If you no longer live where you were born...

[RainDog]

could you move back to that city or place?

[Deja Q]

1. I'd have to in order to breed. I'll even swim upstream to get busy, or die in the process.

:evilgrin:

[darkstar]

55. Who are you, Spock?

:rofl:

[leeroysphitz]

2. I can't afford to. I'll never make as much money as my dad did/ does. n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear RainDog...

Well, not really!

I'd have to persuade my husband, and I think he'd want to stay right where we are....

It would mean starting all over in a community that we don't know at all...

I was a baby when I moved away...

:shrug:

Interesting question! Why do you ask?

:hi:

[RainDog]

23. part of a thinking about stuff thing.

cause I'm applying for jobs.

of ones I see that I'd be interested in for various reasons (none of these are guarantees) and guess I'd like to type out loud if anyone has any comments on their own experiences.

OPTION 1 -- stay here and work in a job that's in my field but that isn't paid at the rank of a person hired in my field.

plus- my kids here.
plus - not moving in general
minus - not moving away from here... think I'm ready to be somewhere else... too much past here
minus - salary is about 10k less than other jobs... but cost of living is cheaper here, with lots of things here like larger cities w/o all the aggravation.(which is a plus- that last part of this one)
minus - a job that's below my being "fully hired" in my field.

OPTION 2. -- move to a place outside the U.S. and work in my field

plus - outside the U.S. but close by. a BEAUTIFUL part of the world.
plus - working in my field at full hiring whatever.
plus - far away from this place where I spent my entire married life
minus - far away from my kids. No way to drive it. have to fly.
minus - kind of isolated. (after flying, then ferries. two of them.)
minus - working in my field, but in an area that pays less and is less... demanding. in this case, demanding can be a good thing.

OPTION 3 --move to the city where I was born

plus - I know the area. lots to do,
plus - within a five hour drive of where my kids will be for another 4 years.
plus - most prestigious of the three jobs... best salary, best perks, most interesting work, place with good reputation, ESPECIALLY in the area for the job
plus - lots of opportunity to do other related work
plus - lots of things of interest there that also interest me.
plus/minus - near some of my family members (half-sibs). however, we are all so diff., we wouldn't see each other that often. plus they're both a decade and more older than me. they don't see each other much, b/c they're so diff, either. but if I were back there, how obligated would I feel?
minus - where I grew up. Some pretty sad memories there. anywhere you've been you'll have both, of course, but...
minus - most expensive of the three places to live.

option 2 could have lots of variations... other places sort of the same... but that's the one I'm thinking about right now.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. Wow, you have a lot going on!

A lot of choices...

Good luck deciding...:hug:

And thanks for answering, too...

[hobbit709]

Hell yes.

All I need is money and remembering my Viennese German.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Sure thing...I'd have to become a farmer, probably, but

I'm cool with that. :)

http://www.townofleyden.com/index.html

I was born about 500 feet behind where this pic was taken from:



:hi:

[RainDog]

39. beautiful

looks like a forest about 10 miles from me.

[irish.lambchop]

5. Absolutely not.

I was born at Ft. Dix, NJ and I've lived in TN, AZ, Morocco, Guam, Italy, FL, VA, Ireland, and West Virginia - no way I could go back to NJ.

[TZ]

6. No desire AT ALL

My Dad actually lives there (Cincinnati) but its not a place I would care to live.

[AlCzervik]

7. My first inclination is to say no but after thinking about and i do sometimes i would

under a very specific set of circumstances.

[cloudbase]

8. I could,

but there's no reason to.

[DarkTirade]

9. My brother just did, and I just moved to where I grew up

although I was born in the same place as my brother. But my family moved here only a few months after I was born, so I don't remember my birth town at all.

[KitchenWitch]

10. Sure.

[NV Whino]

43. You don't count

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

49. I was not born in Minnesota....

:D

[NV Whino]

83. Minor detail.

;)

[mopinko]

11. not sure if i do or don't. i am about 50 miles away. does that count? or?

raised in the chicago burbs, but have been living in the city longer than i lived there. the home town is bigger, now, but i am sure it is still as boring.

[RainDog]

48. my "unofficial" move tabulator

1. more than 50 miles away, unless you go from city to boonies or vice versa.

2. across state lines

3. blue to red or vice versa state

4. place where you could not get to without traveling at least 2 hours.

