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Where ya from?
Just curious where all of us Tildenarianites hail from? Maybe just vote for the parent reply if you see your country?
Just curious where all of us Tildenarianites hail from? Maybe just vote for the parent reply if you see your country?
United States (please don't judge me)
India here and having the exact same feeling.
Consider that in today's day and age only what is successful is judged, and only what is worth some value will be criticized!
another Indian chiming in!
#MainBhiIndian
🙏🏼 welcome bhai
hashtag Kisi ka bhai kisi ki jaan
T: It is the title of a Salman Khan film
India? Or IndiaNA.
You replied under United States. :D
haha! that's delightfully comforting and not comforting
I'm from Czech Republic, country with biggest consumption of beer per capita in the whole world. So much about getting judged :-D
I just visited your country a couple weeks ago -- the beer was cheaper than the water! No wonder you guys drink so much Pilsner. Edit: Prague was lovely.
Well, actually a bottle of (mineral) water (0.5l) can actually be more expensive than really cheap beer (also 0.5l). Pilsner Urquell is like 1.2-1.4€ bottled in a store, while it can easily be almost 3€ in a pub. In Prague it can be even more, as it is the most expensive city in the country. But I still believe we have cheap beer compared to other countries.
North Carolina, USA here. My state certainly deserves judgement these days.
It could be worse. It could be Florida (where I’m from).
North Carolina as well! Currently residing about 45 minutes from Wilmington.
I'm about to move to Wilmington from Charlotte! I'm not a huge fan of the beach but the rent is way cheaper. Saving 300 a month on a bigger place somehow.
Raleigh present
Massachusetts-USA here
Same, but I'm west of Worcester, so many folks inside I-495 or metro-Boston consider me from another state - south Vermont?, Western up-state New York?
Maryland suburbs of the nation's capital (Washington, DC). I'm surrounded by lawyers and politicians (but I'm not one so don't hate me).
Same here. I already judge myself.
Maryland, for 30 of my 36yrs.
Military brat, moved around a lot. Spent a year in Texas. Moved to Idaho for ~5yrs for a relationship, and when that ended I moved back to north-eastern Maryland.
Ohio here as well. Ohio is great inside the main cities.
Wisconsin here. 😷 tired of this hazy weather.
USA - Kansas Here
Alabama, United States
Wow! There’s two of us!
To be fair, ~talk is a fine place for these types of lower-barrier-of-engagement topics. Phrasing of the OP made it sound like top-level comments should be a country name.
On the other hand, it's true OP could have included more guidance on ways to have more in-depth and thoughtful comments. But it's not strictly required. As long as Tildes isn't permanently overrun with this type of topic, we're fine—and history shows people will stop posting these after the getting-to-know-you phase has ended, which may take some weeks. Make use of the Ignore Topic feature accordingly.
I wonder if it's time to revisit the idea of creating a ~talk.casual group. Doing that would allow us to move all these more casual discussions there, and allow people to unsubscribe from it if this sort of thing doesn't interest them. Because the 'ask' tags are rather insufficient for this, since they don't distinguish between serious and casual discussions. cc: @Deimos
Is it possible to filter out certain subgroups? For example I'm interested in ~games but not ~games.tabletop. I unsubbed the latter but I still see the posts when I go to ~games (but not on the front page).
Yeah, AFAIK the front page is the only place that has an effect. But it probably should apply to the group pages too. Added to Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/-/issues/792
Yea! I think this is a good idea. I guess it helps to feel less annoyed and worried for the site if you know they're doing it in a designated area meant specifically for casual chat.
Or perhaps a tag like
ask.casual, that could be in contrast toask.discussion, and filtered out accordingly by users who so wish.Hey man, I just wanted to thank you personally for RIF. It was a hell of an app!
I help run the Reddit fantasy football league (NarFFL) so I'm not going to be able to abandon the platform entirely, but man am I really not looking forward to having to use the official app and the mod tools (or lack thereof) within.
Thanks for making a great app and making my Reddit experience so much better for the last 8 years.
I think for that to work you need to make up some rules when starting a discussion topic.
If you have moderation privileges, you can mark low-effort replies as noise, but I wouldn't do it in a topic like this one. It's not against the rules when there aren't really any rules?
I was thinking the same. I think I was in the first wave of reddit refuges and then, the front page were important topics (at least to the poster) or genuine questions. What I see now is a lot of topics like this, rather vapid crap. I even saw one yesterday asking about your favorite color.
Do they realise there is no karma to farm here?
Define "first wave of Reddit refugee", in the context that Tildes has existed since April 2018. :P
I've been here since June 2018, and I came here after Reddit's redesign of 2016-18. Am I a refugee?
Was that this post, which was merely using the "favourite colour" question as an example of the discussion topics we've been seeing on Tildes recently?
I meant the first wave in the context of reddits current situation.
