To just chuck it in and go back home? I'm so homesick.

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We moved from Cornwall to London in April, and whilst we've really enjoyed it and we've had a lovely time... I want to go home. It was where I was born and raised, and we came to London for work.

I love the area and my new job. But these waves of homesickness are shitty. I miss my bloody friends, I miss my life that I had. We've gained a lot by coming here, but we've lost so much that I never even really stopped to consider because I got so caught up in it all.

It's been really bad this week. Home is all I can think about. My family... My lovely friends, our social life together, our chat and gossip... It's a physical ache in my throat and I almost feel poorly with it.

I don't know what to do. I can't see the wood for the trees and I also don't understand why it's suddenly hit, but it has and I haven't felt so low for a while.

AIBU to give up and go home through homesickness?

mrshoff that'd be great, thanks. Got to be worth a shot.

mrschick I know. I'm just a bit low at the moment. It's more missing what I've left behind. I miss my friend texting me 'wine?' And turning up with a bottle of whatever she had at random times. I didn't realise how much that meant to me.

Can't really help but there's a Welsh word for what your feeling: Hiraeth- it doesn't translate but it's a sort of gut wrenching yearning for the place you're from. For the place, the people, their ways, the nonsense, all of it.

Can you make a plan of action, like sticking the big smoke out for 5 years then moving back?

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