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Post by scrapmaven on Nov 2, 2020 16:26:41 GMT
My hometown brings back horrible memories, but I was raised there. My home is where I currently live.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Nov 2, 2020 16:39:49 GMT
I grew up in Southern California and moved to the east coast in high school. LA is my hometown. I have no connections to NC now that my mom has passed and it never felt like “home” even when I lived there. I’ve moved every few years all my life until we moved here 15 years ago. I love it here, but it’s not my hometown.
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Post by busy on Nov 2, 2020 16:41:55 GMT
I lived in Beaverton, OR, from birth - 10, then moved to University Place, WA, and lived there until college. Moved back to the Puget Sound area for a while after college and then have lived in Oregon for the last 21 years.
I think of myself as a native Oregonian but UP as my hometown 🤷♀️
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Post by supersoda on Nov 2, 2020 16:42:58 GMT
The town I was born in and grew up in is my hometown (and DH's). Our parents still live there and we visit 2-3 times a year. We were there last week for a funeral--unfortunately that seems to be the reason that brings us back a lot these days.
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Post by questioning on Nov 2, 2020 16:47:38 GMT
Fun question!
My high school district is my hometown, although it's not an actual town. It's an exurb of my Grandparent's city and where I was born and lived in childhood. My parents moved to another state when I was in my 20's and had already made my own moves.
I've lived in this house and our current city for longer than anywhere else. I love our house and raising kids here, but it's my least favorite city I've ever lived, I was ready to leave the first year. It wouldn't take much to convince me to move despite having a good life and friends here.
I'd cry leaving the house where we grew our family - don't ever want to wish that away.
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Post by sassyangel on Nov 2, 2020 16:48:07 GMT
Sydney, Australia.
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Post by gizzy on Nov 2, 2020 16:50:08 GMT
I started to say the town I grew up in. Then I realized the city I'm in now feels more like my home town. I've lived here longer than I lived with my parents.
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Post by MichyM on Nov 2, 2020 16:55:15 GMT
We lived in the city I was born until I was 3, then we moved across the country. I have no memories of those first 3 years, so I consider the city I’ve lived in since to be my hometown.
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Post by scraplette on Nov 2, 2020 17:01:19 GMT
auntkelly, do you mind sharing the book? I grew up in OKc and Edmond. It was before our time (barely 🤪) , I think I have college friends from there.
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Post by maryland on Nov 2, 2020 17:04:13 GMT
Where I grew up is my hometown. I have lived in another state for many years, but still consider here as "they" and my hometown as "we"!
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Post by anniefb on Nov 2, 2020 17:10:54 GMT
The city where I live now is my home town. Lived here since I was 6, apart from a couple of stints overseas. In fact I live next door to the house I grew up in and some of my current garden was part of the garden that my parents used to own and that my brother and I grew up playing in.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Nov 2, 2020 17:12:45 GMT
When I was young, we moved a few times. The town that I lived in the longest was the town that I went to high school in (lived there 6 years before going to college). I guess I consider that to be my home town. Although I’ve lived in my current town for 20 years.
My mom and stepdad moved from the town I went to high school but still live close by. My stepmom and dad always lived in the same town that I was born in but since I didn’t go to school there past 4th grade, for some reason I guess I don’t consider that to be my hometown but maybe my second home town. Lol
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Post by katlady on Nov 2, 2020 17:13:16 GMT
My hometown is where I was born. I grew up there, went to school (pre-school thru college) there, got married there. We moved away for work more than 20 years ago, but it will always be my hometown.
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Post by Merge on Nov 2, 2020 17:15:27 GMT
The city I’ve lived in for virtually all my adult life. None of my family even lives in the town where I grew up anymore.
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Post by auntkelly on Nov 2, 2020 17:18:35 GMT
auntkelly , do you mind sharing the book? I grew up in OKc and Edmond. It was before our time (barely 🤪) , I think I have college friends from there. The book is called Without Warning The Blackwell Tornado of 1955. It’s available from the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and the Top of Oklahoma Historical Society Museum (Blackwell Museum). It will never make the NYT bestseller list, but it is a bestseller in Blackwell. 😁😁😁
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Post by scraplette on Nov 2, 2020 17:31:50 GMT
auntkelly , do you mind sharing the book? I grew up in OKc and Edmond. It was before our time (barely 🤪) , I think I have college friends from there. The book is called Without Warning The Blackwell Tornado of 1955. It’s available from the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and the Top of Oklahoma Historical Society Museum (Blackwell Museum). It will never make the NYT bestseller list, but it is a bestseller in Blackwell. 😁😁😁 I’ll get it, enjoyed my visits to Blackwell. Now you need to write one on mid century education theory and how that relates to the design of the school buildings, the high school was famous!
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Post by tracylynn on Nov 2, 2020 17:40:24 GMT
We lived in one place until I was done with 9th grade, and then moved to another town while I was in High School (9th grade was junior high still where we lived).
I consider the 2nd town my home town. I'm not totally sure why, other than my parents lived there for 26 years, it's where all my "childhood" friends are from and it's where we had the best memories (not that the ones previous were bad - I just think as you get older, you remember more things).
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Post by iluvpink on Nov 2, 2020 18:04:48 GMT
This is weird, because I was seriously wondering this same thing the other day!
