is where you live important to you ?

It is not just a matter of adapting to the environment, one must also adapt to people and their history, customs and psychology. I have moved around a bit and have settled in sometimes, other times not. But like you, I also have a deep sense of place and belonging, the only problem is that the places are there, but I am somewhere else! I have three passports and I dream about the fourth one I never bothered to get. I feel I belong to some of those places, for different reasons: love, family history, convenience, way of thinking. Belonging is a funny thing.

The place where I dwell is of prime importance to me. It is where I was born and still find an existence. I love my birthplace ..every nook and corner of it is familiar to me.

Well I had no choice in the matter as my Ex Husband was Army so we moved a lot But I have to say I was never able to settle properly where I lived before even though that was where we had bought the House I am very settled now where I am in this Area and I do hope that I will not ever be moving away from here It was a big Decission as you know EsKaren and moving that far away from my Kids but it is the best move I have ever made and also good for my Health

I would love to visit England. I love living in Lincoln Nebraska which is in the midwest plains area of the U.S. There are places I would like to have vacation homes but for the time being Lincoln Nebraska is home base. I could adapt to a new environment but at this time I don't feel called to do so.

I think i can adapt to my environment but it is different when i am in my hometown. It's not only the sense of belongingness, i also consider the people i live with and also the memories i have with the place.

Here we think different. I like my place of born but i consider myself to belong to all world...Is not more important than is all beautiful town or country from this world...If i can live here i can live everywhere same good,i think... Well,i love to see all world and sometimes i feel little claustrofobia when i see same places all time... I think i have a nomad blood inside me,and if i could live in a rulote...i will be happy... augusta

I think I can adapt to living anywhere as that is exactly what I have done. Back in the 70s I moved up to Lancashire - not very rural, but it was a bit of a shock coming from the South Wales coastal area. It was night when I first arrived so didn't see very much. When I awoke next morning, I noticed that all the buildings had this black stuff all over the stonework - the result of the mills that were still in full swing at the time. The people were absolutely great though. So friendly in comparison to where I grew up and everybody kept themselves to themselves. The Lancastrians would actually talk to you if they caught your eye as you were leaving your house. It quickly became home for me and lived there for 12 years and married a Yorkshire lass, whom I met when I was working as a musician. I then lived in Spain for a while and whilst I wanted to stay there, in those days, as Brits there were all sorts of barriers to extending my work permit, so I had to come back to Blighty. Eventually I returned to South Wales to work where I re-trained in psychotherapy when the bottom dropped out of the music business. I am about 40 miles away from my home city of Swansea and now live in Cardiff, which I consider to be home. Whilst I can see my roots are in Swansea, this is not a problem for me, I don't feel, like my dad did, that I will have to go back and be buried there. In fact, it is up to who's left of how my remains are to be disposed of as I don't think I would worry about it.