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Does anyone here NOT get homesick
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?
Re: Does anyone here NOT get homesick
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.
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!!
Dave & Jennifer 10.18.08
My Doha Adventures
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.
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.
Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.