i was content to stay in my little world until i went off to college. then i fell in love with the college town i lived in. then i had to move back and never had the same feelings for the place. then i moved where the jobs were when i started working seriously. now i’ve moved again, to a slower paced little town, i don’t miss my hometown anymore. it’s ok. but i have no reason to be loyal to it. i may move again someday.
1 Like
I moved because it is overpopulated and the traffic is awful and it’s overpriced. It’s too bad too because it’s so lovely. I guess that’s why so many people want to pack in there. I am happy where I am now. Only 3000 people.
1 Like
No, I’ve been living in my city since I was five years old. I was born in California, then moved to Tennessee, then moved to the east coast.
1 Like
I did try to move to UK to live twice, one pre-sz and one after sz. I am probably not gonna try again
1 Like
I’ve lived in this general area since I was 9. Once I got into the mental health system (psyche wards, hospitals, group homes) I never lived in the city I grew up in again. But I’ve lived in several neighboring cities, some more than once. It’s a nice area to live in but it has a high cost of living.
2 Likes
When I graduated college and got my first huge job I moved 40 miles north for nearly a decade. Then came back to the general area. I like my little town of 2,200 people.
1 Like
I moved to banff for two years.
that’s about the population of the town im in now. my house is in an agriculture zone, but i consider it country residential. it used to be a big farm, but now it’s been divided up into 3-5 acre lots where people have built houses. nobody farms on their land, but im trying to convince mom and dad to allow me to plant 2 acres of flowers as a cash crop and start a homestead here.
my old hometown was about 15k, and then i lived in bloomington, indiana for 4 years which was like 80k not counting students. and northern kentucky city of about 50k. i also lived in my car in coastal oregon in a little town of about 10k or so, for a year, i was working but could never save enough to rent a place of my own. i used a ups store mailbox with an address to get a job, and went to the gym and showered everyday. i slept in campsites and walmart parking lots mostly in my car.
1 Like
Hah! Yup. It takes less than a minute to drive through town on the main drag and you are out. Live in a tourist town so summer is always crazy. Things still haven’t died down. Maybe after Labor Day weekend we’ll get our town back.
1 Like
I moved 4 hrs from London where my family lived since age 7 at age 21
My family has followed me there,b20 years later I moved 45mins away
I needed to check my life without my mum living 1 mile away from me
I depended on her for everything
Even with a husband
We moved for his work as well
He hated the small city we lived in, we’re now back in the town he grew up in
1 Like
I grew up in a small town in North Carolina. When I was 23 I left and went to Chicago for 6 months, then Atlanta, then Denver, back to Atlanta, back to Denver, then to Buffalo. I have been in New York since, except for a year where I took my husband to NC in 2001.
I don’t live in Buffalo, but did for 10 years.
3 Likes
haha, we have 2 blinking red stop lights and that’s it. we get some tourists going to the casino/resort, but i wouldn’t consider it a tourist town.
i was just thinking if i moved to a place like amsterdam, what would i think of the constant barrage of tourists? it would be hard for me to be prejudiced being a transplant of course. but i don’t think i would like it.
1 Like
I hear lots of different languages in the grocery store. Lots of Germans come through. Sometimes Russians.
We are a tourist town because there are about five huge lakes surrounding the town so in addition to cabin owners there are camp grounds, a resort, golf course, some nice little shops, and other things.
It is a nice town but sometimes trying to get a parking spot can be a bizzitch.
1 Like
My hometown is just far enough away from London to be affordable. I stay for family - they’re all I have.
For the price of my flat on the south coast of England, if I got a place where my stepbrother lives in the Midlands I could get a house
1 Like
I moved to live with my husband, but now I’m back after my divorce.
2 Likes
I am currently living in one of the places I grew up.
It is a beautiful area and some people can’t afford to live in this neighbourhood but I can because I live in my former stepmother apartment and get cheaper rent.
My favourite place to live is in SA with my x n dogs.
I’m a country gal at heart I reckon.
I. First grew up in Germany the first few years of my life then Sweden then Australia then back n forth and different places in Sweden.
I hated being a child n teen .
I lived in the area I live in when I was about five to nine or eight then again from seventeen to twenty and then now at 42.
I moved here to become vegan and give my horse a better life.
I regret leaving SA and my x.
Thank full though n I have it good here too but I’m not as happy etc
1 Like
Besides my hometown Leuven, Belgium I’ve lived in Brussels, France (Toulouse), Switzerland (Geneva), Singapore and The States (NYC)
2 Likes
Not in my hometown, but about an hour away from it and I lived in 2 other cities but only for a few months.
1 Like
Yes
At 16
Then had a break at 17
Possibly related to the move in some way
1 Like
I have lived on the same bloody street for 35 years which is ever since I was born… I moved houses but on the same street can’t wait to get out.
1 Like