Bathing In The Same River Twice

I don't mind visiting but to move back is out of the question. I've been spoiled by larger cities.

Originally Posted by Hombre Secreto

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**** no! I wouldn't want to raise a family there. I wouldn't mind moving back as a bachelor though.
Opposite. I wouldn't really want to live there now, but I could totally raise a family there. Of course, I am from the first ring around minneapolis...actually closer to downtown than I currently am to downtown chicago (and I live well within the city limits). I could live in mpls itself but there isn't really much of my kind of work there (we sure don't have an office there although some of our competitors might). Of course I just saw photos from a wedding of a girl I didn't really know in HS...followed the photos to many former classmates' profiles and was very sad. Seemed like the dumb ones all look worse and aren't doing anything super interesting with their lives (though they still appear to be having fun...just not going anywhere). Then I looked up some of the smarter kids who were not at the wedding and they generally seem to look the same or better and many of them seem to have done some pretty interesting **** in their first year out of college. Edit: Looked up a smart girl who mostly hung out with dumber peeps. She appears to be a nurse/going to be a nurse, is *still* super hot...but is getting married this weekend!!

Not only could I not move home to the little town I'm from, I could not move back to the first city I moved out of the house to. Hell, I'm not even sure I could move back to the same country.

oooh bonus found a formerly dumb hot girl who got hotter! Works at a pool and spa store/cleaning & maintenance service... Surrounded by textbook dbags in all photos. Of course looking at these photos of people going out reminds me how hot the girls in the twin cities can be (Metro need not apply)....maybe I need to take a trip home b ut stay in a hotel downtown and not visit my parents

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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Not only could I not move home to the little town I'm from, I could not move back to the first city I moved out of the house to. Hell, I'm not even sure I could move back to the same country.

No more Canada?

I've been in my home state for ages. Time to get the **** out of Dodge.

Originally Posted by tomgirl

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No more Canada?

Not beyond the realm of possibilities, but I don't see it. The wine selection is dauntingly bad.

Doubtful. First, my folks moved several times when I was growing up, so my roots to a "hometown" are not particularly deep.

The town my parents now live in (where I graduated high school) is a smallish, rural town with a few large companies there and is therefore more or less a "company town." When I go back to visit I sometimes think that it might be nice to go back, get a job with one of those companies and live a simpler life.

But then I think about all the things I love about the bigger city and I realize that it would be fun for 15 minutes and then I'd be trapped there.

No thanks.

No. Too small, too uninteresting, too poorly-planned.

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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Not beyond the realm of possibilities, but I don't see it. The wine selection is dauntingly bad.
Is that so? I never really drank wine in Canada so I have no first-hand experience, though I never heard the afficionados I knew complaining about selection.

Well, I didn't go far at all, but I would never go back, not even if you paid me. I wouldn't want my kids to grow up in a place like where I was raised.

Originally Posted by Rambo

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I've been in my home state for ages. Time to get the **** out of Dodge.

39 years and counting, but I see no need to leave the ol' Lone Star State. My hometown, btw, is only 200 miles down the road, I visit often enough and could totally live there.

I've already done it, and I'll probably be here for at least a little while longer. At this stage in my life, I wouldn't at all mind moving to another city, but I now have so many roots in this general area of the country that I'd want to stay in the same region.

even growing up in my old neighborhood I never felt I belonged there. no, never.

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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For those of you that have moved away from your childhood home, can you ever seen yourself returning to live? Why/why not?

Yes. I was born as I've said before I grew up in West Texas and fell in love. It is a place so ugly God had to create West Texans, a people so dumb to know any better, to live there. I've really identified with the land and the people. Some people who capture the type of people out their are Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson, GWB and Laura, and Clayton Williams. For anyone that has read any Cormac McCarthy or seen Cohen Borthers movies you can ID these elements in their work. I know I couldn't live their now, I have no desire to work the oil fields. I would like to retire there, or in New Mexico on a secluded section or two.

Originally Posted by holymadness

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No. Too small, too uninteresting, too poorly-planned.


Is that so? I never really drank wine in Canada so I have no first-hand experience, though I never heard the afficionados I knew complaining about selection.

Hear it constantly on some of the wine boards I read.