I moved back to my boring hometown. As a parent, boring looks pretty good.

The author wanted to leave her hometown as a child. Courtesy of the author I grew up thinking my small hometown was boring and couldn't wait to leave. Housing costs eventually brought my partner and me back when we wanted to buy. Now I appreciate the family support and community I couldn't see as a teenager. I didn't think parking spaces would have a particularly big impact on my life, but ultimately, it was the thought of not having to parallel park on the street every day that made me realize I was going to move back to the town I grew up in. My partner and I were trying to buy our first home together and hoped to stay in Oxford, the city where we had lived for the past five years.