where did you grow up? (update)

[Faerie Dreams]

The sign driving into my home town says "welcome to ______ where friendliness is served country style" I think that says it all right there...small little country town with one traffic light and tractors blocking the road making you late to school/work.

Going to school with so few people hindered my socialization skills...And everyone was white to make it worse lol.

I love where I grew up and having a little farm in my backyard, the back roads, the horses, the quiet, the open space, neighbors being miles away, bonfires, and everyone knowing everyone...
I'm moving to the city in a week to be closer to my husband's job I don't wanna go =(

So.

What kinda town did you grow up in?
How does it effect who you are today?
Did your town have a dumb saying?
Do you like where you grew up?
Did you have to move somewhere completely different? If so how was that?




Update: moved to the city 2 months ago and realized its not bad.
It's not a big city at all. Our neighbors are quiet. The apartments are far off the road and next to a HUGE park with multiple beaches. There's a a pond where we can fish in the apartment complex. And the view off of my back porch is of a bunch of trees (not other apartments)
And its nice to drive 3 min to the grocery store rather than 20 lol.
Not to mention my car stays clean cause I don't have to drive down back roads anymore lol
All in all its not as scary or different as I thought

[Eizoryu]

What kinda town did you grow up in?
Rural town, population ~9500.

How does it effect who you are today?
I don't think it really did. Other than my being a game/computer-dependent nerd who doesn't mind going and getting dirty/wants to go hunting/fishing again.

Did your town have a dumb saying?
Psh. I've forgotten.

Do you like where you grew up?
It's alright. Not the best, not the worst, but our sole year-round tourist attraction is the Little House on the Prairie. What does that tell ya?

Did you have to move somewhere completely different? If so how was that?
Oh yeah. SE KS to Dallas, TX. The circumstances of my move weren't the greatest, either. I ran away from home, though I was 19 at the time. But that's a story for a different time.
It really wasn't so bad as I thought it was going to be. I was sure I'd never like the city. Now I miss it something terrible, since we moved back to our rinky-dink little hometown. Though, I hate having next door neighbors with loud-a** ill-behaved mutts. That's one thing I miss about the country; the miles between neighbors that ensured you never heard their dogs yapping at s**t.

[Ghosty Pie]

Big big wealthy city.

Lots of Jews and old people.

I had a blast and a great childhood.

[Faerie Dreams]

Eizoryu

That's one thing I miss about the country; the miles between neighbors that ensured you never heard their dogs yapping at s**t.

I'm sure that's what I'm gonna miss the most...we're moving to an apartment and I hate the idea of having neighbors.

[Sakura Latte]

What kinda town did you grow up in?

A suburban city

How does it effect who you are today?

It didn't

Did your town have a dumb saying?

I don't know

Do you like where you grew up?

Apart from the nostalgia factor, no. It has become sort of ghetto and all the stores there that I was familiar with as a kid have closed down. The park behind one of the nearby supermarkets that I used to frequent also no longer exists today.

Did you have to move somewhere completely different? If so how was that?

Yes, due to my parents separating and then divorcing. I lived with my grandparents for a few years when I was in elementary school.

[Sophisticated Simplicity]

What kinda town did you grow up in?
I kinda grew up all over the place. A couple years here, a couple there. But for the one I feel the strongest about is one of the further away districts of a big city. Population: ~7.5 million

How does it effect who you are today?
It didn't. It's who I grew up with that affected me, not where.

Did your town have a dumb saying?
Not really. Maybe there were, but I don't remember

Do you like where you grew up?
Ask me this now and the answer is no. The weather is horrible, there's pollution, it's too crowded, all that stuff. But back then it was pretty fun.

Did you have to move somewhere completely different? If so how was that?
I moved from China to Canada, so yeah, it was completely different alright. Not sure what you mean by how was that. The move itself? I was 11, I didn't feel anything particular about it except that I'll miss my relatives. After moving, well I had to learn a completely new language and new culture and all that, but I'm human, and humans adapt.

[Reyna224]

I grew up all over California. We were constantly moving and I've probably lived in every area now.

[and thats how you know]

here
there
everywhere

[Phantasmagoric Paintbrush]

What kinda town did you grow up in? An inner-city area in England.
How does it effect who you are today? It makes me envious of Gaians who say they grew up somewhere sunny like California.
Did your town have a dumb saying? No.
Do you like where you grew up? Not at all.
Did you have to move somewhere completely different? If so how was that? We moved from a drug-infested, prostitute-ridden, litter-strewn area to a wealthy one with an extremely high council tax and neighbors that refuse to send their children to state schools. That's what you call social mobility.

[Ryoujen]

The CLE baby!! (Cleveland, OH)

[Pirate Flynn]

(relatively) big smelly city

[The Rustiest Level]

What kinda town did you grow up in?
Small town in WA.

How does it effect who you are today?
It's where I grew up, I guess. It kinda inspired me to go out and see more of the world. It inspired my future passion for travel.

Did your town have a dumb saying?
Nah.

Do you like where you grew up?
I love my small town, but the Spokane area sucks.

Did you have to move somewhere completely different? If so how was that?
Not yet, but I plan on going to an out of state school.

[Arbitrary Mani]

my entire island is like one big town :/
one highschool.

I live on the internet, so i really dont give enough ******** for it to affect me that much.

We have our own dialect, as do many Caribbean islands. Boy ="Bi" ,What's going on = "Wa gine on" , and stuff like that.

I moved here when I was 7, and yea I like it much more than the previous island I lived on. Everything is in walking distance, even the other end of the island , (it's only 15 miles long).

We don't have American franchises here, but that's okay.

[Toxilicks]

What kinda town did you grow up in?

I grew up in a livable dump. Not that I would leave home alone, mind you. Troubled teens and ***** from the several nursing homes were probably the biggest problems when I was a kid.

How does it effect who you are today?

It makes me sort of want to reach out to other people who grew up differently to see how they turned out despite of their own hometowns.

Did your town have a dumb saying?

Does "shut up, c**t" count?

Do you like where you grew up?

My street is the only safe haven I have. Otherwise, god no.

Did you have to move somewhere completely different? If so how was that?

No, the only move we ever made was my younger brother's birth. The community helped build out house, which was nothing except a block of land filled with trees.
I feel bad thinking about the kids who must have snuck in there and played on those trees.

[Vardoger]

What kinda town did you grow up in?
Rich, white, conservative, fundamentalist christian, suburbia

How does it effect who you are today?
I really hate white christians who live in suburbia.
I guess it's worth mentioning that I was poor. So I got picked on relentlessly.
My family had no business being in the neighborhood we were in.

Did your town have a dumb saying?
We gave directions in relative terms to the big chicken. "Take a right past the big chicken", for example. I lived in Marietta, Georgia. Oh, by the way? Big chicken isn't worth seeing.

Do you like where you grew up?
In terms of nature, yes. In terms of the people and culture, ******** no.

Did you have to move somewhere completely different? If so how was that?
I went to college in Florida. It was only slightly better. I then joined the Navy which had me over in Japan. It was infinitely better (but had its own problems). Right now I'm in New York and the people are 3000x more awesome than georgia, but there's nothing to do in this particular area.
I'm moving soon, but I'm not sure where yet.