Are you glad you left your hometown?

[dejr_8]

I have mixed feelings about it. For the most part, I am glad that I moved away (no comments about people there are probably happy I moved away as well )

Where I grew up is in a slow decline. Family businesses close and nothing replaces them. I can't imagine what my life would be like if I stayed there.

 

[acejka]

I'm about to do that for the first time!

I love Franconia (small area in Northern VA) but Springfield and Kingstowne have taken over. Everyone in this area seems to be in such a rush and seem to be so unhappy, and this place is not what it used to be-horse farms, real farms lining the 2 lane roads, now its as crowded as DC and they have built housing in every square inch that they can.

I am happy to be moving and trying something new, but scared to be away from my grandmother, shes getting older and I worry about her. I wish she'd just come to FL with us and then it would be the perfect move.

We are moving to Orlando, so it won't be much of a change unfortunately.

 

[EthansMom]

I wouldn't mind living near my family (currently on opposite coasts) but there really aren't any jobs in that town doing exactly the same work that I did (when I was working outside the home) or that DH does.

Also, DH and I have had a much larger breadth of cultural experience by living different places in the U.S. We have friends and family members (on both coasts) who've never really travelled much outside their local region and their views on some things seems much more insular that ours.

 

[Kitty 34]

Yes I was glad but I came back after 10 years.

 

[Robinrs]

I miss the people, the attitude and the food of my hometown DESPARATELY but I would never live there or raise my son there. I couldn't AFFORD it!

I feel no connection to where I live now but it is a great place to raise a basically SQUARE teenager like my son! He would've NEVER made it in my hometown, and I'm glad he didn't have to develop the survival attitude it took to make it there.

 

[ericamanda01]

I grew up in a very small town in South Texas, and while I miss Tx I don't miss my home town. It was a small town filled with small minds. I only went back once since I graduated high school and it was like stepping back in time.

 

[Angelhalo]

I moved away to FL and loved it, then moved back and love it. Both for different reasons.

 

[Pin Wizard]

I'm with Robin...these days, I couldn't afford to live there. It was a great town though. You were able to walk to town, didn't need the car. Everything was nearby. Everyone knew everyone else. However, the state in general was a mess...literally. I was happy to leave. I've been back for weddings and funerals. That's it.

 

[KristinBelle]

Yes, very glad.

 

[englishteacha]

I miss my mom, who still lives in my hometown, and I miss that it's so close to "stuff" to do. However, the town is getting a bit rough, and it's pretty expensive to live there. We're much more rural now, but it's quiet, and it's very affordable to live here.

 

[Kath2003]

I miss my family. I miss living near London. I don't miss the attitudes of people. I don't miss the congestion and the high cost of living. I don't miss the higher crime rates or the values many hold.

I wouldn't go back.

 

[Disney Ella]

I am very glad I moved away. I grew up in a rural area. There was nowhere even worth walking to, unless you wanted to see more fields, cows and woods. I like living near a city and enjoy all of the benefits - more jobs, better healthcare options, better shopping, museums, theater, quick access to a major airport. When I first moved away, I used to have dreams that I was forced to go back there and I was always plotting a way to get out.

 

[pyrxtc]

yes, and I wil never move back to it. It wasn't a great place to raise my kids. I do miss the cultural diversity but not a whole lot more.

 

[mla1977]

I miss my family being near by, but I move away when I was 19 for college and have lived in or near major cities since then. I was just talking to my BFF about how I couldn't move back because I would go crazy. I love the diversity of people, food and activities that I have where I live now.

 

[gina2000]

Nope. Love it here. I'm 45 minutes outside of NYC. The opportunities for children are endless. Family entertainment is a hop, skip, and a jump away. So is adult entertainment should one seek it out. Jobs are tough right now but hopefully that's cyclical.

 

[GeorgeG]

I was born and spent most of my life in the same town. I moved away when I retired and have no desire to go back. For starters, it's not the same as when I was growing up. Second, I can afford a much better life here in Florida on a pension and SS than I could if I had stayed in New York. Third, I do not like cold weather anymore.

I do miss some people and a few other things, but I know I made the right choice moving to Florida.

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

I don't miss it.

Too many people who grew up with me there never left, never went anywhere, just plopped down five doors down from their parents and they're growing old there.

I don't have anything against going back, but I think everyone should experience going away.

I would never go back because where I grew up is NOT a car ride away from Disney, and that's a MUST for me .

 

[kydisneyfans]

Moving away is the best decision my wife and I ever made. We go back to visit family and just shake our heads at the decline and thank god we left for something better before the bottom fell out.

You could not pay me enough to move back there.

 

[PrincessKitty1]

I grew up in a small city near Miami that has basically been sucked up by the megalopolis that Dade County has become and I'm so-o-o glad I left. I knew I would never go back, but I never suspected I would live the rest of my life in the college town I moved to when I was 18 (yup, I'm in my early 50s, and still like it here!).

 

[Kimberly]

I miss Bergen County, NJ in a way, but I'm not really all that far from it where I am currently. I do miss the people I grew up with more than the actual area, but that is what makes home, home anyway.

Happier where I am now, without a shadow of a doubt.