S/o my s/o... How did you end up here?

therickson · January 2012

Born here or transplant? From where? Tell me a story...

Temp222512500003295 · January 2012

Born here! (In Tacoma, grew up in Puyallup, moved to the Seattle area for grad school)

uwhuskygirl · January 2012

My mom and dad did the deed somewhere in Kent and 9 months and 2 weeks later I showed up in Seattle.

mgoss228 · January 2012

Born in Western Washington (about 45 minutes North of Seattle), moved to Seattle to attend UW, and still live in Seattle.

DH, on the other hand, is a Northern Californian transplant, he moved here to attend UW and stayed here with me.

karimychel · January 2012

Once upon a time..

Actually the story isn't interesting at all. DH and I both grew up in AK and knew after grad school we wanted to move. DH works for a world wide company and a few offers came in for places such as Connecticut, Georgia, Las Vegas and then Seattle. We had already decided that we're more West Coasters, so we chose Seattle.

Our time here is limited - though its not a contract - usually managers in this position only stay in a place for 3-4 years.

Ciaram22 · January 2012

I am a transplant from Millington Tennessee. I was born there and then my mom left my abusive father and moved back in with her parents here and I have been here ever since.

therickson · January 2012

I grew up in the north end and my hubby grew up in the south end. We decided since we can never agree on anything we better just live in the middle in Seattle!

merrileekate · January 2012

uwhuskygirl:
My mom and dad did the deed somewhere in Kent and 9 months and 2 weeks later I showed up in Seattle.

This made me LOL. I ended up here in a similar fashion

dreamwinds · January 2012

A long time ago, my grandfather owned a lot of real estate in Korea, but his eldest daughter lived in the US which made passing on inheritance difficult. So he looked into buying real estate in downtown Seattle (to pass on to her, my mother) because he'd always loved this city and thought having a US-based home there would be nice.

He passed away a few months later, but before he did, our entire family spent a few days in Seattle on a layover trip from Nebraska (my grandfather was flying there regularly for medical treatments). It stuck with me apparently, though I was only 11. I remembered loving the city a lot even though it was raining the whole time we were here.

Then in college, I met my husband online and we started doing that weird internet dating thing before finally meeting in person a few months later. (He came out to Massachusetts to visit me.) And combine him living in Vancouver, some longtime friends having moved to Seattle, and previous good feelings about Seattle as a city, I moved out here in 2004.

And stayed here since.

There might have been a moment when D and I were talking about getting married that I harbored hopes of moving to New York City, but it seemed too much to put on him, moving countries and then cross-country all at once.

karebear219 · January 2012

Both H and I are born and raised.

CDMay2006 · January 2012

My parents moved here via Chicago (and before that, the South) a couple years before i was born (Navy). I've lived here my whole life, never living farther from the Sound than 10 miles (Eastside, B'ham, Tacoma).

jennlin · January 2012

birth canal-

h's dad is a boeing transplant and brought the fam about 1999.

sarack · January 2012

born here.

Johlise · January 2012

Transplant. Canadian - Alberta to be exact.

Met DH and he grew up in the Valley here so when we got married because of his job I moved to the U.S.

soralette · January 2012

Military brat, lol. Born in Cali, stayed there for ~3-4mos, moved to VA, moved to MD, moved to TX, parents divorced, moved to Seattle (where Mom grew up/her family lives), moved to PA, graduated high school/Mom moved out, ended up moving back to Seattle b/c it's the place I liked best out of everywhere I lived.

DH was also born in Cali, stayed there for ~6-9mos, moved to MI... and stayed there thru college. He moved out here for his current job in 2005.

jennuinne · January 2012

Born and raised in Auburn and surrounding areas. Moved to Seattle for UW and stayed a year after. Then moved to DC for law school, where I met DH who was born and raised in DC/VA. Moved back here and got a job in Tacoma. Miss living in Seattle but it's more affordable and practical to be close to work.

emyinpink · January 2012

talked to a certain tech company at a career fair at my college. came up for a summer internship. DH (then BF) came up to visit me. we both loved it. he accepted a full-time offer a few months later, I had accepted a 2nd internship, and then once I had it, I accepted a full-time offer as well.

PurposelyVague · January 2012

I used to live in Florida and I had some friends there in a band who were interested in the Seattle music scene. They decided to move out here and invited me to join them. So I packed up everything that would fit into my Honda prelude, including my cat, and drove out here and shipped the rest. This was thirteen years ago. I don't speak with those friends anymore.. but I decided to stay.

BrandyL10 · January 2012

It was a dark and stormy night, June 21st....

Lol, born in Stevens Hospital and grew up in Kirkland.

picksthemusic · January 2012

I was born in Tacoma, moved to Spokane as a baby, moved back to Tacoma at the age of 10, lived there until I was 27, moved to Sammamish with DH.

PurpleTurtles · January 2012

I'm from all over the west coast of WA lol.

I was born in Centralia, WA, then moved with my mom to Vancouver, WA when I was a few months old so my mom could be with my grandma who was dying from a bunch of different cancers

Then when I was 13 I moved to Seattle to live with my aunt for a year, then back to Vancouver to live with mom again, then back to live with my aunt for the end of my junior year and my senior year of hs (she had gotten married, had a kid, and moved from Montlake to Ballard to Lake Forest Park in that time lol).

Went up to Bellingham for a year to go to WWU, then moved down to Chehalis where my mom had moved back to (her hometown is Centralia), and lived there for all of about 3 months before I moved back to LFP to my own apartment. Lived there for exactly a year, then moved to Shoreline with my bf (now DH lol), then we moved to Edmonds about 3 years ago.

MiniSteph · January 2012

I was born in San Antonio, TX and then moved here in '95. Moved down to California for three years and then back up here in '99.

HallowsEve7 · January 2012

Lived in FL til I was 15. Moved to Charlotte, NC then went to App. State in Boone, NC. H got offered the job of a lifetime here, so we moved. Smile

avila01 · January 2012

I was born and raised in Ohio. After college, I moved to Denver, which is where my college boyfriend was from. After he and I broke up (a few years later), I stayed, and eventually met DH (who was born and raised in Colorado). In 2005, DH got a job, and his first assignment for the company sent him to Lynnwood on what was supposed to be a 30-day contract. They just kept extending it....so for three years, DH would be here in WA during the week and in CO on the weekends. Once we were married in 2007, I said that he either needed to find a job that kept him in Denver, or we needed to move to Seattle. So in October of 2008, we moved here! That's when he was officially hired by the company where he'd been working for all that time.

Bettylou79 · January 2012

I was born and raised in Mount Vernon, minus a year stint in Yakima. My mom and I moved back without my dad when she found out he was having an affair. Went to college in Spokane for 4 years and met DH there. Moved back home and then got engaged and moved to Redmond after we got married.

DH grew up in Anchorage until he was 15 when they moved down to Spokane. We met there and he got a job in Redmond after we had been doing the long distance thing for a year.

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