# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/81 "2011-08-02T21:18:20Z")
I’m honestly surprised that so many people have stayed put. My IRL social circle is apparently pretty transient. Anyway, my list of states/countries goes: KY-MO-IL-Singapore-DC-MD. I hope we’ll stay here until the kids finish high school, but all bets are off in 2025. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/82 "2011-08-02T23:42:19Z")
Born and raised in VT (not born in the town I grew up in, though…that town has no hospital.) When I was (nearly) 18, left for college. Was in college in NY for close to four straight years. After college, I got a job in NY, and stayed there for two years. So not counting the summer after freshman year when I moved back home, I was on NY for six years. I moved back to VT in 2006 and I’ve been here since. I live and work (when I’m not traveling for work,) in the town I was born in, which is ~30 miles from the town I grew up in. When I work in town, it’s in the same hospital I was born in…and my mom still works at, actually. I wonder how many people (outside of family businesses) work in the same building as one of their parents? The amusing thing is I can still go weeks without seeing her (it’s a big hospital, and my department, which funnily enough goes to almost every other department, doesn’t go to her’s…plus all my travel.) I’m pretty much sick of it by now…I want to go someplace without winter, but I have a few more years here at least, unless I want to be a major asshole to my employer. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/83 "2011-08-03T04:21:53Z")
Born in Cleveland, lived briefly in one suburb, most of my life in another suburb. Moved from Ohio to Indiana ten years ago. Attended college in Virginia, but never a legal resident of the commonwealth. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/84 "2011-08-03T15:21:50Z")
I answered no, but that’s because I live very close to another state. The house I was born/grew up in is still only a 35-40 minute drive from me. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/85 "2011-08-03T15:31:16Z")
Nope, I haven’t lived in Iowa since I was seven. It was a stroke of luck, as the company my father worked for lost its contract with NASA and laid off about 90% of its work force. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/86 "2011-08-03T15:45:44Z")
After a lot of bouncing around the country, I’m back in New York, the state of my birth, about three hours away from my hometown. How many states? Including special semester-long programs in college - eight. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/87 "2011-08-03T19:19:05Z")
I have never lived in the state I was born in since I was born at an Army base and neither of my parents had ever lived there or had any reason to be there other than that was where the Army sent my dad. Further, I no longer live in the state I grew up in having left shortly after finishing high school. My parents don’t live there anymore either. I have lived in four states, the most recent for the last two years. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/88 "2011-08-03T20:15:53Z")
my life in moving: illinois (born), indiana, new jersey, illinois, new jersey, indiana, indiana indiana, indiana (today). dad worked for nabisco. they move their people A LOT. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/89 "2011-08-03T20:46:32Z")
I just realized I never really answered my own question. I was born in Arizona, lived two separate times (once for a year, once for six months) with my dad in Florida. Since turning 18 I’ve lived in Virginia (DC suburbs), Georgia (Atlanta suburbs), Ohio (Cleveland suburbs), and now I live in Massachusetts (Boston suburbs) ---
**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:** [August 4, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/90 "2011-08-04T03:47:32Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > 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. Ah, and as for the wife, yes, she’s a Bangkok girl born and bred. She did go to grad school in Hawaii for 2-1/2 years, and we did live outside Bangkok in the suburbs for a spell, in Nonthaburi province, but now she and we are back in the city of her birth and have been for years. ---
**Author:** ![VitrolicBump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@VitrolicBump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VitrolicBump)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676/91 "2011-08-04T04:33:03Z")
AZ born and bred, then moved to Del Mar, CA for a year, moved back and now I’m happy. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-live-in-the-state-you-were-born-in/590676.md?page=4)