CPW: Hometown

RockABye · January 2014

Would you ever settle down in your hometown? (meaning YOURS, not your H's)

nfp147 · January 2014

Nope, mine is far too small and there are zero opportunities.

caseyandlizzie · January 2014

Technically I no longer live in my hometown, or even home state, but I'm right across the river from it.....does that count?

PandPMeant2B · January 2014

I absolutely would, but I don't think we could ever afford to. We're in DH's hometown now and neither of us wants to stay here.

brij2006 · January 2014

We live in H's hometown now. We would love to build in my hometown on my parents' farm or remodel the old farmhouse and live in it.

Xan921 · January 2014

I currently live in my hometown and could see myself doing so in the future too; however, my job and the housing market will most likely take us to another town within the next year.

islandmonkey8 · January 2014

We currently live in my H's hometown. Mine is only 10 minutes away, we looked there but the taxes are higher and we wouldn't get as much for our money. I wouldn't mind living there, but it's actually easier to live closer to my ILs then my family. Plus, this is closer to both of our jobs.

arj14 · January 2014

DH and I both grew up in the same city, where we live now. We will stay here for the foreseeable future and definitely in this area, if not in the exact city, when we start house hunting.

Sewilson33 · January 2014

I loved growing up where I did. It was a smaller school and a smaller town but just enough people to not feel like everyone knew everyone. If I could pick my town up and move it somewhere else in NY along the water I would.

Uptowngirl2009 · January 2014

I basically live in my hometown. I mean, like 40 minutes away but it's the same type of town. I hate living here right now and hate that we settled down here. I love my job and living here but hate the fact that DH can't find a stable, steady job here.

cinderin · January 2014

I said yes, I grew up in a suburb of Seattle and now I live in a different suburb, but it is still my home town.

MRads · January 2014

I always have trouble with what to consider as my hometown. I lived three places for six years each. But I wouldn't live where I went to high school, although it is only 40 minutes away. It is too suburban and too far away from the city.

Flamingo86 · January 2014

We live about 90 minutes from my hometown. I would be okay with living there, and we have even discussed moving there. I don't anticipate that happening anytime in the near future however.

Flamingo86 · January 2014

dupe.

poppies717 · January 2014

Nope. Too far for DH from his home office, and I have zero ties except for my parents.

mrsvedo · January 2014

I don't have anywhere I'd consider my hometown. I moved around a lot and by the time I was in high school, that was my 9th school. We went to whatever school my dad was teaching at and he has authority problems and rarely got along with the administration so never lasted more than a year or two in any one place until his latest school district.

DangerMuffin23 · January 2014

I would love to live in my hometown to be close to family, but there are zero opportunities for work (for myself or DH)

LuckyAngel07 · January 2014

While I think it might be more affordable to live there (about an hour from where we live now), the public schools suck, it would mean a longer train commute into the city for me, and DH would be like 2 hours from his company's office (he's always in the field, but does have to swing by the office every now and then, not to mention most of his job sites have been closer to where we live now than if we moved to where I lived when I was kid).

If we move anywhere in the near future, it will probably be a major relocation with both of us finding new jobs. Which is both a really exciting idea to me and utterly terrifying.

lfk2013 · January 2014

I'm close enough to my parents...I don't want to live in the same city where they can drop by whenever. I love them, don't get me wrong, but they are having really bad empty nest syndrome right now.

Granted, we are in the same area, and I love Northern VA.

Aimothy · January 2014

No. Never would move back.

And here's why:

1. My SIL lives there.

2. There is not a Target or a Starbucks within 45 minutes. DOES. NOT. COMPUTE.

rccola1981 · January 2014

I basically do live in my hometown. Both DH and i's parents are about 20 minutes away, but we are in such a rural area. Our kids will go to another school than either of us (assuming we stay here and our district doesn't combine). I work in the school I went to and wanted my kids to go to a different school, if I could move our house to DH parents land I would in a heartbeat.

sgautschi · January 2014

DH and I actually grew up in the towns next to each other, and went to the same schools. While I really enjoyed it as a kid, it's far to secluded and small to enjoy as an adult. I don't know how my parents did it, it's a 30 minute drive just to go to Walmart and almost 45 minutes to a Target. And when we were really young, before they built more closer to home, it was an hour drive.

BeeLu · January 2014

We might, because the school system is good, but we'd definitely be happier somewhere more urban. We're city peoples.

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