Have you moved away from your home state permanently?

[jlee]

Without knowing anyone in your new area / only for work?

I knew ~3 people online that I ended up meeting and becoming friends with.

How did you cope? How did you find a new social circle?

...cope? I moved because I wanted to. New social circle was created mostly through cars - I seem to gather a crowd of MR2 people. :awe:

Would you still move home if you could?

Fuck no. NH sucks.

Today I realized that I will never be able to move back to my home city (Vancouver) because there will never be work in my field (big business). So I have to settle down somewhere foreign -- wondering if other people have been in the same situation.

Where do you want to live?

 

[Aikouka]

Even though California is going broke, everything is expensive, the job market still sucks, it's still the best state and very difficult to leave. The weather, sights, women, I've thought about moving to another state but everything else is a downgrade.

You know y'all wanna come live hur in 'bama!

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Haven't lived in the philadelphia area in about 4 years now. I recently moved to southwestern VA. My parents are still in philadelphia and I get a different feeling when I go back there...I think I would still consider philly as home.

 

[kalrith]

Moved from Michigan to Missouri 13 years ago to go to college. Met a girl and got married here, and I've been here ever since. Obviously this is different because it involves college, but that first year was quite difficult. I did go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter though.

 

[highland145]

Nope. My house is only a couple of hundred yards from the hospital I was born in. My office, 1.3 miles from the house.

I hear there is a whole wide world out there but I'm skeptical.

 

[BoomerD]

Nope. My house is only a couple of hundred yards from the hospital I was born in. My office, 1.3 miles from the house.

I hear there is a whole wide world out there but I'm skeptical.

Have you ever left your local area?

I know people here who have never been more than 100 miles from the city in which they were born...many have never been that far away.

Seems pretty sad to me. There's a LOT to see in this country...and more in the world.

 

[highland145]

Have you ever left your local area?

I know people here who have never been more than 100 miles from the city in which they were born...many have never been that far away.

Seems pretty sad to me. There's a LOT to see in this country...and more in the world.

Meaning to live, I assume,

Clemson...2.5 hrs away..~4 years
Anderson, SC for about 6 months.

Travel, a little more. West, Cali. East, England. North, NY. South, Ft Lauderdale. And some points in between.

Semi-promised the fam I would do better next year.

 

[BoomerD]

Meaning to live, I assume,

Clemson...2.5 hrs away..~4 years
Anderson, SC for about 6 months.

Travel, a little more. West, Cali. East, England. North, NY. South, Ft Lauderdale. And some points in between.

Semi-promised the fam I would do better next year.

Nah, I meant even for visits/vacations. At least you get out and about........😛

 

[unokitty]

Chicago, IL to Carbondale, IL school/work at SIU for a few years.

Carbondale, IL to St. Joseph, MI work for Heathkit/Zenith for a few years

St. Joseph, MI to Galveston, TX become assistant director.

Galveston, TX to Daytona Beach, FL become a director.

Daytona to Fort Lauderdale year of graduate school.

Fort Lauderdale to Houston, TX for current job.

Contemplating West Texas or NM for the future...

Oh, yea... in there somewhere a two year Army Hitch, sixteen months in Okinawa...


James McMurtry, I'm Not From Here.


Uno

 

[Zeze]

Have you ever left your local area?

I know people here who have never been more than 100 miles from the city in which they were born...many have never been that far away.

Seems pretty sad to me. There's a LOT to see in this country...and more in the world.

When I visited Texas, I met some truly stereotypical locals.

They were super nice to me (I'm Asian too). I talked about my cross-country road trip (which TX was a part of). They wished me well and said, "I drove up almost to Oklahoma, then I got scared, came back down."

It's like they're PROUD of not discovering their own country and the world.

 

[DougK62]

I guess I'm one of the minority that actually likes the midwest. The changing weather just means there is something new to do. I've done a fair bit of traveling and can see the appeal of other parts of the country, but I will probably always own rural property in the midwest.

 

[dabuddha]

Yes. And I still get down about it sometimes. I moved out to the DC area about 10 years ago for work. I've slowly made some new friends but overall, I feel the folks up here in the North/Northeast are much less sociable then folks from the south.

 

[roguerower]

Dad is military so I grew up in a couple of places, but the longest was VA for HS & college. 2 weeks after graduation I was in TX. 14 months after that I was in MN for 3 months, then ND for 3 months, now back in VA.

The transient nature of my job is one of the reasons I started skydiving...there's almost always going to be a dropzone with like-minded people.