schizo319
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Post by schizo319 on Nov 2, 2020 14:40:11 GMT
First, I'm not asking for anyone's location or birth city or any other creepy stalker info!
I have the HGTV show Home Town on TV in the background, and I was wondering what people consider their home town. Is it the town you grew up in? Where your parents live? The city you were born in? Where you chose to buy a home/retire? Can you have more than one home town? Does/Can it change over the course of your life?
I feel like my home town is the city I grew up in and have lived in the longest, but I also feel like the city I was born in (where my grandma still lives) is my home town...
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snyder
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Post by snyder on Nov 2, 2020 14:43:29 GMT
I'm a native to the city I live in, so this is my hometown. I've lived in this city all my live with the exception of a 2 year period when I first was married, we lived in the mountains about 150 miles from my home town.
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Anita
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Post by Anita on Nov 2, 2020 14:50:30 GMT
The town I was born and grew up in. I no longer live there, nor do I ever want to again, but it will always be my hometown.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 2, 2020 14:53:20 GMT
The town that I grew up in and where my parents still live. I also still have a lot of family and friends there. It is only an hour from where I live so I go home often.
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Post by katiescarlett on Nov 2, 2020 14:55:42 GMT
The town that I grew up in and where my parents still live. I graduated from high school and college there and it will always be my hometown.
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Post by quinlove on Nov 2, 2020 14:58:17 GMT
I grew up on the shores of Lake Huron, lived there for 35 years. Beautiful, smallish town, I go back at least once a year. I certainly consider that my home town. I subscribe to their local newspaper online.
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Post by its me mg on Nov 2, 2020 14:59:58 GMT
I grew up in the same town from Pre School all the way until the age of about 25 or 26, so that will always be my home.
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on Nov 2, 2020 15:01:31 GMT
I’ve been here in my current city for 33 years. Moved here as a teenager with my family and never left. I don’t hate it here, but it’s never felt like my hometown.
My first 11 years were spent in Rochester, New York. My parents were both born and raised there and most of my extended family is still there. We moved away, due to my dad’s job, and never went back except for occasional visits. When we buried my mom there two years ago, though, I was taken aback by the strong connection I still felt to the area. I wasn’t there for a large part of my life, but it still felt like home to me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2020 15:02:35 GMT
The town I grew up in and went to school at. I left, went to University and moved back nearer my home town. I don't live that far away but when I visit close relatives I still say I'm going home for a few days. It's strange, the word home though. If I'm out shopping I'll still say "finished, lets go home" ( but in that context I mean to my own house)
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Tearisci
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Post by Tearisci on Nov 2, 2020 15:07:07 GMT
I consider the town I grew up in to be my hometown. I lived there for almost 50 years so even though I never want to go back, and my parents have now moved to where I am, it will always be my hometown.
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psiluvu
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Post by psiluvu on Nov 2, 2020 15:07:30 GMT
I lived in one city from birth to age 10. Then we moved to a small town when I was 10, I left and moved to a bigger city to go to university and have been here for almost 35 years. I still consider the small town where I lived from 10 to 18 to be my home town. I guess because that is where I "grew up".
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TXMary
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Post by TXMary on Nov 2, 2020 15:07:50 GMT
I was born on a USAF base in Germany and moved back to the states (Texas) when I was 3 years old. We spent 7 years in a town in west Texas before moving to Central Texas when I was 10. I am 58 now and still live in the area in Central Texas that we moved to and I consider it my hometown because I don't remember anything about Germany and very little about west Texas. My DH was born and raised in west Texas but moved to Central Texas when he was early 20s. Other than a brief period in Dallas, he has lived here ever since but he still considers the town in West Texas to be his hometown. He's 60 now.
My mom is 88 and left home when she was 20 but still considers the town where she was born and raised in Pennsylvania to be her hometown.
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Post by auntkelly on Nov 2, 2020 15:12:15 GMT
The little town in Oklahoma where I grew up will always be my hometown. I haven’t lived there since I was eighteen, but I stay in touch with lots of my high school friends. I recently wrote a book about an F5 tornado which struck my town 65 years’ ago. I made many trips to my hometown to do research and in the process I rekindled a lot of old friendships. One of my old neighbors from Houston recently went camping to Jacksonhole, Wy. She got to talking to the lady at the next campsite who said she was from a small town in OK. My friend from Houston said “I only know one person from a small town in OK. Her name is . . . .” It turns out the lady was a friend from my hometown! She was reading my book on vacation. My friend from Houston didn’t even know I’d written the book. They took a picture with it and sent it to me, which made my day!
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 2, 2020 15:12:15 GMT
I moved to the city I grew up in when I was three. Lived there for the next 18 years. That is my hometown. I really have no association with the town I was born in.
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schizo319
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Post by schizo319 on Nov 2, 2020 15:16:57 GMT
The little town in Oklahoma where I grew up will always be my hometown. I haven’t lived there since I was eighteen, but I stay in touch with lots of my high school friends. I recently wrote a book about an F5 tornado which struck my town 65 years’ ago. I made many trips to my hometown to do research and in the process I rekindled a lot of old friendships. One of my old neighbors from Houston recently went camping to Jacksonhole, Wy. She got to talking to the lady at the next campsite who said she was from a small town in OK. My friend from Houston said “I only know one person from a small town in OK. Her name is . . . .” It turns out the lady was a friend from my hometown! She was reading my book on vacation. My friend from Houston didn’t even know I’d written the book. They took a picture with it and sent it to me, which made my day! That is so cool - what a "small world"! Congrats on your book, that's such a huge accomplishment!
