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Where You Currently Live vs Where You Grew Up? (1 Viewer)

How Far Away Do You Live vs Where You Grew Up/Graduated From High School?

  • I live in the exact same city/town where I graduated high school. Hell, my kids attend the same sc

    Votes: 38 12.2%
  • I live 25 miles or less from where I graduated high school. I'm in the vicinity.

    Votes: 80 25.6%
  • I live 50 miles or less from where I graduated high school. It's a short drive away, but I'm blazi

    Votes: 22 7.1%
  • I live 100 miles or less from where I graduated high school. Bit of a hassle to drive back home but

    Votes: 38 12.2%
  • I live 500 miles or less from where I graduated high school. Much longer drive and sometimes I'll f

    Votes: 40 12.8%
  • I live 1000 miles or less from where I graduated high school. Getting back home is a chore!

    Votes: 27 8.7%
  • I live OVER 1000 miles away from where I graduated high school. "and I ran, I ran so far away....."

    Votes: 67 21.5%

  • Total voters
    312
I grew up until age 15 in Orlando (Altamonte Springs), then moved to Melbourne, FL where I graduated from Satellite High.  Lived in the Melbourne area until I was 26, then moved to Jacksonville.  Moved to Charlotte, NC (Concord) at age 33 for the next 20 years.  My heart never left FL and we moved back 2 1/2 years ago to Palm Coast...so still in the Central Florida area, but about 100 miles or so from where I grew up/graduated.  Sorry, too lazy to mapquest the exact distance....

 
Grew up in a small town in Wisconsin til the day after my freshman year of high school...then moved to Knoxville, TN...was there to finish high school then went to college for 5 years and have been in the Nashville area ever since.

So...its pretty far from where I grew up...and about 2 and a half hours away from where I graduated HS...(which doesn't mean much as my parents moved back to WI right as I was graduating college...but my wife's family is in Knoxville so we still go there pretty often.

Voting didn't really fit any of this...I like where I grew up in WI...we visit twice a year (usually summer to enjoy the nicer weather and a few days on a lake...and then again for Christmas where sometimes the kids have gotten to see what a lot of snow is like vs what we get here).

While I like it there...and could even see living there...my wife is definitely a southern girl and one thing we discussed when we got marries is that she would likely never want to live up there.  And thats fine as I love where we live now.  I miss the smaller town feel sometimes...but I like living where we do not far from the city when we want a bit more to do.

 
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Born, raised and went to college in Philadelphia.  Growing up I thought the world was basically centered between the Poconos and the South Jersey Shore. Boston to the North and DC to the South.

Then I got married and moved South and there's no way I could move back. After 5 years in Savannah (loads of fun but sucks for IT career), I moved to Jacksonville to do Y2K programming. 23 years and a couple programming languages later, I'm still here. I still hesitate when someone asks where I'm from. 

Not sure if we'll retire on the First Coast or look for something on the Gulf.  That's probably a decade or more off though

 
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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. 
I moved from Chitown to the West side SC, a couple of blocks from West Cliff Drive and Natural Bridges State Beach, so I spent a lot of time at the Beach Boardwalk and surfing at Cowells beach and Indicators across from  the wharf, boogie boarding at (T)its beach by the lighthouse, good times.

Interesting Chicago ties I found after moving to SC:  

Wrigley Chewing Gum had a factory on the west side and I actually worked there for a few weeks one summer.  Wrigley’s had a big Cubs / Chicagoland memorabilia case in the lobby, and it was cool explaining the various mementos and Chicago trivia with my coworkers, most of which had never had been to Chicago.

Also, I lived down a few doors down from Glenallen Hill, outfielder from the Cubs.  I had no idea until I was told by a neighbor a decade later.

Lastly, the Ayanbadejo brothers, Brendon and Obafemi, NFL players with Da Bears who moved from Chicago to SC about the same time I did.  They lived nearby and met them at local high school / UCSC parties, good dudes.  Brendon owns a Orange Fitness franchise in the area I would see him from time to time.  Last I heard from mutual friends, Obafemi lives in LA.

