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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents live in the same town (in the US) where my mother’s family has lived since the 1770s. There are times when I feel a pull to move there, but it’s a town of 14,000 (and dwindling), so in reality I do not want to live there. Most people are like my mother - [b]they move away for college and don’t move back until they’re retired.[/b]

I haven’t yet visited any of the places in Europe my family came from, so I’m not sure how I’ll feel, but I am a highly sentimental person, so…

A couple of years ago we visited the country my husband’s family fled as refugees when he was a wee tyke. Both my FIL’s childhood home and the house where my in-laws lived when my husband was a baby are still standing, so we were able to see them. My husband found it interesting but nothing more. I think I was more moved than he was (see: highly sentimental, above).[/quote]

Is it common in US to move back after retirement? Wouldn't they stay where they had been working?[/quote]

I meant people in this town, not in the US generally. 
Many of the people who grew up there are like my mother and have a long family history there. It’s a bit of an odd place, and many residents tend to be fiercely devoted to it, but it’s also small and somewhat isolated with no real industry - and therefore no jobs to keep young families. But once they retire, many of them come back.[/quote]

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