Do you still live in your "hometown", if not, do you wish you could move back there?

CindyLouWho

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How many of you still live in the town you grew up in? Those who moved away, do you miss your hometown & wish you could move back?
 

I live about 35 miles from my home town. At this time in my life, I have spent more years in my new town than where I grew up. I am happy where I am and do not think I would move back. I no longer have much in the way of family or friends there, so no reason to move back.
 
Born & raised in Detroit, Michigan and was very nice growing up there when I did.

But things have changed there. NOW you couldn't pay me enough to move back there !!
 
I live about 15 miles from my home town, but I hardly recognize it now. The population was about 50,000 when I lived there. It's 113,000 now. The street I grew up on is now mostly apartments, including my old address. The businesses downtown have all changed, and most of the buildings remodeled. Most of the high school buildings have been replaced. A few old churches still look the same.

So, I don't go there anymore. My home town vanished a long time ago. If I had a time machine that would take me back to the '50s, I'd love to see it again. I'd get an ice cream cone at Curry's or a cherry coke at Pulley's drug store and maybe catch a movie at the Meralta theater. I hear they're having an all cartoon matinee.

Don
 
CindyLouWho said:
How many of you still live in the town you grew up in? Those who moved away, do you miss your hometown & wish you could move back?
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Yes, I would move back because I have so many people I know there. I miss them and talk a lot with them online etc. My hometown has changed a lot, but my friends are the same;) I am actually looking to move back, but not in a hurry as it will take some time to find just the right place for me to live. I love my place here, and it will be hard to find anything this perfect (for me) back home.
 
My goodness! Memories of Detroit City! I finished my masters at Wayne State there in 1967, and what a time I had there. (I'm glad I survived) My favorite song was "Detroit City" by Bobby Bare, (which was subtitled "I wanna go home") back to the green fields and mountains of Virginia. I've never been back to Michigan since.
My roommate would always want to drag me off to some go-go joint place such as the Dutchess Inn somewhere in the suburbs. (I've repented of those days)

Now I live in the city that's 85 miles from the small Southwest Va. town where I grew up. But I always wanted to be in this city even when I was a kid and traveled here with my aunt and uncle in their '37 Chevrolet. Its the best place in the world to live and I enjoy it very much. Couldn't be anywhere else.
 
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My goodness! Memories of Detroit City! I finished my masters at Wayne State there in 1967, and what a time I had there
 
58 years since I left the place where I grew up. More than 30 years since I have even driven through that area.
No way would I go back there, they have winter with snow up there, brrrr.
 
I left my hometown in 1960. Had lived there since 1937. I’ve always thought that I would like to go back to the small town country living, but hardly anything that I remember is still there. The train tracks have been torn up, the downtown stores are mostly gone, Big box stores on the outside of town have taken over. And, the drug dealers are running rampart , coming up from NY city. All the factories are gone. It’s nothing like I remember so I’ll just stay put for now.
But the nice part is...the memories are still there. :sentimental:
 
I sure do wish I lived in the town I grew up in. An idealistic small “village” with a population of under 2,000 people and a village green and beautiful old homes. Today though, the population has exploded and instead of 1high school, it has 5. Nothing ever stays the same in life though. If I really think hard about it, it’s the feeling of community I miss and wished my children could of experienced it also.
 
I feel the same regarding sense of community. Where you actually "knew" your neighbors, your mailman, run into people you know when you're out at a restaurant, store.......where down-to-earth real people actually said hello to each other when walking down the street.
 
I miss my hometown, but what I miss is no longer there.

After my family moved away, a couple of large manufacturers moved into the town. They changed that little town in some big ways. When NAFTA passed, those manufacturers folded their tents and moved to Mexico, leaving the town devastated and economically depressed. A friend who visits there frequently says I wouldn't recognize it. Many of the beautiful old buildings are gone, replaced by ugly buildings are are vacant now. She sent photos she took around town and it's just sad.
 
jujube said:
No thanks! 21 years in the Frozen North and 6 more years in the Even.More.Frozen North was enough for me. I set my face toward Florida and never looked back.
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I too lived 20 years in the 'cool' weather, but I was North of Fairbanks Alaska and our 'cool' winters hit -40 often.
I tried to live here in 'hot' Texas but long for the open wilderness and yes even the 'cool' weather!

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Thanks but no thanks, Pete. I don't like to be cold; it's not my idea of a good time. That kind of life is for people who enjoy survival. I've lived completely off the grid in a log cabin with cats, dogs and a herd of goats for company, but that's as far off the beaten path as I ever wanted to go.
 
I lived in Mass for 22 yrs. That was 49 years ago. Now, I live in PA, which is about the same latitude as Mass. The winters are about even as being cold with snow. Right now, if I moved back, everybody I knew as a kid has passed away. And lots of my classmates have done the same. I'd visit my brother, but as far as nieces and nephews, cousins; I haven't kept up with them. Half a century is a big chunk of time, there's very little, which would cause me to move back.
 
I would love to move back as I have a sister there but real estate is sky high as are rentals. Still no hospital and would have to go 60 miles to a specialist. Could not afford to live there again!
 
This thread got me thinking about the future. What will be standing where my house is fifty years from now? A skyscraper? shopping center? tenement? If the ocean keeps rising it could be beach front property. What will my town be like? Maybe it's better that I'll never know.

Don
 
I still live in the place I was born in and even in the same neighborhood. Growing up was wonderful here and I was close to my Parents and to all my Aunts, Uncles ,Grandparents,who sadly are no longer alive. I have always been a City girl. When my son married he lived 2 blocks away from me and I saw my 2 grandson's everyday. Now my Son is divorced and the boys are in college living on campus,so I don't see them nearly enough. My Husband has started thinking about moving near where my daughter and her family live so we can be there for her and my granddaughter who just turned 8yrs old.They live in the Suburbs . We have been looking for a house near her and we finally found one a week ago. I know I will miss where we live,but seeing my grand daughter every day will be wonderful. I hope it doesn't take me long to adjust to a new home after the 52 years I have lived in my house when Hubby and I got married.
 

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