Where's "home?"

[eyesroll]

Language is interesting to me.

Many people, even after living on their own for 20 years, refer to "going home for Thanksgiving" or "moving back home with Mom."

I have been asked (by someone who thought I was far younger than I am) if I live "at home" or "in the dorm." She was shocked when I mentioned I live in my home, which an apartment with my partner of four years and his daughter.

How about you?

[lost-in-nj]

1. I live in the house I grew up in

so where my parents used to live fits...
but I own it now so thats what I picked...

been home for ever


:hi:

lost

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Home is

a blue room
in an old house
where once
I made love
with someone
who loved me too.

[Rising Phoenix]

8. that is sweet

:hug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. thanks kid :-)

:hug:

wouldn't it be fun if me and you and Pri could hang out and watch Charmed? :D

[Rising Phoenix]

14. that would rock

:hug:

[DarkTirade]

3. I'm kind of divided between two 'homes'

although as soon as I went off to college home was no longer at my parents' house. I had an apartment. That was my home.

Now I'm kinda split because I just moved back to the town I grew up in until the age of 5, so when I say 'back home', I'm referring to Orlando where I lived for twenty years. But when I refer to my current home, it's the one I live in now.

[TroglodyteScholar]

4. I haven't lived there for a decade, and my parents moved away 5 years ago....

...but I still claim Birmingham, AL. Unfortunately, I don't get to go back there very much, and all my friends have moved away, so it probably wouldn't feel much like home at this point.

[lizziegrace]

5. I want one, badly...

I've lived in 12 states. I was born at an Army base in Alabama, so it's easier to answer "Where were you born" than where's home. Right now I want a home but don't have one.

[billyskank]

6. Other: it depends on the context.

One might say "home" to mean where you live now, and in another sentence say "home" to mean where you grew up, and both would be true and meaningful.

They say "home is where the heart is." I think I shall meditate on that for a while.

[Tektonik]

7. I've moved around a lot, but home is Chatsworth, CA

Once I live down here for a bit longer, La Jolla (well more like UTC) should.

[Rising Phoenix]

9. "home" is where I happen to be at any given moment

I make no and all attachments to places I've lived. deep huh

[Rhythm]

11. "Home" is generically the town where i grew up...

Not where my Mom lives, because she and my dad bought that house around the time i moved out on my own. I think i lived there for maybe 3 months. The generic concept of 'home', for me, is the east side of Charlotte NC, which is where i lived through all of my school-aged years.

Where i live now is rapidly becoming 'home', though. This is Oktoberain's hometown, and i've now lived here for over 6 years, and can competently give driving directions and restaurant recommendations to out-of-towners with the ease of a native.

Our son will grow up with this place being forever associated with 'home' and 'family', because he started school here, and is surrounded by us, his grandparents, and most of his aunts/uncles/cousins and so forth.

[bertha katzenengel]

12. Other: where I grew up. n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. i say going home, when i go back to calcutta

sometimes i say, going home, when i visit mom in queens

mostly i say home depending on contexts.like if i am talking to lisa, i say home indicating our apartment

i grew up in multiple homes (divorces parents) etc so home has always meant multiple places for me

[BarenakedLady]

15. I ALWAYS dream I'm in Rhode Island

I haven't lived there in over fifteen years, but all my dreams take place in or around my parent's house. So I guess I consider that "home", but I do feel that this house that I live in here in NY is my home too. Weirdness.

[Pierre.Suave]

16. Home for me is where I live

On holidays and stuff I always say I am going to my parents house... never home.