When did you realize you'd outgrown the place you called home?

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Extreme-Wing1043@reddit

I’ve been feeling this way for awhile now. I can’t shake this feeling either as much as I try and fight it. I’ve been in the area I’m at for 18yrs now. Everyone knows everyone, small area farming/country/Lake Michigan. All the IL people take over this area in the summer you can’t even enjoy the beach. Theres nothing much to do besides go to the local dive bars. Theres nothing much close by as for good restaurant selections or stores to shop. Career wise you aren’t climbing up any ladders. overwhelmingly sadness comes over my body when I come back from my mom’s area or come back from any area. I feel a sense of being “stuck” in only here for my job which I can’t stand anymore. My very best friends live a hour or more away. I have no immediate family within a 20mile radius. I don’t even go to church here I attend one 30miles away. And I know deep in my heart my intuition has been telling me the person I’m suppose to meet one day he doesn’t live here I feel he’s from somewhere else….may 2026 be the year of change for me….new streets, new address, finding my way, getting lost…………

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Hitsuzenmujun@reddit

When I was about 12

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alexdaland@reddit

Took a while, when my wife got pregnant, and I realized that this is now home for good or bad, Im not leaving a son behind for any reasons, it became home. It took, Id say a couple of years in total to get totally used to it. But today this is my home, and thats just how it is. We might all three move back to Norway at some point - but no current plans and things work pretty well right here in Cambodia.

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parraweenquean@reddit

I came back after 8 years and realized the world was so much smaller in the town I grew up in. I felt restricted and closed off from any other culture that exists. It’s such a great place, but too confining

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Elegant_Storage_3787@reddit

Idk I just felt like I would regret my life more for trying and realizing it's not for me than to always wonder what if in my old age. I'd try to continue on and year after year creeping closer and closer to 30 still not making any real progress in the way of career or assets (house/property) and nowhere in sight of it I thought, fuckk it I'm doing it. I'm currently 6 weeks in, going okay so far. But I'm at my first if many many many pitstops

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blueberries-Any-kind@reddit

I had picked a small town to live in when I was younger. I was super involved in it and loved it for about 4 years. I had quals with it- mostly that I didn't hold small town values. People really liked things like hunting and football. Just not really me. But I made due and had friends. I was pretty obssesed with curating the right life when i lived there. Perfect cute instagrammable moments.

I went to live abroad for a short stint and when I got home something changed.. I will never forget returning to my house and the moment of sitting on the end of my bed staring at my empty closet and thinking.. there's so much world out there, why am I here? This was never my dream? It was a great place for a time, but I was nearly ill a desire to live in a different world.

About a year later I had moved abroad again, and a few years after that I found a permanant home abraod! Very happy here. Sometimes I think about that moment, and I hope I dont feel it again any time soon lol.

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novacgal@reddit

I didn’t feel it until after I moved abroad. I wanted to move for a new experience and about 1.5-2 years in I realized I have “outgrown” home.

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jibbidyjamma@reddit

3 once coming to after being k'od by dad, seeing my parents fighting. l right away tried to grow for months, tall enough to open the entry door and leave (to save my life l concluded) got a couple miles away discovered/returned by neighborhood teen in his coupe, angry mom delivered punishment.

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