WHY have you lived in all those different places?

[Dee]

Natasha asked where you've lived but I'd like to know why. I'm always curious how and why people are in the area where they live.

For us it was the oil industry and Doug's job and really no desire to go anywhere else, mostly out of not knowing what else was 'out there'!

We were in our early 40's when we started diving and traveling. If we had been exposed to these same travels earlier, we may be living in Florida right now!

So what about ya'll? How'd you get to all those different and exotic places?

 

[Rick Murchison]

Uncle Sam, of course!
Rick
CDR USN(ret)

 

[Jonathan]

Army brat! Some of those locations I gave were also boading schools and university.

Now of course ex-pat assignment.

Jonathan

 

[Dee]

Didn't think about Uncle Sam!

 

[Diversauras]

Uncle Sam and various contractors to him. USN, Grumman, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing... the common thread being fast fighter and/or carrier aircraft.

 

[JamesK]

Well, I lived in Wisconsin until I was 20, then Delta Air Lines told me if I wanted to keep my job, I would have to move to Atlanta, LA, or Cincinatti.

 

[The Chairman]

and then he persued his various degrees... It was odd when I went to UF, as I had lived there as a child and pretty much remembered a goodly portion of the layout of the campus. My dorm was down the street from the married housing area that housed us for a year. It was fun telling my dorm mates about an aviary that I remembered in the area and then finding all of the empty cages one day. I still have vivid memories of my bunny in South America, and my mom tearing me away from the shores of Lake Alice (Gainesville, again) on a constant basis. Lake Alice has more gators per square foot naturally than many "gator farms". But I really remember at least something from every place I have lived except California. I was there the least amount of time, and only remember it because my sisters and mom keep reminding me that we lived there.

 

[Seala]

When my dad was in the Air Force it way required for his family to move off base when he did a long TDY, a temporary deployment, so off the family moved. The more assignments he took the better his chances for advancement. Now days they offer 5year or longer assignment to ND, it’s not a very popular place.
After I got married my husband and I moved around to better his career. The last move was to run away for our extended family, they have a habit of smothering. One good thing about moving, you don’t collect junk.

 

[jbd]

Uncle Sam was kind enough to send me to many far flung places I never thought of going to.

 

[Padipro]

Enlisted in the Air Force straight out of HS and became an aircraft mechanic. We flew with the plane where ever it went so I had the chance to see much of the world before I was 25. After I got out in the early 90's I tried to settle down but got board easy and with a little help from the aircraft business had the oppertunity to move about every 2 years until I too started with Delta Air Lines and moved to Atlanta. I found out shortly after starting with them that they had maintenance bases here in South Florida and transfered down to FLL. I've been here nearly 4 years now, the longest I've lived in one place sense 1981 when I enlisted.

Scott