Where are you?

[cos]

I have a mental quirk about remembering where people live: I have two separate indexes, one keyed by person, the other keyed by location. The first one updates when I find out someone has moved, but not the second - that one usually only updates when I see the person in that location (sometimes, if I meet someone for the first time who lives somewhere else, I enter them in the second mental index correctly, but sometimes I don't). If I want to remember where you live, I can. But if I'm visiting somewhere and try to remember who's there, I often miss some people simply because I've never hung out with them there. It can go on like that for years, and through multiple visits.

Help me by filling out this poll! If you want me to remember where you are, that is :)

After a week or two, I'm going to "backdate" it to the future, so it'll be near the top of cos and you can easily find it and updated it if you wish. [Edit: actually, nevermind - I'm just linking here from my top-of-journal post]


Options are checkboxes so you can select multiple locations. If your family's there, your primary's there, you go to school in one place and spend the summer in another, you grew up there and still have a lot of friends and visit every year or two, include them all.

[Poll #832155]

[Edit: If you checked "somewhere you didn't list at all", leave it in a comment?]

Comments

[eirias.livejournal.com]

FYI, my parents moved to Indy nearly 2 years ago, so my excuses for going back to my hometown are few and far between. (I don't visit Indy much, either -- I've only been there twice in the last two years.)

[some-kitten.livejournal.com]

My folks are still in Indy. We might should try to connect at some Likely Family Visiting Time.

(e.g., I'm almost always there for Christmas, then down to Louisville for NYEP)

[eirias.livejournal.com]

*smiles*
Graham and I will be there for Christmas this year! (arriving day-of; not sure how long we'll stay) My folks live in Noblesville, a bit northwest of the city proper, IIRC.
We'll actually be in Louisville shortly before the new year as well, because APO is having nationals there this year and we want to go for some of it.
Will marphod be with you this holiday? (I don't know how you guys do the family stuff.)

[cos]

Are you going to the new years party in Louisville?

[eirias.livejournal.com]

I don't know; we might stop in, but we definitely won't stay there overnight. We do need to be back in Madison on New Years Day, so it might be cutting it close. It'd be nice to see people, though. (I haven't seen Vynce in a few years...)

[some-kitten.livejournal.com]

(Northeast. But less than an hour from anywhere I'd be in Indy, certainly. It's amazing how much my sense of "reasonable driving time/distance" warps in considering Midwest vs. Big Northeast City)

marphod and I holiday together--he seems to like my family lots more than his anyway, so... :-P

Might I highly recommend not driving back from Noblesville to Madison and then down to Louisville within the same week? Assuming you can stand that long with family.

We'll definitely be either in Indianapolis or Louisville the week between Christmas and New Year's: marphod will want to head south sooner, I will want to stay north later, and we will compromise, as always. Definitely get in touch if you want to get out and about. My cell #, which you should be able to see in my last post in my own journal, should reach us. Poke me if you can't read that.

Sorry we missed you in this neck of the woods over Labor Day--minor detail about being out of the country. Silly, I know.

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Might I highly recommend not driving back from Noblesville to Madison and then down to Louisville within the same week?

Haha!
Yeah, the vague plan is Madison -> Wadsworth IL for a few days (G's folks) -> Noblesville on Xmas for a day or two -> Louisville at least for APO nationals, and then back to Madison by New Years Day. We'll have a rental car, so transportation won't be a problem. It sounds like even if we don't meet up near Indy, we might be able to meet up in Louisville, so either way it works :).

And yep, I can see your contact info! Neither of us has a cell phone, alas, so we'll have to be the ones to call you, I think -- but it'll work out.

[feuervogel]

Maryland's in the northeast? News to me... and I called it home for 22 years.

[cos]

Yeah, to me the whole Gibson "sprawl" is part of the northeast, because if it weren't, where would you draw the line? :) Also, Baltimore is about the same driving time from here as Buffalo, and DC is less driving time than Pittsburgh or Cleveland.

[eirias.livejournal.com]

Gibson?

[cos]

William Gibson. Though the "sprawl" in Neuromancer goes all the way to Atlanta, I think these days it ends at northern Virginia.

[marphod.livejournal.com]

Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Area.

Which is sort of fuzzy, these days. Boston-Providence is well established, as is NYC/NJ, and Philly-Baltimore-Washington DC. There's a bit of a break before Richmond, again to Research Triangle, and then again to Atlanta.

I generally call MD mid-atlantic, along with NJ/Penn, Virginia and sometimes the Carolina's. Doing north/south divisions depending on mood, I do mason-dixon, or MD/VA boarder.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

There's a big break between Wilmington and Baltimore. The longest real stretch is from Wilmington to New Haven. And though you can't continue up the shore, maybe you could continue up to Springfield, or even Brattleboro.

[xthread.livejournal.com]

He or Sterling called it Bos-Wash in a number of pieces.

[feuervogel]

Pennsylvania? The Mason-Dixon Line, maybe. I always thought of northern Pennsylvania especially as being northeast. I associate New England with northeast, and the border states aren't really north or south.

(PS: Atlanta but not RDU? :P )

[geminigirl]

We're just outside Orlando, Florida-you list Miami/Broward County, but we're about four to six hours north of there.

[cos]

When I first wrote this I intended to have another question listing regions of the US, but I forgot. d'oh.

