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The Place Where You Grew Up -
11-07-2010, 05:59 PM
Many members here are from around the Globe-- which is wonderful.
Many of us must have grown up in totally different environments. It would be really interesting to hear what you think about the place that you grew up in. TOWN, CITY< COUNTRYSIDE-- URBAN etc etc. If you had had a choice would you have preferred to live elsewhere? I personally grew up in many places in the UK-- partly due to the war-- when I was mostly near the countryside and in childrens homes or foster homes. after the war I returned to London-- in an area that had been badly bombed and was pretty derelict. It was strange contrast to the country areas I had known previously and I missed seeing grass and trees or even gardens or earth. It was tough-- but it was for many people of course. queueing early in the morning for milk and then the wonderful aroma from the bakery. we had ration books so diets were meagre---------- No hot water-- usually one fireplace or blackleaded stove where we could cook and heat the iron etc. if one could afford to buy fuel. I used to queue at a local gas works to get coke---------- took a large baby's pram to transport the fuel. Bread and dripping was popular-- also suet puddings to fill us up. small local shops-- where usually big queues were the norm. house was always freezing cold if you couldn't get near the fireplace. wireless broadcast were often limited to the ten minute news although favourite programmes like Dick Barton special Agent was special. Slipper baths which cost 2d--not many people had baths then of course. Some families had a tin bath-- and would bath in front of the fire if possible. 
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11-07-2010, 07:15 PM
I was bon in the suburbs, it snowed alot in the winter, some people were kinda jumpy. Life was very nice and fufilling!! ^_^
I have no Friends- The cats have scratched and destroyed all of the DVDs! I always owe someone- In fact I put two os in it! I always ruin my clothes with Bleach!- The show is so dom suspensful I spill my grape soda on them! But . . .I'll live. 
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11-08-2010, 01:08 AM
I was born and raised in Miami, Florida... I was in the burbs outside of the major part of Miami (big city). I don't think I ever really liked it down there, as it was always too busy and people were always so rude. Now that I no longer have any ties down there, I doubt I will ever go back. In 2004 we moved up to central Florida, and live in the ever shrinking countryside here. It's getting more and more populated and starting to get just as bad as Miami ever was while we lived there.
I have always wanted to live up north, where they have four seasons and actually have snow (which in my 29 years I have never seen). Just so long as it is not in the city proper, I'd be content I think...
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11-08-2010, 09:46 AM
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 I have never been to America or florida-- but I do believe that many BRITS move there. when one hears about the hurricans that hit that area-- It seems scary. So many places get built on don't they. Its the same here too and we are such a small country.
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11-08-2010, 03:39 PM
Yeah, I meant suburbs, lol... Where we live now there are a lot of Brits that come over on holiday, and I am good friends with a British lady that I work with.
Hurricanes are a bit scary, especially when they get to be category 3 and up... Where we used to live was near the worst destruction from Hurricane Andrew in '94... And then where we moved to and live now was hit hard by Charley, Frances, Jean, and Ivan about 6 years or so, ago... We were in the process of moving when the first of the storms hit, and the house we were moving to got demolished by the time the third storm got through with it. Definitely no fun... Too right, they just keep building and building. What kills me is they started building houses right before the economy tanked, so a lot of the new houses that just got built a couple years back are still sitting there vacant. Our booming population in Florida is mainly boosted by illegal immigrants from Mexico and Cuba... If I am ever able to go anywhere other than my house and not hear Spanish it is a bleeding miracle. Miami itself is practically an extension/colony of Cuba (another reason I was glad to leave it)... But that is a different story altogether, lol... Anyways... I'll get off my soapbox now, hehe...
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11-08-2010, 04:22 PM
Born in a village in Algeria. Moved to the city of Algiers. Moved to a town in South-East London before I was 10. And now living in a town in the suburbs of Paris since the start of Uni.
I've never belonged anywhere. Very confusing for a child! Mother-tongue was Berber. In Algiers had to learn Arabic and in England, English. With each language, came a different culture! I wouldn't wish this kind of experience on anyone. If I see different groups of friends in the same day, I'm different versions of me! I still haven't figured out who I am, lol
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11-08-2010, 04:35 PM
i was born in city Cēsis (now its like 805 years old city with castle and everything..) with some 15 000 people living there.
most of my childhood was spent in countryside 2 km away from Cēsis...well we had a typical garden for latvians - potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, apples etc. i had and still have 2 saunas there, a lake and close by is largest ski resort in whole country. when i was older spent 3 winters on a snowboard until i had accident when i totally smashed my helmet falling on a rail - first time i ever wore one and just that day it kept my brains from covering whole rail. had nice days running up the hill to neighbours after fresh milk and eggs so i can have traditional desert for lunch called "sambuks" had 2 older cousins who used to scare me and then come to apologise afterwards with the sweets they didn't like. 
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11-08-2010, 05:00 PM
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I love soapboxes so carry on. Its a great way to learn how the other half live. Its a wonder anyone lives in a place that has those hurricanes. Must be terrifying. Are the houses built so that somehow you can go down below and hide? so you have many illegal immigrants from Mexico and CuBA. I suppose its difficult to stop them entering. I am pretty ignorant re climate. So have to ask why there are so many storms that way? Do the immigrants take work away from locals do you reckon? I believe that parts of Japan are also exposed to very bad weather and earthquakes .
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