How did you wind up living where you live?

In your specific home or the city — either way, conspiring minds want to know. :evilgrin:

I moved to this city a little more than eight years ago because I'd recently started working at the newspaper here, and I quickly got tired of commuting 30 miles each way. The job's history and so's that house, but I'm still in this hellhole. :banghead:

I was forced to return to the States when my partner of four years announced he needed some space a mere six months before I was due to get the equivalent of a green card to stay in the UK.

So I moved to beautiful, beautiful Austin, Texas (home), the only place in the USA I would ever, ever want to live (with the possible exception of San Francisco, which I can't afford).

Well, if it's any consolation, you're much better off, since he's quite obviously insane.

That blows, though. Dog, to live in Britain...

I am still pissed off, and it happened a year ago next week. I can't believe I am back here in the belly of the beast.

:hi:

:)

And polls are for the masses, not some farcical aquatic cerem...



Sorry. Sometimes the Python stuff just slips in. It's kinda like Tourette's. :blush:

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Okay. I was a Navy brat whose family town hopped all over the east coast until my Dad finally retired after being stationed in Maryland. I've been in Baltimore ever since (even though he's moved on to Delaware :P ).

...that I am not the only one who was constantly being ripped away from friends/schools at a young age. It would be nice to know at least one person from my childhood. :cry:

But now it's a part of who I am, and I wouldn't change that for anything.

...In 1989, I returned to college for a second bachelor's degree. I moved to the city where the university is located and stayed there long after graduating in 1990. In 1999, hubby and I bought our house in the town adjacent to the city where I got that second degree. The town we currently live in is not exciting AT ALL... :P However, the house was a great deal, and it has done nothing but increase in value. Oh, and there's not much traffic to speak of. :) I still long for my old home city of Atlanta, though---there's much more to do there! :) I'd even put up with the traffic!

features your story? :rofl:

and I have no plans to leave beautiful Austin.

:hi:

except if I can't take the weather. Man, the heat is going to be killer this summer!

I think that's what they said on TV.

Wowza.

People have been swimming in my pool since Easter weekend, no shit. Up in NE Texas, where I am from, swimming is uncomfortable until about June 1st at the earliest. My pool here has been warm since May 1st.

...but I had picked the assignment, and sweet-talked a Pentagon master sergeant into giving it to me. A few months later, my wife-to-be found me on Match, and I moved in with her outside of town when we married.

You should check out my journal page then!

A Yank deep in the heart of Dixie.

Most importantly, to be with someone. Also, I wanted to leave the state anyways and had I not gotten involved with him, I would have moved out of state anyways.

The hours were long and sometimes the machines needed my touch to run properly. 15 minutes can be a long time when you've got lines of hungry impatient customers who can't understand why they can't buy what they want.

I moved to this state with my ex husband.

Moved back into my parents house after living on my own for a few years. :( So I now live in the middle of the woods in Rockaway, NJ.

I've never really wanted to move anywhere else bad enough to go through with it. I like it here.

I moved here when I got married. However, a friend of mine was moving north from Florida and this is where his money ran out. Had to get a job and ended up staying 5 years.

I'm still not entirely sold on the West Coast, but I get tired of Seattlites griping about transplants. I'm in a relationship! It's more important to me than geographic location. If I could pack him and my dogs up and move us all back to somewhere near the Great Lakes, it would be great, but life got in the way. And if that did happen, and a Seattlite moved near me in my Great Lakes house, I wouldn't dog them about it all the time. We don't always choose where we end up. I think the tipping point was when I went to the Symphony once and the person next to me was wearing bedroom slippers and no one else seemed to notice.

about being a transplant to "their" city, kindly ask them if they were born there. Being a native Californian, when I moved to OR in the '80's I got that chit all the time. We Californians were "ruining" Oregon because so many of us were moving up there. I always reminded people to ask those "Californians" where they were born, because most of the people in CA are from somewhere else.

