Where have you lived?

[ice4277]

Originally Posted by BigJohn&TheLions

Madison Hts, MI - 1 yr

Perhaps we ran into each other at Augie's or Ralph and Myrtle's once or twice

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by lytic

I try to stay away from basketball after that game took my Achilles 2 years ago. I'm actually playing pro soccer in Iceland right now. So I'll have to look around for a Turkish team willing to speak some English to another American Keeper overseas.

Go Comm!

In Ankara, because of all the embassies, they have teams (based on nationalities) of amateurs that play. But it may not be serious enough for you. And they generally don't play on the big fields, they play on smaller artificial turf fields that eat your skin alive. So as a goalie, be prepared to bleed if you go that route!

I'm not sure how easy it is to get on a local city league as an American, but if there is a way, there are Turkish people you will work with that would be glad to help you figure it all out.

As for top-league soccer,

Galatasaray, based in Istanbul used an American goalie (as a matter of fact, our US national goalie during the last world cup--can't remember his name now). But they hated him because he wasn't very good when he was younger and played for Galatasaray.

But if you like soccer, the Turks will adore you (because the true soccer fans that are American are rare). The big guys in Turkey when I was there was Hassan Sas and Hakan Sukur, but they may be too old now to be considered stars.

[Joe]

Saskatchewan, Canada- 1 year
Glasgow, Montana- 2 years
Kansas City, Missouri- 4 years
Minneapolis, Minnesota- 17 years

[paperstreetsoap]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I get the title for "Most Boring"

Corpus Christi, TX - 9 years
Houston, TX - 9 years
Lawrence, KS - 7 years

SI

I have lived in Ohio for all of my life, only 2 different places of residence, 1 hour apart.

[Mr. Wednesday]

Dalton, MA - 17 years (growing up)
Boston, MA - 5 years (undergrad) (with some time split out in Dalton while I was on co-op)
Shrewsbury, MA - 2 months (between graduating and getting a job)
Houston, TX - 6 years (work)
Mishawaka, IN - ~8 months and counting (grad school)

[lytic]

That'd be the Brad Friedel... who I am listed under on this list: Yanks Abroad

but I am no where close to his talent... if I was, I wouldn't be in the military

[MikeVic]

Ack. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada... 21 years. Entire life. :P

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by lytic

That'd be the Brad Friedel... who I am listed under on this list: Yanks Abroad

but I am no where close to his talent... if I was, I wouldn't be in the military

Wow. I was the goalie for the comm squadron in Los Angeles for one season of intramurals when I was younger. I only lasted that long because our team was really good and nobody realized just how bad their goalie sucked.

[Kodos]

Rochester NY - 17 years
Dayton OH - 5 years or so
Bloomington IN - 5 years
Norwalk CT - 2 years
Chicago IL - 6 (current)

I'd LOVE to add somewhere warm to my list some day...

[Eaglesfan27]

Egg Harbor Township, NJ - 17 years.
Los Angeles, CA - 4 years.
Piscataway, NJ - 2 years.
Pennsauken, NJ - 2 years.
New Orleans, LA - 5 years.

[Dutch]

Rigel V???

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Dutch

Rigel V???

It's cold there too.

[BigJohn&TheLions]

Originally Posted by ice4277

Perhaps we ran into each other at Augie's or Ralph and Myrtle's once or twice

I have never been to either of them. My mother lives near the second one. I never really did the bar scene until I lived in NYC. It's so much better here... Those places always frightened me a little bit. I always pictured walking in and there is chicken wire, a mechanical bull, and a bunch of fat, drunk, rednecks in overalls and cowboy hats. Country music just is not my scene. Thank God that it doesn't exist in NYC!

[Ksyrup]

Birth through elementary school:
Livonia, MI
Wasteland, MI
Canton, MI
Livonia, MI

Junior High:
Richardson, TX
College Station, TX

High School:
Peachtree City, GA

College:
Clinton, SC
Lakeland, FL
Coral Springs, FL

Law School to current:
Tallahassee, FL

[LoneStarGirl]

Conroe/Willis, Texas 21 years
Although I went to school in Clarksville, Arkansas for 3 semesters and have been in Itta Bena, MS for the past year for school

[sovereignstar]

Originally Posted by LoneStarGirl

Conroe/Willis, Texas 21 years
Although I went to school in Clarksville, Arkansas for 3 semesters and have been in Itta Bena, MS for the past year for school

I think it's hot that I've never heard of any of those cities.

