Do you hate where you grew up at? Or just not care for it?

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I was watching a LeBron James interview a couple of years back before he moved to Miami and he was talking about how he hated growing up in Cleveland. And it hit me in the heart to hear him say that because as much as I have my good memories of growing up in Pittsburgh, I hated growing up there and living there all up into my late 20s. I just remember that really long period of just not fitting in there, not having anything worthwhile to do there, and just feeling like a leper because of being different than everyone else.

Living in NYC, I'm just treated with more respect as a person than in my 26 years of living in Pittsburgh and it makes me mad inside. It's funny when people say that New Yorkers are rude, when I've experienced more rudeness and hostility living in Pittsburgh than anywhere else I've ever lived. I moved away cause nothing was going on for me there...no job opportunities, no prospects with women, no chance of ever getting married or having a family, constant car problems, and most of all I was living at home at 27 (I got evicted from my apartment literally 3 days before I graduated college...irony).

I wouldn't compare myself to LeBron and I certainly am not...but if you were like me living in a city where social dynamics play against you for so many years...its draining and weird to come to a city like NYC where I could actually have an opportunity to do something with my life other than sit in a basement and drive around and smoke weed everyday.

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

Absolutely not. My area defines me. When I younger and actually cared about others opinion... Sure, but now I could care less. Everyone want to claim NY but I'm a product of west NY and couldn't be prouder.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I don't hate it...and it defined me as well...but I also had a hard time adjusting to it due to me and my family's background so I wasn't able to really get ahead there at all as I got older and it sucked going through them. I got pride in Pittsburgh as a product of it, but the past couple of times I visited I felt no connection to it all other than the streets being familiar to me and places being familiar.

I don't care about other people's opinions as well, but that's me. It wasn't working out and now I'm realizing how little I belonged there.

 

[BrehWyatt]

I'm not fond of where I grew up. Not at all.

If I didn't have family there, I'd probably never go back.

 

[Tunez]

I dont care where I grew up at. I dont rep my borough, my borough did not make me.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I'm not fond of where I grew up. Not at all.

If I didn't have family there, I'd probably never go back.

That's exactly how I feel about my hometown. And that's probably why when I do go back home, I only hand out with my family and don't go to bars or out in town...besides the fact there's nothing to do, I just can't stand being there for more than 4 days at a time.

I just can't relate to that Pittsburgh lifestyle anymore. NYC changed me mane. I feel like I'm slowly but surely can't relate to the rest of this country anymore. Which is why I want to get my money up and see what life is like in London and connect to my family on my dad's side there in a couple of years.

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

I don't hate it...and it defined me as well...but I also had a hard time adjusting to it due to me and my family's background so I wasn't able to really get ahead there at all as I got older and it sucked going through them. I got pride in Pittsburgh as a product of it, but the past couple of times I visited I felt no connection to it all other than the streets being familiar to me and places being familiar.

I don't care about other people's opinions as well, but that's me. It wasn't working out and now I'm realizing how little I belonged there.

I'm not implying they you didn't have pride for your area. I know how you feel. Though I don't live in the area any more I don't reject it. I'm a always represent

 

[atlbound]

similar to OP, it became limiting as I grew older. But I still have fond memories

 

[Yakno1]

Where I'm from we luv our hoods

 

[DrX]

im from buffalo son, of course i hate it, everybody hate it except the cacs in the burbs

 

[Mr210]

I grew up in the greatest city in the usa...SATOWN

 

[Grand Cru Boo]

im from buffalo son, of course i hate it, everybody hate it except the cacs in the burbs

Buff is straight. Dirty, yes, but not all that bad. I would rather be from there and have life experience then be someone from a town in Wyoming

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

I think another reason I have the disdain for my hometown is because I went to college there and stayed there too long and eventually it's image got tarnished in my eyes as I grew older and saw the world and reality with my own two eyes from my experiences. So that was grade school, middle school, junior high, high school, and college all spent in my hometown. I had to leave eventually and find out what the world was about because like @atlbound said...it was limiting.

I left for college in 2002 and my folks picked it out and paid for it simply because it was out of state and I just needed some distance from my family to do my own thing. I moved back in 2004 because it wasn't for me and I didn't know what I was doing, just to get back into school and graduate from college. I originally wanted to move in 2005 to NYC and if I left at that time...I feel like I could of had a better life for myself than what I had in Pittsburgh and my memories of it wouldn't of been ruined.

 

[I_Q]

I'm from florida and I pretty much despise my whole state

I remember the first time I went to ny thinking people were gonna be rude as hell too but it was the complete opposite, everyone was nice even random Asian people in the street I asked for directions. A Puerto Rican lady from the bronx took time out to ride on the subway with me to brooklyn cause I was a little lost. The chicks showed me hella love especially the Dominican ones , I had a good time overall. Got back to florida and things went to shyt, came back to the same rude ass people and ugly ass chicks with stank attitudes

 

[DrX]

Buff is straight. Dirty, yes, but not all that bad. I would rather be from there and have life experience then be someone from a town in Wyoming

whats str8 about it?


the weather? attitudes? jobs? what?

lol @ life experience....this dead ass backwater city is no different from a small town