Where do you live?

[TonyWalsham]

I'm a Brit that has lived in Melbourne for almost 50 years.

Aaaaaah Melbourne. Voted the best place to live in the World.

Never gets too cold. Never snows but not far from good snowfields.
Hot in summer but not unbearably so. Nice bayside beaches and not far from ocean surf.
Has suffered from drought in recent years but usually has good rain.
This year especially.
Plenty of Garden RR's and with Gordon Watson living in the hills alongside the "Puffing Billy" tourist RR, Melbourne is the home of live steam in OZ.

Sounds like paradise. It is paradise, compared to some of the hell holes around the World.

[powlee]

[:p] I live in place called East Bedfont which is adjacent to Heathrow Airport. We have an agreement. They do not run their engines my side of the airport before 7am and my GP9 does not sound it`s horn.

[cacole]

Sierra Vista (Mountain View), Arizona, just outside a U.S. Army post by the name of Fort Huachuca (pronounced WAA-CHOO-KA, an Apache Indian word meaning "Thunder Mountain"), 8 miles north of the border with Mexico. Semi-alpine climate in the foothills of the Huachuca Mountains instead of the stifling heat most people associate with the desert, because the altitude is around 5,400 feet, depending on what part of town you live in. Twenty miles from Tombstone, "The Town Too Tough to Die," 30 miles from historic Bisbee and the Lavender Pit, a mile-deep hole in the ground that used to be a copper mine, and 70 miles southeast of Tucson.

[Anonymous]

hi Rene
I live on the Golden Mile
Kalgoorlie West Australia
thars gold in them thar hills only there are no hills exept the mine dumps.
Not strictly true but its seems that way sometimes.
I can relate to the Capt's coments so many miles from nowhere
regards John

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

I used to live in the Peoples Republic of California but the recent coup d'état last summer by hostile cyborg babarians, I now live under the rule of King Ahnoold the Barbarianator, in the Kingdom of Kalifoonia...

Vic, your humor cracks me up!

Oh BTW, I live in West Jefferson, Ohio, about ten minutes west of Columbus, were still a village not enough people to be a city yet. I've only lived here 11 yrs and the "townyees" seem to have a inbreeding thing going on, strange though because it must be the capitol of single Dad's raising kids.

[Anonymous]

Hey

I live in the sunny town of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The weather in the summer and the winter is perfect for live steam trains. I am drawing up a plan for my garden railway to go with my aster "junbos" (The LMS and LNWR versions) and the G64 stroudley terrier (All live steam).

Albert

[Marty Cozad]

Earth is a GREAT place to set up one's RR.

[Anonymous]

I am from Premont, Texas. A small frontier outpost 30 miles from nowhere and 70 miles southwest of Corpus Christi, Texas.

[Anonymous]

I live in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. A seaport on the east coast about halfway between Capetown and Durban. The area is also known as the Nelson Mandela Metropole (he was born in this area) which includes the cities of Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Despatch.

Metro population must be about 1 million by now of which I know of exactly 2 people in this town who have G scale and I am one of them. Are there any other SA guys out there? I'm looking for local contacts.

[Anonymous]

In the US of A in Iowa City, Iowa

[Anonymous]

RENE
U . S. --- IN THE STATE OF PENNA. AND IN THE TOWN OF LEBANON . BEN[:)]

[Anonymous]

Hello Rene,
I live in a small village in the south east of England (when you look at the map it is the right hand sticky out bit at the bottom).20 minutes from the sea and 50 minutes from London.I am also lucky to have a preserved steam railway 2 miles down the road so I get real sound effects in the garden.Luckier still is my next door neighbour works there and one of my work colleagues drives the trains on a volunteer basis.When my sons interest starts to wane I ask a few favours and take them down.After that the trains are king again!
Troy

[vsmith]

I used to live in the Peoples Republic of California but the recent coup d'état last summer by hostile cyborg babarians, I now live under the rule of King Ahnoold the Barbarianator, in the Kingdom of Kalifoonia...

[bman36]

Hi Rene,
I recall a thread similar to this titled "From where do you hail?" or something like that. I don't believe it had a poll with it though. Interesting thing...since the pics of the Father's Day Layout were in GR this issue, all kinds of people have come out of the woodwork here. Looks like we will have an association here before long! Then I can encourage them to be part of the forum as well. Later eh...Brian.

[Rene Schweitzer]

We're fortunate here to have a world-wide community of hobbyists. Where do you live? I tried to list the countries I've noticed in posters' IDs, but I can't possibly list them all.