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23. Yes. About 12 years ago I was

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 02:42 PM

Sep 2025

in the town where I lived from 1954-65. Our house was a new 3 BR 2 1/2 BA ranch style with den, enclosed porch and a full basement on a very large lot in NJ, just 45 minutes train ride outside NYC.
The house had been mansionized. It was two stories and a pool had been constructed in the lower of our two levels back yard. It was hideous. The house my parents had paid $35K for in 1954 was then valued over $1M. Unbelievable. And now? I just checked on Zillow, which says it's worth $2.3 M.

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The last time you visited your childhood home/neighborhood? [View all] True Dough Sep 2025 OP

Drove by my family's farm in 2023. My parents sold it in 1970. sinkingfeeling Sep 2025 #1

A couple of weeks ago? I might have posted about it... LuckyCharms Sep 2025 #2

That's right True Dough Sep 2025 #3

One of them has. LuckyCharms Sep 2025 #5

So you look something like this? True Dough Sep 2025 #7

No, the only hair I have is on the tip of my nose... LuckyCharms Sep 2025 #9

So, downstairs, that would be True Dough Sep 2025 #10

Hmmm...I'd say it's more like a "sprout". LuckyCharms Sep 2025 #11

Timely question EverHopeful Sep 2025 #4

I didn't ask to go inside either True Dough Sep 2025 #8

I drive through my childhood neighborhood every Emile Sep 2025 #6

I think George Carlin suggested going through on your knees Marthe48 Sep 2025 #12

got to go in after my mom's funeral in 2000. mopinko Sep 2025 #13

I went in 2014, The house was gone. The neighborhood was so run down. debm55 Sep 2025 #14

mine shd b on the national register, if u ask me. mopinko Sep 2025 #17

Beautiful home. debm55 Sep 2025 #18

it's amazing. it's small, but so well designed. she used to have huuuuge parties there. mopinko Sep 2025 #19

Only via Google earth. mwmisses4289 Sep 2025 #15

About ten years ago for final estate matters. GreenWave Sep 2025 #16

Every place I lived as a kid has gentrified. hunter Sep 2025 #20

My parents still live in my childhood Luciferous Sep 2025 #21

The house? Decades ago. (And it's only about 3 or 4 miles from where I've lived for the last 18 years.) Iggo Sep 2025 #22

Yes. About 12 years ago I was mnhtnbb Sep 2025 #23

My grandparent's house in Los Angeles suffered a similar transformation... hunter Sep 2025 #43

My oldest son was born in 1986 at Cedars Sinai in L. A. mnhtnbb Sep 2025 #44

It's crazy. My parent's first house was like that, a couple of blocks from the beach. hunter Sep 2025 #46

hard to say for a GI brat Skittles Sep 2025 #24

I didn't have one home or neighbohood when I grew up LogDog75 Sep 2025 #25

I've been by a few times since I'm still in the same area. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #26

A couple of months ago, I drove through the complex I lived in from age 10 to 15. MIButterfly Sep 2025 #27

Well, growing up in an Army family we moved a lot. Mom and Dad did have a house in El Paso sdfernando Sep 2025 #28

Haven't been in my childhood home or property since 1974 and it is only 100 yards away. nt doc03 Sep 2025 #29

My mom sold the house in 1985, and passed away in 1988. rsdsharp Sep 2025 #30

My childhood home is a victim of katrina TexLaProgressive Sep 2025 #31

Yes! Americanme Sep 2025 #32

I found a video tour of one of my childhood homes a few years ago. subterranean Sep 2025 #33

1983, I think mike_c Sep 2025 #34

About 35 years ago, before moving to Maryland Wicked Blue Sep 2025 #35

2001 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2025 #36

I've Driven By The House... ProfessorGAC Sep 2025 #37

It's still there, but... LudwigPastorius Sep 2025 #38

Burned and bulldozed to grow more corn and soybeans........iowa IA8IT Sep 2025 #39

I moved around too many times nitpicked Sep 2025 #40

We moved too many times to say that about a single structure. OldBaldy1701E Sep 2025 #41

2007, when my grandfather died. Aristus Sep 2025 #42

How many siblings, Aristus? True Dough Sep 2025 #48

Older sister, younger brother. Aristus Sep 2025 #53

My parents sold the house I first lived in when I was 9. Harker Sep 2025 #45

Wonderful interlude, Harker True Dough Sep 2025 #47

I hope so, too, TD. Harker Sep 2025 #49

January? Kali Sep 2025 #50

My childhood home burned down when I was in college. CanonRay Sep 2025 #51

Eight years ago Justice Brandeis Sep 2025 #52

1998 helped my parents get rid of stuff. Woodwizard Sep 2025 #54

Never. There were way too many WhiteTara Sep 2025 #55

Yes and the people who bought it Tree Lady Sep 2025 #56