Are you from a foreign place? (By foreign I mean not from U.S.A) Tell us about your country, whether you're from Australia, Paris, The Caribbean, India, South America, etc...

I am originaly from Puerto Rico, a small island in the Caribbean.
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Chrissy

I was born and raised in Midland, Michigan. Trivia: Midland is the headquarters for Dow Chemical, has a population of about 40,000, locals sometimes call it "Mudville", and has what's said to be the world's first "tridge" which is a three-limbed boondoggle meant to brighten a dying downtown. Dow makes Ziploc bags, various plastics, and, formerly, Napalm and Agent Orange.

I moved to Brisbane, Australia, and like it a lot. Trivia: Brisbane served as Australian headquarters for Douglas MacArthur, whose offices are still intact somewhere downtown and slated are for restoration. It has a population around 1.6 million, its residents sometimes call it "BrisVegas", and according to the book The Mayne Inheritance the St. Lucia campus of the University of Queensland was purchased with money linked to a profitable 19th century murder committed by a Brisbane butcher.

Brisbane's residents seem to be addicted to fireworks, as you can see in some of the pictures from the following link: Click here.

They were the best pictures I could find but fail to get across how green the city is. They're also on the small side but people with dial-up connections will appreciate them all the more, I hope.

I’m glad Ironik was the first to respond to this one, because to me (and probably a majority on this site) the USA is “a foreign place”.
I was born, raised and have always lived in Sydney. A wonderful place, which has no reason to have an inferiority complex, unlike all other state capitals in Australia do . Sydney, along with the rest of Australia has grown up a lot since I was born. We had a thing going, known as the “cultural cringe”, especially in the 60’s and 70’s. Now, however, we realise that we have a country to be proud of and our small population (struggling to reach 20 million) can hold it’s own with the best on the world stage in any pursuit (except soccer).

Oh, and despite what the Greeks may say, we are NOT jealous!

I have to second that Eraserhead, the US of A is certainly a foreign place to me and I doubt that I am the only person here who would be interested to hear about various parts of that country. A couple of visits to that country doesn't even scratch the surface.

What I would ask of anyone responding to this thread is to keep it to the country or State or perhaps city, try not to give away any details which could compromise your confidentiality especially if you are young.

Goodness me! Everybody knows that anywhere that is not England is 'foreign'
(I think it was George Vth who said "I have been to abroad and I didn't like it much") I am from Cornwall, which is the most beautiful county on earth. Anyone who imagines that King Arthur was not from there needs help. It is wild and haunting and unwelcoming in many ways,yet , if you live there about 30 years you will be almost considered no longer foreign. (almost). The scenery, the language , the food , are all wonderful, and the people unique. The legends and sagas of Cornwall will fascinate you. I may sound biased....
My grandfather and all of his forebears were methodist ministers in Cornwall, mostly in the area around Mylor in the South Coast, and some from a town called Mousehole, which we call Mowzel. There are wonderful stories from there, one being that there was a time of terrible storms and the people were starving as the fishermen could not go out of Mousehole harbour, which has a very narrow gap before you can go out into the open sea. Only one fisherman offered to go as he had no wife and children. Of course he emerged as a great hero as he took his boat through the 'mousehole' and caught fish , saving the people. Of course, being a Cornish tale, the real hero was the fisherman's cat, who calmed the seas enough to let him pass through....
I have to stop as I am feeling very homesick now.
Edited to add this web page on Mousehole

Foreign? Isn't London still the capital of the world? Or was that in the 60s? Never mind.
I've lived my whole life in a couple of areas either side of the worst road in the country, the North Circular (as voted by TV viewers). I started in Kingsbury till I was 5. Born, as the quote says, in Upper Holloway which is an area definitely to leave as soon as possible afterwards (OK, apologies to Islingtonian, I'm sure he lives in the better end of that borough). We then moved to a conservation area called Hampstead Garden Suburb, where I was on and off for 28 years (I had a couple of flats from 1988 onwards which I stayed in sometimes), and when that house was sold due to family problems, after a short stay in a dismal area called Canons Park (have I offended anyone else?) I moved to 2 roads away from my old house in Kingsbury in 1995. It's on an estate of identical bungalows, so apart from minor size differences it's the same inside as the last one.

I've linked East Finchley elsewhere as I lived on the exact border of it, so here's a Hampstead Garden Suburb gallery. I intend to mave back there if I ever get the money, as it's one of the most expensive areas in the UK. This is my actual road in HGS Ossulton Way I won't give the number, but it was one of the white ones, which are all similar, and exactly the same style as my current bungalow as well. I'm glad I found this thread, as I'd never have found the picture gallery myself otherwise!

I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A city of just over 600,000 people, located in the centre of our Country. For our American friends we are 2 hours north of Fargo, North Dakota.

Although famous for a lot of things Winnipeg is where Winnie the Pooh got his name. Check out this link for more info regarding Winnie:
www.just-pooh.com/history

If you go to the London Zoo in the Children's section there is a statue of Lt. Harry Colebourn and the small bear and a copy of the same statue is in our zoo in Winnipeg.

