Do you still live in your hometown?

[thelaw2047]

I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and went to school there all the way to Dekalb Community College and got my associates in Business Administration. I joined the military and went from South Carolina to New Jersey to California and was honorably discharged in the US Canal Zone at Fort Amador. I worked various jobs after my duty was over at home in Atlanta and left a retailer that is no longer in business called Rich's Deaprtment store and went to work at Perimeter Mall for Best Buy Coporation. It is there that I met one of the most positive and dynamic managers ever and he asked me to open a store in Knoxville, Tennessee. I left home in 1998 in February and the store opened a month later. It was an opportunity to move into a supervisory position in the Appliance deaprtment and then I moved on in the company with merchandising. I held a part-time job at night with Regal Cinemas as a projectionist and was an assistant manager there for about 2 years and resigned to work my full time present job with a e-commerce and telecommunications sales company as a supervisor. I am still presently employed with this company which I do not want to disclose. I left home because of opportunties that I knew would not open up for me in a major metropolitan city like Atlanta. There is competition here as well and though the job market maybe limited the opportunities here have worked out for me so far. And now I plan to re-focus and move on with my present employer by obtaining and finishing certification for paralegal due to the company expanding their legal department and needing paralegals to help the counselors and other legal representatives , investors, and human resources with moving forward in those areas. I do miss Atlanta but I keep in touch with my family and friends there as much as possible and visit often.It is only about a 4 hour drive from Knoxville. I may decide to move back if I obtain a job with a law firm,government / countyoffice, court system or real estate firm as a paralegal . But it looks as though Knoxville is it .....for now.

 

[winterknight]

I still live in the same house

The one time in my live I've ever lived anywhere else for an extended period was a complete unmitigated disaster.

 

[screwnutty]

just that you know Here it's called Province of Quebec and we have a City call Québec.

LOL

Don't you just hate having to explain that to non Canadians!

Oh...too bad your a habs fan! Leafs all the way!!!

 

[gabriel1]

I was born the son of a poor sharecropper... oh wait that is George Jefferson.....

Born in Milwaukee, WI still here. Not leaving no desire to.

 

[Elwood]

I was born in Montreal and still live here. I love it!! Montreal will always be home.

 

[Kulindahr]

Born in redneck Oregon, lived in a half dozen other states, back in redneck Oregon.

Linus has his security blanket; I have coastal waters and rivers.

 

[thisisinteresting]

I hadn't been back to Edmonds since elementary school when I moved away, but I moved back here because that's where my now boyfriend lives. :S So, yes, I do, actually.

 

[chatolandia]

Where were you born?
San Juan, PR. Grew up in a commuter town nearby

Where do you live now?
Western NY

And why did you move and why did you stay?
I got hired out of college to work for a large corporation here. Now work for a smaller one...

Are you planning to move to a different area if so why?
I'm thinking about moving. I like the town for many reasons, but hate it for many others. I need a place with a bit more options of things to do. I wanted NYC, but it is too expensive, I hope I can get going this year.

 

[star-warrior]

No, but occasionally go there to visit my granny's grave.

 

[954dude]

Do you still live in your hometown?
Nope.

where were you born? Where do you live now?
Born in Brooklyn, NY and live in Plantation, FL

And why did you move and why did you stay?
I moved when I was a year old.

Are you planning to move to a different area if so why?
My father's from Birmingham, England. I love it there, so why not?

 

[drhladnjak]

where were you born?

Orange County, Calif.

Where do you live now?

Seattle

And why did you move and why did you stay?

Well, I moved to several places in between where I was born/grew up and here (SF Bay Area, Germany, North Carolina). I never really cared much for the culture or sprawl of southern California, although I do miss the beach. When I first moved away, I was 17 and going away to college. I ended up in Seattle after landing a job nearby after finishing grad school.

Are you planning to move to a different area if so why?

Not off hand. I grumble frequently about living here, but there's no option that's clearly better at this time. The problem with having moved so much is that there are elements of many places I've lived that I want to have in one place, but that's not really possible. The only two places I might half-seriously entertain moving to would be San Francisco or Berlin, but moving to either would require rather dramatic changes in my life.

 

[Joshua_me]

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so we can't grow raspberries and gooseberries and cranberries or mangoes and avocados and our apples and cherries are stunted and our pears are hard and our grapes are all slipskin varieties...

True, but the annual snozberry crop is phenomenal.....

Snozberry preserves, snozberry tea, snozberries flambe....

My my, the memories are as sweet as they are juicy....

 

[Circe Infuria]

where were you born? Where do you live now?
And why did you move and why did you stay?
Are you planning to move to a different area if so why?

I was born about an hour from here.

I now live an hour from there.

My parents moved from there to here when I was 4 years old, so I didn't have much of a choice. I stayed here (for most of my life anyway) because I love the community and I'm quite settled here.

If I do move to a different area, it will be because of my boyfriend's suggestion. I'd love to live here in the city, but we both want to build a house and have some property for my horse and some other animals and for a garden.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Do you still live in your hometown?
nope

where were you born? Where do you live now?
i was born in Arpino, in the province of Frosinone in Italy
my parents immigrated to Canada when i was 3 years old
after that i lived in Toronto my entire life
in January i moved to the beautiful town of Bolton, Ontario

And why did you move and why did you stay?
my parents moved to Canada to escape the poverty that they were living in....
and they did find the great Canadian Dream. awesome country this is.

Are you planning to move to a different area if so why?
if anything i want to move back to Toronto...........
in my heart i am a big city boy.

 

[Yooper]

I was born in a small farm town (population 10,000) about an hour north of Denver, Colorado, about 6 blocks away from my paternal Grandparents house. Ironically, what was then the Maternity ward is now the Psych ward.

When I was a little over a year old, my Mom packed me and all she could carry into her Plymouth Valiant and returned to her Mother's house in a Northwest suburb of Chicago. She left the husband part of her life with his parents and he died shortly thereafter.

When I was 12, Mother, Husband #2, my two half brothers, the Dog, and myself were loaded into the trusty 1972 Volvo Wagon where we returned to Colorado, residing in the Mountains to the west of the city.

After my legal emancipation at age 18, and a subsequent post-secondary education in the Republic of Boulder, I lived a number of other places, coming to rest in the often snowbound (but pretty) Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where I've been a resident since 1987.

In the early 90's, Mother packed up Husband #3 into her 1974 Volvo Sedan and moved to her Father's hunting camp about 100 miles east of where I was living. Husband #3 went away a couple of years later.

But for the past two and a half years, I've been BACK in the place of my birth taking care of Grandma, since I'm the only family she has left. It is no longer a little farm town, though, it's now a suburb of Denver with about 100,000 residents but it is even more boring now than it used to be (you know that it's a boring town when yes, they DO have a Dirty Bookstore but it closes at 9PM...)