Would you move back to your home town? A poll.

No chance in hell.

If it was what it was when I lived there, and I could afford it, yes. As it is today, no.

Yes I would. It has too many people now, but is still a great town

I'm not sure how to answer. I live in the same area I grew up in, but a different town. But it is the Bay Area/Silicon Valley in California and everything is close together. We live about 20 miles from where I grew up and 5 miles from where dh grew up. We wanted a bit more land that the .1 acre lots that most of the valley has, so we are on the hillside and have 5 acres. 

There are very few people that I grew up with still in the area. It has just gotten so expensive and most have had to move elsewhere. 

That said we love where we live and even though we talk about moving somewhere less expensive we can't come up with anywhere that we would want to live more that where we are. Also it helps that both of our parents are still in the houses that we grew up in. So with 4 kids we can't imagine moving away from both sets of grandparents. 

I’d love to but there are personal reasons that ensure I never will sadly.

It is a beautiful place, but an awful place to grow up.  I would never live there.  NEVER!

I might, I grew up in a small town in southern Ontario. It is becoming a bedroom community to Toronto so I probably couldn't afford it.

Being a military brat, no "hometown" so to speak.

I move to Alaska at 14 left at 18 to Central NY moved back at almost 20 on my own to live with my now husband. Been in Ak ever since. Been in this house since 1994.

I would move back because it’s a great area but there’s no way I could ever afford to live in the Bay Area on a teachers salary. And the traffic is horrid.

I actually did move to my home town for a little bit. My parents divorced when I was 25. Mom moved out and dad was left with the house. He wasn't quite ready to part with it and neither was I. So I bought it from him. I raised my children there for 8 years until we lost the house in the recession. It was heartbreaking for me.

But I like where I live now. That was a very small town. My neighborhood now is urban. We have everything we need here. My kids have more opportunity. My city isn't super big. And I like that.

I've always lived in the Midwest. But I've lived everywhere from a small farm town to a medium sized city to Chicago and Indianapolis. And I still prefer Lansing.

Nope. I grew up in the woods (it's nice and quiet, but that's the only positive). There's nothing there. I love where we live now. It feels like country and it's mostly quiet, but we're 5 minutes from just about everything.

Is there a yes option?

I would.  Living in Colorado is so dang expensive.  Moving back IF I had a job that paid the same or more.  My husband would in a heartbeat.  

BUT on the other hand my two oldest kids live here and really we would stay put.  There could be grandkids in the future and I don't want to be away from that if I didn't have to.  

So yes and no. lol

And meaning my hometown.. I moved over 30 times.. I consider where I graduated from high school and where my best friend lives as my hometown.. It's Kansas City.. so I would still be in the city with everything available.

We actually did after DH retired from the military. We even bought a house a mile from my grandma. But jobs took us away again and I'm so glad. I just didn't fit in there any longer and it's so depressing to visit now. Other than it being a bastion of Republican ideology, it's not a bad little town. It's just too far from anything like airports and cultural sites.