I don't count moving around the same general area as "new experience".I currently live at my 25th address ... and I've been here almost 13 years. That is 8 states (including DC) and 14 towns .. .24 addresses in my first 30 years. I just plain ruined people's address books.
I don't count moving around the same general area as "new experience".
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Actually, what strikes me as interesting is, when I was younger, moving to a different house WAS exciting. New room shape, new furniture... all that was "different". Looking back, it's just naivity. I hadn't seen much then so everything was "new".I wasn't either ... just chatting. :-) I lived in a lot of houses when I was younger.
Different stroke for different folks then.I quite enjoy rearranging furniture, art, etc.
Altagirl - The Ferns is where we stayed when we were there, too! But we had a car.
Like I said, we used that as our northern base for a few days, and ventured out on day trips to Conwy, Carnarfon, Anglesey, and Chester. Also Dolwyddelan, a must see as it features heavily in one of my favorite books. Actually, the whole north of Wales does.
I'd go back there in a heartbeat.
When I recruited for a law school, I once met someone from NJ who couldn't properly place all three states on the West Coast. Hello? There are 13 states on the Eastern seaboard and I can list those in order... I also ran into an MBA who told me in all seriousness that if it was west of Chicago (geographically), he didn't feel the need to know anything about it.
I hope you don't paint all us easterners with the same brush! These are just plain dumb people.
I'm sure there are people in the west who are likewise "geographically challenged."
I think the geographically challenged issue is pretty widespread across the country, unfortunately.
After 6 years in NJ I'm actually feeling some wanderlust. But I think part of that is a function of how few people I've met in my town whom I seem to have something in common with! That, and the fact, that it's hard for me to imagine my boys saying "I'm from NJ" down the road...:pound:
In northern NJ? I bet there're plenty of fishes who are as "out of water" as y0u, that you could hang out with! But you may feel just as "out of water" in their company if some of kids were born locally!I currently live in a town where people say "I didn't grow up near here" if they grew up in the nearby town where the nearest McDonalds is. My street, maybe 2 miles long, passes through - albeit barely - 4 different towns. Many people here grew up here and went to high school here. thy're not interested in widening their circle of friends for someone like me. I'm a real fish out of water in this town.
I live within an hour of 3 major ski resorts, 2 good size ski mountains (1k+ vertical), 2 local ski hills -- and I know very few skiers from this immediate region. Maybe 1 in 10 (max) I've met (and I've been here 11+ years) has ever skied or had any interest. <sigh>But I think part of that is a function of how few people I've met in my town whom I seem to have something in common with!
Can't do/say that in Maine. If you weren't born and raised here, you're "from away." Always and forever! People are pretty good-natured, though, about this silly expression. It doesn't mean they aren't friendly and nice. But if we live here the rest of our lives (), DH will always be immediately identifiable at his workplace by his HAHD CO-WAH accent (Midwest).Hey, watch it ....I'M from NJ (originally, anyway. I lived there until I was 17).
Now I'm from Vermont.