Ellyndria Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 (edited) So, I don't remember what led me down this road last night, but I ended up looking up around a dozen people I knew from high school and college. I don't keep in touch with anyone I knew in school, partially because I moved away after college and have moved a few times since. Everyone I looked up was scattered across the country, no one was near the place they grew up. So what about you? Do you live in: same hometown/city? same area but different town? same state/province? different state? different country? Edited March 7, 2009 by Ellyndria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live in the same state, about an hour's drive from my hometown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live very, very close to where I grew up...same zip code, same school district, about 3 miles from the house I lived in (where my mom still lives). I didn't really plan it this way...I went to college 2 hours away, but never even came home for the summer. Then I moved to Ohio for a year after college, then we were in Boston for 5 years. And then....we wound up back here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I lived in the same region until 3 years ago. Now I'm 800 miles away. My plan was to move away long before then. I've gotten in touch with some high school people through facebook and I'm actually surprised how many people still live in that area even after being out of school for two decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melinda in VT Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Grew up in Oregon; live in Vermont. I always thought I'd move back to the PNW at some point, but it hasn't happened yet. And I love New England too. (We've lived in Rhode Island as well.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassiemc Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Yes, we moved back to our hometown almost 2 years ago. I haven't really meet up with anyone I went to school with though. We moved to be closer to the grandparents, which in reality may have not been the best decision. We are now wishing we had moved to the Florida beaches where we went to college. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch at Home Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Different state but within an hour of where I grew up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathmom Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 different state, 450 miles away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I started out in Indiana, moved to Florida at age 11, and to Kentucky in my mid-twenties. I would love to get back to Florida. It where I consider "home". Mandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebug_1976 Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I grew up in WA, and planned to live there forever. I really liked where I grew up, 20 minutes from the ocean, mountain climbing, hiking, no nasty snakes bugs etc. But then I met this totally WONDERFUL guy in college, who by the way was from Oklahoma........so to make a long story short, here I am, living in Oklahoma. Isn't it amazing how God's plan can be so different from "my" plan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepy Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Same state, an hour and a half from where I grew up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 We live in the same county, different town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumbledeb Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Twenty minutes from where I grew up. In fact, now I come to think of it, twenty minutes from where my Mum was born and grew up too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I'm in a different state. I miss my home state, but we're pretty happy here and will probably stay. We didn't plan on living here. I'm from the west coast and dh is from the east coast. We intended to move east, but it didn't happen. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readwithem Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 So you're Scottish? I thought you might be ex-pats :) We're hoping to get to Scotland summer 2010, my dd does Highland dance and she finishes high school that year, it would be a fitting graduation present. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readwithem Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live about 600 miles from "home." I haven't lived there since a year after college. The only family left there is my mom. We still get with high school friends when we visit, but we're not nearly as close as we were 30+ years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumbledeb Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 So you're Scottish? I thought you might be ex-pats :) We're hoping to get to Scotland summer 2010, my dd does Highland dance and she finishes high school that year, it would be a fitting graduation present. :) Yes, Scottish through and through:) I think your daughter will love her graduation present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janainaz Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live in a different state from where I grew up........and I'm glad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Same house. I moved away for college, then work. Then I married dh who was in the Navy. We moved around the world for 16 years, then settled in NY. However, as my parents age, I feel it's important for us to be here so the dc can know their g-parents better and so I can help when they need it. They built another home right here on the property and the original farm house was empty, so we made some renovations and moved here last summer. We sold our dream house in our dream location to make the move. While this house isn't even close to my 'dream house', both the dc and my parents are loving the arrangement.:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 After living in several different states for the better part of twenty years, we have returned to my hometown, well, 15 minutes from my hometown. We live on the "other side of the mountain" now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I moved away when I was 17 and the closest I've lived since is 175 miles. I now live in a different state and it's an 8-9 hour drive to go home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live about 10 minutes away now, and am back in that area several times a week. I even delivered flyers to my childhood home over xmas when I was doing flyers. I moved away to a few smaller towns in the province when the kids were infants, but have been back for the last 9 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Not even close. Different country even. We have moved around alot!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannqn Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 When I was 18, there was no way I was staying in the same state as my parents. Grew up in southern CA and ended up in WA...1,129 miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live in the same house. :D I did live in various places for years so I haven't always been here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 So what about you? Do you live in: same hometown/city? No same area but different town? No same state/province? No different county? Yes different country? Yes, in that Scotland is a different nation from England within the United Kingdom Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamaof2andtwins Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Right now I live in the next town over from the one I grew up in. Jennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 We live in the PNW: Same area, different town about 30 minutes from my childhood community. My sisters and some of my best friends from high school have also stayed in the area, which is a part of what keeps me here. I love it here, and love having my friends and family nearby. