What Do You Consider Your Hometown?

[dales]

It can be the place where you were born or some other locale.

For example, I was born in San Mateo, CA but I consider Belmont, CA my hometown as I spent most of my childhood there.

btw....it sure as hell didn't look like this 50 years ago!

[Gob]

A bit of a toughy for me.

I was brought up in Llanelli, lived there for the first 22 years of my life.

Then I moved to Devon, lived there 10 years, (Plymouth, Tavistock, Exeter.)

Bought my first house in Cornwall, lived in Sennen for 10 years, still own it.

Fell in love, moved to Australia, lived in Canberra since 2002.

Lived in other places for short periods as well, both in the UK and abroad.

Where is home?

For me, it's a toss up between here, my house in Sennen, and someplace yet to be lived in on or near Dartmoor.

If I had to make a choice, then the latter.

[Sean]

Hometown is definitely Manchester but it's hard to pinpoint 'home' as we talk about going to the UK as going home...

[oldr_n_wsr]

I grew up in Mineola, Long Island NY and moved to Farmingville Long Island NY when I got married. Other than a year long stint in Buffalo NY when I went to college, I have lived in those two places all my life. I have friends that still live in the Mineola area and have many great memories there but I consider Farmingville my hometown now.

[Miles]

Born and raised in DuBois Pennsylvania but call home Warsaw New York not far from Buffalo and Rochester. Curently living in Butler Pa. just north of Pittsburgh.

[RayThom]

I've lived in a ten square mile area of the Philly western suburbs all my life. Oddly, it's amazing how the "ties that bind" often keeps one from achieving a more satisfying life. Of course, we rarely understand those ties until we find time to reflect upon them... much later in life, and often too late to make a real change.

I'm not necessarily bitching about my life, I had a fairly rewarding management systems career and I certainly have the most wonderful daughter in the world, but I see almost everyone I grew up with who made the transition into out-of-state colleges and then move on to other states after graduation, seem to have fared much, much better in their chosen careers.

Hell, here I am a retire guy with 64 trips around the sun, and I'm sweating a move to a new condo at the end of the year, a mile away from the beautiful Longwood Gardens -- less than 40 miles away. The invisible magnetic force of those ties that bind. It's amazing how they tug at the psyche.

Oh, the life we chose. I'm always seeing the crescent, never the whole of the moon.
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BTW, Miles, is that pronounced "DuBoys" or DuBwa"? My old friend Jack DuBois pronounced his name "DuBoys." And how is the Treasure Lake Golf Course -- Gold -- holding up? A great course.