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Or, Slumlord, try living in Alaska for a few years and have every neighborhood being fifty percent crack / meth factories.

Growing up 40 miles from the Meskin border made it easy to move away. If you aren't smuggling dope or aliens, there's not much to do there. We kept the ranch though because taxes are low and people pay stupid money to shoot deer in Dimmit County.

Hickory NC was mine

One of my ancestors was the first sheriff of that county.

I grew up in the Philly suburbs and now live at the foot of the Bighorn Mtns. in Wyoming. I felt out of place before I left and 15 yrs. later when I have passed through the area , it is completely foreign to me. The place and the people I grew up with are gone and it was replaced by a Hipster / liberal bastion I can not deal with the humidity and the allergies that I used to and in general feel like I am about to have a panic attack, no trips down memory lane , just a flight response , When I arrive back to my "new" home , it is just that home.

Vermont for the first 72 years. Whatever time left will be right here in the green mountain state.

I grew up in Orange County, CA which at one time was the most conservative coastal county in California.
7 years ago I left to attend school at Auburn and never looked back.

First left my home in Maine when I was 18.

44 years later. Well over 70 moves and 60 countries, I am moving back home to my home in Maine for good in 2 more years. A full cycle It has been a fantastic life and with a very understanding wife..

wasn't Frostproof where one truckload of poor whites shot and killed another truckload of poor whites recently?

Man sheeit

Get a double Big Char w/cheese at The Dairy Dip in Dover

Chase it with a milkshake, go park at the Natl battlefield across the street and watch bald eagles light in a tree above the Columbiad

Fire up a joint on the way home through Carlisle and Bear Springs

Take the gravel roads through Cross Creeks National Refuge till your buzz come down enough to drive thru TVA security without gettin popped, if not side detour through Stewart St Forest till your eyes no longer need band aids with help of Visine

continue on

Stop at the Busy Bee, get $1.67 in gas and go home.

I don't.

Grew up in Florida and couldn't stand the weather, the water, the urbanization, or the people. There's nothing for me there other than family members I see at family reunions anyways.

I left the small town I grew up in, in 1969, then moved back to the same state when I got out of the Marines and went to college. When I finished my masters I left the state for a short time then came back prior to going to Colorado and on to Alaska. Spent the biggest share of my adult life in Alaska but never had any desire to go back to NM. The little town my mom lived in never really grew up and there's still only one high school. I've got no use for the political corruption in New Mexico so when it was time to retire and move somewhere warmer and less expensive I knew I wasn't going there I've been embarrassed for years for no more times than I made it back to to visit my mother. She passed this year in Arizona in an assisted living home, so I still had to go back to NM to take care of her things and get her house sold. I suspect I'll die here in Idaho as i see no reason to live. I like the freedoms already mentioned above, and the conservatives. My son still lives in Alaska, and that is the hardest part of change and retirement.

My dad was a career naval officer (30 years) and I a career army officer (26) years. From birth until my retirement I never lived in one place longer than 3 years, I've had so many "homes" i wouldn't know which one to go home to. However, I can see how that might be a good problem to have.

This sums things up nice like ...best 3 mins u will see this month...

Humidity over 60% is like water on the witch in OZ to me....

Born and raised in Idaho, moved to Alaska in 71 when I was 14. Married an Alaska girl and will be buried with my parents and friends on Fort Rich. Can't stand the heat down south anymore only go see family in Idaho during the winter. Only been out of state once in 15 years.

Yup, me too...........Unless I'm in the wood-fired sauna.

I moved away for 30 yrs, but I bought my old home place and 2 years ago we moved back. Spent 1 1//2 yrs remodeling a house and unless something that I cant imagine happens, I'm here to stay.

Things have changed in some ways and not so much in others. I use to know just about everyone, not that way now. A whole generation of young people have grown up and I don't know them. Having said that, there are still a lot of good people in our area.

At least the weather tends to keep them inside and not wondering the neighborhood.

I bet "Its a Wonderful Life" strikes a chord with you more than the average guy