Have you looked up your childhood home?

My mom still lives in my childhood home. She & my dad bought it for like $40k in 1988. Since then, the house has been deteriorating. It's in really bad condition now. Zillow thinks the damn thing is worth nearly 200k. I guess Zillow can't see the inside since it's owned but wtaf.

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pennie79@reddit

I looked up a semi-recent listing of my childhood home. It has the same paint job and curtains that my parents did in the 80s, and is looking a little worse for wear, and it still went for a few million.

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Kazoo113@reddit

This is the worst part. None of us can afford our childhood homes anymore.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Shit. I couldn't afford my own home if I had to buy it today.

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ijustsailedaway@reddit

I can! My neighborhood is so absolutely shitty now my childhood home costs less than my used car.

Remember Back to the future 2 when Biff destroyed Hillsdale? Like that but it already started as a poor area. So there’s broken toilets and cinder blocks in the front yard and mangy pitbulls and a moldy couch and some kind of rusted out old military vehicle in the back, siding that is just half rotted plywood and all around just looks like it should be condemned. Fun stuff.

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whistleridge@reddit

I could afford it easily, on my salary. Where I live now.

The challenge would be earning that salary there. Not a lot of jobs in that town that pay a living wage.

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HopelesslyHuman@reddit

I could on my current salary, but if I moved back home I couldn't have my current salary.

That's the problem with most low COL areas.

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canisdirusarctos@reddit

My dad worked as a security guard and could afford my childhood home after graduating high school. I am one of three core members of the SLT of a 40-person company with over 25 years of experience in a field in which I have a degree, and I could just barely afford it today. It isn’t exactly in a desirable area these days, either.

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thetallnathan@reddit

I may be the exception here. I grew up in an economically depressed area. My mom sold my childhood home for $90k in 1999, and its Zillow estimate today is just $118k. But what would I do in my hometown?

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hurdeehurr@reddit

Xennials who cant afford homes? How many chances do you need lol?

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crazycatlady331@reddit

On the block I grew up on, there are no families with children. The now senior parents are all still there.

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kl1n60n3mp0r3r@reddit

I could, technically…mine is in an area of the country where there is no work for me, so ultimately, no I could t afford it.

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garygnu@reddit

I could afford mine, but it's not worth uprooting my whole family.

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

It's so nuts. My parents sold my childhood home in 1998 for $267K. The current estimate is $1.1M. It's just over 1400 square feet. 🤯

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WonderingHarbinger@reddit

The four-unit apartment building I lived in is now a two-unit condo, and one of them is currently on the market for two million dollars.

Me when I saw that price, but with even more chest clutching:

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Aught_To@reddit

2 fucking million, come on.. thats wild.

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balding_git@reddit

yup. last time it sold it was 1mil+

my parents sold it for like 250k in 2005

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no_clever_name_yet@reddit

I couldn’t afford my parents and even if I could I don’t think I’d buy it because my present house is nicer and cheaper. Their location, lot, and school district is better.

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lordnecro@reddit

Looks like my childhood home recently sold, no way I could afford it. But man the house has been completely gutted and remodeled, and they added an addition. Looks amazing compared to what I remember.

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KudosOfTheFroond@reddit

My parents still live in my childhood home, so I get to visit it all the time. All my childhood belongings and memories are upstairs on a room that they use for storage. One day I’ll do an archaeological dig thru there. Maybe I’ll find my original NES, my old action figures, all my old Pogs, and my art folder from High School (shudder)

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

Been past it a couple of times, but I usually avoid it. I have ptsd due to a brother’s murder that occurred there. My teen son has looked it up online. After being in my family for over a hundred years, it’s now on its fourth owner since it was sold.

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crazycatlady331@reddit

I am sorry about your brother. Hugs.

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

Thank you!! Hugs are always appreciated.

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Farm-Alternative@reddit

Many hugs for you internet stranger ❤️

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

Thank you ☺️ much appreciated!!

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CuriousRiver2558@reddit

((Hugs))

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

Appreciate your kindness too, thank you!!

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Hippadoppaloppa@reddit

Have another one from me, that's really rough.

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

Thank you! Definitely the roughest thing I’ve lived through. An uncle was the guilty party, my grandpa was the accessory.

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MadGenius-BigPapi@reddit

Our old farm house is now a historical site I was told so it looks like it will be there for a while, hopefully.

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nicunta@reddit

I literally cried when I saw what was done to my grandparent's house. All the beautiful built in cabinets and beds built into the walk, just gone.

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theRestisConfettii@reddit

Can we quickly just give it up for Grosse Pointe Blank?

A lot funnier now at this age.

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Holiest_hand_grenade@reddit

I'll give it up for the movie, but I can't get behind it's funnier now. It was always funny and poignant. Might be my favorite comedy of his.

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SnakePlissken1980@reddit

Yeah I saw it in the theater in high school and liked it but it was just another okay movie nothing special but as I got older it got a lot funnier.

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icenine09@reddit

Is it? I haven't watched it since I was a teenager, and I loved it then. That's exciting. Now I'm going to watch it.

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Neither-Principle139@reddit

It’s still good! So character driven that the time and. Context don’t really take away from it too much. Dan Aakroyd is gold!

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ridelikeagurl@reddit (OP)

POPCORN!

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Fight_those_bastards@reddit

No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for money. It's a job. That didn't come out right

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dishwasher_mayhem@reddit

Popcorn!

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Meyebackhurts@reddit

Drove my youngest around looking at them yesterday. It was so weird. He was so not into it, and by the end neither was I.

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kl1n60n3mp0r3r@reddit

Such a good movie!

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Money_Top_1895@reddit

for real, that movie hits different when you’re older, so many little things to appreciate

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ridelikeagurl@reddit (OP)

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ObiWan-Shinoobi@reddit

This scene is so fucking great.

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xtlhogciao@reddit

Mythbusters tested the C-4 in the microwave.

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fireyqueen@reddit

One of my favorite 90s movies. Had it on VHS and the soundtrack on CD and watched it sooo many times.

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Odd-Positive-4343@reddit

Such a good movie.

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taxilicious@reddit

I really need to see it! I was too young at the time. My mom grew up in Grosse Pointe Woods!

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Odd-Positive-4343@reddit

It holds up. Greatest soundtrack ever, for a movie, imho. Fantastic movie.

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Skywren7@reddit

I actually went to my childhood home when it was up for sale. When I went in it was so much smaller than I remembered.

