i'm grateful that where i live now feels like home, at the cost of not having an opportunity to return to my hometown since all my family and friends moved out. i wasn't a particularly social or nice child and i was an especially anxious teenager so i would say the thing that most comfortably reminds me of my hometown (which i think is what we're asking?) is usually an especially pretty and empty piece of nature surrounding some sort of suburban building. abandoned sheds, high school baseball fields, porches, the woods behind your house. and of course the games of my childhood: kingdom hearts 2, skyrim, mass effect 2.
Oct 23, 2024
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when i lived in a city i had second, third, fourth, fifth places. i used to go a museum every week, actually good coffee shops, a pocket park nearly every day, the river when it was warm, and a local arcade to play pinball and rhythm games once a month. now i can walk to my parents’ house, the woods, and an Arby’s where i get treated like a princess. theres a pretty cool pedestrian downtown mall but it’s a drive away and i spent so much time there in middle and high school it feels like it’s no longer my third place. plus, there’s not much to do there but spend money. it sounds sad but i live a quieter life and know a lot more bird calls and native plants and get to spend a lot more time with family, especially the 102 year old grandpa.
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This might not be possible for everything! But when I moved from a small town to an even smaller town for college instead of going to the big city school I’d wanted to, I was really disappointed and sad for the first few months. But then I realized we had some live music every so often and going out to the bars with friends scratched a similar itch to going to a city club without being overwhelming for me. Of course it’s not quite the same, but it’s something! I’m happier in a city now, but I do find myself missing my college town often. I think it was a blend of appreciating what I could get in that town that‘s harder to find in a city (like my friends being guaranteed to be close to me and not 3 neighborhoods away), and finding what I could that can somewhat compare to city stuff, that made most of my time there enjoyable :)
May 22, 2025
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