# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/41 "2018-06-25T00:17:59Z")
10 in Los Angeles though it was during spring break at my aunt and uncle’s house. I was living in the Cleveland Ohio area. 20 in Cambridge MA while at MIT. 30 in Chicago IL 40, 50, 60 In New Haven CT. (though I might have been in FL exactly on my birthday for my 50th). ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/42 "2018-06-25T00:19:22Z")
10 Kingsport, TN 20 Madison, WI 30 Grand Cayman 40 Pereira, Colombia ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/43 "2018-06-25T00:22:51Z")
I’ve always lived in Montreal. Except that technically when I turned 10 years old, I was visiting Ontario with my family. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/44 "2018-06-25T00:24:49Z")
10 in northeastern PA since then southwestern PA but I do roam around the weekends and for the odd month here and there. Like the two months I spent in Jones County Mississippi and a couple months in upstate NY. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/45 "2018-06-25T00:28:32Z")
Born - PR, small town 10 - PR, small town 20 - MD, city (but not permanently domiciled) 30 - MD, city 40 - PR, city 50 - PR, city My significant-change years never coincide with the decennial years. In between 10 and 20 there was an initial PR-city period, and in between 20 and 30 a very brief “moving around the USA” period. ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/46 "2018-06-25T00:54:25Z")
0 Baltimore, MD 10 Baltimore, MD 20 Ithaca, NY 30 Baltimore, MD 40 Glenville, NY 50 Glenville, NY ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/47 "2018-06-25T00:58:13Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > 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. That’s right, you and I stomped around the same grounds, I say ‘Baltimore’, but that’s Lutherville, Monkton, and Parkville… ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/48 "2018-06-25T01:12:01Z")
My first full day of an academic year (something on the order of a sabbatical) in Japan was also my 30th birthday. Before that, they were all in Portland, OR. After that, they were all here in SF. I did do a couple of things in my 60th year that were on my bucket list; since then, I’ve been less ambitious. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/49 "2018-06-25T01:19:51Z")
I turned 10 in San Diego 20 and 30 in San Jose 40 in Yosemite 50 in Bar Harbor ME I spent my 60th b-day on the road in central New Mexico with stops at the Very Large Array, Pie Town and El Malpais National Monument. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/50 "2018-06-25T01:22:01Z")
I’m just into my sixth decade, all of them spent here in Sacramento. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/51 "2018-06-25T02:03:54Z")
10 Valdosta GA 20 Los Alamos NM 30 Cedar Beach NY 40 Smithtown NY 50 Manhattan 60 New Hyde Park NY (next year) (unless I move) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/52 "2018-06-25T02:11:34Z")
10 - small town in Wisconsin 20 - college, Louisiana 30 - On a train, Brussels to Amsterdam 40 - St. John’s. Newfoundland. 50 - Kansas City 60- Northern Michigan 70 - South Texas 80 - (still five months away) Cebu, Philippines ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/53 "2018-06-25T11:33:58Z")
10- Muskegon, MI 20- East Lansing, MI 30, 40, 50, 60- Okemos, MI ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/54 "2018-06-25T13:20:43Z")
10, 20, 30 in Boston 40, 50, 60 in Englewood ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/55 "2018-06-25T13:33:44Z")
10 - Warren, Ohio 20 - Ramstein AB, Germany 30 - Landover, MD 40 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/56 "2018-06-25T13:38:57Z")
10–Chicago 20–Chicago 30–Minneapolis (for one year) 30-present (I’m 61)-- outside Chicago I spent 5 years in Washington DC from ages 23-28… ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/57 "2018-06-25T14:31:35Z")
10 Salt Lake City, Utah 20 Provo, Utah in the Missionary Training Center. Two weeks later I was in Japan 30 Hachioji, Japan. A suburb of Tokyo 40 Tokyo, Japan 50 Tokyo, Japan ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/58 "2018-06-25T15:27:32Z")
10 and 20 within fifteen miles of Annapolis, MD 30 in Baltimore 40, 50, and 60(and hopefully a few more to come) in SE Texas ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/59 "2018-06-25T15:34:47Z")
0 & 10 a small town in Western New York 20 a small city in New Hampshire near where I attended college 30 & 40 a small town in southern Maine where I live now ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656/60 "2018-06-25T16:13:38Z")
10 - Near Baltimore 20 - Near Philly (at college) 30 - Northern Virginia 40 - Northern Virginia I expect to also turn 50 in Northern Virginia (three more years), but might be in DC by 60. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > 60 - Mechanicsville, MD - and as far as I’m concerned, this is it. Please turn 70!! :eek: 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-were-you-for-your-decade-years/816656.md?page=4)