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We thought we did, then health concerns and two horrid winters made it pretty plain that we can't stay here. We had a great time but our next adventure is in SoFla. The best for last, I hope.
Have you found your "home" and/or "forever place?" I moved and it still doesn't feel like home. I don't think I have lived anywhere where I can say I feel like it is "home." Even my parents never lived in a place that felt like "home." I know people that say they will plant roots down somewhere and stay forever but with so much uncertainty how is that possible? Does anyone else feel like that?
Dunno, but I don't.
I was born and raised in a wonderful small town in western NYS, and loved it for eighteen years. After college I lived in Manhattan (the NYC Manhattan) for forty plus years, and for thirty it thoroughly replaced my old hometown in my affections. The last ten years in NYC, I felt increasingly dissatisfied with the city, and I moved to a very small city on the south coast of Europe. I have never for one second missed either NYC or the US, and I am old enough I expect to die here.
I so certainly put down roots, but I'm also transplantable. Places change, and if you don't feel comfortable accommodating the changes then time to put down roots elsewhere.
Have you found your "home" and/or "forever place?" I moved and it still doesn't feel like home. I don't think I have lived anywhere where I can say I feel like it is "home." Even my parents never lived in a place that felt like "home." I know people that say they will plant roots down somewhere and stay forever but with so much uncertainty how is that possible? Does anyone else feel like that?
It's not so much as the place, but the people around you. When you're surrounded by good friends and family and have strong long term relationships, you can be happy any place
I just bought a home in Feb 2015 and it still doesn't feel like home. I hate it. I think I bit off more than I could chew. I like order and I like quiet, and was dismayed that I had chosen a home directly across the street from a family that holds weekly fiestas/bbq's in their driveway/garage. Music is bumping every weekend and I cannot stand it anymore. Between them and the Husky next door that goes on a barrage of barking every time I open/close my back door, i'm over it. My APARTMENT COMPLEX was quieter than living around here.
Also, just the thought of dragging my azz out there ONE MORE TIME to mow/edge/weed in this Texas heat makes me wanna say "uggghhhh". I had dreams of tweeting birds, organic gardening and homestyle Christmas parties. Then reality set in. So, after 6 months i'm selling. oh well....gotta do what you gotta do
We thought we did, then health concerns and two horrid winters made it pretty plain that we can't stay here. We had a great time but our next adventure is in SoFla. The best for last, I hope.
I made the move a few years ago. The winters were really getting me down. It took some getting used to SFL. In some ways the culture is very different. But there is a lot to do here year round and I've enjoyed it and decided to stay.
I was born and raised in a wonderful small town in western NYS, and loved it for eighteen years. After college I lived in Manhattan (the NYC Manhattan) for forty plus years, and for thirty it thoroughly replaced my old hometown in my affections. The last ten years in NYC, I felt increasingly dissatisfied with the city, and I moved to a very small city on the south coast of Europe. I have never for one second missed either NYC or the US, and I am old enough I expect to die here.
I so certainly put down roots, but I'm also transplantable. Places change, and if you don't feel comfortable accommodating the changes then time to put down roots elsewhere.
Those are some pretty ideal places to live for the various stages of your life, you are very lucky to have been able to experience what you have. It sounds like you know exactly what you like and when you find it, or when you are ready to change it, you go ahead and do it.
I hope to follow a similar pathway- at least a small city on the south coast of Europe is certainly a place I'd love to end up
I've called more than a couple of places home. I don't like to move--leave familiar things, places and people behind--but once I get to the new place, the adventure begins. I've felt "at home" rather quickly in one place. The others took more time.
I've always felt sad about leaving my gardens. I had put a lot of work into them.
I think I'm too young to have found that place yet! My parents seem to have found what they'll call home for at least another 10-20 years, which is great because they've only ever lived in one place for, at most, 3 years.
My dad always says that a man only feels like a man on the road, though that may be a bit lost in translation, it always made sense to me. I can't stay in one place for too long.
I haven't felt like any place has been "home" to me since 2007-2010.....
Even right now, I just moved over the past week & even though the place itself is beautiful-
hardwood flooring, fantastic kitchen, open & airy--
It's not somewhere I'll stay for more than a year or so....
I've unpacked all the necessities, but won't be unpacking all my stuff.
I have found "home" a few times. Then after a while I always catch a bad case of wanderlust. Every time I settle down some place I love, evetually I start yearning for new adventures and far away places and being on the road again.
Then when I finally am traveling around, I get over it after a few months and yearn for a place to call home again. It's a catch 22 for me .
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