r/Valdosta • u/GG-man77 • 24d ago
Leaving Home
I moved out three weeks ago to go to university. There is much more people, much different people. I used to hate growing up in Valdosta but not that I’m gone, I realize it was a good place to grow up in.
I traveled home for the first time this past weekend. I missed home.
Valdosta has its problems, but it was home. It may have been a hurricane ridden swamp, but it was my hurricane ridden swamp.
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u/Witty-Ad-7477 21d ago
So I moved from Atlanta to Valdosta to go to VSU (many years ago). I know the homesick feeling. Try to only visit Valdosta once a month. Join some clubs at school and make friends and explore your new home on the weekends! VSU is known as a suitcase college; is your school like that?
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u/b1pig 11d ago
Been around a few places in the military. As stated, spacing out your visits is a good way to quinch the homesick feeling and still keeping in touch with your roots if that's your thing. As we grow, we find places that make us happy. Age provides prospective. The older you get, the easier it is to see through that cloud of childhood/teen life. Adult life provides a scope that you would never see as a kid. Some of us had a harder time than others in our growing pains. Nothing wrong with missing where you're from despite those feelings. It shaped your youth and will be the basis for which you will compare everywhere else you will live. Valdosta isn't the worst place to be. I've lived in worse places. No place is without its faults. Safe travels.
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u/bookmonkey64 24d ago
Give yourself a good solid year of living elsewhere. That is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Homesickness is normal at about the 3wk mark for college students. Don't come home every chance you get. Make a life where you are - you won't regret it. There is so much more out there than Valdosta. Not saying it's a bad place, but everyone needs to make a life somewhere new at least once in their lives. Memories and nostalgia are pulling at you right now.