Does everyone hate their home town?

osirus2020 · 07-09-2011, 03:34 PM

I've always thought it was funny that everyone from here thinks of my town as a little podunk, drug stricken, drunken, fucked up town that no one can ever seem to leave. I haven't gone too far myself which I'm not exactly thrilled about but all things considered it's pretty nice here.

The thing is I'm pretty sure that's just how everyone, or at least most people, think.

I don't know how to segway this into any kind of legit discussion so have at it how you will.

wellfleation · 07-09-2011, 03:53 PM

My old town was the same way. Where the fuck do you live, anyway.

Lloydy · 07-09-2011, 03:58 PM

Do I fuck, I love Sunderland and it will always be home.

adventure · 07-09-2011, 04:01 PM

the town i grow up in was quite shitty.... but the larger area...The Hudson Valley, NY is amazing. most rural towns suck!

clive · 07-09-2011, 04:06 PM

i have a love/hate relationship with this place, there's no place like home though and you really dont realise this until you have been away for a while

Kishar · 07-09-2011, 04:09 PM

my towns cool btw it's full of redneck shotgun toting alcoholics who have about 5 dui's each.

Mikey · 07-09-2011, 04:18 PM

its a love hate relationship like someone just said

its nice to visit, but thats it, and not even a long visit

its funny too I'm from Pierrefonds Montreal

in french a "pierre" is a rock
and "un" which is "a" "fonds" means "bottom"

so I'm from literally Rock Bottom Montreal !!!!

osirus2020 · 07-09-2011, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wellfleation

My old town was the same way. Where the fuck do you live, anyway.

I live in Ipswich.

Geeno · 07-09-2011, 04:32 PM

I moved out of my hometown. Couldn't sit there and stew in those sentiments. Now I'm wandering looking for a place to set up shop.

Captain Cannabis · 07-09-2011, 04:33 PM

having lived other places really gave me an appreciation for the things that make edmonton unique. sure it has its problems (sub -40 winter temperatures, virtually no summer and too many suburbs, trucks and rednecks), but it really actually is pretty good in the context of the rest of the world.

i also lived in what was rated the city with the highest standard of living in the world (also most expensive), and that was nice but it was missing lots of things that i love/need. if all i had was my friends, i could really live anywhere.

Mikey · 07-09-2011, 06:30 PM

i fucking love living where i live now
small island
small community
warmest climate in Canada
can live through whole winter in a sweater
36 beaches
orca killer wales, seals, otters, platypus's eagles etc...
hitchhiking is the main mode of highly successful public transportation with 'car stops' (just like bus stops you get the idea)

maybe im bias but i love it here

smoky_cOwy · 07-09-2011, 06:39 PM

I live in a pretty clean cut part of brooklyn, nevertheless I'm ready to leave NYC as this place makes you stress no matter how under control you thought you were. When i go "home" to where i lived as a little boy i love it. I miss nature and cool nights in the summer.

The grass is always greener on the other side eh?
We tend to be unhappy with at least one thing in our lives, yet theres someone who would trade spots with you. Just gotta be happy with what life is, cause nothing is good and nothing is bad, things just are.

wellfleation · 07-09-2011, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by osirus2020

I live in Ipswich.

Not even close to the hick town where I grew up, Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass. It's great to visit, but man, winters are tough.

The best fried clams in both regions (better oysters in Wellfleet, of course) . I have a co-worker who lives in Ipswich.

Sir-Ex · 07-09-2011, 07:10 PM

I hate cities in general.

Give me the great outdoors any and every day.

wellfleation · 07-09-2011, 07:28 PM

I love Boston. Lived there for 7 years. I also generally like where I live now. Methuen seems just close enough to Boston as well as other nearby smaller cities, while just being less than a ten minute ride to tax free NH and whatever else NH offers (scratches head).

kitch · 07-09-2011, 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by osirus2020

I live in Ipswich.

at least it's not revere.

srsly fuck revere.

I like where I live tho.

Mikey · 07-10-2011, 08:22 AM

you always want to be where you can't

Cerpin Taxt · 07-10-2011, 09:58 AM

Great place to grow up, yet at the same time, I can't deny what Tim Burton comments on about suburbia:

“I grew up in suburbia and I still don’t understand certain aspects of it. There’s a certain kind of vagueness, a blankness.... Growing up in suburbia was like growing up in a place where there’s no sense of history, no sense of culture, no sense of passion for anything. You never felt people liked music. There was no showing of emotion. It was very strange. ‘Why is that there? What am I sitting on?’ You never felt that there was
any attachment to things. So you were either forced to conform and cut out a large portion of your personality, or to develop a very strong interior life which made you feel separate.”

**SageTree** · 07-11-2011, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Kishar

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**SageTree** · 07-11-2011, 07:12 AM

I moved out of my hometown in 2000 a month or so after graduation.
I moved back in with my Mom in 2002 to attend college,
However after a year of that I moved out of her house and out of my hometown again.

It was too easy to get sucked back into the same patterns that really didn't offer me much after what I feel I learned about myself in the time gone.

It's nice now to go back and see the place, how it's changed, and oddly some-what how it hasn't.

Lots of Friends are still easy to find and just where I remember them. They don't sound particularly happy with the place, yet they stay.

I can see how easy it was to leave, but also understand how easy it is to stay.

Over all I think my life outside of 'town' has helped me REALLY enjoy the time I spend there when I'm back visiting with family.