[mopinko]

58. well, it sure is red to blue.

although it is getting pretty purple. funny, tho, that it was blue when i lived there. not really a suburb, just a small town in the midst of cornfields that slowly disappeared. the end of the commuter lines. very few people worked in the city.
all different now, tho.
i have a recurring dream about moving back into my old house, tho. does that count?

[China_cat]

12. I often think so

until I go back for a visit. Then I remember why I couldn't wait to leave. No jobs, no recreational activities since the bowling alley (all 4 lanes of it) and the skating rink burned down. The theater that had opened only on weekends during the school year closed many years before that.

I used to joke that I was related to half the town by blood and the other half by marriage. Until I got a copy of just one half of the family tree and found that half of the half I thought was related by marriage was also related by blood. I don't even want to see what the other half looks like. (I was just lucky I got outsider genes)

No, I couldn't live in a place where even the gossip goes into summer reruns and the FBI could take lessons in surveillance.

[femmocrat]

56. Sounds a lot like my "hometown".

depressing as hell.... No jobs, nothing to do, everyone minding everyone else's business.... miserable place.

[trof]

13. Could? Yes. Would? No.

Strange question.
What prompted it?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

14. I would,

if it were the same place in which I grew up.

But, it's not. It's hardly even there now - abandoned houses taken over by folks who are running drugs between NY and Philadelphia, it's just a slum.

I have no more family there, so there's no reason even to go back to visit.

[triguy46]

15. I could not return to Iowa. My six weeks after birth were too much.

[last_texas_dem]

16. Yeah

I've moved around over the last few years, but have returned to my hometown fairly regularly because I'm close to my family. Actually, I'd rather live in my little hometown (Orange, TX) than the town in which I'm currently living for graduate school. I don't know that I'd want to live there for the rest of my life, but would perhaps live in a larger city in the same region (Southeast TX).

[flvegan]

17. I could, but I wouldn't.

I left for a reason. No snow, no state income tax, lower cost of living.

I miss it, and I'd like to maybe retire there.

[lizerdbits]

18. I don't want to move to DC

And couldn't afford it, plus most of my line of work is outside the city and my commute would be much longer.

[LiberalEsto]

19. Why would I want to live in Brooklyn, NY?

Too crowded for me. I'm happy living in Maryland.

[pink-o]

20. I was born in Baltimore

But my family moved to the Bay Area when I 4. When I left home, I lived in London, Jamaica and Italy, so consequently I never learned how to deal with snow and I'm scared of it.

So I could move back to Baltimore, but I'd rather live in DC and only during spring and autumn!!

[KamaAina]

36. Mega B-town dittos!

I've actually considered it, as sort of a downmarket way to get near DC, where I could get down there in an hour or so if I felt the need to try and influence public policy 'n' stuff, but without paying the four-figure rents inside the (other) Beltway.

Besdeis, B-town is more fun! Last time I was at the Inner Harbor, there was a unicyclist entertaining the crowd. When was the last time you saw a unicyclist in DC? (insert gratuitous Bush/Segway joke here)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

87. Ugh....DC over Baltimore?

DC is so....bleech. Baltimore has its problems, but it has its culture and its charm as well (hence "Charm City")

[TZ]

103. I would take DC over Baltimore anyday

DC has plenty of culture...Kennedy Center, Smithsonian, monuments...Outside of the inner harbor, I find nothing of interest in Baltimore actually.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

110. DC has about 1.5 to 2 square miles of fascinating NATIONAL (not civic) culture....

....surrounded by square miles upon square miles of non-descript urban and suburban sprawl. The very center of Washington is a great showcase of American culture, but there is nothing much remarkable about the city of Washington DC in and of itself as a city.

Whereas Baltimore has its own distinct and unique civic culture and identity. You don't feel like the place is one big museum surrounded by sprawl and decay, like DC.

Plus, the street grids in Baltimore actually make sense, unlike DC. Always a plus in my book.

[Fox Mulder]

21. I was born in St. Paul, MN...

and I'd be more than thrilled to move back there.

[hellbound-liberal]

22. I would love to move back where I was born, SW Connecticut. It still feels like home

even though I moved South 40 years ago. Ironically, we moved right down the street from where my wife was born. I pass the house every day on my way to work. We're in Virginia and I like it well enough, but I think New England will always feel like home.

