Ever re-visit a city/town, and it's not the same?

[Longhorn_in_LA]

I left Austin about 4 years ago (after I graduated), but always felt like I might move back one day to live. I visited this past weekend, but it just doesn't seem like a city I want to move back to.

Don't get me wrong - Still a good city with lots of fun stuff to do, and has a lot going for it. It's probably just a matter of my own list of things I want in a city has changed.

Hard to explain but just seems strange when you remember a place one way, but then you go back and it's not what you had in your head.

Anyone else have this experience with places?

 

[notreally]

most of the time because people fall in love with the experiences they had in those places, and a lot of times not the places themselves. a lot of us remember a time when we were happy in that place.

 

[Longhorn_in_LA]

Yeah, that's probably the case.

 

[Macanudo]

A college town is never the same after you graduate, especially if you move away.

 

[Spankytoes]

Galveston.

We used to go there all the time for family vacations. (Parents got married young and didn't have much money to start out) I took my kids there and it pretty much sucked.

I think the above poster is correct about the experiences vs. the actual place.

 

[themooge]

Actually I feel the same way about Houston. I grew up there and in Sugar Land until i came to Austin for UT. I've lived in Austin for 7 years now and work here full time, but everytime I go back to Houston it feels so different. But actually for the better. Theres so much to the city that I dont know about now, like where to eat and where to go out. It's also gotten a ton nicer than what I remember