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Hometown or Birthtown?

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ModMommy
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When people ask where you're from do you say where you were born, or where you lived the longest? Roomie and I disagree, I say where I grew up is my hometown, she says it's where you were born.
Oct 17 2013 2:55PM
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fujarome
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hometown is where I grew up. I lived there for a little over 2 decades...

I have no special connection with the town I was born in, except that I happened to be there for my first 3 or 4 days.


Oct 17 2013 3:01PM
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limedakine
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Hometown is where your heart is. For example I was born in OK, grew up in MT but Bozeman is my hometown.
Oct 17 2013 3:02PM
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Malcolm
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I barley remember my birth town so I say where I grew up. That's what I did on Facebook anyway
Oct 17 2013 3:05PM
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Aidan-G
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I never lived in my birthtown so hometown
Oct 17 2013 3:07PM
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clive_bixby
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I was born in a hospital in another towns limits that was less that half a mile from the town I grew up from. My hometown is the one I grew up in.
Oct 17 2013 3:09PM
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Spiri7o
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Where you spent the crucial grade school years
Oct 17 2013 3:09PM
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eheath
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I lived in my birth-town for 10 years but I don't have any friends from that time anymore and have no association with it anymore. I only lived in bozeman for 7 years but I have a bunch of friends still from bozeman and I feel the most "home" there, so I tell everyone I meet/know that I'm from bozeman.
Oct 17 2013 3:10PM
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deepfriedtwinkie
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This is a no brainer. Obviously where you grew up and where you have the most memories from.
Oct 17 2013 3:11PM
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Dr.Dickless
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i claim birthtown on facebook

and I tell people my birthtown when they ask because no one knows where my hometown is
Oct 17 2013 3:11PM
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act.resist
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I say it's up to the person. Wherever you feel is your home is what you should call your home.

I was born in Port Huron, Mi but only lived there for a couple months after I was born. I lived in Port Sanilac, Mi from kindergarten to the 5th grade so that's where I grew up. But I went to junior high and high school in Traverse City, Mi so I usually tell people that that's where I'm from since most of my life was spent there.
Oct 17 2013 3:12PM
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first_rodeo
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born in a boston hospital
13years in boston suburb
moved all over NYNJMA
I'm from Boston

Oct 17 2013 4:02PM
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BLADEE
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I just say I'm from my hometown.
Oct 17 2013 4:05PM
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FBGM
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You could just say both. "I was born [here], but I grew up [here]."
Oct 17 2013 5:38PM
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Davy.Crockett
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i have lived where i was born for my whole life until now, so both for me
Oct 17 2013 5:40PM
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JAHpow
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I was born and raised in the same town...so they're the same to me.
Oct 17 2013 5:43PM
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ILLinoisance
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What do you mean by birthtown? Like town of the hospital you were born in or where your parents resided at birth?

I moved from where my parents resided when I was born when I was like 10 months, so naturally, I say where I've grown up and lived the past 20 years.
Oct 17 2013 5:58PM
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987321654hgfd
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Hometown and birth town are the same for me.
Oct 17 2013 6:20PM
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ModMommy
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My parents lived in Elburn, but DeKalb was the closest town with a hospital, so I have that dilemma. Lived in Illinois for four years, Louisiana for two, Wisconsin for elementary school and Nevada for middle/high school, so I usually say I'm from Nevada out of ease.
Oct 17 2013 6:36PM
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Aidan-G
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You're from Alaska and you get cold in Gamestops. Whatta biggity bitch
Oct 17 2013 7:10PM
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steezysteeze
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Born in summerside PEI, moved when I was 3 to Dartmouth Nova Scotia. I'm from Dartmouth. Why would I claim myself to an area I did nothing but shit my drawers and get my diapers changed in.
Oct 17 2013 7:15PM
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FBGM
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Your icon...
Oct 17 2013 7:23PM
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YoungJ
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Born in Vail but ived lived in Rhode Island since i was 5. I saw Vail cause its cooler
Oct 17 2013 7:47PM
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skier58284
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In most situations I tell them where I live now as I assume that's what they are asking. If the person is asking where I used to live I tell them where I was born and where I lived most of my life (different places).
Oct 18 2013 12:35AM
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Parks.
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when people ask for my home town, i say mammoth, when people ask where i grew up i say reno. spent most of my time in reno but since im in mamoth so often (to visit my dad) i kinda associate it as my hometown
Oct 18 2013 12:52AM
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whoa-dere
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it's wherever you feel like it should be..
Oct 18 2013 2:37AM
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