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gungadin09 -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/11/2010 9:48:34 PM)
i don't know if i would buy it. It's in L.A., and i don't like big cities, anymore. Too many years as a small town girl. Too many years of seeing BLUE sky during the day, and ACTUAL STARS at night. But i've always wanted to go back. i remember having an intense connection with that house and that city at the time. No other place i've lived has felt like "home" in the same way. My family went back to visit friends a couple of years after we moved (i was 11 at the time), but i haven't been back to see the place since then. i always felt if i did, it would be really emotional, like i would start crying, or something. i've even had dreams about that. i don't know why i feel so emotional about my childhood home. Nothing either fabulously good or bad happened there. But it's the last place i remember feeling "happy" for many years after we moved. Probably it was just bad timing, moving right as i began adolescence. i felt displaced. If i went back, i'm sure i would notice the dinginess, the bad neighborhood, how small the rooms were. i didn't realise we were poor at the time. Not till we moved, and then, suddenly, we weren't. i'm sure seeing the place after all this time would be a shock, and i would notice all sorts of flaws i didn't see at the time. Nevertheless, i've always wanted to go back. pam

MysticFireTopaz -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/11/2010 10:12:10 PM)
It's not even an option for me. I heard it burned down, and when I looked up the address on Google Earth, I could see for myself that it had. Even if it were still standing, I would not buy it for a number of reasons. First of all, it's in a crime-infested area of Detroit that has gone way downhill since my childhood days. Second, my childhood memories for the most part were not positive, and I would not want to be in an environment that constantly triggered them. Third, I don't care to live in that section of the country. Way too cold for my tastes.

dreamofthemoon -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 1:06:08 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: sappatoti That would depend upon which childhood home we're talking about. Some I would simply because I like the layouts or the pre-family history. Some I would tear down simply because I unfairly associate them with painful childhood memories. One other I would blow up MythBusters style because it is, as LaT so eloquently put it, a shit-hole. Ditto what sappa said. Which one? Not military, but we did move a few times because of my dad's job. i might not opt to tear the houses down or blow them up, maybe. Just let them be. pam, you have cmail! [:)]

dreamerdreaming -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 1:33:11 AM)
Coincidentally, my mother and I drove by there today and discussed it! The house is not that old, and still looks great. And since property values have tumbled, we can afford it.

NeedToUseYou -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 2:44:19 AM)
Nope. Most of the houses or apartments I lived in as a child, have been torn down or need to be.

MasterJohnSteed -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 7:41:27 AM)
Yes, I'd buy mine, I'd never tell my aunt (Who Sold it) but I feel like it was stolen from me. I felt like I should have been able to live there for the rest of my life if I wanted to, the house was bought and paid for all it needed was a little love attention and some repair. I mean so we wound up paying for the nursing home for six more months before medicare took over, SO WHAT!

bellesoumise -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 7:51:20 AM)
I actually inherited the land that my childhood home stands on. I want to burn it down, but unfortunately its against the law.

sappatoti -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 7:57:02 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bellesoumise I actually inherited the land that my childhood home stands on. I want to burn it down, but unfortunately its against the law. Possible way around that, if you truly wish to see the house ablaze, is to contact your local fire department and offer it up as a place for them to practice their skills. Not only would you get to see and document the place going up in flames, your FD would get in some needed practice time. Just a thought...

DomImus -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 8:36:36 AM)
No, I would not. My hometown bores the living shit out of me. Come to think of it - it did thirty years ago when I left for good.

pahunkboy -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 8:36:42 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: gungadin09 i don't know if i would buy it. It's in L.A., and i don't like big cities, anymore. Too many years as a small town girl. Too many years of seeing BLUE sky during the day, and ACTUAL STARS at night. But i've always wanted to go back. i remember having an intense connection with that house and that city at the time. No other place i've lived has felt like "home" in the same way. My family went back to visit friends a couple of years after we moved (i was 11 at the time), but i haven't been back to see the place since then. i always felt if i did, it would be really emotional, like i would start crying, or something. i've even had dreams about that. i don't know why i feel so emotional about my childhood home. Nothing either fabulously good or bad happened there. But it's the last place i remember feeling "happy" for many years after we moved. Probably it was just bad timing, moving right as i began adolescence. i felt displaced. If i went back, i'm sure i would notice the dinginess, the bad neighborhood, how small the rooms were. i didn't realise we were poor at the time. Not till we moved, and then, suddenly, we weren't. i'm sure seeing the place after all this time would be a shock, and i would notice all sorts of flaws i didn't see at the time. Nevertheless, i've always wanted to go back. pam I see many are of the same mind as me on this one. I just dont think- we can mess with the past.

