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

All the places I've lived (until adulthood) (none particularly far apart) bring bad memories, so NO WAY would I move back to any of them........here, this apt. in which I've lived for over 40 years, may be old & beat up, but it has been great to be free of all those things that caused low self-esteem. :)
 

Elsie said:
All the places I've lived (until adulthood) (none particularly far apart) bring bad memories, so NO WAY would I move back to any of them........here, this apt. in which I've lived for over 40 years, may be old & beat up, but it has been great to be free of all those things that caused low self-esteem. :)
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I hear ya; made the mistake of looking up one of the old homesteads on the internet and it brought back all the tension and yelling that went on inside the walls. (Plus, seeing how much that old, cheaply built place is selling for now? Wow!)
 
officerripley said:
I hear ya; made the mistake of looking up one of the old homesteads on the internet and it brought back all the tension and yelling that went on inside the walls. (Plus, seeing how much that old, cheaply built place is selling for now? Wow!)
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The worst place for me was torn down in later years into a tall business building. (I once lived (as a teenager) in an ex war military base barracks right across the street from a new Air Force Base. An Air Force friend of one of the girls came over to the barracks' side of the road to where my teenage girlfriends and I were sunning ourselves and told us we were being watched through binoculars. Teenage me could have died from embarrassment--and anger. :-D
 

I tell you something amusing...

I chanced to speak online to a school friend.... from 55 years ago, who was still working at the same job, that she went into straight from school, (shudder) and still living in the same house where she was born and raised.. and I told her I'd been living in southern England for over 50 years.. and she said ''Oh I wondered why I hadn't seen you around''.. :ROFLMAO: talk about not be missed...
 
smiley said:
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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I've just come back from a long weekend in my old hometown and while I have a fond sense of some bits of it - mostly from my old street outwards, away from the town centre - and it wins on facilities and everything being nearby and good public transport, it has also been overdeveloped, the latest thing being a huge town-centre eyesore, and is not a nice place to be in the evenings as I discovered. I realised that what I really miss is my friends from there and that little support community - and I can go back and visit them, while living here, which I prefer.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
My mom lived her entire life within walking distance from where she was born. In fact, the home that she spent 50+ years was built on the lot, on which she used to play house when she was a little kid.
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this used to happen a lot. My granny..both grannies actually... and grandads... all lived within a mile or 2 of where they were born.. as did all of their children ..(my father and us lived just 6 miles from here he was born) ..except one childless uncle who emigrated to Canada with his wife.. but even they went back as they got into their older years to get free medical .
 
I could not afford to return to a seaside village on eastern Long Island.
Besides I think the warmer Georgia weather is better at my age. When I check out the old homestead on Google maps the main difference seems to be how manicured the properties look these days resembling a golf course. Speaking of which, a new study suggests that living near a golf course increases ones chances of getting Parkinson's due to toxic chemicals leaching into the drinking water. Sorry for going off topic but that seems important.
 
jujube said:
No. And HELL no.
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You stole my line! :D

Some years ago I actually sat down with a pen and a piece of paper and I counted how many times I'd moved. Just from the age of 18 till 38, I moved 49 times.

I did return to where I'd grown up, but that was strictly temporary -- just long enough for me to get my feet on the ground after spending 15 years in Germany. I found a job after retirement from the Army at age 38, stayed there a couple years (moved twice while there) and then left permanently, only to visit a few times since then.

Post-retirement from the Army, I have lived in 8 different U.S. states with multiple moves in each of those states (mostly rentals).
 

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