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SAP Community - Where are you from?

lauraschmitz — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:17:12 GMT

SAP Community keeps growing and growing and I am super excited for this Welcome Corner as it gives the chance for not only new members but everyone to get to know one another and connect with each other.

As my colleague @KatherineKenneally gives an overall introduction to the Group and what you can expect from it in her blog post, I’d like to take the opportunity to start a discussion about the different locations represented in our global SAP Community. I am interested to read where you are located and where SAP Community is spread around the world.

I am from Germany and currently living in Wiesbaden, which is the capital of one of the sixteen German states located in the west. After years of studies and living in different places, my hometown has caught me again with its charm and the closeness to friends and family has won me over.

But now I am curious, where are you tuning in from?

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

lenastodal — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 15:35:32 GMT

Welcome everyone!
I am also from Germany, currently living in Mannheim.
I grew up in an ancient, medieval town called Rothenburg o.d.Tbr., which is about 2 hours from Mannheim. I came here for studying at uni and still like it here. Mannheim is quite an industrial city, but I like the multicultural vibe. It has a beautiful baroque palace and one special thing about it is the structure of its inner city, which is build in squares. So one can literally live in M7, 16 (just for instance).

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

TammyPowlas — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:28:31 GMT

Good morning - I am joining you from Fairfax, Virginia, just outside Washington DC. I live just outside the bustling Washington DC beltway. It's super busy, traffic-wise and people-wise here but it is a beautiful area. I am very fortunate to live close to 2 large airports, Washington Dulles and Ronald Reagan airport. I am very fortunate too to walk to work, grocery store, drug store, hair salon - you name it. Very unexpected in such a busy area.

I am originally from Kansas, just outside Kansas City, Missouri, which is well known for its excellent barbecue. Kansas has far less traffic than Northern Virginia, so at times I miss it, and I miss my family who still live in Kansas City.

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TammyPowlas — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:16:18 GMT

Plus now my home town of Kansas City is a FIFA 2026 host city - https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-city-named-as-a-host-city-for-2026-fifa-world-cup/article_f530a90e-edfa-11ec-babc-c3cf8171210e.html - never thought I'd see the day 🙂

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

Constance_K — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:31:00 GMT

Hi all! I´m from Germany too. At the moment I´m living in Heidelberg 😊 @lenastodal & @lauraschmitz Mannheim and Wiesbaden are lovely cities! I really like them both 🙌

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

craigcmehil — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:51:22 GMT

Hard to claim a single place but I did go to High School and College in Florida and I live in Germany 🙂

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

KatherineKenneally — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:54:03 GMT

Welcome to all our new members!
I'm tuning in from Galway, a county in the west of Ireland.
I've lived in every province of Ireland at some point, Ulster, Munster, Leinster and for the longest time here in Connacht. My local village has a wonderful community spirit, a bit like here!! I am within walking distance to shops, restaurants, pubs.

Looking forward to interacting with more members here!

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

matt — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:15:03 GMT

I'm British, from Barnsley in South Yorkshire, in England, which means my native accent is quite distinctive. As I spent many years in the South of England, I can also speak with a Home Counties accent.

20 years ago, my family and I moved to (near) Basel in Switzerland. I tend now to speak Home Counties English as well - so that the none-native-English speakers can understand me! We're currently waiting for the Federal government to process our Swiss citizenship application. All other steps are complete and approved, so maybe, just maybe, by then end of this year I'll be Swiss.

Basel and its surroundings are quite cosmopolitan. There's a wide range of nationalities here - 1 in 5 is a foreigner.

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

sveabecker — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:12:12 GMT

Great to see so many different countries here and welcome from my side as well! 😍
I am also from Germany, living in a small city close to Mannheim. But originally, I am from Bremerhaven, North Germany, but I am in this region already for a long long time 😅 ... if you want to get to know more about me, read my "blog it forward blog post" 😊

Looking forward to welcoming more people in this group!

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

former_member10765 — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:37:45 GMT

Hello everyone,

Iam from Sao Paulo - Brazil, however I am currently living in Lisbon - Portugal.

Bruno Canuto

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

BaerbelWinkler — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:00:53 GMT

Hi Everybody!

I've lived all my life in Baden-Württemberg, the federal state in south-west Germany. I was born in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance (famous for the Zeppelin manufacturing a long time ago), moved to Marbach am Neckar (where Friedrich Schiller was born) in the early 1970s with my parents and have been living in Fellbach just outside Stuttgart since late 1988 with my husband.

Cheers

Bärbel

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former_member27 — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:33:21 GMT

I live in Israel I grew up in the north near the sea moved to the center for the university and nowadays I live in Modiin which is located in the middle between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The city is relatively new and hence constantly evolving and growing constantly expanding what it has to offer culture and services.

The advantage of being in the middle is we are close to the sea on one hand and to the mountains of Jerusalem on the other but not too close....

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

LauraPD — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:53:16 GMT

Hi Everyone!

I am from Germany, the beautiful and small area of Saarland, close to the french/luxembourg border. If you want to explore some nice hiking routes, cross culture food and wine this is not a bad place to go 😉

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bhavinvyas — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:25:23 GMT

Hello Everyone!

I am from Ahmedabad, India. Ahmedabad is commercial capital of Gujarat. It has been formally accorded the status of India’s first World Heritage City by UNESCO. If you want to know more about me, you can visit my blog , https://blogs.sap.com/2020/05/19/blog-it-forward-bhavin-vyas/#

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Ronnie_Vaughn — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:55:59 GMT

Hi Everyone!

I am currently living in Atlanta Georgia USA. I was born in Memphis Tennessee. But have also lived in Poughkeepsie New York, Huntsville Alabama, Rochester Minnesota, and Athens Alabama. My Dad worked for IBM when I was a child. So we moved around a bit. There was a running joke at the time that IBM stood for "I've Been Moved".

I hope to move to Fort Lauderdale Florida when I retire. 😎

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

lenastodal — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:07:14 GMT

Hahaha - that's funny!

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maxstreifeneder — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:14:22 GMT

Hey folks,

I'm Max, raised and born in Oberaudorf, Germany. Currently Living in Munich&Mannheim 🙂

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audreystevenson — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 19:08:15 GMT

I was born in California (in Ridgecrest, by the Mojave Desert) and I grew up in Virginia near Washington DC, but I've lived all over the world (Germany, England, Guam, Palau). I've been back in California since 2001, currently living in Santa Rosa, about an hour north of San Francisco.

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amruta_k — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 06:14:16 GMT

Hi Everyone!

This is Amruta, I am from Mumbai, India.

Re: SAP Community - Where are you from?

sveabecker — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 07:39:46 GMT

Like that too 😆