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Old 01-30-2011, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Northfield, MN
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Given how transient people in this country seem to be, I would be curious to know how many generations people's families have lived in their cities. Should people be more loyal to a place? I myself am a fourth generation Clevelander, and for that reason it will always be home even if I move away. What is your opinion?
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Old 01-30-2011, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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My dad family didn't even live in my hometown before he married my mother, whose lived here too as well as her parents. But I don't know beyond that.
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Old 01-30-2011, 04:20 PM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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You are probably a rare exception, AGuyFromCleveland18. It seems like people are always looking for something better for their family.

My father was born in Portugal, moved to Oakland, then San Bruno, Lafayette, Walnut Creek and Pittsburg (CA). When I moved out I lived in Union City, Oakland, Castro Valley, then here in the Seattle area. My kids were all 3 born in Oakland but have no interest in going back.
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Old 01-30-2011, 04:22 PM
 
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I am a fourth generation San Diegan. My family has never lived anywhere else. I plan on having a family here and keeping it as home for the rest of my life.
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Old 01-30-2011, 05:16 PM
 
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My father's side of his family has lived in Northern California for over 150 years, dating back to the Gold Rush. But as far as my parents go--my dad went to school partly in the same town my grandpa did, they moved around the West Coast a lot as my grandfather worked for Louisiana Pacific lumber company. My mom was born in a Polish neighborhood in Milwaukee(where some relatives stilll live), moved to Atlanta in her early teens, than met my dad when she was in college in Atlanta and he was in the air force, before moving to Taiwan where he was stationed, and then on to California. And we moved around briefly as well, spending four years in Canada.

So while I still have family members in towns around Northern California that live where my grandparents lived or great-grand parents lived, we've spread out all over the place in the last 40 years. However, my father plans on retiring and living right not far from where the first of our family to come to California settled 150 years ago, on the east edge of the Sierra Nevada.
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Old 01-30-2011, 05:22 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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My dad's family has lived in Chicago since the 1850's or so. There was a brief stunt in California from the early 1970's to the mid 1980's, but everyone came back except my grandparents, who are back now.
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Old 01-30-2011, 06:22 PM
 
Location: Minneapolis (St. Louis Park)
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Zero. My parents are from Wisconsin and Chicago. My older sister was born in Chicago and I was born in Minneapolis (along with my little sister). They are now all in California and I am here. Our new family with my daughter would be the 1st generation, IFF we stay a generation or two.
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Old 01-30-2011, 07:16 PM
 
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My family has lived in East TN since the 1770's. In fact, I am the first person in my family to live outside of the immediate Southeast. I currently live in California. Seeing as how expensive things are out here I'll probably move back at some point.
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Old 01-30-2011, 07:51 PM
 
Location: West Michigan
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After moving all over the place for a couple decades I am right back where I started. Few of the family have been born here, but the family has lived here for 6 generations now. Seems there is a bit of wanderlust in the genes and almost everybody moves away for a bit, gets married, starts a family of their own and then moves back to town. My ancestors cut trees and pulled stumps from what is now Main Street, and had farms in the area 20-25 years before there was any thought of a town here.
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Old 01-30-2011, 09:10 PM
 
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I think moving around is part of the American way. That said, my grandparents on one side were from Minneapolis (their parents were not), then moved away soon after my mother was born; my mother moved back there as an adult, and brought my dad (from CA). I don't know what that makes me, generations-wise. I grew up in Minneapolis, moved away, am now back, and may or may not move away in the coming two months. I'll always feel like Minnesota is one of my "homes," but I also believe that people can have more than one place they consider to be "home."
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