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How far from “home” are you?

Born and raised in a very small town in southeast TN, moved to Birmingham, AL for pharmacy school... loved it and stayed here. I've been in AL for the last 17 years. I'm about a 3.5 hour drive from my hometown.

Husband is from MS, moved to Auburn, AL for college, and thankfully relocated to Bham for work... ;-)
 
Born in HK. been living in Sacto, Ca. since 1966.
 
whitewave said:
Born in New Orleans, same hospital as DH was born. DH and I grew up two red lights and two miles away from each other. Met when we were in high school.

Went to Tennessee. That is as far as I got. Moved back to Louisiana.

My mom and most siblings are still in the NOLA area, as are my aunts and cousins.

After Katrina, some of my aunts and uncles and cousins moved to Mississippi. Dh's cousins are in Mississippi, and his brother is in the New Orleans area.
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I have a "thing" about New Orleans. I probably could not live there because the heat and humidity would kill me. (I was once in Houston in the summer and I assume New Orleans is similar.) But not only do I like the French language influence there, but I love the French Canadian/ Cajun history. I have devoured the books of James Lee Burke. I have listened to old Cajun music on YouTube and compared the lyrics of "Jolie Blonde" in many Cajun versions with standard French. I am just smitten with all of it. And I almost ended up going to law school at their Loyola University, too. The downside was that I would have (back then) have to have studied Napoleonic Code. I do not know if Louisiana law has changed any in the past 40 years.

I wonder what is like to be a native like you and your husband, whitewave. Fascinating.
 
This thread reminded me of a news item I just heard on the radio today. Marureen Dowd travelled to Plains, Georgia to interview President and Mrs. Carter. Julie Mason, who was reporting the news and who should know better, mispronounced Mrs. Carter's name as "Rozalin". However, she made me laugh when she deadpanned that Mo Dowd was surprised to find that Plains was three hours away from Atlanta. "In other words, 'a fur ways', as we used to say in Texas."
 
I was born and raised in a small town north of Pittsburgh, then lived in Philadelphia for 22 years before returning to my hometown last year. I guess all of us Pittsburgh area people should have a get together at some point!
 
StephanieLynn said:
My state (CT) is small so if you were born here and still live here even if you moved from one end to the other, you are never far from home.

That said I live 40 minutes from where I was born in Hartford and have never lived much farther away despite living in different towns and different counties.
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Well, from what I read about Ontario, it sure doesn't compare!I live at one tip if the state, however. My town actually belonged to the Dutch, not the English, long ago. So driving from where I live to some places is about as far as one can go in Connecticut. It could take three or four hours, or even a bit more, to get to some places from my house! And that is without traffic! ;))

(fellow nutmegger here)
Deb:wavey:
 
coda72 said:
I was born and raised in a small town north of Pittsburgh, then lived in Philadelphia for 22 years before returning to my hometown last year. I guess all of us Pittsburgh area people should have a get together at some point!
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North of Pittsburgh......Beaver? Kittanning? Zelie? I miss 'em all!
Yes, we could all meet under the Kaufmann's clock in Dahntahn! That was always the place to meet, back in the day!
 
stracci2000 said:
North of Pittsburgh......Beaver? Kittanning? Zelie? I miss 'em all!
Yes, we could all meet under the Kaufmann's clock in Dahntahn! That was always the place to meet, back in the day!
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I worked at the Florsheim shoe store at the corner of Fifth and Smithfield when I was in high school, ha ha!
 
Dee*Jay said:
I worked at the Florsheim shoe store at the corner of Fifth and Smithfield when I was in high school, ha ha!
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Really?! I walked by there every day, on my way to the Art Institute! It was 1982-84. I once slipped and fell on my a$$ right under that clock. The sidewalk was slippy with ice!
After the Art Institute, I worked in an art studio on Smithfield above the PBA (Pittsburgh Beauty Academy)..so funny. It was a great time in my life.
 
stracci2000 said:
Really?! I walked by there every day, on my way to the Art Institute! It was 1982-84. I once slipped and fell on my a$$ right under that clock. The sidewalk was slippy with ice!
After the Art Institute, I worked in an art studio on Smithfield above the PBA (Pittsburgh Beauty Academy)..so funny. It was a great time in my life.
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We just missed each other! I was there 1986/1987.
 
stracci2000 said:
Yes, we could all meet under the Kaufmann's clock in Dahntahn!
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Kaufmann's and Joseph Horne's, sigh. Fish sammiches from Original Oyster House. Perogies, sigh.
 
Matata said:
Kaufmann's and Joseph Horne's, sigh. Fish sammiches from Original Oyster House. Perogies, sigh.
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Doggonnit, I've had those fish sandwiches! The Oyster house in Market Square. Yes, I miss perogies, jumbo, and Isaly's chipped ham.
 
AGBF said:
Well, from what I read about Ontario, it sure doesn't compare!I live at one tip if the state, however. My town actually belonged to the Dutch, not the English, long ago. So driving from where I live to some places is about as far as one can go in Connecticut. It could take three or four hours, or even a bit more, to get to some places from my house! And that is without traffic! ;))

(fellow nutmegger here)
Deb:wavey:
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Deb, I have been as far as Stamford and the traffic down there is crazy! I mean I get the appeal being so close to NY and Fairfield county is so pretty but it's very difficult to navigate if you're not used to it.

