I can’t go back to pre 2006 America unfortunately

I have a hometown and I have a home, they are not the same.

My hometown is almost perfectly protected from all the problems of modern living. Its so far in the deep south backwood swamp of Louisiana nobody is willing to live there besides those who were born in it. I went back last year and its literally still lost to time itself. Half dressed children walking around barefoot and muddy around houses that you can tell barely have plumbing, let alone power.

But, that is also its downfall. Its so small and in the middle of nowhere you still need to go to town for most supplies, unless you were a full homestead self-sufficient type. There are a few little gas stations and bait shops, but you'll always have to drive into town a few times a month. And in town you will be harassed, attacked and generally made miserable by niggers at every moment. They work at every store, they are on every sidewalk and in every parking lot. They "claim" areas that the cops just cease to go in because its not worth the hassle.

This isn't a modern woke problem. Its been that way since at least the 60s. The moment "Civil Rights" freed them from higher expectations, they turned the South into the dumping ground it is now. We already had hurricanes and bugs to make our lives miserable, but this is a worse plague than that combined.

Fortunately, I left almost two decades ago and made my home far away from there. A place where I am still shocked by how much better it is without that one single element. Literally, everything is just better because they aren't around and it only fuels my hate more. I don't have to worry about random gunshots, my daughter being outside, or getting shot for ordering from a fast food place.

And its knowing that little places like this still exist, and that even a wretch like me can be made whole in it, that keeps me from giving up on this gay country on its worst days.

I love in the sewers, it takes a bit to get used too and ordering a pizza was tricky at first, but I’ve made it my home.

I have three different places in three different countries that I grew up. all of them have been erased by mass immigration. they are utterly different places now. one was quite remote and I never would have dreamed it would be possible. from my point of view I do have a hometown but it's a place that doesn't exist anymore. I wasn't the type who wanted to stay there forever but I used to think I at least had the option. now they are gone.

My hometown is a transient metropolitan area. It fucking sucks because there's absolutely zero community to speak of here. The older I get the more I want to just give up on everything.

I grew up in a very nice suburb from age 4 to 26 (except one year I lived in a big city 200 miles away, it sucked), and I miss it dearly now. It's been nearly a decade since I left and I miss how familiar everything was. I knew side roads and backstreets I could use to skip traffic and shitty turns. I miss the weather being variable throughout the year instead of 1/4 blazing sun and 3/4 miserable rain and clouds. I miss thunderstorms. I miss snow. I miss being able to watch the sun set behind the mountains, and see the stars; now the terrain is too hilly and the trees too tall, making me feel like I'm trapped within them. I can barely see the stars anymore thanks to all the LED street lights. I don't need a nightlight in my bathroom anymore because the streetlight outside shines into the window so brightly, even with a curtain.

I've hurt myself by finding small flat suburban neighborhoods on google maps and scrolling through them to see what they're like, and it makes me sad that that time of my life is so far gone. WoW was my home-away-from-home for a long time while I moved around a bunch, then FFXIV, but I've long since quit both and have nowhere else to "hang out" online. Everywhere is so gay and stupid. I have a terrible great fear that I will be cursed to wander the country for the rest of my life, never knowing the peace of home again. I'm so desperate to not have to keep trying new places to live that I worry I will stop simply out of exhaustion and land somewhere that will destroy me too much to keep going.

Oklahoma City is where I did most of my growing up. Lived in a suburb area and every year in grade school we had a week to celebrate Oklahoma becoming a territory and reenacted the land run and dressed like it was 1889. We also had to learn a different square dance each year. Frequent Indian leaders came to talk about tribal history. Also those were the days you could leave the house in the morning and not come back til streetlights came on

i had hometown blues for a place i didnt grow up in. I may live there one day

I just can't believe how fast jeets can destroy the fabric of your town.

They've pushed out all White entry-level employment, destroyed the housing market, taken over the trucking industry, filled every transit and every bus stop, etc.

They've ruined a blue collar town in 3 years flat. All so that "line go up" to paper over the fact that the economy was already in shambles before the tariffs.

