The last time you visited your childhood home/neighborhood?

[Jilly_in_VA]

36. 2001

It was the last HS reunion I went to. My late ex and I went to my old neighborhood. We were photographing the house I lived in age 7-21. The man who lived there came out and asked us why we were taking pictures. I explained that I had grown up in that house, and he said, "Oh, how interesting. Would you like to come in and see it now?" We said sure, and he led us on a tour. It still looked very much as it had except for a few things upstairs. All the beautiful built-ins that my dad had put in my room had been ripped out, and the big front bedroom that my brothers shared had been divided into two. I was able to tell him that that was not, in fact, a load-bearing wall, since they were considering ripping it out, and I told him several stories about the house that he quite enjoyed, including when the kitchen cabinets and the downstairs loo were put in, and a couple of funny stories. I haven't been back since. My home town has changed too much and there's nothing and no one there for me any more.