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That’s an interesting observation. I have the same issue, moved as a kid and as an adult and don’t know what to say when people ask me where I’m from. I do us
by burlesona 6y ago
That’s an interesting observation.
I have the same issue, moved as a kid and as an adult and don’t know what to say when people ask me where I’m from.
I do usually say the place I spent 4 years of HS, but I think I only say that because my parents stopped moving at that point and still live there, so that’s where I “go home for the holidays.”
Ironically when I’m around that area and people ask, I usually tell them a different part of the country where I lived in elementary school. I think that’s because I don’t really know the HS area that well, haven’t kept in touch with people there outside of immediate family, so I don’t feel like a local at all.
Honestly the only place that feels like “home” to me is where I went to college. But that’s one of those cultural things, you can be “from” the place you went off to college. And now that I’m coming up on two decades post-graduation, that feeling of familiarity is fading, though the nostalgia and “homey-ness” remains.
Why does everyone care so much about “where you’re from” anyway, sheesh :)