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hairvise

Can't Leave
May 23, 2018
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San Francisco
Interesting to read where folks have lived. As for me:

Born in Los Angeles
Lived various times in Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Cadiz)
NYC after college
Berlin after I met my wife
San Francisco for last 20+ years
 
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aquadoc

Lifer
Feb 15, 2017
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New Hampshire, USA
Georgia - 10 Places
South Carolina - 1 place
Florida - 1 Place
Pennsylvania - 3 places
Texas - 1 Place
New Hampshire -2 places
Serbia - 1 place
Kuwait - 1 place
Switzerland - 1 place
Travel: 4 full passports

Shipboard - North Atlantic (1.5 months), Sargasso Sea (1 year)
 
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Palo Alto, CA
Northern Utah
Gothenberg, Sweden
Karlskrona, Sweden
Kalmar, Sweden
Trollhattan, Sweden
Back to Palo Alto for College
Northern Utah
Freehold, NJ (for as long as I could stand it...)
Back yet once more, to Palo Alto for Grad school
L.A. Basin, CA (Big Bear, Crestline, Newport Beach, Apple Valley)
About to retire to Southern Utah for the winters and an Airstream WhereverTheHelliWant in the summers. But you can bet it will involve epoch fishing spots and good friends I haven't met yet.... puffy
 
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orzel

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Feb 9, 2021
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I put together a "joint venture" security company for an Alaskan Native Corporation. It was based in the Russian Far East and provided various security services for Russian and American companies conducting business in the RFE.
Fascinating. I'm sure you have a few interesting stories to tell!
 

mso489

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Then there was that time, coming back from the South China Sea on USS Galland MSO 489 that we stopped at Guam to try to repair our ever balky pitch system that changes the angles of the ship's propeller blades for different degrees of speed and power. Our captain and his boss, who for wartime purposes was actually called the Commodore (a bootstrap warrant officer as compared to our Annapolis graduate captain) debated and argued endlessly by radio about this defective pitch system. So there we were on Guam seemingly forever. The irked officers on our ship wouldn't travel any of the crew to town, so there we sat with the Navy base gym and running track as our only outlet. It was like lost in time. I never lived on Guam, but I was there forever. Luckily, this was a decade before Guam got infested with large green snakes (really) that showed up in houses, yards, and everywhere, apparently brought by shipping traffic, non-venomous but nasty. I'm glad I missed that aspect of life on Guam. But it was a long, long stay. Somewhere on the high seas, on the way back to Long Beach, I decided I might survive the war, and wondered what that meant -- pleased and grateful but much at sea, literally. When we got back to Long Beach, we eventually went into dry dock at Todd's Ship Yard where they worked on the pitch system some more. I left the ship before I found out if the pitch ever worked.
 
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