I was born in Bangladesh (a small country situated in Asia and bordered mostly by India) and at the age of 4 moved to Australia, where I still live.

I'm from Glasgow. From where I stay, it's a fantastic view over a lovely Victorian park. The people are lovely and chilled out, and life is idyllic.

Born in Fife (Scotland), where pretty much my entire family still stays - fishing villages and old coal mining towns. Quite picturesque in a sort of mundane way, but lovely to visit occasionally. The smell of a fishing port in the morning...aaahh!

Lived in Newport and then London for a couple of years (Camden and then South Norwood), then came back home because I missed the place so much!

Just don't mention Braveheart!!

Well... I was born in New Jersey (just across the ocean from Old Jersey, where Sue is..). When I was 4, my parents divorced and my mom took us to sunny Florida. We lived in a little town called Leesburg, which had about 10,000 people in it at the time. Lived there for about 16 years, and then took myself off to the Orlando area for 2 years.

I decided I wanted to spend some time with my dad, so I moved back up to New Jersey. I spent 4 years there, and then I went to college in Pennsylvania. I still spent breaks in Jersey with my dad, though. I attended Susquehanna University and received a Bachelor's degree in music.

Then I moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, home of the Chattanooga Choo Choo (if you are old enough to remember.... Pardon me boys, is that the Chattanooga Choo-choo....). We lived there for a little more than 4 years, and then I was relocated to south Florida.

We spent 8 months down there in sunny south Florida (just north of West Palm Beach), and moved back up to the Raleigh, North Carolina area, where my husband's family is. I was going to move my dad here with us, so I could keep an eye on him since his health was failing, but we didn't have enough time.

So here we are, in Raleigh, the state capitol, home of the NC State Wolfpack!!

North Carolina is also home to the Carolina Hurricanes, the Carolina Panthers, and the Durham Bulls. Remember that movie with Kevin Costner called Bull Durham? Yeah... that's our Durham Bulls.

I live in sleepy Adelaide, which is the capital of South Australia. It isn't really famous for much....we used to host the Australian Grand Prix, until Melbourne nicked it, and the city was named after Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, who was the queen of William IV. But not many people here know that Hmm...Adelaide was completely planned before construction started, so there are lots of squares, and its in a perfect grid formation.That's about it really.... except for the bizarre fact that part of the plan of the city includes a ring of parklands around it, which are just long and wide enough so that the city could never be hit by cannonfire. As you can imagine, thats really useful to us all.

Thanks. The city sounds most intriguing and attractive, too, especially with that belt of parkland round it.

Well, I live in Nebraska, USA. Most people don't know much about Nebraska, but like to complain about the 10 hour drive it takes to get across it from Illinois to the lovely mountains of Colorado. It's mostly flat, and mostly corn along the main interstate. In fact, Nebraska is one of the largest corn-producing states in the USA, and is the top producer of beef and chicken eggs, and ranks in the top 10 for alfalfa, beans, winter wheat and hogs as well. In other words, this little, boring state of mine darn near feeds the nation. (And we know how to cook a good steak, too!!)

But, I'm from Wyoming. Wyoming is like Colorado, but about 50 times more interesting and half as touristy. Wyoming has five different mountain ranges, plus a large section of the Great Plains, several major rivers flow through it, and it hosts one of the most active geothermal "hot spots" in the world. Yellowstone National Park is really a wonder!! In addition, Thermopolis and the Wyoming Dinosaur Center, where you can find some of the largest skeleton fossils discovered in the USA, and the world's largest mineral hot springs, make Wyoming a seriously fascinating place to visit! I know I sound like a visitor's guide, but I LOVE my home state. It's beautiful in so many ways, and the geology, geography and history, both palientological and anthropological, are absolutely to die for!

The area in which I was born is the largest coal producting area in the country, and my family's farm was an active coal mining town, on the map, for decades before and after the turn of the century. The land there, at the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains, is idyllic. Here are pictures of some of the sites within 20 minutes drive of my hometown:
Big Horn Mountains

Wyoming is so rich in history and interesting, beautiful, places to see, yet very few people travel north from the ski resorts of Colorado to discover Wyoming's wonders. It's quiet, laid back, and except for Yellowstone, pretty much undisturbed by tourism. What tourists there are in the rest of the state simply quietly blend in with the locals. It's really the best of both worlds, in my opinion.

I agree, Lothruin. Except the tourists all pass through where I live to other areas of Wyoming... mostly in the far west and Yellowstone. They come through here looking at maps and wondering how much farther it is to the motel.
We have pronghorn antelope by the thousands and unhindered vistas that makes you wonder if you are at the edge of the world. The people are friendly, helpful and just love foreign visitors.

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We have people here from around the world. To many people, the US is a foreign place. Why should we not post about where we live as well? We need to stop being so Americacentric (as Linda puts it).

Fjohn, my family's farm is on what used to be (until they built a bypass around Sheridan) on the main highway from Sheridan, the port of entry, to Montana and up to Billings. Really, quite a lot of people go through Sheridan to other places; West to Yellowstone, East to Devil's Tower, South to Cheyenne and North to Montana and Canada. And these days, Sheridan has become...like a less-upper-class version of Jackson Hole. The owner of Peter Kiewit Construction has a multi-million dollar home in Jackson Hole. So, most of the VP's who couldn't quite afford Jackson Hole moved themselves to Sheridan and Bighorn, built themselves a golf course and own little million dollar homes there. It's a strange shift from when I lived there.