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Fydron@reddit

Yes i can look at my childhood home as i bought my grandparents old house next to my childhood home i can see it just by turning my head to the left right now.

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Ratamancer@reddit

I used to drive by every time I was back in town. It was a generational home built by my grandparents. My dad and his siblings were born and raised there as were me and mine. It was us and my grandma who lived there. Large property in an area that was, at the time they bought, the arse end of the city. Lots of green space, great place to grow up. Over the decades became a somewhat affluent area.

The last time I went the house been demolished along with most of the landscaping (poured concrete with kids handprints and the like) and trees that we’d planted were cleared. Nothing new had been built, just a demolition site. That was only 3 years ago and just a few months after my grandma died at the ripe old age of 98. I cried a little but mostly just sat across the road with this weird empty numbness for a while.

Most of that area’s been knocked down and rebuilt like so many places the world over.

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Fabulous-South-9551@reddit

I grew up in San Jose CA. Parents bought our house in 1994 for $280k. They sold in 2000 for $530k, $50k over asking. Today it’s worth $1.9M.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

My mom sold the house 25 years ago and about 10 years ago I took my wife there to see it. The people who bought it from my mom still live there. The house was way smaller than I remember, and their choice of decor was… well I’ve always wondered who bought those moving painting things they sell outside of gas stations and now I know

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PickledPixie83@reddit

My parents still live in the house we lived in form 3rd grade until I moved out.

It is different than when my sister and I lived there but not by much.

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pennie79@reddit

House from birth to age 6: I looked it up on google streets, and I barely recognised it! It's still the same house, but they painted it, re-did the balcony, and completely changed the garden. It looked like a beautiful family Victorian house when we lived there. Now it looks like a super-fancy formal house.

House from age 6 to 17: I looked it up on google streets and real estate.com.au. I noticed that the paint job is looking a bit shabby, but my 7 year old thought it looked so incredibly fancy. She's not wrong. It was a 1950s architect designed modernist house with lots of impressive features. Definitely a step up from our 2 bedroom unit.

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yelloworld1947@reddit

I grew up in an apartment in a large city in Asia (from age 7 to 22), but my parents moved to another apartment around 17 years ago but kept my childhood home, and rented it out for a while.

That building is now in redevelopment, it is a process where the old building is torn down, and a new taller building is built. All the former apartment owners get a larger flat, and the buyers of the new higher story apartments pay for the redevelopment.

I visited our under construction apartment last year, and it is nothing like the one I grew up in. The buildings in that lane have undergone redevelopment as well, so that area isn’t that recognizable. The main street does look familiar but overall the area became posher, there is a JW Marriott and a swanky mall less than a mile away.

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_shaftpunk@reddit

We moved a lot so I have more than one. BUT one of them was demolished to make a parking lot.

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Past_Ordinary_4087@reddit

My favourite house we lived in when I was a kid looked like it hadn’t been lived in for years last time I drove by, like 8 years ago.

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MlsterFlster@reddit

Yeah. It's still a house. But I barely recognize it.

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aluminum_jockey54634@reddit

My parents still live there

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reapersritehand@reddit

I drove past mine a few weeks ago

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SLyndon4@reddit

I was at one of my childhood houses a few weeks ago, the only major change was that my father had built a deck onto the back sometime within the last decade or so. Decided improvement to the house, though not much else had changed since I lived there.

I’ve looked up the other one on GoogleMaps; it looks the same from the front but there’s now an addition to the back of the house where the eat-in kitchen and a sliding glass door to the backyard used to be. I’m guessing they enlarged it to create an actual dining room? If that’s the case, solid move because a full dining room is the one thing the house lacked.

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

My cousins left the fire going in our grandparents' 100+ year old farm house and burnt it to the ground when they were allowed to live there after my grandparents died. That's the closest thing I had to a childhood home. My father had inherited it and it was eventually going to be mine... I loved that place in ways I'm not articulate enough to explain.

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zzz242zzz@reddit

Parents sold it and moved to a much smaller and less nice(imo) place in Nevada. They couldn’t afford to relocate in California. It had been in the family since the 1940s and I had hoped to retire there. They seem happy though and their new place is a lot less to take care of maintenance wise.

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HistoryGirl23@reddit

My parents still live there.

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lavasca@reddit

I went! Every few years I drive by if I’m in town.

The current owner would be furious to know that someone of a different ethnic group ever lived there. Terrifying. Dude was outside chillin’ in a cowboy hat with a shotgun!

I am from coastal California. Wha’?

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Eternally-WIP@reddit

I still live in one of my childhood homes, I inherited it.

I've driven by several of my other childhood and family homes. Not to go in, I definitely wouldn't let anybody in

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labchick6991@reddit

Went to an open house about 15 years ago and they did some nice updates like new kitchen (but laid it out weird) and flooring, but with that dark flooring they left those hollow-core orange/yellow stained wooden doors 😬 they also removed the washer/dryer from a dedicated laundry room on the main floor (ranch) into the basement and didnt put anything useful in the space. Maybe they planned to extend the 1/2 bath into a full bath but they never did.

The basement (which was all diy by us so…) was redone nicely BUT you could still see the stains on the backside of drywall in the utility room from sewer backup flooding so they never fixed that stuff)

I have seen zillow listing pics from a more recent sell and they did nicer updates (but still weird). I drive past often enough and do like the exterior landscape changes.

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MostSharpest@reddit

My childhood home is now an abandoned, graffiti-covered wreck of a haunted house in the middle of a strip of abandoned buildings in a village that otherwise seems to be chugging along just fine.

All the spots I used to play in as a kid are now built over and unrecognizable, or look like scenes from a post-apocalyptic horror movie.

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elphaba00@reddit

I live in the same small town where I grew up, except I live on the north side of town and the house is on the south end. I refuse to go anywhere near it because, when I do, I end up having a dream where I’m right back in it. I haven’t been inside that place since May 1992, but the dreams are so lifelike.

As far as I know, the same people who bought it off my parents in 1992 still live there. My parents just moved to a bigger place outside of town, where I spent my high school years. They’re still there, but I don’t consider it my childhood home

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ridelikeagurl@reddit (OP)

Our house and the neighbors' had big beautiful trees in the front and back. They are all gone according to Google maps. The street just looks sad, now.

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glittersparklythings@reddit

A lot of insurance companies are making trees be removed. They say if you want coverage those trees have to go.

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

We just had to help my mom have three enormous trees in her backyard taken down. My dad would have been heartbroken. He was a forester by education, and one of them was a long leaf pine. There aren't many left.

