The Home you grew up in:

[paras4ri]

My mom still lives in the house....she and my dad built it in 1948.

 

[sue Z]

The house that I grew up in is still standing and my parents and I still live there!! As a matter of fact we are only the 3rd owners of the house! the only thing that has changed is the neigbors is a few of the houses.
all but one of the houses that my parents lived in growing up is still standing. One of the houses that my dad lived in is now a nursing home in Hingham. the house that my mom spent most of here youth and teen yrs now has someone else living in it as of about a yr ago. Although my grandfather still owns it he just can't live there by himself.

It's so strange going by it everyday and seeing lights on and now christmas decorations in the windows. Especially knowing that I will probably never step foot in that house again!

 

[Krisu]

My mom still lives in mine, and we now live where DH grew up. After living 10 years in another house we then moved here.

 

[Tony-NJ]

It's still there - but we sold it after my Dad passed away. I drive by maybe once a year and it's just so different now. It's amazing - you take down ONE tree and the whole house looks different. I wanted to go knock on the door and yell at the new owners!!! LOL

 

[kylara]

Still there and mom still lives there.

 

[Poohbear123]

for your replies. About 22 years ago, the house was still there, and painted a different color. It sat in a neighborhood, that of course now, is not too safe to live in. It was a Wood Frame house, and was built by HAND around the 40's. I lived in that house from age 3, after my Father died, until I was 16. The rent at that time was 70.00 a month and it was a 3 bedroom 1 bath home. The landlady sold the property the houses sat on, in 1975 and we moved to the second house I stayed in till I was 22. That house never had that much meaning as the first house did. It was very strange to go by that area, and NOT SEE ANY of the 3 wood frame houses that had been there standing. Very sad too.

 

[shep]

Mom & Dad still live there..

 

[SeaSpray]

My parents bought the house that I grew up in when it was brand new, about 48 years ago, and they still live there today

There's something really nice about still being able to go "home" for a visit once in a while

 

[snoopy]

Yep, mine is still there. In fact, I went over to my old neighborhood not long ago with my boys and went up and knocked on the door and asked the people if I could come in and look around.

They were very gracious and said yes. It was great looking around in that old row house, I was amazed that 11 people could have fit in that house! My room, that I shared with my sister, looked soooooooooo tiny!

The house is still in excellent shape, but it is a well built house. If I still lived in Baltimore I'd try to buy it back in the family.

 

[Disney Doll]

Yes, and my parents still live in it!!!

 

[Chattyaholic]

Well, the first FIVE apartments I lived in as a child are still standing but they really don't have any meaning for me. Then we moved to a mobile home park where I lived 8 years and I really have no attachment there either. But I DO feel a lot of attachment to the house by the lake where my grandparents lived. I have SO MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES of that house. For several years, after they moved to a senior citizien apartment building, I didn't want to drive up there and see the house for fear the new owners had made changes but one summer we did drive up and look, after being assured by my Mom that no changes had been made. It was neat seeing the house again, and I took more pictures. Then a couple summers ago we went back up once more, and the little house was gone and a two-story house was in its place....how sad. My grandpa's work shop was still in the back though.

My Mom recently did as Snoopy did. She was walking by the house where she grew up (Grandpa built the house) and knocked on the door, told the lady she used to live there as a little girl back in the 40's and wondered if she could come in and look around. The lady allowed her to do that and Mom cried when she went into each room, especially when she turned the knob (original knob) to the stairway door to go up to her old bedroom.....

My DH lives in the house where he grew up! We lived in another house from '75 to '80 but then moved back here so have been here 22 years!

 

[Pin Wizard]

A classmate of mine bought my parents' house a few years ago. It was weird to have a childhood friend buy it!

 

[rbuzzotta]

My parents still live in the second home I grew up in (3rd grade until 26 yrs.). The first house is still there tooo......my girls can't believe I lived there!!!

We just moved into our new home and we did tear down a small cottage type home to build ours. I have wondered about the people that did live here and their children (it was the childrrren that sold the home)........the lot is totally different!

 

[Poohbear123]

I feel the same way, for some reason, its as if I didn't exist.

 

[Diane]

It's still here and I own it (half of it, anyway) and live in it.

 

[honeywolf7]

The one that I spent most of my childhood in (age 6 to 18) is the house that my parents still live in. The one that's more important to me (the one that my dad built out in Colorado) is also still there. It sold about 10 years ago for $200,000 and my dad was pretty proud since he built the entire thing by himself.

 

[judi]

We bought the house I grew up in after my parents passed away. We've lived here for 16 years now. There are a lot of kids I grew up with in this neighborhood who have come back to live in there old homes or ones in the area.