<p>I thought it would be interesting to host a poll...</p>
<p>After college, did you...?</p>
<p>A. Stay in your college city/town/metropolitan for even longer.</p>
<p>B. *Move out of the city/town you went to college in, but stay in your college state.
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C. Move back to your hometown/homestate....back to be by family and the land you loved.</p>
<p>D. Move somewhere entirely different to start anew.</p>
<p>E. I went to college in my homestate and remained.</p>
<p>F. Other.</p>
<p>D.</p>
<p>I went to college within my state (however I had friends from Canada that had a shorter drive home than I did), and after graduating I moved across the country for graduate school. I don't plan to settle in the state of my grad school, and I'd really like to move back east afterwards.</p>
<p>B. </p>
<p>................</p>
<p>Eh, I don't know how this counts.</p>
<p>I lived in New York for 10 years. I moved to Atlanta when I was 12, and I ended up staying here for college.</p>
<p>Now I'm headed back up to New York for my graduate degree.</p>
<p>B ... went to Northwestern and stayed in the metro Chicago area ever since. However, I married someone from the metro Chicago area who was going to graduate school so we were "bound" here for a while.</p>
<p>C/D. Went to college in Texas after 4-year stint in the military and took first job in NYC. Moved back home to upstate NY (near Poughkeepsie) for a few months to job hunt in the City with the intent to find an overseas job with some international not for profit organization. Would not describe going to NY as an effort to be near family or place I loved. Hated, hated, hated NYC but that's where the job turned out to be and I stayed in excess of ten years before finally extricating myself. </p>
<p>H was B. Went to undergrad in Wisconsin (where his family still lives) and law school in upstate NY. Got a job in NYC at the same place I worked, which is how we met. He loves, loves, loves NYC.</p>
<p>D (Though it was to join boyfriend and husband to be.)</p>
<p>D....moved out of state and went to grad school</p>
<p>D - Both me and DH. Same as mathmom, I moved to a job that was in same area as boyfriend and husband to be. He had gone first with job offer after school. I was a year behind him.</p>
<p>At first I did "A" (Stay in your college city/town/metropolitan for even longer.) I should clarify that I was already married before I graduated college. My husband was in grad school in the same city as my college. I stayed on after graduation, then worked in that same city and then went to grad school in that same city and then when we BOTH graduated grad school, we did "D" ( Move somewhere entirely different to start anew).</p>
<p>For my oldest child who just graduated college, she is heading to grad school, to a city an hour from where she attended college but is not in our state. I do not know where she will land in four years after grad school but I am pretty positive she won't be coming back home to our state. </p>
<p>For my youngest child, who is a rising college senior, I know that she will be doing "A" (Stay in your college city/town/metropolitan for even longer). The city where she goes to college, she considers "home" now and it is where her career is likely to be centered in the coming years. </p>
<p>I know that neither of my kids will be returning home (they haven't even returned home during summers in college). As well, I never did either.</p>
<p>To clarify....as for myself, and for both my kids, none of us went to college in the states where we grew up.</p>
<p>A. Then D after a few years.</p>
<p>B- medical school, OOS residency, back instate ...</p>
<p>D. Picked a new state and a new city and then went job hunting and later went to grad school at the state school located in that city on my company's dime.</p>
<p>Went to college 400 miles from home, then law school on the opposite (west) coast. When my wife (then my girlfriend) graduated a year later from the same college (not in her home state, but only about 150 miles from her home), she took a job in the same area where I was. Then I took my first jobs in Washington, and she started law school in Philadelphia. I moved to Philadelphia for her last year of law school, after which we planned to move back to California. But we didn't, and we've been in Philadelphia ever since. Neither of us had any significant connection here except she was in law school here, in part because it was a lot closer to Washington than Berkeley was.</p>
<p>So . . . I guess D for both of us w/re college, and D for me, A for her w/re grad school.</p>
<p>For my daughter, it looks like it's going to be A -- staying in her distant college city after graduation.</p>
<p>A. for three years. Then D, when I went to grad school.</p>
<p>Went to college A ( home state,one hr. from hometown). After 2 years, married DH and went to college B (still home state, 5 hours from hometown) in the city where DH was working. We still live the the metropolis area of college B. </p>
<p>DH went to college C (home state, 2.5 hrs. from hometown) and moved to new city (still in home state) for his job.<br>
We will retire in a few years and return to College A town.</p>
<p>S1 will graduate '09 (home state) and likely never live here again until he retires. Jury is still out on S2 (soon to be freshman) but have a strong feeling he'll stay in home state forever.</p>
<p>A. then D. Back to A, then D, but close (Madison>Chicago)</p>
<p>C, but later D</p>
<p>like Soozievt:
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At first I did "A" (Stay in your college city/town/metropolitan for even longer.) I should clarify that I was already married before I graduated college. My husband was in grad school in the same city as my college. I stayed on after graduation, then worked in that same city and then went to grad school in that same city and then when we BOTH graduated grad school, we did "D" ( Move somewhere entirely different to start anew).
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<p>except that I didn't finish grad school due to impending birth of first child - then we moved to a state where we knew no-one and have pretty much kept that up since Carter was in the White House. Ten or 11 moves later, we still miss home state but are always happy to get back to this house after a trip back "home".</p>