Where Were You for Your Decade Years?

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).

10 Kingsport, TN
20 Madison, WI
30 Grand Cayman
40 Pereira, Colombia

I’ve always lived in Montreal. Except that technically when I turned 10 years old, I was visiting Ontario with my family.

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.

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.

0 Baltimore, MD
10 Baltimore, MD
20 Ithaca, NY
30 Baltimore, MD
40 Glenville, NY
50 Glenville, NY

That’s right, you and I stomped around the same grounds, I say ‘Baltimore’, but that’s Lutherville, Monkton, and Parkville…

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.

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.

I’m just into my sixth decade, all of them spent here in Sacramento.

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)

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

10- Muskegon, MI
20- East Lansing, MI
30, 40, 50, 60- Okemos, MI

10, 20, 30 in Boston
40, 50, 60 in Englewood

10 - Warren, Ohio
20 - Ramstein AB, Germany
30 - Landover, MD
40 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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…

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

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

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

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.

Please turn 70!! :eek:

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