re: Ever left your hometown and moved back years later

I currently live in New Orleans, but my parents still live in the town I did 7th through graduation.

Every now and then I run into people, but most of the time we just ignore each other.

You type like a trucker

Could never live in Vegas again. The Californians/Liberals/Democrats/Illegals have ruined it.

Born and raised in St Tammany (Mandeville). Family on both sides goes back there for generations. I last lived there in the late 80's. You could not pay me to live there now with all of the transplants, yupies who want to change it to suit their needs, the traffic, the neighborhoods and all that.

Saddens me to see what it has become. It is not even the same beautiful place that it once was.

Nope and never will. My family left too. BR is and will continue to be a shite stain

The town I knew is gone. Schools turned into Ghettos. Old neighborhood went down hill.
The Baton Rouge I knew 25 years ago when I left is no longer there. I miss the people, culture, food and fishing everyday but its now defunct. Everyone I knew moved away to Denham or out of state completley.

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I just moved back to Austin after graduating college out of state. Wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

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Yeah, I hear you.

Grew up in Houston. After A&M, I lived in Houston again, then SW VA, Memphis, San Antonio, then Austin for longer than anywhere else, and then like a decade later, Houston again. I thought I'd like being "home", but I realized that for all its terrible "freeways", fascist government, and hipsters, that Austin had really become home. Got the chance to move back and did it. Sometimes "home" can change. I even considered Portland for a big change, but when I went there I discovered that the city is awesome but the people suck. Just sort of lazy, disconnected, and rude. For all their pretentiousness, Austinites are frequently type A go-getters and have southern-ish manners.

Grew up in Nashville and left in 2003 to go to LSU. Graduated, stuck around in BR for a few years, then New Orleans for a few more, then moved back to Nashville in late 2014. I even live in the same neighborhood I grew up in. I work at the family business, which I swore growing up that I'd never do. Just kind of got sucked back in. I don't regret it at all.

Not quite. I grew up in Belle Chasse, live in Arabi now (wife's hometown). Would not be opposed to move back to BC, but also would not go out of my way either.