Moved all over the place as a kid

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Moved all over the place as a kid
Anonymous Coward User ID: 68438195 United States 03/03/2015 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Moved all over the place as a kid I moved all over the USA as a kid. Total change in regions. 13 different schools before graduation. I was a corporate brat and my dad was climbing the ladder so we moved with his promotions. Anybody else around here have a similar upbringing? I am 50 now and looking back on this experience - it made me who I am today both in a positive and negative way. The positive is I realize the cultural differences that exist even in our own good US of A. I can blend in anywhere. I enjoy travel. The negative is it left me with a restless gypsy soul. My educational background was a disjointed mess. I don't have any life long friends. There is more but that's a start ~ I am interested in the stories of others who had similar experiences . . .

Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 68438195 United States 03/03/2015 02:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid Come on - can't be the only one???
Anonymous Coward User ID: 66208747 United States 03/03/2015 02:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid OK - I'll respond. I was a child of a second generation military family - moved about every two years between 1953 and 1975. Spent years in Europe too. No home town. Perpetual new kid at school. Make friends fast. Leave them faster. My younger brother attended 4 different high schools. I was luckier with only two. That upbringing colored my life - not sure if it was good or bad. I certainly learned to "leave town" as a solution to social problems. I would not recommend it.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 68464915 Russia 03/03/2015 02:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid Mother had the same problem, myself included looking back at things now one thing you realize is that people come and go, the same realization that the people you left behind also have

Anonymous Coward User ID: 65325458 United Kingdom 03/03/2015 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid Had the same life. But it was the world. Ish. Feel you.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 65590611 United States 03/03/2015 02:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid I got sent back and forth across the country between a godfather and a mother for about 3 and a half years, in the attempt to hide me from my father, but they wouldn't tell me why, so I just grew up thinking I was a piece of shit that nobody wanted around good thing I lived up to it
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2722073 United States 03/03/2015 02:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid My experience isn't quite the same, but a taste of it. I moved after two years of high school, from a gigantic suburban high school with an open campus, like a college, to a tiny, depressed, and deteriorating rural school, with fewer than a hundred people in high school altogether. It was like an extreme form of culture shock. Green Acres.
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 68438195 United States 03/03/2015 03:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid OK - I'll respond. I was a child of a second generation military family - moved about every two years between 1953 and 1975. Spent years in Europe too. No home town. Perpetual new kid at school. Make friends fast. Leave them faster. My younger brother attended 4 different high schools. I was luckier with only two. That upbringing colored my life - not sure if it was good or bad. I certainly learned to "leave town" as a solution to social problems. I would not recommend it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66208747 "leave town" as a solution, yes - I can relate to that. Also leave CLIMATE as a solution.
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 68438195 United States 03/03/2015 03:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid My experience isn't quite the same, but a taste of it. I moved after two years of high school, from a gigantic suburban high school with an open campus, like a college, to a tiny, depressed, and deteriorating rural school, with fewer than a hundred people in high school altogether. It was like an extreme form of culture shock. Green Acres. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2722073 OMG I did the same thing from a HS of around 800 to a HS with 36 kids in the class - graduating class actually sat on the stage. In my class there were 34 Females and 2 Males, 2 classes up it was reverse. I moved from that tiny tiny culture shock experience into a HS with 1,600!
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 68438195 United States 03/03/2015 03:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Moved all over the place as a kid I got sent back and forth across the country between a godfather and a mother for about 3 and a half years, in the attempt to hide me from my father, but they wouldn't tell me why, so I just grew up thinking I was a piece of shit that nobody wanted around good thing I lived up to it Quoting: Anonymous Coward 65590611 Ok this is not made up. That tiny school I attended was just outside a large Indian Reservation. There were two girls in school with us that lived on the Reservation that did not appear at all "Native" - it turned out they were on witness protection and one day she shared with us that she would be gone the next day as a result of the fact their location had been discovered - and next day she sure enough was gone.
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