Where do we all come from?

[Randi]

I thought it might be interesting to see where everybody on Pet Talk come from. I know most are americans - but from which states (or perhaps timezone, to make it easier) - and how about the rest? By the way, I'm from Copenhagen, Denmark.


A poll has been set up... well it gone again!

[Former User]

Well, I come from Finland, but live in Belgium now with my husband who is Belgian, so two countries from us
Our cats are also from Belgium

Good topic Randi!

[lynnestankard]

I come from England - born and bred here!!

Do have a daughter, Diane who lives in Chicago with her husband Jason, he's American - born in Chicago.

Lynne

[sasvermont]

I am American, born here, as were my parents and grandparents, but my great grandparents were not from USA. They were from England, France and Germany. English on my Dad's side and French and German on my Mom's side. I live in Vermont, the northeastern section (New England) of the USA. I love it here. I have travelled outside the continent quite a bit. Home is where your heart is....so I am not partial to any one country or continent. I just like people in general and find everyone's life style(s) facinating. =^..^=

[Randi]

An absolute brilliant idea! but how do we do it?

My husband is actually doing maps professionally if that helps, but you can probably use any world map. It's up to the webmaster to arrange that, I suppose?

Let's wait for responses!

[ilovehounds]

Im from Ontario Canada, born and raised in a little town called Smiths Falls.

What if you got a world map, scanned it took it to a program like paint or photo impact and placed the red dots on it ???

[Freckles]

Chuck, I did that search and found, with over 2,700 members, only 160plus fit that category. Curious.

[gini]

I think Pet of the Day has had visitors from all over the globe, but they don't sign on as members. Maybe we could break down the current members list into various states and countries?

[aly]

I could do that map thing but it'd probably be very crude and look like a preschooler's project!

By the way, I'm American. I'm living in Texas right now and loving it!

[NoahsMommy]

I live in California, and have been here my whole life. However, my mom is 100% English, my grandparents came to the US on the Queen Mary's last voyage!

Noah and Noel are native Californians too!

[Albea]

I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Came to the USA in 1965 (best thing I ever did in my life) and since then I've lived in New York, Chicago, and now in Connecticut for the last 26 years. I'm an American citizen and very grateful for the oportunities to work in my field, set and costume design, that I found here. I also spent long periods of time in London and Paris, and traveled all over Europe.

[LoudLou]

I was born in Los Angeles. Livbed there until I was 8 My father had this "Bright" idea to move up to a place called Forks, Wa. Tiny, Tiny Tiny town on Hwy 101. Nice place to visit never want to live there again... Now living in Port Townsend, WA still a small town but closer to civilization than Forks.

[slleipnir]

Born and always live here, PEI canada. a SANDBAR! yeaa ;]

[Cynthia]

LoudLou,
I believe I passed through "greater Forks" on the way to the Olympic National Forest two summers ago. Hiked and camped the Bogachiel River trail with friends from Oregon. Beautiful part of the country!!

Me, I live in Virginia, so I consider the DC area to be home now although I lived in Hawaii and Japan as a child. My mom is from Japan so that's also "home" even though she also lives in Virginia now.

[AmberLee]

My brother lived in Forks and then in Port Angeles for a while a bunch of years ago.

I'm a northern California native (born in Monterey, CA) and do volunteer work in one of the local genealogical libraries. My most 'recent' immigrant ancestor arrived in the states in 1860 when she was 10 years old. She was born in Brazil (her parents were from the Alsace-Lorraine area). Silly, but I've always felt close to Thelma because of the Brazil connection...

I think a map would be WONDERFUL! Suggestion (which might be WAY to hard to do...): any chance you could make it interactive so that if interested we could 'see' the members' name who corresponds to the location. (i.e. I expect to be travelling on job hunt this spring. If there are PTers in the area, I could sound them out via e-mail and perhaps if they're interested we could have a mini-PT meeting. [Or, , at least warn them to stay off the roads when I'm in town. Sigh.])