Ever feel like you don't belong where you are?

loocyloo

I grew up in southern England, lived in Sydney for a few years ( loved it, but it wasn't home ), back to southern England and a few years ago moved to North Yorkshire.


I love it here, it feels like home. we have no family nearby and knew no one when we moved here, but its definitely the place for us.

olibrofiz

Ah, had to post. I don't 'belong' in the UK. My father was in the Foreign Office, and we lived abroad a lot - Singapore, Peking, Africa, Moscow, Australia and South Africa. They always kept our home in the midlands to come back to.


I 'belong' in Darwin, Australia. Lived there for two periods of 2 years, and also went on a working holiday for a year travelling around Oz. On our first stay in Oz we were in a cyclone and had to be evacuated - I belong to a fb group about the survivors and we all talk of displacement, so, for me, that may have something to do with why I can't settle.


Whenever I step off the plane there I just have this feeling that I'm home. UK is just somewhere I live.

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My husband and I think we are Canadians in Scottish bodies We do talk about moving there as we are both in occupations that Canada is looking for (OH in particular), but my parents here and working culture there put us off a bit. We have visited a few times, both East and West, and it feels like "home", or at least a second home.

Sure, the rose tinted glasses are probably on a bit but it does feel like a deeper connection than simply being on holiday and being taken with the superficial cultural things that are different to the UK. I do find it funny though being over there and having people excited by our accents (being begged to repeat our coffee order twice when he understood the first time ) and being thrilled to have us visit (friend of a friend over there knew her Grandad was going to be thrilled with having GENUINE Scots in their summer cottage and the place was filled with tartan). Meanwhile, from our point of view we are the descendents of the unadventurous ones who stayed put while their ancestors left ours behind and went off to explore the wilds!

Bookworm53

I had the same feeling when I came over from the Netherlands to England to study here, this real sense of "I have come home". It's now 27 years later and I still have that feeling, it really has become home.