DH was driving down to Fairfield county on the Merritt for work for a bit and he said if he didn't get down there by 7a.m he would have to sit in over an hour of traffic once he hit Bridgeport.
 
StephanieLynn said:
Deb, I have been as far as Stamford and the traffic down there is crazy! I mean I get the appeal being so close to NY and Fairfield county is so pretty but it's very difficult to navigate if you're not used to it.

DH was driving down to Fairfield county on the Merritt for work for a bit and he said if he didn't get down there by 7a.m he would have to sit in over an hour of traffic once he hit Bridgeport.
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There are two Parkways/highways going from North to South through Southern Connecticut (and therefore through Fairfield County) : 15 (known as The Merritt Parkway in Fairfield County) and 95 (or The Thruway).

The Thruway, now so crowded through Stamford during rush hour that cars do not move (think LA), was built when I was a child. At first there were no cars on it at all! It was really built to accommodate trucks for interstate commerce since they could not use The Merritt Parkway and, otherwise, had to use Route 1 (known where we are as The Boston Post Road).

The change in the traffic on 95 over the years has been amazing. Instead of living in Fairfield County and commuting to New York City, people now live in towns like Stratford and Orange and commute to Stamford and Greenwich to work in corporate parks. There are headquarters for parts of GE and Swissbank and many hedge funds right in Stamford and Greenwich. I don't want to go even a few miles at rush hour because I know the traffic will be dreadful and I know all the back roads!
 
Currently a loooooong away from home, UAE is about 16hrs flight from Oz. I’m currently very homesick :cry2: We’ve lived in many places around Australia due to military postings - Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Townsville, Darwin and home.... Armidale.
 
So interesting! Lots of us Pennsylvania folks! Also very interesting to hear about the international crowd! I’ve been all over the world but never actually lived in another country. That’s so adventurous!
 
I grew up in remote rural Australia, literally with kangaroos out the front and snakes out the back yard. I moved to Sydney to go to Sydney University, lived there for several years then moved to Tamworth, which is a larger rural town/city in Australia. Now I live in one of the larger cities on the Eastern Seaboard. My parents still live in remote rural Australia. I can live anywhere that is comfortable and where my family and pets are.
 
Born and raised in the western suburbs of Sydney, current residing in the western suburbs of Melbourne which is about 600 miles away.

The last few times I have been back to my hometown I've noticed major changes and it no longer feels like the place I grew up, might seem a little silly but the realization that I had become a nomad of this land made me shed a tear.
 
AGBF said:
I have a "thing" about New Orleans. I probably could not live there because the heat and humidity would kill me. (I was once in Houston in the summer and I assume New Orleans is similar.) But not only do I like the French language influence there, but I love the French Canadian/ Cajun history. I have devoured the books of James Lee Burke. I have listened to old Cajun music on YouTube and compared the lyrics of "Jolie Blonde" in many Cajun versions with standard French. I am just smitten with all of it. And I almost ended up going to law school at their Loyola University, too. The downside was that I would have (back then) have to have studied Napoleonic Code. I do not know if Louisiana law has changed any in the past 40 years.

I wonder what is like to be a native like you and your husband, whitewave. Fascinating.
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Thanks!! Ha! Yes, still Napoleonic code... my mother is dying for one of my kids to go to Loyola, but it is 54k a year at this point for undergrad...

My DH and I raised our kids away from New Orleans because of the crime, and I have a feeling most of them are going to end up back there.

I'm more in a cajun french area now. My housekeeper teaches me words, but I have no recall lol.

New Orleans has a lot of problems. Ton of problems. But it is special. Every time I stay a few days at the house there, I start wondering what it would be like to move back permanently.
 
arkieb1 said:
I grew up in remote rural Australia, literally with kangaroos out the front and snakes out the back yard. I moved to Sydney to go to Sydney University, lived there for several years then moved to Tamworth, which is a larger rural town/city in Australia. Now I live in one of the larger cities on the Eastern Seaboard. My parents still live in remote rural Australia. I can live anywhere that is comfortable and where my family and pets are.
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I've not seen one in person, but those bulked up male kangaroos look freaky lol
 
Born and raised in a small town in NE Texas. Now live in the Houston suburbs, about 6 hours away from where I grew up.
 
1500 miles away from home. Born and raised in Michigan, mostly The Villiage of Grass Lake, which is about an hour west of Detriot. Moved to Texas 6 days after graduating High School in 1984. Married a Texan and bought a house in Katy, TX, a suberb of Houston. Love living in Texas. Go home every few years to see the few remaining family members and classmates. My twin still lives in Michigan and will stay there. We also spent summers in Salina Kansas, so I go back there every few years. I now live in a house in Katy, TX, with one of my older sisters, and my 23 year old son and we are waiting on another sister to move down from Kansas. My son will move out so us 3 sisters are going to live like "The Golden Girls" and enjoy the rest of our lives together. My other son lives 8 minutes away or should I say I found my home 8 minutes away from his. So now he and his 9 year girlfriend visist me more often. Yippee!! Except that they ate all my food this past weekend and all the cookies that sister made.
 
kenny said:
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OMG, deleted my post. I misread it. Thought it said "9 year old girlfriend". Now I'm hallucinating typos where none exist. It's all trump's fault.:mrgreen2:
 
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