[DeepBlueC]

68. me too

Been in Toronto for nearly forty years myself, effectively exiled by ill health and uninsurability. Ironic as I was born in Insurance City and my mother is still in the biz at the age of 85. My career here ended decades ago, but my benefits are here and so am I. Good theater here though.

New England will always be home. My room is still there! Though my mother has to make room for me in my own damn closet and dresser when I visit! She has taken over every closet in the house and she is still shopping.

[stuntcat]

24. thanks to the internet

My mom still has a house in that town and if I ever had to go back there I'd get a lot of extra locks and a new alarm system. I'd be surrounded by scary idiots but I could ignore them and work at home long as I have the Interwebs :)

[Richard Steele]

26. No way. It's crawling with so many FReeper-types, I don't even VISIT. nm

[spooky3]

29. too many Freeps and it's too cold for me - but costs are nice and low!

[cordelia]

27. 2 hours from where I was born,

and that's close enough. So, that's a NO.


There's nothing wrong with it, it's just too small and I prefer larger cities.

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Could I? Sure. It's not like it's been razed, flooded, bombed, or made illegal to move there.

But then, I was born in America, in a part that hasn't been covered over by lava or condemned by the government.

:shrug:

I don't get your question.

[RainDog]

30. not physically, okay testoterone brain? :)

oops, I should add... not as in "can you move" physically.

can you move b/c of all the associated things about the place for you. maybe "would you" is a better choice of questions.

[Rabrrrrrr]

92. Testosterone brain? LOL!! Okay, now that I know you mean "would you", the answer is no.

Absolutely not.

I still go back to visit, because friends and family are there. But it's a blue-collar intelligence-fearing low-class shithole with almost no cultural opportunities or places to go for an intelligent conversation.

[RainDog]

95. Mais non, mon petit potentat

I *meant* could you... as in could you emotionally. Physical isn't the only kind of could. I didn't want permission, either.

The big issue to me is could I, emotionally. Honestly don't know that I could. The other issue is that I don't want to live in red america, tho the area in which I work is notorious for latte-sippin' commie lovin' book readin' free thinkers. So your "would" is my "could." okaaaaaay???? :)

[CreekDog]

105. his favorite servant would have to move away from her family if he moved

on the other hand, when he learns to drive, he could take her to visit her family, but that might not turn out so well.

[Arugula Latte]

31. Well, I guess I could, but I don't want to.

Columbus, Ohio. Too cold, too flat, too conservative (compared to Portland), too far from an ocean for me.

[Whoa_Nelly]

32. Maybe just for tornado/t-storm season

OKC

[SPKrazy]

54. Are you a storm chaser type person?

cool, I'm fascinated by them... OKC and west of there is the place to do it because it is flat and you can see what is coming at you.

Miss that about Stillwater, I can't see the storms coming here as well and it makes me nervous to not be able to see a storm off in the distance better than I can.

:hi:

:hug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

67. Love watching the storms

Hunbling and so exciting...

Mother Nature
Gotta love her

[lizziegrace]

33. If I joined the Army

and was accepted to flight school at Ft Rucker. So, not likely.

[RainDog]

38. I could use some drill sgt. making me exercise...

but don't think I could make it thru basic.

[lizziegrace]

41. So could I

:)

[RainDog]

44. so I have to ask...

do you have a southern accent? whenever I see a picture of you, I "hear" a southern accent... and you lived in Memphis, too, right? (my hometown is Nashville.) Or did living in Ohio make you "sound like a yankee" - as one guy told me onetime after moving where I am now... and of course here I'm told I have a southern accent...

[lizziegrace]

50. I fall into the southern accent when I'm around people or family

members who still have one. I have lived in 11 states and spent 1/2 my life in SC, AL, Memphis and Mississippi. I can say y'all with the best of them. ;-)

Here in Ohio, I have the "news broadcaster's accent" which is really no detectable accent.

I found when I first moved to IL in my 20's, my accent made people (mainly men) treat me as though I was not too bright...

[swag]

34. Hell to the fuck no.

Thank you for asking!

[MichiganVote]

35. Could? Yes. Would I? No.

[supernova]

37. I did and I do

:hi:

I live in the house I grew up in.

:-)

If I ever move away from here, it will be to:

a) A tropical paradise

b) Some place in Europe, preferably the UK, France, or Spain. ;-)

[RainDog]

42. the biggest thing about staying here

would be that I wouldn't have to leave the place where my kids were conceived/born. and the blueberry bushes and things like that that we planted for mothers day.

