Chinaman's comments remind me of how one of my daughters used to complain
that our home town (already mentioned here a few times) was rubbish, there was nothing to do, people stared at you in the street, etc.

She kept up this dreary litany right up to the age of 20, when she became friends with a pleasant young woman from Belfast.

The new friend LOVED our town, because she found people here tolerant: nobody cares about your background or sexuality and there are no places you can't go to because of your religion.

As Chinaman notes, your own home town must have its virtues or your parents wouldn't have brought you up there!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 8:12, 4 replies)

Ahh but
some parents aren't able to move to a different town due to all sorts of reasons.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 10:54, closed)

Agreed, don't assume that people live somewhere because it's nice.

As a part of my job, I have to run credit and/or background checks on people for various reasons and a lot of the people I deal with were born in the same town they still live in.
Some people just never escape.
(Pope Jamiroquai III, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 13:02, closed)

As above
I moved from Greenock to Swindon at an early age. I think it happened because Swindon appeared to be the lesser of 2 evils.
(Ryushin, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 14:58, closed)

I was joking
as so many people seem to hate their home towns and wonder why anyone'd choose to live there!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 8:16, closed)