very strange.....

[quinner]

what turns an old familiar area....that, once gave you a warm safe feeling.....and now gives you a cold very strange feeling......

yet, it is the same area, with some changes.

[bigby]

what turns an old familiar area....that, once gave you a warm safe feeling.....and now gives you a cold very strange feeling......

yet, it is the same area, with some changes.

is this area a place as in a town or country or city?

[quinner]

is this area a place as in a town or country or city?

wherever......

i have lived in places.....and when i went back years later.....i had very different feelings..

[bigby]

I have gone back to visit places from my past and have not felt anything for the area
then some areas I have gone back to I loved being back even when the visit was for a sad reason

[quinner]

I have gone back to visit places from my past and have not felt anything for the area
then some areas I have gone back to I loved being back even when the visit was for a sad reason

i have felt that too.......and i have worked in many cities.....some felt like home, and others felt strange.....even ones where i have spent more time in...

[Auld Decency]

what turns an old familiar area....that, once gave you a warm safe feeling.....and now gives you a cold very strange feeling......

yet, it is the same area, with some changes.

That often happens when the fire goes out, or you forget to switch on the heating.

[quinner]

That often happens when the fire goes out, or you forget to switch on the heating.

not if you lived in pompei......

they all erupted into spontaneous gaiety.....

[tolka1]

what turns an old familiar area....that, once gave you a warm safe feeling.....and now gives you a cold very strange feeling......

yet, it is the same area, with some changes.

i think they are saying that you cant go home again?

personally the few times i have gone home i never felt that anything much had changed from when i left old glasnevin,drumcondra,whitehall,marino,clontarf,bal lybough.......... i was home................the rest of the city ...yes.

[quinner]

i think they are saying that you cant go home again?

personally the few times i have gone home i never felt that anything much had changed from when i left old glasnevin,drumcondra,whitehall,marino,clontarf,bal lybough.......... i was home................the rest of the city ...yes.

tolka1, i was referring in my case to the uk.....

i was brought to the uk as a lad. and went back to dublin when i was 11, i wanted to go back to the uk when i was old enought to do so on my own..

i did not go back to where i had been as a lad....

i have worked in most cities in the uk and some when i returned after previously feeling at home, for some reason seemed like strange places....where others seemed just the same....

when i returned to dublin...my street had gone, i just felt it was different..
there were nice little houses that replaced the buildings that i lived in...

[maire]

Joe, I moved to London when I was 14, hated it at first, every time I went on holiday to Dublin I wanted to stay there, none of the relatives wanted an extra kid. I grew to love London and had a great time in the swinging sixties. Went back years later and it had changed so much, I couldn't live in London again!

[cogito]

wherever......

i have lived in places.....and when i went back years later.....i had very different feelings..

I see what ye mean...

Very strange....

[quinner]

Joe, I moved to London when I was 14, hated it at first, every time I went on holiday to Dublin I wanted to stay there, none of the relatives wanted an extra kid. I grew to love London and had a great time in the swinging sixties. Went back years later and it had changed so much, I couldn't live in London again!

maire, i always liked london.....i worked there over most of my life....

i lived in shepherds bush and camberwell......both of those are very changed places now....but i always feel at home there...

[dubinthesmoke]

maire, i always liked london.....i worked there over most of my life....

i lived in shepherds bush and camberwell......both of those are very changed places now....but i always feel at home there...

Ive lived in london almost 35 years now.First in kentish town,now up near the holloway road.I love the whole cosmopolitan multicultural feel of it.I went back to dublin 4 years ago for a funeral for the first time in a lot of years.It has changed a hell of a lot over the years as well.I could'nt believe all the road improvements and motorways.They don't seem to have improved the traffic jams much all the same.

[quinner]

Ive lived in london almost 35 years now.First in kentish town,now up near the holloway road.I love the whole cosmopolitan multicultural feel of it.I went back to dublin 4 years ago for a funeral for the first time in a lot of years.It has changed a hell of a lot over the years as well.I could'nt believe all the road improvements and motorways.They don't seem to have improved the traffic jams much all the same.

i see, you'r a nags head person....

i worked on archway house in the old days........

my first job in london was.....for AIRFIX in wandsworth....that was in the summer of 1961.....

[KatieMorag]

I live on the outskirts of London.....last stop on the Northern Line, and i think
living here is very different to living further in - I seldom go into "London" proper.....I don't think I'd like to live closer to the centre, as i like to feel I'm
close to the countryside, and Barnet is a little town in itself. Eventually I'd
like to move somewhere more rural, as long as there's a good bus route to
the nearest town! I do like going on the underground though, but only because I don't have to do it in the rush hour.