F^4 - What Country/Region do GOTM players hail from?

[Yndy]

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

 

[alamo]

Texas, like the name suggest.

The Alamo

 

[rabies]

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

 

[Moonsinger]

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

 

[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.

 

[cracker]

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.

 

[denyd]

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

 

[mabellino]

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...

 

[civ_steve]

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 )

 

[Capt Buttkick]

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.

 

[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!

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.

 

[rabies]

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.

 

[CruddyLeper]

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.

 

[OneFastWarrior]

I live in the Northwestern US. Spokane.

 

[Jurimax]

I'm from Belgium, the dutch speaking part.

 

[Adam0217]

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

-Adam

 

[MadScot]

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.

 

[JonathanValjean]

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?

 

[alexman]

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

 

[Capt Buttkick]

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