Let us know what country or region of the World that you are from if you currently are playing or in the recent past have played the GOTM?

Apologies in advance if I missed any specific country or region. please pick the nearest answer that would get us close to you on the globe.

Feel free to post a description of where you live in the world and/or a small picture of something you see near where you live or work almost every day.

Confederate States of America

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/wldpchr.jpg

Singapore.

Tumeke Poneke, Aotearoa. Proud to be grouped with our pals in PNG!

No pictures, but every day I wake up and see a crumbling warehouse (lived in, of course) that is marked for destruction to make way for a grassy knoll at the side of a central city motorway bypass. At least there are several pubs only two minutes walk from here ;)

But it says that in my location entry :lol:


Ted

I'm from Belgium, the Dutch speaking part at that.

PS: Never posted before, but you gotta start someplace! :crazyeye:

Norway.

Central United States (Wisconsin).

Don't know of anyone else close to me that play GOTM, except Moonsinger from Iowa, who I kind of consider my neighbor since she is in the state right next to me, and I'm only about 45 miles from the Iowa border.

Netherlands....
IIRC there's quite a few Dutch players in the GOTM....

...of which I'm also one. :)

Netherlands.

And another.

I live in Utrecht. Founded by the Romans (who called it Trajectum because it's on the Rhine river). It has an mature University that has about the same age as the US of A...
It is near the 'Utrechtse heuvelrug' which is a row of hills that where formed by the glaciers in the last Ice-age, hence my location.

France - bien sûr

Southern England.

The weather's beautiful, with cloudless blue skies, it's 10:00am and the temperature is already getting up, and there'll be a barbecue tonight.

The view from where I was a couple of weeks ago, and would like to be today - just down the road.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/IM000327.JPG

Engerland.

Australia. I cross the bridge in the picture twice every day on the way to work.

http://www.sydney.com.au/pix/quay3.jpg

La France, bien sûr ! ;) I've lived 22 years in Paris' close suburbs, but this year I've been studying in Bordeaux, south-west of France, near the Atlantic coast, a city worldwidely known for its red wine...

Here is a pic found on the Internet of La Grande Arche de la Défense, near my home. It's a monument / business building that has been erected in 1989 for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution. It's located closer to Paris too, in fact it extends the "historical axe" that includes Le Louvre (huge museum), La Concorde (Egyptian obelisk there), L'avenue des Champs-Elysées (no comment...), L'Arc de Triomphe (built under Napoleon)...

I chose this place because I used to travel through there each day to go to the university (in Versailles, do you know this town ? ;) ) when I was still studying in Paris. I don't quite like this place though because it's too modern, in fact what you can see is an esplanade (there is no "ground"). On the right of the pic you can see a building inside of which there is a store : that's where I bought Civ3 + PTW among other things. ;)

- end of report !

Land of the long white cloud. :)

I live in an area called Taranaki. Famous for this mountain:

http://www.trenowth.com/taranaki/mount-taranaki.jpg

Erm, can I vote twice?
At the moment I'm doing a PhD in Cambridge, England, but I'm really from Brisbane, Australia.
Guess I'll just have to tick UK for now.

On the line between Eastern and Middle United States but hoping to move more eastern.

Eastern US

Romania, land of Dracula and some other freaks.
Come visit once and you’ll be back for more.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/brancastle.jpg

Texas, like the name suggest.

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The Alamo

Eastern United States. Maryland to be exact. about 20 miles from our nations capital.

I'm from Iowa which is right at the center of the United States.

Eastern US

Allentown, PA to be exact.


@rabies Where exactly in MD (if you don't mind saying). I grew up in LaPlata, in southern MD. Was devastated when I saw the news of the tornadoes that swept through last year. One of the schools I went to was leveled.

We live in a historic neighborhood in Northern Colorado. Not as historic as Old World scale places like Yndy's castle, Col's cliff dwellings, or Alamo's reappropriated mission but historic nonetheless.

