Where are you from?

Where are you from?

  • North America

    Votes: 295 39.5%

  • Central/South America

    Votes: 13 1.7%

  • Europe

    Votes: 318 42.6%

  • Asia

    Votes: 50 6.7%

  • Australia

    Votes: 45 6.0%

  • Africa

    Votes: 4 0.5%

  • Elsewhere :)

    Votes: 22 2.9%
  • Total voters
    747
Lochee...

but, by the end of September, ah'll join in the remaking of "an auld sang" when Scotland takes back its independence, rightly, as one of the oldest nations in the world...
 
Turkish living in Sydney, Australia but according to my DNA test results I'm 45% from Balkans, 6% Italian, 15% broadly South European, 18% from Middle East and North Africa, 6% Eastern European, 0.8% East Asian, 0.7% Yakut Turk and Mongolian, 0.3% Sub-saharan African and the rest unassigned. I also carry 3.4% Neanderthal DNA. ;-)
 
Born in Santa Barbara, CA but never lived there...
Grew up in San Dimas, CA
Currently living in Alta Loma or Rancho Cucamonga, CA either name works...
Always lived in California...
 
Washington state is my home, and though there is a Columbia River in Washington, there should be no confusion with the Washington in District of Columbia! Born in Brooklyn NY but extracted in time, I think. 😀 I have lived briefly near Izmir Turkey and Rapid City SD.
 
I am from Stockport, England. I voted "elsewhere" as I don't regard the British Isles as "Europe". They may be politically (by merit of being a member state of the EU) but geographically and in any other respect, I have never regarded being British as being remotelu "European".

I am not anti-European, by the way. This thread is asking where I am from and I don't think "Europe" is a country - it'sa collection of countries.
 
I live to the north of Seattle. I was born and grew up in eastern Washington State. During my 20 years in the Air Force I lived in California, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Washington (state) and upstate New York.
 
I took this as "Where are you from originally" as I assumed that many -- perhaps most -- would have moved about a fair bit. Admittedly I was born in Europe; have mostly lived in Europe (Cornwall, England, Malta, Scotland and now France) but I've also lived in Bermuda and California. I doubt I'd be happier anywhere other than rural France, unless I were extremely rich, and even then, there aren't many places I'd rather live all year 'round: maybe small pieds-a-terre in two or three cities as well, and a place in Dharamsala.

Cheers,

R.
 
Paul Jenkin said:
I am from Stockport, England. I voted "elsewhere" as I don't regard the British Isles as "Europe". They may be politically (by merit of being a member state of the EU) but geographically and in any other respect, I have never regarded being British as being remotelu "European".

I am not anti-European, by the way. This thread is asking where I am from and I don't think "Europe" is a country - it'sa collection of countries.
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Dear Paul,

I have news for you. "North America", "Central and South America", "Asia", etc aren't countries either. They're collections of countries.

Cheers,

R.
 
jarski said:
England not geographically part of Europe 😕 🙄
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This is a fantasy distressingly often entertained by the English. It's a bit odd when you consider that England is surrounded by countries that mostly do think of themselves as part of Europe: Cornwall, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man, Scotland, Channel Islands...

You can now rely on at least one Englishman spluttering that Cornwall isn't a country, mostly because they won the last Cornish-English war in 1549 -- http://www.cornwallinformation.co.uk/news/the-anglo-cornish-war-of-june-august-1549/ Nor were the English above a few massacres, verging on genocide.

On re-reading the information in the link given above, I note that the English used European mercenaries. So much for their claims not to be part of Europe!

Cheers,

R
 
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