Like it says-- why do you live where you live? Did you grow up there? Move there to be near family (yours or ILs)? Move for college? A job? A partner? I'll try to add all the options I can think of to the poll, multiple votes enabled.
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I went to college in my city, then moved closer to where I grew up, did the long distance thing with my now DH, and moved back up here for him, so college and SO are my primary reasons (though I also think it's a good place to live!)
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I grew up here, but I'm a bleeding heart liberal
so I fit in quite well here in MA
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We both grew up in a town about 20 min from here and both of our families are nearby. We went to college locally and both got jobs here when we graduated.
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The short answer is I grew up here.
The long answer is I stayed in town after graduation to help our family business. My aunt, my dad's business partner, had cancer. My husband had a job lined up in NY but found a job locally to stay with me. We've always talked about moving south, but... here we are, 8 years later!
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I grew up here and DH is also from here. Our parents are 10-25 min away. And our extended family is mostly near us as well.
We never found the rt job oppty to move pre-wedding and now that we've settled down, had ds, and own multiple properties. We'll not leave our careers for moving unless it's ONCEINAMILLION job oppty elsewhere.
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Grew up here and all of mine and DH's family is here!
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Other...my parents moved us here when I was in high school.
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I grew up here! I hate WI winters, and how cold it is. But truthfully I can't see myself living anywhere else!
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DH and I chose to live here... don't need many reasons to live in NYC!
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I grew up here and DH grew up nearby. I moved away for college and probably would not have come back had it not been for DH already having an established career here.
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Dh is from here! Got married and moved out to be with him.
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We both grew up here. We actually moved 1100 miles away when we were first married, for DH's job, and only moved back because his job moved us here. But part of the reason they moved us back is because they like to keep people in areas they're happy in whenever possible.
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DH and I went to college together. He got a job in the area and I followed him. It's also where my parents grew up so I have a lot of family here -- pretty much everyone but my parents.
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I grew up here, but lately I've been thinking it would be nice to live somewhere where winter ends in Feb. Seriously, i was watching coverage of the big floods in the UK and wanting to move there in spite of it because of all the green grass.
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I live in NY since that's where we have lived. Moved to this neighborhood w/ DH b/c he likes this area (I knew nothing about it), school districts and living conditions are nice and more or less affordable to us, where as where I lived w/ my parents was too expensive & same with his parents (plus their area is more urban so not something we want).
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I grew up here. I'm also pretty liberal and hate being in cars, so it seems like the best city for me to live in, even though I'm constantly trying to come up with other cities to relocate to.
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Moved here for a job! Stayed ever since!
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I grew up not too far away, tried to leave, but my husband chose to move back for jobs.
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DH is from here, and I got a job here.
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I grew up here. DH moved here for college. We stay here because we both have family here.
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I went to college and law school here, and met my husband here (where he had also gone to college and gotten a job here). Plus it is only 2 hours from my family. Plus I tried living in DC for a few months and realized all my dreams of moving to a bigger city were really not for me (traffic, parking, prices, cockroaches.. no).
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I moved here because my DH lived here (he was born and raised here). We stay here mostly because of our business. We can't exactly just move the business. Also we own a house here we plan on keeping as a investment property that will need to be managed.
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I moved to be with my DH when he got a job here.
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DH's hometown
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We live in an industry town because we are both in the industry. It's way too far from family, but no where else comes close for job prospects.
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Lived a lot of places and needed a decent place to sort of "take ten" and figure out what was next. Had some family in the area. It is a pretty good place with a great uni and a near perfect place to raise a family.... still here!
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@sunny: I moved here for a job, too!
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Well, my stepbrother was being a douchecanoe and left his wife and two children and moved across the country. At the time D and I were both unemployed and having trouble finding work, so we moved in with her temporarily to help. Soon after, D found his dream job (well mayhaps not exactly dream *job* but he's working for his dream company).
SSIL got on her feet some, I got pregnant, we moved up closer to where D's working. His company is building a new facility in a town 20 or so minutes away, and I'm hoping to work in said town, so we're planning on moving there sometime this year.
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Because my parents live here and because it's a beautiful part of the country. We wouldn't have moved if it wasn't nice despite having my parents close by. We're undecided where we're going to be in a year or so.
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We both grew up here but moved away. We moved back because all 3 sets of our parents (his are divorced) live in the area. I'd really love to live somewhere else but it feels stupid to move away when we're lucky enough to have everyone so close
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I grew up in the town in which I currently live. Even if I hadn't, I might still have chosen this town. Also, my family lives here.
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@Grace: Yes! Come over here! Also--is your grass not green then?
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Moved here with dh, he grew up here. But we're moving back to where I grew up soon!
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My husband got a job here so we moved here. We picked the town in particular because it seemed like a great place to live and it is.
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Both DH and I grew up here, moved away for 9 years, then came back for DHs job. Not my ideal place to live, but it is nice to be close to our families.
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I went to college here and met my husband. He works for our federal police agency so he's posted here, but now I have a good job too... so we stay.
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moved to be in the same place as DH. we dated long distance for 2.5 years beforehand!
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We moved across the country ~10 months ago from where we both grew up for my husband's job.
I also checked 'Other' because we wouldn't have decided to move here if the city didn't suit our lifestyle (i.e. we wouldn't move to butt-fudge-nowhere in spite of a great job opportunity).
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I moved to this general area with then-bf (now-DH) when he took a job here. We moved to our recent area (still in the same general area) because it's a great place to live.
so I fit in quite well here in MA
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