Are you living in the same area as you grew up?

I haven't moved far from the suburb where I grew up in the 40's and 50's. The old house is still there but looking very unloved.

I now live in the house we moved into in 1966, just a short drive from my childhood home. Most of my extended family live in reasonable driving distance with the only exception being my son, and my sister's family.

I love my home and my neighbourhood.
 

It all changes either good or bad but think it's a mistake to go back but not my call!
I visited sometimes - no more kids around just oldies and they still drank in the same old pub? my mother stopped goin to family funerals ?
 
The old saying of “go west young (wo)man“ kicked in. Moved back east for a bit and then back west to a few locations. 2000 km/1300 miles from original location. I still think about the interesting things. I doubt they’re as I imagine. My family are all back there now. Sometimes there’s a remote longing.
 
Are you living in the same area as you grew up? And if you're not, would you move back?

Living in the same state I grew up in (Alabama) but it's not the state I was born in (California).
No way I'd move back to the town I grew up in, here in Alabama ... Selma ... yeah, that Selma.
Selma is getting smaller every day. People and industry are leaving.
If tornadoes don't take Selma out, decay will. Sixty+ years ago was a different time in Selma.
A sad place these days and has been for a long while.
About the only thing left of Selma these days is Civil Rights tourism and those who steward it.
As Selma becomes more and more like a 3rd world crime riddled, fiscally challenged village.

Really, truth is I grew up in the Navy. Don't live there anymore either ... moving on ~~~
 
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I am about 2.5 miles from where I grew up. One night, I decided to get on my bike and take a scary ride, past midnight, to the old neighborhood. I went up and down the street, remember the times and friends I had then. All are gone now. I went past the house where a guy who was my 1st crush, lived...some memories never fade.
 
At the moment I'm in the area I grew up in - Kingston, SW London. I moved within London aged 20, moved back aged 44, went to Birmingham (in the English Midlands) for four years 2011-15, back again to Kingston, then finally to the west of England in 2021. I've also studied in France and Spain, and worked in Greece.
 
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love the song by one of ya best country singers set in a windblown old town - theatre falling down and empty streets = so evocative can never remember his name or song - but you usa fellas all know him!! - stirs up a bucket full of emotion in me for sure
 
this thread is really crackin me up - no criticism to the rest its me tryin to deal with life in general. My street of birth is no longer - turned into summat else - I've been sorta movin all my life till now - and at the time it seemed exciting and fun - HK for three years - wot a buzz - we would dance until 4am and then go for breakfast in a noodle shop. the locals called it chuck? [cantonese]

then around Uk [missed out some very important bits though] then finally Oz and still kept movin - I had to let the camel go it couldn't handle tarmac roads? moved around Oz a bit too - it all seemed exciting and good fun att? but there is always a downside methinks - breaks up families and everything that goes with that - ah yea we all promise to keep in touch drop in sometimes etc etc.

where's the family now - everywhere - some in Thailand ; some in cities of Oz and I'm in the bush and do occasionally get a stay over visit but I don't think its ever the same - I just need a camel to be parked outside heh??
 
yea I sometimes follow a forum of my UK city and birthplace - everyone says they will always love it but not go back there? when they visit the streets have disappeared and the old houses and shops but still they love it to pieces?? don't get it really?
 
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