Home sick?

Shipwreck said:

Anyone else grow up in 1 state, then move to another state years later... But still miss their hometown sometimes?

I get this occasionally. However, the google street view website is a great way to "go back home" sometimes.

Saves me an 8 hour trip... I can just "drive" around the city using streetview, and see how things have changed since I moved away in 1996. I think it's a great thing to battle that feeling sometimes.

Anyone else?

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I grew up as an Air Force brat and also spent 23 in myself. I had many home towns. But the one I liked the most was by a barf town in upstate Michigan. There I spent the good part of my educational years among the residents who were ……I wanna say stupid, but we nick named Michiganders as “Squirrely”. Never met one that wasn’t.
I went up there after I retired and spent a summer and bitter winter to get a feel for things again.
I adored the area. Lots of woods and water to hunt, fish in. Absolutely gorgeous!
Even bumped into a few old distant classmates. I preferred to keep that way too…distant.

I would have stayed were it not for the fact that Michiganders are intolerably stupid! In one for instance, they let the world and media tell them what and how to think. They’re incapable of abstract thought or opinion based on the facts. They’re not worldly wise but pretend to be. You could call em eclectic, but that falls far short; and there’s no word to accurately describe em, but “Sheeple” might work.

Picture the old Farmer McDonald who never left the farm full of cows that go moo, ducks that go quack and chics that were here , chic chick there, everywhere a chic chic and decided to take a vacation to Washington DC and took the congressional tour and accidentally sat in on a congressional committee meeting and pretended to know what everyone was talking about and participated.
Thats a Michigander. They’re like that all over the state.

When folks ask me where I was from originally, I merely ask em “what year?”
I’m and Air Force brat, I’ve been to many different school systems totaling 4
I’m a retired CCT medic with 1 tour in Grenada, 1 in Asscrackistan. I‘ve had assignments to 7 different bases.
Home town?
What year? 😉

Some times I do envy those who technically had/have a home town they can look back on.
I particularly envy those such as from the Movie “A river runs through it” who loved their neck of the woods so much, they never left at all.

I was born and raised in Omaha. I haven't been back since 2001. I don't ever really get homesick. I don't think any of my old friends still live there and my parents are long gone.

Having said that, I have got on Google Street view and looked up some of my old hangouts. most of them are gone.

I just went and looked my favorite used bookstore was been walking distance to my house and they tore it down or they moved yet. It's still the same business but it's in a different building and it's not the same.



This used to be a 7-Eleven. I used to hang out there and it's also where we used to try to get Winos to buy booze for us

This is the house I grew up in.

No. I live in my home state, and get nauseated when having to go back to the home town for any reason. I really can't think of many good memories. Not all bad, but hard to pick out good ones.
Probably why I went to boot camp 3 days after graduating. Now that my family there has passed, no reason to go there. We do pass through on occasion, it has grown, but not changed a lot.
HS reunion some years ago was about as uncomfortable as HS. I still had little to nothing in common with any of those people. I sat out all the ones after the 20 year reunion.
The town next to us was all farm land and corn fields. Good times. All that is subdivisions, shopping centers, strip malls and swollen to no telling how much larger. Met some friends there a few years ago for Sunday lunch. Traffic jams and near unpassable traffic, on Sunday. I can't imagine on a weekday. It outgrew it's infrastructure by leaps and bounds. They are trying to catch up, but not doing too well at it.

Edit: WOW. I looked it up and all the houses around the house I grew up in are gone. The houses across the street are a community center for the church that was cattycorner to us. The three around us are now gone. The church was trying to buy my grandmothers house and contracted to let her live rent free for her remaining life. A generous offer, and they would take care of taxes, needed repairs, and insurance. It would have made things a lot easier on her and the grandchildren all tried to talk her into it. We found out why after she passed, but, oh well.

Tape said:

What! you trying to change my mind, don't waste your time!

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Frankly, I don't care about your beliefs -- I just know mine.