where did you live when you were a teenager

[Skittles]

I lived my teenage years in England, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Mississippi and Texas

[Guava Jelly]

1. Wyandotte County ,Kansas

You sure moved a lot were your parents in the Military?
England would have been cool

[Omphaloskepsis]

2. I had my shoes stolen in Redlands, California.

Good times..

[Flaxbee]

89. wait a minute... did you GROW UP in Redlands?

... so did I. Third grade (McKinley) thru graduation from high school...

If not, where were your shoes stolen? And when?

[SeattleGirl]

3. Springfield, Oregon.

Woo-frickin'-hoo.

[usaftmo]

4. Arlington, Virginia

To this day quite a few military personnel think the Pentagon is in Washington DC.

[ikojo]

5. Nowhere exciting that;s for sure

Springfield Illinois...whoopee!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. El Dorado, Kansas

Pop. approximately 12,500 (at the time). Good times (hahahahahaha). Bullwinkle925 calls it "Peyton Place." Everyone knew everyone else's business. Nosy neighbor stood on the street corner stopping traffic the day my dad died to spread the news. It's fun to drive through and be nostalgic about, but I'm glad I got out.

[Lumily]

7. Graham, North Carolina n/t.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

8. Shepard AFB

Wichita Falls, Texas. Graduated from Burkburnett HS

[Skittles]

18. four AF bases in my list

Upper Heyford in England as a USAF dependent, and Lackland AFB and Bergstrom AFB in Texas, Keesler AFB in Mississippi whe I was enlisted (yeah I was still a teenager :o)

[Lyric]

9. From 13-15, Morgantown WV. From 15-19, Harrisonburg VA.

I also lived in Utica, NY for a few months right before and after I turned 20.

[RebelOne]

10. Miami Springs, Florida

[Bullwinkle925]

11. El Dorado, Kansas

Peyton Place for sure!! I moved to the SF Bay Area over 30 years ago. I flew my brother out once to visit - we went to a local Mall and ate in a 'Food Court'. After about 30 min. he said, "I don't know how you can stand it - we've been here a half-hour and you haven't seen anyone you know YET." I answered, "That's the beauty of it"!!

[jonnyblitz]

12. a tiny paper mill town about an hour northwest of Bangor, Maine.

eom.

[lizziegrace]

13. Dallas and Memphis n/t

[WhollyHeretic]

14. West Hartford, Connecticut

I'm only a couple towns over now, most of my friends still live there.

[Left_Winger]

15. Columbia, SC

Then when I was 17 I enlisted in the Marines. Until I was 19 I was in quite a few different places.

[dropkickpa]

16. Pittsburgh, PA

from age 11 (right before turning 12) to now. I actually love Pittsburgh, and enjoyed spending my teenage years here.

Plano, TX until 11. Lots of other place before that.

[av8rdave]

17. Northeast Ohio, Baltimore, and Colorado Springs area

[Jimbo S]

19. Madison, Wisconsin

The perfect place to grow up to learn to be an agitator. :evilgrin:

[myrna minx]

29. Hey, I grew up in Janesville Wi.

I would go to Madison to learn how to be a professional rabble rowser. :toast:

[BarenakedLady]

20. Warwick, Rhode Island (nt)

[RetroLounge]

21. Niles, Illinois

Chicago Suburb...

RL

[City Lights]

60. Ditto that.

:hi:

[smitty]

22. Levittown, New York

[cwydro]

23. Charlotte, NC

[Rhythm]

70. So did i...

moved there at the age of 5... moved away at 32.

[BuddhaGirl]

24. Huntington Beach, California

n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

25. Newton County, Missouri. The town I lived near was so small it

didn't show up on maps.

[jobycom]

26. Mississippi Gulf Coast. nt

[XemaSab]

27. Mill Valley, California

:P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. My dear Skittles.........

I was lucky..........

We'd finished moving by the time I turned 13....

I spent those teenage years in San Jose, CA..........

[rug]

30. 228 East 67th Street, New York, New York

Apartment 7.

Don't try to track me down though, I'll kick your ass.

[plcdude]

31. Burt, New York

try and find that place.

[deepthought42]

32. Same place I live now, Annapolis, MD

Geez I need to move out...I love Annapolis, but I really need to move out...

[MrCoffee]

33. Houston

[NV1962]

34. The Netherlands. (n/t)

[trackfan]

35. Los Angeles

about 10 blocks from where I live now.

[Zavulon]

36. Quebec and Ontario. (NT)

[fizzgig]

37. same place i live now

i really need to get out of here

[RFKHumphreyObama]

38. Australia

I spent my pre-teenaged years in Southeast Asia

[bluethruandthru]

39. Utah...how much fun did I have? n/t

[SPKrazy]

47. Where At?

I lived in Logan and later in small town outside of Logan from age 2-15

:pals:

[bluethruandthru]

76. I grew up in Tooele.

then went to the University of Utah.

