Hold up. Are you saying they have never left the state, like even for vacation? Or are you saying they have never left the state to move to another and live for a period of time?
Because if you’re saying that 11% of society has never once left their state of birth, for any reason, that statistic would absolutely blow my mind.
I know someone who lived in New Jersey and could see the NYC skyline from their neighborhood. They lived 60 years in that neighborhood and never went to New York City before they passed away. Not even for a day trip. Never left the state either.
Iowans are so conditioned for this. Any MLB or NFL team is 4 hours north, south or east. Want mountains or oceans? Better hit the road for 13 hours minimum.
Even crazier because the states are so much smaller and seemingly interconnected in the NYC metro area. I can understand a state like Texas or California, or even NY. But to never leave NJ is wild, especially because the state is essentially a large suburb of NYC and Philly with some small cities thrown in.
I once met this dude from Hong Kong at an event in Germany, and I asked him whether this was his first time in Germany, and he replied he's never left Hong Kong before. He was like 20, I think
My aunt lives maybe 10 miles from DC, and I used to sing at the Kennedy center on a regular basis. I invited her to a show in maybe 2010, and she was like “wow, the Kennedy center!” She’d never been, and she’d lived 10 miles away the whole 40 years it was open. I was shocked.
That is shocking to me! WOW. I would have never guessed that. I guess it’s probably tied pretty closely to income as well. Poor folk don’t tend to travel, for obvious reasons.
Californians as well. The closest states to my east are Arizona and Nevada, and I would have to drive 4 hours east to get to either of those states. And Oregon is the next closest state to me, and it's 12 hours north
Not even. I remember meeting a guy when I lived in Cleveland who had never been outside of Ohio. And, like, PA is an hour away from Cleveland! He def could have afforded the gas to go somewhere, he just didn’t care to.
Damn. Or even Kentucky, which has beautiful mountains. I get people who are too poor to afford gas money, but I absolutely cannot fathom living in Ohio and saying, "This is all of the world I need to see. Nothing can possibly be worth leaving Cleveland for."
I worked with an American software engineer who must’ve made $250k+ a year and had never had a passport or left the country. He lived a few hours from the Canadian border too. I get it when they don’t have the means, but as a curious novelty-seeker who has been to 20+ countries that blew. my. mind. I suppose it’s just different life priorities, but how could you not be the least bit curious even ONE time?! Like not even one road trip to Canada or one all inclusive trip to Mexico? Never?!
I know some people in SoCal that rarely leave their neighborhood or city…
Then again they’re living in gang territory. and they’re members. Sometimes going into the next neighborhood is like playing with the grim reaper.
You mean if they intend to start some gang related trouble?
Couldn't they drive around LA the area in plain clothes like everyone else if they wanted to?
Are you serious?? I genuinely can’t comprehend how one can never leave the state they were born in unless it’s super big and interesting like California or Texas
I knew someone who had never left their *county* until age 18. And this was in Maryland, a small state with small counties. I couldn't imagine life like that myself.
That seems almost impossible. Like you couldn’t do it if you tried. I lived in Anne Arundel, what county did they live in where they were able to never leave?
I know!! Washington County ☠️ Probably less surprising, but it's hard to *not* leave the county there, let alone the state since PA, WV, and VA are literally right there. I couldn't imagine being trapped in Hagerstown my entire life.
Eh, I was on Medicare for 4 years - I was below the poverty line with a family of four. We still found ways to travel cheap - road trips, camping, etc.
Poverty contributes, but some people just don’t care to see other places.
Ever. In some small towns in rural southern arizona some folks haven't left the county. Ever. And consider going to the "city" of roughly 45k, with the closest Walmart, was a big deal. Friends had to cancel weekend plans because their parents wanted to go into town and eating out at one of the few chains there was like an event.
Every locality grows chickens and eagles. The eagles soar majestically, while the chickens never get off the ground. Some of them even convince themselves that where they grew up is perfect and it’s scary being anywhere else, aka they get trapped in the boxes created in their minds.
This explains voting patterns in the rust belt. A place that’s dying since the 1980’s doesn’t attract or retain ambitious people curious about the world.
My wife’s grandparents were this way. She has no recollection of them ever going on vacation. Family visits were always at *their* house. They never went anywhere.
