Where do you feel “ at home”

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Have really enjoyed the thread about places you can’t wait to leave. The Op on that thread talks about feeling very connected to the SW. I have exactly that same feeling whenever I leave mainland Scotland to visit one the islands. I instantly feel that I have “come home” . I have visited lots of spectacular places in Scotland that I thought were beautiful and had great holidays there. But they didn’t invoke that same feel of somehow belonging there .
Where gives you that feeling of having “come home”

Edinburgh. I don't know if I believe in past lives or what, but there is a draw I cannot explain. I just feel so relaxed and comfortable in that city. I would move there in a minute if I could.

Liverpool. I feel so happy when I visit. I sort of know my way around/ feel at home. I have absolutely no connection with the city.
I especially feel an affinity to the Everton area and the football team. I always feel good when they win.
Maybe I lived there in a past life.
It helps that the people are so friendly and down to earth. I never feel like a visitor until my accent (not Scouse) gives me away.

Me too! I went to uni there for 4 years and always just felt so "at one" with the city.

The south of the Lake District

Yorkshire. I guess it's because my Dad's a Yorkshireman & my Mum's Dad was too. I've never lived anywhere north of Oxford, but when I visit the North York Moors, I just feel totally at home.

Part of Cornwall. I arrived there on the train once and the feeling I had of being “at home”was so overwhelming I wanted to cry.
Weirdly DS was with me at the time and he said the same thing even though I hadn’t mentioned anything about how I felt.

Salo on Lake Garda. I am awash with calm when I arrive there, and I'm convinced I'm meant to see out my days sipping coffee lakeside.

I have been to Edinburgh once ,a long time ago ,it was late autumn .
I really loved it ,it had the most amazing atmosphere ,the air almost crackled with excitement.
I felt very comfortable too, i have never felt the same in any other city since.

Norfolk.

As cheesy as this sounds, being a military family that has moved around a bit, it really is just where my husband and children are. We've made different cities/towns/villages work for us. We are settled now, I suspect I will always have a soft spot for the town we've mostly raised our kids in, but who knows where we'll end up, I'm not sure where we'll want to be in the next phase of our lives. I've loved everywhere we've lived; and we've lived in some of the MN no go places!

I visited Tromso in the far north of Norway a few years ago and felt amazingly at home. (I'm Scottish not Norwegian!)

Glencoe. The first time we went there it felt like I was being welcomed home. We go regulary and its always the same feeling. I hate leaving.

On a very small (population circa 250 people) island in Greece. When I first went there, twenty years ago, the people who met me off the ferry asked if I knew where I was going. I said yes, despite never having been there before. Miraculously, I found my accommodation.

I went every year since, for the last ten, for eight weeks a year, since. Sadly, I've had to.stop going as my health is no longer up to it.

but it will always be "home" to me

I really feel at home when I visit Edinburgh. My dad passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly when he was away on a short break in Edinburgh, a few years ago. For some reason I now feel very at home there. I visited recently for the weekend as my daughter is thinking of going to uni there (🤞🏼) and instantly had a feeling of being “at home” that I’ve never felt before. I love the city and hope my daughter does go to uni there

Salamanca in Spain.
Bath and Canterbury in the UK. Both are my happy places. Also Helmsley in Yorkshire.

My aunt's flat.

My parents still live in my childhood home, and I sleep in my old bedroom when I visit. Very little has changed there. Yet when I visit my aunt abroad, in the flat she bought when I was a teenager, I feel a deep sense of relaxation the moment I walk in. I've never lived in my aunt's flat, only stayed for days or weeks, but it feels like home. I never want to leave.

Ireland, especially West Cork where my father was from. Although I have never lived there I just feel that I am ‘home’ as soon as I arrive in the country. It’s a lovely feeling which I think is due to being in the same land oh half of my ancestry.

Cornwall as spent a lot of time there as a child and it is a place with happy memories. Also London, grew up there and wouldn't want to live there all the time now but do feel like I'm home when I visit family.

Currently live in Suffolk.

I've never had the unexpected feeling of being "at home" in some place I don't live. I come from a tourist area and people often say they are overcome with a feeling of being so home. To be honest, I thought it was just a mad American tourist quirk, but clearly many of you feel it too.

When I go back to my childhood home and surrounding rural area I feel "at home". I'm starting to get that feeling for my house in a different part of the country after 7 years.