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I grew up in Huntsville, AL. The current population is around 230,463. We moved out of the city about 15 years ago, and now the city has moved out to us. We are in the county as far as jurisdiction is concerned, but we are completely surrounded by the city limits of Huntsville and Madison.
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Boots were made for walking
Winds were blowing change
Boys fall in the jungle
As I Came of Age
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Still live in the same town. Growing up population was 2000 today it is 50,000 Need to get the heck out of here.
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I live about 3 miles from where I grew up. 40,000 in 60 and 54,500 now.
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I live about 3 blocks from where I was raised. Left home to go to school for two years ,left that for 3 yrs. in SVN, 6 ,months in Delaware , and back home ever since. Haven't ever had the urge to live, anywhere else!! ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/L5cRykX4/DSCN1705.jpg)
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I grew up about 5 miles outside a small town in SW PA, Monongahela. Probably about 2000 people at most. Now it is wall to wall people from there all the way into Pittsburgh, about 30 miles.
I did not know it then, but after living in the west for 60 years, all those people have a completely different outlook on life. Plus the humidity, I could not live there now. My son lives there along with his two kids and their kids.
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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I was born and raised in Bozeman, Montana. When I was born the population was around 12,000, and when I left in 1970 it was 19,000.
Today the "metropolitan area" population is around 120,0000. My wife and I live in a town about 70 miles away that's around 2000 people--and never even go to Bozeman anymore, even to just drive through on I-90, because the traffic's so crazy.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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I grew up in Jackson, Ms but in 21 years active duty we moved nine times including two tours out of CONUS, (Hawaii and Japan). My last tour brought us back to the Naval Air Station here which is about 90 miles from away from where my two brothers and sister live a little north of Jackson. Jackson is NOT the town I grew up in by a long shot.
We all get along, so 90 miles is close enough, but it’s also far enough. 😁
NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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Moved about 200 miles North almost 30 years ago. I go back to visit family a few times a year. The first 15+ years had me wondering about possibly moving back some day, but it became clear several years ago that this is my home now. I'd feel out of place living back down there now.
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan. 
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7100 people live where I grew up.
I don't though. I moved about 10 miles south.
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I grew up in Jackson, Ms but in 21 years active duty we moved nine times including two tours out of CONUS, (Hawaii and Japan). My last tour brought us back to the Naval Air Station here which is about 90 miles from away from where my two brothers and sister live a little north of Jackson. Jackson is NOT the town I grew up in by a long shot.
We all get along, so 90 miles is close enough, but it’s also far enough. 😁 I grew up across the river from Jackson. Jackson is run by morons (Democrats). It is as bad as almost any Democrat run city in the USA. per capita. They can't even handle their own water and sewer properly. It is a hell-hole.
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I'm about 3 hours from home and am routinely glad for each minute between me and there.
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin.'"
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I live on the same piece of ground where my Great Grandfather moved from Mississippi, after the civil war. Deed is dated 1889, but they moved here earlier. I know that His father made the move with my great grandfather, but don't know where he lived. Anyway, my Grandfather lived here,my Dad lived here and now I live here. miles
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My mother lives on the farm I grew up on,I live about 14 miles away at the edge of town, last time I checked the population was about 650 including dogs,cats, and squirrels.
there is no man more free than he who has nothing left to lose --unknown--
" If it bleeds we can kill it" Conan The Barbarian
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500 people when I grew up there. Probably 20x that now but moved on.
Progressives are the most open minded, tolerant, and inclusive people on the planet, as long as you agree with everything they say, and do exactly as you're told.
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Nope. Left at 18 never to return. Found a place at age 23 and put down roots. Will move seasonally but home will always be up in AK.
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Grew up 14 miles from where I currently live. Too many people back then, too many here now.
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Just curious how many managed to stay where they grew up. Anybody wanting or wishing to move back where they came from? I came from a small town in PA and there was never much going on there. I hunted, fished and trapped etc... Now I can't believe I lived around that much green country. So many options to be outdoors. VA is one of those states where 99% of the land is owned so options to get outside is very limited and if you go to national forests (3 hours away) the laws prohibit most things like metal detecting.
I took the military route and got stuck in Hampton Roads. Frigging hate this place and wish I could go back home but no jobs. Been thinking about raising cows and doing some other stuff to make up for the lost money if I quit my job. Not like I will be getting a fat retirement from my short time in the federal job system. Currently looking for a full remote job and a star link satellite system located on top of a mountain. Until then, I spend most weekends in Shenandoah and West Virginia. Been looking into starting a couple AirBnB's. Air BnB’s et al are part of the problem. Everybody wants to make as much money as possible, then move to a low income rural area and live like a king. Or buy “investment property” and trash it with the short term rentals. A buddy said he was going to buy a property by me when it came up for sale, throw some cabins on it and pimp it on air bnb to the tourons. I told him I’d burn the fücking things down every time they were almost done.
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Nope. Left when I was 18 for school not far away.
Finished college and 2 days later was on my way west where I had been recruited to go to school.
Set roots there as a young guy. Been around here in this area a little after that but settled in the same place now for nearly 25 years. Don't see anything changing. It is about 1800miles from where I grew up. I most certainly am not returning from whence I came. Not a chance in hell.
Wife keeps talking about moving to the beach or some such drivel. Told her she's welcome to....on her own.
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Still on the family farm that was settled in 1836.
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My home is in the Northwest and I have spent my life there (barring some government mandated travel). It's an 800 mile circle but that's home, and I've lived all over it. I visit my actual hometown (Potlatch, Idaho) often and still feel at home there, but we'll never live there again. GD
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