Do you live in your hometown?

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Originally Posted by AddieBee

Currently living in the same home I grew up in (from age 7 onward)... to look after my mom. However, I was a "broadcast gypsy" for the first few years of my life. After college, I worked as a a radio journalist - moving from place to place to advance my career. But I moved back here 20 years ago after my dad got sick, I got laid off and couldn't find work where I was living - in Charlotte, NC.

I have to say that when my mom passes on, I will leave Michigan. There really is nothing here for me.
I sent you a PM. What is really interesting is my father was a radio and television announcer! That was a long time ago. He died in his plane on the way to Chicago in 1966. He did all kinds of commercials. My sister has been sending the old tapes out to be copied to CD and then sending me copies. He did the Buckle up for safety commercial in the 60's for safety belts!! It's neat to talk to someone who is close to where I lived!!
 

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I'm living about 10 mi from where I grew up, currently in the town nearby. I've lived in the next county up. I've tried Santa Cruz, Oildale, San Clemente & a mine camp (Teledyne Tungsten Strawberry Mine) just outside of Yosemite Nat'l Park. I've also lived in Barstow & San Bernadino, when I was very little & scarcely remember.
 

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I live where I've lived my whole life - same farm place, just built a new house when Iw as in 6th grade across the driveway - live in that house now still.
 

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Nope! I grew up in central Indiana, in Anderson, and have lived in Indianapolis, Muncie, and Dunkirk (all in central Indiana also).

Now I live a little over two hours north of Anderson, in Warsaw, IN. My parents and sister live in Anderson still. My brother has moved to Ohio. My husband's family lives about 20 minutes away from here, in a small town nearby.

But, I don't live that far away.
 

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I do. I've lived here my whole life. My parents actually still live in the same general area (not the same house, though) that they've lived in since I was two years old!

We're about to move to Fort Worth, Texas, though, which is about 11 hours away. *sniff, sniff*
 

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I was born in Camden NJ, I currently live about 800 miles away near Atlanta.

The neighborhood where I was born was the subject of a 20/20 episode a
few years back where they spotlighted a woman and her son who were
living in a run-down house with no heat or running water.

My father told me the neighborhood was beautiful back in the 50s and
early 60s and started going to hell shortly before we moved out. I only
vaugely remember the place, mostly riding my trike around the courtyard.

Now the neighborhood is a war zone. Supposedly the drug dealers cut down
all the trees because they blocked a clear line of fire. Sad.
 

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Yes I do ..My mom still lives in the house she grew up in. I've been here 52 years now..
 

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Originally Posted by WellingtonCats

Wow! Any reason you moved after so long? That's so brave of you


I wish you luck settling in
I moved south to get away from the horrible winters and the cost of oil heat.

Of course, waking up to snow this morning was NOT pleasant (I went from Salem, MA to Lexington, NC.)

Didn't like waking up to 9 degrees out the other day, either.
 

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I live about 7,700 miles/11,000 km from my hometown


We'll be back there eventually though
 

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Nope but I don't consider the place I was raised intil I was 11 my hometown.
I consider the place I lived in for 4 years my hometown.I don't live there anymore but I alwas say that is where I come form.I miss it and plan to go back someday.
 

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No, I grew up in New Jersey. I moved to Massachusetts to attend college....18 years later, I'm still here (in Mass., not in college
) I've now lived here almost half my life.
 

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Nope, and I'm glad I don't
I've moved around alot....well not that much but born in Etobicoke, lived in Toronto as a child, London as a child, small town X, slightly bigger town Y, back to London as a young teen, back to town Y, and now am in town Z where I plan on staying unless we get hubby's parents farm and then we'd move there.

I've lived in big city, and small town. Where I am now is about in the middle. Not a big city, but not a small town either. We have everything we need here except a Home Depot.
But the closest one is bout 40mins away, so not bad.

We're happy here, and not far away from family
 

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Well, I was born in Cleveland proper but moved to the suburbs when I was a baby, and we moved from that burb to another burb a little further south between 1st and second grade and then I moved a little further south about 8.5 years ago. I still live 20 minutes from my parents and will probably always live in NE Ohio. I am a Buckeye!
 

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No way,
I was born in London, lived there for six years, moved to Italy, lived there for four years, moved to Australia lived there for 5 and a half years, then moved to Germany and spend 7 years there, now i'm back in Australia and have been for the last 4 months, and my parents live in Italy back in their old house.

One fact is you can never go back and live in your old house, its creepy and everything has changed.. i kind of find it hard to adjust in this area
 

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Kind of. I lived in one town until I was 10. then moved to the city. Right now I live right between them. It is about 45 minutes one way direction or the other . My mom and both of my sisters were born here.
 

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I was born in Connecticut, but raised in Queens, NY all of my life. Now I'm 200+ miles away, but still in NY State. I had a brief stint living in Florida, but I came back 2 years ago.

There are times I'd like to visit where I grew up, but I really wouldn't want to live there anymore.
 

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Nope. We moved every year or two when I was growing up, so I don't really HAVE a hometown.
 

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Sort of. I was born in Salt Lake, grew up in Bountiful and now live South of Salt Lake, all of which is about a 20-25 mile radius. We have never lived out of Utah though. So far all of our kids and grandkids live close by, thank goodness
 
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