What is it about people that they think one has to stay where one was born? Geesh. You'd think anyone, anywhere would be welcoming of good people to their space, no?

~~~~~~

James McMurtry - I'm Not From Here

I'm not from here
I just live here
grew up somewhere far away
come here thinking I'd never stay long
I'd be going back soon someday

it's been a few years
since I got here
seen 'em come and I've seen 'em go
crowds assemble, they hang out awhile
then they melt away like an early snow

onto some bright future somewhere
down the road to points unknown
sending postcards when they get there
wherever it is they think they're goin'

I'm not from here
I just live here
can't see that it matters much
I read the papers and I watch the nightly news
who's to say I'm out of touch

nobody's from here
most of us just live here
locals long since moved away
sold the played-out farms for parking lots
went off looking for a better way

onto some bright future somewhere
better times on down the road
wonder if they ever got there
wherever it was they thought they'd go

hit my home town
a couple years back
hard to say just how it felt
but it looked like so many towns I might've been through
on my way to somewhere else

I'm not from here
but people tell me
it's not like it used to be
they say I should have been here
back about ten years
before it got ruined by folks like me

we can't help it
we just keep moving
it's been that way since long ago
since the stone age, chasing the great herds
we mostly go where we have to go

onto some bright future somewhere
down the road to points unknown
sending post cards when we get there
wherever it is we think we'll go

I found the geography, weather, and flora such a vast improvement over the wasteland that IS the Phoenix Metropolitan Area that I decided to stay.

And stay I have.

Sorry, Mom. We're still not making any plans to move back to (ack) Phoenix.

ex took a job here before he was an ex. It's the longest I've lived anywhere and with a child, I decided to stay for her sake (all her friends and good schools are here).

If I didn't have a child, I would have taken a county finance director position in a small county in SW Colorado. I was offered the job and found a log cabin home to rent but decided not to take it because what was best for me was not necessarily best for my daughter.

:dunce:

cheap real estate.
After I quit my good paying job for the military industrial complex I decided to go one of two places to look for work - either my dad's hometown of Madison, Wi or Lincoln, Ne where an uncle and cousins lived. I picked Wisconsin. Then I ended up in Richland County because the land was cheaper there than in Sauk County. After ten years I left that little town and looked for a place to live, based on size of town (less than 30,000) and affordability of housing and being in the northern midwest. So I ended up in Iowa thinking I could find a grunt job anywhere. When I finally had to move to Missouri to get a job with bennies I ended up buying a house in Kansas because Missouri houses were too expensive. Fortunate that I did too when I lost that Missouri job a) I still had affordable house payments, and b) I was living in a city with job opportunities that did not involve long commutes.

so I fought like hell to find a good job in LA, got the job...moved halfway across the country less than a month later.

I've been here for 8 months and I love it!

I'll always stay here.

if you can call this "living"

That was 38 years ago!

We stayed due to inertia.....

And now we're staying since we have built a wonderful home....

We will most likely die here......30 or so years from now! :woohoo: :woohoo:

I wanted to be part of my niece's lives and watch them grow up. The best decision I ever made. I was miserable in Florida, and love it here in Boulder, Colorado. Got a decent job and get to see my sister and nieces every week!

just never left. (denver)

:) human relationship...thats funny!...:) I moved to SW Missouri because my wife is from this area, and she has a career at a most hated DU company...

And currently going to school here.

I hope I get to leave someday, but I'm in no rush.

and got railroaded into a soulless suburbia, having missed the 10-year party. Then I got on a train to New York by myself for no particular reason today. I walked down to Times Square. It started snowing, I had no money, I was cold, and I went home. And here I am, back in a soulless suburbia. And the party is over. I fucking missed it. :nopity:

when I was eight. My dad moved here for a job and for better schools for me and my sister. I've been here ever since.

transferred to Long Beach (two 18 year olds who had never lived anywhere but Texas). That was in 1975. I absolutely LOVED it. Well, we moved to a couple of different states but I never felt at home anywhere like I did here in Southern Ca. for only the year that we were here (and that includes having lived my first 18 years in Texas). Then, when I was 30 (18 years ago) the opportunity presented itself to come back and I've been here every since. I can't imagine living anywhere else. I'm still in love with Southern California.

Lived in Holland 2 years with the Dutch hubby - was time to try the States with him and ended up where my folks were and then he got a job. And then they moved away. And back. And away again.

I had met a couple friends at a Dr Who convention..we went to some cons together and became friends..they were sharing a house together and when I lost my job in my hometown, I applied for a job at an insurance company in St Louis and as they say the rest is history.

That screwed up her back... Get your mind out of the gutter.. She had twins.. The babies messed things up.. Not, the sex. He isn't very good in bed.

I moved back to help out with the kids and the move into their new house. That is now complete. Time to move on.

So far, so good.

I moved for an education. And I'm about to do it again.

/gkd

for a three-month writing sabbatical, fell in love with the culture and scenery, decided to stay.:)

An example of the culture and scenery:

And my parents moved here, it seemed like a good idea to come with them. That pesky 'roof over one's head' thing, y'know.

I moved to Los Angeles for six years at one point...but I didn't like it so I moved back.

And no.

I like trees and grass- can't imagine going back to NYC.

I'd been living in the same general area that I'd been born and raised in and was tired of it. I decided to move to another state in hopes of finding milder winters and getting away from the people I grew up with.

blame them Maine ;-) :shrug:

Trees bent and stripped by the wind, after water had gone down...





Beach Road & Main in Bay St. Louis, MS

She thought it was to punish me (for being a mouthy associate pastor). But what she intended for evil, God intended for good. This is the best appointment I've ever had.

Hey, OR - wanna move to Wisconsin? :loveya::hug:

at Duke. Hated it, dropped out and moved to Chapel Hill. Been here ever since.