If you're a foreigner, do you think this?

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If you've lived in the UK for a few or many years... are you torn about ever returning to your 'home' land or happy to stay?

I was born and raised abroad and have been in UK for nearly 14 years... first ten years loved it. Still love it however every 6 months I get a 'pang' about going back to home country... can't tell you why or what is behind it. No aged parents nor a 'family home' so it's not pining for that.... perhaps I'm just a global sailor, rather than a farmer...

Wish I could just settle, it would be a massive upheaval with British OH and jobs, etc.. etc...

do you ever feel like this?

Slowly_does_it..

I've only been here for 7 ish years, so still another 7 to go before I get to your time.
At the moment, I have no wants to ever go back, despite having family back home. The grass is greenest where you water it, so if you don't make it nice here, you will remember the good days back home and want to go home.
I know where you are coming from though!

jackyann

Oh, I am like the bloke who moved from Suffolk to Norfolk, then came back because "they rush about up there".

Can you get back for a holiday? One of my friends who moved half-way around the world and had a family there, comes back every few years, and arranges a week either on her own, or with just one child (to talk about her childhood & family) then her OH & children join her. Not cheap! But it reconciles her tensions.

Billie-S

Always lived here, born here etc. But I do know of a number of people who moved away in the 1970s and 1980s (when they were in their 20s or 30s) and they came back in their 60s or 70s. I think people do often pine for their birthplace.

marisco_2

My ex husband is Russian. Every now and then he felt the pull of home and questioned where we should settle. A reality check in the form of regular visits, brought home to him that life in the UK was far better, and gave him opportunities he couldn't have in Russia.

egoode

I've been here 9 years after growing up in Australia. I have moments where I consider moving home but it's usually because something major in my life has gone wrong and I want to run home. Ultimately though these feelings pass. However I'd never say never to going back and I do visit regularly as all my family is still in Australia. It's a bit easier for me to decide to move back as I don't have a partner or kids at the moment. However I love the UK and love the opportunities I have here that I can't get in Australia so for the moment I'm staying.

pollypenny

I think we all feel a nostalgia for the place where we were brought up. I've only moved from South Wales to North Wales. Whenever I'm in one, I miss the other.

mandragora_2

I often feel like I want to go somewhere else, and I'm British.

Gloomendoom

pollypenny wrote: »

I think we all feel a nostalgia for the place where we were brought up. I've only moved from South Wales to North Wales. Whenever I'm in one, I miss the other.

I don't. I moved away when I was 18 and I've only been back twice.

trolleyrun

I've lived here nearly half my life, but I've never had a desire to go "home". This is my home. Most people I know are baffled as to why I don't want to go back, but they only see the pretty pictures in magasines and they don't know the history of my crazy family.

Tiglath

I'm English, but I shudder with horror at the thought of returning to the place where I grew up. I can't even bear to visit - dull petty place, and the buildings aren't tall enough.