Bill, the mailing address I had for him is in Hillsboro, Ohio, and the couple of times we did talk on the phone I never got the impression he was from anywhere other than the good ol' US of A.
In David's defense, he DID give me a $200 deposit at the outset, and one of those telephone discussions outlined in depth his expected budget and what could be accomplished with it. As an even more insulting aside, the total was a couple hundred less than he'd allocated.