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CuriousRiver2558@reddit

:-(

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daizles@reddit

I have looked it up on Zillow! It makes me so happy to see the little twigs that my dad planted are now big, beautiful trees.

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VaselineHabits@reddit

I got alittle giddy seeing my Gami stand infront of her house on Google maps

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Sufficient_Turn_9209@reddit

Aww. Same but it was my dad. The monument company sent out a lady to my parents house to go over the details for my dad's headstone with us. Just before she got ready to leave she said she wasn't sure whether it would help or hurt to show us, but she used Google maps to get to the home, and the street view caught my dad standing on the side of the house, the way I've seen him stand a million times with his hands on his hips, looking over his flower beds. It was so sweet. Save your picture so you don't lose it when they update! I'm so glad my sister did!

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dumbass_sempervirens@reddit

At my old house they cut down the maple and the dogwood. Tore out the azaleas and liriope.

It's just grass, absolutely no other landscaping.

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Alternative-Data-797@reddit

Same for mine! The front and side were surrounded by roses, azaleas, juniper, and holly bushes--all are gone. And nothing planted to replace any of it. The house looks so small and sparse and sad now.

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daizles@reddit

That makes me very sad. Maples and dogwoods are so beautiful!

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DotNervous7513@reddit

I was in a military family and only one of the homes from the military housing we lived in is still even standing. But I have saved the last home we lived in (that was off base) on Zillow.

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The_broken_machine@reddit

Ah, military housing. I can smell the black mold all over again. Sweet memories. 😅

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Comfortable-Pea-1312@reddit

Packed and ready to move in less than 12 hrs.

Couldn't do that now.

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Deep-Grape-4649@reddit

I wonder if my military parents have a list of every address I lived at, just remember the base names and school names

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Comfortable-Pea-1312@reddit

OMPF will. Even my mom forgot a short stay.

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Deep-Grape-4649@reddit

Yeah most places had at least two addresses, place we lived off base while waiting for housing (2w to 1y), then our on base address

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rialucia@reddit

We always lived off base and I wondered what it was like to live in base housing. The more I learn about it, the more grateful I am that we didn’t…

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rialucia@reddit

I was also raised in a military family and when I see questions like this, the first words that come to mind are “Which one???” because I lived in at least 8 different homes before age 18.

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KinderEggLaunderer@reddit

Same! My dad planted a tiny pine tree at the edge of our yard, saw it recently and that thing must be 15feet tall. Not to mention the sparce ash trees in the neighborhood that were tall but thin are now practically a forest. Pretty cool!

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thesmellnextdoor@reddit

I have my childhood home saved on Zillow and about once a month I get an email with it's current Zillow value and the state of the local market. I don't want to miss the listing photos it if it's ever listed for sale!

The same owner that bought it from us around 2001 still lives there and I'm dying to know if they kept the wallpaper my mom painstakingly applied throughout in the 90s. They haven't made a lot of changes or done much to the outside!

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thetallnathan@reddit

I love this for you. I recently drove by my childhood home, and the wooden fence my dad built in the 1980s is still there. It’s in terrible shape… sort of the opposite process of aging.

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pinelands1901@reddit

I was disappointed to see that the flippers who bought my grandparent's house cut down the tree I planted in the front yard in 1st grade.

They did pull up the carpet and restore the hardwood floors though, so that offsets it a little.

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elkniodaphs@reddit

I was still living on ours when that little twig became a climbing tree. Falling out of that tree is the one and only time I ever broke my arm—hot pink cast, everyone signed it. My dad worked for the county so we kept "sentinel chickens" in a lovely chicken coop so county workers could test for encephalitis, doing so gives a two-week lead time in combating a local outbreak. But obviously, that chicken coop is gone now.

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Throw-away17465@reddit

Often. I’ve even stopped by and said hi to the people we sold it to who let me in to look.

I only wish I could buy back my childhood home, but it now costs roughly 28x what we originally bought it for.

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Alternative-Data-797@reddit

I wish I felt comfortable enough to do this! I would love to see what the inside looks like now, and if any of the backyard features are still there.

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Throw-away17465@reddit

I’m definitely a wierdo in that regard, but a polite and shy one. There were definitely features that stood out, as clear as when i was a child there. And then new things that blew my mind, like new backyard access from the kitchen that as a kid I would have loved. It was really bittersweet mix of memories and faint wishes.

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Late-External3249@reddit

My parents still live in my childhood home. I look up my grandparents' house every now and then. It was a great house and property.

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Detroit_debauchery@reddit

You’re a handsome devil, what’s your name?

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Repulsive_Tie_7941@reddit

Not quite, my entire neighborhood was torn down and rebuilt on a new street grid.

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WilliamMcCarty@reddit

Mine is gone. Kicked out all the poor folks and bulldozed the neighborhood, built high priced condos.

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mjh8212@reddit

My friend sent me a pic of a house. I was really confused as I didn’t recognize it. Different colored siding no porch a deck I didn’t know. Turns out it was my grandmas house I grew up in. I really don’t even recognize my old neighborhood we were a working class neighborhood then someone tore down a bunch of houses and made townhomes and sold them for $300,000 or more. Most houses in the neighborhood were around 100,000 or even less than that. Suddenly neighbors were complaining about trees and yards and how they looked bad. Everyone was driven out things remodeled new businesses popping up. My neighborhood i grew up in is gone.

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

My home when I was born is still there, 2nd home I pass by it and it still feels weird, 3rd home I don’t think much about despite my adolescence being there. I think the only place I consider home is where I’m at.

*for the many homes, my father was a state trooper, wherever the state wanted him to go we went.

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Persis-@reddit

Frequently

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kingskrossing@reddit

Ugh I moved back into my childhood home 3 years ago with my son. My dad is 86 years old and I’ve became his caregiver. I’m renting my house out and it covers mortgage, property taxes, homeowners insurance and gives me a little income.

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baylormom01@reddit

My parents still live there!! I can't ever imagine selling it to someone outside of our family now.

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VikDamnedLee@reddit

I did a "goodbye tour" a couple of years ago - the last time I visited my home town. The rest of the family has moved away so I really don't have any reason to go back now. I drove past my childhood homes, the schools, and some of my hangout spots. It was bittersweet but onward I march.

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jessek@reddit

The first house of ours I remember, my mom planted a little pine tree she bought at a grocery store in the front yard. Checked on the place 40 years later and the tree covered the entire yard.

