Studying economics is what let me be happy for the changes, or rather for the larger number of people who now get to enjoy what only a smaller number used to. 

Adapting to change is irritating, but if you have other-regarding preferences, you can accept that sometimes your losses are meaningful gains to others.

Undisciplined

My parents are always complaining about how the town I grew up in (and where none of us currently live) is changing.

I spent so many years mourning the loss of where I grew up, which was in the country, but which changed in what sounds like a similar way to your town.  I felt the loss deeply; and yet you can't hold to anything, least of all stuff like that.

It's a hard truth to come to terms with, though.

mostly_harmless

Capital Formation Weekly #3

elvismercury

> My parents are always complaining about how the town I grew up in (and where none of us currently live) is changing.

I spent so many years mourning the loss of where I grew up, which was in the country, but which changed in what sounds like a similar way to your town.  I felt the loss deeply; and yet you can't hold to anything, least of all stuff like that.  

It's a hard truth to come to terms with, though.