A.W. Country Census. Where are you from?

[kenmoreguy89]

Posting from Valenza, Province of Alessandria, Piemonte Region, Italy.

Here a slideshow of historical pictures of the town....accompanied by the melody of Ginetto Prandi, the town's "official" Folk singer..(singing exclusively in dialect, piedmontese dialect of Valenza).
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[iheartmaytag]

United States of America

State of Kansas, born and bred. Lived in Illinois for five years, back in Kansas.

 

[intuitive]

My parents were £10 Poms.

I am first generation Aussie. Sydney born & bred. My parents emmigrated from the UK in early 1960s

 

[pulltostart]

USA

Born and (for the most part) raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where it was common to see license plates that said:

 

"Get Your ♥ In Dixie Or Get Your [insert picture of donkey] Out"

 

lawrence

 

[petek]

Born and raised right here in Sarnia Ontario Canada. Left after highschool for a quick stint in London Ontario then westward to Vancouver BC for about 12 years and Calgary Alberta for 22. Retired and came back home although I never thought nor really wanted to. However I'm glad we did now. It's a good central location within easy driving distance to so many places and being right on the US border (5 minutes from my driveway) you get the best of both.

 

[swestoyz]

Born and raised in Maytag Country.  Plenty of green John Deere tractors around these neck of the woods, too.

 

[whirlcool]

Born & raised in the west burb's of Chicago.

Went to college in Louisiana, became slightly southernized. Lived in Bloomington, MN, Denver, CO and Countryside, IL. with my job.

Moved to Texas prior to retirement. As Arbilab stated "Only here cuz' it's the cheapest place with moderate winters and tolerable mosquitoes." And it's cheap to live here if you can put up with the general lack of common sense you find here.

I haven't been to the Chicago area in 8 years now. When I am up there I no longer feel a connection to the place. It's been 35 years since I actually lived there.

But culturally I'm somewhere between Houston and New Orleans with a German twist.

 

[tennblondie78]

Born in Nashville, Tn and raised in a suburb of it. Moved to KY in 1998. I like Bowling Green, but will eventually move back to Nashville at some point in my future.

 

[circlew]

Southwest Ohio

about 30 miles ENE of downtown Cincinnati.

Stephanie, did you ever eat at Mason's Restaurant on Dickerson Pk. (31W)? We stopped there several times when on our way to MS. Remember getting good hamburgers and fries there when I was a kid. Saw it was still there when I went down last summer, but wasn't time to eat then.

 

[thor]

I'm from...

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

[super32]

Born and raised in Cincinnati Ohio. Lived in a northern suburb of Chicago for 3yrs and moved to New England about 5yrs ago.

 

[ronhic]

I'm from Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, or A.C.T.

 

We're a rather young city having been named in 1913, but there was nothing here until about 1928 when they finally opened a temporary Parliament House. So temporary it lasted until 1988 - well past it's sell by date. It's now used as a museum, function centre and arts venue.

 

Born and bred, though have been fortunate enough to live in Sydney, Melbourne and London. It's not common to find Canberrans (Canberra born) in the 40's who still live here as it's a quite transient population. It's even rarer to find a Canberran over 70 and I'm fortunate to know several in their 80's.

 

[streakers]

Yet another Aussie

Born and raised in the Whitsunday Islands region in Queensland - then tried to escape the heat and the big hole in the ozone layer and spent the last 17 years living in Brisbane - and now - Columbus Ohio!

If you ever get bored and wonder why - google image 'whitsunday islands' and you'll see why a ginger doesn't do well in the tropics! LOL

 

[jmm63]

A good old midwest boy here

Born and raised in the Detroit area. A short stent as a farm boy on the west side of Illinois (mom's second marriage) then back to Michigan. Then as an adult, Chicago for 9 years, Brooklyn, NY for 2, and now a Jersey resident for the last 15 years.

 

[petek]

Oh Canberra looks lovely

 

[norgeway]

North Carolina

Since Sept 3 1965! First 40 or so in Lenoir, which was known.."Before China took over"..as The Furniture Manufacturing Center of the South...My maternal ancestors , "Powell's "moved there in 1774 on a land grant from England..

 

[laundromat]

I grew up in Baltimore County ( Rosedale Hon!), Maryland then moved to Ft.Lauderdale,Fl. Went to Altimonte Springs,Fl.,then moved to Houston, Tx. Hated it. Left to fly away winding up here in Paradise , Hilo , Hawaii. Not planning on leaving here too soon.Perfect climate, great natives,lots of free things to do,places to go and food to eat. I rarely stay home all day. I usually leave here before noon,go biking in to town,shop,exercise,socialize and just lay out on the black sand beach watching the people go by.........but,believe me, it ain't cheap!! But,worth every price.

 

[warmsecondrinse]

Ah! Italian dialects.....

I'm an NYC-er who spent ages 5-25 1/2 way between Boston and Plymouth. In or around NYC since the late '80's

I have an ex whose family came from the mountains of Abruzzo. They speak a dialect incomprehensible even to some in Abruzzo. Seriously, it's totally different from regular "Italian". I learned quite a bit of it while in that relationship and I'm probably the only person speaking it with an American accent, lol.

 

[mattywashboy]

Im originally from Sheffield, UK but now nicely grounded in Perth, Western Australia, probably the 1 of 2 members on here from Perth lol I love my pint size city, everything I need in a 20km radius lol

Matt

 

[retromania]

Down South

<em>Hey Y'all!

I am from the south eastern United States.