[Mr. Sparkle]

Napa, CA-18 years
San Diego, CA-2 years
San Francisco, CA-going on 8 months

[ice4277]

Originally Posted by BigJohn&TheLions

I have never been to either of them. My mother lives near the second one. I never really did the bar scene until I lived in NYC. It's so much better here... Those places always frightened me a little bit. I always pictured walking in and there is chicken wire, a mechanical bull, and a bunch of fat, drunk, rednecks in overalls and cowboy hats. Country music just is not my scene. Thank God that it doesn't exist in NYC!

Well gee from those descriptions it sounds like you HAVE been there Those aren't really my kinds of places either but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

[BigJohn&TheLions]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Wasteland, MI

I guess you feel about the same about Wasteland as I do about Madison Bites...

[ice4277]

Originally Posted by LoneStarGirl

Conroe/Willis, Texas 21 years
Although I went to school in Clarksville, Arkansas for 3 semesters and have been in Itta Bena, MS for the past year for school

Believe it or not, I think I actually drove past or through Itta Bena a couple weeks ago. Is it near Greenville, or to the south towards Baton Rouge/New Orleans?

[TazFTW]

Hong Kong - 2 years
Phoenix, AZ - 5 years
Honolulu, HI - 16 years

[Wolfpack]

Here's a very short, very boring list:

1.5 months--Charlotte, NC
23.5 years--Raleigh, NC
Coming up on six years--Ann Arbor, MI

[scc27]

Lakeville, MN 7 yrs
Pillager, MN 11 yrs
Moorhead, MN 3 yrs
Fargo, ND 1 yrs
Huntersville, NC 1 yrs
Charlotte, NC 3 yrs
Greensboro, NC 1 yrs
Oak Ridge, NC 3 yrs

[sovereignstar]

Originally Posted by scc27

Lakeville, MN 7 yrs
Pillager, MN 11 yrs
Moorhead, MN 3 yrs
Fargo, ND 1 yrs
Huntersville, NC 1 yrs
Charlotte, NC 3 yrs
Greensboro, NC 1 yrs
Oak Ridge, NC 3 yrs

Someone's pretty high on the cool scale.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by BigJohn&TheLions

I guess you feel about the same about Wasteland as I do about Madison Bites...

That was my dad's name for Westland...and it stuck.

[Pyser]

Montclair, NJ - 16
Brick, NJ - 2
Boston, MA - 3
LA, CA - 3
Montclair, NJ - 1

[Pumpy Tudors]

New Orleans, LA - 28 years

That's it! I'm 95% certain to be moving at the end of this summer, though. The most likely possibilities are Greensburg, PA (30 miles from Pittsburgh), and Framingham, MA (20 miles from Boston). Greensburg is much more likely than Framingham, but either could happen. Right now, I'd rank the possibilities of my location this fall as follows:

Greensburg, PA - 85%
Framingham, MA - 10%
New Orleans, LA - 4.8%
Kearney, NE - 0.12%
Jumping into the Gulf of Mexico at the notion of living in Kearney, NE - 0.08%

[clintl]

Santa Cruz, CA
Guerneville, CA
Sonoma, CA
Davis, CA
Rancho Cordova, CA
Rescue, CA
and then back to Davis, CA

There was also 6 weeks that I was in Seattle, and had a mailing address there, but that was more an extended vacation.

[cartman]

Ok. Mine starts boring, but gets much better...

Haltom City, TX - 17 years
Austin, TX - 2 years (school)
Cimarron, NM - 4 years (summers during school)
Haltom City, TX - 2 years
Tyler, TX - 2 months (long story as to why only two months)
Irving, TX - 2 years
Dublin, CA - 5 years
Milano, Italy - 20 months
London, UK - 5 months
Driftwood, TX - 9 months and counting

[cartman]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

New Orleans, LA - 28 years

That's it! I'm 95% certain to be moving at the end of this summer, though.

