# America is a mobile country, but I think I'm an outlier **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-a-mobile-country-but-i-think-im-an-outlier/662284 "2013-06-30T20:33:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-a-mobile-country-but-i-think-im-an-outlier/662284/1 "2013-06-30T20:33:42Z")
I have lived in: Lexington Park, Maryland Schenectady, New York Jacksonville, Florida Schenectady, New York Norfolk, Virginia Alameda, California Santa Clara, California Mountain View, California Belpasso, Sicily, Italy Williamstown, Massachusetts Leonardtown, Maryland At this point, when I was 14, I left home and spent most of the next six years bumming around the US and Canada. I’m not including the places where I may have lighted for a couple of weeks or a month in that period, except for where I had a library card: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Carrollton, Texas Austin, Texas After I “settled down” about age 20: Lexington Park, Maryland Boulder, Colorado Lanesboro, Massachusetts Pittsfield, Massachusetts Northampton, Massachusetts Alexandria, Virginia Lanesboro, Massachusetts Denver, Colorado Fort Collins, Colorado Bellbrook, Ohio Denver, Colorado Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Bellbrook, Ohio Creve Coeur, Missouri Denver, Colorado Kettering, Ohio And now I’m on my way to Reading, Massachusetts. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-a-mobile-country-but-i-think-im-an-outlier/662284/2 "2013-06-30T20:39:20Z")
Ahhh Kettering. Marion’s Piazza, Mikesell’s potato chips, Fraze Pavilion, Esther Price candies, Air Force Museum, and countless brick ranch homes. You will miss it! ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-a-mobile-country-but-i-think-im-an-outlier/662284/3 "2013-06-30T20:46:33Z")
Quick, someone check for crimes with similar M.O.'s in all those places, this guy keeps skipping town for a reason! (Though, it seems he almost always returns to the scene of the crime.) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-a-mobile-country-but-i-think-im-an-outlier/662284/4 "2013-06-30T20:49:42Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Ahhh Kettering. Marion’s Piazza, Mikesell’s potato chips, Fraze Pavilion, Esther Price candies, Air Force Museum, and countless brick ranch homes. You will miss it! Actually, I don’t care for Marion’s too much. I’m definitely not a natural Ohioan; square cut pizza is just weird. 🙂 I will miss Dorothy Lane Market. It’s hard to find grocery stores that are just the right mix between actual usable groceries and arcane and mysterious foodstuffs. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/america-is-a-mobile-country-but-i-think-im-an-outlier/662284/5 "2013-06-30T20:51:03Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > (Though, it seems he almost always returns to the scene of the crime.) That’s to ensure that the clock on the statute of limitations keeps running. (Oops, I’ve said too much.)