To have moved from your hometown? Mixed emotions? Unhappy?

I get emails, IMs and phone calls from friends and family back home and MAN are we glad to not be there anymore! :whew
Talk about DRAMA!!! :drama :dramaqueen

I am glad to also have my kids experience different places. I pretty much only got to experience Philly and the Philly burbs. Conor's dad traveled and moved them a lot when he was really little, but than they stayed put in my old 'hood since 86.

I think it'll be nice to settle down later on when we are ready to, but until then we'll move as much as the Navy lets us! :lol

I am sad, and I am excited to go back, but we are enjoying the sun and sand all that the area has to offer. And like you said, it will be fun to tell Riley he was born in CA and for him to see different places also... So I am happy to be here, but I will be happier when we are back home! :D

I AM SO READY TO LEAVE SAN DIEGO!!!! I wasn't raised here, I was raised in Orange County but I can't wait ot get as far as possible from my family and friends from up there!!!!!! Friend drama family drama...I'll be much much much happier anywhere but here....

There once was a song and the words were, "I'm headed anywhere but here." Yeah that is so my song. I love my san diego friends...well some of them...there are others that are drama filled too that I wouldnt' miss...but I can't wait to flee from here...


Sorry can you tell I"m a bit...um nutty?

Moving away from where my family was, was the best thing I could of ever done. My family causes so much drama in their lives and tries to involve everyone around them.

By me moving it gave me independance and a sense of who I really am and what I want.

I do not regret moving in the least.

Anytime I ever miss home I get over it after a 1 day visit. I love being truly on our own.

I am sad, and I am excited to go back, but we are enjoying the sun and sand all that the area has to offer. And like you said, it will be fun to tell Riley he was born in CA and for him to see different places also... So I am happy to be here, but I will be happier when we are back home! :D

I love the sun and sand too! I tell everyone this is just a very expensive 3 1/2 year vacation! :lmao If I keep that mindset, I don't get so upset about the Cost of living here. ;)

I know I will miss this house because it was my grandma's but at least I'm not leaving CA just moving 3 hours from where I am now.

I will be skipping all the way out of San Diego. I hate this place. It's not what it used to be when I was little. It's over run with too many money hungry ass snobby over crowding idiots for my liking. I want the old days again. :sadeyes

I am very excited that I will be living with DF, but I a little sad to leave my town. Mostly because I just moved back last summer to spend more time with my little sister.... I will miss her. And I kindof want to be here for her growing up.... Otherwise, I'm about ready to leave

I'm really glad that my DH and I are living on our own but I really dont want to be in Texas. I miss my family back home but I dont miss being home where my lil sister can bring her asshole bf over all the time. If it wasnt for that I would stay over night at my moms house more often when we visit. Although Hawaii is expensive I wish we could move back over there specially if it will take us away from Texas. :lol

I've been away for over 5 years, I really miss my family.

I love the sun and sand too! I tell everyone this is just a very expensive 3 1/2 year vacation! :lmao If I keep that mindset, I don't get so upset about the Cost of living here. ;)

Thats a good mindset! A vacation that is putting us in debt! :lmao

Thats a good mindset! A vacation that is putting us in debt! :lmao

:lmao
Oh, these are the times of our lives we'll look back on and see how lucky we were! :D

I am pretty close to home again now, so I am very happy! When we were away from my home it was sad for me.

I don't miss where I grew up. I'm happier in CA. If I had my way I would never move back, dh feels the same way.

I've been away from my hometown for about 18 years. I've been back to visit occassionally, but my immediate family has since moved away too, so now I visit their new hometown.
If I had stayed, I wouldn't have experienced all the things I have with the military. I wouldn't have the knowledge for the job I have. I don't think I would be happy. There's really not much there for me. I am very happy where I live now...

I am glad, but a little sad at the same time. It's all good though ;)

I love traveling and living in different places but I'm glad we're settled down now. Hopefully we won't be moving for at least the next 5 years. We live 20 minutes from my hometown where most of my family resides :thumbsup

i dont have a hometown. never lived anywhere long enough to. i consider New Orleans home, only cause that is where my parents retired too.

I hate it!! I miss the hell out of my family that I was so close to. I missed my sister's birth of their babies, and I just miss my parents! And I'm so far away from home now. Whenever we were in Jax it wasn't so bad. We were only 7 hours away!

