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I am truly a Tradescantia zebrina , moved so many times ,I don't know where home is.

Left for a time to go to 2nd college, came back afterward. Should've kept right on going.

Saw that the place had been absolutely taken over with vines. You couldn't even see the old house.

Graduated high school from a west central Ks high school. Went to college, then left the state for the past 47 years. My career took wife and I to live in five different states.
II make it back home several times per year, mostly to see family and hunt.
IIt’s sad, when I was there numerous occupied farm houses were present within a five mile radius of our house. Today, almost all of those homes are gone or empty.
II know hardly anyone that lives there except my mom, two brothers and their families.
Time marches on.

the farm I grew up on is now a forest not a house in sight..

Yes, and it has changed immeasurably! Every time I think of the way it was when I grew up, I think about the Joe South song “ Don’t it Make You Want To Go Home”! memtb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AirBbS4R7Z0&feature=share

Grew up in central WV. Started marching in the legions a few months out of HS. Eventually, they marched my ass to AK where I discovered that place down there isn't as free as everyone tries to pretend it is.

Home is now 70 miles S of Fairbanks.






Same here. Passed through on my way to AK in 87. Haven't been back since.

That was a awesome story man.
Laffin my azz off !!!👍

Oh ......
Maine has good WTD hunting.
If you know what the fugg you are doing and the terrian.
In the next 2 or 3 years I will go up from late oct and leave the sunday after T day.


Fugging white welfare state.........
They should change the state emblem to a trailer, bottle of coffee brandy/ liquid leg spreader, bag of dope, and a Birth certificate where the fathers name is "unknown" as the sheild in the background.

Seen enough of the planet and the nation doing unca suga,s grand tour.
The wanderlust was gone long ago.

Oh boy honey...
Look over their
Big Ben and Parliament
Ad nasuem in the traffic circle...



Tn is home.....
And getting on a Jet is never gonna happen again.

It's not all that free down here,.....but you don't need a hammer and chisel to piss out the back door, either.

,..so there's that.

I wouldn't even know my way around where I grew up now.

There probably aren't too many places that resemble 1966 like my hometown, though it's certainly not 100%. I like to swing through every couple years when I'm back East, but I can't take too big a dose of it. A little bit is nice though. My two best friends from school died young, and my sister and parents just moved to Florida so my most recent visit there last year might end up being truly the last.

I live fairly close to where I grew up. Still hunt the farm where I was raised. I left to go to college in 1978. Lived in Arizona and New Mexico for a dozen years. Moved back in 94 and have been content.

"When you're young you want to get away, when you're old you want to go back".

I left C AR in 1997 when I joined the AF. Wife and I are both from the same town, but only I have family still there. I was stationed at LRAFB as a fluke for 6 years. Wife couldn’t wait to leave, and now she wants to return. We are looking at some land to buy to hunt and build a house on in the future. My oldest says he’s staying in AK, but I think he’ll leave after his commitment in the Army Guard is up and he finishes college. The youngest wants to attend college at Coastal Carolina, so who knows where we will end up. The wife starts her doctorates degree this week, so once she finishes it, we’ll be leaving Alaska. She claims I can be done working at that point, but we have to leave AK to afford for me not to work anymore.

I still live where I was raised..... I didn't move away, but it did. Oh, the buildings and things look more or less the same, but the people.... I don't recognize them. Freaks, hipsters, whiggers, groids, White trash (FAR trashier than when I grew up), mudsharks, skinny-jeans-clad soyboys, mexicans... I am a stranger in the land I grew up in.

If I'm ever able, I'm getting away. Some day.

I never left, I now live 7 miles from where I grew up. Never had the urge to move away from my parents, I knew they wouldn't be around forever.

Yes and no. I live in the same neighborhood in which I grew up in. Not in the same conditions by any means. Many of the same great neighbors though, many new ones too. What I miss are the fishing holes and hunting grounds that were nearby.. All vast suburban homes and office parks now.

Some things are worth the little aggravations. On the upside, I can piss a 5ft high yellow piss stalagmite by mid-March....... of course that's assuming colder temperatures start stabilizing below freezing by the end of October. Otherwise I just end up with a big yellow glacier. Folks that only have outhouses get to build pyramids.

I left NorCal in 1995 via job promotion. I visited my parents annually watching my Mother pass, the accelerated decay of the state until my Father died a few years ago.