How long does it take to feel like your new state is your home? (generation, aunt)
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When we moved to SC, it never felt like home. We lived there 2 1/2 looooooooong, miserable years. A new job opportunity came up out of the blue and we relocated back to NY. We moved to a different area than we're from. We're in Western NY now and it's felt like home since the week we arrived! It feels more and more right like this is where we're supposed to be every week. Neither one of us plans on relocating ever again.
Yeah, I'm planning to move to the suburbs of buffalo or Rochester. I think it will be a better fit for me in NY. They seem to have a more Midwest feel. People here seem kind of hard.
I've been in Oklahoma for 5 years and it will NEVER feel like home. I detest this state. But I do try to make the best of it. Still, I'm a fish out of water here.
I have been here for 14 years and I hate it!! It has never felt like home to me. I don't watch the local news or read the local paper, unless it is about the weather to see how big of a storm we may get. Even the food has been...Eh for me. I am honestly only here for my job, which has been honestly, the most positive thing I have going on here. I definitely miss Ohio. The people, the food, college football season, Cedar Point in the summer...ughhh I could be out here 20 more years and still not call this place home
Moved to Cincinnati, OH, for 3 years, that never felt like home.
Moved to Des Moines, IA for 8 years, that never felt like home.
Moved to Olympia, WA, and while it was super cool and I enjoyed it, I was there 4 years and it never felt like home.
Then came to Colorado Springs, CO. For a time it did not feel like home, until I found a good fit in terms of social groups and made a bunch of friends, and now it feels more like home than anywhere ever did and I never want to leave.
The Meadows?
I actually went to OLG elementary school and Andrean HS. My mom and her husband were Highland residents but I stayed with my grandma in Munster.
For me, any place with a beach, good surf, good food, not too much humidity, mild year round weather, will always feel like home.
If you ever find such a place, let the rest of us know about it!
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