Sitting tight

[redbird]

There's a meme floating around, look up and post the distance (and driving time--it's a US meme) between your childhood and current homes. I didn't bother looking anything up: I know that my childhood home, meaning the house I lived in from ages 5 to 18, is about an hour and a half from my current home by subway.

When I mentioned to someone at work that I spent New Year's with family in Montreal, they asked whether I'd grown up there.

The oddity, for a New Yorker, isn't that I have family (blood and choice) in three countries: it's that this is true and I was born and raised in this city of immigrants.

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I live in the same city where I was born - the only one of my family to do so, not counting my nephew (who's 12).

I have family in England and Canada (and, I'm told, distant cousins in Bermuda, about whom I know nothing).