How many of you still live where you grew up ?

[kenv1950]

I'll be 74 come Feb. I've been here 72 of them . My area , was great in the early yrs. Mostly loggers , stone cutters , dairy farmers.
I really miss those old timers and their stories , Some of the farms still had no electricity , milked by hand , all stone was cut by hand ,loggers were mostly using horses.
Those guys were the salt.

 

[hashbrown]

I grew up in Blue Eye Missouri we live just north of Branson. I migrated about 25 miles.

 

[Biggkidd]

I moved about 50 bird miles from where I grew up. This area is now much like where I grew up was when I was there, sadly it's now a major metropolitan area with 300,000 souls or so. When I was a kid it was fairly large county with few people. Now it feels like a small way over crowed county and I have NO desire whatsoever to go back! Where I live now is roughly 400 square miles with nearly 12,000 people.

 

[Supervisor42]

I'll be 74 come Feb. I've been here 72 of them . My area , was great in the early yrs. Mostly loggers , stone cutters , dairy farmers.
I really miss those old timers and their stories , Some of the farms still had no electricity , milked by hand , all stone was cut by hand ,loggers were mostly using horses.
Those guys were the salt.

I did my 15 years 'at hard labor' on the 'prison-farm' and have no desire to return.
It did however, instill great drive in me to better myself .
...I almost tore the front gate off the hinges when I left at age 20.

 

[Haertig]

This city is not where I was born, but it's where I did my "growing up" from fourth grade through leaving for college: Austin, Texas. It was a really nice place back in the 60's and 70's. But it has become total libtard city. They have completely destroyed the place with woke-ism. I would never live there now. I moved to Colorado in 1980 because it was a really nice place back then too. Now it's not quite "total libtard city" like Austin, but I'd say Colorado is probably about 85% libtard city. The state as a whole that is, specific cities - like Boulder - are indeed "total libtard city". Boulder has been libtarded forever (since the discovery of marijuana, at least).

 

[Bacpacker]

I live about 25 miles as the crow flies from where I grew up. Takes between 30-45 minutes to make the drive.
When I grew up we were near the highway 2 lane at the time. But it was country. Grand parents lived maybe 10 miles away, closer into the city, but still kinda country. Since they passed and property was sold both have been annexed by the city, 4 lane went in back in 72-74 and took out nearly a 1/3 of one grandparents place. There place, and an uncle that joined them's place is now commercial. It kills me everytime I drive up thru there.
Parents still live in their place. It's grown up some around them, but they still have their 4 acres, and one neighbors family has their property in a trust that will remain a farm forever. Probably well over 100 acres.
Our place was in the country and still kinda has that feel. But several farms have sold off on past us down near the lake. Over 1000 houses have been built, to the point we have to wait to get out of our driveway at times. When we moved here first time the wife went out on her own and pulled out to the first intersection there was a horse walking up the middle of the road. One of our neighbors has moved a few years ago. He has 17 acres joining our 5. We are worried he's getting ready to sell. We might end up with 10-20 houses next door. We'd like to but the 5 acres next to us to prevent anyone from getting right against us. But with the price of land now, there is no way. When I retire, next 2-3 years hopefully, of before we may try to find property in another country, farm land or mountain land. and get back out away from the crowds.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

Three years ago, I moved closish to where I grew up. I am about a 4 hr drive from there. It would be closer as the crow flies but there are no roads through to there. As is, I might see one car a day plus the school bus if I am out where I can see the road.

 

[Pearl]

Nope, 1700 miles away! Glad for where I grew up, glad for where I am at now!!

 

[LadyLocust]

That whole where I grew up part. We moved about a dozen times and two states during my school years (maybe not a dozen, but enough I’d have to figure and count). I went to HS all 4 years in the same school so that’s usually where I state as the answer to that question. I currently live about 3 hours north of there.

 

[Canon29]

Grew up in New england... so no- I got out of there as soon as I could.

