Abq Where are you from?

Just wondering - which of you are native New Mexicans? For those who aren't, where are you from and how long have you been here?

Native Albuquerqian! (is that the word for it?)

it is now!

I am also a native Albuquerqian

Native Texan. Been here 11 years. Love it here.

Grew up in Belen. Been here longer.

born in paso roble, CA but raised in albuquerque (moved here when i was 4)...parents are actually natives of nm but father was in military when i was born

Galesburg, Illinois, originally for me. I've lived in New Mexico since I was 9 though.

Washington D.C. (when i was small)
Houston, Texas

then here for college...been here since.

Born -> Farifax, Virgina
age 2-4 -> Stuttgart, Germany
age 5-8 -> GlennBurnie, Maryland
age 9-noe -> Albuquerque

Native Albuquerquian too!

Bred, born and raised up here in good old farmington. But i refuse to stay here for college, community college is a bit small for me

Born in Paducah, KY. Came here 32 years ago at age 10. Consider myself a grafted nativo. I love New Mexico better than any other place I've lived. The food, the mountains, streams, lakes, hiking, big sky, sunsets, cultural diversity, architecture... everything!

born in Dover, NJ - lived there 2 days
Hackettstown, NJ (home of MMs) - 9 years
Houston, TX - 5 years
Duluth, GA - 5 years (near Atlanta)
Norcross, GA - 2 years (near Atlanta)
San Jose, CA - 2 years
Lincoln, CA (outside Sacramento) - 2 years
Albuquerque, NM - 3 years so far

Born in Albuquerque
Summer of 8th grade I lived in Wyoming for a month, then in Vermont for a month and finally moved to Salem, Mass.
Summer of 9th grade I moved to Lynn, Mass.
Half way through 9th grade I moved back to Albuquerque.

Oslo, Norway!

Just kidding, I am from here and never lived anywhere else.

Native Albuquerquian (mostly)

Birth through Graduation from High School - Albuquerque
Lived a summer bumming around UK
Las Cruces - 18-24
Fort Worth, TX - one year
Home to Albuquerque

Born in Arlington, Texas lived for about a year
Moved to California.. Lived there fore about 5 years
Then Moved to Albuquerque and have been here ever since

Mostly from here except the first 3 years, lived in Vegas.

Born in 1964 in El Paso and immediately moved to Las Cruces. In 1965 we moved to Hawaii. Then in 1970 we moved back to Las Cruces and in 1972 we moved to Pueblo, Colorado. I was there until 1985 and I moved to Southern California. In 1991 I moved to Denver and was there until 1998 and I left and became a rambling man checking out the Eastern part of the country and found my way to Jacksonville where I met my wonderful wife Yvonne. We moved to ABQ in August of 2002 and we just love it here!

Man, that's alot of traveling. I moved from Albuquerque in 1983, to Rio Rancho. Been up here ever since. Not quite as exciting. We used to live right by Wargames West. I miss that place.

*sigh* Wargames West. One of the best places to have spent money. *sigh*

Frankfurt, (West) Germany '76-'77
Holloman Air Force Base, NM '77-'80
High Rolls, NM '80-'85
Alamogordo, NM '85-'93
Socorro, NM '93-'98
Albuquerque, NM '98-'05

I am Albuqerqian, but I defected to Billings Montana when I was 4 yrs old for about 2 years!

From the Barrio, holmes.

Wargames west was the bomb.