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re: Have you ever tried to visit your old house?
Posted on 8/31/23 at 1:11 pm to BabyTac
Posted on 8/31/23 at 1:11 pm to BabyTac
Not the one in Charleston SC where I spent most of my formative years. I did check it out on Zillow, can't believe it was only 1,875 sq...I don't think they counted the large bonus room over the two car garage (my room).
Every time I go into this neighborhood in North Charleston when I visit, I always feel bad for the kids that live there now. When I grew up, that neighborhood was out there in the woods, had great swamps and lakes and trails around there. We'd build forts, hunt, fish, ride dirtbikes out there. Now every square inch within 10 miles is developed. Progress I suppose.
Every time I go into this neighborhood in North Charleston when I visit, I always feel bad for the kids that live there now. When I grew up, that neighborhood was out there in the woods, had great swamps and lakes and trails around there. We'd build forts, hunt, fish, ride dirtbikes out there. Now every square inch within 10 miles is developed. Progress I suppose.
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Posted on 8/31/23 at 1:33 pm to BabyTac
my parents bought the house my grate-grandfather built in 1921 after he passed away. i was 1-1/2 years old when they bout it in 1975. They renovated it (installing central heat/ & A/C parents kept it until it was sold in 1998.
it popped up on Zillow back in 2012 and it was like a trip down memory lane seeing it after it was renovated and flipped.
love the character of the house (Baton Rouge Garden District on Park Blvd) but would never want to live in it again due to area.
it popped up on Zillow back in 2012 and it was like a trip down memory lane seeing it after it was renovated and flipped.
love the character of the house (Baton Rouge Garden District on Park Blvd) but would never want to live in it again due to area.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 1:36 pm to BabyTac
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Have you ever tried to visit your old house?
I grew up in south Jackson, MS....so hell no.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 1:51 pm to BabyTac
that lot is now the hood, house burned down
Posted on 8/31/23 at 3:26 pm to CSATiger
I still own my grandmother’s house I was born in and grew up in. Been renting it out for about 50 years.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 4:22 pm to BabyTac
I’m 40 and my parents still live in the same house that I grew up in. Driving back there to spend the weekend with them after work tomorrow. I try not to take having them or my old home around for granted. A lot of memories in there, far more good than bad.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 4:35 pm to BabyTac
As a kid - The house in Grays Knob KY burnt down by Moms boyfriend in 1983 and there's a cheap arse trailer onsite now. I know the whole neighborhood anyways.
As a teen - The project apartment is not worth going back to.
As an adult - my first home that I owned is in Bluff Park area of Hoover, AL. We still live in Hoover but a different area. Wife and I visited the old house a couple year ago and it was empty, for sale, and unlocked so we went in. I had a list a mile long of the shite I'd done to that house. Most of it still there but a few things had been changed. My two older kids memories of childhood are at that house. Their hand prints are in the concrete pad I poured. My youngest only lived there 2 year.
As a teen - The project apartment is not worth going back to.
As an adult - my first home that I owned is in Bluff Park area of Hoover, AL. We still live in Hoover but a different area. Wife and I visited the old house a couple year ago and it was empty, for sale, and unlocked so we went in. I had a list a mile long of the shite I'd done to that house. Most of it still there but a few things had been changed. My two older kids memories of childhood are at that house. Their hand prints are in the concrete pad I poured. My youngest only lived there 2 year.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 4:37 pm to BabyTac
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Basic knock on the door, introduction, explanation, and ask if you could look around for old times sake.
Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa style? LOL no but I sometimes drive by when im home
Posted on 8/31/23 at 4:53 pm to BabyTac
I asked them, why did you paint the walls? Why did you clean the floor?
Why did you plaster over the hole
I punched in the door? Why did you pave the lawn? Then I told them I wanted my mousetrap & dish rack.
Why did you plaster over the hole
I punched in the door? Why did you pave the lawn? Then I told them I wanted my mousetrap & dish rack.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 5:01 pm to BabyTac
Posted on 8/31/23 at 5:39 pm to BabyTac
When my kids were little we were driving on 1-20 through Monroe and I got the idea to visit my old house. It’s towards Farmerville on Hwy 15. It was nice. It was just a lady and her daughter, they’d change it a little, but it was basically the same as 17 years earlier. I loved that house. Big house, pond, woods, and 172 acres was an awesome way to grow up.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 5:52 pm to alajones
We lived in Bull Shoals Arkansas for awhile.My wife had me haul tons of frickin rocks for flowerbed borders and put in flower beds all over the yard.Looked very nice.
We drove by about 5 years later on a trip up there and all the flower beds were gone as were all the rocks.
It was somebody else’s house so they could do what they wanted but it was still kinda aggravating thinking about all the damn work I put in.
I wondered if they cussed us as they hauled off all the rocks.
We drove by about 5 years later on a trip up there and all the flower beds were gone as were all the rocks.
It was somebody else’s house so they could do what they wanted but it was still kinda aggravating thinking about all the damn work I put in.
I wondered if they cussed us as they hauled off all the rocks.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 5:56 pm to udtiger
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Never have gone in. When nearby, I will usually drive by and take a look. There's also Google Street view.
This.
I’ve also looked at pictures of the inside taken when the house was sold a few years back. My grandparents house as well. Check Zillow or the other real estate apps and if the house has been sold in the last several years, there may be pics of the inside.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 6:24 pm to OntarioTiger
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some ppl that grew up there asked to see the house. They were decedent's of original owner/farmer
That's some spooky shite.
Posted on 9/1/23 at 6:16 pm to BabyTac
Last week I went to the house that I grew up in and asked if I could look inside, but the owners said NO and slammed the door in my face. My parents can be so rude to me.
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