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* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Lucy Heartfilia dislikes living in her family's mansion, given her mother Layla's death as well as her father Jude's subsequently focus on his business to the point of neglect. Thus, Lucy only returns to the mansion when she has to.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Lucy Heartfilia dislikes living in her family home, given her mother Layla's death as well as her father Jude's subsequently focus on his business to the point of neglect. Thus, Lucy only returns home when she has to.

* Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals has Emma monologuing about being forced to come back to Hatchetfield, where she was trying to get away from all her life. This is the opposite of Paul, who never wanted to leave his same hometown. They agree over their shared hatred of the sister city Clivesdale.

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

* Chloe Cerise in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' hates her hometown of Vermillion City because she feels that there's no one who truly cares for her and everyone is willing to push what they want onto her. So when she sees the Infinity Train, she's willing to enter it and then stay in it so she never goes back.

** Anakin Skywalker hates Tatooine. Must be the sand.

** Luke Skywalker's not too keen on the place either.

** Rey feels the same way about Jakku. And so does everyone else.

** Han and Qi'ra both want to get the hell off Corellia. The only reason Han plans to go back is to rescue Qi'ra, and that gets forgotten when he finds her working with Crimson Dawn.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer Simpson has sometimes expressed this feeling about Springfield. In "A Star is Torn":

* Film/TheReflectingSkin - Cameron explicitly does not like it there.

* Film/ReflectingSkin - Cameron explicitly does not like it there.

* The musical 13 has a whole number tellingly called 'The Lamest Place In The World', which is Patrice lamenting how much she hates living in small-town Indiana.

* Theatre/13 has a whole number tellingly called 'The Lamest Place In The World', which is Patrice lamenting how much she hates living in small-town Indiana.

SmallTownBoredom is a SisterTrope- this has a far more negative emotion involved and is often at a larger scale.

* ''Literature/CreatureOfHavoc'': The SorcerousOverlord Zharradan Marr was born to the Daughters of Dree, a village of witches, but came to see their magic as [[UnequalRites embarrassingly primitive]]. He magically erased every record and memory of [[SheddingTheFamilyName his original surname Dree]] and cut all ties with the village. They [[IHaveNoSon return the sentiment with interest]].

* ''Literature/CreatureOfHavoc'': The SorcerousOverlord Zharradan Marr was born to the Daughters of Dree, a village of witches, but came to see their magic as [[UnequalRites embarrassingly primitive]]. He magically erased every record and memory of [[SheddingTheFamilyName his original surname Dree]] and cut all ties with the village.

* Gideon of ''Literature/GideonTheNinth'' feels nothing but resentment for the Ninth House, is beyond delighted to leave it behind, and loves the idea of the whole place just dying and disappearing. [[spoiler:CharacterDevelopment eventually has her letting her hatred go, and it's a major sign of growth that her last words are "For the Ninth!"]]

* Often discussed on ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''. Many contestants come 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 its large military presence. She moved to Chicago as a young adult where she started her drag career.[[note]]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.[[/note]]