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I've always had a stong pull to San Francisco. When I was a kid, I would watch movies based there just for the shots of the city. I'm going to school out there this fall, so I guess I'll find out if I'm meant to be there or not. I do like where I'm from though, and I don't think that'll ever change.
I was born and raised in Maryland and I still love living here, especially with DC just 20-something minutes away. However, I will say this. I felt like I was kinda "at home" when I visited Santa Monica, CA this past October...I love living on the East Coast and am proud of it, but I felt like I instantly clicked with that whole live-and-let-live Cali State of Mind complex, especially since I'm a pretty mellow and chill person by nature and don't like to feel rushed a lot. I mean, I like to be busy sometimes, but not constantly. And even though I love the fact that the East Coast/Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region is probably the most Euro-oriented region in the U.S., it seems like the West Coast does a much better job of adopting the live-and-let-live mentality of the Europeans to a much greater degree than my fellow East Coasters it seems. I think I probably would've loved to have been born in Santa Barbara and raised in either Santa Monica or Baldwin Hills
As for overseas, I've never left the U.S., but it would be interesting to see how my personality will click with London (I think I'm becoming more obsessed with London than I am with the NYC), Barcelona, Paris, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Cape Town, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto.
YES! Ugh! I was born in Florida and I finally escaped just last week after 26 years of prison! I don't miss it at all and if I can help it I will never ever move back!
I was born in Houston. Grew up there, and left when I was fresh out of HS. Felt drawn towards L.A. at the time so that's where I went. Both the Houston and the L.A. of my youth are basically gone forever, so ever since, I've moved all over the country trying to find my niche. Finally found it in my mid-40's in the PNW.
We'll see how long this lasts. The only thing constant in this country is CHANGE.
That said, NO... I definitely don't feel like "I was born in the wrong place". Houston was great until about 1983. Wouldn't trade my youth there for anything.
I do ! I grew up in Northern Virginia, and while technically its the South, the area is no longer very Southern at all, and I always felt I wished I had grown up in at least Richmond or somewhere further South.
Growing up, I always felt so much more Southern than those around me. I loved sweet tea (my mother put it in my forumla as a baby!), and fried okra, grits, collard greens, and of course spoonbread.
I love Loudoun County, but its soooo transient! Everyone doesn't say hello very much these days. I always almost felt like I was a Deep South person livin' in border town ! I have a very strong Southern drawl, and most people even from the Deep South ask me where I get it.
Mostly its from my older relatives in Tidewater Virginia. But anyways, I felt like a fish out of water in transient, plastic, Northern Virginia. I wished I had been born in the 1800s in the Deep South!
People today normally say high not hello.And despite what some people think the more south you go does not correlate to stronger accent.
You getting looks because the drawl is almost wiped out today.
But anyways, I felt like a fish out of water in transient, plastic, Northern Virginia. I wished I had been born in the 1800s in the Deep South!
So you're white, obviously...
I guess someone should also explain to Richmonder than "DC is in Maryland" is technically not true - it's a Federal District that is not within any state although it touches seemingly equal amounts of VA and MD go Hoyas
Native Kansan, and that's fine by me. I like the vast openness and starry skies of my home. The only other place in the US that has ever spoken to me was Chicago, Illinois. Surprisingly, parts of Thailand felt like home and after some Japanese lessons, I'm thinking Tokyo would speak to me as well.
YES! Ugh! I was born in Florida and I finally escaped just last week after 26 years of prison! I don't miss it at all and if I can help it I will never ever move back!
From the looks of your username, I would bet that you're moving out towards one of the Mountain West states
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