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I thought about putting this in the Philosophy forum, but it seems they just talk about Religion. So I'm putting it here.
What do you think of the saying, "You can't go home again"?
How true do you think it is?
The reason I ask is because we are selling our house in North Carolina moving back to Pennsylvania. Native NCans keep telling us that we can't go home again, and that we should just stay here. I love Pennsylvania, and I have never adjusted to North Carolina. It's always felt like I was in an airport and my flight kept getting canceled. Now when people tell me this, it has me worried somewhat.
Have you ever been able to "go home again"?
Why would you want to stay somewhere you're unhappy? If anything, you'll love and appreciate home even more now that it's been absent from your lives for so long.
I think that saying (which I've never heard of) must apply to people who do not/never did like their home.
I think the thought behind that saying is that you can't go back to the home of your childhood. Whilst you live in a place, you don't notice the changes that happen to it as the years go by, but if you away, when you come back, it's not the place you left. At least that's what I've always thought.
If you aren't moving back to the same town or area of the state, I don't see a problem. I'm sure there will be differences state wide, but hopefully they won't bother you too much.
Saw your post....just interested in knowing what you thought about NC.....Native here of NC...who surprisingly does not like NC...(Trying to relocate by the way)...I always like to find out what lured transplants to NC and why?
I haven't moved back to my roots yet but that will definitely happen within a few years. It will be different. In some ways better, others not so good. It will be interesting.
I thought about putting this in the Philosophy forum, but it seems they just talk about Religion. So I'm putting it here.
What do you think of the saying, "You can't go home again"?
How true do you think it is?
The reason I ask is because we are selling our house in North Carolina moving back to Pennsylvania. Native NCans keep telling us that we can't go home again, and that we should just stay here. I love Pennsylvania, and I have never adjusted to North Carolina. It's always felt like I was in an airport and my flight kept getting canceled. Now when people tell me this, it has me worried somewhat.
Have you ever been able to "go home again"?
Now this sounds very philosophical, but sometimes going home means moving somewhere else. This is true for many Marylanders, especially near the DC area which has seen a lot of growth and the influx of outsiders from up north and other countries (including many illegal immigrants.) The same is true of places in central Maryland close to Baltimore also. Here many small towns and rural communities have become suburban and urban as development enroached on farmland and rural areas. Country stores have become Starbucks, the the old honky tonk bar has become some fancy yuppie wine bar. A lot of the transplants also look down on the natives.
During my travels, I've encoutnered quite a few people from the Baltimore and DC suburbs who've moved to the Maryland Eastern Shore, southern Virginia, or North Carolina. A lot of these folks have seen the changes happen in their hometowns in central Maryland. I've often been told that many parts of rural NC or the Eastern Shore today is more like the Baltimore County they grew up in, than Baltimore County today is, for example.
I thought about putting this in the Philosophy forum, but it seems they just talk about Religion. So I'm putting it here.
What do you think of the saying, "You can't go home again"?
How true do you think it is?
The reason I ask is because we are selling our house in North Carolina moving back to Pennsylvania. Native NCans keep telling us that we can't go home again, and that we should just stay here. I love Pennsylvania, and I have never adjusted to North Carolina. It's always felt like I was in an airport and my flight kept getting canceled. Now when people tell me this, it has me worried somewhat.
Have you ever been able to "go home again"?
Read my other post I think honestly it depends on how much your old town in Pennsyulvania has changed. If you come from a rural town its probably not changed much. If your town was close to a big city, it could have become more yuppie, or more ghetto, or have more illegal immigrants now. In addition to what I posted here also, look at places like Los Angeles and Miami, if you were an American person who grew up there. Today you go to these places, nobody there is American anymore and nobody even speaks or understands your language (I been to many places in LA that feels like Mexico where all the businesses are in Spanish, all the billboards are in Spanish and the buildings all look like they are in Mexico), so of course its not really home anymore.
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I think honestly it depends on how much your old town in Pennsyulvania has changed. If you come from a rural town its probably not changed much. If your town was close to a big city, it could have become more yuppie, or more ghetto, or have more illegal immigrants now. In addition to what I posted here also, look at places like Los Angeles and Miami, if you were an American person who grew up there. Today you go to these places, nobody there is American anymore and nobody even speaks or understands your language (I been to many places in LA that feels like Mexico where all the businesses are in Spanish, all the billboards are in Spanish and the buildings all look like they are in Mexico), so of course its not really home anymore.
