Home Town... Should you have stayed because

[Stormyweatheroutthere]

. If you had stayed in your childhood home town name a thing you would still enjoy from being there now..
I miss Newcastle shops and the Metro train system..

The sea. Feeling safe. Being home.

Whaat!? Stay in Northampton, NO

Genuinely can’t think of anything. It’s a fine place but remote. My parents are there but they’d probably drive me mad if I was living in the same village. I dunno, I guess we’d have no intense days-long visits so a daily pop in might be better.

I moved away from Norfolk at the age of 23. Never really wanted to go back permantly, although was happy visiting family and friends regularly. I am 62 now and yearn for it, and will go back there for good at some point. It is home. The primeval longing is real!

Some of the cheapest housing in the country. Truly beautiful countryside. That's about it.

Being closer to life-long friends.

Honestly? My brother would probably be a drug addict if we hadn't moved away when we did.
There is absolutely nothing I miss. Not even family if I'm honest as only got an aunt and uncle and their adult kids and never been close to them.
Yet if anybody speaks negatively about my home town I'll defend it to the hilt haha.

Stoke-on-Trent.

Can't say I don't miss it but I'm glad I did not stay all those years ago - its currently being bombed to shreds by putin

Public transport. I moved from London to somewhere with one bus every 2 hours.

House prices. That’s it.

Nothing. At all. Don’t understand why anyone lives there.

I have zero yearning to live back where I come from, but it would be nice to be closer to my DPs, who are getting older. I fear that the next few years I'll spend a lot of time driving back and forth. It's actually a beautiful place, but it's not where I want to be.

The sea, long walks on the moors, wild camping (although the latter is currently under threat).

Same miss the North East!

My thoughts exactly. I left in the late 90s and every time I've been back to visit, I've always been happy to leave.

It's not the same - the village is now more a suburb of nearby town without the bus services or any benefits really.

Plus my siblings who did stay in area though in nearby town are lucky to be in HA housing - we couldn't afford to buy and may well struggled to afford rent there.

I do wish I could get back a bit more frequently so kids could know it better - the village is very picturesque with black and white thatched buildings and there quite a bit of historical building in nearby towns.

We'd be more likely to be where DH grew up rural town- house prices are withing possible range - but it's more a commuter belt for nearby cities than when he grew up - Highstreet been dying since he was a teen. Their public transport systems improved with time.

I think we miss being nearer family and childhood friends but location wise we've found countryside but nearer services and we both much prefer living in suburbs of cites than that rural.

Nothing. I don't even visit anymore.

I miss its proximity to the sea. I still have good friends there and go back from time to time. It's a much prettier town than where I live now. I still feel more part of the community there than I fo here. But it's easier to get work here, and it's easier to get to other places from here. And my parents are dead. Countryside round here is slso beautiful. I'm only an hour from the coast.

I left for university then spent the next 28 years outside my home country, before moving back to my home city in 2020. What I’m appreciating is proximity to the sea, good arts scene and lots of festivals (film, theatre, music, literature), reconnecting with people I’d lost touch with, and parents, obviously, relative smallness, immediate proximity to the kind of pubs with mildly odd events and someone sitting at the bar with a chihuahua or a pet ferret. Don’t get me wrong, it’s also a wildly irritating place, but coming home was a good decision.

The house prices, the history and the parks, particularly in the south of the city. But I wouldn’t live there again.

It would be nice to be near to my parents, and it's very easy to drive and park there. The produce is amazing.

(South Island, NZ)

The community I grew up with
My grandma
Cheap houses
Familiarity

But no, I've been all over the place, lived in various places and abroad, and my life is much fuller and joyous than it might have been if I stayed.

Stunning countryside.
I wouldn't go back.

Pebbly beach. I don’t care what anyone says, they are better than sandy beaches.

The seaside and decent fish and chips. We've lived inland for the past 36 years.