# Do you still live in the state you were born in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676 "2011-07-28T23:09:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/21 "2011-07-29T03:00:55Z")
Sometimes it feels like the joke is on me but I’ve always lived in MN. When I applied for jobs elsewhere, I’d be offered one here. When I take a job here, they put me on a plane to spend my weekdays elsewhere but this is still home base. My parents moved away for 17 years, but they came back to still find me here. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/22 "2011-07-29T03:14:34Z")
I’ve lived all over the country, but I always seem to be drawn back to the beauty of the pacific northwest. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/23 "2011-07-29T03:52:51Z")
I was born in Milwaukee Wisconsin, and am now in Raleigh, N.C. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/24 "2011-07-29T04:01:59Z")
I was raised largely in Texas but not born there. We moved away from the state where I was born when I was 2 years old. First to Arkansas, then finally to Texas at age 5. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/25 "2011-07-29T04:02:16Z")
I’m a born and bred Hoosier. I’ve moved to an adjacent county. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/26 "2011-07-29T04:17:38Z")
Left my home state at 21 and haven’t lived there since. I’ve lived in 2 other states since then, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/27 "2011-07-29T04:21:01Z")
I have always lived in Northern California. First in the Bay Area, now in Sacramento. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/28 "2011-07-29T04:30:50Z")
In Spain there’s separate two legal concepts for “address”: residencia (where you’re most likely to sleep) and domicilio (your permanent address). Currently my residencia is in a different province, although at least it’s in Spain (which hasn’t always been the case), but my domicilio is in the same province where I was born and grew up. I chose the second option. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/29 "2011-07-29T04:42:51Z")
I was born in the state in which I currently reside, but only recently returned after 40 years in Anchorage. ---
**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/30 "2011-07-29T04:59:05Z")
Born in hospital in State A but parents live in State B. Lived in State B until recently, now in State C. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/31 "2011-07-29T05:00:14Z")
I’ve always lived in Quebec (except for two stretches of a few months in Italy) but I’m actually born in Ontario. So the way the question is phrased, I have to answer no. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/32 "2011-07-29T05:00:52Z")
I still live in the same town where I was born. Never wanted to live anywhere else. Since the hospital that I was born in is now a care center for the elderly it is entirely possible that I may one day die in the same building, or even the same room, that I was born in. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/33 "2011-07-29T05:09:13Z")
MI–\>IL–\>MI. We were like fish swimming upstream a couple years ago when we moved back to the state of my birth. They practically paid us to drive a U-Haul \*into \*Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/34 "2011-07-29T05:26:53Z")
No. Lived the first 54 years in San Diego, the next 6 in Idaho. . ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/35 "2011-07-29T06:45:43Z")
Born in Los Angeles, but my parents moved east to the DC area when I was 4. I grew up in Virginia, not California. I could move back to Virginia in a meaningful sense, but the idea of moving ‘back’ to California is nonsense when my memories of living there are so dim, and my connections so weak. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/36 "2011-07-29T07:11:51Z")
I was born in Scotland, but we moved when I was 10 months old, first to Canada, then, when I was three, to Arkansas, where I lived until I graduated college. Then I spent a year in Colorado and three years in DC/Maryland, before putting my back out at the gym while visiting my Mom in Arkansas. I ended up staying for about a year, at the end of which I chose leaving as a desperate alternative to suicide. Hitchhiked to Colorado and spent several years there before moving to California a few months ago. I wouldn’t move back to Arkansas unless I had no choice, and if I knew I would have to live in the small town my Mom lives in I wouldn’t wait a year; I’d get out as soon as I could dead or alive. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/37 "2011-07-29T07:12:58Z")
I live about 150 miles from the city I was born in. Same state, never lived in another. I’m boring. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/38 "2011-07-29T10:15:17Z")
No. From East TN, moved to the Gulf of the Mexico. Georgous emerald green water. Sugar/snow-colored beaches that I really like. But I feel like the girl in Heidi…all I wanna do is get back home… ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/39 "2011-07-29T10:23:27Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > I still live in the same town where I was born. Never wanted to live anywhere else. > > Since the hospital that I was born in is now a care center for the elderly it is entirely possible that I may one day die in the same building, or even the same room, that I was born in. Wow, I envy you. Don’t get me wrong, traveling is great. But home is…home. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/40 "2011-07-29T10:51:29Z")
Have always lived in NSW. Been a couple of stints of 1-2 months in Melbourne (shhh, don’t tell kambuckta) but never needed to change my postal address. Mind you, the distance between where I was born and where I was brought up is almost two thousand kms and I now live roughly equidistant [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676.md?page=3)