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[Greenviller]

Who Am I ...
Name: Patrick
Age: 54
City of Residence: Greenville (since June `06)
Occupation: Regulatory Professional (I know, I know, "What the heck is that?")
College: Evergreen State College, WA (Grad BA 1978)
Born: Ft. Belvoir, VA
Raised: Seattle, WA
Hobbies: Films, Books, Grandkids
Other Cities I've lived in: Seattle, WA; Winlock, WA; Bellevue, WA; Chehalis, WA; Olympia, WA; Los Angeles, CA

Hey There,
I'm living in Greenville and loving it. Quite different from my home town of Seattle, particularly weather-wise. Thank you all for being so welcoming.

[lbs5015]

Hello, I've been a lurker for a few months now and decided to join. I'm a engineer and was transfered here from NY. Our Office is right in the heart of the West End. It used to be an old textile warehouse on the RR tracks. a beautiful building right on main st.

[g-man430]

Welcome to Urbanplanet, lbs5015. That Rocks and Ropes building is very nice looking.

[Skyliner]

lbs5015, on Jan 9 2007, 12:29 PM, said:

Hello, I've been a lurker for a few months now and decided to join. I'm a engineer and was transfered here from NY. Our Office is right in the heart of the West End. It used to be an old textile warehouse on the RR tracks. a beautiful building right on main st.

Welcome, lbs50515!  Great to have you on board, and your contribution is greatly appreciated.

[RestedTraveler]

lbs5015, on Jan 9 2007, 12:29 PM, said:

Hello, I've been a lurker for a few months now and decided to join. I'm a engineer and was transfered here from NY. Our Office is right in the heart of the West End. It used to be an old textile warehouse on the RR tracks. a beautiful building right on main st.

Welcome aboard, lbs5015!  I believe our friend NYTransplant has some photos of your office posted on the forum here somewhere.  I love that old building and the warehouse doors, landscaping along the outside of the building near the tracks.  It's got TONS of character.  

[gsupstate]

Welcome lbs5015!  Great to have you join UP and look forward to your imput!  

[krazeeboi]

lbs5015, on Jan 9 2007, 12:29 PM, said:

Hello, I've been a lurker for a few months now and decided to join. I'm a engineer and was transfered here from NY. Our Office is right in the heart of the West End. It used to be an old textile warehouse on the RR tracks. a beautiful building right on main st.

Welcome to the Planet and to SC!

[Greenville]

Welcome, lbs5015!

[GE Turbine Man]

So this is the new member thread I was referred to... oops.
Anyway, this seems like a good format:

Who Am I ...
Name: Jason
Age: 27
City of Residence: Taylors (since NOV `05, moving to Pendleton West in July)
Occupation: Design Engineer (Nerd)
College: North Carolina State
Raised: Raleigh, NC
Hobbies: Golf, Cars, sailing, hiking, etc...
Other Cities I've lived in: Raleigh, NC, Florence, SC, Copenhagen, DK, Pawley's Island, SC.

[puskunk]

I've been reading this forum for a while, but never was compelled to join until I saw that some of my Flickr contacts posted here.  I'm a 33yr old guy with a 2 yr old son, married to a fellow Greenville native.  I've lived all around the Upstate (sugar tit, pelham rd, pelzer) and currently live in Mauldin.  I'm an average photographer, doing the best I can with crappy equipment.  I care about the direction my city and county are going in, but really don't fit the mold of average Greenville native.  I hate talking about myself (and yet I have a blog. How ironic is that?) so any questions, feel free to ask me.

[Greenville]

puskunk, on Jan 29 2007, 07:33 PM, said:

I've been reading this forum for a while, but never was compelled to join until I saw that some of my Flickr contacts posted here.  I'm a 33yr old guy with a 2 yr old son, married to a fellow Greenville native.  I've lived all around the Upstate (sugar tit, pelham rd, pelzer) and currently live in Mauldin.  I'm an average photographer, doing the best I can with crappy equipment.  I care about the direction my city and county are going in, but really don't fit the mold of average Greenville native.  I hate talking about myself (and yet I have a blog. How ironic is that?) so any questions, feel free to ask me.

After reading your intro, I am curious as to how you characterize the average Greenville native...

[maninthepark]

puskunk, on Jan 29 2007, 07:33 PM, said:

I've been reading this forum for a while, but never was compelled to join until I saw that some of my Flickr contacts posted here.  I'm a 33yr old guy with a 2 yr old son, married to a fellow Greenville native.  I've lived all around the Upstate (sugar tit, pelham rd, pelzer) and currently live in Mauldin.  I'm an average photographer, doing the best I can with crappy equipment.  I care about the direction my city and county are going in, but really don't fit the mold of average Greenville native.  I hate talking about myself (and yet I have a blog. How ironic is that?) so any questions, feel free to ask me.

     Puskunk  I can empathy with the crappy equipment thing, and you know,I have
a whole team of Doctors that will testify that I'm not an average anything.


    Welcome to U.P.!

Edited by maninthepark, 29 January 2007 - 08:35 PM.

[puskunk]

Greenville, on Jan 29 2007, 08:48 PM, said:

After reading your intro, I am curious as to how you characterize the average Greenville native...

Well, not too delve too deeply into it here, I'm not college educated, and there are other ways I'm not in the norm I'd rather not get into on here.

[connysmom]

Another newbie here...

Name: Susan
Age: never ask a lady her age!  but let's just say this mommy of a 1 and 3 year old has been called a grandmother TWICE since I moved here.  UGH!
City of Residence:  Greer (Greenville County)
Occupation: Full-time Mommy!
College:  University of Maryland, College Park (BA), University of Maryland, University College (MS)
High School:  In Maryland
Born:  Washington, DC
Hobbies: Photography, basic web design, refinishing furniture, playing with my boys, and visiting the fun sites around Greenville.
Other Cities I've lived in: Potomac, MD; Vienna, VA; Rockville, MD; Alexandria, VA.

We moved here from the DC area in September 2005 due to my husband's job transfer.  We LOVE it!  Favorite place is our awesome zoo!  My younger son was born the day of the December 2005 ice storm.  We'll always remember that!

[gsupstate]

Welcome to UP connysmom!    

[RestedTraveler]

Don't worry. PU - I don't think many of us are normal.  

Welcome aboard, connysmom!!  There are few places I'd rather live than Greenville, but NoVa is one of them, if it weren't so darned expensive up there.  I think you and your husband and kids made a wise choice in coming here.  

[puskunk]

Welcome connysmom!  Good to have you here.

Edited by puskunk, 01 February 2007 - 05:19 PM.

[maninthepark]

Welcome connysmom, pleases chime in any time!

[wkemp21]

Hello to all, I've been looking for a forum for Greenville for a few months glad I finally found it. Currently living in St.Louis, MO. home of the World Champ Cardinals, my family and I will be relocating to Greenville soon, her family live in Greenville and Mauldin so I am quite familiar with the area. So hopefully in the next month or so(once our home sells or I find employment) we will be making Greenville our new home. So just saying hi and look forward to some interesting chats.

[puskunk]

wkemp21, on Feb 15 2007, 10:46 AM, said:

Hello to all, I've been looking for a forum for Greenville for a few months glad I finally found it. Currently living in St.Louis, MO. home of the World Champ Cardinals, my family and I will be relocating to Greenville soon, her family live in Greenville and Mauldin so I am quite familiar with the area. So hopefully in the next month or so(once our home sells or I find employment) we will be making Greenville our new home. So just saying hi and look forward to some interesting chats.

Welcome to UP, wkemp21.  I'm a fellow newbie, and I live in Mauldin myself.