 
Born and raised in Cheyenne, WY.  Went to college in Rochester, NY.  Why?  I didn't want to go to UW - I wanted a change and wanted to experience a different part of the world.  

My first job out of college was in South Florida, which is a pretty easy sell from Upstate NY or Wyoming.  I was there for 10 years before I grew tired of the traffic and heat.

I've been in South Carolina since.  I do like it here, but I would move back to Wyoming in a heartbeat if I could find a job that interested me.  I say that, but in truth, the wind would drive me nuts and I don't think my wife would make it there.

ETA: 1605 miles.  A full 24 hour drive.

 
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Born and raised in Cheyenne, WY.  Went to college in Rochester, NY.  Why?  I didn't want to go to UW - I wanted a change and wanted to experience a different part of the world.  

My first job out of college was in South Florida, which is a pretty easy sell from Upstate NY or Wyoming.  I was there for 10 years before I grew tired of the traffic and heat.

I've been in South Carolina since.  I do like it here, but I would move back to Wyoming in a heartbeat if I could find a job that interested me.  I say that, but in truth, the wind would drive me nuts and I don't think my wife would make it there.

ETA: 1605 miles.  A full 24 hour drive.
My 24 year old son moves to Cheyenne next week. Someone else told us the wind is terrible. Anything else you can share with us? 

 
My 24 year old son moves to Cheyenne next week. Someone else told us the wind is terrible. Anything else you can share with us? 
Rodeo is last full week of July.  That's worth going to. 

Immediately west of Cheyenne is Curt Gowdy State Park (yes, named after the sportscaster).  There are some nice picnic/hiking areas there, far less busy and more convenient than Colorado.  The area is called Veedawoo but pronounced veedavoo.

In general, stay north of the railroad tracks (south side can be a bit sketchy), and don't drive over 20 mph downtown.

I'm guessing he is in the Air Force?  Not sure why else a 24 yr old would purposefully move to Cheyenne.

 
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Always windy in Wyoming. There’s a spot up on the summit between Cheyenne and Laramie where if you park your car a certain way and open your door, the wind will do some damage. 

 
Always windy in Wyoming. There’s a spot up on the summit between Cheyenne and Laramie where if you park your car a certain way and open your door, the wind will do some damage. 
Honestly, that was my biggest shock on NY...I actually saw leaves on a tree not move...not even a little bit.  Blew my mind that the air could be that still.

 
Always windy in Wyoming. There’s a spot up on the summit between Cheyenne and Laramie where if you park your car a certain way and open your door, the wind will do some damage. 
@Beef Ravioli - this drive can be dangerous, FYI.  It's an Interstate so you think it's cool but the combination of wind, ice, and double-trailer semis going too fast for the conditions can be scary. Warn your son to not make that drive in winter if it's nasty and he isn't familiar.

 
I'm guessing he is in the Air Force?  Not sure why else a 24 yr old would purposefully move to Cheyenne.
He is actually going up there to be involved and help in a church based ministry. Not sure if it will be a long term thing or just a year. He is excited to try some outdoorsman type stuff, especially fishing. 

 
This topic made me realize all 4 of the places I/we have lived and will be living are each >1000miles apart from each other.  Weird.

Born / early childhood - Saskatchewan, Canada (who knows why)

School years thru college - West Virginia / Ohio (we moved to be near my dad's family)

post-college working years - Houston TX (job)

next phase - Idaho

 
Rodeo is last full week of July.  That's worth going to. 

Immediately west of Cheyenne is Curt Gowdy State Park (yes, named after the sportscaster).  There are some nice picnic/hiking areas there, far less busy and more convenient than Colorado.  The area is called Veedawoo but pronounced veedavoo.

In general, stay north of the railroad tracks (south side can be a bit sketchy), and don't drive over 20 mph downtown.

I'm guessing he is in the Air Force?  Not sure why else a 24 yr old would purposefully move to Cheyenne.
I don’t know much about Cheyenne, but I’ve been impressed with the quality of outdoor recreation in the state - just as good as CO IMO. Vedauwoo offers world class rock climbing, for example.

 
I don’t know much about Cheyenne, but I’ve been impressed with the quality of outdoor recreation in the state - just as good as CO IMO. Vedauwoo offers world class rock climbing, for example.
Medicine Bow NF, west of Laramie, is one of my favorite places to camp out west. 

