Do you have family members that have only lived in one zip code all their life?

[Micca]

This is a trick question: My first thought was--my mother who lived in the same zip code (2 different houses) from the time I was born until she moved to assisted living. But then I started thinking she had a life before me! She lived in Oklahoma and California before I came along. Then I circled back to the original question and found a loophole. When she lived in other states, zip codes didn't exist! The zip code came along in 1963, so anywhere she lived prior to that date doesn't count!

 

[BayouQueen]

My MIL has been in the same small community in So Cal her entire life. She is 87 and will for sure end her days in the same place she was born. It's kinda touching, really.

 

[NYCgrrl]

No.

 

[fla4fun]

Nope, we are a bunch of wanderers.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

My sister. She's moved house a few times but never out of the zip code. I was the same until I moved over here.

 

[DisLiss]

I have family members who have lived in only one house all of their lives. I had a family member who passed away recently that was born in a house, lived their entire life in that house, and passed away there as well.

In older family members who have since passed away, I had many who lived within the same zip code all of their lives. Now, I still do have some relatives who have always lived in the same zip code. And a few others who lived in the same zip code, except for their college years.

 

[tvguy]

I've never lived more than 6 miles from where I am right now.
First house, 3 years, before zip codes existed.
Second house, 22 years. The zip code changed about 2 years before I moved
Third place (condo) same zip code as second house. 1 year
Third house, 38 years.

 

[neverlandsky]

No. Yet some only moved twice where the 2nd time they moved they were in their homes for 55-60 years before they passed.

 

[disneychrista]

My children - 30 & 28.

 

[mrodgers]

I can't think of a single person I know who still lives where they were born.

Not where I was born as we moved in 3rd grade an hour north where Dad worked (which he was transferred to the new office back in Pittsburgh a year later.) I got married and moved out to the country in the same general area and I am now stuck back in this depressing zipcode that I grew up in.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Me! And I wouldn't have it any other way.

EDIT: I did go away for college and lived in the dorms, etc. but I love where I'm from and where we live.

 

[mantysk8coach]

Wow, you are making me feel like something is wrong with me for having lived here my whole life...especially the poster who said she feels sorry for the people she went to high school with who haven’t left.

I’ve just never had a reason to leave. I commuted to college so I could continue to work and stay connected to some community activities I was passionate about. My mom and dad had just gotten divorced the prior year and I had a little brother that was only 10. I didn’t want to tear the family apart further.

Then halfway through college I started dating my (ex) husband and we got engaged my senior year. Graduated, got a good job, and here I still am. Our families are here, we’re happy.

This isn’t to say I’ve NEVER left my home town. I’ve traveled all over the country and had some amazing experiences. Would I leave if the right opportunity came up? Definitely. But I never felt a need to get out just for the sake of getting out.

 

[mrs. magoo]

I live in my same house so I am a yes. In my area people move away but often find their way back to my town and zip code.

 

[mrs. magoo]

Not family, but the majority of people I went to High School with have never left our home town. I feel sorry for them.

Why would you feel sorry for them? They might be perfectly happy to live where they went to high school. I love my house and my neighborhood. I love the fact that my girls sleep in my old bedroom and my son sleeps in my brother's old room. I was thinking the other day .. the house across the street from me is going up for sale soon and that will be the 6th owner in the 49 years I have been at my house (my husband and I are the 3rd owners - we bought from my father and my father bought from the original owner in 1970).

 

[SC Minnie]

My Dad lives in the same house he grew up in. It's also the same house his father grew up in. My Dad did move out and we lived about a mile away for a number of years. When my parents divorced Dad ended back in his house since my grandparents had passed away.

 

[Moliphino]

I can't think of a single person I know who still lives where they were born.

I live two miles from my childhood home now (though I am in a different zip code). I have lived much farther away since we moved in 1998, I just wound up back here.

 

[winterwhite]

My husband’s whole family. We don’t technically live in the same zip code. We moved 3 whole miles from his parent’s house.

I feel sorry for them. There is a whole wide world out there and they never want to ever leave their corner of it where nothing ever happens and nobody is interesting. Highlight of the week is getting pizza from the same dive they’ve been getting it since the place opened in 1986.

I know my MIL wants more but her husband rules the roost and he’s leaving feet first. That’s why I feel bad for them.

 

[ronandannette]

Not sure about the zip code thing - if it’s the same as our Postal Codes it’s not a good example for Canada because the way they are designated, people living a block apart can have different ones. There are literally dozens in this city alone.
https://www.zip-codes.com/canadian/city.asp?city=calgary&province=ab

As for never moving, although they may have moved houses a time or two, both my parents lived and died in the same farm community they were born in. So did all their siblings and (to my knowledge) about 10 of my cousins. Some of their children are raising their own children “up home” now.

 

[Donald13]

Wow, you are making me feel like something is wrong with me for having lived here my whole life...especially the poster who said she feels sorry for the people she went to high school with who haven’t left.

I’ve just never had a reason to leave. I commuted to college so I could continue to work and stay connected to some community activities I was passionate about. My mom and dad had just gotten divorced the prior year and I had a little brother that was only 10. I didn’t want to tear the family apart further.

Then halfway through college I started dating my (ex) husband and we got engaged my senior year. Graduated, got a good job, and here I still am. Our families are here, we’re happy.

This isn’t to say I’ve NEVER left my home town. I’ve traveled all over the country and had some amazing experiences. Would I leave if the right opportunity came up? Definitely. But I never felt a need to get out just for the sake of getting out.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. I just never felt super attached to where I grew up. Fwiw, we are still in the same part of New York and will most likely never leave

 

[Donald13]

My husband’s whole family. We don’t technically live in the same zip code. We moved 3 whole miles from his parent’s house.

I feel sorry for them. There is a whole wide world out there and they never want to ever leave their corner of it where nothing ever happens and nobody is interesting. Highlight of the week is getting pizza from the same dive they’ve been getting it since the place opened in 1986.

I know my MIL wants more but her husband rules the roost and he’s leaving feet first. That’s why I feel bad for them.

This but it’s my mil who is in charge.