• xkforce@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    *The population is 50 times what it was when I was a kid.

    *All the cool places we used to hang out at school as kids are fenced off.

    *The big tree that shaded half the yard of the house I grew up in was cut down. The property has been split into 3 separate “apartments” for rent. Everything was repainted and the yard looks nothing like it used to.

    *Everything around town has been built up. Most of the empty fields have businesses or houses on them.

    *The lake my grandfather and I used to fish at is no longer publically accessible. The lake was choked to death by algae caused by farm run off pollution.

    *The main road is paved, has gutters, street lights etc. and isn’t a dirt road anymore like it was when I was little.

    *Trains don’t go through the railroad going through town. They haven’t for years so no train watching.