# Do you ever feel sad when leaving a town or city you are visiting? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2019, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285 "2019-10-04T22:01:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/41 "2020-08-25T19:58:58Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Well motherfucker. Ive been calling it San Bernardino all these years. Now i dont even know where the fuck i was! Now I’m _really_ sad. 😥 I’ll have to do some digging and come back to this thread after i clear this up. Best guess: Santa Barbara. Try that one. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/42 "2020-08-25T20:03:08Z")
I don’t enjoy cities. Or towns for that matter. If I have been sad to leave them it is only for the friends I leave behind. But there are natural places I have been sad to leave. Saskatchewan prairie land. John Muir Wilderness in the Sierra Nevada. The east coast of Cape Breton Island. The high desert of New Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/43 "2020-08-25T20:31:37Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > I get that feeling all the time. But ya can’t live _everywhere_ . Very much this. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/44 "2020-08-25T22:45:04Z")
I am always sad to leave New Orleans. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/45 "2020-08-25T23:03:57Z")
There’s a lot of places I like to visit, but only a few that I’m sad to leave. Hawai’i and Puget Sound. If I work it right, I can get a Summer-Winter swing going on those some day. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/46 "2020-08-25T23:11:26Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > Best guess: Santa Barbara. Try that one. That was confirmed 11 months ago.😉 ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/47 "2020-08-25T23:39:28Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > For the past few years we’ve spent two summer weeks on Mount Desert Island, Maine, in a comfortable cottage on the “quiet side,” on a good sized pond. We cook simple meals, hike in Acadia National Park, and sit and read books on the the huge deck. Leaving it to go home has been heartbreaking. For the past 40+ years, excepting this one, my family has stayed for a week on three mile island on lake Winnepasauke. It’s an AMC family camp, so we don’t have to cook the simple meals, they show up on a big communal table at meal time. In addition to hanging out with friends and family, I sit by the side of the lake and watch the sun reflect off the water. I walk around the island. I canoe around the island. Sometimes I don flippers and swim around the island. Then I retreat to my quiet little cabin, smell the clean air, listen to the birds and red squirrels, and relax. I’m always sad when I leave. But part of that is just being on vacation. Yes, the place is wonderful, but so is not working and hanging out with people I’ve known for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/48 "2020-08-25T23:52:19Z")
oh. feel stupid now. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/49 "2020-08-26T04:08:03Z")
Am I the only one who has never experienced this? Generally speaking I don’t mind being other places, but I can’t recall ever being sad to go back home once it was time to leave. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/50 "2020-08-26T11:21:45Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > I am always sad to leave New Orleans I love NOLA, but I can only get by on two hours of sleep a night for so long. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/51 "2020-08-26T11:49:30Z")
I’ve visited Edinburgh, Scotland twice, each time only for a couple of days, but I felt so suddenly and completely at home that I hated to leave. I’ve travelled a lot, and visited many lovely places, but there’s something about Edinburgh that just immediately captured my heart. And, yes, one time was during the winter, and I found it absolutely lovely. It actually snowed a little, and the entire city looked stunningly beautiful, like a 3D black-and-white photo. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285/52 "2020-08-26T15:35:51Z")
Not really leaving cities, but I definitely get this feeling when backpacking and leaving camp in the morning. Places I’ll probably never return to. I always take a picture or two of our camping location. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-feel-sad-when-leaving-a-town-or-city-you-are-visiting/841285.md?page=2)