# Do you live in the same state you were born in?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 14, 2000, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-the-same-state-you-were-born-in/45492 "2000-12-14T04:40:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-live-in-the-same-state-you-were-born-in/45492/61 "2000-12-15T20:56:24Z")

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Born in Norwood, Massachusetts - guess that makes me a Chowderhead by birth.

Thankfully, my parents moved back to New York City when I was 2. I spent most of my life there (Queens, specifically).

Five years ago, I moved here to (gulp) Alabama. _Ala-freakin’-bama!_ Right outside of Huntsville. Actually, it’s nice here, lots of hi-tech companies, NASA, and a military base, so native Alabamians might even be a minority. There’s no way I could live anywhere else in Alabama, though, except maybe Birmingham.

As much as I like it here, I will try my best to retire and die in upstate NY somewhere. Near Cooperstown sure would be nice. If I get whacked down here, Mrs Wolf is to have me baked and then scatter me to the winds of the Catskill Mountains. Such pleasant talk for a Friday 😛

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