Are you living in the same area as you grew up?

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Are you living in the same area as you grew up? And if you're not, would you move back?

I grew up in a small Massachusetts town. They threw me out in my late teens, and the U.S. Navy took me in. They Navy dumped me off in NYC. I made my way to the sticks of Pennsylvania. I'm ok there, but I could move back to Mass. if I had to.
 

NO...far from it.. I've lived in many places since I left my childhood home.

I would love to go back, I love the city, I love my country ... I've visted just once since been gone 52 years... but I can see on google street view how much things have changed in the area, and from family members ... and I wouldn't want to return now..

They do say the past is a foreign place they do things differently there.. so I think it would be a mistake after 1/2 a century to return and try and pick up again where I left off...
 

I've lived in different parts of the USA since leaving home, and happy to have done so. When visiting folks
back where I was raised, those who just stayed, I wonder about how seemingly limited and local their thinking is yet
how solid, rooted, content and established they are. To each their own.
 
Gark said:
I've lived in different parts of the USA since leaving home, and happy to have done so. When visiting folks
back where I was raised, those who just stayed, I wonder about how seemingly limited and local their thinking is yet
how solid, rooted, content and established they are. To each their own.
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I often think the same. There are people who live in my neighbourhood who are my age and were actually born in the house they live in.... and their extent of travel has been one week a year somewhere in the UK......

I know they probably don't think they're missing out on anything... but the old adage about travel broadening the mind is absolutely true....
 
I have traveled all over the USA, except Alaska, Hawaii and the New England.
Still, I find the draw is back to the Midwest, Northern Midwest and now St. Louis.
I haven't felt the need to do international flights since the late 20's years of my age.
 
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I've lived in several places over the years but currently live a few hundred miles away in a neighboring state from the small Michigan village I was raised in. I miss it so bad, I have a hard time even watching news from that area. Hopefully a miracle will send me home one last time.
 
No. I am pretty far from home and have no intentions of even visiting my home area. My wife died in that area unexpectedly, so I have too many unfavorable memories.

I did try my first criminal case in my home area and won, meaning I was able to get my client off the hook. He was facing a 25-life sentence. I had a Perry Mason moment that made the difference.
 
I grew up partly in Illinois and partly in Florida. The military took me to Alaska and that is where I retired. It is a more interesting place than the part of Illinois where I was born but we are so far from everything up here!
 

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