I live in the small town I was born in…but I did move around a bit. But when I was ready to settle down…I came back. My wanderlust so to speak. They say…“You always go home”…
Did you?
Yep, I came home… more or less. Lived all over RI and MA for a few years, moved to CA for 8 months, then came back home.
See sig. It fits.
In fact, I do.
I was born here (Flint, MI), but never raised here. I moved here ten years ago.
Don’t ask me why I moved here. It’s a long, pathetic story. But I do have plenty of family here. And I’ve made a lot of friends here, too. I don’t see myself leaving for quite a while.
Yep. Born in St. Louis City, raised in North County. After traveling for 4 years in the Air Force, I came back. After brief stays in South County and West county, I moved back to North County again, about 5 miles from my parents’ house and right behind my old high school.
I do. Born in Topeka, Kansas and lived here for all but six years of my life. Spent three years in the Army and three years in East Lansing Michigan, otherwise it’s been all Topeka.
Sort of.
Born on the south side of Chicago. My family moved to the south suburbs when I was about 10. I moved to the southwest suburbs after college, and I now live in the northwest suburbs. Does that count?
Nope, not even close. And besides the rare of late Byzantine from this board, I don’t even know anyone in Salt Lake City. Oh wait, isn’t Diane there as well?
Well, if you lump together all the small towns in that area of New York (everybody else does, they all have the same police and fire departments), then yes, my permanent address is the town I was born in. But I’m living in Mississippi, and intend to move around as much as I can afford to once I’m out of school, and I never plan to move back to that godforsaken county.
Ditto. My nearest relative live 300 miles away. I was born over 2000 miles away. My kids would have been 6th generation Californian, but I inherited the wanderlust from my father and so they are native Ohioans. I have lived in many, many towns in six U.S. states, plus three other countries on two other continents. And I doubt that I will ever get back to the small East Bay town where I was born.
Home is where the heart is.
Also, beatle, I have some relatives in Salt Lake City.
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I was born on a orchard in the forest so not technically in a town, but we were a few miles from a small town (few 100). We moved out in 84 so my mom could attend grad school. Then when she did we moved to a medium sized city (c. 400,000 with another 400,000 living in suburbs around it). Where I was born is not that nice a neighborhood now. Lots of druggies took to the forest as a safe haven. And I’ve been here for 15 years so I see little reason to go back.
Nope. Not for 20 years. My parents are 450 miles away.
Man, I hope you don’t always go “home”. I was born in Winston-Salem, NOrth Carolina, which doesn’t seem like a bad place, but I have no memories of ever living there - we moved from there when I was 2. Then there was Corning, New York, which I barely remember - we moved from there when I was 5.
If you mean the town I grew up in, that would be New Orleans, and I’d take a punch to the gut before moving there again.
I guess I’m just not that hung up on geography.
Grew up in Warren, Ohio, and while I’m glad I did, I’m also glad we moved. Lived in Charlotte, NC, for a long while, and while I consider that my hometown, I doubt the family will ever move back. I’m happy where I am now.
Well for right now I live in the same place I was
born(huntington, wv), it’s also my thrid move to this town!! Due to my fathers line of work we moved about once every year and a half while I was going through school. After my senior year though he started his own company and moved back to the town where I was born, and into the house his mother lived in before she passed away. The house has been in the family for almost two-hundred years. They’ve done alot of additional add ons over time, but it’s really nice big rooms with high ceilings. (victorian style brick)
I moved out about a year ago, unfortuintely it’s still in this little hick town, the only thing here for my age
(20-25) is the college and the club scene, due to the fact Marshall University is right down town.
I guess I should say that my hometown is Lexington NC. Not far from Charlotte or Winston Salem.
In the EXACT town? Nope. Never lived more than 50 miles from where I sprouted, though. Don’t want to, either.
Although if you ask me this again in January, I may re-consider. I do every year in January.
I live about as far away from the little shitholes I grew up in as is possible. Go back? Hah! Are you kidding me? And every one of those little shitholes were filled with people who were born and raised there, and that’s a tough circle to break into.
Of course, we live within a stone’s throw of where my wife grew up.
Yeah. Born in Baltimore at the old Union Memorial Hospital, raised in Towson.
Still live in the suburbs of Baltimore, with immediate family within an hour’s drive.
I think I’m here by default, because I really can’t think offhand of anyplace else I want to live right now. I also really like being close to my family, as they provide a lot of entertainment.
Pretty much, I was born in Ft. Worth and now I live in a suburb thereof.
Well, I was born in Santa Rosa Ca, but I have lived in a small town outside it for my whole life. NEvr moved, and I have full intentions of at least staying in the general area for the rest of my life. I love it here.