My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.
My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values - I'm from Oklahoma, my wife's from Green Bay - we felt at home in the year we were here.
When I came to Mumbai from Indore, I knew nobody.
I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least.
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
I missed Britain. I'm from here and I never aspired to go to L.A. - it sort of happened by default. I loved being there. I found it a little bit difficult at first, but I found my way.
I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called 'vegetarian,' experience of migration. It involved planes and trains - the actual compartments of passenger trains - and not grueling walking and riding on the roofs of trains.
I love Baltimore, I miss the people, but I think L.A. is way more chill.
My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved around constantly, in and outside the U.S., living in Germany for much of our teens.
When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.
I was born in California and moved around a lot. When I was 17, I moved to Boston because my mom got a job there. The moment I went to Boston, everything just felt right and fell into place on how I wanted it to be.
We moved to Wales when I was quite young, but we frequently visited the rest of my family, especially my mother's side.
I was born in Poland, and then I was six years in France. I returned to Poland, and then, at the age of eight and a half, we came to Germany.
When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider.
I'm one of 3; I have a 16-year-old sister and an 11-year-old brother. We're all very close. We're an interesting family, and we moved a lot when I was younger. I feel like we are very tight knit because we had to sort of jump and leave places and start over again and again.
I lived just outside of L.A. for a long time. My dad was in the military, so I moved a lot.
I grew up everywhere because my dad was in the Navy. I had to adapt to each environment.
For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
