Spouse, no. Wisconsin vs. California, no travelling.
SO, however, grew up in Oakland and went on field trips to the same museums, beaches, parks et al. that I went to, so we may have been in the same place at the same time.
Nope. He was south side Chicago, and I was northern suburbs, and never the twain shall meet.
Anything’s possible, but it’s extremely unlikely. My wife and I are almosty exactly the same age, but we grew up 2,000 miles apart.
My girlfriend and I grew up in the same area, but didn’t meet until right after high school. At one point, we figured out that we both went on a camping trip, some youth function for a church, when we were nine years old. We were both guests of church members on that trip, we didn’t go to that church ourselves.
If we ever actually spoke to each other while on that trip, I have no idea.
Nope. I was born and raised in Cleveland, my wife was born in Hong Kong and raised in Windsor/Toronto. If it wasn’t for the internet I doubt we’d have ever crossed paths.
No, my spouse and I had no connections so far as we could tell before meeting in a city hundreds of miles from where either of us grew up. We grew up and went to colleges 400 miles apart and didn’t have any common vacation destinations or anything like that growing up.
However, after we were married we attended the wedding of her college roommate and I was surprised to meet people I knew well from my home town at that wedding. It turns out her college roommate lived around the block from me growing up.
Highly doubtful. SWMBO was born and raised in New Orleans, I was born and raised in Houston. I never went to NO until after she and I started seeing each other, and during the time when her family made visits to Houston, I was living in Austin.
Yes!
Funny story.
My father was going to college in Madison in the early 70’s. One of his classmates hired a babysitter so a group of them could go out for the night. One of the other classmates invited an outsider (his cousin) to go along. Cousin brings his toddler daughter along since the babysitter was already arranged for. Turns out that toddler became my future 1st wife. That was the only time we would see each other until we met on the job in Milwaukee many years later. We figured this out years after we were married when the in-laws got together one night and were reminiscing about the old days.
We probably crossed paths many times. He grew up in a town about 7 miles away, and his father worked for the same company mine did, albeit in a much different capacity. So we patronized many of the same stores, movie theaters, the only mall, etc.
There were four years when I know we were in precisely the same place at the same time. He played varsity high school basketball all four years, and I was in the Pep Band and thus required to attend every home varsity basketball game. Although we didn’t attend the same high school, his school regularly played mine at least once at home every basketball season. This was also the case with him playing varsity HS football (at least 3 of his four years, I think) and me playing in the marching band. So there we were, rooting against each other, so to speak. 
Yes. My parents and my wife’s parents both frequented the same movie theater and both liked to attend matinees on the weekend. As kids, my wife and I saw many of the same movies in the theater, so it’s likely that I was in the theater with my parents at the same time she was in the theater with hers.
Nope. Separated by an entire continent and she never traveled west until she met me.
Nope, I’m from Spain and my exes are a Brit born in Jamaica and an American made in Costa Rica.
One of my great-uncles had met the sister of one of his classmates a few times, both while they were in boarding school and later in college, but had never crossed more than a “pleased to meet you” with her until they were both in their 50s. Their marriage lasted almost 40 years, they died within days of each other.
Hmm, possibly. I lived near Columbus Oh and he was near Youngstown. So in theory yes, but in practice the chances were low.
This, more or less.
Possible. She grew up outside of Philadelphia and I grew up in NY. If her parents ever took here to the Worlds Fair in 64-65 we could easily have been close.
My journal from college mentions her before we met. I was very casually dating someone from college over the summer. They were bunkmates at a band camp years before and stayed in touch, and my wife visited her friend over the summer and I heard about it. We met when my wife visited her at college that January.
We could have, but didn’t. We grew up in the same city and he dated a girl from my high school, but a different social circle (drastically different).
One fun tidbit, my older cousin took the bus with him when she went to private school and had a crush on him.
Paul and Jamie Buchman did on an episode of Mad About You - Science Museum field trips, I think.
As for my wife and I, I really doubt it. We had one chance to meet, and we did.
Definitely. We both grew up in Austin. WE went to different high schools in the same district a year apart so I’m positive that we were both at the same football games on multiple occasions. We both went to some of the same clubs. There used to be a big event every summer here called Aqua Festival that we both were probably at at the same time several times.
We never could work out the exact year of his trip, but there is a slight possibility that DH might have come through our local tourist trap at a time when I was working there.
No. We’re from different countries. Her first time in the United States was when she started college. In Boston. And I live in New York.
And I’d only been to where she’s from once, not as a child, and only for a few days, and was never particularly near her home town.