
Manhattan, UWS
Park Slope, Brooklyn

whatchuwant

LI, Boston, LI, Brooklyn since '99.

bklyntransplant

I grew up in central VT and moved here in 1997...Fort Greene -> Carroll Gardens -> Bay Ridge -> Iceland -> Midwood -> Bay Ridge x 2 -> Fort Greene again

Originally, I came here to get married to a guy who was working in the arts and go to school...and decided to stay after my ex husband and I split up.

booklaw

Born in the Bronx, grew up in Rochester, NY. Came here for law school, swore I'd leave the day I graduated. Took a three week temp job in book publishing to earn my airfare out, fell in love with the industry, stuck in NYC ever since. If I hadn't found brownstone brooklyn, I would have lost my mind trying to live in NYC.

underhill_mt

Pittsburgh, PA
Evansville, IN
Indianapolis,
Rochester, NY
Pittsburgh, PA (again)
Bloomington, IN
Washington, DC
Brooklyn, NY (since 2004 - Kensington, East Flatbush, and for the past 2 yrs Prospect Heights)

khuntiennang

im kinda nomadic too.
born in a small town somewhere in borneo (indonesia), then moved to east malaysia, then west malaysia, then indianapolis (IN), then hostel hopping for three weeks in manhattan, then found apt in sunnyside (queens, ny), then bensonhurst (brooklyn), then got married and moved in into husband's apt in park slope.

darla

I was born in Manhattan where my parents lived with my grandmother until I was 2. Then we moved to Brooklyn where I have been since with the exception of 1 year of my life.

I lived in Manhattan for a year during college, but work study couldn't pay the rent on my little hole in the wall studio.

vidro3

queens
LI
dover, delaware
LI
windsor terrace since '02

alafairnadia

birth to PH:

milwaukee
miami
miami beach
wellesley
houston
harlem
PH

witch-king

cincinnati, oh
st louis, mo
berkeley, ca
bronx, ny
berlin (germany)
oakland, ca
northampton, ma
chicago, il
park slope (since 2000)

bondgirl

Born in Queens, NY
Raised in Michigan
Moved to Miami (yuck)
Now, back in NY... BK!

livetotravel

witch-king wrote: cincinnati, oh
st louis, mo
berkeley, ca
bronx, ny
berlin (germany)
oakland, ca
northampton, ma
chicago, il
park slope (since 2000)

Cincinnati? Be still my heart! Where? Me, Greenhills.

modsquad

Niagara Falls, slowly I turn, step by step (finish if you dare)

grafixguy

Overseas—San Francisco, CA—Oakland, CA—Park Slope

witch-king

Livetotravel wrote: [quote=witch-king]cincinnati, oh
st louis, mo
berkeley, ca
bronx, ny
berlin (germany)
oakland, ca
northampton, ma
chicago, il
park slope (since 2000)

Cincinnati? Be still my heart! Where? Me, Greenhills.

pleasant ridge in the queen city

livetotravel

witch-king wrote: [quote=Livetotravel][quote=witch-king]cincinnati, oh
st louis, mo
berkeley, ca
bronx, ny
berlin (germany)
oakland, ca
northampton, ma
chicago, il
park slope (since 2000)

Cincinnati? Be still my heart! Where? Me, Greenhills.

pleasant ridge in the queen city



Did ya go to Pleasant Ridge Chili on Montgomery???

witch-king

Livetotravel wrote:

Did ya go to Pleasant Ridge Chili on Montgomery???

yes, frequently. another favorite chili spot was skyline on montgomery rd. in kenwood. we need a skyline in brooklyn!

carnivore

Brooklyn
Ithaca, NY (college)
Bronx
Manhattan
Brooklyn

flux

Israel
Came to Bklyn at the age of 9. Been here ever since.

carmen

Holden, Mass (right outside worcester) till age 12
Wilmington, NC till age 22
Bed stuy till a few months ago
Park slope now.

family is in NC, Vegas, Texas, New Orleans and Denmark. We're all over the damn place.

rtraindweller

Northvale, NJ til I was 18

toured for years with my band and in between tours set up camp for a few months at a time in:
Mendham, NJ
Venice, CA
Stanhope, NJ
Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore, MD
Philadelphia, PA again

Quit the band at 22 and took a job in Union Sq and moved to Greenwood Heights. Quit that job and took a job in Edgewater, NJ but love Brooklyn too much to leave so I moved to Ft Greene after getting priced out of my apartment in Greenwood Heights. And as of Saturday I'm now living in Greenpoint.

moufaisbad

manasquan nj till '90
west village till 93
smith & douglass till 94
tiffany pl till 99
PH -current and think we just got an offer accepted on a place in the hood
which i am THRILLED about since I was afraid i was going to have to move o another neighborhood
i will be in brooklyn for the duration

dapearl9

I grew up in Princeton, MA (one town over from Carmen actually) which is a very small suburb of Worcester. It was a much different environment thank NYC - you can't see your neighbors from your house, tons of woods, a mountain summit 5 miles away. Beautiful area, but everything shuts down in the area at 9 pm and the town doesn't even have a gas station or regular traffic lights (to be fair it has a couple blinking lights).

After high school I left for college at Hofstra University not far out in Long Island (Hempstead) and the visits home became shorter and shorter until they were a couple weekends a year.

In the Fall after I graduated I moved to Crown Heights since it was either NY or LA and LA didn't hold much interest for me. So here I am now. I love the city and Brooklyn especially but I think I'm going to do either the Americorps or Peace Corps after this next year. After that, who knows...

ch_smooth

west coast (bay area and vancouver), southeast asia (philippines), dirty jerz, then manhattan -> bushwick -> clinton hill.

movin on up!

i've also spent a lot of time in indonesia and malaysia (few months).

khuntiennang

ch_smooth wrote:
i've also spent a lot of time in indonesia and malaysia (few months).

where in indo/m'sia?