 
Born in a drained swamp west of Port Arthur near the refineries.

Went to Houston immediately after HS, then moved all around the country, from coast to coast and in-between. We never had kids, so when we had too much money, we'd spend it all moving somewhere else. I really enjoyed getting to about all the different types of people and geography in our country. 

Moved back to Austin close to 15 years ago (had lived here before late 70, early 80s). Didn't really want to move anymore an it was the best spot I had found. I'll probably stay til I die, unless I live too long and can't afford it anymore. 

 
I live juuust about as far as you can get from my hometown without diving into an ocean to go further.  I'd wager it's over 2,500 miles away.

Born in a drained swamp west of Port Arthur near the refineries.

Went to Houston immediately after HS, then moved all around the country, from coast to coast and in-between. We never had kids, so when we had too much money, we'd spend it all moving somewhere else. I really enjoyed getting to about all the different types of people and geography in our country. 

Moved back to Austin close to 15 years ago (had lived here before late 70, early 80s). Didn't really want to move anymore an it was the best spot I had found. I'll probably stay til I die, unless I live too long and can't afford it anymore. 
This is a very, very similar outcome for my bride and I, although the moving around has basically been chasing after jobs rather than by mere choice.  I have lived more places than just about anyone in my immediate or extended family by a long, long way (One late uncle being the exception.  He lived in Vietnam and Saudi Arabia for a decade+ in each, the back to the States about as far as you could get from our hometown), including three different places the last 4 years, and I've found other than the actual stress/nonsense of the move itself that I have quite liked getting to see "how different it can be in a new place."  I'll make more moves if the mood/need strikes, but it'll probably mean heavily sedating my wife.  She is NOT built for it, unfortunately.  Hell, my current place of business is in the process of opening up an Austin footprint in 1st quarter 2020.  They may well open it up as an option for local employees to relocate to if it goes how they hope.  I've already told them I'd be willing to consider it, if the timing/compensation were right.

Biggest difference from you to me in this regard is that I will never move back to my hometown.  Plenty of family still there, but there is absolutely nothing else.  It's fly speck in western PA that has been slowly bleeding to death for about 30 years.  When forced to return since I've left (weddings, funerals, etc) I grow more and more depressed each time.  Watching the area "age in chunks" rather than being there every day and not really noticing it in real-time is sobering.

 

 
I live juuust about as far as you can get from my hometown without diving into an ocean to go further.  I'd wager it's over 2,500 miles away.

This is a very, very similar outcome for my bride and I, although the moving around has basically been chasing after jobs rather than by mere choice.  I have lived more places than just about anyone in my immediate or extended family by a long, long way (One late uncle being the exception.  He lived in Vietnam and Saudi Arabia for a decade+ in each, the back to the States about as far as you could get from our hometown), including three different places the last 4 years, and I've found other than the actual stress/nonsense of the move itself that I have quite liked getting to see "how different it can be in a new place."  I'll make more moves if the mood/need strikes, but it'll probably mean heavily sedating my wife.  She is NOT built for it, unfortunately.  Hell, my current place of business is in the process of opening up an Austin footprint in 1st quarter 2020.  They may well open it up as an option for local employees to relocate to if it goes how they hope.  I've already told them I'd be willing to consider it, if the timing/compensation were right.

Biggest difference from you to me in this regard is that I will never move back to my hometown.  Plenty of family still there, but there is absolutely nothing else.  It's fly speck in western PA that has been slowly bleeding to death for about 30 years.  When forced to return since I've left (weddings, funerals, etc) I grow more and more depressed each time.  Watching the area "age in chunks" rather than being there every day and not really noticing it in real-time is sobering.

 
I am back in Austin because its the best city I ever found. My hometown is not on the list of any place I'd live again.

 
General Malaise said:
I saw that Topeka is paying people $15,000 to move there.  Any truth to that or was that just FAKE NEWS?
It's legit - LINK

I have lots of friends that work in Topeka, but they all live in Lawrence.

