I haven't seen a topic like this so far so I decided to make one. What I first came here for was because I wanted to ask if you felt that your individual cultures effected how you communicate in English. Then I realized that there was no topic asking where any of you come from. For all I know you could all live in the same city as me!

Anyway I'm from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Your turn!

I was born in Anchorage, Alaska, and now live in Redmond, Washington. However, I can be too Russian to be an American sometimes.

I am from New York City, But my grandmother was from the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina. I was taught Cherokee as a child every summer by my "lisi". My dad lived on the Seminole reservation in Florida. But basically I'm a New Yorker through and through

Greetings and Salutations.

I am from an island that is known as Taiwan of which, was named as Ilha Formosa (Formosa, for short) by the Portuguese sea-farers from the past last two centuries. Taiwan is also known as the "Republic of China" (ROC); however, this political status is denied by the Mainland China itself (the "People's Republic of China" - PRC). I am not into the politics, and thus, one can consider me as a "chinese" as well as a "taiwanese", such terms really matters little difference to me.

Peace.

I'm from a small village of 7000 souls called Báčsky Petrovec in Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina, in the south of one of its historical regions called Bačka. I was however born in a hospital in Novi Sad which is the capital of Vojvodina. Vojvodina is a unique region in Europe because it has six official languages, one of them being my own native Slovak which is spoken by about 60.000 people.

I'm from an unspecified population center of moderate size not far from Toronto.

I'm from Gothenburg, Sweden.

I'm from Petaluma, California. It's ~45 miles north of San Francisco and has a population of a little more than 59,000. Most people here talk with a General America accent.

Wikipedia - Petaluma

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. However, I grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. I'm currently living in a town called Glendale, which is a suburb of Milwaukee.

You left Boston for Milwaukee? You have my sympathies, sir.