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

[1GoldenSun]

I don't feel sorry for anyone who is "blooming where they were planted." As long as they're blooming. I do feel sorry for people who get entrenched in a certain situation, jn a certain location, and don't feel able to get out. It's easy to say "just move," if you're unhappy where you are, but it isn't always as simple as that.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Yes. Both my parents family from a very, very small town in PA. All still there.

 

[olwyngdh]

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).

Because of Facebook I get to see how small their lives are and how limited their interactions with people who are different races, religions, and lifestyles are. I see how their high school behavior, who they bully and who they are friends with haven't changed in 40 years. Those of us who moved or made the effort to interact outside our small town/farm country upbringing have changed and grown. The vast majority of those who stayed behind, not even going to college to get that multicultural experience, haven't. I find it sad because so many of them had the potential to become and they chose not to.

 

[olwyngdh]

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 didn't mean to make you feel bad. The people I am talking about have *never* left. Vacation, if they take one at all, is the county fair or camping at the lake. Maybe if their kids have to travel for a baseball or softball tournament they have gone along and stayed in a hotel for the night. That is it. I am from a very rural/ small town (3 blocks wide and 15 blocks long if you count the alleys) area. I wish people could or would expand their experiences. Those who have are often shunned by those who haven't. Most of our class won't even talk to one of us who moved to the next town over and has had 20+ foreign exchange students because she has "brought terrorists into" the area. I find that very sad.

 

[Heigh-Ho]

Yes and they love that they live where they live

 

[RangerPooh]

At this point, no. All but two of my aunts and uncles and cousins have moved away from where we grew up/were raised. But I think this is a west coast thing as the cost of living in CA is what drove us all to move. Especially my generation.

I do see this more with my friends here in the south. Many live within 30 minutes of where they grew up.

 

[bjscheel]

I'm close, my only exceptions are 2 school years at college and first 2 months of marriage.

 

[redrosesix]

Me I guess. I live on the East Coast of Canada so we don't have zip codes but I live only 5 minutes away from the house I grew up in.

Both of my parents moved to the city before they got married. Their families lived in the same small communities for about 200 years -- and we have relatives that still live there.

 

[DVC-Don]

My wife has relatives that have lived on the same street all their lives. Me and my relatives have all changed states.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Not only the same zip code, but my maternal grandmother apparently lived her entire life on the same block. After getting married, my grandfather moved in with her and her parents for a few years, then GPs bought a house around the corner and lived there until they died.

Of course this was long before zip codes

 

[Kitty 34]

My wife has relatives that have lived on the same street all their lives. Me and my relatives have all changed states.

Both my sister and brother have only lived on two different streets in our small town. Both very content, tho my brother does do a lot of traveling. My sister is happy as a lark; was a SAHM most of her life and now babysits fulltime for 3 of her 4 children in the same home they all grew up in. (her kids live in their own homes around the area)

My DH moved the farthest out of these three....across town to be exact. He is quite content, too, but I'm sure that's because he's married to me.

Me, I've lived here a long time but did live elsewhere (Illinois and Colorado) before I came back to this zip code years ago.

I'm enjoying everyone's answers. :

 

[PrincessShmoo]

For me....yes:
one of my brothers
one of my sisters
and my DH

.....all over 60.

Not a good or bad thing....just wondering. It was our discussion over coffee this morning with said brother and my DH.

Just my 2 youngest children. Still living in the same house we were living in when they were born. Technically the "same" zip code, but the zip code changed since we moved in there.

 

[scrapquitler]

Most of my family has always lived in our hometown and never lived anywhere else.

 

[indimom]

A solid percentage of DH and I families have lived in the same county their entire lives. DH and I left for college/military, but came back to our roots because we're happy here. It's a nice town and we thoroughly loved raising our own children here. I don't feel sorry for someone who is happy with where they are and choose to stay there. I do feel sorry for anyone who literally are or who feel trapped in life.