Question for you all, do you all have a hometown? Don't dox yourselves, naturally, but... Do you have an area, a place, you call home? A place you feel at peace, that you belong? I am finally there. It has been rough in America, watching places turn to shit, get built up and overrun. Moving multiple times for work, while trying to remain connected to friends and family. Just wanted to hear your stories, however much you are willing to share. I have been curious about us dissident types, how many of us are lost to the wind. I thought I found my home in Boise years ago, but now here I am in Eastern WA content as can be.
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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.