Lifelong Illinoisan...and we'll probably never move away...

We went to The Virgin Islands once and the weather was wonderful but I don't want to live in a tourist hot spot. I just want to live where I can get to my grandkids in a couple of hours yet still be close to where my sister and other daughter live. Really since our mortgage is paid off I guess it's best I stay here.

Lifelong Oregon gal.. moved 15 miles away from family/childhood home when I got married..been in the same home since then.

New York
South Carolina

Born and raised in the Slavic village area of Cleveland Ohio and lived there until I was 22. Bounced around to various western suburbs and now about 35 miles southwest of Cleveland (in the country) for 21 years.

Just never had a reason or saw a need to get too far away.

Moline, IL (twice)
Portland OR
Jburg, South Africa
Hberg, Germnay
Des Moines, IA
Detroit. MI
finally settled down in DC, for now

I've moved 12 times in 25 years :rolleyes:. Started up North in Penn. now waaayyy down south in the Sunshine state.

Like many others, I moved around quite a bit - from the east coast to the mid-west to the west and everything in between.

My dad's father was a carpenter and his brother had rheumatic fever, so they tended to move where the warm weather and construction jobs were. As a result, my dad went to 13 different schools in 12 years. He went in the other direction with us. I lived in the same house (minus summer trips to places he was working) for the first 18 years of my life. With that said:

Friendswood, Texas
Lac Mistassini, Quebec (summer - 3 months when I was 3)
Anchorage, Alaska (2 summers - when I was 7 and 8)
College Station, Texas
Wixom, Michigan
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Katy, Texas
Lake Conroe, Texas
Houston, Texas

milwaukee, wisconsin
clintonville, wisconsin
green bay, wisconsin
crandon, wisconsin
laona, wisconsin
beaver dam, wisconsin
mayville, wisconsin
ft eustis, virginia
columbia, south carolina
homeless for 3 weeks (stayed with friends until college started): New York, Connecticut and Maryland
springfield, missouri
Ford Island (Pearl Harbor), Hawaii
Tipler, Wisconsin
Pound, Wisconsin
Beaver, Wisconsin
Abrams, Wisconsin

does having a 3-day TDY in Tokyo, Japan, count?? :D