Does anyone here NOT get homesick

dulcemariamar1

Maybe, I am strange but I dont really get homesick. Maybe, a bit around the holidays but for the most part I almost never get homesick. I have an awsome relationship with my parents, I call them every day, but I dont really feel the need to go home. It could be that I have a huge fear of flying so I am just happy being here. Plus, my parents moved away from the state that I grew up in so when I visit it doesnt feel like home.

Do you get homesick a lot?

kelly321

I get homesick less and less. It's more that I sometimes crave certain foods or am nostalgic about certain times / events / people in the past. Most of the people I care about I talk to just as frequently now as I did when I lived in the States, so there's no real reason to miss them. I thought when I was pregnant that I would get really homesick, but I didn't.

I'm really excited about going home this summer not necessarily for the fact that I'll be "home" as much as the fact that DH will be off work for so long, plus I have very pleasant memories of summers as a child and teenager.

oneslybookworm

I miss my good friends, and sometimes worry about my parents because they're getting older, but I don't really get homesick.  I go home more because my mom's nagging gets to be overwhelming rather than the desire to actually go home.

MouseInLux

I don't get homesick but I don't really have a place to get homesick for plus my parents live near me so I think that helps, maybe it means I'm not allowed to get homesick

JennyBee1018

I don't get homesick, because for us, Doha is home. We don't have a home in the US, so when we go home, it's just to visit family and friends. And when we're in the US, we find ourselves saying I'm can't wait to go home, meaning Doha.

So no, I don't get homesick. I agree with whoever said I really just go home so that my mother doesn't nag me about when she'll see me again!! 

Potato Pie

I felt like I was getting homesick less and less, but just this week I've been thinking that I really really want to move back to the States. Not even anywhere in the States, I want to go back to the Midwest. I wasn't even satisfied with the idea of Canada.

Maybe it's just a phase because other times I feel like this could really be home here in SA. 

sushisamba

I've never really been homesick for where I grew up (and my parents still live).  I love visiting, but there was never a lot to do there and I don't have any friends there anymore, so not too much to miss.

If anything, every now and then I miss NYC and all the conveniences it offers and my friends.  But that's usually just after I come back from a visit there.  I wouldn't say I get homesick for it though.

LadyMadrid08

I don't get homesick for Seattle because I pretty much hate it there and I definitely feel at home where I am. However, I do miss my family. I also talk to my mom most days but sometimes (read:now!) I really miss my family and just want to go back and visit. I think this recent bout of homesickness is due to the fact tha dd just arrived combined with the stress of the holidays and wanting to see my neices and nephews. I do feel the longer I am herr the less frequently I get homesick.

traveling turtle

Since I've been here I've only had one really strong moment of homesickness, and that was the month of January 2012. I think it's because I found out I was pregnant while on vacation and wanted to get home to Germany and once I was in Germany, I just wanted to be in the states. I've since realized that part of my homesickness was actually my want for two things that I can actually get here (and one I can't). I can get a bigger place here and I can get a car. There, I don't need to move back. But, I can't get family that are built in babysitters. Oh, well. My H gets more time off here and I like that more anyway. 

VABeach08

I don't really get homesick.  Honestly, I really don't miss very much (family and friends excluded) about life back home.

ETA:  I'm only here temporarily (5yrs), so that may also factor in... I think it's easier to focus on the positive about where you are when you know it's only a "limited time opportunity".  You know? 

Probably the closest I've been to "homesick" is since my sister's diagnosis (Nov '11).  I really would like to be closer to lend some support.  But realistically, even if I were home it's not like it would make things magically better, unfortunately. 

Pseudonim

Living in America is my life now, but I am no less homesick than when I emigrated 16 years ago. There's good and bad to both. I had to miss 2 funerals for my grandparents and it's hard for them not seeing their great grandkids.

Publius

I don't really get homesick but I do get into a really weird funk for a week or so after I get back from seeing my family. That's the only time it ever really bothers me that I probably won't see them again for a year.

kelly321

traveling turtle:

Since I've been here I've only had one really strong moment of homesickness, and that was the month of January 2012. I think it's because I found out I was pregnant while on vacation and wanted to get home to Germany and once I was in Germany, I just wanted to be in the states. I've since realized that part of my homesickness was actually my want for two things that I can actually get here (and one I can't). I can get a bigger place here and I can get a car. There, I don't need to move back. But, I can't get family that are built in babysitters. Oh, well. My H gets more time off here and I like that more anyway. 

