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(24,494 posts) Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:48 AM Sunday

The last time you visited your childhood home/neighborhood? [View all]

On a cross-country trip with my wife several years ago, we were passing by the town I grew up in and I pulled into the subdivision to show my wife our old family home.

It was still there, but what struck me was how this expansive neighborhood in my mind's eye as a kid was, in reality, so tiny as an adult. Such a stark contrast.

Have you ever gone back to check out the place where you grew up?

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The last time you visited your childhood home/neighborhood? [View all] True Dough Sunday OP

Drove by my family's farm in 2023. My parents sold it in 1970. sinkingfeeling Sunday #1

A couple of weeks ago? I might have posted about it... LuckyCharms Sunday #2

That's right True Dough Sunday #3

One of them has. LuckyCharms Sunday #5

So you look something like this? True Dough Sunday #7

No, the only hair I have is on the tip of my nose... LuckyCharms Sunday #9

So, downstairs, that would be True Dough Sunday #10

Hmmm...I'd say it's more like a "sprout". LuckyCharms Sunday #11

Timely question EverHopeful Sunday #4

I didn't ask to go inside either True Dough Sunday #8

I drive through my childhood neighborhood every Emile Sunday #6

I think George Carlin suggested going through on your knees Marthe48 Sunday #12

got to go in after my mom's funeral in 2000. mopinko Sunday #13

I went in 2014, The house was gone. The neighborhood was so run down. debm55 Sunday #14

mine shd b on the national register, if u ask me. mopinko Sunday #17

Beautiful home. debm55 Sunday #18

it's amazing. it's small, but so well designed. she used to have huuuuge parties there. mopinko Sunday #19

Only via Google earth. mwmisses4289 Sunday #15

About ten years ago for final estate matters. GreenWave Sunday #16

Every place I lived as a kid has gentrified. hunter Sunday #20

My parents still live in my childhood Luciferous Sunday #21

The house? Decades ago. (And it's only about 3 or 4 miles from where I've lived for the last 18 years.) Iggo Sunday #22

Yes. About 12 years ago I was mnhtnbb Sunday #23

My grandparent's house in Los Angeles suffered a similar transformation... hunter Monday #43

My oldest son was born in 1986 at Cedars Sinai in L. A. mnhtnbb Monday #44

It's crazy. My parent's first house was like that, a couple of blocks from the beach. hunter Monday #46

hard to say for a GI brat Skittles Sunday #24

I didn't have one home or neighbohood when I grew up LogDog75 Sunday #25

I've been by a few times since I'm still in the same area. Ocelot II Sunday #26

A couple of months ago, I drove through the complex I lived in from age 10 to 15. MIButterfly Sunday #27

Well, growing up in an Army family we moved a lot. Mom and Dad did have a house in El Paso sdfernando Sunday #28

Haven't been in my childhood home or property since 1974 and it is only 100 yards away. nt doc03 Sunday #29

My mom sold the house in 1985, and passed away in 1988. rsdsharp Sunday #30

My childhood home is a victim of katrina TexLaProgressive Sunday #31

Yes! Americanme Sunday #32

I found a video tour of one of my childhood homes a few years ago. subterranean Sunday #33

1983, I think mike_c Sunday #34

About 35 years ago, before moving to Maryland Wicked Blue Sunday #35

2001 Jilly_in_VA Sunday #36

I've Driven By The House... ProfessorGAC Sunday #37

It's still there, but... LudwigPastorius Sunday #38

Burned and bulldozed to grow more corn and soybeans........iowa IA8IT Monday #39

I moved around too many times nitpicked Monday #40

We moved too many times to say that about a single structure. OldBaldy1701E Monday #41

2007, when my grandfather died. Aristus Monday #42

How many siblings, Aristus? True Dough Monday #48

Older sister, younger brother. Aristus Monday #53

My parents sold the house I first lived in when I was 9. Harker Monday #45

Wonderful interlude, Harker True Dough Monday #47

I hope so, too, TD. Harker Monday #49

January? Kali Monday #50

My childhood home burned down when I was in college. CanonRay Monday #51

Eight years ago Justice Brandeis Monday #52

1998 helped my parents get rid of stuff. Woodwizard Monday #54

Never. There were way too many WhiteTara Monday #55

Yes and the people who bought it Tree Lady Tuesday #56