I was just curious as to where everybody's homelands are after realizing we are all spread out across the globe. So to start it off i am from Eugene Oregon in the USA

South Pasadena, California (Southern). That's where I'm currently living, my 'homeland' is Masan, South Korea, less than 50 miles away from Pusan.

I'm from Beautiful British Columbia, Canada here. I live on Vancouver Island which is pretty big (for an off shore island). I can't wait for the winter olympics to come to whistler.

my sister goes to Occidental college which i think is in Pasadena. I am not sure if you know the college since it isnt that big. :sensei

when are the winter olympics gonna be in whistler?

I hail from Sweden. :barb

Flanders Belgium. :barb

(barbarian lands :lol: )

Britain here, in Sussex, near Brighton. :ph43r:

I'm also from Flanders, Belgium. Same goes for Mordhak :ph43r:

So Honduras, Mordhak, TB666, zelda12 and me are in nearly the same timezone :)

Yes... I'm from Flanders. It's a small world.

Southampton PA, it's near Philidelphia.
BUT IM A NORTH JERSIAN!!!
I was born near NY and if, after hearing me talk, you cant guess it you're not very smart ;)

I didnt know you would call people North Jersians :huh: that is a new one to me

How is Flanders, i have never been to Belgium and certainly not Flanders. Whats the weather like usually?

I believe it is in 2010, but I could be wrong. We might need that long, in order to fix the sea to sky highway. I can't wait to see the Canadian players (hockey that is), it seems that most of the Canadians go down south to get paid the big bucks, execpt to Carolina :lol:

Mostly rainy and cloudy. Can be quite hot in summer though.

We have a rather basic climate, with 4 clear seasons, with spring temperatures of a usual 10-15° C and a lot of rain& clouds, summer temperatures of up to 35° C (in extreme cases), very rainy and always cloudy autumns with temperatures between 0 and sometimes even 15° C, and varying winters. Right now, we get a lot of snow, and temperature didn't rise above 0° C since the last week. Minimum temperatures in winter, at night, vary from -20 to -10° C. There are extreme cases with -25 or even -30° C, but those are really extreme, and I haven't experienced winters that cold yet.

Hope that cleared some things up about the temperatures.

Furthermore, we live with 10.000.000 people on a more than 30.000 km², which means 335 people/km². And that's a lot. But it can get worse... example: Paris has 1000 inhabitants for every square kilometer. But then again, it's Paris :P

Also, of the 10.000.000 inhabitants, 1.000.000 are immigrants from inside and outside the European Union. <_<

In Flanders, the landscape consists of large, central towns with many villages/smaller towns in the area. There are several major cities, like Antwerp and Brussels, and they're the ones who attrackt all the tourists. The rest of the space is filled with roads and green grasslands/farming grounds. There are no real mountains in Belgium, no spectacular coastline, no huge metropoli, no tsunami's or earthquakes or volcanoes, just a small country with a lot of history and ancient, atmosphere-laden cities.

Belgium only has 10 million citizens?!?! That's quite small.

Not given its size. Of course London has 7million people in an area a couple of miles wide, I think. Britiain has a population hingeing on 70,000,000 people

Seoul, South Korea, has 10 million people in it and it's around 600 sq. km.

Sounds liek you guys are proud Belgians. Doesnt sound like that bad of a place either

Well, I'm not about to be shown up by Mordhak here. Here is stats about Canada.

Population: 32,040,000 people

Unemployment: 7%

Births (per year): 330,803
Deaths (per year): 233,087
Immigration (per year): 239,116
Total emigration (per year): 46,708

Annual average:
Snowfall(cm)/ Total precipitation(mm)/ Wet days (#)

St. John's 322.1 1,482 217
Charlottetown 338.7 1,201 177
Halifax 261.4 1,474 170
Fredericton 294.5 1,131 156
Québec 337.0 1,208 178
Montréal 214.2 940 162
Ottawa 221.5 911 159
Toronto 135.0 819 139
Winnipeg 114.8 504 119
Regina 107.4 364 109
Edmonton 129.6 461 123
Calgary 135.4 399 111
Vancouver 54.9 1,167 164
Victoria 46.9 858 153
Whitehorse 145.2 269 122
Yellowknife 143.9 267 118

Where I live its mostly 10-20 C all year round. In winter I might be lucky to see 4 or 5 cm of snow. It rains a good quarter of the year, and strong winds. So strong sometimes that it pushes the car across the road!