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Sidetrackbob@reddit

Yeah. Haven't been in town since 2015, but it's changed too much. Hurts my heart.

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eannaj@reddit

It was my father’s first and only house. He had such pride in it. It brought me the best childhood in the best neighborhood any kid could dream of. I can close my eyes and still imagine every inch of it, every little mess my mom made, the smell of the air when the a/c kicked on in summer, the warmth of the backyard and the sound of cicadas in the early evening, the way the light hit our kitchen on a perfect afternoon, how my cat would “knock” the door bells when she wanted to go on the porch, the way music would engulf the entire house when my parents put on records, the crackle of the fire on a winter evening, Christmas tree lights dancing on the ceiling.

I had moved away for college (not far), when my dad was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. I moved back home and helped my mom care for him until he passed. I was 23 by then.

We lived adjacent to an elder care facility that was actively expanding, and they had hounded my dad for years about buying our land. He hated them so much, and repeatedly refused to sell. When he passed, they were all over my mother within the month. I channeled my father’s anger and told her to ask 10x what he paid if she even wanted to sell at all. She didn’t really want to sell, but I also think she didn’t want to live with the ghosts of all his pain either. The facility accepted. They tore it down a year later.

Honestly when I think back on it, it feels poetic in a way. The house passed with my father that loved it so much. My mother was monetarily very well cared for which would had been my father’s top concern. If I had it to do over again, I’m not sure i would have been so encouraging of her to sell, i think keeping the house for her might have been more therapeutic than damaging. I’ve come to terms with it, but I would give anything in the world to be able to go back one more time.

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turbodonuts@reddit

My folks still live there. They briefly moved to a second house on the next street over, four or five years. But then they renovated my childhood home and moved back in. It looks very different than the house I grew up in, but it’s still “home”.

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rpmsm@reddit

Mine is now an outdoor ice rink 🤷‍♂️

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symonym7@reddit

My whole childhood neighborhood is blocked from Google Street View. :/

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AllOfTheSoundAndFury@reddit

I don’t like either of my childhood homes and don’t ever want to go back.

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GeneseeJunior@reddit

I've looked up mine on Google Street View - looks good - but not yet stopped by.

When I'm in Rochester, I'm usually too busy visiting people!

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Economy-Mango7875@reddit

Yes. I google mapped it. They changed the color, got rid of the pool and deck I helped my dad make 30 years ago. I don't like it at all

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mel726@reddit

My Mom still lives in my childhood home and it's in a sad state. I wish we could move her into an assisted living facility, but she's way too stubborn. I dread the day I have to clean the house out.

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JWWBurger@reddit

Have a lot of nostalgia for it (mainly because we moved into a nicer place that was a way shittier life experience for me personally). Whenever I go home, I’ll often drive through the old neighborhood. It was a childhood paradise, with a shared playground and park built in between a group of townhouses, and was always filled with kids, so have a lot of great memories of a robust social life back then (not now!). My folks are prepping to move in a few weeks from their place in the same town, so likely will never have a reason to go back again, but the feelings and memories hold strong.

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a-ha_partridge@reddit

They filled in the pool, which was the best part of it as a kid.

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ridelikeagurl@reddit (OP)

We spent EVERY daylight hour in the summer in our family's pool! Core memory.

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emptybeetoo@reddit

My childhood home still looks the same, other than a new coat of paint. But the empty field across the street that I played in many times growing up has had a home on it for 20 years now, and that still looks weird to me.

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HuckleberryHappy6524@reddit

My parents still live in my childhood home. We had a bacon (vacant) lot next door that we played baseball and football in. Right as I was finishing high school someone bought it, split it into two lots and built two small houses on it.

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pm_me_your_lub@reddit

My family would go see it every time we were back in town. About 5-6 years ago it was torn down and 2 acres were subdivided into 7 lots. The big pond that was always the subject of wetlands conservation was conveniently bottled up into a pipe and routed away from the multimillion $ housing project.

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TheVexingRose@reddit

I live in my childhood home. It's a farmhouse that has been in my family for generations since the late 1800s. I did look up the house I lived in for a few years as a foster kid recently. It's on the market for 2.7 mill right now, and it's hideous. The home used to have so much character. I remember my dad helping my foster mom build the wrap-around porch after he got sober. That porch is still there, he's an excellent craftsman, but the rest of the house was gutted and painted this awful Millennial Gray. It had so much character inside. I remember my dad did the cabinets in the 90s and now they're metal. The house is a major eyesore, but it'll sell because it's an acre of land in the heart of a city.

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FrequencyHigher@reddit

I stopped by the open house. While the first floor had some updates, the second floor with the bedrooms/baths was a time capsule. Not a single update. It was weird how familiar it felt. I guess because I knew every inch of that place.

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ridelikeagurl@reddit (OP)

Memory museum!

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phillysleuther@reddit

I’m still in that home.

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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

Don’t need to. My mom still lives there.

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Allaplgy@reddit

My dad still lives in the house, and moved his new wife in after my mom died. My sister rents the wife's house. Now they are trying to convince her to move out so they can sell it for more "cash" to support their endless world travels. They've been trying to get her to buy it for a while, and can't seem to understand why a school teacher can't afford a $million+ house, and doesn't want to move into an apartment that is twice as much for half as much. (They all live in SF).

I think it's kinda wild how different people are regarding family. Like I know a bunch of people who have some minor family wealth and have multiple generations helping each other, actually being family, having gatherings and such, and passing down large, useful properties. Meanwhile my folks own relatively small houses on tiny cookies of land worth more than enough to buy a large pastoral estate where I live now, with a million or so left over.

Ain't my property or money so I can't tell them what to with it. But it definitely shows their priorities are not family focused.

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Sausage_Queen_of_Chi@reddit

Same, my parents are still in the same house.

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nucl3ar0ne@reddit

Same, my parents are still there. Wish they would move into a condo though.

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Actualfrankie@reddit

God. Me too. They have paths through the 40 years' worth of accumulated shit. It's too much for them to keep up with.

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StevieV61080@reddit

I had three childhood homes that I actually remember. The ones from when I was in HS are not all that interesting to me. They took out our crabapple tree, fence, and garden in the backyard to just have a lot of bland grass.

The one where I actually check the most was the one I truly felt like I grew up (ages 5-13). It's been a rental for decades after we moved (it is in a prime location only blocks away from a major university campus) and I have checked in on it several times over the years. Being limestone, it doesn't look much different than when I moved away in 1993.

