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

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I was born in South Dakota - lived in Mitchell, SD (home of the world's only corn palace ) until I was 7... then, I moved around the US until I was 11 (WY and TX).

Then, the parents got divorced and mom hauled me back to the great state of SD.

I've also spent a lot of time in CA and OR (dad moved around a lot after the divorce).

 

[threshel]

I was born in Austin, TX. Like the lady from El Paso, I spent my first 3 years there (and many vacations since ), then Army-Bratted up and spent time in Florida, Mass., and Germany before Pop retired and we settled in, wait for it...New Milton, WV. Population? I think we were it. I spent the 5th and 6th grade in the same classroom. Boy was everybody proud to switch to the 6th grade side of the room (the right-hand side, in case you were wondering).
After a couple of years, Mom told Dad we were moving, and he could come with us if he wanted. I love my Mom.

Harper's Ferry, WV for Jr. High and High School, then Northern VA since, with a brief stay in Bloomsberg, PA in '91.

There ya go.


J

 

[Cam Banks]

I was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and lived there until I was almost 25 years old. I fell in love with a girl from Whitewater, WI, who was studying at the University of Kansas. Moved to Lawrence, KS, married her, moved with her to Pennsylvania, never been happier anywhere else.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[qstor]

Currently going on five years in Detroit, which never will be no matter how long I end up living here.

I feel the SAME way For some reason I can't ever root for the Red Wings


Home for me will be the suburban DC area of Maryland where I was born and grew up. Went to law school in Michigan now I'm back...Ick..

Mike

 

[Desdichado]

See, I like the Red Wings, but that's probably because hockey was completely not on my radar until I moved up here. You'll never get me to root for the Pistons over the Rockets or the Spurs, though. And the Lions and the Tigers are both jokes.

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

I was born and learned to talk in Portsmouth (pronounced, for no good reason, "Port Smith") VA, but came back home with my parents to Rochester, NY. I'm up on the Lake Ontario, with Toronto across the water, and about 100 miles north of the Corning/Elmira area Eric and Panthanas refer to. We were down there two weeks ago to visit my wife's Dad. She's from Corning. I love Rochester as much as I hate being buried under the snow (we usually get more than Buffalo, and are usually warmer than most of Alaska), but the summers make it worth it. And the people. It feels like one of the small towns around here, but we're comprable in size to Chicago in terms of population density, with twice as much space and green expanses in between everything with lots of water.

 

[Davelozzi]

I now live back in my hometown of Braintree, MA, a suburb of Boston. Have also lived in Brighton (a neigborhood of Boston), Seattle, WA, Olalla (Kitsap County) WA, and when I was in college, Amherst, MA, and Hempstead/Uniondale, NY.

I'm not sure if Monte is from the same town, but I believe that the South Dakota town that Bruce Cordell hails from is called Watertown. I remember it because it shares a name with a Massachusetts town where I was working for most of the past four years.

 

[DaveStebbins]

I was born in Oneonta, a smallish college town in upstate NY. Though, checking the 2000 census informnation, it's not as small as I thought. About 13,000 people, with two colleges containing about 6,500 people. All the benefits of a small town in the country, with a somewhat more open attitude towards debate and the value of education. When I was growing up there, during the '70s (before NY raised the drinking age from 18 to 21), Oneonta had more bars per capita than any other place in the state. Before becomming a teen, I learned to give directions by bars instead of street names.

Went to college in Buffalo and received a job offer in Erie, PA, which is where I live now (15 years later, same company).

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi.

Wait that's someone else's life.

Born in Fort Bragg, CA, halfway up the coast between San Francisco and the Oregon border along Hwy. 1. Spent the first year or so of my life on a little farm overlooking the ocean.

Parents moved to South San Francisco and broke up. Moved to Berkeley and lived in a cool subdivided house on Vine St. a couple blocks down from Shattuck. Then we moved to San Pablo which sucked a lot. Then moved to Concord, CA and spent my formative years there. Moved in with my dad in neighboring Walnut Creek after graduation, moved back to Concord, moved to Martinez, sitting there right now.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I was born, raised, and went to college at Pullman Washington. It has a population of 26,000 people. The vast majority of the people there are affiliated with the college (WSU), but there is also a pretty large farming population. The town is built on four fairly large hills, so its almost impossible to get lost. You can walk from one end of town to the other in about forty five minutes (I know, because I did so frequently after getting out of school in highschool). There's a large gaming population there, and between it and neighboruing Moscow Idaho, there are at least 3 gaming stores in busines (possibly one less now, I'm not sure). All in all, it was a great place to grow up and I wish circumstances were right for me to live there now.