I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.
I also grew up on a farm in east Tennessee, so my roots are just naturally super southern, so I've always had that southern country lifestyle.
I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
I'm from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?
I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
I grew up in a house of forthright women.