 

[backlash]

I never lived in one place long.
We move a lot. I never went to the same school for the whole year.
I went to the same school several years but not in a row.
When I was a teenager the only thing I wanted was far away from where I grew up.
Like the song Happiness is Lubick Texas in the rearview mirror. Same feeling different town.
I left for 40 years then moved back because of family obligations.
I promised my Mom I would take care of my brother after she died and we did.
Now we're kind of stuck here.
I never lived on the road we're on but I lived within a few miles.
The church we were married in is 8 mile away so I guess you could say I still live where I grew up.
My wife grew up 30 miles from where we are now.

 

[Haertig]

Like the song Happiness is Lubick Texas in the rearview mirror.

Used to be a good hamburger place in Lubbock named "Gardsky's Loft" (probably incorrect spelling on that one). That was worth a stop in Lubbock!

 

[txcatlady]

Grandfather bought land here in 1952. We moved here in 1954 when daddy got out of army and I was 6 months old. With exception of two years at Tyler Junior College, I have lived my entire life in this county. Most of the time we lived on husbands land but now I am just across fence from my land inherited. Moved 7 times in 50 years marriage without a choice. I put foot down and I won’t be moved until funeral home comes to get me. Husbands family came to Texas at request of Sam Houston and stayed in this county.

 

[Amish Heart]

Nope, but now I'm living where my mom grew up.
I grew up outside of San Francisco. No way would I go back there.

 

[Patchouli]

Not me, wouldn't be able to afford it. All the rich people moved in cuz it was so beautiful. I am around 1400 miles from where I grew up. Lived in two places before becoming an adult, still stayed in the same general area until about 15 years ago. Tried moving back, but there's something about Texas.

 

[Tommyice]

I’ve moved twice in my life and both times were about 50 feet. Born in the apartment that was created where my grandfather’s butcher shop was to the house my parents built on the next door lot. When my grandmother passed, I moved into her apartment back in that original building (there are four apartments including mine). Even though we’re on one of the main drags in town, growing up the building across from me had a 1/4 acre meadow behind it. Our building is a corner lot and the side street was dirt growing up. That meadow is now a building that covers the entire lot with a beauty shop and six apartments three stories high. My dad’s house in the only single family house on the street.

I’m the fourth generation to live here and I used to say I was leaving the same way the three before me did--carried off toes first. The way it has built up, I’ll be walking off.

 

[Morgan101]

I have lived in three different time zones, so I am about a thousand miles from where I was born and lived the first ten years, and 1500 miles from where I went to Jr High, High School and College. I guess moving the first time (when I had no choice) made it easier the second time.

 

[kenv1950]

I was told that there was some good people on this site , thats why I signed up., Guess they were right . I like people that have overcome things in their life what ever it was. Some threads I start is just to get to know things about them . i know I'll never meet anyone in person here. so far I've never had to use the ignore button .The last site I was on that list was getting full..

 

[Old Whatshisname]

I was almost born in San Antonio Texas, where we lived when my dad came back from the war to recuperate, and I was started in a US Coast Guard "undercover" operation. With Dad back to winning the war, Mom moved to her home place with her family, and I was born in Indianapolis, left at about six months, and have never been back.

Since then, I lived in Hawaii, several places in Micronesia, back to the States and the Washington DC area, then Arizona for 40 years. Finally, in 2018, with the brats growed up and haired over, Dawn and I moved to a place we'd never even visited, fell in love with a rural lifestyle, and have lived here in southern Idaho ever since.

I've lived in just about the most liberal areas in the country (Maryland, DC), the most conservative (Arizona back in the day and now Idaho), and I liked them both, albeit for different reasons. Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the country, and Washington DC is, well, Washington, DC. Twin Falls city (pop 55,00) doesn't have really any good restaurants, theater and music venues, and hoity-toity stores, but once you're twenty miles out of town, it's a great rural neighborly relaxed vibe.

We'd been thinking about relocating "maybe one more time" before senility and/or the Reaper comes for us, but perhaps this time we'll become expats. Uruguay and Chile are our two possibilities right now.

 

[havasu]

I was born and raised 68 years ago, through a dozen houses, and never moved farther than 25 miles from the hospital I was born at.

 

[Weedygarden]

Twin Falls city (pop 55,00) doesn't have really any good restaurants, theater and music venues, and hoity-toity stores, but once you're twenty miles out of town, it's a great rural neighborly relaxed vibe.

