OT: Where in the world do you come from?

Born in Central Oregon an grew up in Southern Oregon. Moved to Portland area 11 Years ago.

But if you you ever driven to Mt. Hood, through the gorge and up highway 35, then you’ve past Parkdale and probably didn’t even know it. The Hood River area is gorgeous! If you ever get a chance, head to Hood River for the day during the summer, I promise you you won’t be disappointed.

Grew up and still live in the Bay Area.

Been a Blazers fan since i was about 7-8ish…which happens to be during the 2000 WCF (NOT Game 7. But I did cry during Game 7). After Jordan retired, my young self started to search for a new team. In the WCF, Blazers were beating the Lakers and I hated the Lakers when I was little, so I just stuck with the team ever since.

So here’s the question: Where do you live? How did you end up there? School? Work? Family? Following your heart? What do you love (or hate) about your part of the world? Got any pictures?

We live in Hillsboro OR now. When we came to the US,we lived in Boring Oregon for a while. We moved to San Diego for a few years and then ended up moving back to Oregon.

For me, I love Oregon for the different seasons we have. I’ve always been an Autumn guy. San Diego was great,but it didn’t change too much throughout the year.

I am from Denmark and live in Denmark. I don’t remember how I ended up here, but I were making lots of blazers videos on youtube and decided to post one here. I am 19 years old and graduates this summer at the business school/highschool.

I’m a native Oregonian (fifth generation on one side, third on the other), but left to take a job in Vermont back in 2000. Oregon will always be home—all of my family is in Portland and I try to get back each summer—but I’m kind of enjoying life in a little village (about 700 people) just up the road from “town” (about 3,000 people).

Grew up in Corvallis. Left the rain 15 years ago, now settled in the Valley of the Sun. Miss the Green of Oregon, and the intelligent, friendly people. See ya this summer. Go Blazers!!

Live in Oregon City now. Hence the OC in my name (NOT Orange County. Yuck!).

Pictured: Palo Alto Baylands Park

grand parents and uncles got me into the blazers, moved to bay area when i was five, grew up there until i moved to chico ca for college. currently living the broke life of a college student.

Been a fan of the Blazers since I was a kid and have been in Alaska for just over a year now. Moved here for a great job, and in the short time I’ve been here I’ve been able to experience an incredible amount of Alaska, including snowshoeing at the North Slope in -72 degree weather on the first sunrise of the year, driving the Dalton in winter, seeing a wolf kill, running into a grizzly in southwestern Alaska and tons of helicopter rides.

Alaska is a beautiful place, with a very different way of life compared to Outside (Lower 48), and the people are pretty darn great. I miss friends, family, the rain, the greenery and the neighborhood feel that Portland has, and I wish there were more Blazer fans around, but I am loving it here. Alaska is definently a place for adventure, and I get paid for it!

I’ve got some incredible pictures of Alaska, but I’m not sure how to add them.

I look forward to the day I touch down in Rip City.

I would be impressed if anyone has heard of it! It’s right smack in the middle of Portland and Seattle. When I was really young I played a lot of baseball and of course idolized Griffey, but as I got older, around 12 or so, I realized that baseball was boring and started playing basketball. I remember really liking the Blazer pinwheel and uniforms, plus Sabonis was just awesome to watch.

I have since lived in Olympia, WA for college and while in college lived in Ireland for 6 months while studying abroad. After graduating college I moved to Portland on a whim with a few hundred dollars and no job. Oh man the summer of 2009 was such a blast in Portland!! With Animal Collective’s “summertime clothes” being our battle song. After living in Portland for 18 months I ended up moving north to Seattle. I do miss the electricity Portland has during Blazers games. Basketball is so dead up here in Seattle.

‘91/’92 was the beginning of my fanhood. Now living in New Haven, CT, which I wouldn’t recommend to anyone, and moving to LA in September (a marked improvement, despite the Lakers)

But raised in Oregon, and mostly Portland, after moving around a bunch growing up.

I became a Blazer fan during the Drexler years, just before the first Finals run. I prolly woulda’ counted as a bandwagoneer, but I was like 8 or 9. Get off my CASE.

I can empathize with the Euro fans we got, because I lived in Hamburg the year we won 21 games and I’d stay up or get up at 4am to listen to us get slaughtered night in and night out. I remember one stretch where we lost by 30+ 3 games in a row, and even Wheeler was wondering if anyone is still listening. I didn’t really know why I was.

Now, I live in evil Los Angeles, and normally I still watch every single game of the 82 game season, but this season I’ve been too busy and only caught maybe 8 or so :-( I have a beard now though, so I feel more Portlandy than ever.

