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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Where do you call "home"?
Is it the city you live in now, the city where you grew up or some city where you lived for any amount of time, but no longer live?
DH finds it odd I keep telling people here in France I'm "from" New York. He still says he's "from" the city where he was born and grew up, even though he hasn't lived there in over 15 years. I'm not trying to stretch the truth or anything, I simply identify NY as home since I lived there for about ten years, had a child there, own a home there, and think I would like to go back to live there one day. It's the city against which I compare everything and the place to which I feel most connected.
Re: Where do you call "home"?
2012 Reading Challenge
Now Nesting from Chicago, IL My nail blog:
I hate it when the Spanish ask: "What do you like better, the US or Spain?"
I have to be diplomatic, stating, "Well, the US is home for me..."
When I talk about "home" I refer to the house that I live in with my husband, wherever that happens to be at the time.
When people ask where I'm "from" I say I'm from Virginia, because that's where I've lived the longest and where my parents and sister still live.
I'd call where I'm living home, I guess. I love to torment Northern Italians by telling them that I'm "from" Naples.
But when asked where I'm from by an American, I'd say my actual hometown (haven't lived there since '94-- I'm too scared to do the math, please don't help).
When asked where I'm from by a (non-northern) Italian, I tend to read the question as, where's "home" in the States (meaning the most recent place I've come from and where I'll go back to), I'd say DC (technically, I'm going back to VA, but since I logged a quality 13yrs in DC, still own a house there, and may move back, and more people from outside the US have heard of it as compared to some SE VA 'burb).
So, yeah, lies. All lies
! No, but really, I do have an awkward pause when answering; which, I'm sure confuses people.
Agreed. Home is where my husband is, but I am 'from' Texas.
When people ask where I'm from, I say "Chicago isn't too far from where I'm from." (in Germany, of course) because even if I say Illinois, a lot of people haven't heard of it. Chicago they usually say, "Oh, that's kind of in the middle, isn't it?" And I nod and that's it.
As to where I call home, it depends on the context. In Germany, I say to friends, "Ok, I'm headed home now." But when I'm talking about going back to visit my parents, I say, "I fly home next week." When I'm in the US visiting my parents and people ask how long I'm staying, I also answer, "We're flying back home next week." So I guess I call home both in the place where my parents live (and where I lived from age 4 to 18) and where I live with my husband.
My home is here in NYC, where MH and I have built a life from scratch. That's what we feel. When people ask me where I'm from I say Rome but whenever I travel back there I never say I'm going back home, simply that I'm going to Rome. Of course that's also home at some level but I don't identify it with where home is anymore. I actually find it odd when people that have lived here 10 or 20 years tell me that they're going "home" (when travelling to their native countries), to me if you've lived here that long *this* is home. I guess it's an unpopular opinion though.
Edited to clarify
Home is where H and I live together. When we were in France (even though if it was only 6 months) it was there. Now home is Australia. But I'm from MI and the DC area. When random people ask I say DC, they seem to know where that is.
I could always go to my grandparents terminology when referring to where they came from and start calling the States "the old country" ;-)
I wonder if Australians would know what that meant? I've never really heard the term here. And well, they never would have "gotten" it in Europe, because, well, they still live in "the old country"!
Home is where we currently live. I haven't lived in my hometown for 15 years and I don't feel like that is home anymore. When people ask where I'm from, I usually just say Canada or Toronto.
Where in Illinois are you from? I'm from Belleville, near St.Louis but I always tell people "chicago" because no one here knows of "St.Louis" and it's way too hard to say "Belleville, it's in Illinois, but next to St.Louis, which is in Missouri..."
Anyway, home is where DH, the cat and I are, which is now Neuch?tel, Switzerland. Where I'm from is St.Louis/Southern IL/ or near Chicago
This is kind of me. Ohio is home as in my hometown - where my family is. San Diego is home as in our home base for when we are no longer IN. China is home as in the place we live and the place I want to be with husband and the place that we are making our home.