[kirin]

So, despite the fact that that it wasn't really listed, I think you remember that I live near Chapel Hill (Raleigh/Durham metro area-ish), since you recently wanted to mention us to some friends moving into the area. (Which I haven't heard anything about recently, btw... did that happen?)

Unrelatedly, I'm hijacking this comment to point out in case you didn't already know that your Wiffiti company was talked about in last week's issue of the Economist. I can look up more details if you're interested and don't already have them.

[ladyotterfae.livejournal.com]

I think I was in Iowa when we met, then in Columbus for a while...but I'm back in Missouri now, for the record. Central MO, but I spent a lot of time in StLouis and KC.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

You didn't have an option for "Center of the Universe", which at least some people in Boulder seem to think it is.

I am going to be moving shortly, but within Boulder.

[queen-of-wands.livejournal.com]

since I'm pretty sure you made a category just for me, my marking it is kinda redundant, isn't it?

I rather hoped you'd catch my lj posts indicating that my location this Tuesday would be Diesel so you could come to my location. I should have been more proactive with the telephone. :(

Santa Barbara

[cos]

Missed the posts, heard you were there afterward. Ahh well.

soong lives in Santa Barbara, and purpleminute and mysteriousink frequent it. It's entirely possible there's someone else I know who lives or visits there, and since it's a place I'm likely to stop when I drive up or down the coast, it'd be good to know. (So the category is indirectly for you, since you're the one who got me into the habit of stopping there :)

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

David and I are in Colorado Springs and doing our best to get a Democrat in congress. :)

[cos]

So I heard. You know, with all the time I've spent in Colorado, I've never ventured south of Denver on the front range (though I've stayed all up and down the northern part: Westminster, Boulder, Longmont, Fort Collins). My friend Mike Weissman is the Internet & online outreach guy for the Colorado Democratic party. Good luck!

[tylik.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty likely to be moving in the next year, though.

[cos]

Where to?

[tafkats.livejournal.com]

Mine's not in there, but since you've visited me here, I'm going to assume the second database has been updated.

[cos]

You're right, though I really should've put Ann Arbor/Lansing/Detroit in there. I wonder why I forgot. Anyway, now it's here in a comment :)

[catness.livejournal.com]

Boston now, England later. Sometime. You'll know, 'cause you'll have to help me move again. ;)

[cos]

Does that mean you'll take me to England? :)

(check both here and England on the poll)

[leora.livejournal.com]

I'm in the bay area, but I'm less in the bay area than I used to be. Accessible by BART, but fairly far out on the BART line and in a weird suburbia.

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

In NJ, but a bit far out to be considered Metro NYC/North Jersey. I grew up getting both NY and Philly stations on TV antennas. Between Princeton and New Brunswick, in Kendall Park, which is in South Brunswick Township.

pick both

[cos]

If you go to Philly and NYC often enough, check them both.

Re: pick both

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I guess I'm in NYC and the Philly suburbs about once a month each. Is that enough?

Would you consider Worcester to be close enough to Boston?

Re: pick both

[cos]

If you stay overnight there that often, sure.

Worcester is close enough to Boston if you think it is - that is, do you keep going in to Boston for bits of the day, rather than thinking of it as a place you need to plan trips to?

Re: pick both

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

I very rarely stay overnight in NYC and I'm rarely in Philly itself except to drive through on the way to points south. I guess I'll have to remain miscellaneous unelss you make a "really, it's New Jersey" category.

[kjc.livejournal.com]

I live in Somerville, I wander around Somerville & Cambridge mostly. Maybe a couple times a month, if that, I end up somewhere in Boston proper.

I didn't notice the part I was supposed to check off for "the world" - it's the US.

[cos]

You can always fill out the poll again if you want to update or add answers.

I remember that you're in Somerville now because I got your door one day while canvassing for either Pat Jehlen or Denise Provost :)

[sionnagh.livejournal.com]

Hawaii.

[ellybug.livejournal.com]

I just saw this, so I'm posting. I live in the Research Triangle of NC. I will be visiting CO every so often and OR sometimes. I've never been to OR, but I plan to live there some day.
*sqweeeeez* (that was a hug)
Rose

P.S.

[ellybug.livejournal.com]

You should come see us. We could go to the mountains or the Outer Banks.

[cos]

Yeah, this post is linked from my "backdated" first post so I expect people will be seeing it for the first time indefinitely. I totally should've included the research triangle in the poll, too bad there's no way to go back and edit. Come visit Boston! And maybe a synchronized visit to Oregon would be fun :) *cuddle*

[ellybug.livejournal.com]

I think we are planning a short (week long) Oregon visit in March '07, do show up if you're interested. I would love to visit Boston sometime, I will put that on my to-do list.
Wouldn't it be a smart move on someone's part if they made it so you could go back and edit what you have already posted? It would make journaling a little more user friendly, for sure.

[cos]

Will you post something about your upcoming Oregon visit sometime around January? I might know then whether I could make any pacific northwest trips in the spring.

If you come visit Boston you can stay here.

[ellybug.livejournal.com]

will do, and thanks for the invite

[seventorches.livejournal.com]

But how do you know which boxes I checked?

[cos]

I click "View Answers".

Since this poll is set to "Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All", you can click "View Answers" too.