Are you a local ,

hollydolly

hollydolly

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.....do you still live where you were raised ? do you still know most of the people in your area ?

What about schoolfriends, are you still adult friends?
 

Well..I did move away from my home town....about 30 miles. Stayed about 35 years, now I am back, Still friends with a couple people from high school....one lives here in my building. And still friends with one person from college
 

CinnamonSugar said:
Although my current location is not where I was raised (other side of the country), Iā€™ve lived here longer than anywhere else I guess that makes me a local šŸ˜„
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Incredibly, despite even not being English.. I have lived in England for 50 years.. and the majority of it in this neighbourhood... so even tho' I'm not even English I can be described as local...:ROFLMAO:
 
I moved about 70+ miles to go to school (1974) and stayed in this area ever since.

The old home town is barely recognizable, lots of changes and expansion. I know one guy yet who I met in 6th grade, but other than family that's it.

I've been here ever since. Lived all over the place here over the years, but I'm still in the little "town" where I built one house then bought another older one after my divorce. I worked in many corners of the organization I was employed with, so I knew a lot of people and met quite a few more. I still have FB contact with a lot of them, though at a low level.

The neighborhood I live in has been the same one since 1997.
 
Michael Z said:
We have lived where we are for 30 years. But we are not locals, at least not in the eyes of those whose grandparents homesteaded the area.
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the funny thing is... that in the eyes of the neighbours who were here before me ( I've been at this particular house for 44 years)...I'm still an outsider.. but 75% who live here now with their families weren't even born when I came here, so they just presume I'm local
 
Yes. It's so beautiful I hate to leave. :giggle:

I'm not really friendly with people from my school days with very little exception.
 
hollydolly said:
the funny thing is... that in the eyes of the neighbours who were here before me ( I've been at this particular house for 44 years)...I'm still an outsider.. but 75% who live here now with their families weren't even born when I came here, so they just presume I'm local
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Yeah, in my neighborhood there are now very few "originals" left. People who were the first to live here when the homes were built in 1962 to 1965.
 
Nope. Been here about 18 years, and I still feel like a fish out of water. I grew up in an urban area and now am in a distinctly rural one. I could go on with more details, but I don't want to insult anyone who likes the Great Plains.

I'd give my eyeteeth to get out of here. I was intending to move about 18 months ago, but I got hit by enormous medical costs and couldn't afford to. :cautious: The best I can hope to do now is travel on occasion so I can stay sane.
 
I was led to believe that I was born under a mulberry bush, though my ancestors hailed from Ireland, and although I've lived over the water from Liverpool for many years (an imitation Scouser), I'm considered to be English.
I love the humour in this part of the world. šŸ˜Š
 
bowmore said:
I moved from NYC to So Cal many years ago and never looked back. My late wife went to High School in Pittsburgh, and at a reunion, she found that most of her classmates still live less than 50 miles from where they grew up.
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I was stunned relatively recently when I saw on FB my old friend from school...was still living in the house she lived in when we were schoolkids. I knew the house, I'd visited it several times... it was the house she was born in, and it transpires she never moved out.So she's lived there almost 70 years.

When we left school she went to work for a local firm, ( a company I knew well) a short drive and within walking distance from her house,..she stayed there in their office all her life until she retired

She never moved once from that house.. nor did she go and work anywhere further than her own locale.. never married, never had kids... I was feeling like I was being strangled when she was telling me all this..I felt totally claustrophobic.. and really as it turns out, even tho' we were friends at school right up until we left school.. our lives could not have turned out more differently..
 
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I left my home turf in 1998 and Iā€™m not sorry.

I Spent five years in SoCalā€™s Low Desert area as it was the cheapest place out there to live with my horses - they moved with me. I had no intention of staying there. I met my late husband out there, we sold out both our properties and semi-retired to Middle Tennessee - and my horses came with me again.

I love this farmette. We built it from scratch. It is my Nirvana. My remaining family is quite a bit younger and they know they will carry me off this hill. Itā€™s a lot to manage, but the work is my choice as I love this place. I couldnā€™t live anywhere as cheap as I live here. Iā€™m not off grid but ā€thrifty ā€œ is my middle namešŸ˜ƒ
 
I was born about 10 miles down the road. Then it went like this:
Rochester, NY
Holly, NY
West Palm Beach, Florida
Juno Beach, Florida
Lake Park, Florida
Nelliston, NY
Los Angeles, California (one summer)
St. Johnsville, NY
Los Angeles (and later Hollywood), California
New York City (Brooklyn & Manhattan)
Syracuse, NY
Jersey City, NJ (about 6 months)
St. Johnsville, NY (10 miles or so from the hospital where I was born.)
 
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We live about 1000 miles from where I grew up about the same distance for him too. We immigrated from the US to the Yukon Territory,Canada, after a couple of winters there we started moving south. Then we stopped in BC and because I believed that if one enjoys the benefits one should become citizens. So as soon as we could back then we did become citizens, and quite honestly I have always been so glad we did. We love Canada and are so thankful!
 
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