Do You Live In The Same Town Where You Grew Up?

No.
I grew up in an old cow pasture/strip mine about a mile from a very small town. We would walk to town for a haircut at Cy's barbershop and get a Popsicle for 4 cents at the little mom and pop store. There was a fire station, post office, funeral parlor and a small metal fabrication shop. Here's what it looks like today:

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To the east about 3 miles away was a boom town known as "The Glass City". Built on top of natural gas wells at one time it produced 70 to 85%of the world's glass.
We would walk to town to pay bills and get a cherry coke at the drug store. On Saturdays it was time for the kids' matinee at the movie theater and a 7 cent ice cream cone at Isaly's, they invented the Klondike Bar .
Here's what it looked like when I grew up...not much left of it now...mainly abandoned buildings.

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Sure, nothing there now. Glass factories closed, ground polluted, just a few restaurants in town, It was booming as a kid. Two of the three stooges lived there for two years before they got their act together. The town even had gangsters and The Black Hand (Mano Nera).
They had a school teaching how to use the stiletto in Hillsville.

 

Did you notice the trolley tracks going down the center of the street with the bricks showing through the blacktop?

The trolley was gone by my time but it used to run 20 miles into Pittsburgh and 20 miles the other way to the mountains. Right out of town there was a trolley park that had amusement rides, a huge public pool with a section for boating, a dance stand, etc. That was where Moe and Shemp had an act back in the Vaudeville days.

All that was left by the early '60s was the pool. That was where we'd go and swim in the pool or hang on the outside of the cyclone fence looking for friends. Before we could drive we'd walk about 3 miles to get there and 3 miles home.

Above it was a man made lake that was used by the rich Mellons and Carnegies of Pittsburgh. It broke in 1903.

For you nostalgia buffs here's a short video on the history.

https://youtu.be/WU40bFgjkkU​

 

Did you notice the trolley tracks going down the center of the street with the bricks showing through the blacktop?

The trolley was gone by my time but it used to run 20 miles into Pittsburgh and 20 miles the other way to the mountains. Right out of town there was a trolley park that had amusement rides, a huge public pool with a section for boating, a dance stand, etc. That was where Moe and Shemp had an act back in the Vaudeville days.

All that was left by the early '60s was the pool. That was where we'd go and swim in the pool or hang on the outside of the cyclone fence looking for friends. Before we could drive we'd walk about 3 miles to get there and 3 miles home.

Above it was a man made lake that was used by the rich Mellons and Carnegies of Pittsburgh. It broke in 1903.

For you nostalgia buffs here's a short video on the history.

http://youtu.be/WU40bFgjkkU​