SultanOfSwing

Oh aye. I'm learning how to detach missing the UK from getting on with things here in the meantime, it is working quite well. We're also planning a trip back home for the near future as well because we have enough air miles to get to London and connect so that helps quite a bit, too.

Bob

Home is where ever you get up in the morning for the majority of the time.

Can also be where the heart is.

Uncle Ebenezer

Sounds good and you'll have a great advantage, for working on her there.

Giantaxe

San Francisco is very much my home these days... I think it took me about 15 years of living in the US to reach that realization though.

SultanOfSwing

For most, I think home is where the arse is

We're planning to try to get a city break somewhere, London, Paris or Berlin are the front runners. The ease of access to Europe is an angle I'll be pushing heavily

ChocolateBabz

Depends which way the plane in flying. If it's going to the UK I am going 'home' and when we are on our way back here to Texas we are coming 'home' .

Nutmegger

I've said before that in the past I would paraphrase Neil Diamond's song "I am I said" when thinking about my two homes:

Well I'm Yorkshire born and raised
But nowadays, I'm lost between two shores
New York's fine, but it ain't home
Yorkshire's home, but it ain't mine no more

Though in all honesty, I do feel that NY and CT are indeed "home" nowadays.

robin1234

That's an interesting one.. I've lived in two US states, quite a few years in each, Massachusetts and New York. They have such a different feel about them, they are like two different countries. I almost have that proprietorial, "patriotic" feeling about both, in that I feel that (for instance) Oklahoma, Missouri, etc. ore obviously crap places compared to NY or MA. Well, realistically, flyover states are crap compared to MA or NY.. (kidding, of course.)

I think in a way I prefer New York to Massachusetts, the state government here is a bit more people-friendly and "European" compared to MA. But, I do feel nostalgic about MA, and if I went back to live in MA I'd feel nostalgic about NY.

But for me England is home.

SultanOfSwing

I love that - 'flyover states'

If it weren't for Chicago (and to be honest I don't consider Chicago to be all that special, personally); IL would almost certainly be considered a 'flyover state'. There's bugger all squared here, really - unless you like nuclear power plants, that is. Wisconsin's a bit better - at least they have a few attractions like The House on the Rock, which is way cool; but it is also the state responsible for that chilled gnat's piss they call Miller Lite, as well ...

I've always wanted to check out New England, and NY state, it looks nice out that way.

N1cky

What if your grandkids parents accepted a job in England and moved there. Would you follow them back to England or would you still consder Texas home?

SultanOfSwing

Or worse - what if they moved to Peru? In Dakota's building. Across the hall ...

Or Spain!

Uncle Ebenezer

My grandkids' parents are all Texan and not likely to go anywhere.

N1cky

Me and my hubby are all Yorkshire and our parents would have probably said the same thing

nethead

We moved to VT (but work in NY) from PA a few months ago, I love VT but also have fond memories and good friends and family in PA. I think home is where your immediate family live, so for now home is in Vermont, but I still also consider England home. As time passes the thought of moving back to England diminishes for me. Since getting a job and trying to put down some roots in a new state/area I'm feeling more settled. When my husband finishes his post grad work at RPI we will probably be uprooting and moving states again.

Uncle Ebenezer

Well, hypothetically speaking, as there are three kids, each with grandkids, if one family left, we'd stay with the other two. If a second set left, the likelihood of them going to the same place is slim. If the third were to leave, we can't cut ourselves in three, so I guess we'd then please ourselves.