Hating your hometown

As this is random thoughts I thought I'd put in what's been running through my mind the past few days. It seems everyone I've come across in my travels hates their hometown and wants to get far away from it. I used to think it was boredom of familiarity and such but I now believe it something else. Most people grow up in their hometown and spend the beginning of their adult lives there. In this time it seems life teaches us hard lessons and many times this town is the setting of the lessons. It seems to me that quite often we disregard our origins because of the painful memories that come along with them. As we spend more time in these cesspools of degredation our cynicism grows and it gets harder to escape the bitter person it trys to make of you. I don't know,perhaps I'm talking out of my ass,that's just what I think,be interested to hear opinions on the matter though.

 

not that i hate my hometown, just i haven't been anywhere else.


I NEED TO TRAVEL

 

I don't hate my hometown.. Well, I live in the country.. I don't hate my.. uh.. Hamlet.. Village? We have maybe 300 people...

I dont mind the town I go to school in.. It's a bit too. Touristy/Beachy and.. everyone seems to follow the other guy, but they're generally nice people and I try to overlook it.

I'll probably stay in my county for the rest of my life. I like it.

 

i love my hometown, well, what it used to be and what the community was...i hate what its becoming, a yuppiefied place with no sense of community.

 

i don't like my hometown, i don't hate it.. but i certainly don't like it. the people here are assholes, there are very few people in this town that i actually like..
*sighs* i can't wait to get out of here

 

I love my hometown but I don't particularly like it. If that makes any sense. I mean.. it's a really good place to live in the sense that it's quite beautiful, safe, by the sea. But it's so damn boring and everything always stays the same, nothing changes. And there's really no... variety. Everything really is the same. Blahhhh. That's why I wouldn't want to live there ever again, or stay for longer periods of time. It's just too familiar and boring and old to me.. But it's lovely to go visit there sometimes.

 

I have moved 30 times in 54 years. To me now my home is wherever I am standing.
I'm hating my country more then my home town. I'm seriously thinking of leaving The USA soon.

 

I used to hate my hometown for many of the reasons already stated by others, but when I went back after some family members died, it took on a different hue. It is quite pretty there (foothills of the Alleghenies), high rolling hills, and has really nice people. It seems that it took moving away, and living in a lot of different places to really appreciate it. I would definitely consider moving back, but the economy there is so depressed that it would be hard to find work. And, being there now makes me kinda sad...I feel like I missed so much, but I knew I had to go away for awhile, and see the world, so to speak, and find out more about who I really am...

 

i hate my hometown. Somers, NY. why? because it is impossibly boring. the last interesting thing to happen here was in 1804, when the first elephant came to America in this town, and Somers is now called the cradle of the American circus.

even that would be a littlle interesting, except nowadays we get one circus a year, and it sucks

 

if you call my hometown the place my family lives and where I went to high school, than yes i hate my hometown. its full of conservatives. I get dirty looks from all the random old women because I dont wear shoes and my hair is messy. (at least thats all I can come up with as the reasons). Environmentalism is such a small concept here, I dont think most people here have seen a person hug a tree before. I don't like the weather. And .. well really living in the live action version of Napoleon Dynamite is just annoying.
It does have its good things. Some really awesome people are from Idaho but I just dont like it. And its not home. Has never been home.

 

You can come here and hang around my dad. I bet you two would get along well.

Bring Marc too.

 

i strongly dislike my town,
its a small town where everyone knows everyong and in turn...you hear crazy rumors all the time. the people here stab each other in the back and are two faced...and the hillbilly's are the worst of thier kind...nuff said...

 

I love my hometown except for the part that they are clear cutting trees to make way for more money. It was the bad town like four years ago. I remember at one time in my life there was no Target.

 

OK kool! That would be fun! Thanks Moon-btw I love your photos!

 

That's so sad! I lived for many years in New Hampshire and it was like that a lot. You would pass a pretty field or forest and then the next week it would all be gone and they had a strip mall up.

 

Sounds like the outskirts of Woodstock Man. They all have NASCAR numbers on thier cars and everyone has a small bull dozer on the lawn. Makes ya wonder if they are burying bodies?

 

I think it's a sin to hate your hometown. You're supposed to have hometown pride, no matter where it happens to be. Personally, I hope to live within 50 miles of my hometown until I die. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Maysville, GA, btw.

 

i like cities the best,
they dont know me and i dont know them...

 

My town is just boring, I don't hate it but it's just one big oxymoron. Every year we have off school for our little country fair where everyone brings their pumpkins and shows off their newest tractor all the while towing their tractor there with a $100,000 Caddy. It's great, they just built a Walmart and all you see in the parking lot are BMW's and Mercedes and you can't forget the $2 million houses across from that. It's to me just weird.

 

i used to laugh so hard at people in farmington calling it a toilet when most of them hadn't really seen ugly, dirty cities. it's one of the cleanest places i've ever lived, with some awesome health care.