I grew up in a typical suburb, decently nice in my opinion but not particularly high class or anything. I live there now, but will probably buy a house relatively close by (within 50 miles) sometime over the next year or two. I love my hometown; I've always been one to get super nostalgic and get lost in my memories of the past. Not sure if it's just how I am, or if it's because the present, in many respects, sucks profusely compared to the past.

Regardless, as a result I have a very soft spot for my hometown and always will. It's remained fairly consistent my entire life so far and I hope it can remain this way for a long time.

I'm a firm believer that one of the many many problems with our current society is how everyone is at the mercy of where the best jobs are, causing families to be scattered across the country. I'm fortunate to have a lot of my older extended family in the area, but I've watched as many of my grandparents' other grandchildren move away. I don't blame them, I could even see myself doing it in an alternate reality, but I think the best course of action, barring an absolutely amazing and fulfilling opportunity elsewhere, is to stay in this general area and make my own family here. I won't leave my home simply so I can feed a bit more effectively at the corporate trough.

All that to say I love my hometown, the only issue is most of the lots aren't large enough for what I want. I would like an acre or so at least to have a good garden and orchard to try and build up some degree of self sufficiency so I'm not dependent on clown world. So while I will likely leave it, I will probably end up somewhere still close by in the end.

Kansas for me.

I do still like mine, yes. It is big enough to have things to do, places to go, and options for shopping needs. But still small enough to have a tightknit community, low crime, and people looking out for and taking care of each other. Apparently around 50k people is the magic number in that regard.

I grew up in a small northeastern US city (mid-5 figure population) that’s equidistant from two major cities. My city was the industrial engine of a county that is otherwise a quaint, scenic playground for assholes from the two nearby major cities who want to larp as Hemingway while they “summer”. As a result, my city was a weird mix of white trash dirtbags, working-class Catholics, and asshole trust fund hippies (children of bigwigs at the major company located in my city, other people who leaned into the hippy dippy rural charm of the surrounding area).

Well, as is always the case, the big anchor industry in my city gutted operations there in favor of North Carolina or Mexico or some shit, but not before they dumped enough toxic carcinogenic waste into the ground that the EPA got involved (and promptly did nothing). The drug dealers rolled in (presumably to cater to the trust fund hippies and the big city asshole tourists), everybody worth a shit rolled out, and so the place is now basically a second-world shithole. Huge opioid problems, tons of crime, city is just old people and gang members at this point. Awesome.

The surrounding areas are still full of rich big city assholes.

I don’t live there anymore, but my elderly parents do. After they’re gone, I hope the fuckin place burns down to the ground.

Same home and town I've lived all my life. Looked after 2 parents over the course of 15ish years. I've watched the town of about 10k go from a respectable though a bit rough place to what it is today.

Instead of a florest a butcher and a fishmonger with one little supermarket. We now have 7 nail salons, three Turkish barbers and two "American" candy and vape shops.

So yes, I have a hometown. It's become a fucking shithole.

My hometown used to be predominantly white. There were a pretty average amount of blacks and Hispanics here, but not an absolute ton. Over time, that number grew and grew until the whites were outnumbered.

The apartment building I lived in for nearly 20 years went from being largely a bunch of old white people, to me and two other families being the only white people in the entire complex (to my knowledge), and it was a big complex with multiple buildings. It went from a quiet place where nothing ever happened back when I moved in, in the early 2000s, to being a place where cops were called every other night due to some kind of disturbance. A place where people were getting their cars broken into, tires stolen, catalytic converters stolen, at least once or twice a week.

Loud parties every night, people blasting loud music (always rap or raggaeton shit) from their cars at 3 AM, trash everywhere all the time, constant vandalism of the property, pool always being closed because people either smashed the pool furniture or shit in the pool or broke glass bottles in the pool, etc.

And then you'd have the shitty Cuban neighbors who had the gall to say to me "Joo need to lern espanish!".

Fuck you. And fuck the niggers too.

I moved out last year and where I live now is a hell of a lot nicer. It's still in the same hometown but in a slightly better neighborhood.

I occasionally visit but one of my best friends grandmother telling me I should move and not get bogged down there was probably the best advice I've gotten in my life.

I think so, but I'm not sure I'll get to go there again. I have obligations to a fiancee whose line of work is tied up geographically.