  Our bases of comparison in the US and Germany must be vastly different! The price of my parents' 4000 sqft (400 sqm) home on 2 acres of property where I'm from in the States would get us an old fixer-upper house (and I mean major repair work necessary) or a new max 80 sqm apartment here. One of the main reasons we haven't said definitively that we'll stay here is the cost of housing compared to my area of the States.

ukyankee

I don't.  But I haven't lived within 4 hours of my parents for a LOT of years, so I didn't see them all that often anyway.  In fact, I talk to my parents more now than I did when I lived in the States.  I love my family and friends, but they are all over the country so it's not a big deal. 

And honestly, this is now my home.  I own a house, am married to a great guy and have a job I love...I didn't have that back in the States.

GilliC

Nope. I never have. Sometimes I get "heresick" because I'm having a bad adjustment day and things aren't going right (this happened a lot in China), but it's always more about "If I was back in the US I would know how to handle this" rather than "I miss the US." I've never really been homesick even at summer camp, in college, studying abroad, etc. And now I don't get along all that well with my parents (I call once a month out of obligation), and my friends are spread across the US. So while I miss living in the same state as my best friend, that's the closest to homesick I get.

In China we once had a similar discussion with some ex-pats, and someone asked "Are you a sheep or a snake?" I'm a sheep! And XH was a snake! Crazy!

azure_azure

I don't get homesick anymore.

I was very disappointed in my friends last summer when I was back in my hometown for two months, and it left a bad taste in my mouth about visiting. I really miss my parents and my brother, but they visit us and I spend a lot of time with them when we visit.

For things that I miss, I can't think of anything. I found substitutes in Asia and now I've pretty much found substitutes for the Asian products here.

 

bluegirl2006

There are people back there that I miss so much it breaks my heart and there are conveniences and some food items that I wish I had here, but I don't get homesick for the place at all. I've acclimated here quite well now.

myblueangel19

I don't get homesick for the place. I never felt a strong connection to Dallas and have no desire to live there. I do, of course, miss my friends and family sometimes. When my mom got her transplant and I wasn't there, it was hard. My grandmother being sick and dying, hard. My best friend is getting a divorce and I cannot take her out for drinks. My dad no longer being able to work because of medical reasons, also hard. But it doesn't give me any desire to move back to Dallas. I love where I am at and we are really starting to build our life here.

sucredee

I don't think I have ever been homesick in my life. I had been talking about moving abroad (no specific place) as soon as I was out of high school since Iwas about 11... I graduated HS at 17 and then went on a college exchange program to the US and I am still here 22 (wow, has it really been that long?) years later. My mom was always terribly controlling and basically trying to live her life through me (I am the youngest of 3). I just did pretty much everything she wanted me to do and then I bolted after graduation. She disowned me when I decided to stay here and didn't talk to me for 8 years. I get along with her now but we are definitely not close (our family has never really been close). I never talk to them on the phone but just e-mail with my dad ("and your mother says hi too"). I am fairly close with my sister and we talk about once a month or so. My brother I get along with fine but we are definitely not close. I was so young when I left I really lost contact with pretty much all of my friends over the years.

I guess I am weird probably but even since I have had DD I don't really miss being closer to home. I am pretty content just visiting once a year. My sister comes here once a year as well and we just recently started skyping.  

As far as things go though, I would miss mostly the chocolate and some other Dutch sweets, but now I am able to get a lot of it here. 

katrina_pharmd

Nope, I don't get homesick often at all.  I don't even talk to family and friends that often due to busy schedules, babies, and stuff.  We love it here, and consider this our home, especially since we started our family here.

anna7602

I get nostalgic, not homesick. I don't really know how to explain, except for to give examples. I miss going on vacation with my grandparents when I was a kid. Both of them are deceased now. I can still go to the place I went with them, but it's the experience of being there WITH them that I miss. And even when they were still alive into my late teens, it was the experience of my being 9 or 10 years old with them that I missed and pined for.

When I think of places I want to be, it's usually like that. I want to be in the city where I grew up when I was in 4h grade and got to spend a day off from school out and about with my dad (when it was my mom who usually took the day off when I didn't have school), etc. I don't really think all that much about going there right now.