It wasn't that post, but I think that post and I are talking about the same other post. Thanks for linking that, now I can go complain and rant with them about how all these new people are ruining everything.
Ah, you must have meant this post, which said it took inspiration from that other post in ~tildes.
Yeah. You do that! Us old-timers gotta stick together! :P
A reminder to everyone that the 'Joke' comment label exists for exactly this purpose.
When the entire topic is mostly jokes, that's not exactly helpful.
Maybe not, but there are some threads where there's only one sub-thread which is full of jokes, and the 'Joke' comment label would help with that.
Also, you know me: I'll take any opportunity to teach people about Tildes' features, and to link those instruction pages! :)
Ah, but which "community"?
The hundreds of newcomers, who've just signed up after leaving Reddit, and "don't know or care about the philosophy of Tildes" (as someone recently said ;) )?
Or the dozens of old-timers, who've been around for years, including some who've been here since shortly after Tildes started?
Because, if you ask the newcomers, they might be inclined to say something like "the low effort comments didn't quite fit 'Noise' and didn't quite fit 'Joke'", even though the old-timers would say that's exactly what those labels are intended for.
You would only get the privilege revoked for repeated and flagrant misuses of the labels - like if you added 'Noise' to a three-paragraph thoughtful comment, or if you applied the 'Malice' label to a comment just because someone disagreed with you. Deimos isn't unfair. He'll take into consideration that different people might interpret things differently.
Canada
Ontario here
Thunder Bay!
BC checking in
Kelowna BC here
I am GTA adjacent.
Ottawa, Ontario
Technically from Michigan, but I'm told I'm an honorary Canadian.
Minnesotans and Wisconsinites too. They're also generally pretty nice/polite, and even have an accent that I often find hard to distinguish from my own Ontarian accent.
Same...located in NB
Also NB!
northern Alberta. The freakin' cold Great White North part.
Surprised there aren't a few more Canadians here - if Im not mistaken this is the province of Tildes origin.
Qc
Alberta checking in
Halifax, Nova Scotia here!
Germany
Random useless fact: The four first replies resemblance Reddit demographics quite well: As of 2022: 47.89 % US, 7.13 % UK, 6.98 % Canada, 4.14 % Australia, 3.19 % Germany. Source
So only the Aussie missed his entrance, and the French Rexiteer was too fast.
Oi! We got sheilas in Oz, too - not just blokes.
Hey, I was happy to correctly apply ONE term :D
how do germans always find and reply to all the comments that mention them and their country!?
It's probably the algorithms directing us there.
I get tons of stuff like 'fun' facts about Germany / the German language in my recommendations. It's even worse when I switch my YouTube location to Germany. Also, the amount of content in my algorithm-generated feeds that mentions Germany in any form (i. e. the main topic isn't Germany-related) seems a little overproportional considering there are close to 200 countries, many of which would be way more interesting.
There's just a lot of Germans online.
reddit!
Same. I left after 13 years and gotta say, I'm sad to have left. But it’s the only way to voice my opposition to the way they’ve managed the push to make it a profitable IPO.
My life isn’t significant different, but I do feel much less informed now and I’m having to scour the internet like I did when I was younger, instead of it being aggregated for me. Not a bad thing, just different. I think it’s probably better for my mental health to spend less time in one place on the internet.
Kinda hard to be a good digital citizen these days, weird to figure out where the lines are. But at this point the internet is as real as the world it exists in, we are past the point where everything online “Isn’t real.”
Same! What are you doing with all your free time now that our site is burning to the ground? I'm reading a book!
I keep refreshing Tildes a lot to see what's new and sometimes even comment. I love this new home!
I'm working through a video game backlog and trying to get my home lab all upgraded. Managing 40+ docker containers is a lot of work, lol.
Having moved my Reddit is Fun shortcut from my phone home screen I actually replaced it with an app called Pressreader - my local library is giving me free access to stuff like The Economist and The Week which I'd never normally buy and it's pretty awesome.
Less dumb memes but I feel like it's not better use of my time when I'm stood around idly and instinctively tap the icon in that spot - after 13 years the muscle memory is really strong!
It's been a while since we had a census/survey about the demographics of Tildes! There were quite a few during the first couple of years of Tildes' existence. Some of them got deleted when people left Tildes, but some still survive:
Demographics Survey Results, Year 0.5
The Results of the 2019 Census
The Results of the Actual Unofficial 2020 Tildes Census
Man, reading the old Census posts make me feel like @Grzmot is a legend! Such great color commentary and palpable rage. Thanks for posting these links!
Also, I’m from Oklahoma, US
Thanks! I do enjoy creative writing as a hobby so that helped I think. I stopped doing the census because I was informed by our dear admin that some people had complained at the seemingly official data gathering of it all.
With the new peeps in town, maybe I will do organise one again.
The next one can be “UNOFFICIAL 2023 census” for sure
Nothing but "THE MOST UNOFFICIAL UNOFFICIAL CENSUS" will do.
