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..

I came on to say Hull Fair and American Chip Spice 🤣

So sorry 😔

Honestly? Nothing.

I lived in a very pretty and affluent part of the midlands and had a lovely upbringing, however I live somewhere even more beautiful and affluent now. I am very lucky

I can't think of anything I miss about Leicester. Though it's improved, while Nottingham has declined!

I did move back after a few years elsewhere then in London. It's prime commuter belt but still more affordable than London. Sometimes I wonder if I should have flown further from the nest but only because I question whether I would have grown more as a person. In reality though I believe in the adage 'wherever you go, there you are' and think it's a positive challenge to grow as a person in the context of where you started, iyswim.

From a practical point of view, if I hadn't stayed close I would now miss my wider family (esp. ageing parents) and the overall sense of 'home'. I also like passing old teenage haunts and feeling like a totally different, happier adult than I was in my awkward teenage years.

Only the sea, it’s a rural idyll but it’s backwards and awful transport links.

Nothing I can think of about the place itself really. It's a manicured, well-to-do village near an extremely well-to-do smallish market town in the Home Counties. Pretty. Nice surrounding countryside. Eye-watering house prices. We moved there when I was 11. I just have no real attachment to it at all, and far prefer the places where I've lived since. The one big advantage is its proximity to London.

Mm the countryside is nice and there are some decent pubs around. It's good cycling country - but only for recreational cycling, not that good if you want your bike to be a serious mode of transport.

Too rural, too few amenities for me really. I don't have the same tastes as my parents and I wouldn't want my kids to grow up like I did needing lifts if I wanted to go anywhere at all.

I moved back to my home town, I will never leave. I live 20 minutes walk from a glorious beach and walk along it every day. It is a residential area and doesn't get touristy but we have shops, cinema and theatre. Major seaside resort 15 mins away if I really want to go in the amusement arcades, roller coasters etc (I do not - those days are well behind me).

I enjoy visiting the local small city or London for a short break but love the slower pace of life

I sometimes wish I could go to the Asda and buy custard donuts or Eccles cakes or some other thing you can never find in France where I live now.

Or get the bus into town and just wander around.

Nothing. I don't think anyone in history has ever said 'St Helens looks lovely, let's move there'

Being near both the coast and the countryside.

I've just moved from my hometown (London) to Frome in Somerset. It's only been a month so I'm still in the honeymoon stage. So far I'm missing TfL and the diversity London has. I'm looking for work. I'm a mental health nurse but failed my driving test and this is more problematic in Somerset but in London there were more opportunities for jobs. However I will be retiring soon on my NHS pension so it's not so bad. If I get a job on a ward or a care home (eg one where I work in a set place as I've been in community nursing for years) I'll be ok as my husband is retired and can drop me off/pick me up.

Theatres, cinemas live entertainment, not nearby where I live ( back of beyond then a bit further).
But sadly my childhood home city has huge drug problems and drug related crime and gun and knife violence, no one wants to live with that.

Nope - one of the roughest housing estates in the inner city

now I live in an idyllic village

I don't miss anything from my home town...which ironically is quite popular to move to and is frequently mentioned on MN!

At a push there's a couple of nice parks...but the shopping is rubbish and it's now full of london commuters!

I was raised in Norwich, which was a great town to grow up in, but everyone ambitious left!

I visit rarely but love the cathedral, pubs and walking around the quirky shops in the historic centre. We still visit the theatre royal.

It would be a fabulous place to live, if it was 70 miles closer to London and not surrounded by the North Sea on three sides.