<p>My husband went far away to college, but came back to his hometown upon graduation. This is where we met and have lived ever since. Husbands parents divorced and have both left the state.
I stayed in state for college, but picked the state school furthest away from home. I took my first job thousands of miles away from where my parents lived, and met my husband. When we had children, my parents moved close to us.
One son has only applied to schools very far from home. He hates the heat and we live in the South. Another son cannot fathom being more than a half days drive away. The jury is still out for the younger ones.</p>
<p>Both dh and I grew up in foreign service families, so even Washington DC is only sort of home. We both went to Boston for undergrad. He went to CA for grad school, while I went to NYC. After he got his PhD. We spent five years in Germany. What astounds me is that we’ve lived in the same town (in NY) for the last 20 years.</p>
<p>Both H and I are service brats, having lived all over the country/world. But our kids have gone to the same school district for K-12. Much different experience than we had.</p>
<p>But both kids are anxious to leave the nest for college, the farther away the better!</p>
<p>I venured 4 hours away for undergrad and a plane ride away for graduate school. After graduate school I was happy to move back near my parents. I will say that there were times that I was bored when I moved back near where I grew up until I developed a social life back home again. After spending 3 years in another area of the country, I was really homesick.</p>
<p>My H ventured 3 hours away for undergrad and 4 hours away for grad school. 4 hours away was the furthest he ever was from his parents. He moved back near home after grad school too. We met several years after he moved back.</p>
<p>I was the only one among my 5 sibs to leave the state for college when I left CA for PA. For the three decades that followed I lived in NYC most of the time, but did stints in London and Hong Kong. I always had to travel extensively for work and had ongoing responsibilities in offices on different continents.</p>
<p>I think my experience will be very common for our children’s generation in this increasingly global economy.</p>
<p>After 30 odd years, in Sept. I’m relocating to an area close to my home town.</p>
<p>My husband and I met at college in New England (both families were OOS), moved to Chicago for his grad school, then moved to CA after he got PhD. Both kids were born in CA and moved to rural Midwest @ 11 and 9 years old. The oldest is in college in CA, the youngest is a junior in HS looking only at OOS schools, but thinks he doesn’t want to be more than two states away.</p>
<p>DH and I went to the same high sch. He was 3 years ahead of me. He went to college 2.5 hours away. I went one hr. away fr. home. Both were state u’s. We started dating his sr/my fresh. yr in college. We got married after my soph. yr. and moved five hours fr. hometown. I finished college there at another state u. </p>
<p>We have been here now for almost 27 years. Our kids have lived in the same house all their lives.<br>
Funny, our kids are now attending the same state u’s we went too which are both closer to our hometown than here (their hometown).</p>
<p>I have regretted not being closer to hometown many times for lots of reasons.
DH and I are planning to return to hometown area when he retires in two years. We are excited about moving back but I often wonder how the kids will feel when going to visit Mom and Dad does not include coming back to “their” hometown.</p>
<p>I’ve spent my whole life on the East coast, in or near various cities. I grew up in NYC, went to college in NJ, grad school in Boston, moved back to NYC to work for a few years, got married, and then moved to the suburbs of Philadelphia for H’s job. We’ve been in the same town (and house) for nearly 23 years.</p>
<p>Grew up in CT, college in AZ, lived in CA then back to CT. DS applied only to southern & CA schools. I encouraged him to go anywhere he wanted. I have many friends who don’t want their kids to go outside of tri-state area.</p>
<p>Grew up in Northern NJ, went “way out west” to Michigan State (only one of my HS graduating class to go farther afield than Rutgers). Came home after graduation and started working in NYC (living at home at first). Met my H through my job. He was an Australian living in London at the time, then he moved to NY. We lived for a few years in NY and eastern Long Island, then moved to upstate NY where we’ve been for 25 years.</p>
<p>I went to community college and lived at home then went to France for first half of my junior year of college. Came back and went to state school just 2 hours from home. I admit it, I went home a couple of weekends a month just to do laundry and get some home cooking. After moving around many times following jobs, I eventually settled close to home to raise my children. Am getting the itch, again, to move someplace new, see new things, etc. I suspect once youngest is off to college I will head to a whole to region of the U.S. </p>
<p>S is going to college in the fall. He has applied to state school within driving distance (can anyone say laundry and homecooking?) and other schools much further away. I actually hope he attends a school far away so he will learn independence.</p>
<p>I’m back to where I grew up.</p>
<p>I grew up in Vegas, was forced to move to Reno after my junior year, graduated from HS early as a result. (Shy kid, didn’t really want to spend my much anticipated senior year in a new school where I didn’t know anyone.) </p>
<p>Went back to Vegas 6 years later and have been here ever since.</p>
<p>Would like to retire somewhere different someday. But given the economy and the hit to our retirement funds… Time will tell.</p>
<p>Went to a NY state U 1.5 hours from home; met H there. He did grad school in PA, I stayed home and worked. Married and moved to DC area where I did grad school. Kids have lived in the same house all their lives. When they complained that all of their friends have moved at least once we let them swap rooms 
None of the 3 stayed instate for college; 3.5 hours by car, 4.5 hours by car, 5 hours by plane.</p>
<p>My husband and I met at our mutual summer job – working in a swimming pool store in Connecticut. I ventured to upstate NY for college, and he did the same for graduate school. We got married while we were in upstate NY. We then lived in three places in New Jersey, after which we moved to Maryland 11 years ago.</p>
<p>We are so boring.</p>
<p>Our son is a bit more exciting. After attending our state university here in Maryland, he has gone all the way across the country to California for graduate school. And he has decided that he loves California.</p>
<p>Our daughter is attending the same upstate NY university that her father and I both attended – only for her, it’s farther from home and a more unusual choice than it was for us.</p>
<p>Before we married, I made my husband promise that we wouldn’t ever move East of the Rockies… my only remembered experience with that vast area of the country being visiting relatives in poor and polluted towns along the Texas coast. You guessed it, we spent exactly 11 months of the last 33 years living where the waters drain to the Pacific.
Went to west coast state U - five hour drive from where we went to hs, ended up far away for job reasons.<br>
One kid stayed fairly local, other two are up in the NW where we grew up.</p>
<p>Dh and I grew up in neighboring towns we both attended different colleges about 4 hours from home we both were here one summer met, married and stayed.</p>