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What countries have you visited/lived in?

Born in USA. Have been to all 50 states.

Live in Canada. Have been to all Provinces.

Visited:

Antigua
Jamaica
Trinidad
Bahamas
St. Lucia
Mexico
Cuba
England
 
Lived in South Africa all my life, started in Johanessburg and now in Cape Town

Visited:

Lesotho
Namibia
Swaziland
Zimbabwe
Botswana
Zambia
Ireland
United Kingdom
France
Monaco
Germany
Italy
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
Finland
Sweden
Estonia
 
Not many for me.

Live in the US

Visited Mexico.

I would like to run up to Niagara falls in Canada as I live in WI right now and it's not too far of a drive from here.
 
Well I am a Dorset Lass (Thats Southern England y'all);

Spent first 25years in my hometown, then moved / worked in

Spain
Morocco - Tangiers
Gibraltar
Canada - Calgary
Malta

then Back to the UK five years ago and this past year moved to Wales (Cardiff).

I have visited:

France (Paris)
Italy (Sienna & Pisa)
Portugal (not sure where -went for a drive across the border with the new-at-the-time VW)
Ireland (Dublin, had my first Guinness too)
Scotland (Lossiemouth)
 
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Born in Michigan, USA.

Also lived in: Rome, Italy for 5.5 months to study abroad. All these countries (minus Canada) happened while I was already in Europe:

Canada

Italy (all over from Matera to Venice)
Poland (Katowice, Warsaw, Krakow, Auschwitz/Oswiecim)
Hungary (Budapest)
Czech Republic (Prague)
Slovakia (Bratislava)
Switzerland (Interlaken)
England (London)

It's been a few years since I've traveled much anywhere besides visiting friends back in Chicago or Cincinnati. I'm making a little trek down to Texas to visit family in San Antonio (new) and a friend in Austin (already been). If I can't travel abroad, my next dream trip is actually a multi-week road trip all over the U.S.
 
Visited:
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
France
Denmark
Italy
Spain
Portugal
India
Oman
USA
Canada

Lived in Portugal for 2 years, now living in England
 
Live in the USA, been to 28 of 50 states here. In addition I've been to
Germany
Ireland, Shannon is nice
Kuwait
Iraq
Jordan
All thanks to the Army. :)
 
Great, a pissing contest

Netherlands (home)
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Denmark
Lithuania
Ireland
Wales
Scotland
England
Poland
Slovakia
Czech republic
Hungary
Austria
Liechtenstein
Switzerland
Germany
Belgium
France
Luxemburg
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Turkey
Canada (NFL, Labrador)
USA (11 states)
New Zealand
Australia
 
Live in the USA, and always have, even though for some time, my only address was my parent's address where I just stayed during my breaks.

Cities I have lived in:
  • Memphis, TN (Born & Raised)
  • Atlanta, GA (Live now)
  • Wilmington, NC (mom lived here, stayed for a few months)
  • Cleveland, MS (mom lived here, stayed for a few months)
  • Auburn, AL (college)
  • Boone, NC (worked during the summers…attracted the wrong crowd)
  • Could count Tuxedo, NC, where I spent most of my summers as a kid at camp

Spent at least a week at a time in 106 US cities, in 41 of the 50 states, plus Puerto Rico, with the most amount of time being spent in Philadelphia, PA, at 184 days.

Countries I have spent time in (doesn't include day visits):
  • Australia (2 times, 5 cities, 86 days)
  • Belgium (2 times, 2 cities, 28 days)
  • Canada (Multiple times, 8 cities, 80 days)
  • China (1 time, 1 city, 20 days)
  • England (4 times, 6 cities, 145 days)
  • Finland (2 times, 2 cities, 21 days)
  • France (2 times, 2 cities, 47 days)
  • Germany (2 times, 1 city, 18 days)
  • Ireland (1 time, 3 cities, 35 days)
  • Israel (1 time, 1 city, 24 days)
  • Japan (1 time, 15 cities, 128 days)
  • Mexico (2 times, 1 city, 10 days)
  • Netherlands (2 times, 2 cities, 43 days)
  • Norway (2 times, 1 city, 14 days)
  • The Philippines (1 time, 2 cities, 34 days)
  • Portugal (1 time, 1 city, 7 days)
  • Scotland (2 times, 2 cities, 34 days)
  • Spain (2 times, 3 cities, 35 days)
  • Sweden (2 times, 3 cities, 32 days)

That was really fun to go back and figure it all out.
 