But my family's place is north, outside of Sheridan, and though it isn't in the family anymore (*sniff* If I ever win the lottery...) it is still just as idyllic as ever. Goose Creek cuts across it, the big family house still stands, the sandy hills smell of sagebrush and chokecherries in springtime. There you can find fossils and mercury dimes from an old miner's pocket, mingling together in the sand, and you can feel your roots grow. Can you tell I miss it? I haven't been for a visit in years. A bit of trivia: The Cheyenne Visitors Bureau lists my family's property as one of Northern Wyoming's mining ghost towns. I don't have the heart to tell them all the buildings but the old house were used as practice for the firefighters about 10 years back... But some of the mine shafts are still around, and out buildings that were used during work hours rather than sleep/play hours. Oh man, how can a person not be fascinated by this stuff?!? I get giddy every time I think about it.

I am born and brought up in Gujarat, a state in the West Zone of India. By Profession I work with Department of Mathematics, Sardar Patel University situated in a small townshop, or a suburb of the milk-city Anand to put it differently. Besides mathematics, I love computer programming. (Very late, but) I started learning (and experimenting with) Linux just before a couple of months back.

I have now fallen with the love with Linux. However, it keeps me on the toes every now and then because no new concept in Linux is intuitive at all. Thanks to all the LQ-forum-mates, I can solve my problems relying upon them.

Love to all,

Dr. Dinesh Karia
RH9

Im from ohio,I dont know how to chat in rooms and where are the rooms

I'm from all over India really. Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Kerela all being States to which I can owe alliegance. However for most of my life I have been living in the Gulf (Moved there at three)

I moved to Oman and Lived in Muscat for 8 and a half years. After that I have been in Dubai, in the UAE for 2+ years. Dubai is really quite a happening place. The Hub of the Gulf, the advancement going on here is mind-boggling. Just to give one example, the Palm and World projects where giant luxury islands are being created in the sea. The Palm project consists of two huge man-made islands in the middle of the Persian Gulf and visible from space. It will be the home of many luxury hotels and a number of celebrities have already booked places there.

Even more ambitious is the World project where the entire world is being recreated by means of small islands reclaimed from the sea. I can only imagine how awe inspiring that project will be when it is completed. And all this is but a small part of what's going on in Dubai.

Muscat on the other hand is an oasis of calm. A Beautiful city surrounded by natural wonders, a simple drive down a road in Muscat can be breathtaking. The wonderful wadis and hills surrounding Muscat contain some of my fondest memories.

I live in Alaska, does that count?

It's pretty much foreign to everyone, even though it's part of the USA, it's not connected.

I'm from Canada...and while that may not seem that exciting, it is a GREAT country. We may be America Jr. but we have so much to offer here. If you ever get the chance, take a trip to the Great White North and take in all we have.

I'm from Somalia but live in the US. I came here when I was 7 years old. I also lived in kenya for 4 years before moving to the US. I don't remember Somalia because I was too young to remember. But I know thats somailia had a civil war. the people of Somalia couldn't agree on a president. Each ethnic group wanted someone from there tribe to be president. They don't even care if the person knows politics. I think thats stupid. They should pick a person who is willing to serve everyone and not favor people in their tribe. You know Somalia finally got a president this year. I just hope somailia is peaceful like before.

Wow, you guys are from all over! I was born in Sydney, actually in a hospital that no longer exists which was in the CBD. I spent a few years in an outer southern suburb, then moved to the country and lived in an Army Camp (my Dad was a Captain, the Quartermaster actually). The Camp was in the beautiful Hunter Valley, a rural area which is now famous for its wines! We moved back to Sydney when I was a teenager and I met and married my husband there. To afford a house of our own we moved north to Queensland. Three kids and more than a decade later we are ensconced on small acreage in a semi rural area halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. I love the quiet life, even though I work full-time and have only weekends on the 'land'. We've had a million and one animals of all descriptions over the years, got a 4 Wheel Drive to get around in and three beautiful, healthy children! Life doesn't really get much better than that! However, my health is not the best, but I love my gardens, the space, the peace and quiet . . .

I'm from Northumberland in England

We live in a beautiful part of the Ozark Mountains - near a village called Eureka Springs. Everyone comes to live in Eureka for different reasons...some to escape life, others to really live for the first time.

Many of those who live in this area are writers, musicians and artists - It 's a little like Carmel in California or lots of other little mountain towns. It is filled with victorian houses perched on the edge of cliffs, surrounded by wilderness.

When I first moved to this area from Texas some 30 years ago, many of the houses and crumbling storefronts were inhabited with colorful types from New York ,California and parts of Europe. The lavish homes once built as summer places by railroad tycoons stood empty until the beat generation started to move in, sometime in the mid sixties. We were like one huge community and one could either bike or walk to anywhere of consequence. It was an experience I wouldn't trade for anything.