Do you prefer revisiting places you've been before and are familiar with or exploring the unknown? Going where you have never been before? Why?

Some yes, some no. It depends on a wide range of factors; there are places I've been to only once in life and other places I've returned to many times. Some of the places in both categories I'm glad it was only once or I wish it could be more or I'm disappointed it was only once or I wish I never had to return.

Relative.
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I generally don't go anywhere since I have seen much of the country and the world. I might go to Maine next year. I have been there.

When we lived in Massachusetts my then-mother- in-law owned a cottage on Birch Island, Cssco Bay in Maine. You got  there by boat. It was very nifty place!  Thank you for your reply Ele! That was so long ago and far away!   In the 1960 's! :) Thank you for your reply! Ele! :)

I was pushed into the unknown and it has been very unpleasant. 

Both. I love going back to visit the place where I grew up, but I also dislike it in a way as I have changed, but it has not. I also love exploring new places. I'm in Austin, TX and you don't typically think of Texas a place known for its parks or scenery (I didn't), but there are actually some pretty amazing natural landscapes here. Without exploring, I'd never have discovered them.

New places.

Condolences. That would NOT be my cuppa tea. I don't like being pushed literally or figuratively. It doesn't suit me. Thank you for your reply Star and Happy Friday! :)

I have heard that  Austin is a very happening town. It's a university town and  Andy Roddick,very wealthy retired tennis player, lives there I believe. You know when I went back to a place I had known as a child I could not believe how small everything was. As if everything I remembered had  been miniaturized! Of course you ARE smaller when you're a kid  so things are larger than you but still it shocked me. They say you can't go home again and I understand why. It will not be as you remembered it and sometimes that can be very disappointing. Thank you for your repl FNR! :)

depends on where im going