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Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Black
Date: March 18, 2012 04:05PM
Voodoo, you can play too :-)
Just curious . . . caught a note from someone on another thread mentioning that they lived in Japan in the early 90s and got to wondering how many of the forum critters have had extended out-of-country experiences.


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: March 18, 2012 04:06PM
Germany, a year.



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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: March 18, 2012 04:10PM
3 months in Switzerland in the mid-90s.

In my fifth year of living in Paris right now.

The first foreign country I really lived in was Hawaii, though. Seriously. It is not like living in the continental 48. Stationed there for 4 years in my early 20s.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: bruceko
Date: March 18, 2012 04:11PM
commuted between Seattle and Venezuela for 2 years and
3 months a year at a Young Life camp on the British Columbia coast for 6 years



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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: March 18, 2012 04:12PM
.....LIVING in oblivion......


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Grace62
Date: March 18, 2012 04:12PM
France - one year

Wish I had more of that experience - maybe after the kids are done with college.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: mattkime
Date: March 18, 2012 04:23PM
I lived in london for six months and hiked through the british countryside for six weeks. (by the end of it, it certainly felt like a lifestyle)

my girlfriend has irish citizenship. i'm hoping that we can cash that in after she graduates from architecture school.


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Kate
Date: March 18, 2012 04:31PM
Living at the corner of No and Where . . .

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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: yeoman
Date: March 18, 2012 04:44PM
England 28 yrs. Belgium 4yrs. Austria 4 yrs. US (NJ, MN) 17 yrs. Cayman 15yrs. US 7 yrs (FL). First Mac 1984. Getting old!



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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: ztirffritz
Date: March 18, 2012 04:49PM
I lived in Germany for 2 months during a college study abroad session.


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Black
Date: March 18, 2012 04:53PM
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yeoman
England 28 yrs. Belgium 4yrs. Austria 4 yrs. US (NJ, MN) 17 yrs. Cayman 15yrs. US 7 yrs (FL). First Mac 1984. Getting old!

Wrong thread :-)
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: voodoopenguin
Date: March 18, 2012 05:04PM
Very straightforward, UK for the whole of my 60+ years. In fact England for the whole of that which means I've hardly moved at all.

Paul


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Will Collier
Date: March 18, 2012 05:12PM
England, about 6 months, '90-91.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: March 18, 2012 05:14PM
......in a past life.......on the royal throne of Egypt......


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: MartyStickle
Date: March 18, 2012 05:25PM
Nigeria for 2 years with wife. Peace Corps back in the 60's.



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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: TheCaber
Date: March 18, 2012 05:29PM
Canada Maritimes, the past 3 years.


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: mjgkramer
Date: March 18, 2012 05:39PM
Lived in the Sultanate of Oman (working for Petroleum Development Oman - PDO) from March 1992 through November 1995 and in the Netherlands (working for Nederlands Aardolie Maatschappij - the NAM and Shell International Petroleum - SIPM) from January 1996 through October 1998. During those seven years we visited 30 countries, some of them, such as Germany, several times.

I was on loan from Shell US. While in Oman, wife was the training manager for Apple Centre Oman and later was the Mac support person for PDO. The Mac was the PC of choice for both PDO's publications department and the various government ministries due to its superior support for typing Arabic.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: mstudio
Date: March 18, 2012 05:43PM
I lived on the South Side of Chicago for 18 years. That was pretty foreign.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: richorlin
Date: March 18, 2012 05:48PM
Three years in London, two years in Pakistan, two years in Colombia.
All courtesy of Uncle Sam. Also did an amazing amount of traveling around during that time.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Gutenberg
Date: March 18, 2012 05:49PM
Porton, nr. Salisbury, Wilts. Eng. three years.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: voodoopenguin
Date: March 18, 2012 05:52PM
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Gutenberg
Porton, nr. Salisbury, Wilts. Eng. three years.

Was that at our defence lab?

Paul


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Acer
Date: March 18, 2012 06:03PM
Three weeks in Scotland is all I got, but I'm grateful for that opportunity.



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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: rgG
Date: March 18, 2012 06:03PM
Lived for a summer in Italy on a studies abroad program while in college.

I almost moved to Iran during the late 60's, as a kid with my mom and dad. My dad worked for a U.S. telecommunications company that had a big contract with the Shah, and they wanted him to go for a year or two. Dad and I were down with the idea, but mom decided that she just wasn't up for that.

That same company did move us all over the U.S. though. I went to 17 different schools before I graduated from high school. When I was young, we moved an average of three times a year. Just call me a gypsy. smiling smiley




Alpharetta, GA (Atlanta suburb)



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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: davester
Date: March 18, 2012 06:04PM
Born in Malta, where I alternated with England for a few years (I only remember scraps), then England until my mid-teens, with a couple of year stint in Scotland, then emigrated to California.



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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: freeradical
Date: March 18, 2012 06:08PM
Korea and Italy
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: March 18, 2012 06:09PM
France for one magical summer at the age of 13/14, half a year in Pakistan in the late 1980's. Now I mostly live in denial.... Of my accelerating age..
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: bhaveshp
Date: March 18, 2012 06:35PM
India for 5 years and England for 2 years.

Of course all of that was before I hit age 7.

Oh, and 2 weeks in Japan.. though it was more of a long business trip than "living" there.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Drew
Date: March 18, 2012 06:45PM
Living just north (and slightly east) of Rudie. He sends typhoons our way every fall. You can thank us for inventing sushi. Been here nearly 21 years. Born and raised in Seattle area.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Buzz
Date: March 18, 2012 06:56PM
Mexico, several times for a week or two, except once when we got stuck for an extra week, so we were there for three weeks. Canada a couple of times for about a week each.


Or do vacations not count as "living"?


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: DCrunch
Date: March 18, 2012 07:17PM
Haiti for two months in 2002 and 2003 and two months in Guam during 2008 and 2009 during Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. While in Haiti made the road trip to Santo Domingo. What a contrast between The Dominican Republic and Haiti. It's hard to believe they share the same island.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: abevilac
Date: March 18, 2012 07:36PM
I spent six months as an au-pair girl In France when I was in college.

I was in the Peace Corps in Togo West Africa and the mid 70s for two years and then spent about seven months traveling the world to get back home.

Lots of vacation travel when I spent five weeks in different countries like Italy, France or the Cook Islands in the South Pacific.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: olnacl
Date: March 18, 2012 08:15PM
Bahamas 15 years
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: WHiiP
Date: March 18, 2012 08:42PM
Michigan for 17 years. driving smiley


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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Todd's keyboard
Date: March 19, 2012 12:18AM
Berlin for about four years in the nineties.

France for a bit more than two years. (Also in the nineties.)

Moved to Canada about five years ago.

Spent a year or two in Berkeley as an undergraduate.

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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: mottai
Date: March 19, 2012 12:25AM
India 23 years, US 6 years, India 6 years. Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait - several months during the second stint in India.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: vicrock
Date: March 19, 2012 01:00PM
Germany - 3 years in the early 80s - husband also has a year in Korea and 10 months in Iraq/Kuwait
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: GeneH
Date: March 19, 2012 06:48PM
Three months in Poland in 1981.
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Re: Who's lived somewhere other than the U.S.A. and for how long?
Posted by: Bill in NC
Date: March 19, 2012 08:22PM
Germany, Mexico.

Moved mom down to the latter when she got sick.
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