The one sad factor is that we had a massive and ancient black walnut tree in our backyard when we lived there. We knew it was at least 200 years old due to counting the rings off of a branch that fell off. It's not there on any Google Earth searches going back to 2007. That sucks.

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American_Greed@reddit

I drove by it in the last couple of years. The garage my dad built in the 90s still stands! But looking at photos online someone converted the laundry room into a second bathroom which seems unnecessary for such a small home.

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IllEase4896@reddit

The people that bought it from my parents in 1994 still live in my childhood home so not there. But where I lived as a teen till I moved out was sold by my parents to a couple in 2006 and then foreclosed in 2017 and is now owned by some massive corporation that rents it. Really makes me sad tbh

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tacitjane@reddit

Probably too often. Subsequent owners haven't changed much. There's a garage now and there's more living space in the basement.

To the second part, no. But my dad repurposed my auntie's bedroom. He split it into a master bath and a laundry room. No more scary basement trips.

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MahoganyShip@reddit

$1.5m last time it sold. Gentrification is a b

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LegallyRegarded@reddit

they painted all the walls white and got rid of the wood paneling. its not a home anymore. its a clean room.

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FionaGoodeEnough@reddit

it burned down.

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clutzycook@reddit

My mom still lives there so I get to see it a few times a year. But if I'm feeling homesick in the interim, I'll pull it up on Google maps.

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thesnark1sloth@reddit

I live in it now. Moved out from college through age 41- came back after my dad died and it became clear that my mom with dementia needed a caregiver. I updated some of the 60-year-old-plumbing once it started leaking and I had no choice, but otherwise, it looks mostly the same as when I was a child.

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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

I live in the house I lived in while in HS. I bought it from my parents. (Well, part of it, because even with the sweet price they quoted, I still couldn't afford the whole thing...)

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garden__gate@reddit

My parents moved just a mile away to a condo (thank you mom for making that happen while yall were still fit enough to handle it!) and I drive by every time I visit. The new family has done a great job! It looks really nice. They had their first baby a few months after moving in and it makes me emotional to think that it’ll be those kids’ childhood home too.

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DETRITUS_TROLL@reddit

It was going for almost 2 mil on Zillow during the pandemic.

Tells me all I need to know about what’s happened to the area.

The place doesn’t even have a view or anything.

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notenoughcharact@reddit

My mom still lives there! Feels good to go back and visit.

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No-Possession-4738@reddit

My childhood home is now an assisted living facility. That makes it sound huge and it was definitely not. I instantly thought of this movie when I found out.

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garygnu@reddit

I rang the doorbell. The owner was super nice, recognizing my last name because they bought the house when we had to sell so many years earlier. My wife actually got to see the crazy cathedral I grew up in - six stories built on a hillside, with additional levels in between and a loft you climb a ladder to get to, all open to levels below.

I'd love to buy it, but I've got roots where I am. Maybe a short term rental so others can experience it.

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DStew713@reddit

My mom still lives there. Next year will be 50 years since her and my dad bought that house.

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yourlittlebirdie@reddit

A friend of mine from high school bought it and is raising her family there. It’s pretty cool.

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BalrogRuthenburg11@reddit

I live there with my wife and kids.

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Jsmith0730@reddit

It’s still there. Granted, my childhood home was an apartment building but they painted over the brick with an ugly grey color. 😕

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beeurd@reddit

My parents still live there, but my grandparents house when I was a kid was recently on the market and we had a nose at the pictures online... It was very odd seeing how it had been changed quite a lot.

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rosujin@reddit

I live in my childhood home now. A few years after I moved back from Japan, I bought it off my parents. They currently live in my dad’s childhood home (about 20 minutes away)….which I also eventually bought off them too. I wouldn’t have been able to afford either in this major US city at fair market prices, so I’m pretty damn lucky. But I also inherited all of the problems that go along with an old house. I had to redo all the plumbing a few years back. I’m getting a bunch of work done inside and out now so it’s finally looking as good as I remember it when I was a kid.

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Spirited_Storage3956@reddit

Yes. The taxes in CT are more than my entire mortgage in AZ

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seminarysmooth@reddit

Parents still live there. A decade back they dumped a whole lot of cash into it to prepare for selling it in the event they would need to go into a home. They’re still in it and it’s where the family goes for T day and Xmas.

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Ok_Degree3037@reddit

I went back a few years ago. It’s now mostly apartments, not the fields we ran in. I did run into a young boy while I was there who wanted to show me the climbing tree in the back. He and the other boys found steps nailed into the tree and said there must have been a tree fort there. They had some pretty great imaginings regarding the fort. I told them they were right, there was a fort, because I built it and put those steps in back in the 1980s. From the looks on their faces you’d have thought I said we settled the West.

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odafishinsea2@reddit

I live in the same neighborhood, just on a nicer street. I drive by it all the time, going right through my old paper routes.

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

My parents have lived in the same house for 42 years. I visited a few weeks ago.

The apartment we lived in prior to that was abandoned then later torn down many years ago.

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

My mom sold hers to me when she was ready to downsize. My son lives there now. It's due for a little remodeling but I want to keep it nostalgic. Some houses on the block have leaned hard into the modern boxy styling but I like the cute little colonial touches like faux shutters and white trim.

My grandparents house makes me sad. My uncle is struggling to maintain it, and there's a good chance it will get sold and gentrified. It's out of reach for my husband and I, and I can't get the whole family interested in buying it together. I guess everything has to end.

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AintNoGobemouche@reddit

It was condemned (which is why we had to move) and subsequently demolished. Google maps show’s it’s just a field now.

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Spartan04@reddit

We rented in a duplex, had a good landlord so my mom ended up living there 20 years. I drove by a few years ago and it’s had new siding installed that’s a different color so it looks completely different on the outside. It’s a surreal experience driving down my old street, especially if I also go past my old elementary school.

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1OOpercenter@reddit

A year ago, the owners of the house I grew up in 40 years ago had an art show so my family got to go check it out. The owners gave us a tour of the house when they found out we used to live there. Was very cool

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sageamericanidiot@reddit

I had several childhood home due to divorce. I have them saved on Zillow. One is now a rental and I've certain that it still has the 1970s linoleum that my mom hates and never had the opportunity to change. The backyard is hideous. They completely leveled it with concrete and removed the garden area my mom spent hours in. My grandma's house that we lived in for a while is stunning. She had a mcm ranch style home and they kept a lot of the original stuff and the modern upgrades are very tasteful. The house I shared with my dad looks good too. A lot of modern upgrades. We had this 1/2 acre lot, huge for a California track home, and they turned the backyard into something I would have loved as a child. A beautiful pool, spa, basketball court and garden.

