do you think you would be a different person if you'd grown up somewhere else? personally i do think i'd be so much different if i wasn't a vermonter. what about you?
OverTheRainbow
VT
12 years old
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hmm i grew up at first in nyc and then in rural new hampshire, and i feel like both places have shaped me immensely. i feel like i'm able to appreciate and understand why people would live in both towns and cities, and also better understand the culture of different communities. i wonder what i'd be like if i'd grown up solely in one place or the other tho
that sounds rlly cool and something i can't understand myself because i've only ever lived in vermont lol; i used to really want to live in a huge city like nyc or san francisco or boston but recently i sort of came to terms with the fact that i don't actually want to leave this tiny little rural state, i just like the difference of being in cities. :D
yess i definitely love both rural areas and cities! i think i'd like to go to college in a small new england town since i live in a college town and love its atmosphere, but i may eventually want to move to nyc or someplace after college :)
ooh cool!! I live in the uvm area so I know so many people who go there or have siblings who go there haha
nice! i live near dartmouth, i've heard uvm is great too :)
cool! lots of people think uvm is the best but both my parents work there and it seems a little chaotic but idrk cuz I don't go there haha!
I used to live in California, and if I hadn't moved to Vermont I would probably be a very different person than I am now, maybe more of a city person than a rural hide-in-my-room-and-read type of person.
yes I'm the same kind of way lol!! Vermont definitely gives those vibes
I was born in Chicago before my family moved out to Ohio, and if I grew up in a city instead of Relatively-Small Town I would be drastically different. Like I had to search around to find friends and community and develop a individual personality but I think that would be a lot different in a city where conformity isn't the key thing. Maybe I wouldn't be terrified of skyscrapers if I lived in the city lol
hmm yeah I sort of feel the same way??? idk I was born in VT and have lived my whole life here but I think being a city girl would literally mean I was a different person haha; I think a lot of rural people feel that way? also is it just me or is like 90% of YWP from super rural areas lol
yeah, i think so too. the life in cities and towns make up a lot of personality differences because of how seperate they are, I think. And it is not just you, girl, I'm getting that rural vibe too lol
yeah that makes sense haha. also yes why are poets always from the most remote areas lol
maybe the cornfields and forests hold the secrets of poetry who knows lol
omg yes haha
Fun kinda unrelated fact: Vermont actually has the most writers per capita of any state!
whoa that's actually so cool!!! okay Vermont!
It’s so funny because I feel like I’m always reading books about Vermont by coincidence even though it’s such a tiny state!
lol yeah I feel like it's the classic trope of "place where people go to ski/go on vacation" because it's so beautiful here
I think so. I was raised in New York (outside of the city but not quite upstate) but we used to come up to the house I live in now in the summers. I’ve always wanted to live in a city or even a suburb so I would have more friends nearby. That being said, I think I may want to raise my kids in a small town too because it feels so much safer for kids. I want to go to collage in a city to see what it’s like and take it from there.
Hmm yeah that sounds like a good plan haha! I've also wanted to live in a city for a while to see how it'd feel and I sort of did - when I was 10, I spent a month living in Birmingham, England with my family during the summer because my mom won an award to study there for a while and we joined her for the last month. I genuinely enjoy European cities and if I ever get the chance to live there, I would!
That’s so cool! I definitely want to travel more but I think it would also so be cool to live in Europe, European cities definitely have a different vibe than American ones!
they really do!! also the public transit systems omggggg they're SO MUCH BETTER than ours I could rave about these things for hours
Haha my mom loves complaining about Americas public transit (or lack there of). It’s definitely so cool to see all the trains and also how clean everything is!
yeah totally! the buses & tube in London are literally sooo cool omg
I’ve lived in rural VT all my life, and I definitely feel like it has made me who I am. Nature and farming and my local community are all really important to me, and this environment has certainly shaped my passions and values. I felt myself change a lot just going from my small town elementary/middle school to another town’s larger high school, in a place that has a different demographic and culture despite only being twenty minutes away, so I definitely think I would be different if I didn’t grow up in my town!
omg that's literally how I feel!!! I live in the most urban area of VT and I still feel so out of place even going to a slightly bigger city. its so rural here and I love it
Yeah, things would have been really different if I grew up somewhere else. I grew up mostly in NJ, but I was born in India, and every time I visit, I think how different it would be if I grew up there. Mainly when it comes to schools. Every single school there has uniforms as required, and I remember when my cousin had to go to school on Saturdays which was mind-blowing for me.
ooh that's a new perspective in this thread! yeah my great-grandparents escaped the russia/ukraine area but about twenty years before WWII so we have a sort of different story than the usual Holocaust stuff I encounter with other Jews; so I often think of what would've happened if we still lived there or if we hadn't gotten out so early. my mom is a professor of Islamic studies so she lived in India while studying and she loved it and thought the bustle/chaos was crazy, but I think it'd be super cool to visit!
