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hunter

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6. I escaped my home town. It worked out well.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Mon Jun 24, 2013, 06:06 PM

Jun 2013

I wouldn't go back for anything.

Yeah, I'm still the same messed up person I always was, but I'm not a Los Angeles commuter living in affluent white republican suburbia. (It wasn't that way when we moved there, it was rural. Then the developers came...)

My parents escaped too a few years after I did.

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I used to think if I could live in a different location, I would be so happy, and I’d be different. [View all] raccoon Jun 2013 OP

My grandmother said that if you want nice neighbors .... Scuba Jun 2013 #1

Maybe... I don't particularly have a Shangri-La Location Xyzse Jun 2013 #2

Sometimes it does work out... Ron Obvious Jun 2013 #3

I have been coming "home " to L.A. for 37 years and it doesn't feel right. olddots Jun 2013 #4

We relocated to Maryland from New Jersey 23 years ago LiberalEsto Jun 2013 #5

I escaped my home town. It worked out well. hunter Jun 2013 #6

The problem with that kind of thinking, and I used to think like that, too, Tobin S. Jun 2013 #7

Yeah, another way of saying, wherever you go, there you are. raccoon Jun 2013 #9

I just found myself saying this very same thing with my SO MrMickeysMom Jun 2013 #8

I dislike the weather here. In_The_Wind Jun 2013 #10

I have lived in several states and have come back home to PA. femmocrat Jun 2013 #11

I was transplanted from northern NJ to southern CA when I was a teenager in 1965 mnhtnbb Jun 2013 #12

I (finally) came home to Alabama. trof Jun 2013 #13

Well I know that coming to Tucson was a big change. Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #14

Shit happens, wherever you are u4ic Jun 2013 #15