Where do you call home?

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Where is home? How many places have you called "home", as opposed to: how many places have you lived in?

Here, I'll start: born in Manchester, England, returned to Manchester age 18. Was there when Ian Curtis died (in Macclesfield, a town which always depressed me, even when I was, like, eight or nine). Family (my wonderful Gran) and friends still in the Manchester area = home.

Partly raised in the East Midlands -- Nottingham/Leicester area. Parents, siblings and a few scattered (former?) friends still there = home.

Worked for 5 years in Northampton. Very influential in so many ways (not so much the Pete Murphy/Danny Ash ways, although they were fun, too) = home.

Lived and worked in the Vancouver area for many, many years. Current home, and as powerfully home for me as Manchester is/ever was.

So, anyway, all the places I lived in I still think of as home. Is that unusual? Or is it par for the course?

― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago) link

So in other words that's four places, right?

― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

eight months pass...

I think of everywhere I've lived as home to some extent, but most of those places are occupied by new families/tenants now, so it's not like I could go back there. But the cities are all mine somehow. I moved around quite a bit, so I had the whereever I go, that's my home philosophy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 29 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Sarah OTM. (I'm still working at practicing it.)

― youn, Monday, 29 November 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never really been able to call one place "home", cuz of financial instability.

― Nowell (Nowell), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I really wish at least one of my parents could stay in one of the places I've lived instead of moving around themselves. :-( I'm jealous of folks who get to go 'home' to see family.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

So am I, actually...

― Nowell (Nowell), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

New Orleans. I never thought of New Hampshire as home, which caused my mother much stress (my father understood; he'd moved to New England from Alabama but stayed mostly because he never got around to moving, and because he spent so much time on business trips that it didn't make as much difference what it said on his return ticket) -- when I moved to Massachusetts, I realized it was pretty much the same.

When I miss New England, I miss it the way I miss Texas and Colorado and Virginia, places I happen to have been and that had cool things I haven't found elsewhere.

In particular, home is/was my last apartment in New Orleans, and the neighborhood (Gentilly) it was in -- central enough to necessities (grocery shopping, pharmacies, bus route, etc) but far removed from most of the apartment districts. Lots of wrought iron, honeysuckles, broken fountains, fried chicken, Creole Chinese soul food, cemeteries, shoe stores, and guys selling mix tapes from wheeled suitcases.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to travel, but I don't wanna leave my current residence. I'm just so used to it.
There's a lot of Orientals, overpriced apartments and houses, and four movie theaters. No "cities". A lot of nice beaches (of course). One big books and music store. And...other stuff that I can't think of.

― Nowell (Nowell), Monday, 29 November 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

motherfuckin worcester massachusetts

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link

achill island, ireland. though i've only actually lived there for four years, in two stints. but it's home.

― d.arraghmac, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Always timeless: Hove. < / Jay-Z >

I think Brighton&Hove has been my only real 'home'. But I have a place in my heart for York too, where I lived for the second longest stretch of time after here.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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