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Where You Currently Live vs Where You Grew Up? (2 Viewers)
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The General
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KCitons
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Freaky Styley
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Grew up in in the Second City, moved to Santa Cruz, Ca after HS, now living in HI; so 4200 miles-ish.
Fun fact: I was born in Holy Cross Hospital on the Westside. My parents kept the Chicago Tribune paper from the day I was born. Headline on the front page of the Tribune reads: Santa Cruz, Ca - Murder Capital of the US, (because of a serial killer on the loose at that time) Not only did I later move to Santa Cruz, the name translates to Holy Cross in Spanish.
Fun fact: I was born in Holy Cross Hospital on the Westside. My parents kept the Chicago Tribune paper from the day I was born. Headline on the front page of the Tribune reads: Santa Cruz, Ca - Murder Capital of the US, (because of a serial killer on the loose at that time) Not only did I later move to Santa Cruz, the name translates to Holy Cross in Spanish.
General Malaise
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Clown Car
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The Z Machine
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High school in Los Angeles, college in SF Bay, Grad school in Atlanta, work in Madrid, Oakland, and now I call Baltimore home.
If I could live abroad again, I would do it.
If I could live abroad again, I would do it.
MindCrime
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Grew up in Lancaster, PA and took me a while to realize that I could live anywhere. (Odd to say, but so many people in that region seem to live and die within miles of where they were born, that’s just what people did) I remember my father left PA when i was 20 years old, and it shocked me a bit. He told me at the time “I (he) can work a dead end job anywhere in the world, but if I do that in South Carolina, at least I can go to the beach after work”. That was one of the greatest pieces of advise I’ve ever gotten.
At 24, I moved to Orlando, and have been here ever since. Just writing this made me realize that in less than a year from now, I will have spent as much of my life in Florida as I had in Pennsylvania. (I feel old now) I still miss some people in PA, but I’m so much happier in Florida.
FYI- Google tells me it’s 969 miles to my mother’s house in PA. Mapquest says it’s 973.
At 24, I moved to Orlando, and have been here ever since. Just writing this made me realize that in less than a year from now, I will have spent as much of my life in Florida as I had in Pennsylvania. (I feel old now) I still miss some people in PA, but I’m so much happier in Florida.
FYI- Google tells me it’s 969 miles to my mother’s house in PA. Mapquest says it’s 973.
Bull Dozier
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Which part of The Land do you live in?
I grew up in the far western burbs. Parents and brothers still live there. I’ve been all over (New Hampshire, Western PA, Columbus, and now Northern VA about 20 miles from the White House) but still get back multiple times a year to see my family. Wife and I want to end up in a rural/small town area for retirement.
Senor Schmutzig
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University of Evansville. Purple Aces....
I had planned on going there anyway before my parents moved to the UK. It turned out that UE also owns Harlaxton College, near Grantham, so that's where I went to school for my first year. To say that the experience was ridiculously awesome is an understatement. The time I spent there opened my eyes to the world as a whole. That's a whole separate thread though....
The campus - AKA Harlaxton Manor
MAC_32
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Other side of town, Lyndhurst. If we ever move I cant imagine it would be more than a few miles away.
Senor Schmutzig
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Grew up in the Chicagoland area but spend a lot of time in Santa Cruz CA as that is where my aunt and cousins lived. It was always the highlight of the trip to go to the Boardwalk and try to throw the ring into the clowns mouth on the carousel. I was back there last year and was happy to see that it is still there an functioning, 40+ years later.
SFBayDuck
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WDIK2
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Sitting at 2,275 ft. (.43 miles) My sister lives directly across the street from my parents. I technically own the house next door to my parents and could live there for free, but there's no way I want to be that close to all of them.
MAC_32
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My wife's situation is comparable, half mile from her parents and one of her brother's lives 3 doors down from them. Her other brother lived 2 doors the other way until he moved in with his now wife 4 years ago. He lives about 20 miles away now.
Drunken knight
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Pipes
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This is where I'm at. A bit under 200 miles about a 2 1/2 hour drive if the weather is good. A bit of a chore to get back but not bad.
IC FBGCav
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Blonde hair guy that I won the 4 on 4 basketball tourney with at St. Camaillus?
Last name sounds or maybe is exactly like a popular hbo series.
Had to get yearbook out Duda or Sporano?