The "this is not a census" census.
Ah thank you. Actually, I did do a search to see if there was a previous poll, but my search terms didn't quite intersect with the headings above.
The ethnicity section in the 2020 one is quite funny
United Kingdom
50% same!
I am technically Dutch, born and raised, but I moved to the UK 10 years ago and I am now so settled it's pretty hard to get rid of me. I plan to grow old here!
Sorry to break it to you mate, but if you moved to Glasgow you won't be growing old :P
I love the city and buckfast so I'm not really one to talk.
If you moved to the south of England then you are no better than a swamp German. ;)
Crazy, I'm from there too.
North of the wall. We are the true wildlings
Bottom right corner for me, in the Garden of England.
Home counties for me. Proper Essex boy innit.
Also UK here.
I live in the South of England, so in the same general area where I was born and grew up. I've only lived outside the UK for a couple of years: a year as au pair in the Ardennes region of France, and a year as English Assistant in a school in Brittany as part of my French degree. But both of those were a long time ago!
Greetings from Belgium!
There's dozens of us!
Well I just added the twelfth vote, that makes us at least 13!
Frieten met Stoofvlees!!! Greetings from your neighbor to the north.
Hiya !
France
Ouf! J'ai cru que j'étais tout seul...
On a l'air d'être au moins trois!
Bonjour ! ☺️
Sweden!
I think I'm the only Gotlander here. Also feels like we are very few swedes here. Feels weird since reddit has quite a lot of swedes. Happy with that also. Swedes on reddit were generally pretty awful to discuss with, so can't see many of them fitting in here.
We're pretty friendly over at r/tunnelbana...
That's good, and I didn't mean that all Swedish subs are negative, but r/sweden certainly is.
Hej! Skåne here :) Came here in January 2020 from Czechia and I like it here enough to consider staying for good
Great to see fellow scandies on Tildes! I know I'm supposed to write something snarky about Sweden (I'm Danish) but honestly, I'm not in the mood for it, and I like Sweden and most of the Swedes I've met (I lived in Malmö for a while). I've just come over to Tildes from Reddit, and I really like it here.
Finland.
Great to see fellow scandies on Tildes!
I'm Danish and have only been to Finland once, and even then I only visited Helsinki but it was lovely and I hope to come back at some point to see more of your country.
I used to drive lorries around northern europe, I've been to Denmark many times. My girlfriend moved from Greifswald to Tampere and we decided to drive trough Denmark and over the bridge to Sweden. Beautiful country, at least from the motorways haha. Next time I'm around there I promise I'll stop at least in a few spots.
My GF was in Copenhagen the other week to see dependence mode or some such band/artist/musician.
If you make a stop in my hometown next time you're in Denmark, you're welcome to stop by for a cup of coffee!
Edit: oh yeah, Depeche Mode played there recently. I didn't go, but I know a bunch who did.I hope your GF enjoyed it! I heard it was great!
Edit2: editing the first edit (a word)
Might take a few years.. I just started my own company, I dont see much free time in the future.
I'm sure she did, shes going to go see them in London and Helsinki as well lol
Me too! Torille?
Juu, tammelantorille syämään mustaamakkaraa
You may have seen me in the news, I'm Florida Man!
Am fae Scotland!
Spruce isn't native to Scotland, an exotic traveler! I welcome you and all migrants to the UK, just be careful around buckfast. Oh and don't support Rangers nor Celtic if you want an easy life.
Glasgow isn't the whole of Scotland.
Tell me about it, weird how Rangers Celtic crap expands all the way across Northern Ireland as well.
Israel.
Hopefully I'll be financially independent enough to move in the coming few years, as the general hostility here between everyone is rising steadily, and I really could not care less about some crusty old white people's crusade for a holy land - especially when it involves so much murder.
It's surprising to see a few other people from the Middle East; the average person in Israel tends to stay in their local Instagram/Facebook pages and doesn't really venture into smaller international communities like this, from my experience. I wonder if a few more are lurking here.
Aotearoa New Zealand
Sup! Nice to see a fellow kiwi here.
#1 place I'd like to visit!
Kia ora, mate!
Tēnā koutou ngā kiwi katoa!
Whangārei.
Currently living in the Netherlands, but originally from the USA. Love living in NL.
How was the immigration? I'm looking to move from Washington State. There are a couple of places in Amsterdam I am interested in working at.
I don't suspect i would suffer too much from culture shock - my mom is from England, raised in Belgium and my dad is from Germany - but one thing that I'm worried about is... uh, land shock? Living in western Washington, I'm surrounded by mountains, forests, and the Puget Sound. It's hard for me to think of a place I would find more beautiful. It's one of my apprehensions about moving to the Netherlands. Did you find some adaptation required in that sense?
Immigration was fairly easy for me. If you are in an in demand field, it's fairly easy to get a job + visa (high skilled migrant).