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shiftdown@reddit

It looks exactly the same as 30 years ago just with that much extra visible wear and tear.

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badchefrazzy@reddit

Looked it up. I'd love to uproot the damn thing and move it somewhere else just so I could live in it again. That'd take fuck-you levels of money that I absolutely do not have right now, though.

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burgundyblue@reddit

I checked last year and it was back up on the market. We had 5 people in a 3 bed 1 bath house. But the area I grew up in isn’t a great area anymore, it’s pretty run down. Parents still live in town, though. I live 1800 miles away.

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shayshay8508@reddit

The house I lived in from age 6-18, my parents still live in. My grandparents house is still up on Zillow, even though it sold years ago. I look at the pictures whenever I’m missing my grandma, and it both makes me sad and happy. 🥺

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

Download the pictures if you can. Sometimes zillow removes listing pictures once a house sells.

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_buffy_summers@reddit

The first home I remember living in still belongs to my aunt. The second home hasn't changed at all, and the last one got flipped.

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DefiantThroat@reddit

My childhood home burned down when I was in my late 20s. Thankfully my mom was working in the detached garage at the time and wasn’t hurt, no one else was home.

Friendly reminder to clean your dryer duct.

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ObligationJumpy6415@reddit

It’s been torn down. I had an opportunity to go see it once when it went up for sale and I didn’t take it, which I regret. My memories are vivid and fond, though, so there’s that.

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blawblablaw@reddit

Yeah. Motherfuckers cut down the big, beautiful blue spruce we had out front that we had grown from a seedling. ☹️

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Khajiit_Has_Upvotes@reddit

We moved several times growing up, and I've driven past several of them over the years so I have a list lol

The farm is still there. House, barn, light pole, pastures, it's still a farm. I actually stopped and talked to the current owner, I was showing my husband the farm I sometimes talk about, she got a kick out of it.
The duplex is still there, and it looks exactly the same. A lot of neighborhoods have been put in around it. It used to be a big vacant field behind the house but now it's just more yards.
The trailer park is still there, but our old trailer is long gone. They also logged all the trees/forest around it that we used to play in and added about a billion more trailers.
The house is still there, and so is the crack house next door. Ahh, the memories.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

My childhood home looks insane now. It’s a beach house on a private canal. They removed the floor to ceiling windows, they got rid of the decorative pillar ends on the decks and covered the sunny decks with covered awnings. They removed the glass french doors into the decks and replaced them with normal doors. They removed the bridge to the roof of the boathouse, and curved the rooftop deck of the boathouse to be a regular shingled roof (which is subsequently smaller and also leaning a bit now). They got rid of the wet bar and turned that into a blank wall, removed the third floor deck, and they got rid of the bar in the kitchen, so it’s fully open into the living room and instead extended all of the kitchen counters on a single wall going the length of the kitchen all the way into the opposite wall where the formal dining used to be. So the kitchen is just one long counter that’s like 70 or 80 feet long, which also caused a couple of windows to be removed on that wall. Oh and they removed the zoned AC and now cool the house with a single unit. And they painted the house canary yellow, where it used to be cream with royal blue trim. Oh yeah and the grassy area between the house and boathouse (which was and still is downhill) has now been covered in concrete which also looks nuts because of the slope.

Now it’s super dark in the house and doesn’t get much natural light, and is just bonkers-looking inside and out. I want to buy it just so I can spend twice the cost of the house just to change it back. Lol

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RoidVanDam@reddit

I lived in the Florida Keys for a few years from the ages of like 9 to 14, in an apartment above a mini golf course called Gator Golf that we ran as a family. I loved that place.

Went back for the first time in 30 years, and it's just a boat lot now. Like a parking lot of boat trailers selling motorboats.

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Tia_Baggs@reddit

The current owners of the house I grew up in bought from my mom almost 20 years ago. New siding and windows were put on almost immediately, the big sin they committed was painting the brick facade. That house was not a happy place for me so I don’t mind the changes, I would be curious to see the inside as the house did have a lot of potential.

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CottaBird@reddit

I’m on that line. My parents are selling the family farm, and since my wife and I are leaving the state instead of sticking around (family farm is my job), they’re going to sell their house, my childhood home.

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dumbass_sempervirens@reddit

The hell?

I just watched this movie yesterday.

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Ztiw-@reddit

Ya it’s worth 3.5 million now 🤡

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exqvisitely@reddit

The house I lived in when I was a toddler/baby in the late 70s looks almost the same, at least from the outside. It's pretty wild. I actually wouldn't mind living there today. (I've always liked that house. I was bummed when my dad sold it in the 90s.)

The house I spent most of my childhood in (1980s) definitely looks more ragged from the outside these days, but the whole block / immediate area has gone downhill drastically. That house's yard was my dad's pride and joy. He spent so much time and money on landscaping, and the people living it ever since we moved out weren't / aren't as motivated to keep up appearances. (I don't blame them, but it's a little sad to see.)

My mom moved out of my teenage home in 2017. It was in desperate need of an overall refresh by then. She sold it to a flipper who kept us posted on the renovations, and it's amazing how much better it looks inside. I was never thrilled with its colors on the outside, which were changed to a different color scheme that I don't like that much either. The front yard was completely overhauled - so many trees were cut down, and a lawn was planted where leaf littered ground was before. I guess it has more curb appeal now. Since the years I spent in that house weren't my best years, I don't have much of an emotional tie to it.

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MaxHeadroomba@reddit

My most formative childhood home last sold in 2014, and the photos from the time revealed that it looked exactly like it did in the mid-90s, which surprised me (it was dated even in the 90s). I have it saved on the Zillow app so that I’ll get an update if it ever gets listed for sale.

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TrustAffectionate966@reddit

Yeah, one of my brothers owns it. 🧉🦄

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TheB1G_Lebowski@reddit

Popcorn

Man I love this movie.

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swisszimgirl79@reddit

I was back in my home country with my brother earlier this year and we actually went looking for our old house. We found it and the new owner let us into the yard. It was surprisingly emotional to find it still standing and basically the same after 33 years. We took photos (of the outside) and put them on the family group chat. Many happy memories were shared that day

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ridelikeagurl@reddit (OP)

That is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!❤️

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Rubberfootman@reddit

My mum still lives in it.

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NekrotismFalafel@reddit

My Mom and Sister still live in it.

