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I was born in St. Louis, left in 1993 returned in 2014..
St. Louis changed. The way I experience cities has changed. I don't know for sure that I will stay for the rest of my life but I will keep my options open.
I was born, raised, and am still living in NC (Charlotte area).
Born in 1965. Lived in Columbus, OH when I was a boy due to my dad's job and came back a year later. In the mid 2000's lived in Orlando for a year. From 2017-2019, we temporarily moved to Boston/Cape Cod area to help care for my mother-in-law who is battling Parkinson's and Dementia. Knowing it would be temporary, we still had our house in the Charlotte area.
Though we enjoyed each place we lived in different ways and to varying degrees, we just love it here and plan on never leaving. My wife's family is still in MA. My mom (my dad passed in 2011), brother and his family, and our young adult children (25-29) are all here in the Charlotte area. That's so incredibly important to us. Other extended family are in other NC metros like Greensboro/Winston Salem, Raleigh/Durham, Wilmington, and Asheville.
Yes I was born and spent the first 12 years of my life in Louisiana and returned here 4 years ago, though I live in a different parish now, still an hour an a half from where I was born. In between I'm lived in two other states, Maryland and West Virginia. I'm not a fan of Maryland at all, West Virginia was great except for the cold winters and less jobs but it was a great place to live and I still go back and visit friends every couple years and I do miss the mountains and lakes and the friendly down home atmosphere. I'm in the Deep South now but in a larger metro area so there's actually less "hospitality" and the pace of life is faster than where I lived in WV.
I'm originally from the New Orleans area am love visiting but will never live there again, except maybe the Northshore though all my family and friends are now closer to Baton Rouge. The NO area is overpriced with too much traffic and crime and the flooding and hurricane risk is greater.
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Yes, born and raised in Northern California, but lived in Southern California during college and stayed in Southern California for about 20 years after my college years.
Yes, back in NJ, bought a condo and close to my family again. Went to college in DC, came back to NYC right after graduation a little over 20 yrs ago, lived in the city for a few years and then back to the Hudson waterfront on the NJ side. After that did a quick stint out in Honolulu for work, then came back home and that's that. Time flies.
Nope. I wouldn't have much reason to go back to Chicago. Going through my old high school friend group, one lives in Detroit now, one's in the Bay Area, one's in NYC, one's in Madison WI, one's somewhere in North Carolina, one's still in Chicago but planning to move to Boulder soon, and the rest I haven't talked to in years. I have a strong social network here in Seattle now, with at least a couple friends I could stay with if things really went south for me.
Only reason I'd move back would be to take care of my parents as they get old, and I won't have to worry about that for another decade or two.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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No, I was born in San Francisco, CA and lived for 40 years in the Bay Area. We have now been in Washington east of Seattle for 27 years, as has one brother, and a sister came up before us. We moved up my mother in law a few months after we moved, and my parents came up a couple of years later. Another brother is in Oregon, and 3 others plus another sister are still in CA, so we are all split up now between the 3 west coast states. Our 3 kids (and two grandkids) have stayed here in WA.
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