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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[suecochran.livejournal.com]

I was born in Manhattan and lived there until I was three. Then we moved to a two-family house in Brooklyn until I was seven, moved to an apartment house until I was 11, and finally moved to the house that we lived in for 30 years (which my parents just recently sold (I wrote about that in another comment here). All of the homes but the first one were in Brooklyn, New York. I now live in Lorton, Virginia, and it's about 250 miles from here to Brooklyn, which is about a 5 hour drive (depending on your speed of course, and traffic. I think one crazy time I made it up there in 3 1/2 hours - very pedal to the metal.)