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re: Escaping Your Hometown
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:47 pm to OldHickory
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:47 pm to OldHickory
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When we’re old we want to go back
No, because you’ve made sacrifices your entire life for kids, jobs, living in undesirable areas because of kids/jobs, etc and you have only one life to finally live wherever you want and that’s the beauty of retirement.
All that money you saved and all those places you wish you could live one day finally happens later in life. If life is too short, retired life is even shorter. Live somewhere you really want to be every day.
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Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:49 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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Or did you love your hometown enough to where you never wanted to leave?
LMAO Pierre Part?
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:49 pm to Centinel
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I grew up in Huntsville, AL. Great city then, even better city now. I'd move back in a heartbeat if the right opportunity came along for my wife and I.
i grew up in San Angelo, Texas.
Decent mid sized city that was around 85k and a nice place to live when i was there, but pretty boring. After we left about 15 years ago it had a great revitalization project that actually made it a really cool place to go back and visit now.
now it's over 100k people with dozens of restaurants downtown and a built out riverwalk.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:49 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Grew up in the foothills of San Diego. Joined the service at eighteen and never went back. Lived in a few different places. I moved to wherever the best opportunity was.
This post was edited on 8/23/21 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:51 pm to SaintlyTiger88
You better make your grades and get a job if you're from a small town. No going back.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:51 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I grew up in the middle of nowhere, very rural LA.
As a kid, I desperately wanted to get out (and I did), but the older I get, the more I desire the peacefulness of rural life.
As a kid, I desperately wanted to get out (and I did), but the older I get, the more I desire the peacefulness of rural life.
This post was edited on 8/23/21 at 3:52 pm
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:52 pm to LSUPHILLY72
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My favorite Bruce Springsteen song.
Now Main Streets washed up windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:54 pm to Salmon
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As a kid, I desperately wanted to get out (and I did), but the older I get, the more I desire the peacefulness of rural life.
Same here
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:55 pm to Sun God
I’ve lived in 6 states now. Learning how to adapt to different people and cultures has been invaluable to me. I’ll always love Baton Rouge, but I’m so glad I’ve left.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:56 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
I miss my friends that have left BR but it was a smart decision by them
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:57 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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Were you one of those people who, while growing up, dreamed about leaving your hometown when you had the chance and starting up your life somewhere else?
Yes
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:57 pm to LSUPHILLY72
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My favorite Bruce Springsteen song.
John Mellencamp
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:58 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Wanted to leave - left.
Wanted to come back- came back.
Now I think I def want to leave but I'm stuck for now due to young kids and old parents.
Wanted to come back- came back.
Now I think I def want to leave but I'm stuck for now due to young kids and old parents.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:58 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Left, as did most of my high school friends and siblings. Don’t miss it but don’t necessarily hate it.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 3:58 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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Were you one of those people who, while growing up, dreamed about leaving your hometown when you had the chance and starting up your life somewhere else?
No
Left for a better job market but also had a job in my pocket
I went from small town Louisiana to a company paying $3,500.00 to move me to DFW, I thought I was Tom Cruise in The Firm
Then I found out they do that for everybody 
Posted on 8/23/21 at 4:35 pm to SaintlyTiger88
quote:My hometown(wayyyyy southeast Lousiana" has...well nothing lol.
Were you one of those people who, while growing up, dreamed about leaving your hometown when you had the chance and starting up your life somewhere else? Or did you love your hometown enough to where you never wanted to leave?
If you are the former, did you end up sticking around or did you move?
Left it at 18, haven't going back since 2004, can't really see any reason I'd ever go back at this point.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 4:50 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Moving out of New Orleans after Katrina was the best decision I ever made, and I grew up in Lakeview.
What a shithole city.
What a shithole city.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 4:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Born and raised New Orleans and area.
Could not get away fast enough after college.
Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, London, Houston, New Orleans
About half way through the journey, realized how wrong the world approached what matters in life and could not get back fast enough
Won't make that mistake again, warts and all of LA/New Orleans. Best wishes to all who succumb to elsewhere!
Could not get away fast enough after college.
Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, London, Houston, New Orleans
About half way through the journey, realized how wrong the world approached what matters in life and could not get back fast enough
Won't make that mistake again, warts and all of LA/New Orleans. Best wishes to all who succumb to elsewhere!
Posted on 8/23/21 at 4:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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love your hometown enough to where you never wanted to leave?
this is me. but, katrina happened and we moved. And I'm better for it.
Posted on 8/23/21 at 4:55 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Grew up in Opelousas and couldn’t wait to get out. I lived in a number of places and never thought about moving back.
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