I have mixed emotions. I love where we live now. We could afford to buy a nice house, we can afford for me to stay home with our son, and it's relatively warm here (I hate cold weather). On the other hand, I miss my mom. She's only 4 hours away (in Maryland), but we used to live down the street from her, I could see her every day if I wanted to. We could never afford to live the way we do in Maryland though, we could never afford it. I had a decent job and we couldn't afford to buy a house there.

I left my "home" (if you can even call it that) at 17 and never looked back. NEVER. Dont miss it, dont ever wanna live there again.

Dont get me wrong, I miss some of my family. I wish my children could grow up closely knowing their cousins.... but its not "home" and it probably never really was. :no

I am glad that I'm thousands of miles away from my soap opera hometown. I don't miss it one bit!

I have mixed emotions about it. I miss the food and people but I'm glad to be somewhere different. I dont want to move back there but closer would be nice.

At first it was really hard to not live there. I lived in the same hometown from birth to the time I married.

Now I don't mind it so much because the one thing I have learned is you can always go home. I have noticed a bit of change in the last few years....but I always know I am home....when I randomly run into someone I have not seen in a LONG time. It is great to reconnect.

I was sad at first cause it was all I knew and everyone I knew was there. But now I am sooo glad to be gone from it. It is nice to go visit our families once in awhile but other than that I have no desire to go back. John wants to go back when he retires but I'm working on him about moving to FL.

Anywhere away from my mother is always a good thing!

I am so thankful to be away from our hometowns. I've got enough drama here to deal with! :hehe

We are just to far from home here. Even though my mom drives us crazy it would be nice to be able to see them more. I would like dd to know here family. She is almost a year old and hasnt met any of them. Kinda makes me sad sometimes.

I'm glad to be out of there and the small townishness of it all. But I when I go back I realize how much I miss living in a rural town rather than the city. I love being totally surrounded by trees. Not be able to see your neighbor's houses. Having farms around, birds singing, not having to lock your car (or heck, even turn it off!) when you dash into the store. I miss a lot of things about it...and even, sometimes, the small town rumor mill.

But I wouldn't want to live there again. Not right now in my life. I like the city, the convenience, the life, the fascinating people, it just..hums...

i have mixed emotions... i'm glad that i moved out of town and have lived in different places. i miss my friends and family though. i don't necessarily want to move back to my hometown after the navy but i'd like to move back to the pacific NW.

DH and I are from the same town. We are both glad we left and have no plans of ever going back except for the occasional visit.

I feel like I have 2 hometowns. I was born in Virginia Beach and went to elementary school there. I moved to Fredericksburg (northern) VA for my middle school years and my first year of high school. My mom didn't like it....Sooo then we moved back to Virginia Beach. That's when I met my dh.

I've been in Virginia pretty much my whole life. Right now, we live about 45 minutes from Virginia Beach and 1 1/2 hours from Fredericksburg.

I like where I live now but wish I was further away! I need to get out of Virginia~I've been here tooooo long!

I'm glad to be away!

I left my hometown on my own at 19. I miss some things, but don't plan on moving back there. I like that my kids have seen more than I have, but I do prefer for them to grow up in one place and bring them to different areas on my own.

It's been along time since I moved from my hometown. I lived in the town I consider my "hometown" since I was in 3rd grade. I moved 3 days after graduation. My parents moved 2 or 3 years later so when I go visit them I don't even go "home" anymore. Last time I was there was 7 years ago I believe and that was for a funeral.

I couldn't get out of that town fast enough, I have no desire to ever go back. It has taken a good 20 years just to become curious as to where and what has gone on with my classmates I went to school with. LOL!!

I have mixed emotions about it. Moving away from home (San Francisco/Oakland) made me grow in ways that I never expected. I thought that I wanted to live and die there...lol... and would have been perfectly happy. Now I realize that I want to travel and see new places. Each place has given me experience and wisdom. I missed home the first time I came to San Diego but it was nice because it was new. After a while...I hated it and just wanted to go home...where everything and everyone was familiar. Then I moved to back home...then to WA. I kid you not...I almost got on a plane for home several times...because I was so unhappy and homesick. Now we are back in San Diego and I am actually pretty happy here...with the warm weather...the beaches...the recreation...etc. Now that I am looking for a job...I am starting to miss home again. I miss my familiar San Francisco...because I know what to expect...I know the area..I know the hot spots and such...I love back home and miss it so much but I am happy that I was able to experience other places. I have a few more places I want to try but I wouldn't mind purchasing a house and moving back to my hometown.

