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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

— Garth Risk Hallberg

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

— John Knowles

Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

— Sam Trammell

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

— Daryl Hall

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

— Ron Rash

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

— Marissa Jaret Winokur

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.

— Tim Pratt

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.

— Carol Bartz

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

— Skeet Ulrich

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

— James Balog

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

— Keith Haring