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Posted: 2/24/2007 5:21:43 PM EDT

I lived in Bermuda for 8 years.

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:26:25 PM EDT

[#1]

Yes, I lived in Texas for a while.

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:27:22 PM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:

Yes, I lived in Texas for a while.

I'm imagining it has a little Mexican influence.

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:30:09 PM EDT

[#3]

21 years in Canada.

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:30:30 PM EDT

[#4]

yes I was born in CHina, but moved to America when I was 3

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:31:32 PM EDT

[#5]

Scotland

1985-87
1995-97

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:32:25 PM EDT

[#6]

Germany and Korea.

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:33:11 PM EDT

[#7]

Chile 1982-83

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:33:47 PM EDT

[#8]

Thailand

Liberia

Iran

UK

Guam

and boarding school in Kobe, Japan.

My Dad spent 32 years in the USMC. We got around.

Mike

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:34:24 PM EDT

[#9]

Yes in Europe, and from that perspective I can say:

God Bless America!

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:34:29 PM EDT

[#10]

I havnt lived in the states since Nov 03, but the good news is Im coming back TODAY. 8hrs to be precise!

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:37:34 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
21 19 years in Canada.

Can't say I miss the gun laws.

Quoted:
Thailand

Liberia

Iran

UK

Guam

and boarding school in Kobe, Japan.

My Dad spent 32 years in the USMC. We got around.

Mike

Did you see any 'child soldiers' like these?

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:38:37 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
I havnt lived in the states since Nov 03, but the good news is Im coming back TODAY. 8hrs to be precise!

Welcome Home!

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:40:40 PM EDT

[#13]

I'd like to live in a country where our children don't have access to guns, a fairer distrubution of wealth, and health care is free for everyone. Haha, just kidding. Wouldn't live anywhere else.

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:50:09 PM EDT

[#14]

Germany (born + second tour with "The Colonel"), The Netherlands (the formidable high school/first round of college years).

Wouldn't trade it for the world

Posted: 2/24/2007 5:52:23 PM EDT

[#15]

37 years in Canada. I wasn't born here but I got here as quick as I could!

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:02:25 PM EDT

[#16]

Born in Germany

1 tour in Germany

10 months in the middle east.

Mark.

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:03:53 PM EDT

[#17]

Been living in South Dakota for about 23 years... Have they voted yet to make us a state?

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:04:29 PM EDT

[#18]

Ireland, 15 years. Belgium, 5 years. Not counting long-term visits (over a month) to places like Greece or Korea, or military tours.

NTM

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:04:58 PM EDT

[#19]

Lived in:

Mexico
Iran
Sweden
England
Canada
Switzerland

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:05:27 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Been living in South Dakota for about 23 years... Have they voted yet to make us a state?

I visited Rapid City on thursday. On the flight afterwards to Wyo, there isn't much up there.

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:06:11 PM EDT

[#21]

3 years in Italy. 1 year in Iraq, and 3 absolutely miserable years in the third world republic of Rhode Island.

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:12:05 PM EDT

[#22]

7 years in Nepal
15 years in Australia
The last 14 here in the US

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:25:33 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Been living in South Dakota for about 23 years... Have they voted yet to make us a state?

I visited Rapid City on thursday. On the flight afterwards to Wyo, there isn't much up there.

Hey, thanks for the vote of confidence. Can't say much for Wyoming either. Try driving I-80. I'm convinced that Wyoming began as one big rock,
and was then smashed into a gajillion smaller ones. Don't get me started about the wind.

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:30:08 PM EDT

[#24]

C-4 asks if I saw any child soldiers while living in Monrovia, Liberia.

The answer is no.

But we knew war was coming. Once a week we practiced retreating to the embassy.

The US Embassy in Monrovia is located on a bluff on the Atlantic coast - perfect for helicopter evacuations.

I have since seen video of our destroyed US government housing. I have watched video of the firefights and I can recognize the streets and buildings. They fought exactly like I would have expected.

Back in the day they had electricity and clean water. They threw it away.

Mike

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:36:28 PM EDT

[#25]

Three years in France -- 1956 - 1959. Dad was stationed at the Nancy Ordnance Depot. We lived off base in an American military housing area. Every so often the French commies would blow the power lines and some one's mom would have to drive to the base and report it so they could send out linemen escorted by heavily armed GIs. Also, we always had suitcases packed in order to bug out at a moment's notice if the Russians decided to vacation on the coast of France.

Damn, it was so good being an Army Brat. Born on an Army base, lived in Army housing, and shopped at the PX and the Commissary. Once I became a civilian brat, it just never was as cool.

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:43:44 PM EDT

[#26]

12mos in the Middle East!

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:45:49 PM EDT

[#27]

Puerto Rico and Kalifornia.

Posted: 2/24/2007 6:55:41 PM EDT

[#28]

5+ Years in Sicily

Posted: 2/24/2007 7:02:19 PM EDT

[#29]

I've been living in Nagoya, Japan since the first of the year. 5 more weeks and I'll be home.

Posted: 2/24/2007 9:38:06 PM EDT

[#30]

Sir, FWIW I lived in Naples, Italy on two different occasions, '88-92, and 95-98, total seven years. HTH, 7zero1.

Posted: 2/24/2007 9:41:32 PM EDT

[#31]

I have lived in Germany and the middle east while in the army. and lived in Germany as a civilian for a few years.

Posted: 2/24/2007 9:43:45 PM EDT

[#32]

6 months over in London, England. Quite an experience. Really opens your eyes as an American to get out in the world and see how others think of us, even our close 'cousins' in the UK.
(edited to add: Lived there as a civilian, 2002. I've never been in the military.)

Posted: 2/24/2007 9:43:50 PM EDT

[#33]

3 Tours in Korea.

Posted: 2/24/2007 9:45:16 PM EDT

[#34]

No, thank God.

Posted: 2/24/2007 9:56:47 PM EDT

[#35]

Spent most of my Career living in Central and South America, and I am 100% Gringo. Currently spending about eight months a year working in Bogotá Colombia. Great city, I could retire here. Doe's it bother any other military people that civilians mostly think because you were in the service you probably never really experienced the culture of the foreign country you were living in. They think we spent the whole time on the base or living in the jungle. Totally ignorant in my view. Not all think this way but a large majority do.
Longest stint in one place was four years in Panama. Best four years of my life. Favorite city besides Bogotá would be Lima Peru. Another view is that all of Central and South America is covered in Jungle. They find it hard to believe that there are modern cities here. Especially like to tell them the fact that Bogotá is safer then most American cities.

Posted: 2/24/2007 9:59:07 PM EDT

[#36]

Born and raised in NYC...it becomes less and less the "United States of America" every-damned-day.

Posted: 2/24/2007 10:00:04 PM EDT

[#37]

Japan, 2 years.

Posted: 2/24/2007 10:01:24 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Lived in:

Mexico
Iran
Sweden
England
Canada
Switzerland

Where at in Mexico? You sound like you are a diplomat's or other State Department Employee's son, or the son of someone who "worked" at the various embassies.