07-09-2011, 03:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
wellfleation Old School Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Methuen, MASSHOLE Posts: 3,853 Thanks: 195 Thanked 601 Times in 427 Posts	My old town was the same way. Where the fuck do you live, anyway. __________________ FIGHTPOWER

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Lloydy KTF Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 11,976 Thanks: 533 Thanked 2,478 Times in 1,139 Posts	Do I fuck, I love Sunderland and it will always be home. __________________ Keep the red flag flying high

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adventure Adventure its good Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 4,742 Thanks: 1,852 Thanked 1,465 Times in 1,093 Posts	the town i grow up in was quite shitty.... but the larger area...The Hudson Valley, NY is amazing. most rural towns suck! __________________ Coming Full Range

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Kishar loading user title.. Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: subcutaneous layer Posts: 2,236 Thanks: 121 Thanked 223 Times in 156 Posts	my towns cool btw it's full of redneck shotgun toting alcoholics who have about 5 dui's each. __________________ Those Americans who believed that we could live under the illusion of isolationism wanted the American eagle to imitate the tactics of the ostrich. Now, many of those same people, afraid that we may be sticking our necks out, want our national bird to be turned into a turtle. But we prefer to retain the eagle as it is--flying high and striking hard. "FDR" Last edited by SageTree; 07-12-2011 at 11:34 AM. Reason: fix'd

07-09-2011, 04:18 PM	#7 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	its a love hate relationship like someone just said its nice to visit, but thats it, and not even a long visit its funny too I'm from Pierrefonds Montreal in french a "pierre" is a rock and "un" which is "a" "fonds" means "bottom" so I'm from literally Rock Bottom Montreal !!!! __________________ RIP Gov

07-09-2011, 04:33 PM	#10 (permalink)
Captain Cannabis safety word: more Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: m.i.a. Posts: 13,922 Thanks: 2,705 Thanked 3,174 Times in 1,812 Posts	having lived other places really gave me an appreciation for the things that make edmonton unique. sure it has its problems (sub -40 winter temperatures, virtually no summer and too many suburbs, trucks and rednecks), but it really actually is pretty good in the context of the rest of the world. i also lived in what was rated the city with the highest standard of living in the world (also most expensive), and that was nice but it was missing lots of things that i love/need. if all i had was my friends, i could really live anywhere. __________________ fuck the monkeys

07-09-2011, 06:30 PM	#11 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	i fucking love living where i live now small island small community warmest climate in Canada can live through whole winter in a sweater 36 beaches orca killer wales, seals, otters, platypus's eagles etc... hitchhiking is the main mode of highly successful public transportation with 'car stops' (just like bus stops you get the idea) maybe im bias but i love it here __________________ RIP Gov

07-09-2011, 06:39 PM	#12 (permalink)
smoky_cOwy Musician Join Date: May 2002 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 364 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	I live in a pretty clean cut part of brooklyn, nevertheless I'm ready to leave NYC as this place makes you stress no matter how under control you thought you were. When i go "home" to where i lived as a little boy i love it. I miss nature and cool nights in the summer. The grass is always greener on the other side eh? We tend to be unhappy with at least one thing in our lives, yet theres someone who would trade spots with you. Just gotta be happy with what life is, cause nothing is good and nothing is bad, things just are. __________________ That's like, your opinion, man.

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Sir-Ex Learner Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 11,416 Thanks: 1,726 Thanked 3,818 Times in 2,258 Posts	I hate cities in general. Give me the great outdoors any and every day. __________________ Smile Ditch the cigs!!!!!!

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wellfleation Old School Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Methuen, MASSHOLE Posts: 3,853 Thanks: 195 Thanked 601 Times in 427 Posts	I love Boston. Lived there for 7 years. I also generally like where I live now. Methuen seems just close enough to Boston as well as other nearby smaller cities, while just being less than a ten minute ride to tax free NH and whatever else NH offers (scratches head). __________________ FIGHTPOWER

07-10-2011, 08:22 AM	#17 (permalink)
Mikey Seasoned YaHookan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: gulf islands bc Posts: 7,443 Thanks: 1,144 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,475 Posts	you always want to be where you can't __________________ RIP Gov

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Cerpin Taxt Yahookan Zealot Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 7,213 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 843 Thanked 1,919 Times in 1,011 Posts	Great place to grow up, yet at the same time, I can't deny what Tim Burton comments on about suburbia: “I grew up in suburbia and I still don’t understand certain aspects of it. There’s a certain kind of vagueness, a blankness.... Growing up in suburbia was like growing up in a place where there’s no sense of history, no sense of culture, no sense of passion for anything. You never felt people liked music. There was no showing of emotion. It was very strange. ‘Why is that there? What am I sitting on?’ You never felt that there was any attachment to things. So you were either forced to conform and cut out a large portion of your personality, or to develop a very strong interior life which made you feel separate.” __________________ Step Back. Evaluate. Recognize. "All memory is really a form of regurgitation of undigested experience." -Alan Watts

07-11-2011, 07:12 AM	#20 (permalink)
SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,767 Times in 4,664 Posts	I moved out of my hometown in 2000 a month or so after graduation. I moved back in with my Mom in 2002 to attend college, However after a year of that I moved out of her house and out of my hometown again. It was too easy to get sucked back into the same patterns that really didn't offer me much after what I feel I learned about myself in the time gone. It's nice now to go back and see the place, how it's changed, and oddly some-what how it hasn't. Lots of Friends are still easy to find and just where I remember them. They don't sound particularly happy with the place, yet they stay. I can see how easy it was to leave, but also understand how easy it is to stay. Over all I think my life outside of 'town' has helped me REALLY enjoy the time I spend there when I'm back visiting with family. __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

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