Hopefully you'll stay in the 5%. I'm coming to the Big Easy for a conference the second week in September!

[Easy Mac]

Galesburg, Illinois - 6 months
Swainesboro, Georgia - 3 years
Oxford, Mississippi - 5 years
Columbia, South Carolina - 2 years
Chester, South Carolina - 7.5 years
Elgin, South Carolina - off and on 4 years
Easley, South Carolina - off and on 4 years
Greenville, South Carolina - off and on 4 years (these 3 rotated depending on the time of year)
Charleston, South Carolina - 9 months

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally Posted by cartman

Hopefully you'll stay in the 5%. I'm coming to the Big Easy for a conference the second week in September!

If you have time, you should hit up the 3/6 Hold Em game at Harrah's. I hear it's super-soft.

[Eaglesfan27]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

New Orleans, LA - 28 years

That's it! I'm 95% certain to be moving at the end of this summer, though. The most likely possibilities are Greensburg, PA (30 miles from Pittsburgh), and Framingham, MA (20 miles from Boston). Greensburg is much more likely than Framingham, but either could happen. Right now, I'd rank the possibilities of my location this fall as follows:

Greensburg, PA - 85%
Framingham, MA - 10%
New Orleans, LA - 4.8%
Kearney, NE - 0.12%
Jumping into the Gulf of Mexico at the notion of living in Kearney, NE - 0.08%

Even though we have never met, I'll be sorry to see a fellow New Orleanian leave the city.

[Schmidty]

Kalamazoo, MI - 1 month (or so)

Schoolcraft, MI - 6 years

Oshtemo, MI - 8 months

Schoolcraft, MI - 2 years

Oshtemo, MI - 2 years

Poinciana, FL - 2 1/2 years (2 different houses)

Galesburg, MI - 1/2 year

Poinciana, FL - 1 year

Belding, MI - 1 year

Kentwood, MI - 1 1/2 years

Poiciana, FL - 1 year

Kentwood, MI - 1 1/2 years

Galesburg, MI - 3/4 year (graduated from here)

Orlando/Poinciana, FL - 1/4 year (worked at Disney)

Portage, MI - 3/4 year (tutored English)

Orlando/Poinciana, FL - 1/4 year (worked at Disney)

Portage, MI - 3/4 year (tutored English)

Kentwood, MI - 7 1/4 years

Bellingham, WA - 1 1/4 years (get me out of here)


I've lived many places. The only place I consider to be home is Schoolcraft, MI. There's many reasons for that, but I won't get into it. My step-dad was/is a surveyor and my mom was/is a very ill woman who was never satisfied or happy with where she was at. She's in adult foster-care in Kissimmee, FL now, but that's another story.

Stuff happens, but even though it's made my life a bit "unsettled", I wouldn't trade my experiences for anything. I'm far from perfect, but I like who I am at this point in my life.

[ScottVib]

East Hartford, CT 1 year
Farmington, CT 7 years (2 houses)
Unionville, CT 10 years (3 houses)
Lyndonville, VT 2 years
Laurel, MD 1 year
Lyndonville, VT 2 years
Silver Spring, MD 6 months
Laurel, MD 2.5 years
Farmington, CT almost 1 year

[stevew]

Mercer, PA-18 years
Bristol, TN-6 years
Norfolk, VA, 4.5 years
Volant, PA 1 year

[Cringer]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

And here I thought kcchief was the only other boardie who'd spent any kind of time in the Newhall/Saugus area.

Short but memorable time as a kid there. We moved there because my mother's life long best friend lived there, I was in 1st, 2nd, and part of 3rd grade the time I was there. Thats about the time the family structure started to slowly break down....woohoo.

