Are you proud of your home town?

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1. You passed through my home town then!

   I am proud of my home town. There’s obviously stuff to complain about and there’s stuff to not be proud of but the positives outweigh the negatives for me and I’m happy to live here.

2. I don’t know if “pride” is the right word, but I like it, enjoy living there, and would gladly show a visitor around.

3. I don’t have such proudness for something I couldn’t control. Maybe if I still lived there and was well versed in the towns goings, but it was just home, but now I have a new home.

4. My home town? No.

   My home state? Yes

   My current home and adopted home town? Yes

5. I’d live in my hometown in a split second, if I could afford it. Too many rich people moving there (moreso than the past), and now you can get a 3 bedroom house that hasn’t been updated since the 60s for the low, low price of 1.4 million.

   But the place is beautiful. Perfect weather, and welcoming city. Just godawful expensive.

6. Yes, I am proud of my home town.

7. My hometown? No. But that may just be because I don’t have the political acumen to say what it’s really all about. I don’t have blind allegiance because I got shat out my mom’s vagoo on that spot of dirt, if that’s what you’re asking.

8. No, I’m not proud of my hometown. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s totally fine. But for me there’s nothing to be proud of and I hope to never live there again.

9. Very proud of Tucson, Arizona

10. I don’t think of myself as having a “hometown”. I consider myself a Long Islander but that doesn’t count as a town since the population is higher than a few states combined. I also think of myself as a NYer.

    I live in Michigan now. I am proud of a few things here. I am proud of the steps our governor, Gretchen Whitmer, had taken to make sure women have control over their own bodies.

11. I have a hard time nailing down what my hometown even is, but nah I’m not particularly proud of any of the places I lived growing up. Most of them are fine enough I just don’t care about them.

12. No. Embarrassed. lol

13. its not necessarily pride for me, more like love

14. Hell no. My home town and the city where I currently live are only about 10-15 miles apart, but I can’t say I’m proud of either of them.

15. I am. Poplarville, Mississippi. A small town with big heart. After Katrina we had to rebuild everything and that resilience makes me proud. Communities like that are the soul of America. Though I no longer live there, I live in Gulfport with my husband and kids now.

16. Hell fucking no. My hometown (read: 4th largest city in the country) is a hot, humid, concrete jungle and my home state is an international embarrassment that won’t stop doubling down on crazy assholery.

17. You passed through my current town!

18. yeah i love my hometown and really identify with it. so much so that it became a bit of a meme with some of my friends in college. many people from western Washington just say they’re from Seattle because not many people know anywhere else. i went to college in hawaii and had friends from all over the country as well as international. they might not have ever heard of Tacoma Washington before they met me but they definitely knew about it after.

19. No, east los is a shit hole

20. No, not proud. But I love my hometown. A tiny village in Germany.

21. Salt Lake is alright, better than say Provo

22. Honestly, yes. Like a lot of people, by the time I was a grouchy teenager, I was very resentful of my city. Like all my friends, I wanted nothing more then to get out and never come back. But as I have grown up and now that I’ve lived away, I’ve come to 3 conclusions

    1. It was a fantastic place to grow up. The gritty roughness of a rustbelt city right next to Lake Michigan? what honestly could be better then that. It was such a unique environment and that environment really played a major role in my development. At 16, I never believed my mom when she said I’d miss it someday.
    2. My family helped build that city! my family worked in the factory’s, worked on the railroad, worked on the docks. While no one is going to write a book about us and even though its not a fancy history, its my history and I’m proud of it.
    3. Uppity academics and their snide comments have made me a fierce defender of the city and its inhabitants. I don’t think a lot of them realize how insulting, classiest, and even borderline racist their comments are.

23. For me, it’s learning that my little fisherman bubble had a lot of colloquial words that are so region specific I can’t even find them online save for some Facebook posts by locals. Most of them are related to fishing or boats, but others are for plants and an assortment of random things.

