Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Where have you lived? (and how long?)

This is a complex question that gets a long answer.
  • Birth upto 18 months: Kaduna, Nigeria
  • 18 months to 3 years: Tiruvalla, Kerala, India
  • 3 years to 3.5 years: Pontypridd, mid-Glamorgan, UK
  • 3.5 years to 4.5 years: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • 4.5 years to 8.5 years: South Shields, UK
  • 8.5 years to 18 years: Cochin, Kerala, India
  • 18 years to 22 years: Kurukshetra, Haryana, India (University)
  • 22 years to 23 years: New Delhi, India
  • 23 years to 24 years: Ottawa, Canada
  • 24 years to 24.5 years: Bangalore, India
  • 24.5 years to 25 years: Shenzhen, China
  • 25 years to 26 years: Ottawa, Canada
  • 26 years to 28 years: Bangalore, India
  • 28 years to 28.5 years: Paris, France
  • 28.5 years to today (nearly 31): Bangalore, India

All ages are approximate, and I have only included stays of six months and longer in any one location. :D
 
John Jacob, I think it's awesome you've lived in so many places, many that I've never visited. Do you favor any over others?
 
I lived in Fort Worth, Texas for the first 18 years of my life...

Now I'm in Austin going to school. I digg it here.

I plan on couch surfing my way across America after I graduate (or over summer).
 
digitalnicotine said:
John Jacob, I think it's awesome you've lived in so many places, many that I've never visited. Do you favor any over others?
Click to expand...

It's more because my parents always had the wandering bug - they could never stay put in one place for very long... and I seem to have inherited that from them. Plus, I have a job where I can be sent to clients offices for long stays on projects.

Anyway, to answer your question: each place I have stayed in was a different experience, and each had its pluses and minuses. I had the most culture shock in Shenzhen (China); it was the only place I felt homesick in. My best experiences were probably in Ottawa (Canada), but that may just be because I was there for a longer time and so was able to build up a better network of friends there.
 
Marble said:
Good question.

It's because I was accepted by the quite reputable UEA Creative Writing dept. and have high hopes for a career in UK TV.

You seem quite eager to get out of the country (after a Uni experience, yes?). Always meant to ask why.
Click to expand...

Well yeah, I am not too happy there. . . Its not completely the country's fault though:D . I was very disappointed with my university course and the lack of organization. I find cardiff to be way to rainy and dark for my taste, so I got a little depressed and I just didn't adapt to british life all that well. So yes I had a pretty bad experience, but I think its mainly my fault. I wish you the best of luck at UEA, and I wouldn't worry, I am sure you will like it just fine.
 
iBlue said:
What's the housing market like? Good place to invest?
Click to expand...

Hell's a nice little place, especially near the dam, but I don't know how property values are holding up.

BTW:
Mostly Windsor, Ontario, Canada, usually within sight of Detroit, MI
Shorter stays in:
Sarnia, Ontario
British Columbia
Nova Scotia
Tampa Bay area

jodelli
 
KevAllen83 said:
Atlanta, Ga.... all my life (24 years)

So ready to leave and experience something out west, but no opportunity in sight ~sigh~:(
Click to expand...

Whereabouts in Hotlanta? I grew up in Snellville, just a short distance from Stone Mountain. I loved it there. Nowadays, it's so damn crowded, I have NO intention of ever going back.

Mitthrawnuruodo said:
I've lived in Bergen my whole life...

...or to be accurate: I lived in a neighbouring municipality, Fana, the first two years, but that and several other municipalities surrounding Bergen was "swallowed up" by Bergen, so technically I never moved to Bergen, Bergen moved to me... </nerd>

Most of the time I lived in the borough of Årstad, just a couple of hundred meters from Alrekstad (ironically I think that area now is under the borough of Bergenhus, which means that the place giving the name to the borough of Årstad is actually placed in another borough :rolleyes:), and if all goes well I'm moving back there soon... :)
Click to expand...


Bergen, huh? I might have been drinking beer next to you several times and not even known it. Several of the subs I was deployed pulled in to Bergen. What a great town. Friendly people, hot women, cold weather... :)

I was born in Durham, North Carolina (Duke Sucks!) in 1970.
Moved to Snellville, Georgia in 74 until 88 when I joined the Navy.
Then it was Pensacola, Pearl Harbor, Norfolk, Whidbey Island, Washington, then back to Norfolk where I am still stationed. I live just south of the birthplace of the United States, aka Yorktown. It's nice and quiet, but good God Ahmighty stay off 17 during rush hour! :eek:
 
ctt1wbw said:
Bergen, huh? I might have been drinking beer next to you several times and not even known it. Several of the subs I was deployed pulled in to Bergen. What a great town. Friendly people, hot women, cold weather... :)

I was born in Durham, North Carolina (Duke Sucks!) in 1970.
Moved to Snellville, Georgia in 74 until 88 when I joined the Navy.
Click to expand...
If this was in the period 88-90 then that's more than likely... though I didn't usually hang at the regular NATO hangout joints out around Bryggen, I actually regularly was involved in the live radio broadcasts from the pub Sjøboden and the nearby nightclub Rubinen. Those places were often frequented by the crews of visiting navy ships...

I usually hung out at Garage or Holms pub (which I don't think exits anymore) "socially"... ;)
 
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
If this was in the period 88-90 then that's more than likely... though I didn't usually hang at the regular NATO hangout joints out around Bryggen, I actually regularly was involved in the live radio broadcasts from the pub Sjøboden and the nearby nightclub Rubinen. Those places were often frequented by the crews of visiting navy ships...

I usually hung out at Garage or Holms pub (which I don't think exits anymore) "socially"... ;)
Click to expand...


No, this was a few years later, more like 95 I think. I stayed at the SAS Radisson in Bergen, and drank quite a bit at a place called Madam Felle's Grill and Pub there. I started a collection of those cardboard coasters from all over and I have one from there. We didn't do much sight seeing, though. After about 80-odd days underwater, all we wanted was a three hour long hot shower, lots of food and beer. Mmmmmmm, beer. :D
 
Madam Felle, yes, just a couple of doors to the left of the above mentioned Sjøboden (when facing Bryggen):

bryggen.jpg
(Click for larger, or get the full sized version without my "directions")

I think I've only been drunk enough to end up all the way out there once in my whole life... :D
 
- 0-4 years old = Poland, Warsaw
- 4-5 years old = Belgium, Antwerp
- 5-8,5 years old = Romania, Bucharest
- 8,5-14 years old= Belgium, Antwerp
- ... Still in the last one...
 
Well I've been confined to the United State thus far...but hopefully (at least in travel, this will change)

Born in York, PA (lived here 1 year...don't remember much. :D)
Spring, TX (right outside of Houston for 5 years)
York, PA (again for 5 years)

All over Alabama (13 years)
(Most towns I'm sure no one has ever heard of)
Sylacauga, AL
Troy, AL (for college)
Pelham, AL
(All within few hours drive of Birmingham, AL)

Driven through just about every state up the east coast and every state from Alabama to California (gotta love putting miles on a car...:D)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back