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Mgscott8888@reddit

I drove by it last year. When we moved from it 25 years ago, it was beautifully landscaped and in immaculate condition, especially for a home built in 1914. Now, it's run down and looks dumpy. There have been two owners since us and neither of them took care of it. I know that things age and it takes money to keep up a house, but it was just sad to see it fall into a state of disrepair.

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cadcamm99@reddit

The new owner removed the siding and replaced it with brick. All the bushes and trees are gone. They also removed the backyard patio and replaced it with grass. My dad bought that house for 18k and sold it for 150k. The owner is selling it for 250k.

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Mike_Danton@reddit

My mom sold the house a couple years ago. I live out of state. It’s always a punch in the gut when I remember that I really can never go “home” again.

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On_my_last_spoon@reddit

My childhood home was burnt down by the local fire department for training after we moved out.

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IroesStrongarm@reddit

Yes, and at least in my personal opinion, the new owners completely destroyed it.

They cut down a beautiful row of tress, painted the whole house grey, modernized the crap out of it and I just don't understand.

All the character is just gone.

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pinkstrawberrycandy@reddit

Yes, sadly it no longer exists. The house was on the water and one of the neighbors decided to buy my old house plus the one next to it just to knock them both down for more property. It’s very weird to look up where it used to be on google maps and just see empty space.

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ancilla1998@reddit

I grew up on a tiny dead-end street in a rental duplex. The 1 foot tall maple twigs I planted out front in the late 80s are still there. The place is still pretty much the same on the inside.

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ThePlatypusOfDespair@reddit

I have, and I will never understand why you would buy a house in the woods and then cut down all the trees on the property.

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kid_entropy@reddit

It's a duplex and I live on the other side from where I grew up. My brother and I inherited it when my father died.

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Affectionate-Cut4828@reddit

Two of them have burnt down long after I moved out

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

Yes. New owners jacked up the front. Took out all the vegetation & demolished the custom stained glass windows. It looks so cheap and ghetto outside now. However, my mom told me about their renovation ideas inside & it sounds like a huge improvement. I agree with the interior changes, but not the exterior. Hopefully that was just a first phase and they’ve fixed the outside

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no_clever_name_yet@reddit

My dad (parents have been separated/divorced a while) sold about two years ago and I’ve felt absolutely NO DESIRE to go back. What helped was the fact that it didn’t feel like home once my mom left and took most of “home” with her. The decor and “home feeling” was all her doing and her condo has felt really homey, too. The house was an older man’s bachelor pad when my dad lived there (my sister did the decor for his condo and it feels nice). I took pictures after the junkers came and it was empty and WOW are those depressing and weird to look at.

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Hippy_Lynne@reddit

My parents moved in when I was six weeks old, so I obviously never saw the house empty when I was younger. It flooded a few inches in Katrina though which necessitated them moving everything into storage units while they did those repairs, and I did see it empty a few times before everything got moved back in. So when I emptied it out 15 years later to sell, it was so weird and emotional because it reminded me of that time and at the same time I was saying goodbye to the house. Plus, it sold in the very beginning of the pandemic so I was completely alone since none of my family were able to come back and see it one last time.

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Grundle95@reddit

Mom’s still there, holding it down after all these years. I go back to visit and ostensibly help out every summer.

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No_Today_4903@reddit

The house I lived in from 3-12 my husband and I entertained moving to for about 3 seconds and I’m like no thanks. When it was for sale it was in bad shape. The people my parents sold it to did some odd changes to it but let other things fall apart. It had a gigantic garage bigger than the house and how it hasn’t caved in and killed someone is beyond me. I need to look it up again it’s been a while. The house we moved to when I was 12 my parents still live in. It’s a lovely house, gorgeous yard. 2 of my 3 kids are adults, 4 hours from where we live now I don’t like the schools. It wouldn’t be a house I’d want to live in and be old. They want to move for that same reason.

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CobraChickenNuggets@reddit

Parents sold it back a few years ago, unfortunately to a flipper, who gutted the place, and turned it into an ugly millennial grey monstrosity, with exterior "upgrades' that made it look even worse.

The old next neighbour, who was my parents realtor, keeps in touch with them, and says that the house has been sold 3 times, with multiple other changes being made in the past 10 years.

According to them, the interior, is almost completely unrecognizable now, with several walls having been knocked out, along with other major changes.

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NPC261939@reddit

I drive by at least once a week on the way to the grocery store. The current owners took out the cherry and oak trees that were in the front yard. The maroon siding faded to pink many years ago and still remains.

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jenbenfoo@reddit

The house i came home from the hospital to, my dad actually drove by just a couple weeks ago. Different paint on the outside, and the big playhouse my dad built in the backyard is gone, but it looks pretty much the same.

The house we lived in when I graduated high school, I've gone by a few times because my aunt & uncle lived in that neighborhood for awhile. The mailbox moved, the basketball hoop is gone (although my dad might have taken that out before they moved since my brother and I were both out of the house by that point)

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Asleep_Onion@reddit

It was a little house (1200 square feet) in the Bay area, built in the 40's, and sold to the original owner for $12k. My parents bought it in the 70's for $120k, which was actually considered an absurd price for it back then. They sold it in 1992 for $450k.

Zillow says it's worth $2.7m today :/

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UnluckyCardiologist9@reddit

Nope. Dad let it go into foreclosure after he left us for a new family.

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DarwinGoneWild@reddit

I found the first apartment I grew up in a few years back. Still there looking just like I remember.

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glittersparklythings@reddit

We lived in one manufactured home till I was about 12. I know that sounds bad. But it was nice and there was nice community of people. Then we moved into a house.

My parents bought that house brand new in 1996 for $90k. It was 1500 sq ft and 1/4 acre. My dad sold it for $270k. Two years later those people sold it for $370k.

I know my parents couldn’t afford the $370k. I don’t even think they could afford the $270k with a low interest rate.

And if anyone wants to know where this is it is in a tiny town called Port St. John, FL. Not even a city. Just an unincorporated neighborhood essentially l. I had to go to high school in the next town over.

And I am thought to buy a house now and my budget is around $200k. And that is a struggle!

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piscian19@reddit

I believe an elderly couple lives there but Ive never talked to them. I check on it every once in a while. If I'm ever rich I plan to buy it so I can tear it down.

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texan01@reddit

Why yes… my parents still live in it! I was there last week.

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GenderOobleck@reddit

My father gave it away to my stepmom and her kids in his will. My brother and I were cut out completely.

