Do you think the place where you grew up has affected your life?

chic said:
We don't really say Pahk the Cahr in Havid Yahd. You can't park in Harvard yard anyway. There is no car access but lots of congested streets around.
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Oh are you from Massachusetts? I brought up an old joke to another member from there, but no response.. do you or other ladies from Massachusetts have P.S.D.S.?

(hint to anyone else: it's what some ladies have when they wear a specific type of jewelry...) :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Alligatorob said:
Mormons believe the same, they drink water for communion.
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Methodists have traditionally used grape juice for communion as alcohol was seen are a path to sin. They weren't wrong, particularly at the time when they separated from the Church of England. The alleys of London were strewn with men and women who were extremely drunk on gin.

My congregation continues to serve grape juice during communion even though most members enjoy alcohol in moderation. We do it so as to not exclude anyone who is a recovering alcoholic.
 
I grew up in a blue collar town in Wisconsin with 2 older siblings and wonderful parents. They were very supportive and encouraged all of us to go to college. My siblings followed the traditional path but I got married young, had 3 kids and then started college when my youngest started kindergarten.
 
chic said:
We don't really say Pahk the Cahr in Havid Yahd. You can't park in Harvard yard anyway. There is no car access but lots of congested streets around.
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I watch an American reality show, and there's a guy on there who is from Boston, and he absolutely talks like that... and even the other Americans take the rise out of him... :D
 
Warrigal said:
Methodists have traditionally used grape juice for communion as alcohol was seen are a path to sin. They weren't wrong, particularly at the time when they separated from the Church of England. The alleys of London were strewn with men and women who were extremely drunk on gin.
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..wonder what their excuse is today..?:sneaky::D
 
I grew up in Windsor Ontario, Detroit Michigan was a stone throw away across the river. Automotive towns, lunch bucket towns was what people who lived elsewhere called them. Always seemed like a put down to me as if the people who lived there were not quite good enough.
 
I have lately wondered how different my mind would have been if my first memories weren't adults crying over the Holocaust. I've known of Hitler, etc. the camps, etc. since I was a baby. It was a burden, but watcha gonna do? There was no escape from the people and their stories, and .............
wish I didn't have to know of this in such detail so early. I was a little girl who already knew there were people who hated me and wanted to kill me and who was I but a young kid and already I had enemies.

Anyway, my dad bought one of the new co-ops when I was 4. I grew up amongst others with the same background. Imagine 4 year olds discussing death camps and war, making ourselves heroes with our made up stories of what we would have done to save our people.

So, it was Time I was born into before Place I lived that affected me the most. Growing up in NYC in the '50's was idyllic in that we made the most of the city's parks, libraries, museums, and I have nothing but good memories of that.
 
I grew up in the New Jersey suburbs of NYC, so that area definitely affected my life. If nothing else, you could recognize the locales and even some of the houses in The Sopranos! It was kinda the best of both worlds, since you could hop on a bus and be in the big city in half an hour with its shows, museums, and shopping. Small town provincialism had no hold on me until I moved to semi-rural areas as a young adult…
 
I was born/raised in my hometown, Buffalo,NY.When my older sister,younger brother left for college never returned here to live but I stayed because of my job. I live in the same neighborhood where we grew up,my childhood home is 2 blocks away I've seen alot of changes in the city over the years, mostly good especially the reviatlization of downtown Buffalo which for yrs was a 'ghost town' on the weekends. Other places in the city haven't changed at all. I can still get somewhere if needed either by walking,taking bus or friends offer to take me
The only times I didn't live here,{from ages 10-16} in the 60's was away at 2 boarding schools in Deerfield, Mass, Toronto,Canada lived with aunt&uncle in Baltimore,MD for 2 yrs I went to 2 yr college in the 70's in Montpelier, VT
 
