Would you ever consider retiring in the city/town/hamlet of your birth?

Nope. My daughter and grandkids are here, winters are mild, I’m happy where I am. I wouldn’t mind spending August in a cooler clime, however.
 

I came from a small town in Massachusetts. My great grandmother was a twin and each had at least ten kids, and my grand mother was a twin and each had ten kids. It wasn't until college that I didn't have a cousin in my class. So at times, I'm nostalgic for my home town, and other tomes I like being a couple of states away.
 
No. It is a dead end town, nestled at the bottom of a valley surrounded by mountains.
It rains 300 days a year with plenty of snow. Sometime the fog might burn off for an hour before the temperature drops and fog condenses again.
Miserable place, with gossipy residents.
 
Bretrick said:
No. It is a dead end town, nestled at the bottom of a valley surrounded by mountains.
It rains 300 days a year with plenty of snow. Sometime the fog might burn off for an hour before the temperature drops and fog condenses again.
Miserable place, with gossipy residents.
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yaas not talkin about good ol' perth are ya?
 
seriously though folks my entire family [nuclear] left a big northern city in UK and moved to a small rural village in Cheshire - it was lovely - we were teens and fell in love and out of love and camped in the woods etc etc - then at 18yrs everyone of us left - parents were overaught - but the village continued and is the same today with one or two exceptions - streets are full of cars and front lawns and hedges have disappeared and been replaced by concrete to park more cars - and I hear the youngsters or some have become more unruly and need police interventions - now why go back there - no family ; no history now and just historic sorrows??
 
Blessed said:
I would love it! I was an air force baby, born in Paris, France. I spent the first year of my life there. I remember none of it, LOL.
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As a child my family moved very often. I know where I was born, it's noted on my birth certificate, but I know very little about the town. Because of our frequent moves in reality there is no single place that I can refer back to as home. When we married and decided to have a family, I was determined that our children would have roots and know where their hometown was and all about it. We raised all four children in that grounded setting and with time I have become comfortable with this place as my home. When my grandchildren ask me about my hometown, I share this same story with them.
 
Not me. Things have changed too radically since my youth. With growth came an oppressive corporatism and now some of the ugliest political division within one place I could imagine. In the name of gentrification and faux diversity parks, monuments, even buildings have been wiped clean destroying a lot of history and replacing it with plastic replacements that eradicate the real diversity that existed when I grew up. Great swaths of adjacent forest and farm lands are gone, paved over.

It seemed to come in two waves. First the loss of high value employment ramped up by NAFTA hollowed things out. Then big money took over and more came in and bought so much up. Communities of home owners became renters, struggling at service industry jobs. Community business districts were gutted and replaced by fast food, nail salons, pot shops, and dollar stores. Small grocery stores and local chains are gone, creating food deserts galore.

You might as well be living on the coasts.
 
I grew up in a small town of about 200 people. Twenty eight years ago today I moved back to the same township about 8 km. from it. I live on just under an acre on a sideroad. I love it out here and I hope my health allows me to stay.
Most of my family lives within a thirty minute drive one direction or another.
 
I am there now. By happanstance. Born here and spent th first 3 yrs here and then moved with my family. As an adult I lived in lot of places, but somehow wnded up back here. I like the town well enough and the rest of it, meh.
 
davey said:
that sounds great - does it still give you a lot of comfort?
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Sorry...I'm just seeing your question Davey. This city has been my home for 77 years. I've owned this co-op unit for 53 years and though we've had issues sometimes, I'm quite comfortable with my exterior and interior surroundings.
 
I was born in Sacramento and grew up on a Sacramento dairy farm. Our farm neighbored other farms. There was another dairy, a pig farm, 2 poultry & egg farms, and a sheep & lamb farm.

As an adult, I moved around a lot...around this state and others. I moved back to Sac in 2015, but I can't move back to where I grew up because all those farms are gone. Even the trees and grass & alfalfa pastures are gone. It's a couple hundred acres of dry, flat, empty fields now.
 
I have never lived more than one hour away from where I was born and always in the same State in which I was born. My daughter and husband and her grand-daughter live in a neighboring State, but not extremely far away from where my husband and I live so this is where I will spend the rest of my days I suppose.
 
No, I don't like winters but l would consider spending a couple of months there every summer (Vienna, Austria). At one point in one of my visits l did seriously consider getting a job there and staying.
 
Born and raised in New York City. I've lived in other places but always came back here. NYC is a city of conveniences. It's a walker's city. It takes a 10-minute walk to the supermarket. You can walk everywhere and get your cardio exercise done while on your way to do errands.
 
No because I would feel as if I would be living in a foreign country amidst a culture that I don't totally identify with.
 

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