It’s very tough to let go.
I left Joplin, Missouri in 1969. Forty-six years later I still feel like I left a few months ago, and I miss it very much.
All your old haunts, that period in your life, it hangs there in limbo.
The best you can do is develop new friends and replace it as best you can.
I live in Glendale, California now. I was born here and spent my whole adult life here. It has changed so much, I should leave. I doubt I ever will.