h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Good Grief! am I the only Irish one then?

Well, I'm half-Irish if it makes you feel any less lonely, but I live in the English home of the other half. I'm writing from the glorious, rainy Peak District near Manchester (the UK version that is) but it does kind of remind me of Co. Cork where the Irish side of the family live. Maybe it's the constant rain. All that water drumming on window panes takes me straight back to the childhood holidays in dear old Skibbereen.

There's a few Irish people about. I've bumped into a couple myself. Personally I'm trying to stay anonymous but I did originally come from Dublin and I am now in the UK somewhere at university.

NORWAY RULES!

Norway is too cold and too expensive to rule... but that's just another matter of taste, I guess

For those of you as fascinated by trivia as I am, but without as
much free time, I offer this summary of posts to date in this topic.

Note: For those of us who listed multiple places, I chose the
current residence (assuming I could figure out which one that is).

2 Canberra
1 Stirling
1 Sydney
2 (unspecified Australia)
6 Total Australia

2 British Columbia
2 Total Canada

1 Gloucester
1 Oxford
1 Manchester
1 Plymouth
1 Reading
1 Redditch
1 Warrington
1 Yateley
1 (unspecified England)
10 Total England

1 Germany

1 Kerry
1 Total Ireland

1 Rijswijk
1 Steenwijk
2 Total Netherlands

2 Auckland
1 Wellington
3 Total New Zealand

3 Norway

1 Glasgow
1 (unspecified Scotland)
2 Total Scotland

1 Alaska
2 California
2 Florida
2 Massachusetts
1 New Hampshire
1 North Carolina
1 Pennsylvania
1 Washington
11 Total USA

41 Grand Total participating

Nice summary, brief and to the point.

So who's going to be the all-important 42nd participant?

DNA would be great for that!

Oops - too late. I'm afraid it's me instead.

I'm from London, UK, and surprised to be the first Londoner on the list. I was born in Liverpool, and moved to Telford, Shropshire when I was 8. Liverpool's too distant a memory for me to think of it as home, and Telford is a complete hole that's best forgotten about, so London is definitely the place I think of as home now.

Hi G!

Welcome to the club!

My current residence is in Steenwijk, which is also just a dirty spot on the map. And without any major cities in the vicinity, I feel I have no other choice than to regard my place of birth (Haarlem) as home. Especially since I didn't leave it before I was 36 years old (which will soon be 5 years ago).
Emotionally, Haarlem will ALWAYS be home to me, regardless of where I reside.

currently live (although that might be too strong a word) in sassenach -land, but i'm originally from Elsewhere...

And doing a damn good job of hiding from the police if I may so so. Not that I can condone murder, but I do like to see a chap using his initiative to keep ahead of the authorities.

Yes, isn't Elsewhere the first place the authorities look when they have few leads?

Although I've heard many good things about Vancouver, it is NOT the only cool place in Canada. Calgary, Toronto, Montreal...all very cool in their own inimitable way.
I happen to park my bones in Kitchener-Waterloo: haven of computer people and German-descended Mennonites.

Had some relly not too far back that ran off to Saskatchewan (I know that can't be spelled right) originally to work. Wife and kids were too stuck up to move from the city, he fell in love with the solitude of the place. I've always wanted to go there for just that.

lucan is doing an even better job of beating the authorities now. I read in the paper this week that the search for Lord Lucan has now been officially called off. Legally, he is now presumed to be dead.
So I think that makes lucan one of two officially dead researchers on h2g2. The other is, of course, The Grim Squeaker.
Oh, and by the way: I'm originally from Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, and am now resident in London. So there.

Hi there.

Sorry about the title, but there's a reason behind it.

Anyone on h2g2 from the Norwegian town of Hell?

Isn't there a place in Norway with just a letter for a name? It's called Y or something. There's another in france: A (or thereabouts).

In a barn.