Comments on: So, where are you from?

By: Kellie

Kellie — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:36:14 +0000

I live in the small city I grew up in just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. I moved for a short year to go to college in Northern Utah, but all of the rest have been here in Tooele. I can not even comprehend moving all the time. My parents bought a house when I was two and my brother was a newborn and they still live there. We bought a house and have to move because we have three children and one on the way and it only has two bedrooms, but I am fighting it. I don’t like moving!!!

By: Michelle Glauser

Michelle Glauser — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:32:33 +0000

Although I grew up in Salt Lake and most of my family still lives there, I feel like I’m on the search for a home. I love Leipzig, but it doesn’t feel permanent, though I rejoice whenever I get back from a trip or even back after a long day. Who knows? Maybe I’ll be a wanderer my entire life. A friend of mine who accompanied me on a trip this spring said, “Michelle, the difference between you and me is that I see new places and I realize all the more why I love home and you see new places and you want to live there.”

By: CatherineWO

CatherineWO — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:57:04 +0000

I grew up in Salt Lake City so long ago that I no longer recognize it as the city of my childhood. But home to me will always be the mountains of northern Utah and the red dirt of southern Utah (where we spent many family vacations). I have since lived in Mississippi, Oregon (the little town of Lebanon in that beautiful Willamette Valley where dalene is from) and the Puget Sound area of Washington. We moved to western Montana seven years ago, and it feels more like home that anywhere else since my childhood, because, of course, I am again surrounded by mountains.

By: MStephens

MStephens — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:32:28 +0000

I haven’t been one of those people who moves around a lot; in fact , I’ve only lived in about four places, but when people ask me where I’m from, I love to say, “Heaven.” I love to see people’s reactions. Some people just laugh and say, “No, where are you REALLY from?” Others laugh and ask where I came from after heaven. Others just leave it alone, and I can’t tell whether they are satisfied or scared to ask further.

I introduced myself in my ward’s Relief Society as “from heaven” and got quite a laugh.. and later, when my husband and I were getting interviewed by the bishop for callings, he told us that a sister had told him what I said. She had been surprised that I had meant it. He asked her, “Aren’t we from heaven?”

Very funny.

By: wendy

wendy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:41:39 +0000

I’m from a small town in California. I still feel very connected to it, though Utah is home now.

I loved being from a small town . . . catching pollywogs in the nearby roadside ditches, riding my bike for miles through the country, a skunk chase in our neighborhood (those poor kids who got too close), the “dime store” and teeny library, one stop light in town, etc., etc.

By: jendoop

jendoop — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:57:38 +0000

DH and I have moved throughout our childhoods. He – Idaho, Texas, Holland, Saudi Arabia, Tennessee, Provo, England, Provo. I – Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, Utah (Park Valley, Salt Lake, Provo). We agreed when married that we would like to find a nice place to stay but… Utah, Indiana, Colorado, Pennsylvania. We have had very little control over this. When the job is gone and there is only one offered you go. I must say the best and the one we yearn to return to is Colorado.

Although this rings true, “Because we’re at odds with this place in which we live, my husband and I are on a constant hunt for our “perfect” place—thumbing our noses all the while biting our tongues, trying to stick to those ‘I’ll go where you want me to go’ guns.”

Every place has had it’s own beauty and entertainment. What I miss, what I yearn for is relationships. There is a special quality to a long-term relationship, friend or family. Yes, we keep those ties even though we’re far away but there is nothing like a hug from someone who has known you in better and worse and loves you completely despite it all. We yearn for our children to have that also.

By: tonya

tonya — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:11:53 +0000

I mean I am – happy to stay put.

By: tonya

tonya — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:10:40 +0000

By the time I was 17 my family had moved 13 times. The longest I lived anywhere before college was the three years we lived in Taiwan. I never really thought about it much. I just knew every year I’d be making new friends. It did turn me into a city gal. I wouldn’t even know where to begin if I had to live in the country.

BYU for college, where I met dh who was born in So. Cal. and lived there his whole life. I really thought that was strange. After we married and left Provo, we moved back to So. Cal. Then in a round about way we’re back in Provo, and have been for a long time. The roots are firmly planted and I love it.

I never thought I’d be happy to stay in one place for so long, but I do.

By: dalene

dalene — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:51:32 +0000

I grew up in a small town nestled between two college towns in the wet Willamette Valley of Oregon. I’ve since been transplanted to the very dry Utah Valley. My ward here is family to me and I feel most at home surrounded by the amazing Wasatch Mountain Range so while I miss the rain and the green this is home to me.

By: Mommom

Mommom — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:56:39 +0000

I’ve both moved a lot and yet I would say I have somewhere “where I’m from”. Growing up I wasn’t military, but we moved a quite a few times. I did however have a connection to family and live in a state where I had those roots.

Once I was married, my husband was in the military and we tried to make each place home. We tried to have fun and appreciate the area where we lived.

But where am I from? Thankfully, where I live right now is where I’m from. The biggest downside is that none of my brothers and sister nor my parents happen to be from here! And I just can’t seem to talk them into it either.