 
Graduated HS in the Bay Area. Undergrad in Chicago. Back to SF.  Masters in NYC. Short stints in London. Belgium. Suzou. Singapore. Kameoka.  Met the girl off my dreams and settled in MN.  26 years later... 

 
1433 miles current door to childhood door. Born and raised in the same house in Ohio for my 1st 21 years. Went to college, signed up for ROTC, went active duty and retired over 20 years later. Landed my last assignment in Texas and never left.

 
This topic made me realize all 4 of the places I/we have lived and will be living are each >1000miles apart from each other.  Weird.

Born / early childhood - Saskatchewan, Canada (who knows why)

School years thru college - West Virginia / Ohio (we moved to be near my dad's family)

post-college working years - Houston TX (job)

next phase - Idaho
what city?

 
right at the 25 mile edge.  one suggested google map route is less than 25, one is greater. i chose 25 or less for the purposes of this. lived in another state for a couple years as an adult,  but have lived in the 25-35 mile range as an adult the rest of the time.

 
I am back in Austin because its the best city I ever found. My hometown is not on the list of any place I'd live again.
Ah. Gotcha.  I misread.

I've been through Austin twice, liked it, and have had IRL friends who lived there for a handful of years, but I've never got to spend a lot of time there.  One of these days I should pick your brain about it/the surrounding area a bit.

 
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Born in Oakland, raised in Alameda.  Met my wife in college in the East Bay.  We now live in Novato, 0.5 mi from where she grew (my in-laws still live in that house).

 
Born and raised in Charleston, SC.  Actually born down in the city and have always lived just north of the city.  We moved from North Charleston to Hanahan (a bump on the map between North Charleston and Goose Creek) in 4th grade. When I got married, we lived in a duplex in North Charleston for just over 2 years before buying a house back in Hanahan.  I've never lived more than 15 miles from where I was born.  My wife's family moved to Hanahan from North Charleston when she was 2 years old.  We live one street over from where she grew up ... we are maybe just over a mile from where I grew up. Yes, our kids went to the same high school we did.

 
Grade school, Jr. High, HS all in Harrisburg, PA.  Currently live in Mechanicsburg, PA about 20 miles away.  In between...

Graduated college and moved to Philadelphia area (East Falls neighborhood)

Moved to Charlotte, NC 

Moved back to Harrisburg, PA

Moved to Springfield, NJ (near Newark)

Moved to Webster, MA (near Worcester)

Moved to Lakeland, FL

Then moved back to central PA

 
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Moved away from my hometown of Pittsburgh five years ago for a better job. Been trying to get back but to no avail. 300 miles away, near Philly. The job is still good but I miss my family and friends plus I’d like my 4-year old daughter to know her grandmother better. The job market in Pittsburgh is thin for the work I do, in independent schools.

 
Chenequa Wi

Rochester N.Y

Palenque, Chiapas Mexico

Madison WI

St. Paul MN

Marshall MN

Colorado Springs

Aurora CO

A few twists and turns aside.
I spent summers in Oconomowoc & Nashotah Lakes. Best of times was when Grampa Johnny took me to Wingers. I ate Kit Kat bars & played bumper pool while he wrecked himself enough to drive us home👍

 
About ten years ago my wife and I bought a house in a brand new subdivision being built around the corner from my childhood home, the only permanent place I'd lived, aside from being away for school to that point. 

Before we moved in, my dad died and my mom decided she didn't want to look after that big 50 years old five bedroom house by herself. She bought a new home in the same subdivision as us - six doors down.

My older brother and his wife bought that childhood family home and ten years later still live there. 

My other other brother is about a five minute drive away. He has special needs and lives in an apartment building with on site assistance. 

3-4 years ago, my in-laws started complaining about the upkeep and expense of their house. It was a very transparent play to try to be asked to move in with us. There was no chance that was happening, but we bought yet another house in the new subdivision and they rent from us (at a rate that doesn't even cover the mortgage but hopefully works out as an investment property/eventual money maker when rented out at market rate).

Everyone being so close has its ups and downs. It's great at holidays - no driving. My mom despite being six doors away never shows up uninvited/without calling but the in-laws will. We all have nearby pet sitters (no kids) but we're also close enough to be called whenever it's time to fix the internet or lift something heavy. 

 
new home in the same subdivision as us - six doors down.

