When did you last go to your old stomping ground, and had it changed much?

It’s been about 8 years, they cut the big Willow tree down that was in front of my childhood home, that made me sad, I loved that Willow tree.

My friend and I visited the projects I grew up in a few years back in the summer. We didn't stay long, but as we were standing outside, a good sized bird fell from a telephone pole or wire almost right at our feet, dead. Was very strange. That place sickened me still, and the dead bird falling just made it seem worse.. It did look better but I could see the sadness and shame thru the coats of paint

In January I went to the city where I went to college. I had to drive past all our old haunts to get home,and I drove passed the college too, everything has changed in 35 years. All the restaurants and bars we used to go to are new restaurants or stores, and the college is so much bigger, it’s unrecognizable.

i pretty well still live in my stomping grounds....30 years ago we had 3 high rises....now we have 300 and still growing

It was nearly 10 years ago. It looked pretty much the same, though a few pubs had closed. The people all looked like their parents though, and the men had no hair.

Go back every once in a while. Every time i go back, just reaffirms my decision was right to leave.

Last week

I have to make the long drive to rescue my cousins daughter from there

I was there a few days ago. It doesn't change.

Yes but sadly the chicken is gone

The year before Covid. The place is always changing and sadly not for the better. The people we sold our house to definitely don't keep it up.

I haven't been to my old stomping grounds since March 1998, almost 26 years, my friends still in Portland all tell me I'd no longer recognize my Beloved HomeTown anymore, that too many buildings have been demolished, too many businesses are gone, and that too many of the criminal element has taken over along with rampant homelessness.