History Main / HatedHometown

* Often discussed on ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''. Many queens came from rural towns and/or the DeepSouth, and their background involved moving to a more queer-friendly city where they could safely perform drag. For instance, Season 4 finalist Phi Phi O'Hara was originally from San Antonio, Texas, which at the time she was growing up was terribly homophobic due to the large military presence. She moved to Chicago as a young adult where she started her drag career (to San Antonio's credit, Phi Phi admitted that the city's present-day atmosphere has vastly improved from when she was growing up in the 90's).

When a character for whatever reason hates the place they grew up or were raised in. Maybe the people were jerks, maybe they disagreed philosophically, maybe they didn't like [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the smell]]. Whatever the reason, before or over the course of story they leave it, either to protect the townspeople's sorry asses or to get revenge, or because they were kicked out.

Compare NeverAcceptedInHisHometown, and contrast AHeroToHisHometown, although it is very possible someone could dislike his hometown and still be considered a hero there.

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* Cody Maverick from ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'': "Good-old Shriverpool. *razz* This place ''sucks'', bro!"

* Creator/AndyWarhol was not especially proud of being from UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}; certainly, he identified more with his adoptive city of New York than the place he was born and raised. Creator/LouReed (who knew Warhol pretty well) had this to say about Warhol (from "Smalltown"):

* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven felt this way about Bonn, after being forced to make a brief return he left for Vienna in 1792 and never returned.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Sasuke [[spoiler: after learning the scarifices Itachi made and due to his unstable nature, swore to destroy Konoha. He seems to have gone against this after meeting a revived Itachi.]]

* "One Great City!" by the Weakerthans, in which every verse ends with "I... hate... Winnipeg," although lead singer John K. Samson's relationship with his hometown is more =love/hate=.

* "One Great City!" by the Weakerthans, in which every verse ends with "I... hate... Winnipeg," although lead singer John K. Samson's relationship with his hometown is more ==love/hate==.

** Anakin Skywalker to Tatooine.

--->"Well, if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from."

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* ''Film/StruckByLightning'': Carson despises his hometown, Clover.

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* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "My Little Town".
* Music/BowlingForSoup's My Hometown

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* Whenever Natasha Leggero brings up her hometown of Rockford, Illinois, it is to feature this trope. She enjoys joking about how boring and backwards the place is and how glad she is to have left.

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* TheMusical of ''Theatre/GoldenBoy'' has "Don't Forget 127th Street," a satirical ensemble number celebrating everything wrong about Harlem.

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* Kazusa Touma from VisualNovel/WhiteAlbum2 hates Japan, especially after being away from that country for five years. Not for a real dislike of the country, but because [[spoiler:it's the place where she was forced to leave behind the man she loved]].

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* Blog/OffThePageAndIntoLife is set in Pageson, a vaguely Southern but [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield never-actually-plotted-on-the-map]] small town, where there's nothing for the local teens to do but get on each other's nerves and cause trouble. Most of the cast can't ''stand'' Pageson, but due to circumstances (natural disasters, the economy, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the fact that they're reincarnations of literary characters and a]] MadGod is messing with things to keep them where they are...), no one ever leaves.

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'', a group of the heroes are hacking their way through the jungle-like brush of a tropical island, and Gung-Ho keeps complaining.
-->'''Flint:''' What's the matter, Gung-Ho? I thought this would remind you of home.\\
'''Gung-Ho:''' It ''does''! Now you know why I left!

* Music/LudwigVanBeethoven felt this way about Bonn, he left for Vienna the second time in 1792 and never returned.

* Beethoven felt this way about Bonn, he left for Vienna the second time in 1792 and never returned.
* Music/JanisJoplin was known to feel this way about her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas.

-->'''Flint:''' What's the matter, Gung-Ho? I thought this would remind you of home.
-->'''Gung-Ho:''' It ''does''! Now you know why I left!

--->'''Homer:''' You [Lisa] and I are gonna write and sing our way out of this godforsaken hellhole.\\

* {{Music/Voltaire}} song "Bomb New Jersey". Also, the song "Hate Lives in a Small Town" is more generically SmallTownsAreEvil, but the singer grew up in one and hates it; one verse mentions him being beaten up by football players for supposedly being gay, and he left as soon as he could for the big city.