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post #46 of 60
8/26/10 at 3:42pm
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Originally Posted by KPO89 View Post
Nah....to much has changed there. There never was much to start with.
You mean there is no there there?
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post #47 of 60
8/26/10 at 4:10pm
I went from a redneck shit town of 11,000 in southern Indiana to San Juan, Palm Beach and now Central Jersey/NY City, so no, I don't believe will be returning to Southern Indiana.
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post #48 of 60
8/26/10 at 5:24pm
Grew up in Baltimore. In my 20s and would move back in a heartbeat. Such an underrated city -- of my friends I have persuaded to come visit, they have all left impressed.
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post #49 of 60
8/27/10 at 12:49pm
I don't want to move back to Rosedale. It's a good neighborhood for kids but a shitty place for young adults.

My gf wants to move back to her grandparents' place in Oregon... she mentions dreams she has about the place at least once a week. I can't do that shit
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post #50 of 60
8/27/10 at 12:54pm
weird topic..and nah
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post #51 of 60
8/27/10 at 12:59pm
I moved away from my home town 20 years ago but I'd definitely move back. It's beautiful there - I think it has the best beaches in Southern California. A lot of people I knew growing up with have moved back there and most of them are people I'd be happy to have as neighbors. Schools are excellent, the town is small but the culture is pretty cosmopolitan. The biggest barrier is the cost of housing.
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post #52 of 60
8/27/10 at 1:32pm
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Originally Posted by RyJ Maduro View Post
No thanks, Heraclitus.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

-Heraclitus
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post #53 of 60
8/27/10 at 1:34pm
I could walk to my first home in ten minutes.
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post #54 of 60
8/27/10 at 2:20pm
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I moved away from my home town of 20 years ago but I'd definitely move back. It's beautiful there - I think it has the best beaches in Southern California. A lot of people I know grew up with have moved back there and most of them are people I'd be happy to have as neighbors. Schools are excellent, the town is small but the culture is pretty cosmopolitan. The biggest barrier is the cost of housing.

+100. The So Cal beach slums were the best.
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post #55 of 60
8/27/10 at 2:37pm
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+100. The So Cal beach slums were the best.

Those slums are all gone now, even though a few of the old locals remain. When I was a kid in Laguna, I had friends who's parents were firemen, school teachers, hippie artists as well as plenty of rich developers and doctors and lawyers - there was real diversity. Now that coastline is covered in $15M second homes that are shuttered 10 months of the year. The funny thing is that those same teachers and firemen got rich off their houses and are sitting pretty these days.
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post #56 of 60
8/27/10 at 2:40pm
Nope...I couldn't ever go back to my hometown. Where I am now is good for the job and family, but I don't know if I'll spent the rest of my life here.
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post #57 of 60
8/27/10 at 3:40pm
I have actually done this and I am living in my home town now. After living in the bay area for ten years my wife (who is from the same town as I) and I returned here two years ago. I never thought we would live here again, like never ever. Then we had children. Both sets of grandparents still live here and I wanted my children to know them. We originally moved here with the intention of staying for a couple of years while we figured out what we wanted to do next. We may leave, but it's been far better than I thought it would be and I've been able to engage with my children to a degree not possible were I living/working in a large metropolitan area.
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post #58 of 60
8/27/10 at 3:55pm
I'd live where I grew up ... were it not for the climate and the red-state politics.
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post #59 of 60
8/27/10 at 4:10pm
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Those slums are all gone now, even though a few of the old locals remain. When I was a kid in Laguna, I had friends who's parents were firemen, school teachers, hippie artists as well as plenty of rich developers and doctors and lawyers - there was real diversity. Now that coastline is covered in $15M second homes that are shuttered 10 months of the year. The funny thing is that those same teachers and firemen got rich off their houses and are sitting pretty these days.
Too true. I spent my youth between my Mom in PVE and Dad in Manhattan Bch. Sounds ridiculously privileged to say it now, and in many ways it was, but not in ways any of the current transplants would fathom. The So Cal coastline was a totally different place 35 years ago. I still visit from time to time and know full well that home was a place in time. And that place is gone.
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post #60 of 60
8/27/10 at 6:27pm
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The Woods of Ypres sums things up for me perfectly.

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