Tell Us Where You're From Contest Closed Winners Announced

I live in a small (less than 10,000) town, Tomball, Tx. It's about 20 minutes north of Houston.
The area that is now Tomball, Texas was originally settled by German and European settlers in the early 1800s.

Settlers came to Tomball mainly to promote agricultural activities, lured by its peaceful streams, its rolling pastures and beautiful pine trees.

In 1906 the area became the town of Peck, Texas. Shortly after, in 1907, the town was renamed after Senator Thomas H. Ball (Tom Ball) who helped the area thrive by running the railways through town, which was extremely important to the prosperity of the agricultural businesses in the area.

In 1933 the Humble Oil & Refining Co. found Oil in Tomball. As a result, Tomball became known as "Oil Town USA," and the citizens benefitted from an unusual deal with the oil drilling company: The town was given free natural gas to all residents for ninety years!

Today it's mainly antique shops and boutiques with a friendly neighbor atmosphere and street fairs several times a year. I love the slow, relaxed pace and I'm 1 block from Main St. where all the shops are, so I plan on living here for quite a while.

I am from Upstate New York...U.S.A. I work right in the capital city of Albany for our fine Comptroller Hevesi

I'm in Beaumont TX , the state of our beloved president and his father who was prez. We are Aggies WHOOP !!!! My children attend or attended Texas A & M University in College Station, home of the Fighting Texas Aggies and the Fighting Texas Aggie Band which both my sons were members, B CO, WHOOP. Beaumont is 90 mileseast of Houston and very close to the Gulf coast. We had a visitor about a year ago named RITA but survived. I think our house was the only one on the street without damage, no power for over 3 weeks. I am a window clerk for the US Postal Service with 27 years 19 on the window so ask me all your postal questions. My husband of 31 years is a retired ship engineer born in Greece so ask me about that beautiful country especially his island of Crete.

Gino THANKS for this contest

This is my favorite contest cuz I love to
learn about all the members....

so here goes ... I live in Salt Lake City Utah. Born and raised.
I am single and love animals. I love to the outdoors, and hanging
out with my family and friends

Connie

hi born and raised in st louis mo . ho me of the cardinals. im on my 2nd marriage and have 14 grandkids between the 2 of us, iv been with ccfor about 3yrs and love it iv known some of members for yrs and they are good people, ty josie46

Hi Crushers!

I wanted to join in on this and found some interesting things about where I live.

I am also from the United States, the state of Utah. The name "Utah" comes from the Native American "Ute" tribe and means people of the mountains.

Utah peaks, on average, are the tallest in the country. The average elevation of the tallest peaks in each of Utah's counties is 11,222 ft.-higher than the same average in any other state. The highest elevation King's Peak, 13,528 ft (4,123 m) above sea level

Salt Lake City is the largest city ever to host winter Olympic games. (2002)

Of the 50 states, Utah has one of the largest concentrations of computer software firms; one of the four larger concentrations of biomedical firms; the youngest population; one of the highest birth rates; the second lowest death rate; the healthiest population; the highest literacy rate; the highest percentage of high school graduates; and the highest number of people with a college education.

The 1998 Scarborough Research Corporation stated that Salt Lake City had more personal computers per household than any other city in the United States. lol and I thought I had the only computer in Utah lol

Thank you for letting us know where you are from and Good Luck in this Contest!

Happy Gaming Always!

OrangeCrush

I'm not sure if this is the correct way to enter this contest but what the heck, I'm going for it. I'm from San Jose, California.

Hi kimchee1016, you can be sure now hun, you entered the contest correctly!

Good Luck!

Happy Gaming Always!

OrangeCrush

Im in the united states. and originally i am from norfolk virginia. at this very moment i am in a state of confusion....go figure...i usually am.

Good Luck Crushers!!!

Thank you Geno and Orange for the chance to win free neteller cash or ccpoints.

OH-IO
From cleveland Ohio, burn and raised!

HI, I am from Canada,...in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia.
Nova scotia is one of the 10 provinces and three territories of Canada.
Nova Scotia..lies on the east coast and is almost completely surrounded
by the Atlantic Ocean.Part of Nova Scotia is actually an island, called Cape Breton Island. Nova Scotia is about 25,000 square miles, just a bit smaller than Ireland. Nova Scotia, is Latin it means New Scotland. It was
given this name by the Scots, who were the first British settlers to come here.... ...Perfect place too. Love it...

I am in Southern California, and its hot in here !!!
Yesterday we had the record high of 96 F , it is 36 C !
And I miss snow and regular winter

Hi Kaska321, want to trade places for the winter? lol They were saying on the weather this morning that we better enjoy today in the 60's because starting tomorrow ... cold ... rain ... turning into ...... s ... n ... o ... w!!! Yeck!!!!!! lol

In my lifetime I have never had a winter where I didn't have to shovel snow and I'm getting way to old for that lol. I would love a winter off in sunny warm California!!! hehee

Good Luck Crushers!!

Happy Gaming Always!

OrangeCrush

Would you really like to change places ?
You don`t have idea how boring for me the sun is for days 365 a year
I miss all the season changes, snow,rain, etc. I know most Californians are appreciate sunny weather, but I love autumn and winter, and those seasons are not coming here, way they visit other states
If it wouldn`t be for my husband, I would leave California long time ago.
I come here from NY 10 years ago, and if I change my husbands mind one day I would fly there back in seconds. Unfortunately all his family is here, and he is the baby for them, so they wont let him move far away from them

i dont blame you kaska even though i dont like being cold i think the season changes are beautiful especially the first snow fall of the year its so pretty!!my husband has tried to get me to move to cali a couple of times but i said no way i need snow at christmas.although i do think california is beautiful too i love the ocean but ive only seen sacramento and san fransisco now id like to see southern california.