How do you feel about visiting a place where you used to live?

How do you feel about visiting a place where you used to live?
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When I go back to where I grew up I feel more or less like an outsider. I’ve forgotten some of the roads, and how to get places. It’s grown quite a bit, so the new places I am not familiar with. The immediate area near my parents’ house hasn’t changed much, just the trees are taller, but things aren’t exactly how I remember in terms of distances. Like the mall is closer than I remember. When I go I realize I’ve forgotten how beautiful it was. When I go back to my college campus I love it! It’s so beautiful, and the few changes that have happened are for the better. Before I went to school there I had always thought a big school like that would be scary, but within days of my arrival that first September I felt at home there, and even though it’s never exectly been “home” to me, it feels familiar, and makes me happy every time I visit. After college I moved to southeast FL and lived there many years. When I go back it feels very very familiar. I have lived there two separate times. I really like it there, it truly feels like home. I strongly identify with southeast Florida. I’ve lived in a couple other places in Florida, including where I live now. Pretty much the state feels like home. The climate feels like home. When I’ve lived in other states as an adult, when I go to Florida to visit I “feel” the familiar humid air, and see the low blue skies, and it feels like vacation and home. I lived in TN for 8 years, and when I visit it feels a little unsettling, because I’m not sure we should have left when we did. We had a beautiful property, and miss our friends, and it’s just a touch weird. I love living in Florida, but it’s a turn feeling. It’s a little discombobulating, because I would not have expected to like Memphis as we did, and to miss it. TN is really special in its own way. Where I live we go to the Memphis club sometimes (where I live has tons of clubs, Memphis club, NY club, MI club, German-American club, Italian-American club, writing club, pencil painting club, I could go on and on) and get an injection of the accent, humor, and congeniality.
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