As for the land, it is definitely something you'll need to get used to and also plan weekends away to more rural areas to get that fix. I miss the vastness of space of the USA. That said, there are plenty of parks and some beautiful areas of Netherlands so you at least have some options.
Great to read you like living here!
Born and raised Dutchman and I'm also happy I don't have to get into a car: I never bothered to get a driver's license safe for one trial lesson.
Hi! Nice to see a Dutchie here. Sort of. I did the reverse, grew up in the Neds and then moved abroad to the UK. Are you enjoying the country? And most importantly, are you cycling everywhere since moving?
Absolutely love almost never getting in the car. The biking culture is one of my favorite things about the country. I also really like that there seems to be a lot of sports for adults to compete in. In the US that sort of dries up after high school/college (except kickball, softball which is mostly about the drinking).
I also really love the work life balance (at least compared to the USA). Currently working 20hrs a week and use the other days to spend time with my kids and work on side projects. I love almost everything about living here except the weather, although global warming may help me with that.
How long have you been gone from NL? Why did you choose the UK?
Hoi. Fellow American here, lived almost two years in The Hague, just moved to Germany last winter.
India!
(Surprised there aren't more of us here)
Actually, several Indians said hi underneath the top "United States" reply, so they may be getting overlooked in the thread.
Namaste, To my fellow Indians, this is the actual parent were we should reply
Netherlands!
hoi hoi :-)
So few... other places there's so many more Dutch by ratio, I wonder if we're generally just not principalistic enough to care about what reddit is up to and take action by seeking tildes invites for example
Philippines
Not surprised that it's mostly Americans here, though I'm surprised there aren't more Southeast Asian folks here
Also from Philippines, I’m glad to see another person from my country here!
Philippines too! 🇵🇭
Same for me! Good to see other Filipinos here on tildes
YTMND, then GameFAQs, then reddit, then here.
Or uh, New Jersey in meatspace. Gabagooooool
woohoo New Jersey represent!! Objectively (unobjectively) the best state in the US, they hate us cuz they ain't us.
Shhhh. Gotta keep the shoobies away.
Thats right, Jersey is awful and nobody ever will want to live there.
Czech Republic, Pilsen (you may know a thing that is named after this city)
I've been calling it Czechia since most of the media that I follow does. What's the preferred Czech nomenclature?
That's a thing for a discussion in a pub.
I prefer Czech Republic, but both are formally right.
Oh, was it controversial? I'm sorry! Is the preference because how it's been historically used, or is there a different reason?
No, not controversial at all. No need to apologize :-)
But if you raised this with friends in a pub, there won't likely be a concensus. It's just very individual thing. I prefer Czech Republic, neighbour might orefer Czechia, but we won't fight over it. Both names are right and I just respect existence of Czechia while not using it myself.
Strange thing is that I use Slovakia while it actually is Slovak Republic :-) As I said, just personal preference of one over the other.
It's funny how it entered English! I would never call Slovakia the Slovak Republic, and I called your country the Czech Republic until some ambassador or delegate expressed he preferred Czechia, so I thought it was like Greece and the Hellenic Republic or Persia and Iran, where we were using an external name.
You would think after Czechoslovakia, both countries would've followed similar naming patterns in English. History is strange.
Don't even have to open the link to know what's going to be behind it. And I fully agree with you. Pils isn't my favorite kind of beer, that goes to cellar beer followed by Münchner Helles, but you can't go wrong with a Pils.
This isn't what the person from Pilsen wants to hear. But I absolutely fell in love with pilsners when I had pilsner urquill on tap in Milwaukee. Now it's probably my favorite style of beer. Used to be heavy into those double/triple IPA's but got burned out. It made every single other peer taste horrible. Even ones I used to enjoy. Since stopping those IPA's I've been able to enjoy a whole lot more styles. But pilsner is tops for me.
Nah. I'm ok with it :-) People are different and have different tastes, I can understand that :-) But I had to mention Pilsner, many people will know it, so why not educae were it's from :-)
I'm not a beer person. When I want a beer here, I pick Pilsner Urquell everytime though. Not on occasions when Guinness is available on tap though. I won't turn down Guinness.
I love it. (spreading knowledge) I'm glad to hear someone else say they like Urquell. Normally I get sneered at being told there are so many better pilsners than that crap. And I have to refrain from slapping them.
Colorado, United States
Another Colorado, USA here
My fellow dudes! I too am from the good CO.
What is up? I'm from southern Colorado.
Front Ranger checking in
Arvada in the hoose.
Denver!
São Paulo, Brazil.
And I would bet I'm the only one right now.
The only paulista, maybe! Rio here 👋
Um salve da Bahia :)
Salve! Tildes feels a little more homely now!
Opa, paulista aqui que se mudou para o Rio há 1 ano e meio.
É nóis! São Paulo representando!
I'm from Ceará, Brazil. But I moved to São Paulo-SP two months ago. Hello my friend!
