The 5 O’Clock Club: The Hogs Haven 2024 Census

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We’ve almost reached the end of our journey through the desert of the offseason; the start of training camp is just days away. We haven’t quite reached the refreshing waters of “real” football news, though, so I thought we’d help bridge the remaining brief gap by doing something a little different today. For the site’s first-ever Hogs Haven Census, we want to hear where in the world you live.

All you have to do is leave your location information in the comments. We do not search for your address or any personal information. Just the country or state is enough. You can also specify the city if you want to tell us.

I’ll start (we don’t expect you to provide a comprehensive biographical sketch like I did, but you’re welcome to give us as many or as few details as you like):

As my username says, I live in Bangkok, ThailandA quick Google search tells me I’m 8,789 miles from Washington DC. Amazingly, that doesn’t make me the Hogs Haven member who lives the farthest from Ashburn. In fact, I’m not even the farthest writer on the site. That distinction goes, I’m sure, to MattinBrisVegas, who, since he lives in Brisbane, Australia, is 9,475 miles from the home of our beloved burgundy and gold, if Google is to be believed. I can say, however, that I once beat Matt, since I lived in Sydney, Australia for 11 years, which Google says is 9,756 miles from the Capitol. Of course, Google also suggests that a person can fly from Sydney to DC in under 18 hours. With connecting flights, I never made the trip in under a day, but since I crossed the International Date Line, I usually arrived in the U.S. before leaving Australia.

I grew up in the United States, but I wasn’t born there. My father was in the US Navy, and in the post-war period of the mid-20th century, before modern air travel, an overseas assignment meant that the whole family moved abroad together. For my family, that meant living in Morocco (North Africa) from 1958 to 1963. I was born in 1960 on the coast of the Eastern Atlantic, about 180 miles south of the Rock of Gibraltar and about a day’s drive from the western edge of the Great Sahara.

I first came to the United States around my third birthday. My family lived in Newport, Rhode Island for a year or two before returning to Norfolk, Virginia, where my father had previously been stationed. I lived in Virginia for nearly 30 years—Norfolk as a child, Richmond during college (VCU) and several years afterward, and various places in Northern Virginia (Fairfax, Alexandria, Crystal City, Manassas) during many of my professional years—before boarding a plane to move to Australia in 1994. I am now 64 years old and newly retired after working as a teacher in Thailand for two decades, the last 14 of those years at the country’s premier tertiary education institution, Chulalongkorn University.

Now it’s your turn! Scroll down to the comments and let us know where in the world you are, as if you Carmen Sandiego.

Below is a list of all 50 states and US territories. I’ll bold the states our readers reside in as responses come in. I’ll also update this post with any international locations our readers share, though I’ve already started this part with entries for Australia and Thailand (and I’ve bolded some US states for other members of HH I know). As mentioned above, feel free to share interesting tidbits about your home or related topics in the comments – we all love interesting facts and stories!

United States

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

new York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Washington, DC

Puerto Rico

US Virgin Islands

American Samoa

Northern Mariana Islands

Micronesia

Guam

Marshall Islands

Republic of Palau

International

Australia

Thailand