Well I have lived in the same state my entire life and the same county for all but 1.5 years. However within the county I have lived in several different cities/towns. I was born in the largest town and lived there for I think my first year. Then my parents divorced. My mom who I lived with moved around a lot. My dad soon moved to the house where he still lives. From age six on I lived there with him and my step mom and saw my mom on weekends who by that time had settled to a nearby town. So I went between the two towns until age 18. Then dh and I moved away a little further and I spent a little time further away in the state.
Moved back and lived in the same town as my mom for another year or two. Then dh and I moved to the town that I would say I consider my hometown even though I didn't live there until my twenties. And we stayed there for almost twenty years and now live just a few miles away in a smaller town. But they are so close and intertwined it all feels the same.
I don't feel like where I was born or grew up as my hometown. I kind of feel like the whole county is but more specifically the town(s) where I have lived much of my adult life. I feel at home here. I never felt totally comfortable where I grew up and went to school, even though I don't live very far away at all.
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 2, 2020 18:22:19 GMT
My home town is the city I lived/used as my mailing address from 6-24 (18 years) and where my parents still live (55+ years for them).
If someone asks where I'm from, I'm more likely to name the bigger city I lived in from 25-39.
My birth town is a small fishing village on the west coast near the Alaskan border that I've been itching to visit in the last couple years. By coincidence, DH was born in nearby so I'm sure a trip there is in our near future.
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Post by Peal on Nov 2, 2020 18:27:21 GMT
Where I was raised during my formative years. Where we live now will never be "home town". It has been so unwelcoming to us.
My kids were born while DH was active duty, all in different states. They don't have a home town. I hope when they settle down as adults they feel grounded and home.
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Post by julie5 on Nov 2, 2020 18:29:36 GMT
Well I’m from the original small town that John mellencamp sings about. People here are pretty proud of that. I’m originally from Texas but I’ve lived in Indiana for 38 of my 43 years. I live a mile from where I grew up and a a mile from where my husband grew up.
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Post by giatocj on Nov 2, 2020 18:54:58 GMT
I lived in my hometown for my whole life up until last year when we moved to a small town about 50 miles away. Where I grew up and lived for so long will always be my hometown.
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Post by birukitty on Nov 2, 2020 20:11:27 GMT
I don't really have a home town. I was born an "Army brat". By the time I was 34 I'd moved to 23 different places. We moved at least every 2 years from birth to 18 years so I never really had a home town. The longest I've lived in one place is in the house I'm currently living in-DH and I bought this house 24 years ago and I have lived in Annapolis, MD for over 26 years. My parents moved here one year after I did. If people ask me where I'm from I tell them I was born an Army Brat or all over. I don't consider myself being from Annapolis although I love it here.
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Post by Linda on Nov 2, 2020 20:11:53 GMT
I always struggle with this question
I have no memories of my birthplace - I lived there for 6months and then again for 11 months when I was 6. I lived in 8 houses in 4 countries before I turned 10.
Possibly the town that I lived in from 9.5 until I left for college shortly before I turned 18? It's where my mum grew up (although not where she was born) and where my grandparents were born/lived. Pretty sure it's where DH considers his hometown - he wasn't born there but lived there from about 18m until he was 19
As an adult, I've lived in 3 states and a total of 5 towns...none of which I would consider my hometown.
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Post by workingclassdog on Nov 2, 2020 20:48:32 GMT
I never know what to say about 'my home town'. I have moved over 30 times. I do consider KC sometimes as my home town because that is where I graduated high school and my bff lives there and I go there often. Also have various family members that live there. I have never considered where I live now as my home town and not sure why because I don't 'feel' it. But I have lived in the same town now for 20 years. But when I go back to KC, it feels like home. It feels like I should live there. So I don't know... blah.
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Post by workingclassdog on Nov 2, 2020 20:52:22 GMT
auntkelly , do you mind sharing the book? I grew up in OKc and Edmond. It was before our time (barely 🤪) , I think I have college friends from there. The book is called Without Warning The Blackwell Tornado of 1955. It’s available from the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and the Top of Oklahoma Historical Society Museum (Blackwell Museum). It will never make the NYT bestseller list, but it is a bestseller in Blackwell. 😁😁😁 Well I am going to see if I can find it for my mom. She lives outside Tulsa and she loves books like this. Hopefully I can get it online!! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by CarolinaGirl71 on Nov 2, 2020 20:54:41 GMT
The town I was born in and lived until I was 22, with the exception of 3-7 years old when we moved due to my dad's job - I don't really remember much about the place we moved. I still consider it my hometown, even though I have lived in the town I'm in now for 36 years. (I'm not giving away my age because there were some other cities in between my hometown and where I am now).
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Nov 2, 2020 20:59:20 GMT
My childhood was spent in a village so I don't really have a hometown. The closest is the town I have lived in (mostly) for 25 years, which isn't the same definition as everybody else's.
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Post by hopemax on Nov 2, 2020 21:09:38 GMT
I moved from the place I was born when I was 2.5, so I don't really have a strong affinity to it. My home town is where I grew up. We've lived in our current area for 12 years now, and it still doesn't feel like "home." Home is living near the water, drizzle and cedar trees and I know every time I smell it when we go back to visit DH's family. But I'm not sure if I could actually move back there because of the coolness, drizzle and remoteness vs the rest of the US. It's one of my biggest life conundrums.
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Post by FurryP on Nov 2, 2020 22:29:03 GMT
The town where I grew up in and my parents iived unti they passed. I still have friends there, so I still visit a few times a year (pre-Covid). Where I live now will never be my hometown.
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