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Rock · Joined: 25 Feb 2005

Been over here so long home is really being no where for me. Just wondering, do any of you plan to return to your native home when you finally leave here? How about if all your family had moved elsewhere?

This is what's happened to me. I kind of have roots in Florida but haven't planted any long enough to nourish. My hometown is in Illinois, my second hometown in Seattle, and my third in Florida. But my parents live in Florida and are getting up there, may need to get assistant living soon.

I contemplate James Joyce's novel quite a bit, the one that I think is titled 'You Can't Go Home Again.'

Boodleheimer · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:00 am Post subject:

yeah, my parents have each moved around. i don't really have a house that's a home, if you know what i mean. (oh, and my dad's wife is evil. mom's other half doesn't seem too bad, but i don't know him too well.)

Boodleheimer · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:01 am Post subject:

oh, and read some Alberto Moravia. same 'can't go home again' idea.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Thomas Wolfe's novel of the same name is great.

bejarano-korea · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Also in the Morrissey video 'suedehead'

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

...where I lay my head is home...

silver_butterfly · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Location: South Korea

I don't have any roots back in my home town, my intention was to emigrate and residing away from my home country was my way of getting my foot in the door to that dream...I just haven't decided where I want to immigrate to yet!! Was thinking Canada........ Smile

faster · Joined: 03 Sep 2006

America: Love it or leave it.

I may not stay here, but I'm not going back there most likely.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Boodleheimer · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject:

what i think totally sucks is getting homesick and not having any place to really think about.

yes, that's been happening to me of late.

ceesgetdegrees · Joined: 12 Jul 2007

I like it though, no ties or attatchments, nothing to worry about. It's a bit like that 80's kids show "the littleist hobo" except instead of going round helping people, i'm going round getting drunk and projectile vomiting on them.

oldfatfarang · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.

"Nothing but the dead and dying in my little town." (Paul Simon).

normalcyispasse · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:

I probably wouldn't go back to the States but my wife is close to her family there, so I'm sure we'll end up back in America at some juncture. For me, though, the concept of "home" is nebulous at best.

lastat06513 · Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject:

I am home now and I hate every second of being here.
I know that as soon as I finish with school, I am gone and I have no plans on ever coming back here ever again...not even if my parents pass away. I know it seems harsh to say something like that, but I am here to try to make the most out of having both of them alive now, so when they die, I will have no regrets.

When I was working in Kuwait, I worked with these two elderly men in their 60's. They're both Americans, but none of them had seen the US since the 1980's and they both have homes in Europe (one lives in Paris and the other in Rome).

That would be the life!

silver_butterfly · Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Location: South Korea