I was born in Dallas, but only spent about 6 years of my life there. I do feel a little bit of affinity towards it, and support the Cowboys and Rangers as a result, but otherwise don’t feel too much tie to it.
How much affinity is there for you and your region of birth?
Very little. I was actually born in Edinburgh but left when I was 18 months old. Neither of my parents are Scottish (and they didn’t stay there that long, just for my Dad’s masters degree). So I don’t consider myself “from” there or Scottish in any meaningful sense.
Random aside I never imagined for a moment that would effect my citizenship status in anyway, but if Scotland leave the UK and rejoin the EU, I would be very tempted to get a Scottish passport.
None. My parents moved when I was a year old.
Absolutely none. Grew up in a town of about 5k, was the social outcast throughout my school years, now that I have no relatives living there I’ll be totally happy to never set foot there again.
None at all. My parents moved within a month after I was born. We moved seven more times before I was sixteen years old.
Tons, but I’m from San Diego. I feel more for the city than the state, and more for the state than the country.
None. We moved when I was a year old. I feel no love for Virginia in general as I remember it as full of quiet and polite prejudice.
True for me as well.
I have zero affinity for the place of my birth (a town outside L.A.) on the basis of it being where I was born; my family moved when I was four and I bear only fragmentary impressions of memory. However, I visited a long while later as an adult for unrelated coincidental reasons, and it’s a total armpit, so I have a negative opinion of it in the end.
I was born at the original Scripps Hospital in La Jolla. I don’t have much affinity for the town itself but La Jolla Shores beach and Torrey Pines State Park are a couple of my favorite places. I go down to the San Diego area at least once a year and spending time at those two spots is always on the agenda.
Absolutely I have an affinity. I’m a proud Chicagoan.
Fairly strong. I personally haven’t lived there for forty years now but my family is still in the area and I visit fairly often.
City of birth - not a bit
City of my childhood - active contempt
13+ - love the entire area, since I’ve lived in several communities in the general area since I moved back from Alaska
I have a strong affinity for San Francisco, even though I only lived there for a week. Both my parents were raised there, and my older brother lived there for two years before I was born. We ended up moving 50 miles south after I came into the world. So while I never actually lived in SF, I visited it often since both grandparents lived there. I was a teenager during the Haight-Ashbury period in the late 60s. Good times.
Born in Madrid, spent the fist 17 years there. Zero affinity. Berlin is the city for me, and I chose that. The only feeling I have for Madrid is contempt for its football club.
Granted, Berlin’s football clubs are crap as well, but for other reasons.
I’ll always be an Islander.
Same here.
Was born in Belgrade, Serbia/Jugoslavia. My family emigrated to Canada when I was not yet a year and a half. So no memories of my birth town. I have never been there to visit and while I would be happy to check it out one day, there are a lot of other places that I would be more keen on seeing.
I spent my whole childhood in the same town/house (Putnam County, NY) and my dad ran the same small business (Millwood, NY) until I was about 30. I find myself very linked to the area, to the point where I get a warm feeling whenever Archie Goodwin takes a drive up the Taconic Parkway while investigating for Nero Wolfe.
Now, I do feel strong affinity to the city I lived in while I was a teenager. But that’s not where I was born.
Quite a lot, because I lived there for most of my life. There’s the village I grew up in, and then the nearby “home town” I moved to in my 20s. I left at 30, but they still matter a lot to me. Also my family still all live there.