Question #1: Do you live in the same area you were born?

Do you live in the same area where you were born? I was thinking about things last night when I couldn't sleep. Isn't that when you think of things? My father wasn't educated beyond 8th grade and had no work skills. He farmed, he worked construction and pulled himself up until he was superintendent on large construction jobs. We moved where there was work. I counted and we lived in 25 houses and I went to 24 schools by the time I graduated from high school. But, I've known people who lived in the same town all their lives and sometimes in the same house or on the same block. I never minded moving and thought it was a way of life. I guess I'm still a wanderlust soul. Here I am in Texas. It's state number six. So, how many places have you lived and are you anywhere close to where you were born and raised.
dooley

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I lived in NJ growing up and moved all over the country. Then moved back to my home town and now I live very close to where my mom grow up, in Pa.

 

I lived in the same house from birth until after high school...it was off to college near Dallas. From there out to New Mexico for 20 years. I'm now living back in the house where I grew up. It was completed just before I was born. My siblings (all older than me) were raised in the "old house"... my parent's first home. I still tease them that my parents knew I was going to be special and built me a brand new house!
By the way... my dad, his brother and my mom's brothers built the house (also friends and neighbors helped out).

 

I have moved a few times, I guess the total is 15, mostly during my childhood. I attended 6 schools not counting collage. My wife on the other hand had lived in the same house her entire life and went to school in the same town. We bought our house between each of our hometowns and here we have stayed for 34 years. You could draw a 20 mile circle around where we have been most of our lives. The old saying still applies 'There is no place like home.'

Jerry

 

i've lived in my little town for 30 years now, and my dad still lives in the house he was in when i was born. i very nearly moved to the big city (peterborough) when i was struggling to find work a while back, my sister lived up there for 10 years, but decided against it. i moved from home to live with a friend for about 2 years, but i was down the same street i've always lived. i've been living with my girlfriend for 4 years and in that time we moved 3 times because the local council put us in some really rough areas. the first house we got we were burgled within around 3 weeks of moving in, one night a guy climbed up on our porch and threw things through our bedroom window while we was in bed!! we was only there around a year, they then housed us in the smallest property i've ever been in, my boys bedroom was like a bread bin. we lasted a year and a half and went private rented in alot nicer area. this will be our first christmas in a decent house

 

All ways in Iowa. After my parents was divorced moved a lot.My Dh also. So when we got married first was rental.But soon bought this house. Far from fancy. It was pink when we bought it. Many changes. Still not fancy by some people's standards . But can invite people in. In summer pride and joy is the flowers. And in winter all the birds that flock here.

 

I was born in southwest Ohio, and my parents moved here when I was 5 years old. During my 22 years in the Navy, I lived in Va. Beach, Va,, Brunswick Maine and Jacksonville Fla. My last 3 yrs in the Navy I was back in my hometown for recruiting duty. I bought 3 acres off of my mother as my dad was gone then. We built the house that we live in now. When we are gone, our house will go to my son who dosen't want to live anywhere else. So no, I don't live where I was born, but do live where I grew up and even on the same property.

 

I was born in Manitowoc, Wis. I lived their for the first 30yrs of my life. I lived in 7 different houses during those years. Then I moved to Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and lived their for about 19yrs. I then got remarried and have now live in the Denmark, Wis., area for the last 11yrs. I have always lived only about 40 miles from where I born.

 

Grew up in Gainesville, Fla. Lived in 3 different houses growing up. Spent two years in Costa-Rica when my Dad went down there for work (late 1950's). Lived in two differnt apts while in college. Moving to Winter Park, Fla for two years, then moved to South Texas 1978. Have been here ever since. Several rentals until I married. Since then, we have owned two places, that is, we were paying a mortgage on two places. We paid off the second house. I am thinking there might be one more move in our future, when one of our sons' moves someplace permanent. I would like to move closer to one of them. Or, we might stay here.

 

What fun to read about all of us Stewbies.
I was born in central Nebraska, my parents brought us to Lincoln when I was 3, lived here all my life except for 6 adventurous years in the mountains of Colorado.
Nebraska is not much of an attraction, but it's a really good place to grow up and raise a family.

 

I was born here in Indianapolis, and have only moved out of state twice.

First time was 7th grade. December 1997, I moved to Louisville, Kentucky to live with my dad. We were supposed to stay there for the remainder of the school year, but in late February, we got evicted (new landlord didnt follow the rent deal my dad had going with the old landlord) so we moved back to Indy.

The next time I moved out of state was after college, in 2005. The guy I was dating had moved to Connecticut in Sept '04 to start a nursing program at the Bridgeport Hospital school of nursing. I moved out there Jan 1st and we were there until Dec that year.

They say Hoosiers will never leave Indiana for good...I think theyre right o.o

 

I lived in the same house in Toronto my whole childhood. My parents are still living in the same house almost 25 years after I moved out. We had a cottage in the country an hour away and I ended up living near there and so did my sister. City living just wasn't for me!

 

I lived on an island off the coast near here from when I was born until the summer after 1. grade, with a couple of years in Bergen in the middle. I don't remember much from my early years. Then we moved to the house my mother still lives in until I went to England for a year. I came home and moved to a village a couple of hours away from home to study for a year, and rented half a house about 10 km further west for a few years after that. I moved to this house 15 years ago. It's close to my second childhood home, about five minutes by car, and I intend to stay here until I am no more.