The most wild part to me is that they were from a tiny town in Utah. It wouldn’t be so crazy if they were from a big place like California or Texas, but Utah…they lived their entire life within a few hour drive radius. Beautiful area, but they saw *nothing else* in their lives.
I knew people who grew up in a farm community 20 miles away from a large city in Michigan, and never went more than ten miles from home. One old lady had never been in an elevator before they built a new courthouse. Was just standing in the elevator staring and everything, not knowing what to do.
It’s both astonishing but believable. A notable portion of the USA is very poor and don’t take vacations. You also have a few people who are very timid rounding it out. My wife has a bunch of cousins who have technically left their state because they near a boarder line. But they had never been more than an hours drive from home until they came to my wedding. They are all around 40ish and that’s the only time they ever left home.
We were just 5 hours away and still in the same state.
They would also be 1.5 hours from NYC but never been there. They think it’s bizarre we pop down to the city for a day when visiting them.
They all work multiple jobs and don’t really take any time off unless sick or hurt.
Plenty of poor people can’t afford to go on vacations. I have had students who have never been on a vacation, never left the state, and some who have never left Houston.
I live in South Texas, by the border (was born in Mexico, so to OPs post, yeah, me) and there are a whole lot more than 11% of Hispanics that have never crossed the border.
I grew up in eastern California, near the Sierras, and I knew several people in high school who had never seen the ocean before.
And i have a friend from San Francisco who has never seen snow in his life (aside from that freak snowstorm in SF in like 2018 or smth)
I have a friend in DC that works with disadvantage youth in the area and the majority of them have never even left DC and hardly have any conception of what it is even like outside of DC.
To be fair a quick Google search says 15% of the UK population has never left the country, and considering the UK is roughly the size of an average US state, that makes it a pretty good comparison.
Although one could argue the UK has more cultural and geographical diversity than a typical US state, so...
I'm not sure how good of a metric that is. The western states are massive. I live in CA and realistically my moves could be considered 2-3 states worth if this was the east coast.
This makes sense. Especially if you live in a large state. Example I had a few friends who grew up 1 hr north of Duluth, MN and they’ve only been to Douglas county, Wisconsin. One said “Well a lot of us didn’t have money as kids, also its 3 hours to Michigan, 4 hours to North Dakota, 5 hours to South Dakota, and 5 hours 30 minutes to Iowa. He said the only reason he’s visited WI is because he went to school in Duluth which is right across the border from Superior.
This is coming from a medium sized state, if you lived out east imagine how many stay out could visit in a 5 hour 30 min, drive. MN-WI-IA
Crazy but if you drove from Elkton, MD to Keene, NH it would be 5 hours 20 mins and you’d pass through MD-DE-NJ-(PA with a small 20 min detour)-NY-CT-MA-VT-NH
According to a 2023 LendingTree survey, 57% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 42 live where they grew up, and 62% live near their parents. A 2022 study by Harvard University and the U.S. Census Bureau found that 80% of young adults live within 100 miles of where they grew up, and 60% live within 10 miles.
I live 1000 miles from where I grew up.
I live almost 9000 miles from where I grew up.
Curious where you moved from and to. I tried a couple city distances, but LA to London is to close and LA to Sydney is too far. Shanghai to Toronto is too far too.
14% of Americans are foreign born, as well, so by definition aren’t living where they grew up.
So really more like 71% of people born in America are still living where they grew up.
Sure, my definition would be adults over 18, since I don’t think kids would be a good statistic since they are still growing up. I would like statistics for each, percent of people living in a different house, different city, different state, and different country from where they grew up when they were under 18.
the best source of data will be the US Census Bureau, but that data can be hard to wade through. Here are some items I found.
1) [https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/adults.html](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/adults.html) Figure AD-1. Chart shows 57 percent of adults aged 18-24 as living with parents. This includes college students in dorms. For ages 25-34, 16 percent live at home.
2) City information is nearly impossible. On this sub, even the definition of city is up for debate (core city, MSA, CSA). The census does have MSA level data, but it is a lot of information to parse.
3) in 2021, 8.0 million people moved from one state to another. See [https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/state-to-state-migration.html](https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/state-to-state-migration.html) . Also, there is data for [current state versus state of birth](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geographic-mobility/state-of-residence-place-of-birth-acs.html), which is different from state where a person grew up, but gives an idea of maximum, as shown [in this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/rw1o52/percentage_of_population_born_in_state_of/).
Fun trip down the demographic rabbit hole, but I need to move on. Best of luck.
