Different backgrounds. WWII changed everything. Dad was from VT. Mom was from MO. After the war they met in Vermont while Mom was visiting a sister who had married a GI and moved North with him.
I was born in the Northeast. Family relocated to the West coast for work. Back to the Northeast to be close to family when Grampa passed. Back to California for work. All before I was ten. Nomad life. I have passed through or visited all 50 states and actually lived in 10 of them. VT, NY, GA, OK, CA, AZ, OR, WA, HI and now in Alaska (The best!)
I have lived in Big cities like Los Angeles and Honolulu, and small towns like Williston and Petersburg. Small towns are best, IMO. Small town on an island = PERFECT.
It sounds like you had an interesting life!
I was born in VA on the Army base (Ft. Lee) when Dad was in the service. When he was discharged, we moved back to Tennessee. We had to move to S. Florida when I was two because of my asthma. There were no treatments for it back then. We moved back to TN when I started high school. So, I have lived in three states but only remember two.
I don’t travel. I have never been on a plane. My husband and I made a road trip to Montana and back when we got married almost 40 years ago. I haven’t been out of the state in almost 30 years. LOL Mom liked to travel. She offered to take me on an all-expense paid trip to Jamaica years ago and I refused because of the plane.
Mom and Dad met when Mom’s parents moved to Chattanooga when my grandfather went to work at Combustion Engineering in the 50’s. Mom was a social butterfly while Dad was more or a hermit, like me.
Dad wasn’t much of a traveler. He made an annual trip back to FL to check on the old neighborhood and former co-workers, but Dad’s heart was in the mountains, like mine.
My parents had totally different backgrounds but managed to stay together for 60 years.