United States, Germany, Spain, France, thanks to the US Army. Panama, Columbia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, The Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, thanks to the US Navy (UNITAS 85).
 

Visited:

France,
Netherlands,
Luxembourg,
Italy,
Sweden,
Latvia,
Ukraine,
Austria,
Armenia,
Kazakhstan,
Greece,
Turkey,
Russia (and also when it was the USSR).


Visited & worked in:

Belgium,
Czech Republic,
Germany,
Slovakia,
Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Montenegro,
Kosovo,
Croatia,
Macedonia,
Serbia,
Poland,
Lithuania,
Estonia,
Belarus,
Georgia,
Kyrgyzstan,
Afghanistan,
UK, (England, Scotland & Wales)
Rep of Ireland,
Kaliningrad....

....among others...
 
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I'm game, though it's a short list for me.

US Citizen here.

I've lived in:

France.
Australia.

Visited:
Canada.
New Zealand (though I shouldn't have; I was in transit for my first trip to Australia; followed everyone leaving the flight at the airport instead of heading to the In Transit area, and accidentally "entered" the country, even though I had no visa to enter the country. Luckily, because this was at 5:30am in the morning, wasn't busy, and they were probably in a good mood (Rugby highlights were playing), they were forgiving enough to let me back in to make it to the in transit area. Otherwise I would have missed getting back on the flight!).

BL.
 
Canada, 5 times
Mexico, 1
England, 1
Ireland, 1
Japan, 3
China, 1
Hong Kong, 1
Macau, 1
South Korea, 1
Taiwan, 2
Thailand, 3
 
I live in Germany and have lived in the United States.

Visited:
France
Italy
Spain
Switzerland
Austria
England
Denmark
Belgium
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Greece
Morocco
Egypt
China
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
 
Scepticalscribe said:

Visited:

France,
Netherlands,
Luxembourg,
Italy,
Sweden,
Latvia,
Ukraine,
Austria,
Armenia,
Kazakhstan,
Greece,
Turkey,
Russia (and also when it was the USSR).


Visited & worked in:

Belgium,
Czech Republic,
Germany,
Slovakia,
Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Montenegro,
Kosovo,
Croatia,
Macedonia,
Serbia,
Poland,
Lithuania,
Estonia,
Belarus,
Georgia,
Kyrgyzstan,
Afghanistan,
UK, (England, Scotland & Wales)
Rep of Ireland,
Kaliningrad....

....among others...
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Never visited the United States eh?
 
SandboxGeneral said:
Never visited the United States eh?
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Strange to relate, no, actually, I haven't (and well spotted).

My travels seem to have taken me east, not west………

….And other countries seemed more pressing, more inviting, and so on. When I was an undergrad, my fellow students tended to work in Germany or the US for the summer. Almost all of my peer group who went to the US (as students), lived, for some years, a very sleazy, hard-drinking and heavy drug taking lifestyle; not my scene.

Yes, I like my wine, (and beer) but not in that way; again, my academic interests also took me east, not west, as has my career.

I suppose that I have never had a compelling enough reason to visit. Besides, given that I signed every petition going against US foreign policy in the 1980s, (El Salvador, Nicaragua, etc) - and was informed that this might be taken into account if I ever applied for a visa as a justification to deny me one - (though, granted, that was decades ago, now), I never even applied to visit.

In truth, in my days as an academic, if an opportunity to visit (and study/teach) had arisen, I would not have turned it down; but it didn't. So, some day, I'll pay a long visit.

What is interesting is that a few very good friends of mine (left leaning), - a number of different individuals at different times - who themselves, preferring 'high culture', had never visited the US and had never wished to, found, for a variety of reasons, themselves undertaking a visit with some reluctance. (Family, friends inviting them a conference, a seminar, whatever)...

Interestingly, they all reported back to me along the following lines:"I thought I'd hate it, but loved it; it was a brilliant experience and I'm really glad I went and saw it and experienced it. I know that you're the kind of person - like me - who likes history and culture and never really thought the US worth looking at, but you should try it sometime, as I think you'd really love it."

So, some day, yes, I'll plan a trip and explore, and take the time to pay a serious visit, across The Pond.
 
Native German,

Traveled to
formerly known a East Germany
UK (10x)
Ireland
Netherlands
France (3x)
Spain
Italy (3 x)
Vatican
Greek
Switzerland (working place, lived in D)
Lichtenstein
Austria
Denmark
USA (11x)
--Texas (4x)
--NYC (4x)
New Zealand
Japan (24 times, now place of living/working)
 
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