I thought it was because my stepmom pulled some sneaky last-minute shit while my dad was dying but still technically mentally competent. Later I learned he had made the change years earlier, only shortly after they got married.

That fucker pissed away his legacy and estate, just like his father. I’m trying to break that cycle, but just having anything at all to leave my kids is so much harder nowadays.

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KinopioToad@reddit

I have not. I've never thought to. I have looked up a map of the area, and the street is still there, but alas, it's in Texas. I'm from Texas originally. I don't live there now.

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CalliopeKB@reddit

Sold to a developer for the land and bulldozed. 7 condos in its place. I was devastated. It was beautiful. My immigrant grandfather built it in the 30s

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Hippy_Lynne@reddit

My parents moved into my childhood home when I was six weeks old and I sold it about five years ago when my stepfather passed. I had honestly planned to purchase it, but due to the pandemic I couldn’t qualify for a mortgage to buy my siblings out and they weren’t willing to wait. It was put up for sale again this year and I got to see the pictures of what it looks like now. The people who bought it didn’t gut it, but they did do some serious renovations. I don’t mind that because I would’ve done that as well, but they went with this sterile black & white style that I absolutely hate. They also took out an oak tree that was over 100 years old, and that hurt even more. The tree had been damaged by a shitty landscaper hired by my stepfather towards the end of his life, and honestly it would’ve taken quite a bit of money to save it, but I definitely would have. For all I know they did try and just weren’t able to. In the end, it was much too big of a house for me and insurance rates in my area have skyrocketed so I probably would’ve had to sell it anyway. But it’s definitely a wound. I only live a few miles from it and I used to drive past occasionally, but I just haven’t had the heart to for a few years now. I thought about going to the open house when it went up for sale, but it looks so different I didn’t really see the point.

I do have most of the furniture and artwork which was inherited from my grandmother and great grandmother. Some of the other sentimental pieces got sold to close friends so I will still see them. And they agreed if they ever wanted to sell them, they would sell them back to me at the price I sold it to them, since I gave them a deal. I currently don’t have room for all of it, but it’s nice to know I have that option.

I realize I was very lucky to have had a “family home” for close to 50 years, but again, for most of my adulthood I thought I would buy that house and live in it for the rest of my life. In some ways, losing that house hit me harder than losing my parents.

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pienofilling@reddit

My mother still lives in mine!

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guywithshades85@reddit

I grew up on a horse ranch. When I was in high school, my grandparents sold all the land to developers. The houses and all of the buildings were all torn down and is now suburban houses and cul de sacs.

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too_old_to_be_clever@reddit

My old house is now playground for an elementary school

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johnvalley86@reddit

Visited my childhood home years ago. Outside looked the same but they completely remodeled the interior. That included knocking out the wall and removing my childhood bedroom so they could expand one of the living rooms. Felt like I got punched in the gut when I walked in that space. I regret going

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Retro_Relics@reddit

there is nothing more painful than seeing this on zillow:

2001 - sold 225,000
2025 sold - 1,240,000

guess when my parents sold the house?

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Munchkin531@reddit

I've looked it up on Zillow and driven by it a few times. It's crazy how much it's changed in 25 years. The big oak tree is gone. My mom's beautiful garden is just grass. They took out the above ground pool we had. The inside pictures look so strange.

If I close my eyes I can still picture how everything used to look.

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Do_it_My_Way-79@reddit

I actually just looked it up a couple weeks ago. The palm trees my dad planted are huge. Retaining wall he had built is holding strong. Insane price but that’s Orange County, CA for you.

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Correct-Body9590@reddit

Grew up in the projects. They got turned into condos.

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pepbox@reddit

Demolished along with the entire neighborhood. A section eight housing community called Mariners village, in Portsmouth NH.

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CaptianBrasiliano@reddit

It's on Google maps as a business... but not really like a legitimate one. It's been taken over by a self described "Life Coach," (i.e. I can't hold down a real job so I'm just going to swindle people even more useless than me) who seems to be a wanna be Momfluencer type.

Ugh...

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Lady_Ambiguity@reddit

Drove by once and couldn't believe they painted it bright blue, kinda miss the old brick look.

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icanliveinthewoods@reddit

My parents sold it to my cousin for an extremely reasonable price. My cousin probably wouldn’t have been able to afford to buy a home for years (if ever) if my parents decided to sell it off to the highest offer instead of choosing to help my cousin out. My cousin has lived there happily for almost a decade now and has made some improvements such as enlarging the small kitchen and redoing the siding and some windows.

It’s looking great! My mom does say that she wishes that she had pushed for a bigger kitchen in the 30 years that she had lived there.

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glitterfairykitten@reddit

Yeah, it looks like a meth house and all the beautiful walnut trees are gone. I wish I'd never looked it up.

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subsonicmonkey@reddit

My dad just sold our childhood home two years ago (my mom died the year prior).

My friend was the realtor who was involved in upgrading/flipping the house, and we all got a good laugh when he sent us the listing when they put it back up for sale.

Looks nothing like the house we grew up in and we all found a lot of the new decor choices to be… not to our liking. I hope whomever purchased it was into… that.

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PupLondon@reddit

My stepdad was in the army, so "childhood home" is not really a thing for me.

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kinetic_cheese@reddit

My parents still live in the same small town I grew up in, but a different house. I still see my childhood home occasionally when I'm visiting. The paint is chipping, and the beautiful landscaping and garden my parents worked so hard on are grown over and full of weeds. It's sad to see.

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crazycatlady331@reddit

My parents are still there.

When I was growing up, every house on the block was families with children. Today, all those same families are still there. The youngest of all the children is now 31. The only kid in the school system is a grandchild.

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kl1n60n3mp0r3r@reddit

Yes. And I’m appalled at what the subsequent owners have done to it! They got rid of all of our “outdated” wood finishes, and they subdivided the house into 3 - a main family unit, a small mother-in-law suite and a full rental in the basement. (They listed it for sale a couple years back and I did a virtual tour)

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NewsgramLady@reddit

My parents still live there. I go there all the time, though I live about 75 miles away now.

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greyshem@reddit

🎶 And the poolhall I loved as a kid is now a 7-11 music 🎵

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Not_a_werecat@reddit

I visit several times a year since my parents still live there.

I do look up my grandma's old house though. Lots of amazing memories there. Would love to be able to buy it. Sad that there's a ton of neighbors now though. It used to be so isolated that there were no neighbors in sight.

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