"You Must Be Close By"

[danjate]

I'm Sure this one has come up before but, it's in the future now w/ a few new Marines here.

I just wanted to know where alot of you guys are from. To see if I've been there or know anybody from there.

I'm from a little place called Las Vegas, NEW MEXICO.
If you have ever seen the movie "Red Dawn" thats my town and country side. Great movie if you haven't seen it.

[Sgted]

Blairstown, New Jersey.
Northwest hills (highest elevation about 600').
12 miles east of the Delaware Water Gap (where Route 80 crosses over into PA).
Lots of Black Bear, Coyotes, deer, snakes and other assorted wildlife.
On 1/2 the maps you will not see the village of Blairstown.
But you will see the village of Hope.
So.....when folks ask "where is Blairstown ?" we just answer "just beyond Hope".......LOL.

[cajunguy]

South Central Louisiana - City of Lafayette.

Located on Interstate 10 (where it intersects with Interstate 49) roughly halfway between N'Awlins (New Orleans for you Yankee type folks) and Houston, and about 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.

In the heart of "Cajun Country" where the people are great and the food is greater. (Cajun cooking and N'Awlins style cookin' incidentally are totally different, and Cajun cookin' is the better of the two.) In fact if someone offered me N'Awlins style anything, I'd turn 'em down.

And for the record, Cajuns DO NOT have webbed toes. Hey, we actually have paved roads, telephones, and yes - computers too.

Great place to visit and live. Many people have come for a visit and ended up staying.

(And no, I don't work for the Chamber of Commerce.)

Y'all come on down sometime. You MAY not leave.

[yellowwing]

Real Cajuns! I met one of you down in Uptown 'Nawlins. Good people. Wood stove cooking is definatley different!

I'm back up here in Winnipeg Canada. Sunday weather is predicted -38 F. That's about 100 degree difference than 'Nawlins, Los Angeles, and Miami!

I still can't figure why the hell folks would settle here with weather like this. We had 4 inches of snow in May last year!

Maybe that's why we have generous legalized marijuana laws!

[LivinSoFree]

Born in Cleveland, OH, forcibly relocated to The Land that Time Forgot (Cary, NC) in 1998... currently at school at UNC-Chapel Hill (yeah, that's the Tarheels for all you college basketball fans out there).

[Timber]

Suffolk, VA About 35 miles west of the worlds largest naval base Norfolk.

[jo1753]

Northeast Oklahoma..........or thats where I live now. Born and raised in up-state New York til I went in the Corps. in 71. After I got back from Nam.I moved to Minnesota, Lived in central Minnesota for almost 30 years.... Prior to relocating to Oklahoma
I'm a truck driver. When I have the time. I like to golf,bow hunt, fish and do woodworking.....thanks....John

[garryh123]

Grove City, Ohio.....South part of Columbus...Born in Honolulu, Hawaii..then riverside cali, then Ohio, the Virginia, then back to Ohio...Marine corps brat....and Marine

[DSchmitke]

Born In Lansing, Michigan have lived in Kalamazoo for 10 yrs

[sadibenz]

Born in Oxnard, Ca (Oxnard Air Force Base)
Military brat. Lived all over the U.S. and overseas.
Spent my last 3 years of High School in Corpus Christi, Tex. Which, also happens to probably be the longest we ever stayed in on place at one time.

[sadibenz]

Now, Im in Chula Vista, Ca.
Serving and protecting my Country and its Borders in a very unique way. For a very long time now.

[cjjohnson]

Born and raised in Tampa,Florida...but I got to Texas as soon as I could. Raised by a Marine...met a Marine when I got to Texas.

[Arlene Horton]

Born & raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Most of my family lives in Wisconsin but have six members living in Florida...Tampa, Clearwater and Lithia. Would love to move there but the old man is definitely a fan of the frozen north.

[MillRatUSMC]

Born in New Mexico, next was El Paso, Texas, than California followed by Indiana.
Where I spent most of my youth, enlisted in Marine Corps, spent 10 years active.
Came back to Indiana, worked my butt off in the steelmills.
Retired in 1998.
Been living in Hammond, Indiana for over 30 some odd years.
Suffered every winter with DaBears except 1985.
And the summers with DaCubs...

Semper Fidelis/Semper Fi
Ricardo

[Toby M]

Born in Colorado, lived in Wyoming and raised in Boise, Idaho. Want to move to Texas as soon as I can-I am tired of this cold weather...Hill Country, here I come...