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Post by KiwiJo on Nov 2, 2020 15:30:18 GMT
Hehe - the place where I am living is definitely my home town. Of course the fact that I live in the exact same house I grew up in, helps me decide. I have lived in this house for a total of 56 years of my life - only living elsewhere during my twenties. So yes, my home town is where I was born, where I grew up, where I’ve spent most of my life, and where I now live.
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Nov 2, 2020 15:31:26 GMT
Where I lived from age 7 until I "launched."
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Post by cmpeter on Nov 2, 2020 15:33:50 GMT
The town I grew up in. I don’t have family there anymore. But, went to school there for grades 2-12.
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Post by elaine on Nov 2, 2020 15:34:16 GMT
The city I was born and grew up in will always be my hometown, even though I have now lived in my current town (and house) for the same amount of time.
Even though my boys were born in different towns in CO and CA, we have lived in this house in VA since they were 2 and 3, so this is what they consider their hometown. They went through all their schooling here, only have memories of here, etc.
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milocat
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Post by milocat on Nov 2, 2020 15:37:10 GMT
I've lived in the same area that my great grandparents came to from the old country and each generation is still in, not that no one has left just my immediate family tree stayed. Technically I live in a different town from which I grew up, well I grew up on a farm and our town was a different one than the one I'm in. It's all within 20km and 2 tiny towns and 2 municipalities of a few thousand people. So it's all here and all the same, one big community.
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Post by ExpatBackHome on Nov 2, 2020 15:38:17 GMT
The place I was born and lived until I was 29. Family still live there so I go back to visit. And I have friends that are still there that I visit.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 2, 2020 15:42:36 GMT
I've *lived in* quite a few different towns, but my *home town* will ALWAYS be the small Illinois town I grew up in. I was born at a hospital in a larger town 30 miles away, but I grew up in a small town with a population of 1500. I graduated from high school there (graduating class of 42!), and my parents built their house there before I was born. That's where I'm from, if anyone asks. While I've lived in Arizona for almost 15 years now, I don't consider myself an Arizonan; I'm a 'native' of Illinois.
if that makes sense.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Nov 2, 2020 15:43:18 GMT
I would consider where I was born, raised and lived for 31 years my hometown. My stepdad, sister and most of her family still live there.
We’ve lived in our current location for 20 years this March, but I’ve never considered it my hometown. I believe my children probably do since they were 6 & 8 when we moved here and most of their memories are here.
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Nov 2, 2020 15:47:26 GMT
By the time I was 10 I had lived in 3 US states and 1 other country.
I consider my home town to be where I lived from 10-mid 20s (besides my time in college). My parents still live in that same house.
Dh and I have lived in our home for 17 yrs. I love that my kids went to the same school for K-6 and I am very connected to our community.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Nov 2, 2020 15:56:04 GMT
The town I was born and grew up in. My parents still live there. I actually havn't lived there for 38 years, but it's still my hometown. Even though I've lived in my current town about 29 yrs, it's never felt like home. It IS my dh's hometown though.
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stittsygirl
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Post by stittsygirl on Nov 2, 2020 16:12:17 GMT
I lived in the same town from 3 to 18, so that would be my home town even though I haven’t lived there for nearly 30 years.
My kids, on the other hand, never really had a home town since we were military and moved a lot. We’ve been at our current location for five years, don’t have any plans to leave right now, and three of them have graduated or will graduate from the local high school here. They probably consider this place their home town now.
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scrapngranny
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Post by scrapngranny on Nov 2, 2020 16:13:34 GMT
I was born in one city, stayed there 3 weeks. Spent the rest of my time in different cities in the Bay Area. Moved to where I am now 29 years ago. I guess my hometown would be the place I spent my school years. It doesn’t feel like a hometown, though. We had no relatives living there while I was growing up and my parents moved away as soon as I graduated high school. I stayed there, married, had my children, then moved here. I have no connection to my “hometown “ whatsoever now. No bad feelings, I just don’t feel connected tonthere at all.
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Post by epeanymous on Nov 2, 2020 16:13:34 GMT
I lived in the same town from birth-18 and consider that my hometown. My parents continued to live there for about 20 years after I left home (they live in the suburbs here now).
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Post by tyra on Nov 2, 2020 16:17:12 GMT
I guess the town that I was born in and lived in until I was 35. Whole family lives in that town so when I moved, I got a house a few blocks from my dad lol I moved about an hour away when I was 36. To be honest, I consider this my home town now. The city is very family orientated, a ton of family activities and events. Perfect for raising my family. I feel more at home here than I did the much bigger city that I came from.
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Post by huskermom98 on Nov 2, 2020 16:22:08 GMT
I always have a hard time with this question because I was born in one city, but we lived in a different town until just before 7th grade when I moved with my Mom to the city I was born in, and lived there from 7th grade until I graduated college & got married... My dad still lives in that town & my Mom still lives in that city.
So I usually say I'm "from" that city, but "grew up" in that town. Both places made me who I am today & I still have ties to both places, even though I haven't lived there for 20-30+ years.
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