WHAT do u miss about your hometown?

[warhawk]

hello fellow chrome domes... as most of u know beautiful pensacola is my home but prior 2 me moving here i grew up in the chicagoland area.  although i luv florida...i do miss living in the chicago area.  i miss the snow, watching my cubbies, & chicago pizza.

so....how 'bout u?  what do u miss about your hometown?  if u r still living in your hometown...then what do u luv about it?  or if u lived in other cities...what do u miss about it?  can't wait 2 hear your stories...

WARHAWK

[Timmay]

i cant find my hometown.....i think once it realized i was born...it went into hiding...................shrugs shoulders...............oh well....their loss...
lol

[Robmeister]

Our house, man.

Lived there from when I was 2 to 12.  Big ol' Spanish house, built in 1930. 

[GASlick]

Can't say that I really have a hometown.  My dad was a Methodist minister, they like to move them around every 4 or 5 years.  Home has always been near my family.  Mostly in South Georgia among the cotton fields.

[Marz]

My family but other than that, not much.

[Rafter]

Any Springsteen fans here?
This thread reminds my of my favorite Springsteen song,
My Hometown
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UIqYn_1IdZU

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown

In '65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your
hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around, this is your hometown

[Tyler]

Any Springsteen fans here?
This thread reminds my of my favorite Springsteen song,
My Hometown
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UIqYn_1IdZU

Yeah, I saw him at Giant's stadium in NJ about 3 or 4 years ago.

Great concert!

As for what I miss about my hometown - being able to drive to the lake and be in the water in about 20 minutes.

[BaldRob]

Considering I grew outside of a town of less than 1500 people... I don't miss much, if anything!

[Nick912]

There was a ski resort in the town I grew up in Michigan. I miss skiing. No skiing in Arkansas!

[schro]

I loved it and cherish the memories growing up in Alameda, CA, but outside of the summer weather and living close to the Oakland Coliseum to watch my A's, Raiders, and Golden State Warriors in person, not a lot. I absolutely love where we now call home (Rocklin, near Sacramento, CA).

[skinhead002]

Small town of 2000 in a rural county.  I miss warm summer afternoons and miles and miles of country roads that seemed to go nowhere and yet went everywhere for a 10 year old  and his buddies on their bicycles...

[SLYinKC]

I grew just outside of Springfield, MO.  Just about 175 miles south of KC.  Even though KC is no LA or NYC, it's a far cry from the smaller town feel of SW MO.  I grew up in a rural area.  We always had some type of farm animals around and it was never that far to drive where ever you had to go.  But now when I go back home, it seems like it's not very long before I'm missing the city (well, at least a little bit).

[PBurke]

my actual hometown is about ten minutes from here and i am there often. don't miss it at all. the town that I consider home (and where i would love to be) is in colorado and i miss everything very much.

[Phil Man]

I used to live in the Philippines until I was eleven and have been in Montreal for sixteen years. I miss the damn place so much that it hurts sometimes.

Also, the extreme difference in temperature and the fact that there's so much snow here compared to ... nothing there makes it a whole different world.

Combine this with the fact that I speak french makes me an extreme oddity whenever I go back home.