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have always lived within 45 miles of where I am now, don't think I'd want to live more than a short drive from the coast.

My wife and I went to Longreach late last year for a visit...I prefer my youthful memories.

People that have lived their entire life in one town are odd to me.

On a hill due north of downtown Cincinnati, there is a transmitting tower for WSTR-TV channel 64. It is the tallest tower around. It dawned on me the other day that I have lived within 5 miles of that tower my entire life. A good part of it was spent within walking distance.

I took a World History class in college and one of the spare facts I remember from it is the average medieval person never ventured more than 5 miles from home. I guess I'm medieval.

I happen to be visiting where I was raised right now. My cousins stay right on their old home place thats been in their family for generations and I stay there.
My other side of the family lived only a mile or so from where I am at now and I drive by it at least a few times while I am here. Not much left of it as over the decades many of the out buildings have been torn down. The house and the main wooden barn is still there but its not the grand old well kept place I remember.

Both families had pretty much self sustaining farms complete with shops , crops ,livestock , orchards and large gardens. Both still have large wood plots and hedgerows where small game could be hunted. Now we deer hunt there. There were no deer around when I was growing up and I never thought I would be back here 45 years later hunting.

It was a bustling prosperous small community back then. A great mix of local businesses of retail, banks, insurance and realestate , agriculture and factories. Now not so much. I think the last dry cleaners closed up about five years ago.
They said once you leave you cant ever really go back home and in many respects that is true.

We were a military family and had new homes frequently. Two places from my youth have changed very little. One is Frostproof, FL and the other is Dover, TN. I have visited both in recent times and departed with a smile. The rest have evolved into train wrecks.

I grew up on the coast. When I was there, it was a very small town and I could walk for miles out of my back yard. There were lots of deer and other small game. Access to the harbor was great and it was an outstanding place to grow up. Great hunting and fishing as well as being able to play in the ocean. It has grown significantly and now mcmansions with little public access to the waterfront. Sad really.

Folks who moved away from where they were raised? Why yes, it is estimated that a third of California's population came from Mexico one way or another...55 electoral votes...gotta love those open borders.

I'd like to move now.

I went back to visit my hometown and this is what I found....... the whole town is gone...

I was raised bouncing around all over the east and south. Couldn't get out of the east fast enough...left for Montana literally within an hour of finishing my last college exam.

I don't go back if I can help it...hated it all then and its gotten twice as crowded since I left.

were was this?.....bob

I'm only 150 miles from 'home' (Boise). None of the family live there any more so I seldom go there. I can't get too far from home because there are state lines. Outside of those, I'd lose a solid red state, constitutional carry, great hunting, a state that's over 60% public land, low population, etc.

I reside on property my family has owned since 1830 and the only place I’m going is 6’ down when time comes! Got my own lake and 1000 yard shooting range! What more could a fellow want??

The small town I grew up just outside of was a dream area for the time period. Rivers and streams everywhere. We had unfettered access to all the bird hunting and deer hunting as well as fishing you could imagine on private property as they let us go everywhere. The lakes and ponds were close enough to ride your bikes to. Then the mass southern migration started and access started to dwindle and by the 90s it was no trespassing signs everywhere and locked gates to mountains we camped and fish from the late 60s on. Now some areas you can buy a yearly key to get in limited to you and your wife or children 17 and under. When I go to eastern Oregon I can take two routes the first goes through the area I grew up or the northern route. I take the northern route because it makes me sick seeing what has happened to the area I cherished so much while driving through.

Paradise, Calif.

I was born and raised in Broward County, FL. Left for good in 1987.


Need I say more...?

Visiting now and always drive by the homes my wife and I grew up in and the homes we raised our kids in. It used to be farmland and lots of open spaces. When I was a kid the nearest neighbor was my grandparents a quarter mile away. Today it's mansions, businesses, traffic, and people everywhere (Northern Utah County, Utah).

If it weren't for seeing family, I'd never come back.

I never look back.

I was born in SoCal and lived there until age 11. My Dad was an oil/gas exec and we traveled to a different country every 2 years. I have lived in Las Vegas for 50 years now and worked on all 7 continents. I only travel in my 4 Runner now and will never return to So Cal. The entire world has changed since my youth and the only places that improved are the ones that got rid of communism. Ironic.


mike r