On 11/16/2019 at 12:43 PM, RV_ said:

Linda!

I didn't even know it was an accompanied assignment or had maternity facilities but that IS an interesting place to have been born.

Um, you probably weren't there in 1947; I suspect things have changed since then. I was born in the Navy hospital there but my birth certificate says Child Born Abroad of US Parents and I had to send to the Secretary of State in DC to get a copy of it.

Linda

I say I’m from the State of Confusion heading to the State of Insanity. They I tell them to just put the location of where I am and will be volunteering/working. 

Linda, I never did Navy, and you do have me by three years. What a great story!

There is a difference between the question "where are you from" and "where do you live" in my mind.  

I'm "from" California (twice) but I've lived and have contact or ties to a number of other places.  If I were asked that question for a work camper name badge, I'd be tempted to put down the place where I had the most emotional ties to and knew the best. Right now I'd probably put down Texas as I'm a newly minted Texan, so my emotional ties are now to Texas and I can talk intelligently about Copperas Cove, having lived there happily for a few years in the 1980's.  I know California best for having been born and raised there, then moved back there 30 years ago.  However, I have few emotional ties left there and not sure I would want that state, that I couldn't wait to leave, on a name badge.

The answer to where I live is wherever I'm parked now.  Totally different question, totally different answer.

I'll probably see if they will put something funny on it.

  On 11/17/2019 at 6:58 PM, fpmtngal said:

There is a difference between the question "where are you from" and "where do you live" in my mind.  

I'm "from" California (twice) but I've lived and have contact or ties to a number of other places.  If I were asked that question for a work camper name badge, I'd be tempted to put down the place where I had the most emotional ties to and knew the best. Right now I'd probably put down Texas as I'm a newly minted Texan, so my emotional ties are now to Texas and I can talk intelligently about Copperas Cove, having lived there happily for a few years in the 1980's.  I know California best for having been born and raised there, then moved back there 30 years ago.  However, I have few emotional ties left there and not sure I would want that state, that I couldn't wait to leave, on a name badge.

The answer to where I live is wherever I'm parked now.  Totally different question, totally different answer.

To my point, I'm from Maryland, but why would I want to be from somewhere I'm fleeing!

Rick

You could say "I'm from Maryland, as far from Maryland as I can get".

  On 11/18/2019 at 9:57 PM, chirakawa said:

You could say "I'm from Maryland, as far from Maryland as I can get".

Love it!!!!

  On 11/18/2019 at 9:57 PM, chirakawa said:

You could say "I'm from Maryland, as far from Maryland as I can get".

Pam says that but about CA. When I left the Navy she told me that she would go anywhere with me except back to CA. That would mean a divorce. 

  On 11/19/2019 at 6:46 AM, Kirk W said:

Pam says that but about CA. When I left the Navy she told me that she would go anywhere with me except back to CA. That would mean a divorce. 

Smart lady.  <g>

Ditto