Not anymore for sure, fellow Paulistano!
I recall there being only 2-3 open Brazilians here before reddit made their not-so-little announcement and they all sorta drifted outta here (including me lol) so it's nice to see there are more of us here now.
Well, the Brazilians made up for it with activity, haha.
Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
Singapore!
Hello there fellow Singaporean
Stockholm, Sweden.
Switzerland here!
Finally some Swiss! We’re lacking representation here!
Turkey
Maybe the first Turkish on Tildes?
Do you prefer "Turkey" or "Turkiye"?
I don't mind it either way but in our language it is spelled as "Türkiye"
Jordan! I wonder if there are any other Jordanians here.
Hello, Arab brother! How's life in Jordan these days?
Hello there! Life in Jordan is ماشية that's the best way I can describe it 😀
How's life in Egypt?
To describe it using your way, بتعرج
The inflation is hitting us hard, it's felt by everyone, be it the poor, or middle class programmer/tech enthusiast such as my self.
Bad time to prepare for marriage too lol.
Poland originally, but living in Japan for more than 20 years now - time flies... :)
Ooh, what made you decide to move there? I'm from Hungary and I'm looking to move to Eastern or South Eastern Asia in a few years, and next to Japan I'm also looking at places like Taiwan or Singapore.
Work, basically - I have a MA in Japanese, and a company I worked for part-time as an interpreter and translator during my gap year liked me so much they offered me a job and visa support as soon as I graduate. I took the offer, and I ended up here straight out of college, literally a month after defending my thesis :)
From Wrecsam, North Wales. You may have heard of us
croeso i gymru
🎶 Less than a mile from the centre of Town
A famous Old stadium crumbling down
No-one's invested so much as a penny
Bring on the Deadpool and Rob McElhеnney 🎶
American here and I love the show! Been a real pleasure to follow the tables and see how far the club has come (:
Hope someday soon you’ll see my Leicester foxes in the championship league. Newly relegated but so happy to see you promoted!
Ah now Leicester hold a place as one of my sons is at Uni there and goes to see them play quite a lot. Not season ticket holder but getting close.
Its interesting as Wales is usually know for Rugby Union and to be honest it is close to the number one sport interest here, but the trials and tribulations of Wrexham AFC have even the most die hard rugby fans helping out. We even had a Rugby League team play at the Racecourse for a number of years which were well supported.
Also Declan Swans as Support act for the Kings of Leon at the Racecourse Ground, now that was something
Australia, physically. England, biologically. (i.e. I live in the former but was born in the latter)
European Union
TRAPPIST-1e. Southern continent in the southern ocean. It's the only continent in the southern ocean, for what it's worth.
I miss those violet waters and their large waves crashing against the tall shores of my homeland. In what could be considered spring, I become nostalgic for the burst of atmospheric plankton which fills the stratosphere for six years. A little longer than one of your months. Sure everyone wears a mask during that time, but everyone welcomes the coolness from living under that short-lived but beautiful shadow. Such beauty watching scarlet crepuscular rays slanting through both water and plankton clouds, a time to fall in love as your kind are wont to put it.
Many wasted hours have been spent marching through the tall fungus analogues dwarfing your sequoias in height but have a lifespan of a mayfly in contrast. Late at night in the late winter people stay up to hear the first eruptions from the mycelial entwork deep underground, happily hosing down the dirt from the sides of their domiciles considering it to be a good omen. Even though we are a spacefaring race, thanks to the pelagic entities living on TRAPPIST-1f, we haven't let go of the child-like wonders of religion and superstition, we still find those beliefs to be of some comfort and an easy excuse for getting together.
Lately I've been finding myself standing outside at sunset looking towards the west waiting for your star's light to turn the right shade of red, acting as a tonic for my ingrained homesickness. There's no way any of us crashlanded will repair our vessel, it's somewhere off the Atlantic shore in your northern hemisphere, at least in our or your lifetimes. Instead we stick together, share our private ceremonies and speak the language of our hearts for at least an hour a day lest we forget where we came from. Some of us haven't been able to acclimate to your gravity and there's too much nitrogen, but those who remain are tougher than those we left behind. We still scan the skies, listening earnestly, hoping for some word from home but we too are subject to the, as you call it, inverse-square law.
On the other hand, your species are ultimately kind despite your fascination with those who are particularly odious. You have a small talent for war and we admire your restraint, as what our forebears committed would surely make your Hitlers and Pol Pots and Stalins look like rank amateurs but without their atrocities we wouldn't have become who we are today.
If you do want to seek us out, don't. We'll only disappoint you. Just smile knowing you're not alone and somebody from 'out there' cares for you like a kindly, if distant, grandparent.
Just don't expect any large checks in your holiday cards though.
I want to believe..
I'm from Mexico!
Not many of us here
No realmente
Norway
The northern part, where we curse a lot and climb hills for fun. I climbed a hill on Sunday; the view was jævla nice.
