Where is everyone from

[-Otakon-]

I have lived all my life in Southern Finland.

[Your Mother]

[SIZE=1]Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Been here for 4 years, and seen a lot along the way.[/SIZE]

[Lafleur]

[QUOTE=Sandy]Tell me about it... >:/

Well, the climate in here [B]Finland[/B] is about the same as Canada (we are located on the same latitudes), meaning there's snow from November till April, and we have a heatwave in July lasts two weeks.

There are odd changes in the weather sometimes, though. Like last week, it began to snow and it covered the ground totally, and in few days it was all gone. 8/

Last year we had a huge heatwave at September, and it isn't unheard of that there's still snow on the ground and May.

But enough about weather, there's one big thing that separates Finland from Canada (and from almost every other country in the world).

Finland is no small country, it's over a thousand kilometres long, spanning from the Baltic Sea to near the Arctic Ocean, and has three neighboring countries (Russia, Sweden and Norway).

Yet, there's only [B]five million people[/B] living here. You can only imagine how scattered they are throughout the country. In the capital, [B]Helsinki[/B], which is by far the biggest city in Finland (and also the city where I was born), there's only a little over half a million people - and people from the countryside call it "crowded".

It really puts things into perspective, when in the wide world a city with five million people is regarded as "medium sized". :/

I currently live in a city with 100 000 people, [B]Lahti[/B] (the center of winter sports in Finland), where I study, but I intend to move back to Helsinki as soon as possible, because this town really is dead - nothing but old ladies here. :P[/QUOTE]

Canada: Area: 9,976,140 SQ KM. Second largest country on earth. Population: 32 Million aprox
[IMG]http://www.xonus.com/muzeo/Aaron%20Online/Map%20of%20Canada.gif[/IMG]

Finland: 31,560 SQ KM land. Not second largest country on earth. Population: 5 Million Aprox
[IMG]http://www.stayxs.com/finland/images/finland-map.gif[/IMG]

Conclusion: Finland is a small fry in the spread out population ring. Mongolia is the most sparsly populated as I recall. That said, Canada is a concentrated population; meaning that 90% live within a specific area. Is it like that in Finland?

[Sandy]

Hmm, I wonder what you're aiming at, Lafleur? ,:)

Yes, I'm very aware that Finland is as big as a fly's pile compared to Canada, but the fact is that most of the countries that are [I]smaller[/I] than Finland have much more people. Like Belgium - the capital Brussels alone has about the same amount of people as Finland has in total.

What comes to the concentrated population, about 2/5 of the population lives in Helsinki and the surrounding cities. The norther you go, the scarcer the population.

[Veritas]

[size=1][color=darkred]I live in Orem, Utah AKA Happy Valley or the bubble as I refer to it. Thoguh it isn't really as good as most people that know about it think. Though I have lived in Utah my whole life I don't really consider myself from here, because I'm not like most people that live here and I have been able to go other places and see the good as well as the bad. Also because I'm mixed and the majority of people here are white, kind of like an reverse Eminem effect:animesmil .[/color][/size]

[TheShinje]

[size=1][color=Indigo]I live in a small pacific Country called New Zealand.

New Zealand is pretty cool, we have a population of about 4 million people and the greates Rugby team int he world. Australia likes to debate this, but yeah, Australia likes to whinge. :p

Places to Go:
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Auckland Skytower: [/b]I though King Kong was going to scale this int he latest movie!

[b]Cathedral Square:[/b] Nice meeting place revolving around a neat old neo-gothic cathedral.

[b]A Rugby Game: [/b]Be it provincial or international, our rugger is the best rugger, so yeah, it's a treat to s[/color][/size][color=Indigo]ee. :p[/color]

[Guest Doomberg]

Hey its me doomberg.wow its hot her.a month or two ago it got up to 112 in pheonix AZ.so happy this is a good topic for everyone sizzlin.have fun :animesmil

[Sakura]

[color=navy]I agree with Baron Samedi, South West of WA, Australia all the way.