Here's a picture of my daughter at the Geranium trial gardens just down the street.

Just a hop, a skip and a jump from the happiest place on earth…

I live in southern England but I'm a Yorkshire lass at heart..
@Col is that a picture of Scarborough? It's my favourite seaside resort (well apart from the greek islands anyway!)
Attached is a pic of what I have to look at every day...

Santa Clarita - US's 4th safest city by FBI stats :) , and part of the vast suburban sprawl that surrounds Los Angeles.

denyd: I noticed your Chino Hills before; we occasionally go down the 71 on the way to San Diego (actually, the 14, to the 210, to the 71, to the 91, to the 15 to the 94, and then we're practically at my family's home!!; I should append a picture of the local Freeway overpass ;) )

I wanted to include a pic of where I'm from.
This is a 1 1/2-hour drive from the city I live in. It's called the Pulpit Rock and is a 25*25m shelf towering 600m (close to a vertical drop) above a fjord.

Capt Buttkick - That is cool. If it was in the UK it would have safety fences and nets all around it to catch any jumpers and stop people straying too close to the edge!

Sirp - you go to work twice every day?!

I live in London - walk across London Bridge every day, and my office window overlooks the tower of london and tower bridge. Not half as spectacular as Sydney Harbour Bridge though.

Originally posted by Xevious
Eastern US

Allentown, PA to be exact.


@rabies Where exactly in MD (if you don't mind saying). I grew up in LaPlata, in southern MD. Was devastated when I saw the news of the tornadoes that swept through last year. One of the schools I went to was leveled.

at the time of the LaPlata tornado, I lived about 30 miles north in Crofton (middle of Arundel county). I've since moved to Columbia. We drove through LaPlata after the devastation. It was pretty surreal. I can't imagine how people who live in 'Tornado valley' in the midwest and NOT want to move far away.

I live in Nottingham, UK. Sorry no pics - I can't work out how to upload them - but you can google and find your own if you want.

The castle is a big disappoinment to most visitors anyway.

I live in the Northwestern US. Spokane.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/spokane.jpg

I'm from Belgium, the dutch speaking part.

Bamspeedy: I'm in Milwaukee, WI. I only have on GOTM submission so far though. I usually don't finish on time.

-Adam

Well I'm in Kansas, waiting for a fortuitious tornado to pick me up and take me home to Montreal, but I'm from Edinburgh in Scotland.

I guess people are voting for current location, rather than the other options. That makes me Central US.

I am from the Southeastern U.S., Northern Alabama, to be exact.


Originally posted by ainwood
Land of the long white cloud. :) I live in an area called Taranaki. Famous for this mountain:

The mountain in that picture is beautiful! Can I come for a visit some time? ;)

I grew up in Greece (so the irony of a Turkish city named "Alexmanika" in GOTM 19 cracked me up :lol: )
I now live in Boston.

Originally posted by Pal {UI}
Capt Buttkick - That is cool. If it was in the UK it would have safety fences and nets all around it to catch any jumpers and stop people straying too close to the edge!

It's a popular region for base jumping, but they'd only climb any fences lol.
It's a hike of about an hour from the parking lot so you'd have to be a pretty determined jumper, not that it hasn't happened. Also: I think lots of fences would have kinda ruined the thing. It's pretty cool to dangle your feet over the edge. Even for me with my fear of heights and all :D

I live in the part of New York that isn't The City. Rochester to be specific. :)

You'd be amazed how many people in the States think New York state is all one big city!

I live North of Germany in Schöppenstedt. Ok, its only a 6000 town but i love the silence...

I am honored to be able hail from the same state as the great Bamspeedy. Central Wisconsin, to be more precise.