moviequeen1 said:
I was born/raised in my hometown, Buffalo,NY.When my older sister,younger brother left for college never returned here to live but I stayed because of my job. I live in the same neighborhood where we grew up,my childhood home is 2 blocks away I've seen alot of changes in the city over the years, mostly good especially the reviatlization of downtown Buffalo which for yrs was a 'ghost town' on the weekends. Other places in the city haven't changed at all. I can still get somewhere if needed either by walking,taking bus or friends offer to take me
The only times I didn't live here,{from ages 10-16} in the 60's was away at 2 boarding schools in Deerfield, Mass, Toronto,Canada lived with aunt&uncle in Baltimore,MD for 2 yrs I went to 2 yr college in the 70's in Montpelier, VT
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Movie Queen. What was your experience when you lived in Toronto, as an American kid ? How long were you here ? JimB.
 
Pepper said:
I have lately wondered how different my mind would have been if my first memories weren't adults crying over the Holocaust. I've known of Hitler, etc. the camps, etc. since I was a baby. It was a burden, but watcha gonna do? There was no escape from the people and their stories, and .............
wish I didn't have to know of this in such detail so early. I was a little girl who already knew there were people who hated me and wanted to kill me and who was I but a young kid and already I had enemies.

Anyway, my dad bought one of the new co-ops when I was 4. I grew up amongst others with the same background. Imagine 4 year olds discussing death camps and war, making ourselves heroes with our made up stories of what we would have done to save our people.

So, it was Time I was born into before Place I lived that affected me the most. Growing up in NYC in the '50's was idyllic in that we made the most of the city's parks, libraries, museums, and I have nothing but good memories of that.
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This really makes a person think. We don't know how hard it may have been for others.
 
hollydolly said:
I watch an American reality show, and there's a guy on there who is from Boston, and he absolutely talks like that... and even the other Americans take the rise out of him... :D
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There are Bostonians who have accents but they are usually the under educated ones. Most of us learned how to rid ourselves of our accents by the time we became adults, much like many actors from New York have done. :giggle:
 
chic said:
There are Bostonians who have accents but they are usually the under educated ones. Most of us learned how to rid ourselves of our accents by the time we became adults, much like many actors from New York have done. :giggle:
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yes it's the same with my city where I grew up. It has a particualrly harsh accent, and once you have it it's a devil of a job to not have it.. so my mother wouldn't ever allow us to talk in the local dialect, which meant when I moved away.. my accent smoothed out a lot without me even attempting to lose it...
 
Yeah, I first saw that bumper sticker on cars that says, "He who dies with the most toys wins" when I was about 15. And you know that old saying about how "new" money is even snobbier than "old" money? Well, I grew up surrounded by new money--although we didn't have hardly any money which was fun (not)--and I don't know if it was even snobbier than old money or not but it was plenty snobby enough.
 
hollydolly said:
yes it's the same with my city where I grew up. It has a particualrly harsh accent, and once you have it it's a devil of a job to not have it.. so my mother wouldn't ever allow us to talk in the local dialect, which meant when I moved away.. my accent smoothed out a lot without me even attempting to lose it...l
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Our accents were terrible but I didn't realize how awful they were until I grew up and met people without them. My Gran was European but with NO trace of an accent. She spoke flawless American English all her adult life. Is American English an oxymoron? :ROFLMAO:
 
officerripley said:
Yeah, I first saw that bumper sticker on cars that says, "He who dies with the most toys wins" when I was about 15. And you know that old saying about how "new" money is even snobbier than "old" money? Well, I grew up surrounded by new money--although we didn't have hardly any money which was fun (not)--and I don't know if it was even snobbier than old money or not but it was plenty snobby enough.
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New money is called Nouveau Riche here, I don't know about the USA... and they are the snobbiest because unlike Aristocrats ( Old money who are not at all snobby ).. they're not used to it, so they think money defines class.. in fact what they are is succinctly summed up by Roseanne Barr years ago when she said '' I'm every American's object of hate, White trash with money''..
 

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