Ya, it's kind of like a parallel life in a way? Just one small change would mean that our life would be completely different.
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hmm i grew up at first in nyc and then in rural new hampshire, and i feel like both places have shaped me immensely. i feel like i'm able to appreciate and understand why people would live in both towns and cities, and also better understand the culture of different communities. i wonder what i'd be like if i'd grown up solely in one place or the other tho
that sounds rlly cool and something i can't understand myself because i've only ever lived in vermont lol; i used to really want to live in a huge city like nyc or san francisco or boston but recently i sort of came to terms with the fact that i don't actually want to leave this tiny little rural state, i just like the difference of being in cities. :D
yess i definitely love both rural areas and cities! i think i'd like to go to college in a small new england town since i live in a college town and love its atmosphere, but i may eventually want to move to nyc or someplace after college :)
ooh cool!! I live in the uvm area so I know so many people who go there or have siblings who go there haha
nice! i live near dartmouth, i've heard uvm is great too :)
cool! lots of people think uvm is the best but both my parents work there and it seems a little chaotic but idrk cuz I don't go there haha!
I used to live in California, and if I hadn't moved to Vermont I would probably be a very different person than I am now, maybe more of a city person than a rural hide-in-my-room-and-read type of person.
yes I'm the same kind of way lol!! Vermont definitely gives those vibes
I was born in Chicago before my family moved out to Ohio, and if I grew up in a city instead of Relatively-Small Town I would be drastically different. Like I had to search around to find friends and community and develop a individual personality but I think that would be a lot different in a city where conformity isn't the key thing. Maybe I wouldn't be terrified of skyscrapers if I lived in the city lol
hmm yeah I sort of feel the same way??? idk I was born in VT and have lived my whole life here but I think being a city girl would literally mean I was a different person haha; I think a lot of rural people feel that way? also is it just me or is like 90% of YWP from super rural areas lol
yeah, i think so too. the life in cities and towns make up a lot of personality differences because of how seperate they are, I think. And it is not just you, girl, I'm getting that rural vibe too lol
yeah that makes sense haha. also yes why are poets always from the most remote areas lol
maybe the cornfields and forests hold the secrets of poetry who knows lol
omg yes haha
Fun kinda unrelated fact: Vermont actually has the most writers per capita of any state!
whoa that's actually so cool!!! okay Vermont!
It’s so funny because I feel like I’m always reading books about Vermont by coincidence even though it’s such a tiny state!
lol yeah I feel like it's the classic trope of "place where people go to ski/go on vacation" because it's so beautiful here
I think so. I was raised in New York (outside of the city but not quite upstate) but we used to come up to the house I live in now in the summers. I’ve always wanted to live in a city or even a suburb so I would have more friends nearby. That being said, I think I may want to raise my kids in a small town too because it feels so much safer for kids. I want to go to collage in a city to see what it’s like and take it from there.
Hmm yeah that sounds like a good plan haha! I've also wanted to live in a city for a while to see how it'd feel and I sort of did - when I was 10, I spent a month living in Birmingham, England with my family during the summer because my mom won an award to study there for a while and we joined her for the last month. I genuinely enjoy European cities and if I ever get the chance to live there, I would!
That’s so cool! I definitely want to travel more but I think it would also so be cool to live in Europe, European cities definitely have a different vibe than American ones!
they really do!! also the public transit systems omggggg they're SO MUCH BETTER than ours I could rave about these things for hours
Haha my mom loves complaining about Americas public transit (or lack there of). It’s definitely so cool to see all the trains and also how clean everything is!
yeah totally! the buses & tube in London are literally sooo cool omg
I’ve lived in rural VT all my life, and I definitely feel like it has made me who I am. Nature and farming and my local community are all really important to me, and this environment has certainly shaped my passions and values. I felt myself change a lot just going from my small town elementary/middle school to another town’s larger high school, in a place that has a different demographic and culture despite only being twenty minutes away, so I definitely think I would be different if I didn’t grow up in my town!
omg that's literally how I feel!!! I live in the most urban area of VT and I still feel so out of place even going to a slightly bigger city. its so rural here and I love it
Yeah, things would have been really different if I grew up somewhere else. I grew up mostly in NJ, but I was born in India, and every time I visit, I think how different it would be if I grew up there. Mainly when it comes to schools. Every single school there has uniforms as required, and I remember when my cousin had to go to school on Saturdays which was mind-blowing for me.
ooh that's a new perspective in this thread! yeah my great-grandparents escaped the russia/ukraine area but about twenty years before WWII so we have a sort of different story than the usual Holocaust stuff I encounter with other Jews; so I often think of what would've happened if we still lived there or if we hadn't gotten out so early. my mom is a professor of Islamic studies so she lived in India while studying and she loved it and thought the bustle/chaos was crazy, but I think it'd be super cool to visit!
Ya, it's kind of like a parallel life in a way? Just one small change would mean that our life would be completely different.
yeah I know right?? it's crazyy
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