WHAT do u miss about your hometown?

• WHAT do u miss about your hometown? by warhawk on 04 Jan, 2008 08:16
• 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
• #1 by Timmay on 04 Jan, 2008 08:23
• i cant find my hometown.....i think once it realized i was born...it went into hiding...................shrugs shoulders...............oh well....their loss...
  lol
• #2 by Robmeister on 04 Jan, 2008 08:48
• Our house, man.
  
  Lived there from when I was 2 to 12.  Big ol' Spanish house, built in 1930. 
• #3 by GASlick on 04 Jan, 2008 08:58
• 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.
• #4 by Marz on 04 Jan, 2008 10:18
• My family but other than that, not much.
• #5 by Rafter on 04 Jan, 2008 10:25
• 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
• #6 by Tyler on 04 Jan, 2008 11:09
• Quote from: Rafter on 04 Jan, 2008 10:25

  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.
• #7 by BaldRob on 04 Jan, 2008 12:21
• Considering I grew outside of a town of less than 1500 people... I don't miss much, if anything!
• #8 by Nick912 on 04 Jan, 2008 12:59
• There was a ski resort in the town I grew up in Michigan. I miss skiing. No skiing in Arkansas!
• #9 by schro on 04 Jan, 2008 15:12
• 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).
• #10 by skinhead002 on 04 Jan, 2008 15:47
• 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...
• #11 by SLYinKC on 04 Jan, 2008 18:04
• 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).
• #12 by PBurke on 04 Jan, 2008 20:47
• 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.
• #13 by Phil Man on 04 Jan, 2008 21:27
• 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.