Anyone miss the area they moved from?

Edward78

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Ok the whole fam. moved to central NY state 6 years back, OMG the weather is boring here (not 1 storm IMO, well non winter storm)... Winters are long and cold, I miss the midwest storms & nice warm days, but I can not say anything about wanting to go back, my parents just built a new house & sister's fam. bought a house put lots of work into it... They did the move for me & if I told then, they would be really mad, just can't do that to them... :(
 
I've never found anywhere the feels quite like the town I grew up in - even after spending a fair while living in other places.
 
Edward78 said:
Ok the whole fam. moved to central NY state 6 years back, OMG the weather is boring here (not 1 storm IMO, well non winter storm)... Winters are long and cold, I miss the midwest storms & nice warm days, but I can not say anything about wanting to go back, my parents just built a new house & sister's fam. bought a house put lots of work into it... They did the move for me & if I told then, they would be really mad, just can't do that to them... :(
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I think it's very common and normal to miss where you move from. Question if it's okay - roughly how old are you? I.e. are you an adult or still quite young? The reason I ask is because maybe you can move back there. Though of course then you'd miss your family instead.
 
I always miss Gloucester when I am away from it, the town is such a great Roman layout, pity it's infested with chavs and not just any chavs... the most hated ones in Britain. The birch family :eek:
 
I haven't lived in my hometown (Didcot) for 14 years. I think I'd like to move back but I thats only because I know my way around and have family there.
Not possible at the moment due to my missus' job. We have a lot of friends in this area so happy to stay for now. Certainly helps (I have a free weekend for once!!).
 
I miss many things. Eventually, I'll go senile and the problem will resolve itself. Home's where you hang your hat -- move forwards and make new memories while you can. :)
 
been in cornwall 2 1/2 years ,dont miss heckmondwike at all love the lifestyle down here realy does feel like a year round holiday
 
Lived in southend on sea for 40 years,moved to ipswich 8 years ago and don't miss my home town one bit,in fact i try to avoid going back there if i can help it.
 
I certainly don't miss the area I was born in. I don't particularly even want to visit and don't, now that the last remaining family have either moved or died.

Since I was old enough to choose when and where I moved to, I've moved quite a bit as work demanded. There have often been things about the place I left that I miss, but overall, more about the place I moved to that I like than the place I moved from. Otherwise, I'd be an idiot to have moved. But nothing's perfect, and it's always a balance of different but competing factors.

For instance, living in New York for a couple of years was great. The theatre, culture, restaurants, night life, etc was unmatched. But now I'm older, want different things and it's a quiet, country life for me. Nothing would induce me to live in NYC again. It was great when it was right for me, but not now.

So really, no, I don't regret moving but there are things about some places I miss. Just not enough to want to go back. I prefer to look forwards to where I'm going rather than back to where I came from.
 
What do you think ?

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Didn't miss my home town when I left for uni and since left the country. So nope, not interested in going back, except to see family and friends. Hopefully I can persuade most of them to come and visit me here instead! :D
 
I grew up in north Essex, in a town of 10,000 people and roughly as many coffee/charity shops.

I now live on a tropical island, in a city of about 500,000, a few miles from the beach and work about 1/6 of the hours I used to.

So...no, not really :p I can't imagine anything that would make me even consider moving back to Saffron Walden.
 
Born and grew up around Stratford upon Avon, spent a few years in East London, and enjoyed it at the time, but no way I could live there now.
As I get older I appreciate where I live more, there's certainly worse places to be.
 
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