I have spent most of my life in Chicago, but I currently live in LA. I have also lived in Seattle, Minneapolis and NY.

My social-political "standing"/veiw-point is very similar to the Dali-Lama's ( according to http://www.politicalcompass.org ).

I like to travel and I have good friends all over the world, well at least in India, Japan, Thailand, Germany, the UK.

The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the more I become concerned about Human suffering and the problems facing human society today and in the very near future.