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 annual Christmas parade. I've not found one like it. Also house prices and nice surrounding countryside.Otherwise, just a sense of nostalgia and 'being home'.

Beautiful bays, countryside, and sunshine. I hate that I had to leave, and would love love love to move home one day. It's so expensive now though, it breaks my heart.

My childhood home too. There’s no one there that I know any more.

Absolutely nothing. I moved to the otherside of the world for 15 years and when I finally moved back to my home country, to my initial annoyance surprise, l moved back near my hometown. But l would never live in that actual place again.

I'm glad my parents also moved away . I never have to see it afa, and I'm thankful for that.

I've lived in several areas of London, and apart from friends, I don't really miss much. I go back to those areas now, and they just look too busy.

Like someone above, public transport was nice. Where I am now has one bus route, with a bus on the 5th Saturday of every month between 12pm and 1pm with an hour off for lunch.

I'd like to be nearer my parents but nothing other than that. Its not a bad place but I had a bad time at school and took much baggage. I'm hoping my parents will move so I don't need to go back there.

Being near the sea and the culture (music/art/theatre). And the atmosphere of a really old city.

😂😂😂 and I thought my town where the one bus that stops at 7.30pm was bad!!

Much cheaper housing - that's it

Every single thing about where I grew up was amazing, unfortunately we've decided as a society that living in central London is a reward for being a good enough exploitative capitalist and everyone else can go f themselves. If they made squatting legal again I'd be back in a heartbeat.

I don't live all that far away from it but it's just a very ordinary village, nothing to really miss about it. Erm there was quite a nice field to play in down the road from my house as a kid? I'd look a bit silly riding my bike around and around there now though.

Being within easy reach of an airport.

Going to the beach and amusements. Realistically, I’d probably end up ODing on heroin like it seems like a lot of my age cohort did. 😳 I’m glad I got out.

Depends what you class as childhood home town as I still live in the same town my parents moved us to when I was 10.

I still love the city I come from but it's so expensive compared to where I live so while we love to visit as much as possible I doubt I would move back there. The areas we could afford would probably not be ones I would feel safe in, or we would have to be outside the city which wouldn't be quite the same.

The town we live in has a lovely little community and I've enjoyed raising my DC here. It's much more affordable to live here than in the city. It has its problems too but pretty much everywhere has that sort of thing. The most important thing is that we feel safe here and have some really good friends and family here as well. We also have good transport links to the nearest city for any shopping we can't get here (although the internet helps there too of course). My youngest DC goes to college through there (it's a fairly short bus ride) and it has two decent unis as well so my brother and I both stayed at home when we left school and went onto uni.

Yes, it cut a swathe through my old school cohort, too.

i stayed in my boring home town to be there for my dad after my mum died. I have since moved away but couldn't have left him.

Around this time of year I sometimes miss Hull Fair. But that's more childhood nostalgia because I know it wouldn't sound or smell like it does in my head. Plus they sell the brandy snap in my parent's local greengrocer and it is packaged in plastic now and isn't as sticky and chewy as it used to be so it didn't hit the spot.

I moved from suburban north Bristol but only to one of the satellite towns. We've got far better schools, transport links and sense of community where I live now.

Nothing, I grew up in Romford!

I could afford a beautiful detached period property, but even that wouldn't be enough to make me happy there

Close proximity to theatres and concert venues, in London, also London Zoo.

Apart from that I don’t miss Hackney at all.

I grew up on a Scottish island. I miss the sea and fresh air and my family but I was very keen to leave and go to the big city at 18.

No idea. How do you define hometown? Bit everyone has lived in the same place for their entire childhood.

Grew up just outside of Newcastle, so living in the countryside but shops on your doorstep too. And only 20 mins to the beach, which is now over an hour for me.

The sea. But nothing else. Could not wait to get away. It is now apparently up and coming and according to the Sunday Times one of the coolest places to live in the country. So you can't even get cheap houses anymore.
Would like to be closer to family but that is it.
I do miss Newcastle where I went to uni and lived for 15 years afterwards, and is the best place in the world.