Lobo asked: "how many different areas of the country are represented here and how many different places have you lived (to all members)???"

I was born in Kearny, New Jersey;
grew up in Clifton, New Jersey;
attended college in the East Village of Manhattan (a great time was had by all);
moved just outside Toledo, Ohio for my first job (as a nuclear engineer);
returned to Kearny after a year;
moved to Los Angeles, where my then-husband and I changed our minds about LA;
then moved to Phoenix;
then moved to Cooksville, Maryland;
then moved to Brooklyn;
then moved to Clifton (a nerve-wracking six months with my parents while we were between residences and jobs);
then moved to Bloomingdale, New Jersey; and,
then moved to bucolic Bucks County (in the Philadelphia suburbs) eight years ago.

I found that Toledo was WAY too conservative for a woman engineer -- and that Phoenix was WAY too conservative for a woman with short hair. I'm glad to be back on the East Coast by choice and not by default, but if I had the means, I would move closer to Manhattan. One wouldn't think that 90 miles (between Manhattan and Philadelphia) would make such a difference in people's attitudes, but it does.

Denise