Where Have You Lived?

Especially once you move away, you suddenly realize all that was familiar and wretched and boring seems comforting once you encounter a new place.

Born: Ashland, Ma
Boston, ma
Manhatten, NYC
Queens, NY
Rocky Mount, NC
Virginia Beach, VA
Phoenix, AZ
Los Angeles, CA
4 months along the Appalachian trail

Also not in order.

Chai--



I know my grass is greener on my present side of the fence.

Youlived in Easton ha ha. Thats one town that is crummier than Tamaqua

Born in Geseke/Northrhine-Westphalia and lived there for nearly 20 years,
various places along the German Bight (inlcuding 4 months France) and Baltic Sea on board of MSC Wetzlar and various LCM's
Witten/Northrhine-Westphalia
Solingen/Northrhine-Westphalia
Geseke
Lippstadt/Northrhine-Westphalia since 20 years now.

I didn't include Northridge because I consider it part of Los Angeles. Some with Temple City, Culver City, Hollywood, etc.

Yitwail, I LOVE Escondido.

Farmer - Rolla, Missouri, eek, living through the thunderstorm of my life one late night driving my dad who was in his failing years back to Ohio, not knowing then that I was nightblind... good grief, I was never so glad to see a Holiday Inn, never before and certainly not since. Probably something like '66.

Oakridge, did you know any physicists? One of my long time friends is a widow of a physicist there.



Northridge, my cousins lived there, the one in CA that is.

Did I used to drive through Escondido on - was it 101? I think so, not sure. Solano Beach, Escondido, Del Mar (home of the Golden Rolling Belly, then).
Well, the whole area is gorgeous. Or, was. (I did my lab training at Scripps Institute in La Jolla, parents in LA.)

Oops, I forgot to list that I lived at the time in La Jolla, across the street from the Cove, in a small cabin behind a sorta victorian house, about three blocks north of Scripps Clinic & Research Foundation, so-called at the time. Just downhill from the village, which was pricey but walkable. As in, I dragged my laundry ten blocks... (I didn't own a car.) LJ was once a village..

Farmerman--

I actually had two sequential addresses in Easton--one three quarters of the way up College Hill and the other at the foot of College Hill, on the Delaware in a converted ice house/dance hall.

Easton is becoming a tourist attraction: Crayons, mules, canals....

born in hamburg/germany and lived there for about 24 years .



during that time lived for a total of about two years in :
vienna/austria (were i became fond of 'sacher-torte' )



metten/bavaria/germany ,
were i did NOT become a monk , even though we lived in a house
attached to the cloister and were we looked after by the nuns



babylon/tchechien
(certainly was NOT a casino when i lived there )



and have lived since 1956 in kingston/canada
(have a look at our modest living quarters )



hbg

With a background of other threads here recently to jog my senses, I have to post for my friend Krista and my friend Walter N, re their childhoods. K was born and raised in Talinn, until she was a DP in Sweden. Walter was raised rather princelike, in that the family moved the grand piano in the summer... main home in Vienna, before they fled.

All of our associates' histories touch us as well, if we are open to them.

I bet that girl holding the torte is hot!

I made a Sacher torte once and it looked nothing like that one Hbg. She must have had that whole ting dipped using like an industrial dipping thingy.

Noddy. Easton just flooded again 2 weeks ago, That entire section where the McDonalds and the sleazy motels are was underwater again.

I hadda have our guys do a major sinkhole remedial design for a new golfcourse near Lafayette. It is in Falls twp and if it aint flooding its sinking. The top of the hills are all underlain by pocky (we call it vuggy) limestone that just opens as major sinks every so often.

Easton, Gateway to Phillipsburg. I understand that one of the casino sites is maybe near Easton.

Born: Riga, Latvia.
During the last months of WW II we were refugees and had assorted living quarters in such places as Berlin, Germany (where I turned 6 in Dec. 1944) and Brüx, Checkoslovakia (now it's called Most, I believe). After the war we were still refugees, but now had the exalted status of Displaced Persons (DPs). Lived for five years in a DP camp in Würtzburg am Main, Bavaria, Germany. Came to the USA in 1950.

Since then have lived in Boston, NYC, Rindge, N.H., now Boston again, with assorted billeting in such vacation retreats as Ft. Drum, N.Y., Ft. Knox, Ky. and Ft. Devens, MA (among others) while serving in the military. If we include extended stays (a month or more) at hotels as "place of current residence", I'd have to include Roswell, NM, San Francisco, CA and two or three others that skip my mind at present. Oh, yes, Abilene, TX.

Farmerman--






I know that MacDonald's flooded again. I spent a year of three-times-a-week karate classes (The Red Dragon on Northhampton Street) at that MacDonald's.

I'll grant you the seedy motels.

I'll tell you that you're probably talking about "Forks Township" rather than "Falls twp". I'll agree, I read The Morning Call published in nearby Allentown where the vuggy limestone sinkholes eat row houses.

Come to think of it, in suburban Palmer Township, the sinkholes eat ranch houses.

Casinos are being courted by sites in Bethlehem and Allentown as well as in the Poconos. Easton couldn't come up with enough money to fight the church lobbies.

BBB
BBB:

Berkeley, CA
Albany, CA
Reno, NV
Oakland, CA
Lafayette, CA
Concord, CA
Pleasant Hill, CA
Benicia, CA
Alameda, CA
Albuquerque, NM

Brooklyn, N.Y.
Atlantic Beach, N.Y.
Brooklyn, NY again.
Long Beach NY
Rego Park Queens NY
Forest Hills Queens NY
East Meadow, New York
Tampa Bay area, Florida

I didn't count the couple of months spent in summer camp every summer for a number of years, Does that count?

Born-
Battle Creek Michigan
Kalamazoo ( until I was about 6 months old)
Austin tx
Rio Rancho NM
Barstow CA
Concord CA
Martinez CA
Los Angeles CA
Yuma Az
Tucson AZ
Albuquerque/Rio Rancho NM
Lubbock TX
Crosbyton Tx
Austin Tx
and now on my way to michigan or canada in 3 years.