:hi:

[Pendrench]

40. Catonsville, MD....now living in Severn, MD n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

41. Chicago.

Far North Side of the city.

[NewWaveChick1981]

42. Two separate locations in NC.

Lived at home until I went off to college.

[KamaAina]

43. Fairfield and Bridgeport, CT

it was the considerably less fancy part of Fairfield over by the Bridgeport line, but still, quite nice. And yes, a local band did have a song called "I Don't Want to Live in Bridgeport", :P but our street, Clinton Avenue, was pleasant, wide, tree-lined, and lined with stately triple-deckers set well back from the street, many of which (including ours) had professional offices on the ground floor, so there!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

44. Ohio - Missouri - Ohio

Meh. :P

[lizziegrace]

58. Meh?

;)

[Drum]

45. Wheeling, West Virginia.

[SPKrazy]

46. Utah, and Oklahoma

Oklahoma was a much better experience in so many ways!

:pals:

[EnviroBat]

48. The Northern Coast of Ohio...

We used to jump our bikes into Lake Erie...

[mike_c]

49. northern Virginia and the West Virginia panhandle....

Man, those days are long gone, LOL.

[Blue_In_AK]

50. Colorado and Texas. n/t

[Left Is Write]

51. Burnsville, Minnesota.

[Taverner]

52. South San Jose, CA; Lake Tahoe, NV and Berkeley, CA

[Jimbo S]

80. Wow! Pretty cool places to live!

[Taverner]

86. SSJ was suburban

Tahoe was really fun though...

And Berkeley, well, if I had my choice I wouldn't live anywhere else.

[ceile]

53. Houston, TX

Born and raised.

[Contrary1]

54. Indianapolis, IN...

Still haven't escaped.

[Nicole]

55. Texas and Oklahoma n/t

[judaspriestess]

56. San Antonio Texas

home of the best Mexican food evah!!! oh and brisket too :)

[AlienAvatar]

57. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. n/t

[femmocrat]

64. Welcome to DU, fellow Pennsylvanian!

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

59. I am boring - just Minnesota.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

61. Kingfisher, Oklahoma.

The most stifling, smothering town in the world to me now.
Duckie

[NoPasaran]

62. El Paso, Texas

[femmocrat]

63. Johnstown, PA

It was a great place to grow up.... back in the day.

[Skittles]

65. I am struck by how many of you lived in just one, two places

I always laugh when I hear the so-called "angst" of being a teenager - yeah, try being a teenager and moving constantly too - yup, that's what I did :o

[OzarkDem]

77. Hubby did too

Virginia, Oakland, CA, Japan, Hawaii - Navy brat.

[Skittles]

94. hey

how does he answer that age-old question, "Where are you from?"......always a quandary for the GI brat :o

[redwitch]

120. Jersey girl here

now upstate NY. Hubby lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, Kentucky. I think that's everywhere. But 4 or 5 places in New Jersey, ditto New York. Non military family. I think his parents had ants in their pants! Edited to add that some of the moving was college related. But parents could have been on the lam????

[Arugula Latte]

66. East Bay (San Francisco Area)

[XOKCowboy]

67. Osage County Oklahoma

I finally got smart and became an ExOkie in 1986!

[Zomby Woof]

68. Virginia Beach, VA

A shithole then, and a shithole now. I lived literally one mile from Pat Robertson. Yes, it's that bad.

[MassLiberal]

69. western Massachusetts

Best place on earth. :-)

[Heidi]

71. Oklahoma,

where the wind comes sweepin' down the Plain. :hi:

[SPKrazy]

90. All Right!

where in the windblown state did you reside!

:P

[Skittles]

95. yeah, we smell it when it blows down here to Texas

BWAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAA just kiddin' my sweet :hi:

[Mythsaje]

72. In order? Bend, OR, Boise, ID, Kent, WA, Auburn, WA,

Bend OR, Boise ID, Kent WA, Auburn WA, Redmond OR, Kent WA, Auburn WA, Sacramento, CA, Kent, and then Auburn...Went back to CA when I was 20, came back to Auburn when I was 21...

[Zomby Woof]

81. I lived in Kent, lol

During my college and teaching years from the late 80's until 2001... after being a teenager.

[benny05]

73. Panhandle of Texas n/t

[gr8dane_daddy]

74. Born and Raised in west Texas...south of Odessa

where pauly shore recently got "punched".

[NC_Nurse]

75. Atlanta, GA

The place has exploded with growth since I left in 1979!