DesFIP -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 8:52:25 AM)
The area's gone downhill but even if I could transport the house, I wouldn't. The steps to the basement were incredibly steep and dangerous even when I was young and spry. No way would I risk them now. I'm sure they would need to be redone as are not according to code. Years later I bought wallpaper and it haunted me as to why that pattern until I realized it was almost an exact copy of the wallpaper in the kitchen of that house.

pahunkboy -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 9:05:05 AM)
OMG! Our stairs were steep. I sometimes do think of some of the features the house had. The bath fixtures were gold... at the time- we hated it. But now- I think it would be cool. The location was special. But now there are 3 more houses on that same block- and parking is right- we were always the house last- on the dead end street. But not anymore. As kids we would play in the praire. But now there is a house there. One of the most controlling neighbors- right next door is still there. That battle axe never dies.

willbeurdaddy -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 9:33:38 AM)
If it were truly my childhood home I would (if it didnt mean living in NJ...so maybe thats a no!). Lets say if I could move my childhood home here and afford property big enough to put it on I would. My father did an awesome job on it, including inventing some entertainment features in the 60s that didnt come into mainstream use until the 90s. Since then it has been turned into a synagogue, gutted and connected by a bridge to the house next door.

CallaFirestormBW -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 11:05:41 AM)
Actually, my dad still lives in our childhood home, and it's due to be split between my brother and me when the time comes -- but I've already told my brother that, since the house is a -lot- more important to him than it is to me, I'll be happy to sell him my half so he can do as he pleases with it. Calla

Aynne88 -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 11:14:57 AM)
My mom and dad still live there, they have a lovely home about an hour up the coast from me, I am going to at some point inherit it. I won't live there though, that's the past. Wonderful memories, but my home is here now, and I don't have any desire to return to the place of my childhood. I will sell it without staying one night in it.

LadyHibiscus -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 11:36:37 AM)
~fr~ Friends of ours bought the house that I grew up in! I still like the place fine, but I can visit it whenever. My grandmother's house, the house in Detroit that was SUPPOSED to be mine.... OH HELL YEAH I would buy it in a heartbeat!! I want my house back BAD. Really, really, REALLY bad. It's the hood now, but it's on a good block, and the folks that live there now keep it up well. One of my girlfriends is getting her old house back on a foreclosure sale!! The place was built 100 yrs ago, so cool. ENVY!

Owner59 -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 1:51:47 PM)
Yes,if I won the lottery. Ours had a brick 1st and patterned ceder shake 2nd and 3rd floor w/ a 4 color paint job .A witch`s hat roof feature and a balcony,cat`s eye windows on the gable roof ends and 4 foot wide Dutch front door. My dad bought it in '72' for 23 grand.It`s worth over a half million now. Occasionally the present owner will hire me to work on it.

BoredAsHell -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 3:49:43 PM)
none of the places i lived in as a kid are worth a second look, let alone actually buying the place. nope, i'll stay right here.

Marini -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 8:25:40 PM)
I think I am the only one around that has done this. I am not surprised, I don't know anyone else that has done it either. I like being different. Did I mention I love this old house? **I do plan to do some extensive renovating in the future.** [;)]

Aileen1968 -> RE: Would you buy your childhood home? (8/12/2010 8:35:27 PM)
I wouldn't for two reasons....location. It's in Queens, NY and it's incredibly overcrowded there. And it's no longer there. It was torn down and an ugly stucco house built in it's place. Shore took me to see it last Christmas Eve. That's how I know it's no longer standing.

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