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KCitons
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I said you win. Now your just bragging. (if that's something worth bragging about)
dkp993
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General Malaise
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General Malaise
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Nice! That's where my kids were going to go too, but they changed the district boundaries on us. That pissed off a LOT of people. Many of them moved because of it, which I thought was really silly. We stayed put. Glad we did as my older boys really like BHS and we do too.
Holler next time you're out this way.
General Malaise
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IvanKaramazov
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I grew up in Evansville, but basically all the way on the other side of town and out in the sticks near the Posey County line. My mom is a U of Evansville alum.
Anyway, I went into academia, which is a national labor market in which people typically have little control over where they live. When I was on the market, my wife and I both strongly agreed to prioritize positions in the Midwest and especially the upper Midwest. We landed in eastern South Dakota, so we got our geographic wishes. We also lucked out in the sense that the town we moved to is a really nice place to live -- I've been to lots of other college towns that are kind of dumpy. It's about a 13 hour drive back to Evansville, which is a pain, and we don't get back there very often. The last time I went back on my own I just flew.
General Malaise
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I saw that Topeka is paying people $15,000 to move there. Any truth to that or was that just FAKE NEWS?
Senor Schmutzig
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It's an interesting place, Evansville. A small town that wants to be a small city. It certainly has grown since I left, especially on the east side along Green River Road. BTW, do you remember Darry's Restaurant on GRR? I was a bartender there during college and is where I met my wife (she was a cocktail waitress). She grew up in the country about an hour west of Evansville, in Illinois and had considered Evansville the "big city". LOL
I don't get back there often but it's always fun to reminisce. I still consider Turoni's pizza to be the best I have ever had and it's a requirement to stop there at least once, maybe twice, when I get back there. I have had my wife bring one back on the place with her a few times.
Zegras11
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Bull Dozier
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Definitely depends on your situation. Love the neighborhood. Like the schools.
There is a main road that goes from our neighborhood to a major shopping mall and restaurant area. Every once in a while I will get hit with an image of the past. Having driven that road since I was 2 years old, it has gone through a lot of change. From about 5 stop lights between here and there, one at a highway, to over a dozen stoplights, the highway becoming an overpass, businesses taking up every inch of real estate where there used to be open spaces. The area has changed a whole lot and some times it is a little depressing that I'm still here to see it all.
IvanKaramazov
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skol asylum
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Grew up in Northwest MN about 15-20 miles from the ND and Canadian borders. Went to college in Grand Forks, ND. Second job was in Fargo. Merger closed that office and I relocated to Phoenix. Lived downtown for a few years in an apartment and eventually moved to the burbs in Chandler.
WDIK2
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Haha. That's a good point. I can still hide if I need to. (and I have).Yeah, that was wise putting all that distance between you guys.
Drunken knight
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SFBayDuck
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I thought you lived out that way - I know we have a common IRL friend, and I believe his kids went to Sunset.General Malaise said:
About 15 years ago my parents sold the place I grew up in, 1 1/3 acres up in the West Hills off of Cornell, and a developer put 3-4 homes in on the property. They're in Sherwood now so not too far, but I don't make it to the old neighborhood too often. But would be good to get a beer sometime.
Cold Dead Hands
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I live on the same property where I grew up.
Angry Beavers
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I live in the town my wife grew up in and live roughly 500 miles from "home". I haven't lived there for so long, I now consider this "home".
D_House
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After detours in Buffalo, Baltimore, and New Haven I’ve spent the last 7 years living less than 5 miles from my childhood home in Western NY. My kids were born at the same hospital I was and are students at the same elementary school I went to.
Despite a low COL and incredible family support we’ve discussed moving to warmer climes (as I write this we are visiting my in-laws in CA for the holidays) but my wife just got a tenure track position at a local college and so we’re set to stay for at least another 5-6 years.
Despite a low COL and incredible family support we’ve discussed moving to warmer climes (as I write this we are visiting my in-laws in CA for the holidays) but my wife just got a tenure track position at a local college and so we’re set to stay for at least another 5-6 years.
rockaction
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I've lived about fifteen minutes from Baltimore for about five years and right in the heart of New Haven for three before either got even hipster uppity in the least. Rough places to live. Buffalo must have seemed very peaceful, your town possibly more so. I took a trip to take an exam for about a week and loved it.Western New York has plenty of air to breathe, it seems.
That said, the weather, much like the cold Northeast where I grew up and moved back to, leaves something to be really desired. Humans aren't meant to be that cold, and room temp is room temp for a reason.
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