Where do you call home?

[midori1999]

I have always called where I live home, even if that's somewhere the army has sent us and we know it's not permenant.

Lots of people call 'home' where they are from or where their parents' live though, which I admit I find a little strange. They usually don't own a house there or anything.

So, what do you do and why?

we call home wherever the family photo is hung (just got a new one as youngest started asking why she wasn't in the old one did it mean she wasn't part of our family)

If you ask my DCs they say home is where mummy and daddy are but when asked where they come from they say UK, even though DS2 was born in Germany. Youngest DD did go through a phase of telling everyone she was american but only as we were posted there and she didn't remember the UK.

Thinking about it I do also say I am going "home" to my parents. Guess it depends on what I am talking about and with whom I am talking. Don't think I will ever get used to calling current posting home but then we have been with one of the most unfriendly bunch of people ever, the house is big but old falling down and DH is away more than home making me wonder why we aren't in our own house near our friends

Interesting question. Since being in a new posting with my husband I haven't felt like I have a home. I think it is very hard sometimes to settle in and feel comfortable. I have plenty of friends here but....it isn't my home. Even where I come from isn't home because I no longer have contact with my parents.

Home is not here. I guess when I get there I will know it - perhaps when we buy our own house.

I say I'm going home to where my parents/siblings live as we have recently lived there and I lived there all my single life. I do have a lovely sign that says 'home is.....where the army sends us'. The house we are in now is bigger than our last quarter but still feels like it goes with the job, compared to our last mq that was a proper home, albeit knackered.

I call the part of Scotland where i grww up and where my parents are "home".
Where I am now is where I live. it's not home, it's horrible.

I don't know though if that has a lot to do with my mental and physical health!

Kinda how I feel saltire.

Nowhere really. I went from being a Forces child to a Forces wife and have lived in 35 'homes'.

Tend to make home where ever I now live.

Our children call where we live "home" and always have whether that has been our own house or a MQ. Dh & I call where we are from as home even though he has no family there anymore and I have very little. However, whenever we are back there we refer to our own house as home and can't wait to get back there . I guess we must therefore see both places as home. Our MQ never felt like home in terms of belonging but it was a home for our family.

I am in the same boat as Shoshe.

Although we are now looking at buying our 'forever' home when we move back to the UK this year because Mr F_W is due out in four years and we have a DC11 who will finish Secondary education in five years.

Home is where we feel we belong, back in England. Home sais with a more day to day emphasis is the house we live in. It will never be more than a temporary thing though and our real home is spoken of with a very different tone of voice. I always know the difference of when DD is asking to go home to our house, or home to England...