Beautiful country - I did my Erasmus in Bergen and have been in love with the place since. I miss the hiking opportunities being so close!
I am from Latvia, assuming I'm one of the few if not only person from there!
hi fellow latvian
Romania here.
Egypt!
I wonder if I'm the first Egyptian on this site.
There was 1 person from Egypt in our 2019 census.
That's pretty cool! I hope I get to meet them, or another Egyptian, eventually.
Did you remember the results of that census, or did you go back to look them up? And /u/TeaMusic brought up the same point about the census.
I remembered that the censuses existed, so I went back to look up the results.
Is it the latest one ?
No...
It was the first census to show an Egyptian participant - to address the previous commenter's implied question about whether they were the first Egyptian on Tildes.
The 2019 Census indicates that there was an Egyptian here in 2019.
Denmark — Land of the Free (Healthcare)
Same ( Hej fra Odense!)
And halløjsa from København :)
Puerto Rico, but living in New Zealand.
New York to New Zealand! I wonder how many people made the migration from the NZ subreddits over to here.
I hope a few, at least! Also, if you're from New York, you're probably the only person in the whole damn country that has interacted with a Puerto Rican before they met me, so nice to know you're about!
Hahaha, I hear that! Very close family friends down the block were Puerto Rican. My earliest memories of parties and gatherings are all about the food.
Went back to Puerto Rico a little bit after the borders reopened, and goddamn did I miss the food. Fish and chips are nice and all, but if it wasn't for all the foreigners bringing their food in, I think I'd be dead from food boredom!
Oh man, I hear that. A decent chunk of my family has shifted to the Midwest, so I don't even get the good food while visiting sometimes.
May I ask you both why you made that move, and how you're liking it? As a New Yorker it seems like both a dream (I'd imagine the nature is stunning) and very intimidating logistically.
For me, I was teaching overseas and started dating a woman from New Zealand. Many extremely happy years later, we're married and living here.
The nature is nice, but New York has some stunning natural beauty of its own. Thirty minutes out of New York City, you can be in some gorgeous state forests or chilling on the beach - similar to Auckland in a way.
Just backing you up the gorgeous forested hills not that far from NYC here.
For sure! Harriman, the Palisades, Bear Mountain. You go a bit further and the Delaware River Gap is nearby. Not to mention the Catskills and northern NJ. It's a gorgeous part of the country.
I personally visited the hills on either side of the Hudson around Beacon and West Point. Had some of the best blackberries of my life on/near Butter Hill where they grew all day in the sun. Delicious!
Definitely not something I can experience here in the Netherlands!
Dated a kiwi who's a dual citizen, married her. Lived in WA for a while but she absolutely never wanted to settle in the US, and particularly after 2016, she wanted to move back to NZ.
It was the correct decision in terms of healthcare, childcare, political stability. But I miss my home, food, people, friends.
It was largely the same for us. The plan was to do a year in NZ before moving to the US. Then 2016 happened.
God. I worked in Seattle for that day in 2016. It was the weirdest experience. I kinda was in a daze all day. It was the quietest I've ever seen the city. I could hear crying from the bathrooms at work.
I immediately started working on that residency application. My wife was having a bit of a time convincing me, it's so far away. WA is already so far from PR, and NZ more than doubles that. Probably the same for you, since NY and PR are only a few hours away.
I was already in NZ and working at a marketing company with a handful of other Americans. I was in charge of the election whiteboard, having our own little Decision Desk setup with battleground states to watch. By the end of the workday, results were looking very strange. Definitely not the Clinton blowout I was hoping for. Ended up at a bar in town with some mates as the results were looking more certain. We decided there wasn't going to be enough booze in that bar if things continued on that trajectory, so we went to their apartment after stocking up at the supermarket. We got in and turned on the results, and then realized we were watching a time-delay thing. We switched over to live just in time to see Trump start his victory speech. We decided the best response to that was to just get obliterated.
Malaysia to New Zealand myself!
Haven't met a Puerto Rican my whole life, I guess Tilde will have to do!
I see one other person from Ireland, but living abroad as is traditional. I'm from here, still here.
Also from Ireland, and also still here!
Also joining this very exclusive club! 🇮🇪
Dublin checking in
Altair IV
Lithuania
Denmark
Same (Hej fra Odense!)
Kyrgyzstan
Argentina
Another world champion right here, represent.
Stockholm, Sweden
Delaware, USA but living in Poland
I'm technically Dutch, born and raised and lived there for 24 years, then moved to the UK and I have been there for 10 years now. So... Both? I identify with both and I am bilingual so it's hard to pick one over the other.
USA, California, San Francisco Bay Area...
Don't visit in shorts and a teeshirt or you will likely find yourself buying the sweatshirt of shame from a tourist shop. It doesn't get hot here for the most part, despite being in California.
