I was planted here and am back here, but grew up 1100 miles from here in the very southern tip of Texas in a small town up the Rio Grande River from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. I went to school almost all those years in Texas. Moved from there my sophomore high school year to Okla City for a year and then back here to AL. We live 6 houses down from my DH's driveway where he grew up on a farm, which is not a farm now. Don't guess we will move far if ever because all our children and grandchildren are here (they are still young). We love to go to the white sands of AL and North Florida beaches and also love the Blue Ridge Mountains, but I guess this will always be home. My great, great, great grandparents on my maternal side came here in the 1850's and I am not far from where they lived. On my paternal side, my great grandparents came here in the early 1900's. Deep roots here.