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Post by whipea on Nov 2, 2020 23:13:59 GMT
Tough one for me too.
I was born in a northern city and lived there for a few years - don't remember much. Moved to South Florida, Miami and grew up there. The city I grew up in no longer exists. One thing about the more urban areas of Florida, if you blink it will be vastly different in appearance and population.
No family left so the only place I consider home is where I live at the present time. Been in this city for 26 years.
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Post by AussieMeg on Nov 2, 2020 23:41:34 GMT
Australians tend not to move around as much as Americans do, so for all of my friends and family around my age and younger, our home town is right here in Melbourne where we were born, have lived all our lives, and will likely die. Pleasantly boring hey? One of my best friends moved from the eastern suburbs to the western suburbs - does that count as moving around?  My mum was born in a country town (her parents were dairy farmers) and two years ago she moved back to that same town. So I'm sure she considers that her home town, rather than here where she spent 50 years, the majority of her life. |
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Post by freecharlie on Nov 3, 2020 0:00:13 GMT
My home town is where I spent all of my childhood and part of my early adulthood. My parents still live in the same area they have lived since I was 2.
The town I live in now, I consider to be my town, not my hometown
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2020 0:10:20 GMT
My hometown is the big city where I grew up (DH too). I won’t say the name....but....Go Birds 🦅!! Pretty please?
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Post by valincal on Nov 3, 2020 0:41:25 GMT
I was a military brat so we moved a fair bit. My home town is where I’ve lived most of my life, here in Calgary.
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Nov 3, 2020 0:49:29 GMT
The town I grew up in. I’ve long moved away, but my grandpa, dad, uncles, aunt and cousins all still live there. My brothers and I are the only ones to move away from our hometown area.
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Post by myboysnme on Nov 3, 2020 0:51:30 GMT
I have no hometown. It is one of the reasons we didn't move when and where I wanted to because I wanted my kids to have a hometown. I moved when I was 12 and then moved away to join the military when I was 18.
Then my mom moved when I was 20. So I now consider where my mom lives as my hometown of sorts, even though I have only lived in that county 3 total years of my adulthood.
I have lived in my current home for 30 years, but it is not my hometown. It is my kids' hometown.
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Post by msliz on Nov 3, 2020 0:53:42 GMT
My mother still lives in the house where I grew up. I lived there for my first 20 years, and she's been there for 50 plus.
I've lived in so many different places since then, but that house and that town will always be home to me.
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Post by bothmykidsrbrats on Nov 3, 2020 1:06:06 GMT
I consider the city I've lived in since I was 15 (1981), my home town. I haven't even stepped foot in my home state since my grandmother died 20 years ago.
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Post by tiffanyr on Nov 3, 2020 1:37:38 GMT
Born in a different state but we moved from there when I was a year old. Moved to a neighboring state and lived in several different cities and finally settled in one city when I was 5. This is the city I consider my hometown. I currently live in a suburb of my hometown.
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Post by pancakes on Nov 3, 2020 1:42:01 GMT
I grew up in the same city until I was 18, and I often qualify “where are you from” with “I’m originally from ...”
But if I were to just answer where are you from, I’d say Chicago. I’ve been here for more than 7 years, so it’s the longest place I’ve lived as an adult.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Nov 3, 2020 2:17:34 GMT
I was born on the East Coast of USA, lived there until the end of 8th grade. I lived there approximately 14 years. I consider this where I spent my childhood.
9th grade moved to Western end of USA. I have lived in the same city for approximately 41 years. I consider this place my home.
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Post by tenacious on Nov 3, 2020 2:31:42 GMT
The city I lived in from age 9-18. I lived in a neighboring city up until 9, so, really, all my growing up was within a 25 mile radius. Both cities in the Bay Area, CA.
I have lived in Utah for more years than CA, but, I will always be a California girl at heart.
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Post by jackietex on Nov 3, 2020 2:38:07 GMT
I feel home townless. I was an Army brat, so we lived more places than I even know. Push comes to shove, I'd say Austin. We moved here in 1979, when I was 14 years old.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Nov 3, 2020 7:47:58 GMT
I consider my hometown to be where I grew up in. The place I remember my childhood the most at. My roots.
I lived in the same city all 18 years of my childhood though.
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Post by longtimenopea on Nov 3, 2020 12:45:44 GMT
I lived in a few different places as a child but think of my hometown as where we spent most of that time. I went to part of elementary school there and then all of middle and high school, so it was the most familiar place to me as a young person.
I also got out as fast as I could, because it was a small backwater town without a lot of opportunity - and still is. But I maybe have a little more affection now for the way I grew up than I did when I was younger.
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Post by peasapie on Nov 3, 2020 13:40:35 GMT
The town where I was born and raised is and always will be my hometown. For better or worse, it informs a lot of who I was and who I have become.
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