My other other brother is about a five minute drive away.

3-4 years ago, my in-laws started complaining about the upkeep and expense of their house. It was a very transparent play to try to be asked to move in with us. There was no chance that was happening

we're also close enough to be called whenever it's time to fix the internet or lift something heavy. 
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My parents' home (one I lived in from 6th grade until I got married) burned down a few years ago, they bought a new house 6 doors down from it ... right next to my sister.

My brother lives in the same neighborhood as them, only two streets away.

My in-laws only lived one street over from us, which was convenient for helping them.  It also helped with easing them into moving in with us when their health began to deteriorate

The close enough to help with lifting heavy things is good, fixing the internet is the one that makes me want to move across the country.

 
Grew up in Philly.  Furthest I have lived was college, which was approx 200 miles away in central PA.  Now live in the Philly burbs, about 25 miles from where I went to high school.  My kids go/will go to schools I used to compete against.

Would love to move, but all family live in the area pretty much and the wife and I have been at our jobs for near 20 years each.  Plan is to move away come retirement.

 
The homes I grew up in have now been sold multiple times and had their tops popped.  They are nothing like my homes now, but the woods, lake, creek all still hold memories.  My grandfathers house still stands as he and my dad built it after a fire took their house.  79 years and going strong.  It is now in the cousin's family.  I am currently selling off the farm my grandfather once owned and where my father grew up and where I spent many hours working and hunting.  When that is gone the last remnant of our family will be the name of the road it is on, the bridge nearby, the nearby park bearing our family name, the wing of the hospital bearing our family name, and the chair at the local college named in honor of my grandmother.  Soon folks will wonder who those are named for.  Summers fade, roses die. Castles made of sand slip into the sea, eventually.

 
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The homes I grew up in have now been sold multiple times and had their tops popped.  They are nothing like my homes now, but the woods, lake, creek all still hold memories.  My grandfathers house still stands as he and my dad built it after a fire took their house.  79 years and going strong.  It is now in the cousin's family.  I am currently selling off the farm my grandfather once owned and where my father grew up and where I spent many hours working and hunting.  When that is gone the last remnant of our family will be the name of the road it is one, the bridge nearby, the nearby park bearing our family name, the wing of the hospital bearing our family name, and the chair at the local college named in honor of my grandmother.  Soon folks will wonder who those are named for.  Summers fade, roses die. Castles made of sand slip into the sea, eventually.
I, for one, would love to visit Ditkaless park!

 
I chose 100 miles, though I'm actually more like 120 miles by road. This is the farthest away from my boyhood home/High School I've ever lived. 

 
Born in Oakland, raised in Alameda.  Met my wife in college in the East Bay.  We now live in Novato, 0.5 mi from where she grew (my in-laws still live in that house).
We must know people in common.  I have tons of co-workers/friends who live in Novato. I live in Mill Valley now and for the past 19 years. 
 

Grew up in Brooklyn, NY. Went to college in upstate NY (Troy, NY), worked in NYC for a few years after. Then got a dream job offer in the SF Bay Area back in '96. Been here ever since, 24 years at the same company on Jan 8, 2020. So 3000 miles from where I went to High School and zero plans to move back...parents and in-laws are all in CA now, so only siblings back east. Not a single relative lives in Brooklyn anymore anyway. 

 
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We must know people in common.  I have tons of co-workers/friends who live in Novato. I live in Mill Valley now and for the past 19 years. 
 

Grew up in Brooklyn, NY. Went to college in upstate NY (Troy, NY), worked in NYC for a few years after. Then got a dream job offer in the SF Bay Area back in '96. Been here ever since, 24 years at the same company on Jan 8, 2020. So 3000 miles from where I went to High School and zero plans to move back...parents and in-laws are all in CA now, so only siblings back east. Not a single relative lives in Brooklyn anymore anyway. 
@bakes > hey

 
I live around 1,500 miles away. I grew up in combination of north Central Wyoming, South West Montana along with a few other places.

I now live in wonderful Houston, Texas.

 

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