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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 05:56 PM
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What place or location did you never expect to find yourself in?
Me? A gay bathhouse. Growing up gay in Decatur, Illinois, I never dreamed such places existed. And when I moved to Dallas...boy, did I find out that they were there. :-)

T
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 05:58 PM
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1. Living in Pittsburgh, PA environs
Thought I'd live out my life and die in Kansas. It's been a good experience, though. Now I'm moving to Texas (another place I thought I'd never find myself) in May to begin the next chapter of my life.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:00 PM
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2. Living in Boise-freakin-Idaho.
If you had told me five years ago that I would later that year be moving to Boise, I'd have said you were nuts. If you had told me that I would be here as long as I have been, I'd have laughed myself silly.

But here I am.
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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:02 PM
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3. Hawaii
Been here for almost four years, but I am moving back to Virginia in a week. Moving to Loudon county, gonna turn Virginia blue for the next election!
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fluffernutter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:40 PM
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14. sounds good to me.
i have only been there once, but i loved everything about it - the smell of the air, the skies, the water, the mountains...

go ahead, burst my bubble and tell me what you don't like about it ;)
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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:52 PM
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16. It is a cool place to visit
Living here is definitely another story. Racism, drug problems, cost of living is through the roof, stuck on a rock out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 6000 miles away from your family and friends. Plus the area I live in is being over run by conservative Bushies from Alaska. They are the most hypocritical lot of right wingers I have ever met.
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fluffernutter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:12 PM
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18. i used to live in Alaska, ikwym. m
funny that they are all relocating to Hawaii! thanks for the honest post :)
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SheilaT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:02 PM
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4. Living in Kansas.
And I've been here 14 years now, longer than any other place I've lived.

Once our youngest graduates high school in May, and I finish my paralegal degree in December, I hope to be out of here.
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:03 PM
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5. King Khalid Military City.
A tent city a half-hour flight north of Riyadh. Home base for the 3rd Army's Strategic Replacement Reserve for Gulf War I.


Also, "Connection". A gay bar/club in Louisville, KY. Fantastic place even if you are straight.
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Lizzie Borden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:03 PM
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6. North Dakota
in the winter. But I got the hell outta there and came back to WI. where winter is much milder.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:22 PM
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7. Hey now!
North Dakota has nice winters. Except for sometimes when the temperature drops to -30° or it snows 96 inches in season or when when it blizzards for 3 days at the end of March and leaves 3 feet of snow.
You gotta remember stuff like this doesn't happen all the time. Other than that North Dakota has nice weather. No hurricanes, earthquakes, mud slides, tsunamis, volcanoes and other bad stuff that plague the rest of the world.
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:29 PM
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8. I don't know at this point.
I've never been anywhere or done anything particularly interesting at all. I doubt I probably ever will, so who knows?

Not very exciting, but hey, that's me. :shrug:
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:31 PM
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9. San Marcos, Texas
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:31 PM
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10. Accra, Ghana
I went on a school trip in college.

It was great.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:32 PM
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11. Puerto Rico (nt)
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:35 PM
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12. Well I didnt expect to get that high/drunk thursday to be honest
thats not a place, I know.
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:41 PM
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15. drunik
You are not as think as you drunk you are.....

Will Work for Beverages!!!
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:52 PM
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17. I like beverages
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 06:36 PM
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13. Fucking Mesa, AZ.
the armpit of the Valley of the Dumb.

I want to move back to Seattle or Chicago. I grew up in Seattle then lived 15 years in Chicagoland. Snow or rain, either place is better than this.
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:15 PM
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19. Standing on the corner in NYC.........
Waitin' for the man.

I had no idea where I was, I only knew that someone was coming by to meet us. Lucky for me, I wasn't alone.

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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:23 PM
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20. Mens bathroom
in the pubic library. They had remodeled and had changed the bathrooms around for some strange reason. I didn't look and just entered. I saw the urinals and thought, oh how nice they did that so Mom's could take there little boys there without worry. In a few minutes and boy about 8 or 9 walked in as I was washing up and looked.....GOT.... he never said a word and I walked out only to look right at the door of the ladies room acrossed the hall......GADS!!! I got a got laugh out of it after the shock wore off. lol
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:26 PM
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21. Wisconsin
When my parents told us they were selling the house and moving from Chciago to Northern Wisconsin, I said adios, have a nice time, B'Bye.

There was no way in hell I would move to Wisconsin. Ever.

Then about 5 years later, here I am, in Milwaukee.

Followed a girl. Go figure.

RL
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-22-05 07:35 PM
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22. In a holding pen in Queens
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