Littleton, CO... my parents house. My family and I moved there when I was 8.

Golden, CO... This is where I currently live. I moved here when I started school at Mines and have been living here ever since. Next year I am planning on buying a house somewhere in the metro area. I haven't really decided where I want to move. I work up in Northglenn right now but my company is moving downtown in March. Any of you Denverites got any suggestions on where I should look for houses???

For me, home isn't a place... it's different places at different times. When I was young, home was with my parents, then I went away to school and that became home. And, now, there is no home (so sad!) because I don't fit in at school now that I have graduated (I can't stay in a college town forever), but I'm too old for my parents' house.

I think you have different homes depending on where you are in life. I was born and raised in Michigan and went to school there. Then I moved to NYC 3.5 years ago. I still consider Michigan my home (although the events of Sept. 2001 definitely made me realize how much this crazy town means to me!!!).

However, if my current boyfriend and I get married, I think we will be here for a while, and once I have a family and some roots here, I will think of NY as home.

Home is wherever you miss when you arent there.

Think about it. Bout the best description I have ever heard.

My family wants me to move to Houston. I would dig beign closer to them, and Houston has so much more to offer than dinky ole SA, but my entire life is here, and I cant imagine leavign the hill country, the smell of the mountain cedar after a rain, a drive by myslkef down scenic loop road when I am down or need some "lifesaver" time, tubing the guadalupe, the dancehalls, the icehouses, or Rudy's. I dotn know...

I could move to Austin, its kinda a combo of both, but I dont knwo anyone there. I think i just dont feel this chapter of my life is done here yet. I'll figure it out when I am ment to.

As for where is home. I guess San Antonio, but when someone asks me where I am from I never say "San Antonio" because they will then ask me what High School I went to here (I didnt). But then, Amarillo (where I was born) isnt home...I have no family there, and havent been back in 7 years. (First one to sing Amarillo by morning gets an ass kicking). I refuse to call Houston home, its completely incongruent with everything in my being. So I dunno....:confused: :confused:

I've always lived in the New Orleans area, and I've always considered it my home.

Baton Rouge was a nice "home away from home" when I was in college. I had a wonderful "family" of friends. Plus, I was only an hour away from my family, so it was the best of both worlds.

Now, all of that is gone from BR. I have an apartment here, but I go home as much as humanly possible. I don't feel like I have any connections in this town anymore, no reason to be here, except for school.

I'm hoping I can sub-let my apartment next semester and just commute. The hour drive each way would be worth the boost in sanity from not feeling alone and trapped in BR.

That is good, but are you ever really home then?

I was born in a suburb of Chicago, and lived there for about 3-4 years until my parents decided they were too far from family in the Quad Cities (IL), so we moved back here, and live in the city where my dad grew up in, and which is next to the city where my mom grew up. They aren't nostolgia people or anything (far from it--they have no pride for anything 'cept my dad likes the Bears), so they didn't plan living in the same city, or me going to the same high school it was just chance. My parents still have friends in Chicago, and we go to see them every now and then, less now than in the past.

Now that I'm at Iowa, I kinda miss it back home, because there's really not that much to do here, and I thought where I was from was small with a metro area of +350,000 people, but compared to Iowa City, it's big. The thing I do love about the Quad Cities, is that there is a lot to do, there is parking, and I can drive just about everywhere in 15-45 minutes depending on traffic. I love to drive, and there are just tons of streets just to drive on, and look at stuff, and there is always something new they are doing. I'm not far from home, just about an hour, but I never go home, I hate having to deal with the drama from my friends back home, and kinda like sitting here in my dorm--it's like it's own little apartment of sorts. Plus if I go home, I'm afraid I'll miss it more if I leave, so if I forget what it's like, then I'll miss it less I 'spose.

When I graduate, I want to move to Chicago, in the city if I make enough money, not a suburb if I can help it. Everytime I visit there, I hate returning back home. Don't get me wrong, I love where I live, but it's so much more diversified and there are so many more opportunities in Chicago--plus I think it's beautiful. I have penchant for tall building, big cities, cars, and all large urban areas involve. I've never been a country girl. I think part of my liking it there is that it seems much more depersonalized, and when I'm on a particular agenda, I can just do it without having to stop and talk and do all kinds of other stuff. It seems here in Iowa, people will say hi to me that I've never even met before, and I'm really not used to that. Plus you can find everything in Chicago, and they have lots of good FOOD! :p

Well after the smartest state thread I think I'll claim Michigan over Ohio. :D

Hmm let see,

I was born in Geneva, Switzerland. Grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, Washington DC, and spend my teen through my university years in New York State. Now, I've been in South Africa since 2000 and thinking about staying here for another year or two. So my home right now is my apartment.

I grew up in NYC, but never really fit in there. I felt more at home in New England and I hope to move back ANY DAY NOW! So, I'd hae to call Providence, RI my hometown now.

Great Topic!
I think that home is where your family is. However, there are so many forms of family. For me, my home is where my parents live. I also conisider the sorority house my home.

New York City is my home. :)

Great question! I spent most of my childhood in New York City, we moved when I was 13. I miss the family we left behind and I love going back there to visit, but I wouldn't call it home. I don't particularly want to go back there to live.

We moved to Tucson, and that's where my immediate family still is. I love it there, even though I only lived there for about 5 years. That's where I went on school breaks, that's where my lifelong friends are, that's where I got married, and to take a cue from lifesaver, that's the place I miss when I'm not there.

I like Los Angeles. Its where we've been living and working, and its where my in-laws are. But as much as I like it, L.A just doesn't *do* it for me. Maybe it will be different once we buy a house and have children. We'll see...I'll let you all know if I've changed my mind when that happens. ;)

Racine, Wisconsin is where I was born and raised.
Milwaukee is where I go to school.

So I guess for now I call Racine home until I move on after college and settle in a city that I like.