I moved from Wolf Creek to Evensville, 14 miles away, so that doesn't really count. I am moving back to Wolf Creek on Aug. 20th, but I will be goingto CLARKSVILLE, TN next fall. Then, I'll be going to Paducha, Ky. I'm excited like CRAZY.

I have mixed emotions...I live 2 hrs and 45 min from home and could visit whenever...I do like my hometown but could not settle there.. I miss my family but when I move in with db it will be under 2 hrs away so i'll like that much better. I've always dreamed of when I get married and start having children that I want to be close enough to my mother that she can help me through it and be there if I need her still :)

I have mixed emotions about it. I have younger siblings 2,6 & 8 years old. I miss seeing them all the time. Then I'm so so so happy to not live around there cause of dumb family drama that I hear about when I call back home. I did vote mixed emotions.

I miss San Diego very much, but ONLY because of friends & loved ones being there. I don't miss how expensive it is to live there - think I broke my mom's heart last night when I told her we've decided not to ask to come back to California!

I voted other because i'm happy that i got to live in other places, not necessarily that i left my hometown.

I miss home so much, Vegas just doesn't feel like home (after 2 years)

We've been gone from home for so long now. I know it may sound awful, but even when we visit, we can only stay but so long. Our families drive us crazy after awhile.

I still live in my hometown. I moved away for college, but moved back for grad school. I can't wait to leave again!

We live in Oklahoma right now. My kids are soooo much fun but miss out on everythng with their aunt, uncles, cousins, and their mema and papa. Although we would never move back to our home town because of all the family drama, it is still hard to be soooo far away. By this time next year we will be moving hopefully to Omaha Nebraska a little close to all the family but yet still far enough away. After that my hubby wants to go to Japan. I am not soooo sure about that.

how is japan????? My hubby wants to move there at some point.

that is such a cute baby.

I cant for the life of me figure out how to make my posting as cute and as sweet as all of you. Can anyone help?

I was very happy to leave my hometown...when I was 17 :lol Now I just want to go back :giggle DH and I will be retiring there :)

I cant for the life of me figure out how to make my posting as cute and as sweet as all of you. Can anyone help?


What do you mean?? :giggle

I havent left yet. BUt I CANT WAIT TO GET OUT OF HERE!

We are stationed here on Bangor- I grew up about 30 minutes away in Mason County- We call it the "black hole" around here. When you are young, you cant wait to get out- but when you get older, it sucks you back in like a black hole....lol. yeah I cant wait to leave.

It has been so long since I left home that it like a vacation when I go home now. Do I miss it, yes, am I glad I left, YES!

I have mixed emotions about being here in Hawaii. I'm saddened that I've experienced 4 family medical emergencies while being on island, including my Dad's diagnosis of lung cancer and my maternal grandmother's death. But Bryan and I were able to make it home in time for my grandmother's funeral. And I did see her the month prior to her passing. We're very forturnate that my parents are able to afford to fly us to San Diego, when needed.

It also sucks that my in-laws can't afford to fly from PA to Hawaii to visit Ethan. Hopefully we'll make it back there for Christmas for them to see him.

I also miss all ther yummy restaurants that Hawaii doesn't have, like Olive Garden!!!!!

I despise my hometown. I'm glad not to be there and I'll never move back. I hate to even go back to visit my family.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to be away from there. Being back SUCKS!

I have mixed emotions about it. I miss my friends and family, but I like new places.. Hugs and Kisses Nikki

going home is always good, but, i like where i'm at

yay no more bama!!

I love my hometown, but I'm glad that DH and I have a chance to start our marriage out without his parents being right there and my parents being right there. That would've definitely been a problem. Having them so far and with the time difference sucks not being able to talk to them as often, but at the same time the distance is good for our marriage so we can build without them meddling!! :D

I am SOOO SOOOO Happy. I HATE Florida with a passion, besides Key West & Jupiter so if I never go back I will be very happy.