[PRETZEL]

78. Little town called Coraopolis

15 miles from Pittsburgh on the Ohio River.

[flamingyouth]

79. In Seattle, where I've always lived.

Specifically Ballard, before it was overrun by yuppies and condos.

[yellowdogintexas]

82. a town of 200 in far southern Kentucky. You can almost spit

into Tennessee in two directions from there.

Perhaps one of the most boring places in the univers to a teenager, unless you are an avid reader because there is a lot of time to read!!! Which I did.

But it is a pretty little town, and I enjoy visiting there even though I am a city gal at heart.

[azmouse]

83. Boyertown, PA

The armpit of Pennsylvania. I hated the place.

[mwdem]

84. North Carolina..

Greensboro.

[miss_american_pie]

85. Republican hell north of Pittsburgh

:hi:

[CottonBear]

87. Chattanooga, TN and Soddy Daisy, TN.

I actually lived on a mountain in a little town that is a suburb of Chattanooga. I had an incredible nighttime view of the city lights from my bedroom window. It was a wonderful place to grow up and it was only a 15 minute drive to downtown Chattanooga from the mountain. We also had a big lake house in Soddy Daisy on Lake Chickmaugua (a huge TVA lake formed by damming the Tennessee River back in the 1930s). We had three boats and I spent all summer swimming, fishing, boating and water skiing with my best friend James and my siblings and friends. Great times!
:)

[Zomby Woof]

104. I lived in Hixson!

1969-72, my preschool years. 1969 was when Walter Cronkite famously reported that Chattanooga had the worst air quality of every city in the US. DuPont ran the town, plus there was a boiler factory which emitted some major crap in the air. It has cleaned up quite considerably since, but I sure wonder what the hell I was breathing as a toddler, lol.

My first major memories in life are of the area, and although I was not born there, my roots in TN run deep, more than 200 years straight. :-)

SEE ROCK CITY!

[elfrangel]

88. Russellville, Arkansas

Pretty good sized town, but there is NOTHING to do. It hasn't changed much in that respect over time. lol

[book lady]

91. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

[huskerlaw]

92. Small Town, Nebraska

which shall remain nameless because my parents still live there. But it's a tiny town (500ish people) located relatively near both Lincoln and Omaha.

[Kerrytravelers]

93. Northern California, near San Francisco.

[Redstone]

96. Eastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was a great place then. But not now.

Now it's fucking wall-to-wall office buildings, chain restaurants, office "parks," traffic, and yuppie Mc Mansion developments.

So depressing that I rarely go back there.

Redstone

[GOPisEvil]

97. Moved to the San Antonio 'burbs whenI was 12.

My folks are still there.

[maveric]

98. Lawrence MA.

And almost didnt survive it.
What a hell hole.

[liberal hypnotist]

116. Congrats!

Survivor of one the the 3 "L's" Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn. I survived Lynn

[maveric]

117. "Lynn, Lynn, City of Sin..."

"You'll never come out the way you went in."

[u4ic]

99. A suburban wasteland

known as Mississauga (next door to Toronto).

[greendog]

100. Greenwood, IN

~

[recoveringdittohed]

101. Nashville & Murfreesboro Tennessee

Lived in Murfreesboro while matriculating at Middle Tennessee State.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

102. An outer ring suburb of Minneapolis, an experience which left me with

an abiding dislike of suburbia.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

103. Texas.

[Broken_Hero]

105. SE Alaska...nt

[Der Blaue Engel]

106. Tucson n/t

[MikeH]

107. Naperville, Illinois

[Dastard Stepchild]

111. Same here.

1989-2000.

[MikeH]

112. Exactly 30 years after I was there

I was there from 1959 to 1970; later grade school through two years at North Central College.

I have been back for several high school and college reunions; the earliest was in 1988 and the last was in 2000.

The town is quite a bit bigger than it was when I lived there. It was still a small town when I first moved there; it started its growth then and has been growing since.

[chknltl]

108. Berlin

Yep that one...it had a wall back then.

[jus_the_facts]

109. Lived in Louisiana m'whole life....

....boring huh?! :D

:hi: :loveya:

[CC]

110. Orlando, Fla

when it was still laid back and fun. Still have family there and if is so f'ed up now though I am still able to find pockets of sanity.

[sweetheart]

113. california, hawaii, new zealand, australia, switzerland, texas

If i had it to do over, i know which of them i would leave out. ;-)

[BlueCollar]

114. San Francisco

I miss the city...:-(

[blockhead]

115. mom and dads basement...

[nykiera]

118. NW Ohio.

[tinfoil tiaras]

119. Mississippi?

You poor thing.

See, i can say that because I actually live in Mississippi ;)