Do you feel like you're 'at home'?

[Stig]

Ah, well perhaps slot it in as a foreword then

 

[marty21]

been in this flat since 1997, it does feel like home now

 

[Gromit]

Pontypridd is where I live but Cardiff is home.

How I wish i could afford a 3 bed house in Whitchurch but that ain't going to happen without a lottery win.

 

[bluestreak]

i don't have a hometown as such. the bit of london i grew up in never felt like home, and now i have no friends there , no family, and no reason to go back. where my mum lives is in no way my home, it's her house. i feel at home in this house and in brixton in ways that i've neer felt anywhere else. friendly neighbours, a community that feels like a community, rather than just a load of people in the same place. in a wider sense london is my home. i identify more as a londoner than as an englishman, a briton, or a european. i feel (rightly or wrongly) that i ahve more in common than a londoner who wasn't born in this country than i do with most of the rest of this country really.

 

[Herbsman.]

A very poignant post Stig

If you ever write a book, this should be on your first page

It was a very poignant post indeed.

I really hate the word 'poignant' my fingers went all tense and angry when I typed it... can't we stick to 'affecting' or 'touching' instead?

 

[suzee blue cheese]

That at home feeling, I'd say has been totally down to the people around me, not necessarily about place. Maybe because I was moved around a lot as a child and continued moving as an adult.

I always felt most at home when far away and travelling. Oddly enough. It's less hard to be a stranger in a strange place than being a stranger in my own land.

 

[SubZeroCat]

My parents' home/the place I grew up in doesn't feel like home at home, I feel slightly uneasy going back there. I feel more at home now than I ever have done (South London) - I think perhaps this is because I am established as an adult/individual etc and because quite a few mates live near by.

 

[Belushi]

Originally Posted by trashpony
I've moved around so much since I was a baby that it's wherever I happen to live. I can settle anywhere. I don't come 'from' anywhere though. But I don't know any other way to be so it doesn't bother me anymore.

Innit.

 

[pengaleng]

I don't even have one.

 

[moomoo]

I've moved around so much since I was a baby that it's wherever I happen to live. I can settle anywhere. I don't come 'from' anywhere though. But I don't know any other way to be so it doesn't bother me anymore.

Same here..............I hate it when anyone asks where I come from because I never know what to say

And it's asked a lot because I have a noticebly different accent to everyone else around here!

I've lived here for 20 years now so I suppose this is home

 

[The Sick Anchor]

edited, wrong thread

 

[Pingu]

i feel at home where we live now.

whenever i have moved somewhere I have always taken one of the dogs and their reactions to a house has often determined if I have taken it or not. I rememebr going to see one house that was lovely but it had no soul iykwim. Katie wouldnt settle there and looked on edge all the time. Turns out some bloke got killed there during a break in.

I also trust her instinct when it comes to people. I find if she doenst like them then I normally dont either. How much of this is self fulfilling I dont know but it seems to work for me.

 

[vipper]

The house I grew up in felt like home and going back there after I left home always felt like home too. My parents have moved and they also say that there new house, whilst it is home, is not home like the old house. The bought the place as a wreck and spent 10 years renovating it - they have put so much of themselves into it that, unless they do the same again, they feel nowhere will really feel like that home.

The house I live in now, which we moved into 2.5 months ago, is beginning to feel like home. Up to then I lived in cities and didn't really feel at home (although to be fair since my number one preoccupation was getting hammered I'm not sure I thought about it at the time). Here I feel like I am building a home and a base and, oddly, for the first time this weekend, I really feel comfortable. Possibly something to do with organic chicken manure and pine cladding removal.

 

[ats]

An American writer, whose name I forget, once said 'Home is the place where, when you've got to go there, they've got to let you in'.

Which I think covers it pretty well.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Feeling a bit homeless here. I've been in my house for 9 years and it still feels weird. I think its because it has been a battle from day one. The only place I was able to buy was in a pretty dim neighborhood. The city is in the process of taking my front yard by eminent domain for road improvement. I've had two murders on my block since I moved, along with assorted drug dealers and prostitutes. Oddly, my best neighbors are the guys in the half-way house for newly released felons.

... and lets not get into my family and hometown.

The place I've felt the most at home was the Chicago Art Institute when I visited there. I'd have been quite happy to move in if they'd let me.

 

[subversplat]

Not in the fucking slightest.

I am getting more depressed as the days go on in this town - it's shite

 

[Treebeak]

Feel at home in London but not in my house. My house has no 'soul'. I might as well be living in a hotel.

I blame this partly on the fact that there are no pictures on the walls but mainly because I either dislike or am mildly bored by my flatmates.

Hurrumph.

 

[HeroineSheep]

Home is where the first thing you do where you get in, is open the fridge.

Well, that's what my brother reckons. He's a bit of a fridge floozy.

 

[longdog]

I feel perfectly at home.

This flat is the first place I've had for any length of time and lived on my own.

I can live in a pigsty if I want, I can have my dogs and I can please myself.

I get on fine with the neighbours and even get to watch the occasional riot like last night

I only have to walk two doors up the road to get my weed

 

[spanglechick]

I already feel more at home in this flat i've lived in less than three weeks than the last flat - which i lived in for three years.

Partly that's the "aww" factor, and I feel very lucky - but I guess it's partly because my parents moved away from the area i grew up in a few months ago. That definition of home doesn't exist any more.

 

[Choc]

the ultimate home for me is the house where i grew up and my parents still are.

i am such a baby :0

on a bad day i wish that i could be back there and my mum will call me in when lunch is ready...

 

[Choc]

but despite that it is the place where my room is and i am comfortable and safe, which since some years is in central brixton

i agree with bluestreak about the londoner thing. just that its not 100% home (like for most of us)

 

[Biddlybee]

I've moved around so much since I was a baby that it's wherever I happen to live. I can settle anywhere. I don't come 'from' anywhere though. But I don't know any other way to be so it doesn't bother me anymore.

Same here. Always struck me as a bit odd when people would say they were going 'back home' to see their parents (in a different city/town) because I always consider where I live at the moment to be home.

 

[LDR]

Wherever I lay my hat, oh oh, that's my home, mm yeh.

Trouble is I can't remember where I left it.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

I've been living in this rented flat for 1.5 years and it still doesn't feel like home. The other flat I was renting at felt like home and I was only there for 6 months.


All the places before that never felt like home. My parent's hoes doesn't feel like "home" anymore but that's cos I consider my home to be with my boyfreind.

I think it has alot to do with how much you liked/like your living space. I relly miss the old flat and was really pissed off when we were tod we had to move out.

 

[suzee blue cheese]

Always struck me as a bit odd when people would say they were going 'back home' to see their parents (in a different city/town) because I always consider where I live at the moment to be home.

I often say that if I'm about to visit my folks, but that again is about people not the place. My 'home' town doesn't feel like home as such, it's just a familiar place. Spending time with my folks, even though they're divorced, remarried and neither live in our old family house, feels homey..