RE: Going back home
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The town where I live now has changed a lot over the years. I've traveled back east to see the two towns where I grew up there before we moved out west, and they are both at times nearly unrecognizable. Sure, a lot is the same, but a lot is decidedly not. The old playgrounds have been "upgraded" with plastic playsets. Where I remember 4 grocery stores in one small town, I think there is only one now, and it's a big chain.
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I understand the unrecognizable comment as there are many places I knew that are that way now when compared to my memories. I think, with my own home town, it's the fact it's so recognisable overall because I know it so well, but has fundamentally changed so much so feels unrecognizable. I drive in and think...this isn't right. It's a very old town, founded in the 1830's, and pretty much all the old buildings remain, but...McDonalds and Subway, chain supermarket and retail stores' signage hang on them like some sort of grotesque joke that mocks those who remember it the way it was...all that change in thirty years or so.