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Where did you come from?

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  • escap
    escap
    Fort Greene
    Philly
    Fort Greene
    Austin
    Fort Greene
    Tokyo
    Fort Greene
  • sterling2000
    sterling2000
    erikka wrote: Brainerd, MN
    Brainerd, eh? I honeymooned there in the winter off-season when everything was closed Shining-style...stayed here:

    http://www.grandviewlodge.com/

    and visited here:

    http://www.lostlake.com/index.html
  • volition
    volition
    born in manhattan, ny

    jackson heights, queens, ny
    flushing, queens, ny
    great neck, ny (northshore of long island, first town in nassau county)

    college park, md (just north of wash dc)
    fairfax, va (west of dc)
    arlington, va (just across the key bridge from georgetown in dc)

    prospect heights, brooklyn, ny
  • boygabriel
    boygabriel
    escap wrote: Fort Greene
    Philly
    Fort Greene
    Austin
    Fort Greene
    Tokyo
    Fort Greene
    I'm noticing a common thread here...
  • boygabriel
    boygabriel
    Washington, DC (first four years of my life)
    Takoma Park, MD
    Bethesda, MD
    East Village (NYU)
    Grahamstown, South Africa (year abroad)
    East Village (back to NYU)
    Sunset Park
    Williamsburg
    Clinton Hill
  • erikka
    erikka
    sterling2000 wrote: [quote=erikka]Brainerd, MN
    Brainerd, eh? I honeymooned there in the winter off-season when everything was closed Shining-style...stayed here:

    http://www.grandviewlodge.com/

    and visited here:

    http://www.lostlake.com/index.html

    HA! Yes, I am familiar with both! I don't know if Bambiland (a petting zoo of baby deer and does) is still in business but it's worth a visit. We had a cabin and I was shipped up there every summer until I was old enough to get a job. Never would have thought of it as a destination! Were you waist-deep in snow?
  • 11238
    11238
    NYC
    Harrison, NY
    Poughkeepsie, NY
    Park Slope
    Prospect Heights

    I thought I moved a lot until I saw the cities on this board.... DAMMMNNNNN.....

    HI EVERYBODY! 8)
  • medusa
    medusa
    From birth to current:

    Washington Heights, Manhattan
    Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn
    Haverford, Pennsylvania
    Brighton, England
    Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
    Upper East Side, Manhattan (cheap rent)
    Murray Hill, Manhattan
    Prospect Heights

    No plans to leave.
  • x-brooklynite
    x-brooklynite
    BrookFetish wrote: From birth:

    Aurora, SD
    Seattle, WA
    Burnsville, MN
    Brookings, SD
    Portland, ME
    South Portland, ME
    Boston, MA
    Brookline, MA
    Minneapolis, MN
    Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
    Grew up in bed sty and east flatbush, and lived in the east village for a bit. Now live in seattle.
  • veggiequeen
    veggiequeen
    short and sweet:

    Reston, VA (while a youngin')
    Seattle, WA (college and first 'real' job))
    Arlington, VA (reloc for a job)
    Brooklyn/Prospect Heights, NY (because i've wanted to live in nyc my entire life)
  • hillyer junkie
    hillyer junkie
    VA
    Northampton, MA
    Florence, Italy
    San Francisco, CA
    Wash., DC
    PA
    Prospect Heights-Brooklyn, NY
  • apollonia666
    apollonia666
    erikka wrote: For being such a tiny town, I sure do meet a lot of people from Hot Springs who have moved here--it's starting to get a little eerie. Seems like an interesting town, from the stories I've heard.
    Really?! I've only met two or three other people from Arkansas the whole six years I've lived here, and NEVER anyone from Hot Springs! Strange.

    Lawrence, Kansas, on the other hand -- I've got several friends from there who have also ended up here and have met at least two dozen more people from Lawrence who now live here.
  • drano
    drano
    Old Lyme, CT 1970-78
    Greeley, CO 1978-1979
    Old Lyme, CT 1978-1982
    Guilford, ME 1983-1994
    Park Slope 1994-present

    Weird - I just realized that "here" is now in first place as far as time spent.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    chapel hill, nc
    northampton, ma
    chicago
    crow hill

    and apollonia, while i'm not from hot springs, i have at least been there -- my folks live in little rock now. had a nice time climbing around the spring-y parts downtown, but went home with chiggers :(
  • leozoeypiper
    leozoeypiper
    From birth:

    Knoxville, TN
    St. Louis, MO
    Nashville, TN
    Portland, OR
    Providence, RI
    Prospect Heights
  • devincf
    devincf
    Holy shocking survey results, Batman. Who would have guessed?