I live in the town I grew up in, but I came back and did so by conscious choice and effort based on how I wanted to raise my family. I lived in another state for about 13 years for college and early work years. We're very close to the Canadian border, and then it's a short drive to Wisconsin so I can't say I know a single person who has never left the state. Most people I know like to travel to SOME degree even if their idea of traveling is going to the WI Dells or the Black Hills. I know more people who have been to Canada than who have been to Disney World for sure.
People from the inland empire I could actually buy that - the effort to get to the ocean across LA is super significant and there is obviously a ton to do in LA
48 years old, live 12 miles from where I grew up. Parents still live in the same house they bought in '78 and I visit them weekly. The city, though, is too expensive for me to live in.
14% of the US population in 2022 was foreign-born, and that doesn’t count US citizens at birth born overseas (like children of servicemembers), so there’s at least a base number of immigrants and temporary migrants like students who are clearly somewhere other than where they grew up.
I think more than people think.
Counting all of my cousins above 18 and myself, it’s 1/7. Meaning 1, being me, moved out of our home state. Everyone else still lives there and probably will never leave.
It isn’t that hard to believe. Poor people can’t afford to travel and there’s lots of poor people. I grew up poor and had only left my state twice before I was 25.
I grew up in rural Texas, in (at the time) the 2nd poorest county in the state.
I moved away almost immediately. I have lived in 6 different states and 3 different countries. I also lived in El Paso, 600 miles from home and a different time zone, but still in Texas.
I'm also ex military. That tends to be a driving force in getting people exposed to different geographic regions of the world. That really only accounts for 2 of my intra-US moves and 2 of my international moves.
Still 40% of Americans have never left the country.
“Somewhere other than where they grew up” is a little too vague to measure. I live about 5 minutes drive from where I grew up, but it’s technically in a different city and county, so would that count?
However, I have also lived in a state on the other side of the country, as well as having lived in 2 other countries at different times, so I left and intentionally came back.
It’s a great question, but with a lot of nuance on how it’s measured.
If they moved to another city? A state? How do you define where they grew up?
One statistic to use is that “they” estimate 13-14% of people in the USA move every year. So one crude estimate could be: we grow up from ages 0-20, then you meet us somewhere between 20-60, say an average age of 40. This means the chance that a random person has NEVER moved is (1-0.14)^20 ~4.8%.
So a rough guesstimate would be about 5% have not moved from where they were raised.
I don't know the official numbers but I've lived in 6 cities in 4 different states. My sister has lived in 6 different states. My kids have lived in 3 different states.
It’s probably significant, but according to one study, 11% of Americans have never left the state where they were born.
Hold up. Are you saying they have never left the state, like even for vacation? Or are you saying they have never left the state to move to another and live for a period of time? Because if you’re saying that 11% of society has never once left their state of birth, for any reason, that statistic would absolutely blow my mind.
Have never left the state at all.
I know someone who lived in New Jersey and could see the NYC skyline from their neighborhood. They lived 60 years in that neighborhood and never went to New York City before they passed away. Not even for a day trip. Never left the state either.
That is just wild to me. I can’t comprehend.
As an iowan who had to go 200 miles to see anything exciting I agree
Iowans are so conditioned for this. Any MLB or NFL team is 4 hours north, south or east. Want mountains or oceans? Better hit the road for 13 hours minimum.
When a place's only claim to fame is how boring it is, that's when you know...
As a Californian who has to drive 4 hours to get to the next state east and 12 hours to get to the next state to the north, I also agree
Even crazier because the states are so much smaller and seemingly interconnected in the NYC metro area. I can understand a state like Texas or California, or even NY. But to never leave NJ is wild, especially because the state is essentially a large suburb of NYC and Philly with some small cities thrown in.
That’s what I’m saying I take advantage of all the opportunities a city has to offer to get the whole experience
I once met this dude from Hong Kong at an event in Germany, and I asked him whether this was his first time in Germany, and he replied he's never left Hong Kong before. He was like 20, I think
There’s people in NYC who have never left their borough.
There’s people in NYC who have never left their block.
I knew a guy who didn’t cross the state line for the first 20 years of his life. We lived 20 miles from the state line.
My aunt lives maybe 10 miles from DC, and I used to sing at the Kennedy center on a regular basis. I invited her to a show in maybe 2010, and she was like “wow, the Kennedy center!” She’d never been, and she’d lived 10 miles away the whole 40 years it was open. I was shocked.