I've lived within a couple miles of many great venues and rarely go to any of them. I've been to many of them over the years, but parking, crowds and all just makes so much of it undesirable. I have a good friend who is a theater - arts person, but she moved out of state, along with a few other friends who also are arts people. I love the arts--theater, symphony, etc., but it is so expensive and a challenge to go. I still consider myself a country girl. I love being out in the country, except for the blowing wind. People are much more conservative, more like me in the country.

 

[rice paddy daddy]

I grew up in Palm Beach County. In the 1950's and 60's it was paradise.
By the 1980's it was getting really crowded, with refugees from the Northeast and the Caribbean.
All the wide open beaches where once we could park right at the top of the dune line and walk down to the surf were now nothing but condos end to end.
The town I bought my first house in 1980, Jupiter, had a population of 9,000. Today it is over 60,000.
What once was a series of small towns down the coastline, South Florida was now nothing but one big 80 mile long metro area from Jupiter to Miami.
My wife and I prayed, and dreamed, of moving to the country, away from this big mass of humanity. In 1995 Georgia Pacific Distribution Division closed its West Palm Beach warehouse and offered me a promotion and moving expenses if I would stay with the company and relocate.
I was given the choice of Charleston, Jacksonville, Pensacola, or Tampa. Having lived my life in Hurricane Central, my wife and I chose Jacksonville because hurricanes almost never hit there.

Today we are retired and have a 4 acre farm in the piney woods of rural NE Florida. As I like to say, (having come from where I did) we live on a dead end dirt road six miles outside a one stop light town of less than 2,000.
The ONLY things I miss about South Florida are baseball spring training, and Cuban coffee.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I left home at 16 to work on a ranch and at 17 went to Alaska to work on a fishing boat and logging. Never went back. I did go back to the state (Oregon) to live for a number of years, but by that time the Californians pretty much took over and land prices were out of my reach. I owned a few homes in that state but couldn't afford much land. I then moved to another state and bought some timber land and logged it using horses. After a few years I took a job working overseas making good money and started buying land, farms/ranches and apartments. The rest is history.

 

[Neb]

No and yes.

No, I was born in Munich Germany and moved every 2 years or so as my father served 23 years in the Air Force. He retired when I was about 14 and we lived the house across the street where I live now.

Yes, between transfers we stayed with my grandparents while my father found a house for us. We also made the trek to my grandparents for Christmas. I purchased my house from my grandfather's estate. My granddaughters are the 6th generation that have slept under my roof.

When I was growing up our township was a defunct mining town. The mine was finally sold off about 3 years ago. Contractor cleared all of the trees on other side of the hollow and built 800 units (apartments,town homes, and ticky- tacky house).

So yes and no.

Ben

 

[kenv1950]

No and yes.

No, I was born in Munich Germany and moved every 2 years or so as my father served 23 years in the Air Force. He retired when I was about 14 and we lived the house across the street where I live now.

Yes, between transfers we stayed with my grandparents while my father found a house for us. We also made the trek to my grandparents for Christmas. I purchased my house from my grandfather's estate. My granddaughters are the 6th generation that have slept under my roof.

When I was growing up our township was a defunct mining town. The mine was finally sold off about 3 years ago. Contractor cleared all of the trees on other side of the hollow and built 800 units (apartments,town homes, and ticky- tacky house).

So yes and no.

Ben

My fathers side was all from Germany .Grand parents ...Vollkommer/Braun . after WWII he told people he was Dutch

 

[Magus]

https://www.city-data.com/city/Helenwood-Tennessee.html
It was a sewer back then, looks like little has changed.

 

[dademoss]

Born in Texas, and abducted by my parents to Northern KY, to the house Grandpa built, and Dad was born in. From there, moved to NW Cincinnati in 1965 and lived there till 1990. Moved out when Lori and I got hitched, and got a house about 1/4 mile from where I grew up. Now, we are moving to the area Lori went to high school, and where my Dad worked till he died.

 

[lonewolf]

I am now living about 50 miles from where I was brought up, moved from a city to a rural area.