If you could, before you were born, pick a location in the US for the family and friends you currently have to always have been based in, where and why?

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1. San Diego. Because it’s California, awesome weather, great city.

2. If all my friends and family had grown up in the same place, they’d be different people. Just saying. They might not even be my friends, then.

3. Las Vegas. Because I have some awesome friends here, but I miss home.

4. South Carolina

5. I’d have it be exactly the same, except none of us would move as adults

6. I wouldn’t change a thing. My family immigrated to the Bay Area of California in the early 1900s and has lived there ever since. My husband’s family was part from the Bay Area and part from San Diego. I love both areas, so I can’t see having it any other way.

7. Right here in my lifelong hometown of Boulder. Grew up in the ’60s climbing, skiing, camping/fishing alpine creeks, month-long summer car trips to all the national parks out west. From the 1970s on had a woodshop, raced vintage British sports cars & motorcycles through the mountains with my buddies. Was the best time and place to live, hands down.

   And Key Largo, my longtime home base for single-hand sailing/diving/spear fishing. A ‘Conch Republic’ laid back lifestyle.

   Was fortunate, fate smiled on me. Grateful for that good fortune.

8. I don’t think I could move anywhere else. Maybe Montana? Near the mountains? Or Wyoming?

   My dads a modern day Danial Boone— hunting, trapping, fishing, whole nine yards. We live right next to a forest that he knows like the back of his hand. My brothers are the same, and they’re all teaching their sons and mine the same lifestyle. I literally can’t imagine anything different where everyone would be happy.

9. Hawaii is already really good but if I were going to pick somewhere else I’d say NYC. It just has so much to do and see, the NYC lockdowns would be really annoying though.

10. California, for the wonderful weather. Maybe in a smaller inland city, but still an easy drive to the beach and Disneyland.

11. I would still choose Virginia; for all of its faults, I will always be a proud Virginian. I enjoy most parts of southern Tidewater culture. I enjoyed growing up somewhat surrounded by several of the places where some major events happened around the American Revolution, and I am sure that some people who are native to around Philadelphia and Boston could probably relate to that.

12. I wouldn’t. Part of the reason I like my friends is that they’ve all had different experiences than I have and ome from different places.

13. I wouldn’t change a thing, I realize that despite the reputation my hometown gets it is what led me to where I am and who I am today. Probably the only difference I’d like to make is to have more money.

14. I’m very happy with how things turned out in regards to my birth location. I wouldn’t change a thing about being born in Los Angeles County and living here my whole life.