Of course you know New Zealand is just another state of Australia

France, currently strasbourg (4km of German border - city of 200 000 souls.. one of the most beautiful in france.. good food and wine.. and absolute great houses.. .. but native Celt (from Brittany,..you know far west of France... )..
I am leaving 300meters from the place of the picture. (center of the city)

follow up GOTM since GOTM3, never dear post a game.. missed GOTM19 (with Jason I was 5000 points, diplo win.. ).

I try to get GOTM20 ready..
ciao ...ronan

Originally posted by Luithien
Of course you know New Zealand is just another state of Australia

:rolleyes:

Only Auckland, buddy, only Auckland.

:D

Born in Firenze, Italy. My one and only home -if you wonder why, just look here (http://www.vps.it/cupolalive/)

Worked and lived in other places, though.
Now in Pisa (Italy), hoping it will be only for a while...

Originally posted by feght


:rolleyes:

Only Auckland, buddy, only Auckland.

:D

:lol:

Zurich / Switzerland

Missouri

Speaking of tornados i live about 20 miles south of Pierce City the town that got leveled in early may.i went up a couple days after the storm to help afriend get the tree off his roof.Surreal is a good word for it

Originally posted by Luithien


Of course you know New Zealand is just another state of Australia

Originally posted by feght


:rolleyes:

Only Auckland, buddy, only Auckland.

:D

Just like Earls Court in London then.

I live in Mercia of course. In a little village two miles west of Banbury, North Oxfordshire.

I just finished my first GOTM a couple of hours ago and this is my first forum post. I currently live in Palmdale, California, land of sonic booms, F117's, B2's, and the occasional Space Shuttle. I've only lived here a few years, so I don't really consider it my home town, which is Seal Beach, California. At least THAT beach has an ocean attached! (Palmdale is in the Mojave Desert)

Get me out of here!!!!!:cry:

Ghostwind

From: Sweden, south east corner, Kalmar.
Now: Kalmar and Stockholm.

'orstralia mate.

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Turku, Finland.

Interesting that UK and Ireland still just makes top of the poll ahead of the US eastern seaboard. That must be disproportionate to total region populations, so either the 'Merkins don't post as often as we do, or they have less time to spend on GOTM.

I'm surprised that "Other" still trails with no votes. I was expecting at least one person to post that from sheer devilment. :)

Or possibly recognition that they occupy a different plane of existence to the rest of us.....

@MadScot: You've changed your avatar from that laid-back lass you used to display to a strange new device. What's that all about?

Yah, MadScot, what happened to 'Brandy'?

:spank:

A lot of interest in Brandy, I see :)

I just decided I wanted a change - I was going to use one of the other characters from Liberty Meadows, but couldn't find any decent shots I liked.

So I swapped to one of the civilization cards from the original board game Civilization.

It always amuses me when I hear people expounding on what a genius Sid Meier is/was for the game concept. As my signature alludes, the board game Civilization is a LOT older than the computer games.

Originally posted by MadScot
So I swapped to one of the civilization cards from the original board game Civilization.

It always amuses me when I hear people expounding on what a genius Sid Meier is/was for the game concept. As my signature alludes, the board game Civilization is a LOT older than the computer games. Thanks for that. I was trying to recall where I'd seen your card image before, but couldn't place it. I guess I must have at least seen the original board game at some point.

Arizona but from California...It's amazing the world wide flavor GOTM has!!

Finland. I was playing GOTM 21, but it crashed when I met the Spanish so I guess I'll not submit... although it wouldn't have been much of a winning game, anyway... :( Even if I got it to run I'd not have time anymore to finish it this month...

Wizard

P.S. Skandinavia is on the third place in the poll...:)

Gold Coast, Australia -- like I say in every post. No picture, but think lots of sun, surf, acquatic fun and numerous shopping 'fairs' for the tourists.

Originally from Zummerzet, UK and still occasionally drinks cider.

Great living in the 4th best country in the world, isn't it?

Turns out Australia has the 4th best living standards, above USA's 7th best. The best living standards in the world are in Norway, BTW.

Ghent, Belgium.
Living here gets better every year. :)