[lcjjdnh]

Originally Posted by Pyser

Montclair, NJ - 16
Brick, NJ - 2
Boston, MA - 3
LA, CA - 3
Montclair, NJ - 1

We're neighbors:

Verona, NJ (18 years)
Ann Arbor (7 months but in 1 month I'll back in NJ for the summer)

[Esquared1]

Savanna IL 18 years
Fayette IA 2 years
Beloit WI 4 years
Madison WI 3 Years
Waukegan IL 1 Years
Lake Villa IL 3 Years
Fox River Grove IL 31 days

[weinstein7]

To ballpark it:

Montclair, NJ 18 years
Krakow, Poland 2 years
Rochester, NY 5 years

Also shorter stints:
Prague, Czech Republic
Brooklyn
St. Petersburg, Russia
Riga, Latvia

[finkenst]

lafayette, in - 6 years.
dayton, oh - 12 years.
portales, nm - 4 years
dayton, oh - 2 years.
st. chuck, mo - 8 months.
peoria, il - 7 years.

[cartman]

Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

If you have time, you should hit up the 3/6 Hold Em game at Harrah's. I hear it's super-soft.

sweet

[duckman]

Oklahoma City, OK (1976-82)
Perry, OK (1982-83)
Oklahoma City, OK (1983-85)
Perry, OK (1985-88)
Arlington, TX (1988)
Enid, OK (1988-89)
Perry, OK (1989-1996)
Weatherford, OK (1996-97)
Clinton, OK (1997)
San Antonio, TX (1997-98)
Biloxi, MS (1998)
Fort Walton Beach, FL (1998-2001)
Midwest City, OK (2001-2002)
Edmond, OK (2002-03)
Oklahoma City, OK (2003-04)
Perry, OK (2004)
Oklahoma City, OK (2004-Present)

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Cringer

Short but memorable time as a kid there. We moved there because my mother's life long best friend lived there, I was in 1st, 2nd, and part of 3rd grade the time I was there. Thats about the time the family structure started to slowly break down....woohoo.

Ahh, so unless you're ~3 years younger than I am, we probably didn't overlap at all. Bummer. That coulda been cool.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Birmingham, MI (1974-1983)
Dallas, TX (1983 - 1987)
Bloomfield Hills, MI (1987 - 1992)
Ann Arbor, MI (1992 - 2000)
Washington, DC (2000 - 2002)
Brussels, Belgium (2002 - 2004)
Washington, DC (2005 - present)

[Draft Dodger]

Originally Posted by ScottVib

East Hartford, CT 1 year
Farmington, CT 7 years (2 houses)
Unionville, CT 10 years (3 houses)
Lyndonville, VT 2 years
Laurel, MD 1 year
Lyndonville, VT 2 years
Silver Spring, MD 6 months
Laurel, MD 2.5 years
Farmington, CT almost 1 year

Lyndon State, right? My wife went there for a year.

[Kam]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

And here I thought kcchief was the only other boardie who'd spent any kind of time in the Newhall/Saugus area. Me, I've been in the SCV basically solid since, what...'93? Sounds about right. Before then, I spent a year in Goleta, before that, two years in Santa Barbara, before that, something like six years in Ventura, and then the four or so remaining years were spent in Visalia.

I grew up in Canyon Country '74-'88 before moving a few places:

Boston, NY
Morgantown, WV
Boston. NY
Buffalo, NY
Grinnell, IA
Bloomington, IN
Silver Spring, MD
Germantown, MD - currently

moving back to Bloomington this summer so my wife can start her Ph.D.

[Hammer755]

Clarington, OH - 17 years
Marietta, OH - 4 years
Tyler, TX - 2.5 years
Midland, TX - 1.5 years
Katy, TX - 3 years

[ScottVib]

Originally Posted by Draft Dodger

Lyndon State, right? My wife went there for a year.

Yep. Very pretty up there too.. I liked it.

[FrogMan]

Ste-Foy, Qc, 2 years
Duberger, Qc, 3 years
L'Ancienne-Lorette, Qc, 17 years (end of youth years)
Les Saules, Qc 3 year
St-Georges/Boucherville, Qc 1 year
Pittsfield, MA, 2 years
St-Augustin, Qc 1 year
Pintendre, Qc 5 years

First three were all in the Quebec City area, about 20-30 minutes from one another. The St-Georges/Bouchervile year was me living in a room in Boucherville (near Montreal) during the week for work and coming back to St-Georges (about an hour South of Quebec City), where my girlfriend (now wife) lived/worked. Then the two years in the States and back to within 30 minutes of Quebec City... Now living on the south shore of the St-Lawrence river, in a small town called Pintendre...

FM