This Is My Town
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 9:45 pmDoes anyone else feel like they don’t really have a home town?
I sort of keep in touch with two friends from grade school, one via a blog and the other via the occasional AIM chat every couple months. When I’m actually home, I hang out with one guy who I graduated with, a couple guys that were younger, and a handful of guys that I didn’t even know back then. Aside from my family, there are only a couple of people I feel close to back in the Buffalo area.
It seems like everyone has their crew of friends back home that they grew up with. Is it unusual that I don’t?
Tags: home
January 9th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Brock. I dunno. I have about three total friends from home, all from high school. And everyone else is sort of in that “oh-we-should-really-get-together-sometime” category of people who never actually get together sometime. An interesting topic though…
January 10th, 2007 at 1:23 am
You think that is odd? I live five minutes from the house I grew up in, and I still don’t know anyone here. Everyone I knew when I lived here has moved away in the ten years it has been since I stopped going to school here.
When I was at RIT, I even had to think about the question, "Where are you from." After freshman year I had lived as long in Rochester as I had in Maryland. When my parents moved back to Connecticut, it took over a year before I visited their house for the third time, so I couldn’t really call that "home" anymore. The closest thing I had to a home was a place I referred to as someone else’s house. Never mind not having a hometown, I didn’t even have a home for a couple of years. (posted on LiveJournal)
January 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Not very unusual..
When in Rochester, I feel like Hyderabad (my city in India) is more of the place i belong to..and when in India, I feel like rushing back to Rochester..:|
I suppose its harder to decide between two countries
(posted on LiveJournal)
January 10th, 2007 at 11:04 am
I feel I have a home province in Canada, but home town no. I’ve moved 39 times in my life (I’ll be 39 in April) the friends who I have kept through all the moves have all scattered, so there’s nothing that anchors me to a town. Good topic.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Not unusual man. I left "home" and apparently from what everyone tells me was friends with everyone. Went to college with my good friends from home except 1, now of those 4 I actually hung out with then I really only associate with 1… So I go home and have more fun with my family then to go looking for supposed friends. Mi familia is the only thing that sort of bonds me to that area… Im at home wherever I am, its where you hang your hat… (posted on LiveJournal)
January 10th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
I guess I need to get a hat (posted on LiveJournal)
January 10th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I see yours as one of those big Dr Suess kinda deals (posted on LiveJournal)
January 10th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Please, I leave home as early as I can from breaks because I don’t have any friends at home. Granted I went to boarding school. But I just feel more accepted in Rochester or DC or … wherever friends are.
January 18th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I tried keeping some friends from home and randomly got to see one or two here and there. Often though when I’ve tried to get together with people, they either don’t care anymore, pretend they care but act like assholes, or would want to but other things take priority.
So I definitely don’t have any close friends at the original home either. It would bother me sometimes, but I’m now okay with however things just work out. If people are assholes, you wouldn’t want to be friends with them anyway. My close friends are from RIT.