Where is "home" to you?

[weegiemum]

I've been thinking about this recently, especially since my dd1 left home. Where IS home?

For me it's not where I grew up (as that was several different places from Scotland to London) but it's the place I had my children.

We're really, really lucky to have lived in the Outer Hebrides at that point and though we're now in Glasgow, we still own a house there and go back as often as we can. We lived there as a young couple, bought our first home, had 3 children and it's stunningly beautiful. I suspect dh and I will go back when the dc are all free and living their lives.

Where is your "home"?

(Really interested!)

I lived in the same house in which I was born until I left home aged 23. So that house is where I think of as home...but it's been another 23 years since then...and I've lived in about 10 houses.

Now I live in Australia and it's becoming home.

I call my parents house (where I grew up) home and I call my house home.

Sounds really cheesy but it's wherever the 4 of us are, military family and we've moved around a lot. I don't really think of my "home" town as home anymore especially now many of my family have moved away from it. It's about people not a place, I have no idea where we'll end up, I just try to make the most of where we are at the time.

My flat. The one I live in. The one I chose.

My parents house/area is where I'm from, but it's not home.

My Grandparents where I grew up feels like my 'real' home.

I think it's actually my current place, but before here I would have said my hometown where I grew up.

I got married and had my first baby while living here so that's probably why I feel like I have grown roots here

Home - is normally where my mum is.
She currently lives in my childhood home - but when she moves home will be wherever she chooses to live.

My house with my dd doesn't feel like home because my mums not here

For me, home is where I live now.

I would have said my childhood home for quite a long time, but I've now been settled in this town for 12 years and it's properly home. Dd1 grew up here from the age of 7, and had a lovely life at her junior school and secondary school, is now off at uni but here is home. Dd2 is growing up here and has never lived anywhere else.

I always imagine living here forever because moving house is hard so I refuse to do it ever again

Here, the place I now live. I have no roots here, we only moved to the area 14 months ago,.I have no ties to my children here, they were born elsewhere but the house I am in now is my home. I am no longer at risk of being groped at every opportunity, nor am I accused of affairs relentlessly, nor will I be that child that was shut in the cupboard under the stairs, nor the teen that was hit and called a slut and a slag for having male friends. This is my home, I may only rent it but I am safe and I am secure here.

Wherever I happen to be living at the time. My parents have moved several times since I left home and aren't in the same country any more.

Where I lay my hat. Or rather my handbag.

My home the first I have ever brought myself with my husband. Not far from where I grew up but my home has that feel I can't put words to that comforts me when I am weary

I lived in 15 houses between birth and age 17, and went to 12 different schools. Oddly enough, the only place I feel at home is a remote Scottish island we lived on for about 6 years (longest we stayed in one place). Still keep in touch with school friends and visit often.

I don't know really.

Late-DH felt like home - where ever he was, when I was with him it felt like I was home.

For a long time after I left the place where I grew up was home, that hasn't been the case for a longer time now.

The house I live in is my home, I've lived here for over 18 years, all of my children's lives, one of them was born here. But that's the actual house, not the place or the area.

I've owned and lived in 1 flat and 3 houses. They've all been home. My parents' house (where I lived from age 12 to 19) was home at the time but I don't have any nostalgic 'home' feelings about it since I left. Maybe I would do if I'd lived there since I was a small child. The strongest nostalgia feelings I have are for my university city because I had such a wonderful time there and it's a beautiful place.

Here in the place I live, I've always lived in this small town and have no wish to move away as my roots are here and I know most of the local people. My Mum lives here across the road in a flat as we've let out my childhood home as a holiday cottage

Haven't found it yet

The house I live in now, which DH & built & where we raised our children, is home to me. It's in a beautiful place & even though it's not in my home country I've lived here a long time & feel very settled. Back in the UK, I think of the area where I grew up as home, not particularly the house I grew up in, even though my parents still live there. It's where I came from & I feel deeply rooted there even though it's not where I belong now.

Like a previous pp my home is not a particular house or town it’s where my DH and DCs are.

Home is always the house I live in at the time. I feel settled where I am so this definitely feels like my permanent, forever home.

Both where I live with my family now and my childhood home where my parents still live.

My house.
My parent's house, which we lived in since I was 11.
The town I grew up in from the age of 11 (not my town of birth, and not the town I live in now).

Home is on a farm in 1984 .

With my family

Similar to notanothernam I've moved around a lot as an army brat & then army wife and then a couple more moves after that - I've had 31 separate addresses in 5 different countries (though 3 are uk constituent nations) and some addresses I've lived at on more than one occasion.

So home is far less about places than the people there.

As a result I have 2 places I consider home - and neither is where I am now! (Which I loathe). One is glasgow - being my birthplace and also where all my family are from (though different parts) despite not having lived there for more than a few years at a time on occasion it definitely feels like "my" city and I love it. I'm clearly biased but there's so much going on, so many great things to see and do but I also find the people incredibly warm, funny and friendly - even though my accent is no longer so clearly weegie and I've often had other weegies doubt my claim to be a weegie - I've always been treated well there. I think it's hard for non-weegies to "get" but despite crime stats etc I actually have always felt safe there too, I've had nights out where I've missed transport, lost friends and ended up walking alone to find friends or a taxi and even in "night out" clothes and probably pissed too felt perfectly safe. I've also lived in London and another large uk city (don't want to give too detailed info) and I absolutely did not feel as safe in them. London prices are a rip off too!

And the other is weirdly very traditionally English, but again it's mainly the people as my oldest, dearest friends are there and I miss them massively. Unfortunately it's a very expensive part of the country to live and I'm not able to even consider a move there at the moment. My friends that live there are mostly only able to do so because they inherited their homes or bought back during a bust period in the 90's. It's lottery winnings prices now!

Honestly if I won the lottery (need to play it first 😂)/got a large windfall somehow I'd be moving back there like a shot! Its changed very little over the years and has a lovely close community.

But more likely it'll be a move back to glasgow as that's nearer, cheaper and very central and easy to get to bearing in mind dd is wanting when she's old enough (she's 18) to go into a career that's travel based and I would want it to be easy for her to visit.