Hometown

What do you guys consider your hometown? I was born in Tijuana, raised in Colorado and Los Angeles, California. I moved a shhhload. 5 elementaries, 1 middle school (luckily I only switched to 3 different bus stops) and 2 High Schools.

But the happiest years I spent were in Colorado, in a small town in the middle of the boonies, from when I was 16 to when I was 21. I loved it out there. But because I couldn't go to college, I had to make sacrifices and go with what was best for me, which was moving back to Cali.

I've often received the "If you like it so much out there, then why don't you go back?" Then I get pissed and tripped out... because it burns. I would have never left.

But I rep a state that doesn't give a f*ck about me, yet I still love it, and it's bullsh*t...

It feels like I'm from nowhere. The vent has now ended. Thank you for your ears. =]

What makes a hometown, a hometown for you?

Born in Medellin, Colombia, raised in Miami, Florida, and now attend a school in Chicago, Illinois. I spent most of my years in Miami, and it is a nice place, however, it has slowly been turning into a nightmare for anyone undocumented, there is no in-state tuition for dreamers like other states, the public transportation is just awful, and its a place where ICE has been very active in the past going as far as closing public buildings to check people's IDs, doing road blocks, and reports of people being stopped while just walking along and deported, the last one was rather recent from a family member of the individual that was deported.

The only good thing about Miami is the food. Its a tourist hot-spot so restaurants have some top notch chefs and the prices tend to be very very low compared to what I have seen in Chicago. You can get a really good meal that fills you up from an award winning place and pay as little as 6 bucks with no promotion, in Chicago, such a meal would cost about 25 bucks and it would still not only lack in taste but it would not be very much. I am going to miss the food when I go back to school .

Miami's my hometown, because its where I grew up, however, I still favor Chicago despite what I have mentioned, its just so easy to get around that city, and the stress of being in this situation is not as significant as I feel in Miami.

Hmm idk, but i guess Port of Spain would be my original home town because i lived/would be living there for most of my life so far..

Fort Worth, Tx

Where the west begins

I consider my hometown to be the place where I can recall most of my early childhood memories, and that would be NYC. It's the place where I've experienced many of those early milestones in life. For example, it's where I graduated from elementary, junior high and high school. It's where I got my first job. It's where I made some really great lifelong friends. I guess identifying your hometown is tough if those memories and milestones are scattered over different regions, but it definitely doesn't mean you are from nowhere. You are just more...cosmopolitan. That in itself can be something to appreciate.

I was born in Kingston, JA, but our family moved to Bronx, NY in 1989. We lived there for about six years and then moved to Atlanta. I've lived here most of my life and consider it to be my hometown. The good thing about living here is that there is a huge population of Jamaicans here, so I can get pretty much anything that I want (food, music, etc.).

@buckminsterfullerene: I've heard a lot of good things about Chicago. And I've been looking at going to school there, but it's really far away from Georgia. And that's the only thing that's been really holding me back.

Juarez,....and no, I'm not joking

Orange County, California.

Moved to different cities, but always stayed in the same county.

Hollywood, CA

See, I see hometown like in your definition. My life growing up in L.A. was just alright, until they moved me out to Magnet schools, then it was depressing as f*ck, to the point that when my aunt visited from Colorado, I asked her if I could go with her, at age 16, so I could start over. And I did, and I lived, experienced and set more milestones in a two year period, than I ever did, in Los Angeles. Got my first job, got the b*lls to get my first lady (all kinds of firsts came with that), afforded my first pair of Jordans, drove, graduated from highschool, my first beer, my first ticket, and the list goes on and on. My home's Colorado, but my home treats me like my home is somewhere else... I was just venting that it blows was all.