Whether the memories and such are/were positive, negative or mixed, I have always been variously drawn, affected or repulsed by some of the places I have lived or visited in days past. I would not want to live in the house where I grew up, for example, and even though I have positive memories of "the big tree" (nearby) where my brothers and I played as children...and I have occasionally visited there. Changing routes of travel has definitely been helpful at times, and there is a difference between leaving memories behind us and trying to bury them. So overall, I would see nothing wrong with putting some distance between oneself and a given location as a way to possibly help move along in life.