Do you ever hsve the urge to live in your home town?

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I’ve not been back for around 18 years…lived there from birth until 23, when I then travelled lots and lived abroad. The last time I went back was before my family moved house to another area of the U.K.
I had my whole childhood, amazing teenage years and early 20’s there. I’d always wanted to travel and live abroad and thought I’d be back one day…I never returned to live. My immediate family don’t live there now or I suppose I would have been more likely to have gone back. I still have a few good friends there, but many are scattered everywhere. I’ve been dreaming about it lots recently and my old house and my old life as it were. I’m mid 40’s, is this normal?
Did you ever move away for a long time, then move back?

I'd move in a heartbeat. But DH would never live there (too 'city', even though it's in the 'burbs) and it's become ridiculously expensive. These days we could never afford to buy even a little tarpaper shack next to the railroad track. My cousin bought our old 'home place' about 30 years ago and it's increased over 400% in value and property values are still going up.

But it's a great place to live. Everything you could ever want, 35 minutes from the beach and 40 minutes from the mountains.

Lord no! It's famous for being ugly and I no longer have any friends or family there.

I moved away from mine when I went to uni but ended up living in a city 20 miles away and then a different town.
I never wanted to live here again but when my relationship broke down, my son and I moved back in with my parents (just before lockdown) and we've ended up needing their support so now we live in our own house here! And it's actually really nice and I can totally see why my parents chose here to raise a family.

No.I go back to visit my one remaining relative there(my sister) and within minutes (well,seconds really!) of setting foot in the town and looking around me I'm reminded of why I needed to leave.I left to go to university in the 1970's and never looked back
DSis has been talking about moving away from there for years and years,but finally in her early 60's it looks like it's really going to happen and I'll never have to travel there ever,ever again.

I don't even have a home town. I do envy people who are now retired and are able to catch up with school friends in town.
But I also quite like having lived in several cities.

Yes! I returned to my home town last August for the first time in 19 years (no family/friends/roots there anymore). Myself, husband and 2 children absolutely loved it.
Although we love where we currently live it doesn't have the same feel as my home town.
However, due to school/jobs etc a move just isn't feasible. We'll definitely be visiting again soon.

I moved back to my home town and live six streets away from where I lived as a kid. Makes me feel grounded.

and it helps it’s a fab place to live and by the sea. I love the sea

will never live anywhere else

Hell no! Couldn’t wait to escape from insular rural town in NZ, 3 hours from the next largest town and 7-8 hours from Auckland or Wellington; hence living about as far away as you can get. You only had social cachet if you played rugby, liked souped up V8 cars or surfed. Girls/women were only allowed groupie status and couldn’t actually do any of these things. Fucking awful place. I left almost 40 years ago and have only been back once in those 40 years. Hasn’t improved at all.

Opposite to my husband who lives 3 miles away from where he grew up and his brother lives in the next street to the family home!

Absolutely not! I lived in a place where there was nothing to do and nowhere to go to. To get anywhere like School or shops or later on to work you had to be driven everywhere or get a bus. I grew up feeling very lonely and isolated. Even School friends were a drive away and everything had to be arranged.
My parents are still there and a couple of not close cousins. I would probably visit them every few months. There is just nothing there for me and I don't think there ever was. It's just a bit of a nowhere place. I doubt after my parents pass that I would have any other reason to go back.
My children on the other hand have had a completely different child hood in a thriving community with lots going on. In contrast now where I live is great and I can't see me moving from where I am now.

I don't but in my early 40s and i started being more nostalgic and wistful of a time and place that doesn't exist anymore. Your hometown is not the same as what is was growing up..

That said, maybe we're inbuilt to go through a mid life crisis to force us to reconnect with our roots and heritage. Reconnect and reminisce a bit with family and friends if it helps. But my life is no longer there, it is where i am now and future will be near where DC are.

No because there's not much there and very unreliable public transport for when dd is older, and I refuse to be her taxi!