Ian_Adkins Lol, all of those are quite accurate. About two hours north of Fresno.
What country are you from?
wybnormal That's interesting. My grandmother once showed me a family tree she had that dated all the way back to the 1600s when people started coming over here from France. How did your family make the transition from QC to California? It could not possibly have been the weather 
lightsnow My wife's maternal grandparents were from Quebec. Malheureusement, moi de California, je connais plus de mots français qu'elle. 
lightsnow We started in Southern France/Basque/Border.. then to Quebec in the late1600s-early 1700s.. in the 1800s, a few crossed over to VT/NH and then down to MA. From there, the family spread to midwest and California. The paperwork I've been able to find shows farmers, machinists and mechanics all listed for trades. So I'm assuming they were following the jobs.
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I live in Port St Lucie Florida. Hot and muggy in the summers and very rainy every afternoon. Sometimes it makes u wonder why they call it the sunshine state? Then the winter gets here!! About 3 days of cold weather and then summer is back on.. No mountains in south Florida except for the ones created by the amount of garbage our counties produce. I guess this is why my mountains look like garbage and my happy little trees like garbage bags. Lol.
To introduce a new country, I'm now from Bargara (beach) in the 'Sunshine State' of Australia & I regularly see big grasshoppers (kangaroos) without having to eat any random mushrooms. In fact we have to move them out of the way when playing golf, walking around my son's yard and avoid them when driving.
After enjoying a few BR episode re-runs on TV a few months ago with a pre-dinner settling glass or 2 during our Covid lockdown, I bravely announced that 'I reckon I could do that'; and an now enjoying developing in this new challenge in my retirement years.
Whilst waiting for initial BR Master Set, & subsequently brushes & extra paint, brush cleaner & beater etc from the US, I have set up a bit of a studio in our garage utilising an old ladder & back of a trailer, painted the 'Mountain Summit' in the Master Set, doing some specific technique practice on canvas tear-out pages & making use of your contributions to improve my techniques and processes.
This is truely a terrifically helpful site for this learner painter and your articles, forum, all the BR episodes etc and your help for this learner is so very much appreciated, and you are to be congratulated on it.
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Co Down, Ireland. New to the site but loving the friendly community spirit and helpful encouragement.
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I don't know how it got deleted, but my response is marked as such. As I said, born and raised in California, but living in upstate New York, the part with the cows 'n' sows. Big state--would you believe, after 26 years, I've never been to the City?
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Ian_Adkins odd, I don’t see it deleted on my end. You've never been to New York City? I hear the food alone is worth the trip. I was planning on going this year in may for a few days before catching our flight to italy. Oh well...someday.
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Lilikins Very odd, now it's back. Since I noticed about three days, it's said [deleted] where my username should be. Chalk it up to gremlins in the server.
No, never, not once. My brother almost had his wedding there last year, and I was very excited to see the Met, but they ended up eloping. Google Maps claims it's 188 miles/303 kilometres, or 4 hours 22 minutes. We've been to just about every other large city in the Northeast and a few in Canada, just New York City eludes us.
We had a trip booked for March to Glasgow and Edinburgh, but then coronus hit, the border closed (we were flying out of Pearson in Toronto), and missus came down with cancer, so she really didn't need to be exposed. We'll try again in a year. We are going to Korea for three months in January for one of her experiments. I've really enjoyed the dining there and throughout East Asia. If you don't care for the local cuisine, all of the major world cuisines are at most a short trip by rail away. Some of the best Indian I've had was in Taiwan.
EDIT: In re-reading this, it occurs to me that I may have given, in the light of the cancer, the impression my wife will be experimented upon, when indeed she will be the experimenter, being a scientist. The cancer, thanks be unto God, is no more.
I am from the USA, state of Illinois. NOT Chicago area, LOL. I live in a rural tiny city called Lena.
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What is wrong with Chicago? Some very nice people live there. I have seen them twice in twenty years. They like it there, but the wife, my niece, is from Devon in England so has no real taste... Don't tell her though. I visited it last January and really enjoyed the place.
@Colin Hudson#789 i think what Toadi was probably getting at is people tend to generalize certain locations in the US. Like when I say I’m from California they assume I live near the beach a surf a lot. In fact I live a couple hours from the coast, in farm country. Lots of agriculture and cows. So when I say I’m from California generally the next thing I say is I don’t know how to surf lol. I’m sure you’ve run into the same issue, Colin, with people generalizing you based on the country you are from. I take pride in the fact that I grew up on a farm, homesteading, so it can be frustrating when people assume I’m a beach bum. I could be totally wrong, but that’s how I inferred it, haha.
Hi doggymomee8301 - I was only joking. I think the UK humour is slightly different from some others. We tend to deprecate ourselves rather than other folks. I am originally from Liverpool, England. It has a reputation, ill-deserved, of being full of scallywags and thieves so there is a joke that most racing teams prefer to have Scousers (Liverpudlians) in their pit team as they can remove wheels and tyres quicker than anybody else... It is not true as Liverpool is one of the most friendly, happy and generous places in the UK. I could see he was joking so I responded in the same manner. 8-)
@Colin Hudson#791 That’s great Colin! Sorry for misunderstanding. There’s been a few times where language has been a barrier and things have been lost in translation so clearly I’m the one who misunderstood the joke here!
Yes, people do assume everyone is from Chicago if you say Illinois. I understood your humor Colin after I re-read it...LOL. Thanks for sticking up for me Doggymommee. I like the fact that you have the same issue as I do. I use to live in Wisconsin...the land of cheese for 20 years until I moved back down here to be closer to my Mom. The minute I moved, people started assuming I was somewhere in the Chicago area.. I guess that is why I wrote it like that.
The wonderful thing about this site is that people are supportive and don’t have mean things to say. So most of the time it’s just a misunderstanding. Everyone here is supportive!
Korea has been probably my favorite trip yet. Great food and super friendly people. Could be that they were extra friendly because I've spend 3 months studying Korean for hours every day to prepare for the trip though 
(I've been to Japan the year before and had some troubles getting around with English only)
It sounds like you've been there before. Have you visited Gyeongju?
Felix - you think you have problems. You speak and spell American English which most of the world understands. I speak and spell British English! There are not that many British comedy shows on TV's around the world so few understand our humour. Should we change our sense of humour? No chance! We have to retain that ability to laugh at ourselves.