Do you regret leaving your childhood town and think you'd be happier going home and being with childhood friends?

I don’t regret it. It was a small town. I would not have had to many experiences there. Probably end a drunk like half of the population. There is nothing to do there. Watch the grass grow, and drink. I like to go to visit , but not live.

No.I had a good childhood and still do talk to my friends from that time,but I don’t feel the need to move back there :)

I left home right after highschool. I never got to hang out with all of my school friends except for the two times I visited home on leave. But I feel it would a good decision for em to leave. Most of them were just the same of course, and I had matured a bit faster. Most of them I am not compatible with now.

So you guys think it would be like going to strangers rather than old friends? Even if you could buy a house in the old neighborhood?
But only one lady still lives on the street ; my best friend from b4 kindergarten!! Then a male schoolmate around the block. I miss the snowfall SO much.

I left home in a small town for “The Big City” when I was 19 and have never looked back. I do visit my hometown fairly regularly to visit my mother, and I still enjoy revisiting old haunt, but I have no desire to move back. None of my closest friends live there anymore, either.

@Austinlad You’re lucky. If they would not have started emailing me and sending photos I wouldn’t be pining over it now.
My best high school friend lives in a town about 12 miles from the hometown. She married OUR old boyfriend!! I was shocked when I was told this. He dated both of us; I married someone in Texas and he married my best Hs friend! Now She’s writing me.

I left the place that I spent most of my childhood when I was 19 as I started a new job that was quite a bit out of the way. I don’t regret leaving at all. I love where I live now and the friends I have made since living here but, of course, I still keep in touch with friends from my childhood.

I couldn’t wait to leave town and did so the day after high school graduation. Living in 4 large US cities has been exciting and brought about a much larger perspective on the world than it probably would have if I stayed in the small home town.

Some family is still there, so I go back once or twice a year. A couple of years ago, I met up with some of the old gang that never left town. They still hang out at the local bar, the cliques are still pretty much the same, and it was an odd, mixed feeling of comfort and alienation.

I have a much greater appreciation of the town in general though. The local government has done some wonderful things, including encouraging arts and independent businesses that do pretty well. I’d be willing to move back there some day and would know not to expect it to be the same.

Although my family still lives in my hometown, none of my friends do. That is just one reason why I would not want to move back there.

I ran from the small Southern US town as fast as my gay legs would carry me, as far as my gay legs would carry me, and as quickly as my gay legs would carry me. I had good reason. There are people in that town who kill gays for sport.

@hawaii_jake I’m sorry to hear that, but you probably have more class and don’t belong around that group of people to start.

Oh hell no. I wouldn’t go back there even if I was paid to. For one thing it’s too isolated and there’s no work, and it’s essential to have access to a car (and I can’t drive for reasons of being half-blind). For another, there wasn’t anyone there when I was a kid who actually liked me, and I’m sure they would like me even less now. For mostly the same reasons as @hawaii_jake left his hometown.