Your home town

[shaunbhoy]

So how come you left already without finishing your GNVQ?

Hilarious. Have you considered a career as a stand-up?

[d000hg]

Hilarious. Have you considered a career as a stand-up?

I'm too lazy to do any job where I have to stand up.

[psychocandy]

I was just reading the history of the town I grew up in and it struck me that I have no affinity for the place. It wasn't the best place to be then and certainly isn't now yet people I know appear to have some pride that they live there still.

What about your own home towns? Still live there, get teary eye thinking about the place or would you rather the bulldozers moved in?

Clipy,

Your not welsh then otherwise you'd feel the 'hiraeth' about your home town!!!!

[Troll]

I grew up in the seaside town of Ayr. Pleasant enough place despite the weather, but never had it in my mind to stay there any longer than it took to get a decent education. Always wanted to travel and see the world. Would have found it suffocating to stay.
All of my immediate family left after finishing school/Uni, and occasional trips aside, we have no real hankering to return.
Still have some cousins and aunts/uncles living there, but only ever see them at funerals these days.
Even then they just remind me of what an important decision it was I made to move on.
Have 2 sisters, one now living in Kent and the other one in Wiltshire. Personally I am happy in Devon too.
Better climate, and of course it also has the added benefit of annoying the tulip out of racist bigots like Troll.

Ah Ayr.

I de-flowered a Scottish lass on the Heads of Ayr beach
Got into a fight in Rabbies bar for the crime of being English...it must have been the accent.
I must say I agree with your analysis a backward and introverted kind of place,the inhabitants remind me of Benny from Crossroads, a bit slow but well meaning.
Not the kind of place I plan to return to

[VirtualMonkey]

I live in Hull and have done all my life apart from a brief stint at Uni.
No jobs to speak of and at the end of a motorway you'd only use to get there and nowhere else.....usually quite quiet on the drive to and from clients though

I'd probably move given half a chance but my wife is reluctant.
All in all....forgetting the fact I need to drive for 45 mins before I can realistically start travelling north or south for a gig it's not too bad a place. Really HATE the accent though.

[norrahe]

Came from a small village in the middle of nowhere.

It's now a slightly bigger village since many people jumped on the "celtic tiger" bandwagon and build loads of hideous houses destroying a lot of greenbelt land.

It used to be a place where everyone knew everyone, the was little crime and there was a good community feel.

As for moving back there, I don't think so, having spent the latter half of my life elsewhere I have nothing in common where I came from and would feel a right fish out of water.

[Churchill]

I just knew there was some reason I couldn't get out of Neath.

Are there tablets available?

"I bring to you these 15! <crash> 10 Commandments!"

http://youtu.be/4TAtRCJIqnk

[Doggy Styles]

Grew up in South London. Nobody sane would want to live there now.

South east London is much worse than south west. Not that I knew it at the time, because I moved out to the sticks when I was six.

[original PM]

my home town is great

gets a mention in the Doomsday Book and has a quite easily traceable history back to the like 900's

and most people only have 5 toes (on each foot!) also which certainly helps

have lived away - 4 years at uni then another 5 after I got married bit now have settled down back in my home town and I would not change a thing!

[Pondlife]

Spooky timing

Yesterday I went back to the village I lived in as a kid - hadn't visited in over 25 years but they had a big food/drink/craft festival on so I thought I'd show the Mrs where I grew up.

It hadn't changed that much TBH. Restaraunts have changed names but the shops mostly seemed the same.

Glad I didn't go through teenage years there as I would have been bored stiff but it was great as a kid.