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How far away are you now from where you grew up?

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MagicBlackCat
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 12:36 pm
I lived in California north of the San Fernando Valley area up till the late 80's

I now live just outside the greater Phoenix, AZ metro area
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George
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 02:31 pm
The Lovely Bride lives 8,000 miles from where she lived till age 10.
(Hong Kong to Stoneham)
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 02:57 pm
I chose "same region", though people here in New Mexico would say not, as they don't consider (it seems) southern California as southwest. Eh, there's one state between, and LA is south and west.

(Los Angeles; Dayton; Los Angeles; Arlington, VA; Los Angeles; New York - Bronx; Chicago; Los Angeles for 44 more years; Eureka-Arcata bay area of northern California; Albuquerque, NM for 2 years.)
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Eva
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 04:24 pm
I now live 100 miles from where I grew up, in the same state although the geography is quite different.

I've lived in four different cities/towns in Oklahoma plus...Ventura, CA...Cleveland, OH...and Plano, TX.
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Miklos7
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 04:40 pm
I was born in Washington, D.C. (then, a quiet southern town, filled with flowers; now, a bustling, smaller town, filled with more and more concrete barriers--and home to an outrageous number of greedy lobbyists and lawyers. And, at both times, the center of some truly ugly weather). For the last 34 years, I've lived in rural NE Maine (quiet, full of artists and other hard-working people, and the center of some of the loveliest scenery and weather in the U.S.). My wife and I are not leaving.
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Bi-Polar Bear
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 04:45 pm
grew up? what the hell are you talking about?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 04:46 pm
I was born in New York, but went to my grandparents home in an entirely different region while still a small boy, and more or less, that was the region in which i was raised. As an adolescent, i lived sometimes there, and sometimes with an Aunt, in a different region. I have since lived in several different regions, and now live hundreds of miles from the city in which i was born, and many more hundreds of miles from the region in which i was raised. Rather a peripatetic existence.
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Reyn
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 04:56 pm
I was born in The Netherlands, and moved to Canada in 1956. My family moved straight to British Columbia, where I've lived to the present.

I've moved around a lot within BC, though. Probably a dozen or so locations.
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TTH
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 05:11 pm
I was born and raised in Gig Harbor, WA. I still live in WA. I have no reason to move, so I travel instead.
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hawkeye10
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 05:12 pm
Grew up in Rockford IL, University in Michigan, then Monterey Cal..Munich Germany...Monterey Cal....Darmstadt Germany....Monterey Cal...Sierra Vista Arizona...Washington State.
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Izzie
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 05:19 pm
10 miles...

but it feels like a million miles away sometimes.

Grew up in Devon, in SW England, left home at 22ish - moved to Cambridge (USAF base) for 6 months, moved to London for a few years, moved to Boston - MA for 2 years, moved to San Francisco-CA for 2 years, moved back to London for 3ish years, moved back to Devon....

the home town hasn't changed that much - but I sure have. Smile
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martybarker
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 05:39 pm
hawkeye10 wrote:
Grew up in Rockford IL, University in Michigan, then Monterey Cal..Munich Germany...Monterey Cal....Darmstadt Germany....Monterey Cal...Sierra Vista Arizona...Washington State.


Wow, I grew up in Southern Illinois and now live in Washington state.

It's funny, working in a hospital sometimes I'll ask my patient where they're from just to strike up conversation. Some of my patients were even born at the same hospital they are now getting treatment in as an older adult.
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dagmaraka
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 06:43 pm
it's a few thousand miles to bratislava. i wanted to see how many exactly, but couldn't - tried googlemaps, yahoomaps, even google earth....
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Chai
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 06:47 pm
According to Google Maps, I am 1,731 miles away from the house where I grew up.

I live on Hether St, in Austin.....quick, someone figure out what street in NJ I grew up on.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 06:49 pm
Born near San Angelo, Texas, but grew up in California. We moved back and forth, from Fresno to San Jose. Now, I am in the Houston, Texas, area.
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fbaezer
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 08:23 pm
Mexico City born and raised.

Then..
Modena, Italy
Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico
Mexico City

(And I live now on the very same street I lived on from age 9 to age 19)
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Thomas
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 09:39 pm
About six thousand miles from Konstanz, Germany. (Munich was about 150 miles away.)
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Sglass
 
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2008 09:42 pm
I don't know how far Hilo is from Kilgore Texas.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Tue 4 Mar, 2008 12:44 am
Same town, FWIW.
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Bohne
 
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Reply Tue 4 Mar, 2008 03:05 am
I was born in a little town in South Germany.
Right now I live about 30 miles from there.

And I am still in touch with people I know since Kindergarten.
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