Sweet Home: Returning To Your Hometown As a Visitor

With the plethora of graduations and job changes going on right now, there’s been a huge influx of people “returning home.” However, returning to the city you were raised in can feel weird. The people you knew might be gone, places you visited closed, and much of the time, you end up feeling like a tourist in a totally new city.

I recently went back to New Fairfield, CT to visit the small town I was raised in for much of my childhood education, and found nothing to be the same- a Starbucks, really? This from the town with one pharmacy and a little red schoolhouse. Because of this trip, I totally identified with Claire Marie’s latest post on her return to St. Louis.

After a multi-year hiatus in sunny Miami, Claire Marie, a friend and incoming Frill Seeker Guest Blogger with a great blog of her own, found herself back in St. Louis, and battling with the strange feelings that emerged.

Dear St. Louis, You’ve really done it this time… Click here for the rest of her open letter to her hometown.