Ever go back to the house you grew up in?

**Breezin** · 02-04-2011, 01:43 PM

I go back to mine all the time, my sister lives there lol

over the summer the grand-daughter of the old owner of our present home and asked if she could walk around the property -- thankfully she didn't ask to come inside -- she was talking about how much fun it was to play in the woods out back, I imagine she was disappointed when she got back there and they were gone.

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**PopCulture** · 02-04-2011, 01:59 PM

I've always wanted to do this. I drive by, but never go in. It would be too weird.

**dinosmom** · 02-04-2011, 03:19 PM

My Mom still lives in the house I grew up in. :-) I am trying to talk her into selling though. Its a large house on a corner lot in the city and its just waaaay to much for her to handle. She has excellent neighbors who all look out for her though.

One house I would LOVE to go back and see in my Grandparents house. My Grandfather built the house and garage. I have driven by on occasion.

**dv8grl** · 02-04-2011, 04:09 PM

I looked up my old house on zillow and saw that it was up for sale. That house had the smallest kitchen in the world, it was hilarious to see them try to advertise it as a galley kitchen., more like a closet kitchen.

**justme23** · 02-04-2011, 04:27 PM

I have, yep... I've even been inside it. It was empty so no new owners to make feel weird... but it was the house my mother died in, so it was really hard to be there.

**BeanieLuvR** · 02-04-2011, 04:35 PM

I drive by my grandma's house but think it would hurt too much to go in it. She's been gone for almost 16 years. I drive by my parents house too but it was just sold last year. My dad lived in it until he died. I don't think I'll ever be able to go in it either. If family were still living in it it would be different. I just don't think I can stand to see all the changes they have made. I want to just be able to picture it in my mind the way it was.

**buglebe** · 02-04-2011, 05:14 PM

My sister and I just sold ours a few years ago. We drive by it everytime we go to that part of the state.
I drove by with my father to see the house he lived in. We also took mom by the house she grew up in.
My husband's old house has been added on to and is much nicer from the outside than when he lived there.

**DezaRay24** · 02-04-2011, 06:19 PM

I drive by my childhood home since my brother lives in the same neighborhood we grew up in but I don't think I could ever go knock on the door and ask to see it.

**jasmine** · 02-04-2011, 08:14 PM

I remember my home in Tulsa growing up, before my dad brought us out here in the country to live. I loved my neighborhood, we could go out and play, walk around the blocks etc... not a care in the world. Now it is the rough part of town (north side), and I went back and saw my old home, I could not believe what I saw. The whole neighborhood was so worn down and went straight to hell. It looked like it just needed to be plowed down and restarted. It was scarey just driving through. Made me really sad. My dad said that he began to see it back then go down hill, and decided to move us out.
Then my mom and dad divorced when I was 30, and had to give up our house to where we moved out here from Tulsa. I drive by it every now and then, and it makes me miserable to see someone else living there. I also have many memories from that home also.

**speedygirl** · 02-04-2011, 09:19 PM

My parents built it when I was 2 and they still live there so I visit it pretty often.

**baragabrat** · 02-05-2011, 06:39 AM

We (my 3 sisters and I) have been back several times over the years and it is smaller than I remember, which is probably true in everyone's case. I moved away when I was 7 or 8, after my mother died. The only good childhood memories I have were when I lived there. Anything after that was, quite literally, pure hell.

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