How has your home town changed?

It used to be a field by the sea with a rocky shore. now it has an artificial beach and has been turned in to a kind of giant tourist trap, with streets that are basically hote, hotel, bar, hotel, bar bar, suveneir shop, hotel, bar bar bar, arcade.

my town now days (cant find any old pics)

A dramatic increase in crime and poverty.

Nah, still as dull as dishwater. Well rid of the place, have been for years.

Barely… They added a bus stop, and a new cafe. Since I was little, That’s it. Though I grew up in town where you have to drive to the next town, if you know what I mean. Now That town has changed alot. Whatever. At least I travel and my hometown is in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Yay!

Well things haven’t changed much at all. Still a quiet place with not much happening

Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard are still there. So is Route 66.
Outside of that a lot has changed in Beverly Hills.

I grew up in a small town with a major univesity very close by and about 5 years ago, it was one of the top 100 towns in America to retire. When that information hits many magazines, etc., the town had a facelift for the worse. Many high rise apartments, businesses, etc. started popping up everywhere. Today, it’s not the same place. Too much progress for the locals. Now, traffic is a real problem in town. Progress is not always a good thing.

I grew up in Las Vegas. When I left in 1987, the city population was around 200,000 (metropolitan area 500,000), and many of the older casinos were being torn down and replaced with all the mega casinos that are there now. The population for the city is now 500,000, the metro area close to 2,000,000.

You can say quite a bit has changed. I’m happy I don’t live there now. That’s too many people for me.

Quite a bit. It was a sleepy recessionary town in the 70s and through the early 80s. There were tons of empty buildings and one house that had partially burned down and never been replaced. In 1986 Expo came to town. They put in a mass transit system that connected three municipalities and later went on to connect four and five. We moved a year later.

The population is now about 50% visible minorities and property is $$$. The population of 216,000 is all crammed into 38 sq.mi. There are high rises everywhere and it is hard to see the town I grew up in.

The city I grew up in was a crowded crime central when I left. Now the population is nearly half but crime, poverty and corruption still abound.

There are more marinas than ever.

There are new stores and restaurants on main street. The chain stores have moved in. New coffee shops (not Starbucks, so far as I have seen). The old general store down the bottom of the hill has now become a cafe with fancy coffee/performance space/deli.

I haven’t noticed much expansion in the area of new housing. The population, while some 35% larger than it was in 1970 when I was first living there, had risen by some 6,000 by the time I left—to 33,000. It has only 1000 more people now. So I guess most of the housing expansion occurred while I was living there. Kind of interesting. I think they are somewhat anti-growth.

When I had gotten back last summer, I noticed that a lot of the Ma and Pa stores that I grew up with are disappearing, in favor of more chains and designer stores. The beach that I used to spend every day of my vacation at had been hit pretty hard by a storm, and what was once gradual shallows and gentle waves is not a steep drop-off with a powerful rip current.

It’s weird; it feels like I’m watching a jigsaw puzzle fall apart piece by piece, revealing the real world behind it. I am reminded of that quote about watching a train wreck; “It’s terrifying, but you can’t look away.”

My small town now has a lot more crime! People don’t feel real safe there unlike when I grew up everyone felt extremely safe. In fact, being scared was never brought up. A Utopia.

There’s always some new hotel popping up somewhere and it just keeps expanding more and more into the desert. Other than that, it’s pretty much the same.

I moved away from my home town in 1985 but came back Ten years ago after my divorce, Things had changed so much I decided to stay, but I do live in the slightly more affluent part of the town now, well away from the area I grew up as a child….. Drugs are a major problem as well as all the associated crime in the part of town were I used to live but just that mile or two up the road were I am now is a different world…new builds are going up all the time, I find there’s a lot more southerners now in my town, far more than ever there was..Must be the cheap cost of living drawing them in :-/ go figure…

My home town was taken over by a nearby city 35 years ago and has become a suburb. When I was small it had its own identity and local shops such as bakers, fishmongers and butchers. Everyone knew everyone else. The population of 3,000 has probably trebled and the fields where we played as children have long been built over. I don’t think many generations have seen such changes as mine.

My home town is where I still am. It has grown tremendously, from 11,000 to 100,000 in 40 years with about 6 small towns as suburby towns. We’ve recently earned the distinction of one of the more dangerous cities in Canada. We are on the main highway that runs through Alberta and are between two 500,000 cities. Lock your doors! Methamphetamines are big in the old downtown area, and there’s always a grow-op being found.

I have three home towns. I was born in Oakland, which has changed dramatically since the 1940’s, I lived my first few years in my parents hometown which has changed very little in the last half century, and I grew up in Denver, which has gone from a large, capitol city to an international phenomenon.

Gotten happier. Aloha!