by BOX » Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:35 am
I always get thrown off by the "where are you from" question as well. I've moved around a lot. Born in Columbus, OH, but moved to Tampa, FL, a year or two later. A couple years after that, Pacifica, CA. A couple of years later, Memphis, TN. Stayed there almost ten years before the family moved to the Minneapolis area of MN. Did a few years of high school there before heading to school in the booming metropolis of Eau Claire, WI. Never liked living up north, so traded that for Fort Collins, CO and lived there for 12 decent years. Eventually wife wanted to move to the ocean, I didn't want to give up the mountains, so after checking out some areas on both coasts, we ended up in PDX. Lived there for 5 years until the mrs. decided it wasn't close enough to the ocean. I was in between jobs, she can work anywhere, the kids were in transition years in school anyway, so here we are in Newport.
When someone asks where I'm from, I just say "nomad"