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live in the same area, just thirty miles north of the home where I grew up. My parents still live in the home they bought when I was two years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionfamily1999 Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Same town, different neighborhood ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Blech, yes, about 45 miles away. My sis lives in house we grew up in. Can you tell how much I love San Diego.:glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritAnnia Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 (edited) My dh and I are totally different on this. He lives next door to the house where he grew up. His parents still live there. His Dad grew up in a house just a few hundred yards up the road, where his own mother lived until she was in her 90's. Of FIL's three siblings, the one living furthest away is in the next town, 30 miles. It's the same with Dh's mother, she grew up a few miles away and her 2 siblings live within a few miles still. Of dh's two brothers, 1 lives a half mile down the road, and the other across town, about 15 miles away. Now for me.. well, obviously I'm not near where I grew up! ;) I grew up in the south-west of England, my parents still live in the same town but not the same house. My mother and father both moved from London, about 75 miles away to the area when I was a few years old. I'm living 3000 miles/an ocean/a continent away. Of my 3 siblings, 2 live in another town near my parents, about 20 or so miles away, and one lives in New Zealand, about 11,000 miles/an ocean/a continent away. (And we're lucky to not be farther apart... the two siblings of mine who live near 'home', one almost married a German guy and moved there, the other was seriously considering moving to South Africa to be nearer his wife's father.) Edited March 7, 2009 by BritAnnia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill- OK Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Oddly, enough, after marrying and moving all over the place (overseas, even)...we settled about twenty minutes from my family (they still live where I grew up). In fact, my grandparents both came from small towns east of the capital city (where we lived), and I now live in a small town, just minutes from "The Old Country", as my husband calls it, lol. I guess those weekends of visiting said small towns had an effect on me. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 The closest I ever got in the past 30 years was within. 3 hrs. I would love for my children to grow up in the area I grew up in or pretty much anywhere in New England. I keep asking dh to get a 1 year tdy but he says you pretty much get stuck or they have your there over spring and summer and not fall and winter which I would love for the kids to experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Different country from where I grew up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatieJ Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Nope. MOved 750 miles away almost 14 years ago. Most of my extended family lives within an hour of where we all grew up and oldest daughter and her family still live there, so we get back there a couple of times a year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diann Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 No. We moved 500 miles away. The drive isn't too bad, so we go back a couple of times per year. Diann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTMindy Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live about 5 minutes from the house where I grew up where my parents still live. My brother (only sibling) and family also lives within 5 minutes of our house and now my inlaws (who lived in CA) and my sil (dh's only sibling) and family also live within 5 minutes of our house. And, my grandmother lives in a retirement home less than 5 minutes from our house. And I LOVE it!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PollyOR Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Grew up in FL and NC. We live in DH's hometown in OR. I miss the South but I like it here too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancora_Imparo Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 DH and I both live within 45 minutes of where we grew up. My family all lives within an hour of the house we grew up in and where my parents still live. His family on the other hand has all moved halfway across the country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in Appalachia Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 near Philly. I now live in TN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIch elle Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 near Philly. I now live in TN. Bayonne, NJ I've lived in MA since college Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 So, I don't remember what led me down this road last night, but I ended up looking up around a dozen people I knew from high school and college. I don't keep in touch with anyone I knew in school, partially because I moved away after college and have moved a few times since. Everyone I looked up was scattered across the country, no one was near the place they grew up. So what about you? Do you live in: same hometown/city? same area but different town? same state/province? different state? different country? We live 1 hour 15 minutes from where we both grew up and graduated high school. Same state...and the 'city' where people from our home town come to shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I consider myself an Okie since I've lived here since I was 10. I'm half an hour away from where I grew up (we measure distance in time here, too). I'm an hour and a half away from where I spent the first 9 years of my life. Not very far, really. DH, on the other hand, is about 8000 miles away from 'home.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I'm a navy brat. I don't have a home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiCO Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I live about 2,000 miles due west of where I grew up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ria Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 Born in California, lived in Japan, Washington, then Va Beach, VA and finally Fairfax County, VA (near Wash. DC). Then college in PA, married and moved to DE. Now living in PA. Ria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 I do now, but have not always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddhabelly Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Blech, yes, about 45 miles away. My sis lives in house we grew up in. Can you tell how much I love San Diego.:glare: I grew up there too and I feel the same way. Great place to visit though, don't you think? I left 30 years ago and never moved back. My son thinks it would be a grand idea to live in San Diego. He just doesn't "get" all this lovely rainforest out our window. Which actually is covered in lovely snow right now and is glistening in the sunshine..... but no, he wants a big city. Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 I've always lived in the south: TN, LA, KY. I'm further north now than I've ever been. I'm much closer to home now, too: about 3 hours vs. the hard driving 13 I was for years while in south Louisiana. Oddly enough, I saw my family and talked to them more then than now.... I didn't keep up with my high school friends after going to college and didn't keep up with college friends after graduating, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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