...but again, that's also part of the reason I think I should move. Sentiment makes me melancholy.

[noel711]

40. Born in Chicago, and love it!

But live in Lehigh Valley PA,
and love it too...

However, I'd move back,
if economics permitted it.
Miss far to many people,
and the 'easiness' of the midwest.

The East Coast has a rabid work ethic....
the traffic is always frantic, and clotted,
and it seems as if the work days are longer
and harder...

[RainDog]

46. I love Chicago

and Evanston... a friend of mine there told me Evanston is where all the people who want to live in Chicago but not live in Chicago live. :)

but honestly, it's such a great city. Is the art institute still free on Tues, I wonder? I may actually have some time this summer to go somewhere. I'd love to go there. and the Newberry Library.

yes, I am a geek. my idea of fun is to go someplace with a cool library.

[noel711]

78. Lotsa good geeky places in Chicago...

When I was a teen, every Sunday a few of us would go
to the ARt Institute, and simply hang out.
As cool as heck for artsy boho teens...

The public library has moved from it's original location,
but was so cool.

There's lots of colleges, seminaries that have cool
libraries; lots of museums, the planetarium that geeks love,
and the John Shedd aquarium has gone from geeky to kick ass
cool in the last ten years.

enjoy...

[RainDog]

94. yeah

when I was first separated I was offered a teaching job at an arts college there. But I had agreed to stay here - as in - kids stay here. So I considered commuting, even... half the week there, half here. 4 hours by train one way. I had a place I could stay while there. but the job didn't pay enough money to justify that sort of commuter misery.

I used to tele-commute/real commute for work there for a few years. That was doable when I was married, but as a single parent... uh uh.

[NV Whino]

45. No way in hell

would I move back to Wichita Kansas. I would consider (based on the job) moving to Colorado where I spent my childhood.

[RainDog]

47. what part of Colorado?

[NV Whino]

84. Green Mountain Falls

and then Colorado Springs.

[DS1]

51. No. I took off and nuked it from orbit. It was the only way to be sure.

[femmocrat]

52. I could, but I never would.

I hated that town. I couldn't wait to get out of there when I went away to college.

[SPKrazy]

53. I only lived there until I was two years old

I've been back there once and don't remember anything really there to draw me back. No family there. I recall really only a very flat place.

:shrug:

Carbondale, Illinois

[Q3JR4]

57. I would if the price was right.

Because it won't ever be "right" I'm pretty sure that my moving back there would NEVER happen.

Q3JR4.
Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back

[QMPMom]

59. I'd move back in a heartbeat if I could.

Unfortunately, I can't.

[XemaSab]

60. Sure

Oakland's a good city in a lot of ways. :)

[huskerlaw]

61. Sure, I *could*

The better question is, *would* I?

The answer is, not right now, no. Perhaps sometime in the distant future, but not right now.

[electron_blue]

62. We moved when I was 2 weeks old

I don't think of that place as any specialer than any other place.

[Cabcere]

63. I don't know. I was only six months old when my family moved...

...so I don't really remember much about living there, per se. :shrug: I've been back a couple of times, and I guess it would be OK, but I was raised in much smaller towns/cities so it would be a bit of a change. :shrug:

[Ptah]

64. yes

[skygazer]

65. I was born in a hospital

And I don't want to live in one. :P

[Shine]

66. I lived in my birth place for about six months. I doubt I'd go back.

I was born in Newport, Rhode Island. My dad was an officer in the Navy at the time, so I was born at the Naval hospital, on base.

My parents moved within the first year of my birth to Norfolk, VA, where my other sister was born.

I now live on the west coast, in central CA and would never consider moving back.

I have absolutely NO emotional connection with my birthplace, whatsoever.

:hi:

[quakerboy]

69. Could, but I'd rather not

[littlebit]

70. I suffered through

24 years of my life in that place. There is no way I would ever go back there. I can barely get through 3 days of visiting my parents before I want to run back east.

[OmahaBlueDog]

71. I could, but it'd be economically disastrous

I was born in Oakland, CA. I now reside in Nebraska.