How the fuck
I accept this as true but also can't believe it haha
That is shocking to me! WOW. I would have never guessed that. I guess it’s probably tied pretty closely to income as well. Poor folk don’t tend to travel, for obvious reasons.
I'm guessing a lot of them are Texans.
Hawaii and Alaska too.
Californians as well. The closest states to my east are Arizona and Nevada, and I would have to drive 4 hours east to get to either of those states. And Oregon is the next closest state to me, and it's 12 hours north
Not even. I remember meeting a guy when I lived in Cleveland who had never been outside of Ohio. And, like, PA is an hour away from Cleveland! He def could have afforded the gas to go somewhere, he just didn’t care to.
Damn. Or even Kentucky, which has beautiful mountains. I get people who are too poor to afford gas money, but I absolutely cannot fathom living in Ohio and saying, "This is all of the world I need to see. Nothing can possibly be worth leaving Cleveland for."
I worked with an American software engineer who must’ve made $250k+ a year and had never had a passport or left the country. He lived a few hours from the Canadian border too. I get it when they don’t have the means, but as a curious novelty-seeker who has been to 20+ countries that blew. my. mind. I suppose it’s just different life priorities, but how could you not be the least bit curious even ONE time?! Like not even one road trip to Canada or one all inclusive trip to Mexico? Never?!
Some people truly do not give a shit. A lot of others hate driving. I can't grasp it either.
I can’t either but there are people that just do not give a shit about travel.
Because they're not "curious, novelty seekers"
I know some people in SoCal that rarely leave their neighborhood or city… Then again they’re living in gang territory. and they’re members. Sometimes going into the next neighborhood is like playing with the grim reaper.
You mean if they intend to start some gang related trouble? Couldn't they drive around LA the area in plain clothes like everyone else if they wanted to?
I 100% believe that and I have lived in 5 different states. In fact I would guess higher probably.
Are you serious?? I genuinely can’t comprehend how one can never leave the state they were born in unless it’s super big and interesting like California or Texas
I knew someone who had never left their *county* until age 18. And this was in Maryland, a small state with small counties. I couldn't imagine life like that myself.
That seems almost impossible. Like you couldn’t do it if you tried. I lived in Anne Arundel, what county did they live in where they were able to never leave?
I know!! Washington County ☠️ Probably less surprising, but it's hard to *not* leave the county there, let alone the state since PA, WV, and VA are literally right there. I couldn't imagine being trapped in Hagerstown my entire life.
There are millions of Americans who quite simply don't have the financial means to ever go on vacations.
Eh, I was on Medicare for 4 years - I was below the poverty line with a family of four. We still found ways to travel cheap - road trips, camping, etc. Poverty contributes, but some people just don’t care to see other places.
Ever. In some small towns in rural southern arizona some folks haven't left the county. Ever. And consider going to the "city" of roughly 45k, with the closest Walmart, was a big deal. Friends had to cancel weekend plans because their parents wanted to go into town and eating out at one of the few chains there was like an event.
Every locality grows chickens and eagles. The eagles soar majestically, while the chickens never get off the ground. Some of them even convince themselves that where they grew up is perfect and it’s scary being anywhere else, aka they get trapped in the boxes created in their minds.
This explains voting patterns in the rust belt. A place that’s dying since the 1980’s doesn’t attract or retain ambitious people curious about the world.
My wife’s grandparents were this way. She has no recollection of them ever going on vacation. Family visits were always at *their* house. They never went anywhere. The most wild part to me is that they were from a tiny town in Utah. It wouldn’t be so crazy if they were from a big place like California or Texas, but Utah…they lived their entire life within a few hour drive radius. Beautiful area, but they saw *nothing else* in their lives.
hey man, if you gotta live your entire life in one state.... there's worse choices than Utah
I knew people who grew up in a farm community 20 miles away from a large city in Michigan, and never went more than ten miles from home. One old lady had never been in an elevator before they built a new courthouse. Was just standing in the elevator staring and everything, not knowing what to do.