    I mean, besides me.
  • cythren
    cythren
    devincf wrote: Holy shocking survey results, Batman. Who would have guessed?


    I mean, besides me.
    Where have you lived devin? Too shy to post it?
  • spinningpinwheel
    spinningpinwheel
    cythren wrote: [quote=Medusa]Wow. I'm surprised that no one grew up in the neighborhood. So far, we're all newbies.
    Wait, you mean Brooklyn is like Maine? Where, if your family hasn't lived there for *generations*, you're not really "from there"?

    What about those of us whose family lived here for generations (Brooklyn Heights & Coney Island from 1892 on), whose parents joined the white flight of the 70's and who ended up born & raised in the burbs (in this case, Stamford, CT)? Then who went to college in the city and has been in Prospect Heights for four years?

    Does that make me 'from here', only kinda, or not at all?
  • escap
    escap
    spinningpinwheel wrote: [quote=cythren][quote=Medusa]Wow. I'm surprised that no one grew up in the neighborhood. So far, we're all newbies.
    Wait, you mean Brooklyn is like Maine? Where, if your family hasn't lived there for *generations*, you're not really "from there"?

    What about those of us whose family lived here for generations (Brooklyn Heights & Coney Island from 1892 on), whose parents joined the white flight of the 70's and who ended up born & raised in the burbs (in this case, Stamford, CT)? Then who went to college in the city and has been in Prospect Heights for four years?

    Does that make me 'from here', only kinda, or not at all?

    No dice. You're from the burbs. [-X
  • devincf
    devincf
    cythren wrote: [quote=devincf]Holy shocking survey results, Batman. Who would have guessed?


    I mean, besides me.
    Where have you lived devin? Too shy to post it?

    Born in East New York. Spent my first couple of years in Brooklyn, then upstate New York then Illinois. Moved back to Queens when I was about 8. Lived in Queens and Brooklyn since, except for a short stint in New Paltz.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    most of my life all around brooklyn, from near down town area to all the way towards coney island.
  • blksafyre
    blksafyre
    Crown Heights, BK, NYC
    Fort Greene, BK, NYC
    Elmont, LI, NY
    Wellesley, MA
    Pittsburg, KS
    Woodhaven, QS, NYC
    and now back in Crown Heights
  • doctorj
    doctorj
    devincf wrote: Holy shocking survey results, Batman. Who would have guessed?

    I mean, besides me.
    It occurs to me that people who've recently moved to the area, especially from another city, will naturally be overrepresented here as we're finding our feet and getting to know the neighborhood. A long time resident would be more likely to have their own network and sources of information, and generally know the lie of the land, hence have less interest in the forum. Having a few helpful old-timers around who know what's what is very valuable to the rest of us. So what on earth are you doing here, devincf?
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    doctorj wrote: So what on earth are you doing here, devincf?
    Green Day wrote: ...when masterbation's lost it's fun...
  • rapture
    rapture
    birth - 1977 Nostrand & Rutland Rd./Midwood St. (not sure if that is Crown Heights or East Flatbush!), Brooklyn
    1977 - 1987 - Marine Park, Brooklyn
    1987 - 1997 - Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
    1997 - present - Park Slope, Brooklyn
  • d-miriam
    d-miriam
    from birth to early middle age:

    Oakland, CA
    Bethesda, MD
    Potomac, MD
    Rye, NY
    Ann Arbor, MI
    London, England
    Park Slope, Brooklyn
    Fort Green, Brooklyn
    Denver, CO
    Fort Green, Brooklyn
    Prospect Hts, Brooklyn (for 3 yrs)
  • devincf
    devincf
    WhyFi wrote: [quote=doctorj]So what on earth are you doing here, devincf?
    Green Day wrote: ...when masterbation's lost it's fun...
    There's no e in masturbation.

    Anyway, I came here originally because while i lived her for many years, most of my friends were from outside of the neighborhood. I thought it would be a nice place to meet local people. It ended up being mostly a reactionary group of frightened suburbanites and groupthinkers, sadly. I did get some great freelance work from this board, though!
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    devincf wrote: ...while i lived her for many years...
    I think that there's more than one e in 'here'
  • devincf
    devincf
    I guess I am countering your Poor Spelling Fu with my own Typo Fu.
  • whyfi
    whyfi
    devincf wrote: I guess I am countering your Poor Spelling Fu with my own Typo Fu.
    That was actually a copy/paste, sister - someone else's typo that I missed.

    Anyway, you've been living here for a long time, eh? Cool - your property value has probably gone up quite a bit, then!
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