and why?
Turkey.
Happenstance.
Flaneuring through the rue one day, in the rainy rainy month of May. What a life.
Saint Clairsville, Ohio.
With exception to one year that I lived in Kansas City, Missouri, I’ve pretty much lived within twenty miles of my present location my whole life.
I’m from ignorance.
Why?
'Cause I’m slow, I guess.
great picture Jonquil!
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I was born in Zambia. It’s where my mother was at the time, and I wanted to be close to her.
I’m a Brit living in Holland, otherwise.
I’m from St. Paul, Minnesota and currently work in St. Paul, Minnesota. For all but two years of my life I have lived in Minnesota.
My family is [size=200]very[/size] creative as we name our children after ourselves (I am a third copy); and we all do the same job (I am a 4th copy).
Why? Because I am a failure.
I’m from ‘London, England’ Baby, but my parentage is Caribbean 
I live in a very trendy part of town… think Greenwich Village, but the London version.
I’ve lived in the same locale since I was born, so I go off to sporting regattas in the countryside and foreign vacations whenever I get the chance 
Originally, I’m from a little ball of energy and space that went [size=200]CABOOM!![/size]
Afterwards, a tiny little particle which is me, fell together with a bunch of other tiny little particles, that created a beautiful place and that place created a very slimy pool called the primordial or primal pool. Slimy little me crawled out of that.
Why: Who knows…perhaps just sheer randomness…and a strong instinct to replicate and survive 
Eventually, that little organism landed up in Pa. and then the garden state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscrea
Because.
btw, if anyone says, ‘‘It’s a long way to Tipperary’’, I’ll wretch.
I’m from Albania, currently living in Michigan for a few more months. Why? I’m poor.
Here’s the pot…'it’s a long way to Tipperary 
Oran,
I was relieved to see that there was a McDonalds and a badminton club. I was a little disappointed to not see any reference to the local pubs. I mean, are you people teetotalers there? Other that meat processing and pharmaceuticals, what do you do there?
Wikipedia has left out a lot, I guess.
Not glossing over the, unfortunately, applicable stereotype, every 1 of 2.5/3 small businesses is a pub in the town/area with a, conservative, approx. total of 30 pubs, excluding off-licences. Though most people go to the clubs in bigger towns.
Similar to the rest of the world, all there really is to do is drink, but I, myself, am, as you put it, teetotal.
There are cinemas, and theatres and all that stuff about twenty mins away in nearby towns. We have a Leisure Centre which means: Gym, Swimming Pool, Sauna and the like, as well as lot’s of amateur sports clubs, in soccer, hurling, gaelic football, boxing, handball, golf, rugby, tennis, etc. We’re not barbarians.
It’s a fully functioning town, in one of the most desirable(on all accounts) countries in the world to live. It’s in a very picturesque area of very picturesque country. I’ll post a picture of the town from the graveyard on the hill some time in the future, it has the best view.
I’m sure you had images of tumbleweeds and stray dogs inhabiting empty streets with crumbling fascades, but alas it isn’t so.
Though I’m originally from Dallas and now live in Austin, my ancestors came to America from Ireland, County Limerick. So I suppose I should live up to my heritage with a limerick or two.
So shy was the lad from Killeen
That he liked to play pranks quite unseen.
He’d pull lasses’ hair,
Then run to his lair
And laugh till his face turned bright green!
On St. Elsewhere, Fr. McCabe (played marvelously by Edward Herrmann) came out with this one, bless his Irish heart.
There once was a girl from Nantucket
Whose goose every man tried to pluck it.
It’s thighs were so thick,
It’s feet were so quick,
If it only sat down you could …
[[You can fill in the rest.]]
Actually, that sound more like where I live. I live in a desert are of southwest Idaho that is only green through a complicated system of reservoirs and canals. If we don’t pee on it, it dies.