Where is "home" to you, or where you're "from"?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Poll question: Where is "home" to you, or where you're "from"?

[Misunderestimator]

1. It's wherever I hang my hat.

:)

[Zuni]

11. Misunderestimator was a rolling stone

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. And when she died... all she left us was alo-o-one...

[Roland99]

2. All of the above?

;)

[Madrone]

3. All of the above for me, too.

n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. I was born in NJ, lived in NYC as a small child, and "grew up" in DC

and spent the biggest part of my life there.

I definitely "feel" like DC is my home more than anything else because of growing up there.

I'm glad that I'm fond of DC, it's one of my favorite places despite crappy summer weather, and despite the fact that it doesn't have the size and cultural life of a NYC or Boston. Still a great place.

I feel bad for people who hate where they're from or have no desire to go back to even visit.

[tedoll78]

5. Hmm..

I've lived here in Austin since December 2000, and it's a lovely place.. but it doesn't feel like "home" to me.

New Orleans, where I grew-up from birth to 18, where my parents & sister & entire family live, from where my homesickness springs, where I plan on moving back in about 2 years - New Orleans still feels like home, even though I left for college in 1996.

So yah.. I live in Austin, but I'll always be "from from" New Orleans.

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. I guess I am "homeless"

The place where I grew up has expereinced phenomenal growth and I get lost rather easily when I visit. The rural area where I actually lived has been purchased and used to build an airport.

I currently live in crazy red f*cking JOklahoma and despise the prevalent mentality here.

Everywhere else I have lived was short term.

I am currently job hunting and willing to relocate literally almost anywhere worldwide. And I really want to leave red hell.

[RebelOne]

7. Was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Miami, FL

Now live just northwest of Atlanta, GA. And I feel as if I have always lived here.

[Igel]

8. No 'home' here.

Where I grew up doesn't feel right, and no other place fits the bill.

I hate moving, simply because I don't feel like figuring out new streets, new grocery stores, and how to find the toilet at 4 am without tripping on anything and without turning on any lights.

[u4ic]

9. Wherever I live...

I grew up in a suburban wasteland, and was happy to be rid of it.

[Taxloss]

10. I haven't voted; too difficult to say.

I feel an intense affinity with three places. I was born in eastern India, in Orissa, a state that I love greatly. I grew up in Oxford, one of the most beautiful cities on Earth. And my family comes from, and I live in, London, the single greatest place on this tiny planet.

[tonekat]

13. You can't be a prophet in your hometown

Nor can you make a profit in your hometown. I wanted to reinvent myself, and live in an urban area. I did.
Born and raised in upstate NY, now enjoying life in the DC burbs of VA. I have no reason to return to whence I came. My older sister still lives there, but I don't share her values, nor do I feel any affinity to her kids, as they have the 'neck values of her husband.

[Nikia]

14. I am from a micropolitain area in Ohio

I was born in that town/city as were both of my parents. My grandparents continue to live there in the same houses that they have been in my whole life. In some ways, I felt like an outsider there, especially when we moved outside of city limits and went to a rurualer school.
The place that I felt most comfortable was college. Despite that, in some ways, I feel that I am less welcome there now. I am not successful, like I was supposed to be, as a graduate from there. Even with my degree, I am working class.
Now, I live in rural Wisconsin, living in this small town for over three years. I am far away from any family or people who I grew up with. I know few people outside of work, a place that I dread going to everyday. This is definitely not home.
In some ways, I think of my town in Ohio as home, but when I go to visit relatives, I feel rather anonymous. I have even avoided greeting the occaisional person who I have seen, who I used to know. I figure that I if they didn't greet me first, that they must have forgotten all about me.

[XemaSab]

15. California is "home"

I've lived all over the state, and I feel lost visiting most of the towns and cities I have lived, but whenever I leave the state, I miss the oak trees.

Wherever I lay my head is home, as long as it's in California.