Mortimer

But grew up in the 503: Gresham, SW PDX, then Canby. Moved East, settled Midwest, don’t get back much but I love and miss the Northwest where all my friends and family still live. In 1991 I confused everyone in a Greenwich Village pub with my country song “The Ballad of the Portland Trail Blazers” — “I feel bitter, I feel hate / The Blazers lost to Golden State” etc.

but grew up in Tacoma & Seattle (and one year in Fairbanks). To Colorado for college, back to Seattle to teach, marry & start our family, moved to Portland area (before most of you were born) because my husband was transferred here. We thought we’d be here 3 years at the most but he changed jobs and we’re both still here (tho not together.) :-)

i was born in Okinawa – a small island south of Japan.

my father is from Pennsylvania but he only roots for the teams from Pittsburgh, so i didn’t really have a home team. i lived in Virginia for… a lot longer than i would’ve liked. it never occurred to me to root for the Bullets/Wizards.

i went through a very brief Chicago Bulls phase when i was nine or ten. believe it or not, Scottie Pippen was my favorite player on the team. then i became a fan of Shawn Kemp and the Supersonics. i suspect this was because of NBA Jam.

my earliest memory of the Blazers is not liking Clyde Drexler because of his hair.

for some reason i stopped following basketball around ‘96. i got back into basketball in 2001, when i met this amazing girl from Portland. i’ve been a Blazers fan ever since. (i did, however, go through a mourning period after we traded Sheed.)
 
i’ve lived in California for the last six years. so far, i’ve been pretty good at resisting the urge to start fights with people wearing Kobe jerseys.

I was born and raised in Salem but moved to Korea 10 years ago. The first few years were tough since streaming wasn’t like it is now. I actually had my parents send me VHS tapes of big games and even things like Clyde’s big ceremony a few years back. Luckily it is infinitely easier to follow the games online now…However, due to the time difference, work can get in the way at times. I have my ways around that, though.

I am really looking forward to the game on Saturday (Sunday in Korea). I may even crack open a couple of beers – even if it is 9 or so in the morning. Hey, if you can’t have a couple of beers during the playoffs, when can you!?

There haven’t been many (good) playoff moments to miss since I’ve been in Korea, but I do remember watching some of the Blazers/Mavs series in a bar in Seoul. Well, at least some of that was good. I am hoping for a different result this time around, however. The Blazers are certainly due!

I’m finally moving back to Salem this August, so it’ll be easier to follow the team…
Go Blazers!

Bron in Sydney but have spent majority of my life in Canberra (same home town that Patty is from).

Became a Blazer fan in the mid 90’s when everyone was buying a Jordan singlet I liked the look of this black,red and white one. So I bought a Blazer singlet, was Drexlers and I still have it. Really became a passionate Blazer fan in the 2000 and continue it to this day.

Thank god for the internet is all I can say makes it much easier to follow a team that is in another country, thanks for site’s like Blazersedge.

I do get to watch some games on TV here in Oz occasionally we get about 6 game a week here, generally the TNT thursday night games and the ESPN on Wednesday and Friday night, but thankfully the game 3 of the Blazers v Dallas game was on shown on TV here today.

I certainly hope to make it to a Blazer game one day, hopefully in the not to distant future.

Also great to see so many Blazer fans for all over the world.

GO BLAZERS….

Following a team in another country/time zone entirely.. now that’s dedication!

Both my parents are from WA and I was born in Arcata, CA. I went to 5th, 6th, and 7th grades in St. Helens, though.

I grew up in rural Benton county, about 30 miles from Corvallis. Now I live behind a crack hotel in North Portland.

My first Blazer memory is the Game 5 Finals loss to Detroit in 1990, made more painful because my best friend was named Isaiah so the Pistons were his favorite team (even though he had one more “a” than Isiah Thomas).

Despite the crack hotel, I love the North Portland. Despite the introduction, I love the Blazers. I’m not best friends with Isaiah anymore though.

…I must like small towns.

Was 9 when Portland won it all. An NBA Championship for my favorite team AND this little movie called STAR WARS. That was one epic Summer!

Lincoln is a small town about 30 miles NE of Sacramento….so I was delighted to hear that the city may have gotten a one year reprieve on the impending move of the Sacramento Kings to Anaheim.

Now I just hope they pull together some sort of reasonable plan for a new arena before the rumored March 2012 deadline! At least I get one more season of regular Trailblazer fixes at Arco Arena!

amazing world coverage in responses.

Someone pointed out the little green logo at the bottom right of the pages called “sitemeter”. you can look at all sorts of visitor stats, including a world map that shows last 500 visitors.

From WAAAAY down south on I-5 in So.OR

Now I live with my wife and two kids in Cornelius, whose moniker is “Oregon’s Family Town”, which is my favorite thing to say about Cornelius because… there’s not much else to say! We have Comcast, though :-)

Just want to add what a cool thing I think it is that so many from around the world enjoy the Blazers and contribute here. Glad to be a part of this community!

Here are the falls that give the city its name:

I’ve also lived in Lincoln, Nebraska, in Brookings, South Dakota, in Lake Oswego, in various communities in Southern California (most of them around Pasadena), in Las Vegas, Nevada and currently in Wilsonville.

I became a Blazer fan after my family moved to Oregon in 1981 and have rooted for the team ever since – even during 23 years of living outside of Oregon.

I’m a Salem native (Turner, actually) and I’m over here and loving Hangzhou as a healthcare consultant.

I became a Blazer fan because of the Drexler years when I was first learning how to play basketball in elementary school.

I’m so happy to see all the international voices on BEdge.

Thanks for this post Corvid!

Been here my whole life. Been all over Oregon just about too.

I don’t often post here, but I frequent Blazersedge all the time… its great to feel connected to a team without a whole lot of other people to talk to.
Started getting into the Blazers when I was at school, everyone else loved the Bulls because of Jordan and deciding to do something different I chose the Blazers when we met the Bulls in the Finals…. haven’t looked back since!

Thanks everyone!

been a blazers fan since the drexler era, never met another blazers fan here though haha, most aussies are bandwagon fans and support celtics/lakers/bulls