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I don't even pay taxes :( but I'm not a transplant anyway. I think. What's a transplant? Not a native speaker is what I definitely am and all I can think of is organ donations.
I grew up in Florida and 4 years ago I moved my whole life to Oklahoma, hundreds of miles from anyone I knew (aside from my wife who’s a local). That means I’m a transplant.
I hope you volunteer. /s
They volunteered to move from one shit hole state to another.
Does donating pads and tampons to the library’s stock of free supplies for the women in my area count? Raising a toddler and working full time leaves me little time or energy for direct action haha.
I want to say yes but I've lived in Oklahoma long enough to know that it doesn't count here. It helps women, and they don't really count in Ok. /s
I would say yes, it does. Anything that helps the community.
Oh I see, thank you. Isn't that a very normal thing for US Americans? I'm under the impression that it's very common for people there to move every few years (granted, this impression is influenced by entertainment media).
Moving to a new house or apartment is quite common in NA, but moving across the country is a different situation.
Road movies have lied to me.
I also was raised on the roadtrip dreams. Hell, I've based most of my travel adventures on those ideals, and have in fact moved "every couple of years", but it's not "normal", nor as easy as it seems in the movies, NGL.
After a while, it gets pretty old, really. Especially when the matrix runs outta NPCs and you begin to see surreal overlaps. That one's really fun IRL. 😶
I wouldn’t say it’s “very normal” but it’s certainly not exceedingly rare. I can only speak from my experience living in areas of about 200k or fewer residents but I’ve always known a handful of transplants anywhere I’ve lived.
It isn't uncommon, but the majority of people live in or near the town/city they grew up in. I currently live over 1000 miles (1600km) from where I grew up. https://www.northamerican.com/infographics/where-they-grew-up
Kinda? It's both rare enough most people you grew up around probably stayed in the same area unless your family is really spread out but also common enough to make it feel like a failure if you didn't get to experience the country and live all over.
I moved from a smaller area I grew up in to a big city in the same sucky state after college and I was the one who got out. But I was surrounded by people who worked their way there from the parts of the country that were deeply impoverished and also people who'd gone all over, lived on the coasts, and seen places and done things while where I grew up was just a day trip away.
Mmmm... Pretty sure OK is just N.FL. 🤷🏼♂️
This is a trans plant
You silly goose.