Never leave your home country again - or never be able to go to your home country again. Which would you choose?

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I agonise over this; really struggle to decide which I’d do.

Rules: visas etc no object, you could live anywhere else in the world. starting with same standard of living/set up that you currently have.
Those you live with come with you.
Others can visit you, but you can’t ever return to your home country.

I'd stay. My Gran can't travel and not seeing her again is impossible to think about.

I'd stay in Great Britain. If the rule was never leave England I would have to think about it, but as long as I can still visit Wales and Scotland I'll be happy staying here.

@betterangels
yup, that’s the sort of thing that stops me!

But the thought of never seeing anything else of the world seems so sad…..

I'm a proud Brit and love it here, but I think I'd choose the latter option.

Not quite sure where I'd make my new base, but I am sure where it wouldn't be; the US. It's just not for me.

I hear that. I travelled a lot years ago, have lived in different countries, so that helps me make the decision.

My Gran is wonderful though. It's not a difficult decision.

I'm out of here. There are things I'd miss a bit but my plan has always been to retire somewhere warmer.

Losing the crutch of the NHS is a potential issue but I hope to be able to cover my medical expenses up to the point when I choose to take a one way trip to Switzerland.

I like to travel but if this was the only option for everyone I’d very happily stay in my home country, England, I adore it.

While I love Scotland, I increasingly hate the weather and the politics. I’d leave and never look back.

Oh, I missed the new criteria:

"ONE country of your choosing (birth country/home country/wherever you live the most/have settled). Never be able to leave that country ever again.
OR
Anywhere else on earth, but NEVER be able to return to the one ‘home’ country."

Hmmm... Much harder to decide. I think I'd move away from Canada - even though I love it - if the alternative was that I could never leave Canada at all.

Oh, BUT, only if both of our adult kids moved with us. If they chose to stay in Canada, so would I.

I'm a home bird...no matter how much I love to explore there is no place like home for me.

Very easy; I have no intention of ever going to my home country again (apart from passing through an airport hub en route to somewhere else).

I would choose to never leave rather than never be allowed back. For all its flaws, I love the UK.

Never go back

I'd choose to never leave the UK. I'm a total homebird and get homesick on holiday. I've never been anywhere I like better than the UK so I'd stay put

I'd stay in Bonnie Scotland I love it here, when I go away I can't wait to get home and get a drink out the tap, even the rotten weather doesn't bother me!

They can visit you anywhere though!

I'd stay in England

I have a friend like this and she just does not get why other people go abroad and has no interest! I find it hard to understand but wish I was like this.

As I've spent most of my life in England I guess I'd have to claim this as my home country. I'd have to vote stay with a very heavy heart because of family ties here especially in my wife's side and those family members would struggle to travel. I was born in South Africa though to Scottish and Canadian parents and have never felt like I belonged anywhere in particular. I guess I could claim South Africa then go for the travel everywhere else

I have a version of this. I emigrated at 35 due to my husband's job and built a new life in the UK but all my family left my home country for Australia. They then imploded because they packed up all their troubles with them and I'm no contact.

So I've no family in my home country and just don't go back - I've been there twice in 17 years as emotionally it's too upsetting, too many memories. I feel almost stateless - I know that sounds odd.

Living abroad without ever visiting home is so hard.

I do feel rootless and lost - it's horrible. I said to my husband that it's like being in witness protection.

This is the very real life situation many undocumented migrants to the USA make all the time. Once arrived and established they can't go back home because they won't be let in again.

Pretty huge thing when you think about never seeing your home country or family ever again.

I don't really have a home country/town whatever. I was born in the country my mother is from, passport from where my dad is from, and we moved every 3-4 years (to different countries and continents) until I was 17.

So I'm a foreigner everywhere really. There's no going 'home' in the way that people are talking about on this thread. And I don't mind it tbh. You can't miss what you've never had, and the world is an amazing, varied, and wonderful place.

I genuinely thought this thread was going to be about Palestine.

How fortunate we all are to be able to discuss this as purely just a hypothetical situation.

I believe there is nothing quite like home, a place of safety and belonging. I would stay in my home country.

I'd go. I'm from England. I could happily come back to any other part of the UK.