I was born in Malaysia but remember nothing of it since my family moved when I was 18 months old. I've lived in the same part of Australia for 15 years without moving, haven't even gone to another state. It's kinda depressing seeing the same scenery everyday for 15 years.

I wanna see snow, even if it turns into that brown sludgy stuff. Seems really intriguing.

I kinda wonder why the majority of the boards are Americans :S[/color]

[Goodbye, Face]

[font=trebuchet ms]I live in North Carolina. I'm right on the border between Jamestown and High Point, so we get charged for long distance when we call some of our neighbors. I live near six parks and I'm in walking distance to five food stores, a music store, a comic and trading cards store, a GameStop, a mall, three bookstores, etc. It's nice living in my location, but I really hate the redneck culture that surrounds me. Most seem to be extremely arrogant and it annoys me. Aside from that, it's a nice place, just avoid Furniture Market traffic if you're visiting.[/font]

[Baron Samedi]

[QUOTE=Shinji][size=1][color=Indigo]I live in a small pacific Country called New Zealand.

New Zealand is pretty cool, we have a population of about 4 million people and the greates Rugby team int he world. Australia likes to debate this, but yeah, Australia likes to whinge. :p

Places to Go:
[b]
Auckland Skytower: [/b]I though King Kong was going to scale this int he latest movie!

[b]Cathedral Square:[/b] Nice meeting place revolving around a neat old neo-gothic cathedral.

[b]A Rugby Game: [/b]Be it provincial or international, our rugger is the best rugger, so yeah, it's a treat to s[/color][/size][color=Indigo]ee. :p[/color][/QUOTE]
[size=1]What Shinji is trying to say here is [spoiler][COLOR=YellowGreen]G[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]O[/COLOR] [COLOR=YellowGreen]W[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]A[/COLOR][COLOR=YellowGreen]L[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]L[/COLOR][COLOR=YellowGreen]A[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]B[/COLOR][COLOR=YellowGreen]I[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]E[/COLOR][COLOR=YellowGreen]S[/COLOR][COLOR=Silver]![/COLOR][/spoiler]

:p [/size]

[Glittery_Itachi]

i mos def am from Glen Allen Virginia. Heh, I hate it here nothing to do except for the Cons. ^_^

[Shadow Blade]

[size=1][color=slategray]Where am I from?

Well I'm from about the most boring state in all America. We suck at College Football. We stink at Baseball. The only thing were probably good at is Track. But we do have an interesting history and multi-climate areas.

Yeah. You guessed right; New Mexico.

Right by Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, and Arizona.

I basically live in a small community called Smith Lake. A very small community that you could pass by it without knowing it.
However the area has lots of pinon trees, mesas, valleys, inhabited by critters that my little niece thinks are cute.

Yeah. I know. I'm from where all the Native Americans are from.





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[Yoru4Kakashi]

Ok. First off, anyone who has ever asked me this simple question always ends up getting confused so let me try to explain this to the best of my abilty.

I am from Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

But I've never lived there. Confused? Let me explain.

My dad is in the Air Force so we're always moving from place to place because of his job. Both my mom and dad are from Puerto Rico so I naturally consider myself as Puerto Rican.

Why were people confused? I was born in Madrid, Spain. People immediately assume that because I was born in Spain, that means I'm Spanish. Wrong. I have no relation to anyone in Spain.

(I don't like to talk about where I've been. People instantely become interested and it scares me a little...)

Ok let me be specific to make this more clear. I was born in Spain. Then I moved to Georgia, then to Oklahoma, then to New Mexico, then to Alaska, then to Arizona, then to Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia (sucked majorly), Germany, and now i'm currently in Miami.

Naturally, when people ask me where did I move here from, I would say where I was stationed before. For example, when I moved to Miami, I would say I'm Puerto Rican. The confusion lays when I say I moved from Germany. The usual response to that would be, "You're German? I thought you said you were Puerto Rican." :animeswea

It sucks. I know. I'm Puerto Rican. End of Story.