    I’ve written a lot of them down so there’s a record of them having existed for when the inevitable creep of gentrification drowns out what little is left of the fading angler generations/industry. I’d list some of them but I’d basically give away my address

24. I like my hometown, but only take pride in personal accomplishments. It’s just an unremarkable new england village and that’s okay.

25. Not proud at all. Small town of about 5,000 people, it’s right by the interstate, has half of a golf course (9 holes), barely any jobs, just bars, carwashes, and 2 school buildings. The middle school/high school is brand new and kids that get to class later have to sit on the floor because the classrooms aren’t big enough, but the gym is NCAA quality, so there’s that

    It’s mostly meth heads roaming the streets and drunkards hitting other people’s cars. My best friend’s sister was a drug-runner for a bit. She claimed all she knew was they took off a wheel, popped off the tire, put something in it, placed it back on the rim and car, then had her drive to some other state and do it all over again.

    Lovely place…

26. I used to hate being from Milwaukee. It was the redheaded stepchild of the Great Lakes when I was growing up.

    Now it’s the total opposite. As an adult I’ve moved around enough to appreciate things about Milwaukee that I used to take for granted. Also, in that time it actually developed into somewhere younger me would have loved to live (except for the weather, obviously).

    I live in Chicago, and I like it here too. It’s a great city. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to moving back to Milwaukee at the end of my lease.

27. Proud of Disneyland? Sure, why not?

28. My home town voted to half the funding to our library so I’m not very proud of the town right now.

29. Very proud of my hometown. Even though I live out here in Northern California, home will always be home.

30. I loath my town. Corrupt police, school and town officials. I did whatever I had to do to get out. Haunts me still.

31. I’m proud of my hometown, or at least protective of it and appreciative of its distinctiveness and the way it sharper me. That doesn’t mean I don’t see its flaws though.

    Edit: also proud to live in DC but not from here

32. I am proud of the town where I live now, where I was born. Sadly, I grew up right outside of Cleveland. I am not proud of that area at all. So racist and ignorant.

33. Nah. A) I didn’t pick it and B) It’s not particularly interesting. Just one more town built up around a freeway intersection.

34. Not particularly.

    Not that I have any particular issues with it, it just wasn’t supremely interesting and I don’t have much desire to go back.

35. No

36. The girl who voiced Dora the explorer grew up in my hometown so yes I’m beaming with pride.

37. Absolutely! It was (and is) a wonderful town to grow up in, the residents care about the town and it’s evident in the way they keep it, and the history is cool.

    I’m proud of the town I live in now too. It can be a little strange to outsiders I imagine, but it’s a cute little town and the people are great. In many ways it reminds me of my hometown. I’m so thankful that I like it so much. Before this we rented in a town we really wanted to live in, but when we actually moved there we ended up really not liking it. I’m happy that I’ve actually ended up liking our new town more and more as time goes on.

38. You started your trip in my home town. Even with all its problems I’m proud of it, its people (Chicago weirdos are a different breed) and in awe of how this whole chaotic cluster manages to function day-to-day

39. My hometown is Newtown, CT, and I am DAMN proud to be from there. I can’t say I always felt that way growing up, but after Sandy Hook, I am SO proud of the way our community pushed forward with dignity and grace. I am who I am because of where I’m from. And I’m grateful for my parents for choosing that community to raise their children.

40. All things considered, yes. Philly is a great city.

41. Hey you drove right down the main street of my hometown! 🤠

    Sure, I really like where I grew up.

42. Proud?

    Never thought of it that way. Hmm, do I take pride in where I live.

    No.

43. The golden years of my hometown are no more. But people are trying and I am proud of that

44. Chicago has its problems, but I was proud when we protested Trumps rally in 2016 until he cancelled it lol.

45. Absolutely. I love in a big city, and I hate some of the politics, but I wouldn’t want to be from anywhere else.

46. Proud? Not really.

    More like amused (because living there actually “trained” me for living in Florida) and the fact that the town/city can be a great topic of conversation in the right context.