Los Angeles, California but grew up in NorCal. You can bring shorts here but do yourself a favor and avoid the Hollywood Walk of Fame and don’t think that driving to San Francisco is just a “short jaunt up or down the 5”.
Born in Belfast, grew up outside Ballynahinch in the country side. In 2005 I moved to Manchester for my physics degree and still live there.
Belfast and Manchester are shared souls. The industrial revolution started in Manchester, Belfast became the worlds biggest ship building industry (infamously so). Workers rights and the trade union movement started in and around Manchester and spread to Belfast.
Those two cities drove modern industry, but more importantly fought and secured workers rights and the entire trade union movement. I'm ever so proud of those people.
deep breath
I reside in central Florida.
I have plans to leave soon. I want to live somewhere with safer gun laws.
Not heading down to Texas then?
the UK!
here's a random UK fact for you. The UK's coastline is the third longest after Norway and DenmarkEdit: fact was completely wrong for some reason, I got it from a local guide book, going to send them a email to hopefully find out what they meant by this and where they got their information, it has other facts that I have since searched and found to be true so Its curious that they have this one. If they respond with any information I will update!
Not sure what metrics you are using for your random fact but it feels wrong to me and Wikipedia agrees with me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_length_of_coastline (UK at #12)
Are you counting previous UK territories?
India, that is Bharat.
I don't want to upvote you because I don't want it to seem like I'm from there but I want to upvote you to show my support for your country so take this comment as a token of support.
Hey, thank you, big and honest. Im still not comfortable enough to be public about nationality. Probably because as a person I don't want to be associated only with war, even if thats is the correct association ).
Anyway. Thank you, your support is really important for me and other people from Ukraine.
I don't know if it means anything, but my association went from "Ukraine is like a little Russia to the left" to "Ukraine is an ancient multicultural society with really awesome, funny people", and a country I desperately want to visit once my daughter is older and up for travelling again.
I think the war made the country more internationally known, but we've also had a look at everything else because of it.
If you don't want to be public about your nationality, you might also want to delete this comment.
South London
Sean's manor? Did Jonny steal your own personal Percy? (I hope you have seen love, honour and obey)
Malaysia!
Ohai! Same here.
South Uk.
I'm from Indonesia, but I'm currently in Canada!
Newly minted Tildes user checking in from Canada's National Capital Region!
Welcome!
I'm from Ireland. I moved to the US in 2009 and got citizenship in 2018. This country had a lot more chill a few years back, now it's fucking crazy. I currently live in the Chicago suburbs.
What part of the suburbs? Have a lot of family around the Chicago area.
Aurora
Nice. Lot of my family members live in the southwest suburbs and west of the city.
Where bouts in Ireland are you from and at what age did you move? How does Ireland compare to Chicago?
From Kilkenny originally, moved when I was 26, bounced around a few different locations but have been in the Chicago area for 6 years now. It now feels weird when I go home to Ireland to visit my family. The climate here is definitely more extreme than Ireland - much colder, snowier winters, and much hotter summers, and the slight chance of a tornado fucking your life up once in a while. The worst thing about living here compared to basically anywhere in the EU is the lack of a proper social safety net. The risk of being bankrupted by a hospital visit, etc. Still, though, I like the life I've made here and I don't see myself going back.
It isn't exactly hard to have more extreme weather than Ireland. For us it is overcast, followed by overcast. Wake up in the morning and there is a light sprinkling of overcast. Rain of course is a constant companion, but it is more drizzle than monsoon downpour.
What is the culture like and the people in Chicago compared to Ireland? That really does interest me. What is pub culture like? Do people there have their local where everyone knows each other?
And yeah, the last of social safety net terrifies me and frankly precludes me from ever living in the US no matter what private insurance and what not I might be lucky to hold.
So a side note, how often do you get people bothering you about being Irish, and them having Irish lineage etc.? I know that sort of stuff is common online, but do yanks in Chicago have that same behaviour?
Glad for you mate, hope you keep enjoying your life over there.
Iowa, United States. It used to be pretty good here.
Arizona, USA. I like my state for the most part.
I'm from AZ too. I like AZ most of the time, but this week is pretty hot outside.
Yeah, seeing 110+ F on the thermometer makes me wince. It's like an oven outside sometimes. Spring was really nice this year though.
From Chicago, with love.
So I looked at your 2020 survey and that was a wild ride! It looks like I may be an outlier somewhat by being older than 50, and from the American deep south, also way less educated than your norm. However I've always gravitated to more educated people and they seem to enjoy my company so hopefully that will hold true here. My politics are progressive, I hope for a social democracy in my life time.
I'm absolutely thrilled with all the diversity in this thread , this is promising.
Cheers
It depends. Usually I say I'm from America or California, unless I need to pull out the race card. Then I'm 100% from India.
Southwestern France here.
Singapore!
New York, USA. No, I am not from NYC, there is other parts of the state that is not the city. Yes, I have been to the city once.
I love asking people what the capital of New York is. They get it wrong every single time.
