Where is Monte Cook from? (Also, where are *you* from?)

[The_Universe]

I was just cruising around the malhavoc/Monte Cook site, and saw it noted that Monte (and Bruce Cordell) grew up in South Dakota.

As a South Dakota native, I'm really curious what town he grew up in.

But I'm also curious where all of you grew up (if you grew up, at all).

Let's share!

I grew up on a farm, 10 miles north of Huron, SD (population 13000). How about you?

 

[MrFilthyIke]

I grew up in a small community of several million people: Miami, Fl in the U.S.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I grew up in the bustling metropolis of Montreal, Qc

AR

 

[Hand of Evil]

I am an Army brat, moved around a lot, most of my life has been in South Carolina.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

South from San Francisco

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I grew up on a 167 acre farm (one half wooded hill/one half pasture and field) between Batesville and Cave City, Arkansas. Not a day goes by I don't think of and miss that place. It was an absolutely wonderful location for a child with a fascination for nature and a very active imagination to grow up.

 

[der_kluge]

Nowadays, the population of my hometown is about 2,000 people and they still don't have a single stoplight - Dover, Arkansas.

 

[XAD]

Geneva, Switzerland, close to the lake... well... of Geneva or Lake Leman if you speak with Frenchies or residents of Lausanne.

 

[johnsemlak]

Born in Grand Forks North Dakota

Grew up in Normal, Illinois, which in RPG terms is most famous as the home of the late Games Designers Workshop.

Iv'e since moved to a clime more similar to my birthplace.

 

[francisca]

St. John, IN which is (maybe was, these days) about 45 minutes from downtown Chicago in non-rush hour traffic.

There were still cows mooing in the fields and deer running through our yards when we moved there in 1979, so I had most of the benefits of living near a major metropolitan area, with most of the benefits of living in a rural area, with hardly any downside of either.

Today, it is all built up and basically a Chicago suburb. In the 90s there was a large influx of people who had lived in the burbs in Illinois. They moved to NW Indiana, attracted by the lower taxes, then immediatley started complaining that the "villages" didn't provide enough public services. Oh, the irony.