My friend who lives in calgary said this to me when I asked him about the weather there "In summer you can almost cook your steak without turning on the element (stove top), and in winter most people leave their meat outside and its sometimes colder than the refridgerator! I laughed, he shrugged. He said that it usually gets to -30 and sometimes to -40... they still go to school at that temperature.

In Quebec my grandparents live there and I sometimes go and visit them. In the summer I melt in the heat. In the winter... well lets just say it snows, alot. I wouldn't dought that they get temperatures close to calgarys.

Ontario is pretty much like Quebec, so another of my good friends says.

A man I know, lived in New Found land (he's a newfie lol). They get snow that sometimes reaches the house tops (if I remember correctly), at the very least its as cold if not colder than both Quebec and Calgary.

Thats basically all I know about the weather about in Canada.

One last comment is that Canada, in my humble opinion, is an amazing country to live in. We basically got alittle bit of everything, from culture to geography. If you want to spend a vacation and you want to out a bunch of different thing, this is the place you come to. Its much like America, but we say thank you after receiving our big mac :)

Wow, that was like everything i could ever want to know about Canada. I have actually been to Canada but only for a week and we stayed mostly in one little state or territory or whatever they are called

I go to Canada often. I live right near there, being a Michigander livin it up in Detroit.

Who are you CystlballsDET, havent seen you here before. If you want to join you are in the wrong topic and thread go to the appliance section and look at the guidelines for appliance

There called Provinces, but personally I couldn't care less if you called them states.

Its cool that you guys have been to Canada, how did you like it? B.C. is the best province to travel too, and Saskatchewan is the worst. lol in Canada we consider Saskatchewan the place where you travel from Alberta to bet too Manitoba or visca versa. Hell, if you ever wanted to experiance the old wild west you go there. Most of the 'towns' haven't evolved much.

I have journayed down to the states 4 or 5 times in my life. My most favorite place was Cape Town. I went surfing (or at least tried too) on some pretty big waves. The town itself was pretty cool;very few, if any, cars drive down the main street. Lots of tourists shops and stuff.


Edit- Oh it just came to me that one of the girls in my old T.A. (Teacher Advisory) went to Belguim on a forgein exchange. I would like to say, on the behalf of Canada, that we are sorry we did this. The girl dosen't shut up, probably the reason why the government shipped her over there in the first place :lol: Anyways she said that Belguim was an amazing place, and thankfully she intends to move there... I guess its going to be 1,000,001 imigrants :)

When i went we stayed in Alberta. I actually liked it alot. We were on a resort most of the time but the mountains and wildlife were pretty interesting (when we first got their like 10 mooses walked across the road in front of our car). For all the crap us americans talk about canadians it isnt that bad of a place.

Well, it isn't always such a great place :P Surely in the winter when it keeps on raining for weeks. But still, it's a nice country.

And I don't think that many people will call their country bad.

Mountains??? There's no hills, let alone mountains in Alberta. You must have been close to the border of B.C. and the Rockies.

Oh yes, I don't dought that you saw ten mooses walk across the street. It happens quite a bit in b.c.

Where I live (near alot of mountains) cougars have been known to come down and attack peoples dogs. In fact right outside the appartment I used to live in the police had the hounds chasing one 5 or 6 years back. And one time a huge black bear decided that my elementary school was a good place to find food :o . The police came with a tranquillizer gun and shot the bear... If I remember correctly it took two or three because the thing bolted after getting hit with the first.

As for the crap you guys speak about Canadians, there just as much coming from us about Americans. I find it quite humourous really, so feel free to make fun of Canada, eh? :lol: We are, after all, well known for making fun of ourselves in our igloos.

Lhorkan- Here, it can rain for months... thats our winter. We get 5 cm at best and is washed away in a day or two. It blows, especially when you spent some winters over in Montreal.

Seems I don't have a reason for complaining then :P

I live in Novi, Michigan and in our winters it snows a butt load. Spring time is for the rain, and we don't get an excessive amounts of it. Speaking of Canada, I've been to Toronto a few times, and Lake Ontario. I've also been to the Canadian side of the Niagra Falls, but thats about it for my travels to Canada.

