Where have you lived?

We were living in Hobbs, NM and I got transferred to San Angelo, Texas. As part of the relocation package my company paid for, if our house didn't sell within a certain time frame, the company would buy it...the housing market was glutted at that time with homes for sale, so the company ended up buying it.

I ended up getting transferred back to Hobbs a year later. The company offered a 10% rebate if you bought a home from their inventory...our home was still in their inventory, and we liked it, so I offered them less than they had paid me for it. Since the market was so bad, they took it...and paid me 10% of the purchase price to boot!

What was really nice was that during the time that they owned it, the roof had leaked, and they put on a new roof, replace the carpets, and painted it inside.

It felt like we were coming home from a really long vacation, and we had taken all our furniture with us. At least we knew where everything went. :)
 
Arkansas except for two short periods................

.......in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Born in the Ozarks , lived in several towns around the state over the years, but now back in the Ozarks, where the good Lord willing, I will end my time on earth.
 
Born in the Bronx,N.Y. 16 years
N.J. 10 years
East Quogue N.Y 24 years
Delaware 6 years
moving back Quogue until i die !!!!!
 
As a kid...
Bangor, ME
Littlerock, AR
Albequerque, NM
RAF Bentwaters, England
Mt Home AFB, ID
Montgomery, AL
Casteau, Belgium
Ft Walton Beach, FL

As an adult...
Ft Collins, CO
Abilene, TX
Dyess AFB, TX
Middle Barton, England
Bicester, England
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Sembach AB, Germany
Columbia, SC
Belleville, IL
Charleston AFB, SC
Ft Leavenworth, KS
Elmendorf AFB, AK
Stafford, VA
Carlisle, PA
Riverview, FL
Travis AFB, CA
Greenville, SC
Simpsonville, SC...and hope never to move again.

Uncle Sam's vacations...
Qatar
Bahrain
Saudi Arabia
Netherlands
Kuwait
Mexico
South Korea
Kuwait again
Bahrain again
Saudi Arabia again
UAE
Jordan
Iraq

Pretty sure I forgot something.
 
Huntington, WV 23yrs.
Princeton, WV 10yrs.
Aiken, SC 3.5yrs.
Waynesboro, VA 2yrs.
Wilmington, DE a loooong 17 months.
Chillicothe, OH 2 yrs.
Chattanooga, TN 9yrs.
Back to WV for the past 11yrs.

I have heard that three moves is as hard on furniture as a fire.
 
moline, il
morgan city, la
moss bluff, la
lake charles, la
small town , mo
kc, ks
davenport, ia
milan, il
silvis,il
colona,il
they will not let me say where i live now
 
LazyKB said:
I have heard that three moves is as hard on furniture as a fire.
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I don't know about that, but we have boxes out in the garage that have several moving stickers on them...they are looking rather tattered. I keep telling my wife that we must not need that stuff, since we haven't opened it in all this time (some of those stickers are from 20 years ago) but she insists it's valuable stuff.
 
Seattle WA
Deer Park WA
Spokane WA
South Bend, IN
Marietta, GA
Kennesaw GA
 
Dallas, Tx
Quantico, Va
Lawton, Ok
Jacksonville, Fl
Dallas, Tx
Ft Worth, Tx
Boca Raton, Fl
Chicago, Il
Atlanta, Ga
Raleigh, Nc
Paris, France
Raleigh, Nc
 
JustAnotherGunGuy said:
I lived there in the early 90s. Went back through that area a year or so ago and it's grown. I left when the meth heads started really taking hold. Hope it's better now days.
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Not really. Although much of rural/small town US is like that.
I'm all for the death penalty for anyone found manufacturing meth.
 
I've never lived more than 25 miles from the house I was raised in. I've had 7 different addresses, But all in Kalamazoo county. But we've traveled all directions and seen a lot of our great country.
 
1953 - 1972 NJ 18+ years of waiting escape.
1972 FL Boot camp
1973 Class A School USN in CA
1973-1975 VA and USS LAWRENCE DDG-4
1976 NC still USN in VA for job.
November 76 to present WISCONSIN I stopped to visit in 1976 after discharge from the Navy. Brats, Point Special Beer and a job. I was stuck. Plus the fine folks who were here to welcome me.
Still love Wisconsin and cheese too.
 
re: where have you lived?

birth ... in it's present devolutionary condition, Kalifornia
Maine
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Connecticut
USAF, after Texas, of course,
Delaware
Thailand-and places
Delaware
Colorado
California
New York
Oregon
Louisiana - survivor of Hurricane Katrina
 
Born, Reading PA.
Stratford, CT.
Newtown, CT (went to school there, just not Sandy Hook).
Sherman, CT.
Jackson, MS (in 1942 it was a different country. If I never go back there again, it's too soon).
Bel Aire, MD.
Asheville, NC.
Seattle, WA.
More Sherman, CT.
Cambridge, MA.
Boston, MA.
Thule, Greenland.
Norfolk, VA.
Cape Charles, VA.
Kure Beach, NC.
Anchorage, AK.
Saigon, RVN.
El Paso, TX. Been here since 1969.
 
Born in western NY, stayed until 22 yrs old.
Got married and moved to MA for a job. Spent 4 years there.
Switched jobs and moved to NH.
Lived in Switzerland for a 6 months on a work assignment.
Still in NH.

I'm as far south as I'm ever going to live.
 
rwsmith said:
I never had a reason to move from the greater Charleston, SC area and I've been here all my life. Is that unusual??
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While I'd say "no", because I know several folks who have never really left where they grew up (some did for school and/or military but came back), it seems to be more common today where people are more mobile.

If you want to have a career in many fields, you have to move. It's one of the things that motivated me for many years.

However, I landed in Charleston in mid-2010, met the lovely lady that is now my wife, really like who I work for, and don't want to go anywhere. First time in 17 years I haven't been thinking about "where to next".

EDIT - The longer I've been out of WV, the less time I like spending there. I have several friends from different parts of life who give me grief for not wanting to move back to WV when I retire, but honestly, I have no desire to go back. Heck, I try to keep my time up there limited, as it is now, lol.
 
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