# Where Were You for Your Decade Years? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 24, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656 "2018-06-24T06:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 24, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/1 "2018-06-24T06:46:31Z")
I turned 10 and 20 in West Texas. 30, 40 and 50 in Greater Bangkok. 60 in Honolulu. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/2 "2018-06-24T06:56:38Z")
I’m a lifer! All here in Hawaii and coming up the big 6 0! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/3 "2018-06-24T06:59:51Z")
Arkansas since jr.high school. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/4 "2018-06-24T07:03:19Z")
10 in the Congo (I arrived a week before I turned 10.) 20 in Cambridge, MA 30, 40 in New Jersey 50, 60 in the Bay Area ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/5 "2018-06-24T07:30:01Z")
10 in Detroit 20 and 30 in Chicago 40 and 50 in Gary, Indiana ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/6 "2018-06-24T09:37:57Z")
10 and 20, in Florida. 30, Afghanistan. 40 will be in Germany, next summer. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/7 "2018-06-24T11:00:46Z")
10 - Parkville, MD 20 - Millington, TN 30 - San Diego, CA 40 - Green Cove Springs, FL 50 - Orange Park, FL 60 - Mechanicsville, MD - and as far as I’m concerned, this is it. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/8 "2018-06-24T11:17:15Z")
10, 20 - Phoenix, AZ 30 - Boise, ID 40, 50, 60 - Phoenix, AZ ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/9 "2018-06-24T12:24:25Z")
All within an hour of my birthplace in NE Wisconsin except for #20 which may have been in the western part of the state. I don’t recall exactly. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/10 "2018-06-24T12:27:25Z")
10 - Bethesda MD 20 - Strafford PA 30 - Cortlandt Manor NY 40 - Cortlandt Manor NY 50 - Cumberland RI 60 - Cumberland RI ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/11 "2018-06-24T12:30:38Z")
10 ------ Alabama 20-70 – Tennessee ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/12 "2018-06-24T12:54:07Z")
10 - Manlius, NY 20 - Cumming, GA 30 - Marietta, GA 40 & 50 - Carrollton, GA where I plan to stay. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/13 "2018-06-24T12:56:19Z")
I am a home boy. I have always lived in Omaha, NE, and i have always lived within a 15 or twenty minute walk from Warren Buffet’s house ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/14 "2018-06-24T13:01:27Z")
10 and 20, Philadelphia 30 Urbana, IL 40, 50, 70, and 80, Montreal 60, Palo Alto, CA ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/15 "2018-06-24T13:09:35Z")
All - this neighborhood in northeast Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/16 "2018-06-24T13:49:20Z")
10 and 20: Bristol, TN 30: Brooklyn, NY 40 and 50: Silver Spring, MD ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/17 "2018-06-24T13:51:32Z")
10 - Southold, NY 20 - Southold/Schenectady All else: Schenectady ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/18 "2018-06-24T14:15:53Z")
10 - MA 20 - MA 30 - NH 40 - NH Oddly, I moved to NH four months after turning ten, lived there until I was eighteen, moved back to MA to help look after my great-grandmother, and finally moved back to NH five months before turning twenty-one. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/19 "2018-06-24T14:44:48Z")
0 Sheboygan county, WI 10 Livonia, MI 20 Baltimore, MD 30 Wauwatosa, WI 40 Sheboygan county, WI 50 Sheboygan county, WI 60 Sheboygan county, WI ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/20 "2018-06-24T15:02:58Z")
All four of mine have been in metro Atlanta. Sent from my HTC U11 using Tapatalk [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656.md?page=2)