Do you reference the city of your upbringing as a place you or others have "gotten out of", e.g., "I'm the only one who got out of [city]"?
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Wondering if there is an analogous term, perhaps a euphemism, for people who "got out" of their (toxic) family clique/network.
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Escape if you feel it sucked
Left if it was ok
Ripped from.... If you would rather be back there
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I grew up in a few places but where I did middle school was Amarillo.
And yes, I'm literally like one of a handful who moved away and never did go back.
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Not the results I was expecting...
I visit my family, and my parents said I have a place to stay if I fall on hard times. But beyond that, they said to leave and make something of myself. My hometown is a museum of mediocrity, dedicated to those who peaked in high school.
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Since June I’m living within 100 km of my birthplace, after 40 years of not doing so, and sometimes 16000 km away.