Where do you feel home?

[eiskalt]

Do you prefer a city, small town, countryside or a lone house without anybody near for kilometers?

I myself like the sea, so i live near water, in a town. A warm, sunny winter day is my favourite here. Also love sommer and swimming. I dont particularly like big cities, normal sized ones are fine, like 100.000 population, but anything >1 million is just sad, so i avoid them like the plague.

 

[wizanda]

Find inner peace of your own song in nature, away from the cacophony of the city; where we've become an integrated part, in an out of tune symphony.

 

[Jumi]

Hmm, mostly like places that are in-between. Currently living in a place where I can enjoy nature and still live in the city. Though I do long for the countryside at times...

 

[Madhuri]

Maybe because of growing up in Australia, I've always felt more comfortable living near the ocean. However, I've also noticed that I can feel at home almost anywhere if I'm with my family. I think that's because we moved around a lot when I was growing up so no particular place was home. Home was where my parents were.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

Maybe because of growing up in Australia, I've always felt more comfortable living near the ocean. However, I've also noticed that I can feel at home almost anywhere if I'm with my family. I think that's because we moved around a lot when I was growing up so no particular place was home. Home was where my parents were.

Exactly the same for me.....except the Australia bit. Most of my youth was in Alaska, so in mountains and forests instead of "near the ocean". Most people think I was an 'army brat' when I tell them all the places my family moved.

 

[eiskalt]

Maybe because of growing up in Australia, I've always felt more comfortable living near the ocean. However, I've also noticed that I can feel at home almost anywhere if I'm with my family. I think that's because we moved around a lot when I was growing up so no particular place was home. Home was where my parents were.

But youre a grown up now and can decide where you want to stay. So, do you feel home where you live right now? I never saw any sea when i was a kid, i lived in the middle of Asia with really hot summers and really cold winters (40 plus Celsius to minus 30 Celsius), now i live in a totally different climate with lots of rain and weak winters and mild summers but i actually like it better that way

 

[bobhikes]

The forest near water preferably a babbling brook. Just thinking of the sights and sounds gives me a home feeling.

 

[eiskalt]

The forest near water preferably a babbling brook. Just thinking of the sights and sounds gives me a home feeling.

Do you like camping? Or would you prefer to live on such a site?

 

[Digital_Monk]

No place in particular. Home is wherever I am. I've lived in all kinds of places and I don't prefer any one over the others. Each has it's goods and bads.

 

[Madhuri]

But youre a grown up now and can decide where you want to stay. So, do you feel home where you live right now? I never saw any sea when i was a kid, i lived in the middle of Asia with really hot summers and really cold winters (40 plus Celsius to minus 30 Celsius), now i live in a totally different climate with lots of rain and weak winters and mild summers but i actually like it better that way

I'm not really sure. I'd have to try living inland to know for sure
But the idea of living far inland for a long period of time makes me feel claustrophobic!

 

[Madhuri]

Exactly the same for me.....except the Australia bit. Most of my youth was in Alaska, so in mountains and forests instead of "near the ocean". Most people think I was an 'army brat' when I tell them all the places my family moved.

Alaska is one place I'm really curious to visit!

 

[bobhikes]

Do you like camping? Or would you prefer to live on such a site?

I am an avid hiker and have several such spots where I may spend a day once in a while but just a day.

What I feel as home is basically where I am happiest, its a state of being, while I'm there I feel like I can be there for ever but I always come back to reality. I have always dreamed of escaping reality and living in a cave near such a place. If I ever did I think the home feeling would go away pretty quickly.

 

[Daemon Sophic]

I'm not really sure. I'd have to try living inland to know for sure
But the idea of living far inland for a long period of time makes me feel claustrophobic!

Ha. I think moving inland on Australia would be dangerously hot and dry, and would be so open and flat that you wouldn't suffer from any claustrophobia.
I have heard the reverse about my choice of liking mountains. People from the flat states in the US feel claustrophobic around mountains.
But Alaska is big and beautiful enough for flat-landers and for mountain-folk. Plus with more coastline than the rest of the US put together, I'm sure you can find a nice spot. There's no more open spot than the top of a mountain.

 

[eiskalt]

I'm not really sure. I'd have to try living inland to know for sure
But the idea of living far inland for a long period of time makes me feel claustrophobic!

Ha, far from it. It was a really huge space, where you can walk distances from one direction to another and encounter always new types of forrests, animals and landscapes, even mountains. It changed from terrain texture from green to all sort of brown and reddish. Really amazing actually. But huge amounts of snow during winter, icicles hanging from the outside roof like in my avatar actually.

 

[Madhuri]

Ha. I think moving inland on Australia would be dangerously hot and dry, and would be so open and flat that you wouldn't suffer from any claustrophobia.
I have heard the reverse about my choice of liking mountains. People from the flat states in the US feel claustrophobic around mountains.
But Alaska is big and beautiful enough for flat-landers and for mountain-folk. Plus with more coastline than the rest of the US put together, I'm sure you can find a nice spot. There's no more open spot than the top of a mountain.

Beautiful pic!!
I know it doesn't make sense to feel claustrophobic inland when it's so open and vast. But for some reason the ocean feels like freedom to me. I've heard other people say the same thing. I wonder what the reason is.

 

[Iti oj]

I'm moving to a cabin in the woods near the beach

 

[Aupmanyav]

Lived half my life in Rajasthan and half in Delhi. Quite comfortable. Sure, near the sea or mountains will be even better - or perhaps both - summer in mountains, winter near the sea (our sea-shores are quite hot and humid in summer). Could do it if my wife could have left the rest of the family, son's/daughter's/her's.

 

[Baladas]

Well, I've only ever lived in a city, and 100,000 sounds like a tiny population to me so...yeah. I don't have a lot of perspective there.
But I would like to move somewhere in the vicinity of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Maybe somewhere in Newtownabbey. I've never felt more connected to any land than there.

 

[Corthos]

The woods! The deeper, the darker, the more ancient, the better. =)

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[Unveiled Artist]

Put me a cabin in the middle of clean woods. The ocean curls around the left side of my home and the waves hit the shore each evening and wake me sudtly in the morning. Thats where I pray, do ritual under the new, quarter, and full moons. Thats where the highest point of the sun begins to rest on my shoulders when I sit in meditation.

I live with a couple of deers that like to sneak out from time to time in the summer and even in the spring to keep me company. I live close to a small town where everyone says yes and no ma'am or sir. Children to adults hold the doors open for ya and the accents and smiles make you want to stay all day for home made cookin.

On the heavier days when the snow falls clean to the grown, no dirt, grease, and trash pollutes the scene. Out on my porch is the best place to see the falls. The house is made of wood so I had already set wood under the fire place to toast up the house when I return.

No one lives with me. As long as I have a pharmacy, hospital, grocery store, and maybe a school near by Im good. I would only need a bycicle to get to were I need to go. The town is small and the only of a few at the tip top of the mountains. The air is fresh and clear. Id like to move to such a home before I get to retirement.

Maybe Id come out of town from time to time and always return home.

Do you prefer a city, small town, countryside or a lone house without anybody near for kilometers?

I myself like the sea, so i live near water, in a town. A warm, sunny winter day is my favourite here. Also love sommer and swimming. I dont particularly like big cities, normal sized ones are fine, like 100.000 population, but anything >1 million is just sad, so i avoid them like the plague.