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Poll: Do you live in the town/city where you were born? De persoon die dit onderwerp heeft geplaatst: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Do you live in the town/city where you were born?".
This poll was originally submitted by Cecilia Falk
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This poll was originally submitted by Cecilia Falk
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| exactly 10 years | Nov 10, 2009 |
I left my hometown 10 years ago...
I don't know if I miss it, the only problem is that I feel at home NOWHERE, I mean, there are places where I feel ok, but even my hometown is not home anymore, I do not know about shops, and other things that have changed in 10 years...
But I like living in different places, my friends are getting worried because I have lived for 5 years in the same place now, and they are waiting for news about the new destination! (average time in the same place ... See more I left my hometown 10 years ago...
I don't know if I miss it, the only problem is that I feel at home NOWHERE, I mean, there are places where I feel ok, but even my hometown is not home anymore, I do not know about shops, and other things that have changed in 10 years...
But I like living in different places, my friends are getting worried because I have lived for 5 years in the same place now, and they are waiting for news about the new destination! (average time in the same place 2 years) ▲ Collapse
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Sanna van Leeuwen (X) 
Finland
Local time: 22:25
Nederlands naar Fins
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| Yes, again after 30 years | Nov 10, 2009 |
My family moved to another town when I was 4. Now I have returned to my hometown after about 30 years, of which 11 years abroad
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Anne Carnot
Frankrijk
Local time: 21:25
Lid 2009
Engels naar Frans
| Left when I was 1, never went back! | Nov 10, 2009 |
my dad was in the army, and we moved every other year. I went to more than 10 different schools... And as if this wasn't enough, my family and I still like to move city / country fairly often, so I don't feel like I have a hometown at all... and I don't really miss it, it's nice to discover new places ... and working freelance really helps!
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Melanie Nassar
Verenigde Staten
Local time: 22:25
Duits naar Engels
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| I never lived there | Nov 10, 2009 |
I was born in a hospital in Minnesota across the river from the little town in North Dakota where I also only lived for 5 weeks before my parents moved on. To my knowledge, I've never been back to either place. I lack a hometown for the same reasons as Anne Carnot (Navy in my dad's case).
I never missed having a hometown either – until I understood what it was by bringing up my sons in the same place (22 years and counting). Now I think the phenomenon of a "rootless" upbringing should r... See more I was born in a hospital in Minnesota across the river from the little town in North Dakota where I also only lived for 5 weeks before my parents moved on. To my knowledge, I've never been back to either place. I lack a hometown for the same reasons as Anne Carnot (Navy in my dad's case).
I never missed having a hometown either – until I understood what it was by bringing up my sons in the same place (22 years and counting). Now I think the phenomenon of a "rootless" upbringing should really be of more interest as more and more people are affected by it. ▲ Collapse
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| I left when I was 5 | Nov 10, 2009 |
Anne: Wow!
I left the UK when I was 5, and only went back to live there for a few months in 2007 (then came back to Spain). The rest of my life I have been moving around inside Spain, south to north, north to south. I actually consider the south more my home than the UK because it is where I grew up!
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MJ Barber
Spanje
Local time: 21:25
Spaans naar Engels
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| Left Ireland for Spain over 20 years ago | Nov 10, 2009 |
... and never looked back.
When people ask me if I would ever move back to Ireland, I say "Yes, when they put a roof on it"
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After 37 years
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| i love that line | Nov 10, 2009 |
about a roof on Ireland...i guess sunny Spain has its appeal.
that's the good thing about EU....you can go live in spain, italy and it's not moving 10000 miles!!!
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| Left as a baby | Nov 10, 2009 |
I haven't lived in the city where I was born since I was five months old.
I left the city I grew up in eight years ago.
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Yaotl Altan
Mexico
Local time: 13:25
Lid 2006
Engels naar Spaans
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But would go back tomorrow, given the chance.
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| Left to go to college | Nov 10, 2009 |
Lived several places since, but where I live now is home.
It's where my daughter was born, when some of my friends live, and it's where the computer is.
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mediamatrix (X)
Local time: 15:25
Spaans naar Engels
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| No, fortunately... | Nov 10, 2009 |
The town I was born in was on the map around 2000 years before I turned up and I guess it'll still be there 2000 years after I've gone. Colchester (Essex, UK) doesn't need me. I don't need Colchester. I left when I was 11 and have been back only very occasionally - usually to bury distant relatives.
Last time I was there I might as well have been in Timbuktu; indeed, I'd have preferred to be in Timbuktu and have a better reason to lose my bearings than the fact that they've knock... See more The town I was born in was on the map around 2000 years before I turned up and I guess it'll still be there 2000 years after I've gone. Colchester (Essex, UK) doesn't need me. I don't need Colchester. I left when I was 11 and have been back only very occasionally - usually to bury distant relatives.
Last time I was there I might as well have been in Timbuktu; indeed, I'd have preferred to be in Timbuktu and have a better reason to lose my bearings than the fact that they've knocked down all my boyhood haunts to make way for the paraphernalia of 21st Century "living".
Home is where you are...
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