New Place, yet feel it is your home
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40193)
Canada
September 30, 2007 4:44pm CST
Have you ever been to a place you never have been before, maybe or not you saw photos of it, or seen a partial movie of it, and yet of all the places you saw movies or photos of, you felt this was your real home?
And did seeing this make you determined to go there and live there the rest of your life or at least spend a lot of time there? For me, it was Maine. I loved the climate there, and I could smell the sea air. For my husband , he was enchanted by a town in Iowa or was it Idaho that had these lovely rolling hills, there was no sea air because he is Prairie born. Yet I live in Canada and not in the warmest part of it. I wonder if there is a place that can satisfy both our longings. I want to get away from the cold and the snow and the dreariness and live where there are a lot of trees, and one can see the waves and smell the ocean.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
5 Oct 07
I think it is to do with the place you were born or where your family came from. I came from Great Britain and when we went to Vancouver, we could always go to Vancouver Island, so there were two islands in my experiences, and now there is three, since Prince Edward Island is also one, but I would not want to live there as I prefer someplace milder.
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
30 Sep 07
I feel like home anywhere close to water. beach or lake, as long as it is warm. I came from a tropical country so living here is not the most amazing experience except that most people are warm hearted. Somehow I can't forget Toronto. I've only been there twice, I hate the traffic and can't imagine living there. But it is full of colors and tastes, the clothes, buildings, food etc. It's way more colorful than here too bad it's costly to live there
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
1 Oct 07
My husband avoided Toronto, he hated the traffic, and when we lived in a large city, first in Vancouver, then in Winnipeg, we kept to our local area. I have only seen Toronto on TV and watching Restaurant Makeover. Many of my friends come from there and they stay in their local neighborhoods as well. They say the climate is quite good, but I notice that you can get fresh herbs there easier. It is too bad it is crowded, but I guess with a prime location and near water, everyone wants to live there.
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@ssh123 (31073)
• India
3 Oct 07
Forget about going abroad or some places like 350- kms away from home, when my family moved just 10 kms from the parental house, we could not like it though it was spacious, new building with all amenities with good neighbours, markets were closerby, adequate car parking, school closeby. I was longing to go back to my parents house and now that the house is vacant, we had come back and it is such a lovely home sweet home, we would like to live here for ever.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
3 Oct 07
I used to live in Vancouver and I missed the mountains. We used to go to the States, that is Washington all the time, and it was so much like B.C. although I never got used to them not stuccoing their houses. We live in the Prairies in Manitoba but I do not like the flatness, but most of all, I do not like that we can take a short drive down to the States as we used to do.
I mean some people love the cold and cannot wait for winter. I dread the cold and wish I was somewhere warmer. It all depends on what kind of person you are. Some of us are mountain,hill,sea lovers, some love flatness. I am of the former. If we decided to move to the States, I would want to live in Maine, or somewhere near where I could smell the sea breeze, my husband would want to live somewhere hilly but where he could see flatness.
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
30 Sep 07
I am working in a place far away from my hometown where I was born. Yet I love this new working place and think that it is a better place to live and work for its more beautiful environment and better location close to the sea. It has been considered to be my second home town and I love it so much.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
1 Oct 07
When we moved to the Prairies, I hated the flatness, even when we drove through North Dakota, I felt uncomfortable, but when we drove from Maine, Mass. New York, and through the Appalachians and the other states, smelled the sea area, and saw the lakes, I felt right at home. I even went through the phonebooks to see if there were any people with my husband's last name, so that we could say that his ancestors and theirs came from the same area in the Old Country to make it easier for us to emigrate from Canada. A lot of them moved to Canada and the States, at the end of the nineteenth century, some going south and some going north.
@TripleS519 (206)
• United States
30 Sep 07
I've always felt comfortable in the woods. I grew up in the middle of the woods. My husband loves it there too. Every year we spend our anniversity in the middle of the forestry. And not at a campsite. We like to be where there is no running water or eletricty. We sleep under the stars. And adventure through the woods during the day. There's a lot less worries out there.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
1 Oct 07
I was born in Great Britain and for the first twenty or so years always was near forests and ocean, so I guess that accounts for my thinking I was at home in the States.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
1 Oct 07
My home was in England, but I hardly remember it, but I grew up in B.C. near the coast, so anything in view of the sea is good for me. I make friends easily, so it is mainly the scenery that I love.