[drmeow]

72. I never lived in the city I was born in

at least not technically - born in Oakland to parents who lived in Berkeley. Left at 6 months of age to move at least every 5 years until I was 26 (location 1, 5 years; location 2, 1 year; location 3 (same as 1), 4 years; location 4, 6 months; location 5, 1 year; location 6, 5 years with summer visits for 2 years; location 7, 5 years, location 8, 2.5 years; location 9, 10 years; location 10, 1.5 years; current location, 6+ years and probably the rest until retirement, maybe beyond). Don't know where I'd go back to. Location 1 and 3 (closest place to "where I grew up) is unlivable (small matter of a civil war), location 6 (next closest "where did you grow up" location) has nothing to offer (even parents gone), location 9 (longest time in single location) - not if you paid me.

Your question is more "would you move back to your hometown" - I have no hometown and home is where I am living at the time the question is asked.

[BrotherBuzz]

73. Only if I won the Lottery

My mom sold the house we grew up in a couple of years ago. She sold it exactly fifty years after she and my father purchased in for $14,000 and change. She listed it for 1.1 million, it sold for 1.4 and change.

I would love to go back but I can't. I just can't.

[Cant trust em]

74. Maybe some day when I have kids and all of that.

But not to live my current lifestyle.

[ThomCat]

75. I couldn't, unless I joined the military.

And that sure as hell isn't going to happen. :P

[u4ic]

76. I couldn't afford to, but if I could?

I don't know.

I grew up in an adjacent city to the town where I was born (the hospital was closer), but haven't been back to the area in almost 20 years. I hated it when I left, vowed I would never set foot there again; but I've mellowed with age, and the only way I'd know is if I went back there again. There are a few things that I miss - a more cosmopolitan atmosphere (at least in Toronto there was), having an actual autumn, some of the landscape...don't know if I could handle the people or pace any better than I did back then.

[Recovered Repug]

77. Once the statue of limitation end.

[terrya]

79. Move to Decatur, Illinois from Chicago?

Uh, no, not even slightly possible.

[Jokerman]

80. I'd shoot myself first.

Considering the ridiculous number of suicides among my classmates who stayed, I would just accept the inevitable and get it over with.

[av8rdave]

81. Never, ever, ever!

Depressing and depressed...but at least the cost of living is high there!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

82. It would be difficult....

...because of my status in the legal profession. I would have to take the Maryland Bar.

When I was 18 I couldn't wait to leave Southern Maryland and cursed the place. But time has definetly softened me on my old home. It's a slower pace than South Florida. I can't forsee me leaving Florida, nor do I want to leave Florida, but if I did, Southern Maryland would be a higher priority location than most other places in the country.

Ironically, this week my parents are selling our family home in Southern Maryland where I grew up in. It was the only home I knew for 18 years. They owned it for 37 years. In September, I am going back to Southern Maryland for my friend's wedding. The wedding is being held 1/2 mile from my old home. It will be very wierd not being able to stay there. (Although my parents sold it to a couple they knew, so I will probably get a chance to take a look at it nonetheless.)

[ceile]

85. Yes, but my SO doesn't want to.

He wants to live in a small town and I want the big city. So, we're compromising by living in Austin.

[Blue_In_AK]

86. No way in hell...

You think I'd leave beautiful Alaska for southwest Ohio?? Unh-unh, not going to happen.

[MountainLaurel]

88. I'd completely lose my shit in a couple weeks

Small-town WV: nothing is walkable or even bikeable, Outback Steakhouse is considered great cuisine, I'd probably take a 40-percent pay cut, and my husband would divorce me, I'd have to deal with the family dysfunction up close and personal, and every other hour I'd get the question "So when are you and Mr. L having kids?"

Nah, I decided the summer after my freshman year of college that I could never live back there again.

Edited to note that this isn't actually where I was born, but where I lived from ages 4 months through 17 years. My birthplace is even worse: Colorado Springs, CO: home to Focus on the Family and a gazillion other Christofascist organizations.

[Blue_In_AK]

89. I lived in Colorado Springs

when I was a young girl from about 9 to 15, but that was back in the Dark Ages (1955-1962) before the Christofascists descended upon it. It wasn't too bad a place back then -- or maybe I was just unaware.

[azmouse]

90. No I couldn't.

It wouldn't be home to me any more.