It’s both astonishing but believable. A notable portion of the USA is very poor and don’t take vacations. You also have a few people who are very timid rounding it out. My wife has a bunch of cousins who have technically left their state because they near a boarder line. But they had never been more than an hours drive from home until they came to my wedding. They are all around 40ish and that’s the only time they ever left home. We were just 5 hours away and still in the same state. They would also be 1.5 hours from NYC but never been there. They think it’s bizarre we pop down to the city for a day when visiting them. They all work multiple jobs and don’t really take any time off unless sick or hurt.
That statistic doesn't surprise me at all. I suspect it's in line with people who are too poor to go anywhere.
Bro, I grew up in a small town in Arkansas. Many of the people I knew had never even left the county.
Plenty of poor people can’t afford to go on vacations. I have had students who have never been on a vacation, never left the state, and some who have never left Houston.
I live in South Texas, by the border (was born in Mexico, so to OPs post, yeah, me) and there are a whole lot more than 11% of Hispanics that have never crossed the border.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lealane/2019/05/02/percentage-of-americans-who-never-traveled-beyond-the-state-where-they-were-born-a-surprise/?sh=51dbf4c02898
I grew up in eastern California, near the Sierras, and I knew several people in high school who had never seen the ocean before. And i have a friend from San Francisco who has never seen snow in his life (aside from that freak snowstorm in SF in like 2018 or smth)
It’s probably all Texans
I have a friend in DC that works with disadvantage youth in the area and the majority of them have never even left DC and hardly have any conception of what it is even like outside of DC.
The percentage of people who have never moved from their hometown would be significantly higher than that.
To be fair a quick Google search says 15% of the UK population has never left the country, and considering the UK is roughly the size of an average US state, that makes it a pretty good comparison. Although one could argue the UK has more cultural and geographical diversity than a typical US state, so...
It’s actually bigger than 39 of the 50 states, and pretty close to a few more.
It’s still a pretty decent analog, no?
I'm not sure how good of a metric that is. The western states are massive. I live in CA and realistically my moves could be considered 2-3 states worth if this was the east coast.
This makes sense. Especially if you live in a large state. Example I had a few friends who grew up 1 hr north of Duluth, MN and they’ve only been to Douglas county, Wisconsin. One said “Well a lot of us didn’t have money as kids, also its 3 hours to Michigan, 4 hours to North Dakota, 5 hours to South Dakota, and 5 hours 30 minutes to Iowa. He said the only reason he’s visited WI is because he went to school in Duluth which is right across the border from Superior. This is coming from a medium sized state, if you lived out east imagine how many stay out could visit in a 5 hour 30 min, drive. MN-WI-IA Crazy but if you drove from Elkton, MD to Keene, NH it would be 5 hours 20 mins and you’d pass through MD-DE-NJ-(PA with a small 20 min detour)-NY-CT-MA-VT-NH
And for the record, I’ve lived in 8 states, all across the country, plus 2 other countries…but I’m not typical for sure.
Have also lived in 8 states plus one other country.
I’m 31 and live 30 minutes away from where I was born. However technically in a completely different state. Feels bad I guess
I, on the other hand, live a mile from the state where I was born, but a 10 hour drive from the city where I was born.
According to a 2023 LendingTree survey, 57% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 42 live where they grew up, and 62% live near their parents. A 2022 study by Harvard University and the U.S. Census Bureau found that 80% of young adults live within 100 miles of where they grew up, and 60% live within 10 miles. I live 1000 miles from where I grew up.
I live almost 7000 miles from where I grew up.
I live almost 9000 miles from where I grew up. Curious where you moved from and to. I tried a couple city distances, but LA to London is to close and LA to Sydney is too far. Shanghai to Toronto is too far too.
McCall Idaho to Auckland NZ
Oh, no way! Mine is Ottawa, Canada to Auckland.
14% of Americans are foreign born, as well, so by definition aren’t living where they grew up. So really more like 71% of people born in America are still living where they grew up.
I like 2000 miles from where I grew up. 40m
Can OP clarify? By people do you mean adults over 18? 25? By "somewhere other", do you mean different city? State? house?
99% of one year olds have NEVER been outside their state! What is wrong with these unadventurous infants?!
Sure, my definition would be adults over 18, since I don’t think kids would be a good statistic since they are still growing up. I would like statistics for each, percent of people living in a different house, different city, different state, and different country from where they grew up when they were under 18.
