You can’t escape where you came from, would that you could.
Even if you have barely any contact left with the place, the connection is
never truly severed. This was the first place that was ever real to you; it is
the first place that formed you, the first influence in your world. And if,
like me, you lived at the place from birth until you left to join the adult
world, the sheer weight of time and repetition of circumstance melds into your
developing brain, it creates synaptic connections between otherwise
un-connected meaningless events which, taken out of context, have no sense or
relevance.