[IronLionZion]

91. I was born in Brooklyn

maybe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn

http://brooklyn.com/

[yellowdogintexas]

93. no. no employment, nothing to do, too far to go to the doctor

even though I could do stuff with my sister all the time.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

96. I will not live in the same city as my mother.

We live in a city not too far away that is not long distance and it's becoming not far enough away.
Duckie

[Rhythm]

97. I moved away from my city of birth at age 4 (a suburb of Miami)...

I've visited it once since then, and i don't think i would feel safe there anymore.

[hunter]

98. I did that once -- I went back and worked in the city I was born in.

Nope. Couldn't do it again. I won't go back until they tear down the freeways to build great public gardens and the last automobile ever driven on a public street is parked away forever in Jay Leno's garage.

:scared:

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

99. i feel like i'm never going to find a place to settle.

I'd always planned to be settled in New York after my sophomore year of college, but last summer I didn't want to deal with living here, and this summer looks like it'll be the same way. I'm moving back home, upstate, for this summer (as I have since I started college), but when I'm there I get frustrated. It's 4 hours from the city and 2 hours from anything exciting, and I always tend to loathe it by the end of my stay... but at the same time, just when I feel settled in NYC/Brooklyn, I get antsy and anxious about life here. Next year, after graduating, I am going to have lots of problems deciding where to end up - though I think my decision may be based solely on job or finances by that point.

[CBHagman]

100. Not with Connecticut real estate being what it is.

Mind you, there's not much in this country that's affordable, but definitely no Nutmeg State for me. :cry:

[Tektonik]

101. I cannot afford moving to France right now,

but I have so much family there I could do it if I really had to.

[annonymous]

102. No, my hometown holds too many bad memories for me.

I was forced to leave my hometown to get away from an ex-boyfriend who stalked me.

[CreekDog]

104. i live where i was born

so i guess i just can't play this game! :cry:

[CreekDog]

106. three people in this thread born in Oakland, CA

who knew?

of course roughly one third are from Ohio. I find that approximately half of the US population grew up in Ohio, yet for some reason that state never gains much population. :shrug:

[libertad]

122. I was born in Oakland, CA, too.

I would not want to live there.

[kwassa]

107. No, Detroit is too depressing.

it has been on a steady decline since the '60s and it will not end.

[Inchworm]

109. Hehe

I've been reading this thread the last few days thinking the same thing. I was born in Lincoln Park. Not been there in ages but have seen it depicted in movies. That Eminem movie comes to mind, oh, and the music group with the same name as well.

Just seems like a rough place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6caasHhO0Q
Things aren't the way they were before. You wouldn't even recognize me any more

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

108. Born in Gary, Indiana, where the main activity is getting away from Gary, Indiana

Now, other parts of Chicagoland, that would be just fine, but Gary, no way, it's Hell on Earth.....

[SteppingRazor]

111. I'm no longer welcome in Southern California, and frankly, I can't say as I blame them.

:evilgrin:

[Enrique]

112. I owe too many parking tickets

:-(

[meow2u3]

113. No. The neighborhood changed drastically

That neighborhood being East Flatbush, in Brooklyn, NY. I heard they'll kill white people there.

[Westegg]

114. Pittsburgh. It seems unlikely.

[Nikia]

115. I think that I would find it too depressing

Right now I am living in a place that is going to hell, but I don't have a sentimental attachment to what it was. The place where I was born is going to hell and it makes me sad even though now I only know it from a distance. It was once a booming a place with good people. Now the population, business, economy, and sense of helping others has drastically declined and there isn't much that can be done about it.

[AwakeAtLast]

116. Mr. WMU and I have talked about it

We may when we retire or something like that. With the economy the way it is, we may have to go where someone in my family owns land outright! :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

117. Sort of. I live in the city where I was born, but I'd move back to the one I lived from 3 to 17. -nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

118. oh.hell.yeah....outside the city limits is okay --

would not necessarily want to move to down town proper but, I could if I had to.

[clyrc]

119. I don't know

I left 38 years ago when I was 6 weeks old. But I will find out this summer when I spend a week in Frankfort, Germany.

[Eurobabe]

120. Frack no, then I'd have to live in OHIO.

Northern Ohio is a deserted wasteland these days. Very sad.

[semillama]

121. Live in D.C.??? Are you nuts?

Now, if you wanted to know if I would move back to where I grew up, I would if there was gainful employment for my wife and I. I doubt there is, sadly. Plus, the 6 months with snow on the ground would drive her crazy.

[michreject]

123. I am moving back

Been looking for a house for a year. Need to sell mine here.