I think that is because Hollywood absolutely refuses to go anywhere else for New York or they do use another city, I believed that Marvel has used Rochester for the last Spider Man movie, but say that it is NYC.
Also please people we have other major cities other than NYC, like Albany (the actual capital), Buffalo, and Rochester. We also have other important regions that are better looking or is tied to wine making, we have like
4 majorwine making regions in the state.Edit: We have 5 wine growing regions. Forgot about the new one.
Visited NY twice as a foreigner, and the city once (ignoring commutes through there). I actually stayed in Duchess and Orange counties.
G'day
Iowa, United States
The Mitten! Michigan USA
Oregon, USA! Happy to be here and excited for the potential of what is to come.
Also excited for Summer, because Oregon Summer is chefs kiss
Central Connecticut, USA.
On the one hand, I'd prefer to live in/near Boston for the jobs / environment.
On the other hand, I made a conscious decision to be closer to family. I've been here 20 years and I'm starting to appreciate it. Better late than never.
Chile. The country, not the foody thingy
Minnesota.
Spain! Originally from the United Kingdom though
I’m from Alaska but live in Washington now!
Lived in Montana for a few years but missed the ocean too much
USA - Arizona - Phoenix
Former; California, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa
Hello, former Wisconsinite 👋
Whereabouts did you call home?
First was Green Bay, then my company transfered me to Madison, which lead me to a small farm house in Stoughton a small town just outside of Madison, I moved to WI from CO
Love Madison! It’s where I’d live if I didn’t live where I am now. I was raised in Oshkosh, moved away to other states for awhile then came back to WI, but to the Appleton area.
Ahh, that's cool. I remember Appleton well, that's where me and my friend (Alex Dahlberg) bought the race car from Johnny Wheeler, owner of (was owner, not sure if he's alive anymore?) Appleton Auto Wrecking/Recyclers, small world
I'm born and raised in Louisiana about a stone throw away from New Orleans. Left for 10 years in Texas for my career and am now residing in North Carolina for the last 4 or so years.
I miss NC. I lived there for 7 years but moved to be closer to family in WI.
Maine, USA. Fun fact: french is the second most spoken language in Maine.
"There's no place like home! There's no place like home! There's no place like home!"
Kansas?
Bingo!
Saludos desde México (Greetings from Mexico)
Paisano!
Japan, specifically Kyoto.
I'm from the US, born in Illinois but mostly from Wisconsin.
Moved to the EU after Trump was elected. No plans to return, at least not any time soon.
Lived 3 years in Hungary, 2 years in The Netherlands, currently in Germany. Might stay here.
From Canada, been living in Korea for 10 years, moving to southern ontario on Sunday...
California, USA. I'm originally from the SF Peninsula. I was born in that sweet spot when a single mom could afford an apartment without working in tech. I know tildes is pretty small but I'm curious if anyone else has this experience.
It was interesting to grow up with the internet, but sometimes I'm a little salty about being priced out of my hometown. Then I remember that my grandparents came to America because of civil wars, and being broken about leaving a place I can visit anytime feels pretty silly.
Canada! Sorry about the smoke.
Iowa - USA https://youtu.be/fpznvslUzzY
Newfoundland, Canada
But now I can't vote for good posts? Or how do we tell these apart?
(Not posting a country because I've voted on mine above)
Do what you feel. The rules here are few and basic, but enforced.
Smack dab in the middle of the US. We pull from multiple regions culturally, and as an Army brat and veteran I bring even more tidbits from other areas and countries with me. It's not where I plan to stray forever, but since we were finally able to buy a house, it's where we'll be for a good long while.
Milky way, Sol cluster, Earth, NW hemisphere, United States, upstate NY
I feel there is a rather interesting story right there.
Sofia, Bulgaria. Also former RIF user.
Spain here, not so many of us apparently!
Australia, but I have lived in Hong Kong for the last almost 11 years.
Kentucky, USA. It's pretty here, and both less and more redneck than people give it credit for.
As a mostly life long southerner , I applaud this descriptive. I come to the leftist echo chamber in my own time because I live in a tense political environment all day. My employer only just recently changed the channel off fox news so my spying on the opposition has been fettered.
I live in a one of the blue dots swimming in the red sea of Georgia.
I'm a bit west over in Slidell, Louisiana not far from NOLA. Originally from a little more west in Lafayette/Cajun country. I know what you guys mean about the south in general. I've seen it my entire life.
Well, lemme say this. In 1991 some friends and I packed it in the car and headed for Mardi Gras.
The car broke down in Mississippi and the mean spirit and hate was palpable, it was such an ugly place (right off the highway for christs sake) that we couldn't bear it and hitchhiked the rest of the way.
So, as long as we can all keep out of Mississippi we at least have a sporting chance.
My apologies to anyone from Mississippi that may see this, I acknowledge that there are good people everywhere and I wish you all the best.