School reunion, everyone’s life is just the same

[Schooldinners1]

Was wondering how others found seeing their old classmates and going back to your old town.

The majority of people have stayed living in the same area, not far from their parents and haven’t really ventured anywhere outside of it.

I am wondering how it’ll go. I’m one of the few people who went to uni in a totally new city hundreds of miles away and never moved back!

It will be interesting. It’s going to be at the community hall I had my primary school discos in 😄

My god you're really not a nice person are you OP!

Were you this insufferable and superior at school ?

Beggars me why you even got an invite if so

I didn’t enjoy mine. Most of my best school friends weren’t there and it was in a place with a loud disco which made it hard to have a conversation with people I hadn’t seen for 20 years. Aside from that, I couldn’t drink anything because I had to drive back home due to having a new baby and still breastfeeding. Lots of those that were there had kept up friendships with each other. It was a bit weird but under different circumstances I would have enjoyed it more.

I’m one of those people who have stayed living in the same town and never moved away or even gone to university. I have however travelled the world, both personally and professionally, have a fantastic career with great work-life balance, am still close to my family and my old friends and enjoy a larger than average salary. So I would advise less judgement and you may be pleasantly surprised (or even envious)!

There has been no need so far for me to move to London or whichever other exotic clime would have adequately qualified me as not "parochial"

Lol.

Before I read your replies I just thought you were being a bit snobby. But I get it, your the one that got out and you want to also see what you left behind.
You are correct a huge percentage immigrant families from south east Asia have flipped the script in one single generation. We moved from deprived row upon row of terraced houses into the ultra affluent neighbourhoods and many now in positions that run the country. My parents moved here into those deprived areas of midlands and east London when they were children, they struggled out to get us to private school. My husband grew up in an area you describe with majority of white kids leading same life as their parents and majority of brown kids going on to higher education but a mix of each ending up in prison. It’s not a comfortable statistic but it’s true for many of these towns.
So don’t forget that you are a child of the determined, the move here was not to live in poverty elsewhere. Your parents also got out of their deprevation, there are many “back home” who also live the same lives as you describe of your school peers. You were born into a more privileged position than your school peers, it’s worth remembering that.

@Dontworkmondays

Overall some sweeping generalisations with only your last sentence holding weight.