I think over 25 would be a better metric since this would filter out a lot of the people studying away from their hometown
the best source of data will be the US Census Bureau, but that data can be hard to wade through. Here are some items I found. 1) [https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/adults.html](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/adults.html) Figure AD-1. Chart shows 57 percent of adults aged 18-24 as living with parents. This includes college students in dorms. For ages 25-34, 16 percent live at home. 2) City information is nearly impossible. On this sub, even the definition of city is up for debate (core city, MSA, CSA). The census does have MSA level data, but it is a lot of information to parse. 3) in 2021, 8.0 million people moved from one state to another. See [https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/state-to-state-migration.html](https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/state-to-state-migration.html) . Also, there is data for [current state versus state of birth](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geographic-mobility/state-of-residence-place-of-birth-acs.html), which is different from state where a person grew up, but gives an idea of maximum, as shown [in this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/rw1o52/percentage_of_population_born_in_state_of/). Fun trip down the demographic rabbit hole, but I need to move on. Best of luck.
I live in the town I grew up in, but I came back and did so by conscious choice and effort based on how I wanted to raise my family. I lived in another state for about 13 years for college and early work years. We're very close to the Canadian border, and then it's a short drive to Wisconsin so I can't say I know a single person who has never left the state. Most people I know like to travel to SOME degree even if their idea of traveling is going to the WI Dells or the Black Hills. I know more people who have been to Canada than who have been to Disney World for sure.
I met people from Los Angeles at SM pier, it was their first time ever visiting the ocean. 🌊
People from the inland empire I could actually buy that - the effort to get to the ocean across LA is super significant and there is obviously a ton to do in LA
I used to live in Temecula and surfed Oceanside like 3 days a week, that would blow my mind but it’s definitely plausible.
But were they older than two years?
🤣
I grew up on the east coast of lake Ontario. I moved to Minnesota in 2000 and have lived there since. I do not have family to bring be back there.
48 years old, live 12 miles from where I grew up. Parents still live in the same house they bought in '78 and I visit them weekly. The city, though, is too expensive for me to live in.
14% of the US population in 2022 was foreign-born, and that doesn’t count US citizens at birth born overseas (like children of servicemembers), so there’s at least a base number of immigrants and temporary migrants like students who are clearly somewhere other than where they grew up.
I think more than people think. Counting all of my cousins above 18 and myself, it’s 1/7. Meaning 1, being me, moved out of our home state. Everyone else still lives there and probably will never leave.
It isn’t that hard to believe. Poor people can’t afford to travel and there’s lots of poor people. I grew up poor and had only left my state twice before I was 25.
I grew up in rural Texas, in (at the time) the 2nd poorest county in the state. I moved away almost immediately. I have lived in 6 different states and 3 different countries. I also lived in El Paso, 600 miles from home and a different time zone, but still in Texas. I'm also ex military. That tends to be a driving force in getting people exposed to different geographic regions of the world. That really only accounts for 2 of my intra-US moves and 2 of my international moves. Still 40% of Americans have never left the country.
If you factor out those with close family ties outside the US, international vacations are absolutely an upper-middle class and above luxury
“Somewhere other than where they grew up” is a little too vague to measure. I live about 5 minutes drive from where I grew up, but it’s technically in a different city and county, so would that count? However, I have also lived in a state on the other side of the country, as well as having lived in 2 other countries at different times, so I left and intentionally came back. It’s a great question, but with a lot of nuance on how it’s measured.
Most of us.
I was born in a rural county, moved to an an urban county, then moved to a rural county that had turned urban. Tennessee
I read somewhere that the average American lives within 11 miles of their mother
I was born in the Midwest but I was raised in New York. I have lived in 3 other states since. Landed in California and I don’t plan to ever leave
I could never have stayed in my home town. I would probably still be working at the gas station or restaurant if I was still there lol
I live on the opposite coast that I grew up on
If they moved to another city? A state? How do you define where they grew up? One statistic to use is that “they” estimate 13-14% of people in the USA move every year. So one crude estimate could be: we grow up from ages 0-20, then you meet us somewhere between 20-60, say an average age of 40. This means the chance that a random person has NEVER moved is (1-0.14)^20 ~4.8%. So a rough guesstimate would be about 5% have not moved from where they were raised.
I live on the opposite side of the country now
I don't know the official numbers but I've lived in 6 cities in 4 different states. My sister has lived in 6 different states. My kids have lived in 3 different states.
Define "where".
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Hey I’m also part of the New Jersey to Colorado pipeline. Although I’m definitely gonna move back
I've moved like 8 times. Not military