Never been to Canada but it sounds like a nice place to vacation to, or live there-FREE HEALTH CARE!!!!! That would have saved me a couple grand. I have had almost a dozen surgeries that would have been paid for if I lived in Canada, damn health care providers only pay for a 1/4-1/3 of the cost. In Oregon it rarely snows in the winter, or floods-Eugene is in a valley with a couple rivers passing through with mountains all around it. Last winter though there was enough snow to miss 3 or 4 days of school and a two hour delay. I do think I will move to Canada after college or in California if Arnold and Caroll can clean it up. :sensei

So we have two Oregonians who live in Eugene. Goose and Nightmare. Hey goose, do you know nightmare? Also, I have a cousin who lives in Eugene, he goes to Marist, I believe. What school do you go to? I hardly get snow days, because we are so immune to it. It takes a good lot of feet of snow to get a snow day in Michigan.

I lnow Nightmare and Bthizle, all of us live in Eugene, Oregon. As for you cousin I think I know who you are talking about, I go to marist with the others, he said he has a cousin in Michigan. Sucks about not having alot of snow days, atleast you get plenty of fresh snow during the winter. :P

Yeah, snow is good. You know my cousin? His name is Jonathan Christian, he's a sophomore. Well, it's a small world after all, I guess.

Yeah I know Jonathan, his aunt is the math teacher at Marist, lucky ba***rd.

Yeah, hes told me his aunt is his math teacher. I think that would suck. Is she the type to favor him because they are related? Because if she did favor him, that would be sweet, if not, that would suck.

australia here,

we dont have much history but be prepared for a long post im so proud of my country *wipes away tear*

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name of Great Britain. Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The new country took advantage of its natural resources to rapidly develop its agricultural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the British effort in World Wars I and II. In recent decades, Australia has transformed itself into an internationally competitive, advanced market economy. Long-term concerns include pollution, particularly depletion of the ozone layer, and management and conservation of coastal areas, especially the Great Barrier Reef. A referendum to change Australia's status, from a commonwealth headed by the British monarch to a republic, was defeated in 1999

total land: 7,686,850 sq km luckey im not living in cramped europe :D

natarul resources: bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, natural gas, petroleum.

Population:
19,913,144 (July 2004 est.) plenty of space eh?

Administrative divisions:
6 states and 2 territories*; Australian Capital Territory*, New South Wales, Northern Territory*, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Economy - overview:
Australia has an enviable Western-style capitalist economy, with a per capita GDP on par with the four dominant West European economies. Rising output in the domestic economy has been offsetting the global slump, and business and consumer confidence remains robust. Australia's emphasis on reforms, low inflation, and growing ties with China are other key factors behind the economy's strength. The impact of drought, weak foreign demand, and strong import demand pushed the trade deficit up to $18 billion in 2003 and to $20 billion in 2004 from $8 billion in 2002. One other concern is the domestic housing bubble.


Illicit drugs:
Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate

hope ya didnt get to bored ;)

I'm, erm, proud of my country too...

No one knows for certain how long Aboriginies had lived in Australia before the first European settlers colonised the continent and slaughtered their race (there are no longer any full blooded Aboriginal people left), it may have been up to or even over 60000 years. Our government doesn't give the stuff about pollution and will not sign the kyoto protocol. Our economy is growing as we rely heavily on cheap child labour factories in Asia to manufacture almost every material item conceivable, although the unbelievably large debt the US economy has aquired will inevitably cause another great depression taking Australia with it. Our foreign immigrant policy is atrocious and our culture is becoming more American each passing day...But hay, we've got the "Koala Bear".

Call me an optimist.

alas there are two sides o every story, although most things you said are right al i would have to say that the kyoto protocol has come under fire from some experts that say that smaller countries will use this to increase their industrial output as they wont hyave to worry about getting told of for it. and as the american i would have to agree with you there to, one of australias biggest health problems no doubt caused by the fast food chains bought in by america and the ample amount of food we have.

i remain prouldy australian and everyone i know hate geroge bush, i hope wedont get to american.

Damn, showed up by an auzie :o ;)

Some nice info you got there beans. Anyone else here from a different country that want to show off some pride?