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are you far from home? and is that a good thing?

i feel far from home, and drifting further

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Farther from current family home than the previous one, but really not all that far. Now if you're talking in the mental rather than physical sense...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Define home. And then define further. But it's still probably yes that is the answer to your question.

Are you feeling a bit out of sorts today, Charlton?

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

no, on the contrary, i feel great. well, ironically, i am below par physically, but mentally/emotionally i am grand. of course, i am prone to this sort of thinking when i am feeling good, because, well, i enjoy it*

*of course, i am kind of prone to this sort of thinking when i am down also.

i like the sensation of being far from home, and i think i like it more all the time

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

not very, by modern standards. about 400km. but it's a distance i travel only infrequently and reluctantly.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

the physical distance isnt necessarily relevant (unless you consider it to be)

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've left it almost completely behind Gareth. Footie team and visits to mother notwithstanding. Although, I do still pine for the Peak district, but that's the idealised, beautiful side of home I suppose.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

5980 miles from my family. was closer emotionally than 2 yrs ago but still kind of far.

i hate these long distances 5980 4310 etc.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

-was +am

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

chris, what about where you are now. is that home, has home moved, or do you define by an older abstract home, or perhaps a more generalized sense of home (i think i am in this 3rd category at the moment)

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i've never been that far from home for a great period of time. i'm sure this has had an effect on me of some sort.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

(that applies not just geographically)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a good point, I think that you can think of various places as home. One home is where you grew up etc,and then, as you fly the nest you set up a new home. So yes, home will always be the peaks, Mum's house etc, but there is a new home (which, yes, I do call home) in the Stow with Vicky. Student houses/first houses in London were never truly home though I think.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post with Chris,

When you've been away at university, and the parental home has been far away for 4 years, it's very hard to get away from still calling it home even 10 years later. My flat is very much home, but I'll still find myself saying I'm going home when I'm visiting my parents (even though they moved to a new house after I finally moved out!)

I guess there's the parental home, places you've lived in that will always feel like home, and then the place that's home to you right now.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

During the week to my sister&flatmate: "Are you going home this weekend?"

Friday evening: "It's good to be home!"

Sunday evening: "Time to be off home!"

In fairness I do often wince when I say the last of these in front of Mum.

I think home is always where I'm not :(

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe that's the whole point?

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I still refer to London as "home", though it feels less and less that way as I fast approach the completion of an entire year away from the UK.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

Looking for a 'homesick' thread...found this instead, so it'll do.

Haven't back to Australia for 3 years; I usually try to go home every 2. Luckily my brother is coming to visit me in Feb - the first family member to come see me since I left home (more economic than any good riddance feelings). But around Christmas I start to feel sorty of moony and gloomy...start thinking about what everyone's doing and how old my nephews are now and how nice it would be to just get in the car and drive over to Mum's...

So I found this random youtoob of some person driving through my hometown. It makes me feel a little better that less than 5 things on the main street have changed since I was last home :) (gotta love small towns)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAV4BOls2lQ

Post homesickness thoughts, feelings, mopings or cheerups here.

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 18 December 2010 05:30 (fourteen years ago)

Yes I feel Far from Home...still thinking I might go back in a year or so though

― Carl (admrl), Saturday, 18 December 2010 05:35 (fourteen years ago)

Here is where I am from, on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfCYYi53L-4

― Carl (admrl), Saturday, 18 December 2010 05:36 (fourteen years ago)

But when I say Home I don't think I'd actually go back to Edgware. That would be awful!

― Carl (admrl), Saturday, 18 December 2010 05:38 (fourteen years ago)

And here's where I live now. You can see why I might still suffer from culture shock, all these years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g89hHlTjRYM

― Carl (admrl), Saturday, 18 December 2010 05:44 (fourteen years ago)

Wow Edgware to Highland Park! You're right about the culture shock.

Kind of funny how you grow up in a town and think you can't wait to leave, and then you leave & go halfway around the world and you miss it all over again. Honestly if you'd asked me when I was 16 if I would ever miss Colac I would have said a lot of swear words, and NO. haha.

― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Saturday, 18 December 2010 08:34 (fourteen years ago)

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