Do you still live in your "Hometown"?

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I'm just wondering, how many of you have stayed in the town that you were born in (or grew up in, for the most part) and how many have moved on to other places?

How does it feel going around a town where you have lived for most or all of your life? Does it feel familiar? Safe? Boring? Threatening?

And those that left, are you happy you did so? How do you feel about going back one day?

I moved around a lot as a child. I was also born in one country, raised in another. The longest I spent in one place was a town that I lived in from the ages of 11 to 22. I really hate that town and dislike going back there for any reason... Even though I have a certain level of power there, after ten years of living away. But it's power I'd sooner not have.

So how do you feel about your hometown?

Left the town that I was born in pretty young, because my (also autistic) brother was getting picked on too much there, and it was a small town so it was the entire town picking on him.

Definitely left the area I grew up in. Too many bad memories.

I still do. Actually, I still live in the same room that I've lived in all my life. I love the fact the familiarity of everything, but hate the boredom of knowing everywhere.

no. i was born in nevada, and have lived in alabama, arkansas, new mexico, colorado, california, oregon, arizona

i currently live in arizona

Brought up in London, traveled a lot and have now settled in New Zealand, less people and more space...

Still live in the house I was born in, between Ann Arbor and Detroit. Only left for my 4 years of college.

It feels neither threatening or comforting, just gives me a slight, nagging sense of decay.

I've lived in the same city for over 11 years, and the same state my whole life. My family and I might actually move this summer, though.

I left my hometown as soon as I could. When I return to visit, it feels familiar and alien, all at once. I don't go back anymore.

I was born in columbia, south america, but i lived here in Jersey since the day I was brought here. I wouldn't have it any other way, everybody knows me, and when i go to places like restaurants, i never have to say a word, because everybody already knows what i'm going to order haha, what can get better then that haha.

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Nope. Born in Ohio. Lived in Texas, England, Tennessee, Japan, California, and now in Florida.

I still live in the house I grew up in. I have no feelings about my hometown--it's a largely nondescript no-place.

I spent my childhood in a small town where there wasn't much to do, and most people who lived there went to neighboring cities to do their shopping. I haven't lived there for around 15 years now. My family moved to a neighboring city when the nice people who lived next door to us moved out, and a crazy alcoholic jerk moved in. My family had rather outgrown that house anyway. Since then, I've moved half a dozen times.

Yeah...born and raised in Houston TX....but my mom is from Rochester New York, and my dad's family is very Czech...they came over in the 20's I think...older relatives spoke Czech at the dinner table and would go visit relatives in Prague....stuff like that....

Lived in Portland for three years after I was born, then we moved up to Vancouver, WA and lived there for nine years and then we moved to Montana and I lived there for eight years and then I moved back here to Portland.


I really like living in Portland. I don't have to worry about gas because I don't have to use my car to get anywhere because we have good public transportation. Helps me have more money and make it affordable for me to live here.