I just want to bin off work today and take off in the car

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Feeling very nostalgic and just want to drive to my old houses where I grew up and places I use to play as a child, and reminisce. The dull grey days make for a very bleak and thought provoking time for me. I look at my home town and how much has changed. Gone are the 'good old days', the easier times where everyone came together. I remember how things used to be in the town. So many memories of good times now gone forever. The town has changed for the worse over the years. Feeling so bleak today. I fantasise about stepping out of my house and it's 1980 again.

I have lived here all my life (53 years).

Hi, OP. I didn't want to read and run. I sort of get what you mean. It's a kind of sad and wistful feeling. I moved away from my home town a long time ago, but still had a base there as my parents lived there. But then they moved away from there, too. Sometimes I trawl through Rightmove properties for sale in the town, just to see the old street names I remember. But you're right, it has really changed there anyway...