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Post by bobcat1 on Aug 20, 2022 10:35:05 GMT -8
I moved away from my place of origin the day after I graduated from college. Lived in 3 different places as an adult, then moved back to hometown for elder care reasons for my mom.
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Post by catonsvillebill on Aug 20, 2022 15:56:55 GMT -8
My job transferred me here to central Virginia from Martinsburg WV. Not my choice but in the middle of the pandemic I thought it was wise to have a job.
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Post by hikerchick395 on Aug 21, 2022 8:49:45 GMT -8
 moved near recreational opportunities...34 years ago |
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Post by nickhowes on Aug 22, 2022 4:28:59 GMT -8
"Place of origin" is NE England. Moved a lot as a kid. Family moved to US (Mid-Atlantic) in 1977, and I lived there until 1996. In the early 90s, we started looking for a place to live and eventually picked Nye, MT in 1994. Packed up everything and moved here in 1996. Built a home, had kids, etc. Love the mountains, the climate, the backpacking, the skiing, etc.
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FamilySherpa
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Post by FamilySherpa on Aug 22, 2022 5:56:12 GMT -8
we recently moved back to the small town that i grew up in, for several different reasons. Close to my wife's workplace, much much safer place for our kids to play outdoors, and there's a 25 mile trail system within 1/4 mile of our house.
but things here have changed here since I was a teenager and we are having a lot of hindsight about the move. The small elementary school in town is great, but the middle school is quite obviously preparing the students for what is to come in high school......athletics. you are on a sports team or you are 3rd class student.
Trying to figure things out.
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Post by echo on Aug 22, 2022 11:08:58 GMT -8
I’ve never lived anywhere that wasn’t beautiful and near more beauty than I ever could get tired of. I was raised in the same area my mom and her father were, near Yellowstone Park and then moved for 4 months to Custer State Park in SD, then Ashland, OR with a semester in a teacher’s college in Beijing China, and finally to the OR/CA redwood coast. I love to travel and yet this is the only place I (and my husband) have visibly relaxed as we return, sighing with peace just to be “home” again. So even though the plan in 1989 was to live here for 5 years, we have never considered moving again. Traveling sometimes feels necessary and there are places I yearn for when I’m feeling homesick, but this is where the temperature matches my skin and the air enfolds me without being noticed.
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Post by davesenesac on Aug 22, 2022 12:58:08 GMT -8
Because after HD from the USAF during the Viet Nam War at Travis AFB, with a basic electronics education and little money, Silicon Valley just a bus ride away was becoming the world wide Mecca for electronics work. I had lived there as a young child going to Kindergarten in Cupertino. During K12 years growing up lived many places mostly in California so never had roots in any region. Born in downtown Los Angeles but had no desire to live in that monstrosity. Parents at the time lived in the Houston area as my dad worked for NASA contractors and parents had wanted me to return at least for awhile but I was really too poor.
So without even a vehicle took a bus from San Francisco and began working as an electronic technician for $2.73 an hour in Santa Clara walking 3/4 mile to a workplace. As a rock music fan, for the next decade with the SFBA the center of the counterculture revolution, that was a most exciting place to live. Also immediately began venturing out to the state's world class natural areas and parks that further cemented my place in the universe. And then there was winter snow skiing just a few hours drive away I picked up within a decade.
Now given a choice after retiring 5+ years ago and just living off SS without a bank account to afford buying a home given insane prices, would like to move to Pacific Grove on the Monterey Peninsula but housing there is way above my financial level so guess will need to marry some woman living thereabouts that owns a residence. But if that fails haha, the SFBA is arguably one of the most interesting and exciting places a senior could live as well as being the center for my health provider KP. I've thought about moving to some more remote mountain or coastal regions, but as a single person without a wife and family have become so seriously addicted to the urban world that at least need to live in a small city.
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Post by burntfoot on Aug 27, 2022 19:21:19 GMT -8
Grew up in the midwest, but after working 3 seasons in Yellowstone during college I knew I'd end up in the mountains somewhere.
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Post by hikerjer on Aug 27, 2022 19:29:03 GMT -8
I live in my place of origin and stayed here because of employment. I probably could have had jobs elsewhere, but we like it here and there aren't that many places where we'd be better off. Sort of a "don't fix it if it ain't broke" situation". I wouldn't mind moving to a smaller nearby town, but that'll never happen. My wife has too much invested in her yard and flower gardens.
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Post by mdarnton on Aug 29, 2022 5:41:19 GMT -8
Thirty-eight years ago was living happily in the middle of nowhere (40 miles of wilderness out my back door) and got a job offer to move from the sub-basement of my field to the penthouse in one step, but had to live in Chicago to do it. Have not regretted. Miss the woods, though.
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Post by downriver on Aug 29, 2022 9:53:02 GMT -8
I took a job transfer to the Pacific Northwest in 2010; it was a combination of work and an area with lots of outdoor amenities and the best of city living. I haven’t regretted the decision to leave Montana one iota at all. I actively sought out a transfer to an area I had lived in the past. I live in a wonderful city neighborhood of hills, forests, trails, parks and eateries. Great location close to downtown, the interstate and several suburban locations (REI), too. Super convenient location that’s hard to beat. And we don’t have some of the negative issues found in other city neighborhoods (yet). Works very well for me. I am extremely grateful to live here.
Happy Trails,
DR
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Post by absarokanaut on Sept 8, 2022 7:40:26 GMT -8
This is not my place of origin but I was incredibly fortunate to be able to spend more than 2 months here every summer as a little boy and young man, working through college. I have family about an hour and 45 minute drive over the Continental Divide and lots of friends on both sides. I have been telling myself I need to move back to Colorado for some time but things like this just the other day keep getting in the way.  |
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Post by gabby on Sept 8, 2022 11:19:03 GMT -8
Born here. (Lazy.)
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