Did you ever move away from where you grew up?

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I lived in the same city in northern Virginia my whole life until moving to Oakland, California last October.

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I lived on the east coast until 1999 ā€” I miss my house and home town dearly, Iā€™m going to make a trip out there soon as I have money.

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I really admire that. I moved away from my hometown for college, but thatā€™s when I became ill. after college, I came back home. I want to move so badly to a bigger city, but I am terrified to move away from my family for fear Iā€™ll get ill again or will be without family in a city and not be able to support myself. Also the anxiety of a new place and of packing up everything gets to me.

I think itā€™s cool that you move so freely and have different experiences with places

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I moved out into the city when I could. Lived overseas for 2 years back in the noughties. Would have stayed on but was having trouble with greencard so moved back to Oz.

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I was in the military from 1988 to 2012 and lived all over. But I moved back to my hometown in 2013.

I lived in Virginia Beach, Chicago, Quantico, Va, Pensacola, Florida, Jacksonville, NC, All over Southern California in Orange and San Diego counties, Japan and El Paso, TX.

I was born and raised in Baton Rouge though. And thatā€™s home again. We bought a house here in 2018 so we are here to stay. I still own a house in El Paso though. Itā€™s rented.

I sold my houses in Pensacola and San Diego. I should have kept them both and then I would have three rentals. But that might have been too much to handle.

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I live where I can, I canā€™t afford to live independently yet.

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Iā€™ve lived in different cities but all within a 45 minute drive of each other.

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I spent the first six years of my life in Clinton, Oklahoma. I still remember my first grade sweetheart. She was bold.

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I moved to Texas twice once for 2 years then 6 months I now live in my hometown in Kansas where I grew up

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I moved around a lot when I was younger so I never had a permanent place to call my home. I moved away when I was in my early 20ā€™s via my job and lived at the beach for years. I truly loved it. I eventually moved back to my hometown though after a round of bad fortune. :roll_eyes: - psychosis

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Letā€™s see, I was born in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A. Then, I moved to St. Louis, Missouri, then to San Antonio, TX, then, on to Fort Bragg, NC, then, on to Izmir, Turkey, then, on to Butzbach, Germany, then, we moved to Fort Irwin, CA, then on to the Panama Canal Zone, Panama, then on to Las Vegas, NV, where my father retired from the U.S. Army, then, from there, we went back to Omaha, NE, then on to Phoenix, AZ, then back to Omaha, NE, where I have stayed for the last 24 years.

During my childhood years, I spent a lot of time, during my parents vacations, in both Blair, Nebraska, and in Mexico City, Mexico where both my sets of grandparents lived.

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I moved 8 years ago - after constantly being victimised in my home town. I still had to stay in the county tho - so i had a local connection to get my council flat.

Best thing i ever did - binned off all the scummy friends and those using me and started again.

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I grew up in a rural part of Northern Norway, only 5000 people in the COUNTY.
They were of the kind of old school christianity where essentially everything you enjoy is a sin, and God is gonna punish you.

I moved away when I turned 20 and could afford it.
I had to.

Those places, everyone knows everyone, and if you screw up once, people will remember and bring it up 10 years later. I felt like there was one way of being, and if you were not able to be that way, you were doomed to live life as an outcast.
As in, whenever I made new friends, they would tell me their parents had heard rumours about me and were not happy about them seeing me.

Donā€™t get me wrong, the city in itself is beautiful, old, and peaceful, and the surrounding nature is amazing.
I do miss it.

Itā€™s just that whole small-town mentality I couldnā€™t deal with anymore, I felt like there wasnā€™t any room for me an I was slowly suffocating.

So, to answer your question, as soon as I could afford it after becoming an adult and having 18 hour workdays for a few months to boost my savings account, I yote the heck outta there.

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Ive generally not ventured to far from hometown, and ive been in this apt long time.

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