Do you currently live where you grew up?

[cinmell]

I was born and raised in Boston and I'm still living here.

 

[newholiday]

Lived my 1st 11yrs on Long Island - moved due to Dad's employment.
Lived the next 7yrs on the North Shore (Marblehead, Peabody) of MA - moved to central MA for college.
Married, bought a house, had a child - been living in central MA the past 28yrs.

 

[believe]

Same state, different city (17 miles difference)

 

[tlgoblue]

Nope! Left because my parents were racist biggots. However, I would not move back, either. (no longer what I would consider a safe neighborhood) My dad left a good job, (he was mid-management at UPS. His co-workers at the time have all retired multi-millionairs!) and never had stable employment after that. See what being a biggot gets you? Enough of my sermon.

We moved to a Chicago suburb, which i loved, but had to move back "home" less than a year later. I eventually settled in Ann Arbor as a result of pursuing my passion (Michigan Football ). In 2000, DH and I sensed the impending doom that was about to sweep through the area and he took a job in Indiana. Only 160 miles away from AA, it seems like a different world. I am probably not going to stay here, but there are some really nice things about Indiana, and those DISers who live here will tell you that there is no place like home. I can live anywhere. Big city, small town, even rural. There are always trade offs. I have never really been in a place I didn't like. As long as I feel safe, I'll find a way to make it work for me. Sometimes you just have to take advantage of a barebones existance and go straight for the Marrow!

Keep the Faith!
Tracy

 

[Patabel]

I grew up in the city on Chicago's northwest side. I now live appoximately 425 miles away in the Minneapolis area. While Chicago will always be "home" to me, holding a very special place in my heart, my DH never liked living there (he grew up on Chicago's Southeast side and Southwestern suburbs) and so we will never go back. Minnesota is our home now, and our DD and her family live here, as well.

We do enjoy living here very much, and Chicago is an easy trip for a weekend.

 

[dizneenut]

Still in the same city I grew up in, just the other side of town now.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Moving to Ohio was the saddest thing I've ever done. NJ was my home and even when we lived in Bucks County PA, I worked in NJ. 6 years ago we bought our Cape May NJ home so now I'm comfortable in both places. Employment is here, in Ohio, heart is in NJ.

Bobbi

 

[Kimberle]

Grew up in Mapleton, MN (pop 1900). Went to college in Sioux Falls, SD. After college, moved to 30 miles north of NYC.

I just love love love NYC!!

 

[musicalSaranader]

I live in the same state I was born in, and always have. But the town I live in now is the same place I've lived since I was five, so I guess I grew up there! But right now I live at school, which is in a different state.

 

[Mr.BsMom]

Nope.... I grew up in IL, and moved to TX when I was 19... DH grew up in VA, and moved to TX when he was 15. I wanted out of the town I grew up in... There wasn't much to it! Plus, I wanted to live in a warmer climate!!


We both would move to FL - Orlando! - in a hearbeat if we felt we could both get jobs there!! Is Disney hiring??

 

[edcrbnsoul]

IN the words of Jimmy Buffett...I'm growing older but not up....!

 

[Micca]

Yes. We've moved away twice, and returned. I want to move again to someplace warmer and much closer to

 

[BedKnobbery2]

Nope, live nowhere near where I grew up. However, I do live in the town where my ex-husband grew up (he lives here, too), and where his father grew up....and his father's father grew up....and his father's father's father grew up...and so on and so on, all the way back to when the town was settled! Being from born from first and second generation immigration parents (my dad was born in a different country, and my mom's grandparents were, too), I was always fascinated with how deep my ex's roots are in the community.

 

[minniecarousel]

I was born in Toledo, but we moved to Northern California when I was 6. DH & I have always lived in the SF Bay Area - he is a native - his ancestors founded one of the towns near-by.

All but one of my 7 siblings lives within 50 miles of me.

 

[CindyKansas]

Born in Northcentral Kansas, 11 miles from the Nebraska border. Lived there until I was 5 then moved to Southcentral Kansas, 40 miles from the Oklahoma border. I have lived here since. Except for the 4 years I was attending Kansas State, the 2 summers I worked at Yellowstone and the year I lived in Sun Valley, ID.

 

[Towncrier]

Born and raised in the Buckeye State. I did move to California in the early 80's (that's 1980's) for a couple of years, but I quickly moved back to Ohio (and back to the same apartment that I had left when I moved west).

The town I live in now is just up the road from where our church family camp was held in the 1960's. I think that it's odd that, for nearly half of my life, I've lived within a mile of the same north-south road. Not intentionally, but I just seem to end up either slightly east or west of Richmond Road. And if I go directly south some 1000 plus miles, I end up at my home away from home, Old Key West Resort at WDW. Maybe it's not Richmond Road. Maybe I'm tied to the a longitude of -81.5 degrees.

 

[BounceyOne]

I live less than a mile from the 'block' I grew up on. But come July we are out of here! Florida here we come.................................................

 

[Jacksmom99]

Grew up in Maine, came to MA for college (Stonehill!!) and never left. Met DH at my first "real" job after college. We bought the house he grew up in and lived there a while until the neighborhood started going down the tubes. We moved two towns over, on a dead end street in the woods. My DS calls it "our country". I drive by Stonehill on my way to work everyday. Dh's family lives in several of the surrounding towns so we have family surrounding us in a 30 minute radius. Dh is counting the days until we can retire in Orlando.......only 8600 and some days

 

[parrothead365]

Grew up on Catawba Island on the north shore of Ohio. Lived there for 18 years. Left as soon as I could for warm sunny Florida. My Mom is from Fl(It's not my fault she married a Yankee) and I spent many summers here and always knew I would live here. I will never go back up to that great white north to live. Besides that white stuff falls out of the sky up there To quote Jimmy"I got to go where the weather matches my clothes"

 

[LadyTrampScamp&Angel]

Not even close, grew up in the west, now live in the east. DH got a great job offer here and we like it!