What do you miss about the town/city/country you grew up in ?

Not a lot, just have happy memories of the nice bits. (It's Hull, which is far closer to the sea, even cycled to Hornsea as a kid) I'm landlocked now: and that is what I miss most

It was cheap to live in but sadly deteoriated now.

Definitely the sea for me. Unfortunately coastal properties are quite a bit more expensive in France.

I live in the seaside town of Blackpool. I have seen so many changes over the years some good and some not so good. A lot of money has been spent on regeneration of the town and this is still ongoing. However, there are many areas that are no go areas. It's sad to see what were once great shopping areas with boarded up shop fronts lying derelict. I live in a quite good part of the town but it's not free of crime (cars being damaged and broken into) on a daily basis.
My parents would be horrified to see how it is now.

I still live in the city where I grew up. What I miss is the sense of immense pride my parents, and my, generation had in it when its name meant something not only in this country but in the wider world. We were a city of innovation and advanced technology on a large scale, but when heavy industry died a death in this country much of what we made went with it. I’m still proud of it, though it’s a shadow of its former self. We are reworking the past here now, to make a future.

I was born in London and now live only 40 miles away. I worked there for 50 years. Now retired I can still be back there in under 30 minutes by train and go as often as I can.

I ascribe to the saying: When a (wo)man is tired of London, (s)he is tired of life.

I hope I will never tire of everything London has to offer in terms of history and culture. Just to walk along its streets always gives me a thrill.

Were I to quit suburbia, I would seriously consider buying a small apartment in London so I could fall out of bed and have all that culture on my doorstep.

Ever since I was 20 I’ve fancied living in an apartment in the Barbican. It’s a Marmite thing but I like the Brutalist architecture.

Nothing tangible, there was little of beauty and certainly wouldn’t want to live in the noise and busyness now, but I do miss the inner felt sense of belonging and the rightness of being there.

I was born here but miss the plethora of small shops and other services in the town centre. I could could really shop all day for shoes in my teenage years.

It is now a hollowed out desert filled with tatty looking pop up/won’t last five minutes type businesses such as nail bars and the like. In other words like every other town centre.🥲

The parks are still fabulous though considering all the cutbacks.

Kate1949

Nothing. I'm still there..

Yes, same here. I still live in the house I grew up in.

I don’t miss anything about Dorking itself where I grew up, not least because it’s so busy now. I regret that I didn’t appreciate the beauty of its surroundings more despite regularly visiting Leith Hill and Box Hill with my parents.

I miss the small village feel. At the time, it could feel claustrophobic and stifling because everybody knew me and my family, but it grew so quickly and became a suburb of the nearby town. I miss the empty roads - fewer cars- and fields

Nothing. I'm still there..

I live about 6 miles from where I was born, a picturesque village.

When I go there, I think of all the people I went to primary school with, the roads where they lived, the shops how they used to be, my old school, now a lovely home….

I haven’t moved far, have I?

I miss being right by the sea. And if I win the lottery my plan is to move back. Luckily I can be there in 30/40 minutes depending on traffic, so I do visit regularly.