I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.