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Do you live within 30 miles of your hometown?

Do you live within 30 miles of your hometown?

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It doesn't strike me as particularly odd for people to move--sometimes quite far from where they grew up--for any number of reasons: education, career advancement, other economic opportunity, wanderlust or adventure, pure curiosity, and so on.

So I'm curious, do you live within a fairly short drive of the place where you grew up?
 
SenorXm/Sirius said:
No.. I do not. I now live about 150 miles from where I grew up.
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As a child I lived in Paris London and Brussels, in that order. I live thousands of miles away from all three. I did not start growing up, though, until I joined the Royal Navy when I was sixteen.
 
1,000 miles away, or fives states, whichever occurs first :lol: ............
 
Sweden said:
As a child I lived in Paris London and Brussels, in that order. I live thousands of miles away from all three. I did not start growing up, though, until I joined the Royal Navy when I was sixteen.
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I never grew up. lol.

I was raised in upstate NY, but after the Army I moved downstate. About 150 miles south in NY from where I grew up. There was nothing in upstate NY, all the leather, car parts manufacturing, textile, etc. jobs started leaving in the late 70's. I still have family upstate, when I go there it's depressing. Some of the towns and cities up there in their downtown areas 75% of the store fronts are boarded up.
 
About 65 miles by water but three ferries and nearly 8 hours by road.
 
I'm about 600 miles from the Rust Belt 'burbs where I grew up.
 
I still live in San Diego.

Nobody ever really leaves San Diego. We leave, but we come back.
 
Grew up in Rockford IL, my wifes last duty station was Ft Lewis and we decided to stay. I am really glad I left Rockford, as it has been on the decline since the late 50's/early 60's.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
Grew up in Rockford IL, my wifes last duty station was Ft Lewis and we decided to stay. I am really glad I left Rockford, as it has been on the decline since that late 50's/early 60's.
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Did she carry you out of the factory?
 
Greenbeard said:
It doesn't strike me as particularly odd for people to move--sometimes quite far from where they grew up--for any number of reasons: education, career advancement, other economic opportunity, wanderlust or adventure, pure curiosity, and so on.

So I'm curious, do you live within a fairly short drive of the place where you grew up?
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I grew up here and lived all over the USA “chasing the eagle”, and in the eighties partnered up with some associates and bought a struggling company and moved back. We sold the company profitably during the “Great Recession”, and now I’m retired and enjoying life in the slow lane trying not to take life too seriously. Not mention I have eleven grandkids, with one more loaded in the chute.
 
ecofarm said:
Did she carry you out of the factory?
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I was a stay at home homeschooling dad for a decade before it was fashionable....on a military base no less....I am a trailblazer.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I was a stay at home homeschooling dad for a decade before it was fashionable....on a military base no less....I am a trailblazer.
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Actually where do women military officers hang out? this doesn't sound like that bad a deal to me....
 
I grew up in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, NY - just about 1/2 mile south of LaGuardia airport. Live in Suffolk County now, just over the Nassau/Suffolk border. I'd swag the distance at about 25 miles as the crow flies. Or an hour if you have to take the Long Island Expressway
 
I grew up in Port Orchard, Washington. It's not a declining town, the main economic base of Kitsap County is the US Navy and there's a major base nearby.

I wanted something quieter and so moved out about 25 miles to Grapeview, a tiny town on the waterfront in Mason county. the commute sucks and I just put up with it
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Actually where do women military officers hang out? this doesn't sound like that bad a deal to me....
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It was not a bad deal at all, I have the right temperament for raising kids and found it very rewarding. By far the biggest downside was the public disapproval, which tended to be pretty tremendous, from the Germans as much as the Americans.

I hear that this is all different now on the American side, and that the Germans are working on it.
 
I was born in Albany NY and lived there through college... began my career in NYC, moved to Denver for lifestyle two years later.

In upstate NY, I enjoyed skiing, backpacking, camping and climbing mountains.... Colorado seemed like a utopia. Add in the incredibly (and surprisingly) great weather here, and it is a utopia, to me.....
 
Greenbeard said:
It doesn't strike me as particularly odd for people to move--sometimes quite far from where they grew up--for any number of reasons: education, career advancement, other economic opportunity, wanderlust or adventure, pure curiosity, and so on.

So I'm curious, do you live within a fairly short drive of the place where you grew up?
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Yes, but I lived out west for 6 years in my 20's.
 
Born and raised in Dallas, but have spent the last 30 years almost an equal distance between Austin and San Antonio - and to the west in an area called the Texas Hill Country.

Consequently, I’m about 4 1/2 hours away from where I was born. Living in a rural area is the bee’s knee’s. I never missed Dallas for even a second.
 
I live 748.3 miles from my hometown birth place in Maine and 548.7 miles from my formative years in Boston.

Good riddance!

Virginia Beach is a much nicer place to live as I am surrounded by many of my old shipmates who retired right here with me.

Not shoveling snow 6 months a year is another incentive to retire here.
 
i live 34 miles from my hometown. we moved because the commute to work was too much. i still have the house (paid off, thankfully,) and we go there on most weekends to visit family and friends. we bought a townhome closer to the city about a month ago, and it is really nice.
 
Greenbeard said:
It doesn't strike me as particularly odd for people to move--sometimes quite far from where they grew up--for any number of reasons: education, career advancement, other economic opportunity, wanderlust or adventure, pure curiosity, and so on.

So I'm curious, do you live within a fairly short drive of the place where you grew up?
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I live approximately 1,200 miles from where I grew up, which is actually the closest I've been in a while!

I like my home city, but the weather is just too much for me.
 
25 miles from what I would consider my hometown.

Its a good thing, in that it's not a very long drive to go and help my dad out, who is still in the house in which I did the most of my growing up in.

While he does live alone and on his own, this is particularly important since my mom passed a number of years ago. Good news is he's still doing pretty well.
 
Greenbeard said:
It doesn't strike me as particularly odd for people to move--sometimes quite far from where they grew up--for any number of reasons: education, career advancement, other economic opportunity, wanderlust or adventure, pure curiosity, and so on.

So I'm curious, do you live within a fairly short drive of the place where you grew up?
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I think less and less people will answer YES to this question as years go by. With so many people going away to college, I think they will become less and less anchored to “home.” You meet a gal, you meet a guy... let the adventures begin! Breaking mom’s hearts from coast to coast. ;)
 
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