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Was it hard for you to leave your family and the town you grew up in? And where'd you leave and where'd you go? :hi:
 
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It wasn't too hard to leave. It had its moments, but for the most part it was good to get away and on my own. I left Chattanooga and went to Georgia Southern.
 
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My family nearly disowned me when I went off to Knoxville.........there're bammers. Nearly 20 years later, I think I may be back in the will.
 
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I love my family, but couldn't wait to get out on my own. When they dropped me off for college, I partied for 3 days straight.
 
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I was homesick for a night, then fine. My folks lived in St. Louis and I moved to Knoxville.
 
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I wanted to go to UT but I was from Knoxville. It is nice to be able to drive home for the day and see the parents. You don't have to commit a whole weekend to going home. Also makes life convenient when you need to go to the doctor/dentist/mechanic etc. I think it is good to get away though, and sometimes I wish I had. However, I'm orange blooded and couldn't really see myself going anywhere else.
 
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GASOUTHERNVOL said:
It wasn't too hard to leave. It had its moments, but for the most part it was good to get away and on my own. I left Chattanooga and went to Georgia Southern.
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I think that's the way most people end up feeling. Maybe I'd have felt differently if I had gone cross country or something and couldn't go home anytime I wanted, but 2 1/2 hours away just wasn't that big a deal.

Of course, I was playing golf and had my time pretty much taken up the second I got on campus. Then, I attended my first class and my future wife was sitting next to me. I had no chance.
 
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I didn't leave Knoxville but I had no car and lived in the dorms. Maybe went home once a month and never really felt like I was still in the town I grew up in. Knoxville is just a little different when you're on campus
 
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Moved from Clarksville (Fort Campbell) to Knoxville. We did a camping trip along the way just to spend some extra time together, they dropped me off and were on the road in under an hour. When I went to take a shower, I left my key in the room and the door unlocked...only to find that my roommate had come in, dropped off his stuff, locked the door and went home for the weekend. So, moving day in Hess Hall, all the RAs were signing people in or otherwise engaged, and I'm in nothing but a towel roaming the hallways for about 4 hours until they could find someone with the master key.

Yeah, I was a little home sick at that point. But, afterwards I found beer and all was well.
 
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My parents demanded that my sister and I went to college at least 4 hours away. I went 5 and she went 8. I was fine, I enjoyed the freedom.

Probably helped that I didn't have many high school friends to miss.
 
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I'm 21 & I've always been a homebody & loved being around my family. I'm moving a few hours away to Murfreesboro in August to finish flight school..that's what my real dilemma is.

I love flying airplanes, but once I get a real job, do I wanna be away from my family & possibly wife & kids for 20-25 days a month, living in a hotel? Absolutely not. I'd be miserable. So I'm kinda stuck now..do I give up on my dream of flying for a living so I can be around my family?
 
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amazingGRACE said:
I'm 21 & I've always been a homebody & loved being around my family. I'm moving a few hours away to Murfreesboro in August to finish flight school..that's what my real dilemma is.

I love flying airplanes, but once I get a real job, do I wanna be away from my family & possibly wife & kids for 20-25 days a month, living in a hotel? Absolutely not. I'd be miserable. So I'm kinda stuck now..do I give up on my dream of flying for a living so I can be around my family?
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You won't be flying that much. My buddy is a commercial pilot and he takes his wife with him all the time for free vacations.
 
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SDV said:
You won't be flying that much. My buddy is a commercial pilot and he takes his wife with him all the time for free vacations.
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How is he supposed to score the flight attendants (stewardesses for those of you in Polk County) with the wife along all the time?
 
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From Knoxville and went to UTK but lived in the dorms.

I think I went home 1 or 2 times not counting Holidays. I loved staying on the weekends and pretty much having the place to myself. Love my family but I took to the independence pretty easily.
 
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I left a smallish town in GA for New Orleans. I came home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but that was about it. Might have been different if I was anywhere else, but I had too much going on to really miss being home. I saw more of my high school friends when they came to visit than I did back home on break. My parents worried for a bit, but it soon became an out of sight, out of mind situation.
 
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Best thing I ever did, still havent went back home. Only to visit every once in a while, and for the friend part. The ones that matter I talk to still. other then that theyre all for the birds
 
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