Why Did You Move Here?
October 7th, 2006
Every place I have lived, I have had someone question why I moved to the current state. Usually the poeple are not just being polite and asking questions, but they are asking with disgust as if no one would ever want to come to the place where they live. Tonight, a woman in a store said, “I know Connecticut wasn’t a place you wanted to live, so why did you come here?” When I was in high school, every kid counted the days until they could move to another place. Usually it is the people who have lived in the same place for their whole lives who can’t imagine someone enjoying their current state. Is there any place where everyone knows why a person would want to live there?
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Personally, I find it annoying when people who live in the same place as you, ask you why you are living there, with the attitude you described. Usually when people make those types of comments, all I can think is, “well, why did you move here?”
I like where I live. If I didn’t, I think I would be moving - not bugging other people about why they are living here.
And most of the states, I can see a draw to…although there are one or two states that really do make me wonder why people moved there, like Indiana. Can someone please point out the draw to Indiana? And Las Vegas (Nevada in general I think is okay, but why do people want to live in Las Vegas?)
Bozeman. I’ve gotten the “So what brought you here?” question, but never with the aforementioned attitude. It just to beautiful here… everyone knows it.
One of the worst things about going to school in Minnesota was the Minnesotans. I only say that because I am now a Minnesotan. But the Minnesotans (one in particular) at school would always act as if Minnesota was God’s chosen people, Zurich (ahh, Reformation jokes are always funny). It was always implied that you were an idiot if you lived anywhere else.
When we were in North Dakota, it was very similar. But there, people wondered why you would live anywhere else because everywhere there are CITIES. There is a genuine fear of cities where we were. People would regularly come through the Pizza Parlor, and, upon hearing that Katy grew up in the suburbs of Chicago would: a) wonder what a suburb was, 2) say, “Boy, I bet you’re glad to be out of there!” or D) say, “I knew someone who went there and they were robbed.” When the only “large” city within 4 hours drive at 80mph is Bismark, it is understandable that anything “big city” would be scary.
Santa Barbara, California. Only if someone asks you ‘why did you move here?’ they usually seem a little hostile and hint that you should stay the hell away and leave them alone because far too many people are infiltrating their paradise. But no one gives you a funny look and wonders why you would want to live in SB. Ocean, mountains, cute architecture, culture. I miss that place! Except for those hostile locals…