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[just bee]

Short answer: Job transfer.  But 22 years later I still find myself asking, "Albuquerque?  What the ___ was I thinking?"

[CANDLEQUEEN]

Born, raised and still live in Wisconsin, same town.....Have no desire to move away, family and children and grandchildren still here as well. Hubby and I like to travel a bit, but would never want to live anywhere else........Husband is also from same town, we met in High School!

[SharkE]

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@just bee wrote:

Short answer: Job transfer.  But 22 years later I still find myself asking, "Albuquerque?  What the ___ was I thinking?"

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What I said after getting married yrs. ago.

[chrystaltree]

My roots in this area, on my mother's side, go back to the late 1800's to early 1900's. Their Canadian roots go back to the 1700's.   My mother's family emigrated from PEI and Halifax, Nova Scotia to ME and and few years later to Boston.  In search of jobs and a better standard of living.  In Canada and in ME they had been potatoe farmers.  The roots are deep, over the many decades, very few have left the area.  Actually, I cannot think of a single person on my mother's side who ever left MA.  My dad's GA roots go even further back, back to the early 1700's.  His family emigrated from Scotland.  They were farmers and apparently became quite wealthy at some point.  The family story goes that they were among the few plantation owners  that never owned slaves.  They got their labor from Ireland and Scotland and later hired freedmen.  They found slavery abhorent.  The wealth dwindled away but much of the family remains in the general area.  My dad served in WW II but he didn't return to the south after he left the army.  He came to MA to visit an army buddy, he liked it here and he stayed.  Later, 2 of his sisters followed him here and they stayed.  My dad always said we are "as American as anyone could possibly be".  That's how I think of myself....I'm American.  I am not a hyphented anything.  I am American. 

[Frau K]

Back in 1968 my parents imigrated to Arizona from Germany. My dad was always a cowboy at heart. They opened a small bussiness in 1969 and it's still going strong. I met my husband here who came in the 1950s from Ohio. We bought his family home 20 years ago so we'll probably never leave. We're happy here even though it's hotter than you know what in the summer.

[Vivian]

I was born and raised in NYC. After I married, I lived in the Hudson Valley. After that,  my husband and I returned to our alma mater in Central NY to pursue our graduate degrees. We never left, having had careers at our alma mater and now being retirees in the area.

[LilacTree]

I was born in North Jersey and moved 13 times as a child.  Since then I moved to VA (married and had my children there) for eight years where I lived in three different towns and then divorced.  Then back up to North Jersey, lived in three different houses, divorced a second time, then moved to South Jersey in 1977.  Never married again. Since then I have lived in eight different towns in apartments/houses, some of them three times but different homes, some of them rented, three of them owned.  All in all I have moved over 40 times in my life.

I always think "this is the last place," but it never is.

[Quse]

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@Mominohio wrote:

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@Quse wrote:

I grew up not far from here and couldn't wait to get out of here to bigger, better things. Was going to start a new life on the other side of the country, then my husband asked me to marry him. I moved 25 miles from where I grew up, to where he grew up, and the more I have traveled, the more I love being "here". His parents are 1 mile away and mine still 25 miles away. We are blessed to be able to stay near family.

Hate traveling now, so I just stay "here"...and love it.

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@Quse

Loving and being happy where you are at is the secret to a good life. I think some people are constantly looking for it, and glad you have found it!

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@MominohioTrue.

[LTT1]

@Mominohio

I am not sure how to answer the question about moving lots when growing up.

The concept was couched in the notion that "this will make you adjust more easily as an adult to new situations."

In some ways, I can agree with this, but in other ways (such as trusting people) I don't think this is true.

My brother has never really done well with people in his life.

[ladyroxanne]

i was born and raised on the east coast.  met my hubs who was transferred from calif where he was from. 

we married and he kept asking if i would like moving to calif someday.  a couple years later after living in the seattle area, we are now in northern calif. 

i love, love it here.  this is now my forever home.