Where’s Home?
Home kinda shifts as the seasons shift in life.
Although I grew up in Atlanta, I spent the last 12 years in California.
So California is home.
I look forward to the day when flying into Atlanta brings the same feelings that flying into So Cal brings.
So for you…
Where is “HOME”,
Los
Upstate New York will always be home for me (although I’d like to check out other parts of the country to see if they compare.)
texas (although, california feels more like home now)
Atlanta has truly become home for me & I didn’t think it ever would. I remember feeling like that kid standing by myself in the lunchroom wanting to sit at the “cool kids table.” So though I’m not from here, I can call it home now….I think the relationships that finally went deep made it home.
I love Patty B!
Staten Island, NY will always feel like home to me, as I spent a good 30 years of my life there. Long Island, NY is home now, though. yeah I swapped one island for another, all while staying in NY.
Stanwell Park, Sydney Australia
Here’s a pic of home:
http://www.grandpacificdrive.com.au/gallery/images/6-largeImage.jpg
south africa
Former home: PHX
New home: G-Ville, SC… where we make the color green and ship it out to the rest of the country.
oh Los I love you too!
I consider both Michigan and Oklahoma to be home. Flesh and blood family in Michigan. Friends that feel like family in Oklahoma. Since it’s summer, though…my heart hurts for Michigan. I really miss it right now. =(
Baton Rouge, LA, baby. No place like it. I live in Florida now, but Red Stick is mine.
Northern Iowa & Southern Kansas, currently East Central Indiana… I’ve always wished California was home… no such luck though.
Nashvegas!
grew up in beautiful Romania. far from where i am today. as of 2000 ATL has become home and we love it!
I’m jealous that you stopped by the church office today. Had I known, I would’ve made sure to be there.
It’s been WAY too long Carlos! I seriously miss you dude.
Next time you want In-N-Out company…I’m down. Hope you’re loving your So.Cal. time.
Oh, and ‘home’ for me is So.Cal. Riverside to be exact. Everytime I come back from anywhere overseas, my parents take me straight from LAX to In-N-Out. There’s just something about it.
I love the idea of home. I wrote about it a while back. There’s comfort there.
http://emilywithaheart.com/2008/04/18/home/
Sunny South Florida – kind of smoky the last few days, though.
what a complex question…
Good ‘ol Pennsylvania. I did do a lot of growing during college out in Indiana, and that somewhat feels like home…
I rep the lovely Bluegrass state of KY and am not afraid to admit it! Pics of my folks’ beautiful property is up on my blog. I’ve been missing it lately.
FL never felt like home. But, Cumming, GA is certainly a lot like home and we’ll be here for a long, long time!
home is…”where the heart is”…I just puked a little…
Land of In and Out cups as well…Huntington Beach, CA
Salem, OR baby. You all are jealous, you can admit it.
Santa Cruz California
Beautiful Marietta……Marietta Ohio that is
Cincinnati Ohio represent!
I think anywhere there’s a beach. it must run in the family. great grams lived on the beach in newport cali, grams lives on the beach at westport, it skipped a generation with my mom, and I live at redondo beach (not ca). crazy? or is it just me?
I always have a hard time answering that question, just for what you stated, it changes. So, in order:
California
Virginia
Alabama
New Jersey
Florida
Texas
California
Texas
Kentucky
Alabama
Texas
Nevada
North Carolina
Texas
Colorado
Alabama – present, and what we call home
southwest Virginia: home of the Hokies…and Camp Carysbrook (all-girls camp since 1923)
Baton Rouge Louisiana, been here since I was 17. Where I was raised, Okeechobee Florida, is the one place I never want to move back to.
oh that is such a loaded question for me. have lived in DC, VA, NC, PA then moved to Australia where I lived for 10 1/2 years then lived in DE, AL and now in Atlanta. SO i never know where to say. Home is where ever MY bed is – so i guess Atlanta is that – but i love Birmingham AL and Brisbane Australia will always hold a special place in my heart.
Southwest VA here too. Something about the smell of coal trucks… And the green mountains
I’ve never lived in Cali but it’s the only place I’ve ever felt at home. I live in Atlanta but I can’t say I’ve ever felt at home here. It’s just a city to me. However when I’m in Los Angeles I feel completely alive and filled with possibilities.
I grew up in Lincoln, NE and moved here (Muscatine, IA) ten years ago. I still think of Lincoln as home, but Muscatine is becoming home more and more.
Heaven is my home but until then – Texas – north central Texas just west of DFW.
we don’t really have a “home”. I guess we consider Texas as a state as our home, but we don’t really have a particular city we call home.
what was that lyric…
“if home is where the heart is then my heart is where you are..”
My heart is in Ohio. Which, also, is where I spent the first 20 years of my life. Now I call Missouri home. Sort of. Ohio is still what I refer to as “back home”
PUERTO RICO!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah!!!
San Antonio is home with a capital H. Go Spurs Go!
I lived for 18 years in LA, but the only emotional connection I have to that town is In-N-Out Burger.
Oxford, England.
Slowly becoming Orange County, California.
Chicago will always be my home, but we currently reside in ATL.
Home is Charleston, SC, although I’m about to reside in Charlotte, NC in about 2 weeks…
Home has always been and still is Muncie, IN for me. However, I’m hoping I’ll have that feeling you got going to California here soon, when I pack up my things and head out east to South Carolina to being a new work in my life.
http://www.vagabondrunn.wordpress.com
Corpus Christi, Tx. My husband and I lived here for 9 years and then we went back to our hometown for a year and it no longer felt like home. We are in CC and loving it! It is all about the relationships! Well, that and the beach.
Oklahoma City, OK
Born in Hawaii
Lived in Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma.
Home is Tulsa, OK since I’ve been here for the last 12 years.
Colorado is where my heart is.
Born and raised in the ABQ. College in Colorado. 10 years in AZ and now back in Colorado. Colorado wins.
born in suburban NY, back east always feels like home..cape cod, etc
I grew up in Louisiana, but have lived in Texas and Oklahoma. There are nice things about DFW & OKC, but Louisiana will always be home to me.
I remember my first white Christmas in OKC. I called my mom back home and said, “Mama! We’ve got a white Christmas!” Her response….”That’s nice, dear. My azaleas bloomed this morning.”
Yep. No place like home.
Home is an island off the west coast of Canada. Used to be Toronto but the winters were too cold and the summers too hot. My bones will turn to dust here and I hope my children never leave.
Home is California, we lived in ATL for 18 years. We kept coming back to California every year to see the family. Born in Monterrey, Mexico but never lived anywhere longer than in Atlanta. “Home is where your heart is” someone said, well my heart is where my family is and that is California.
I’m with John in CO – the mountains of NM and CO have my heart and are waiting for me to come to my senses, move away from Florida, and come back to reclaim it. For now, “stuck” on the sandy beaches of SW Florida….a short detour/extended vacation. God made the ocean, but he resides at the top of mountains over 5000ft. (I think that’s in Joel, somewhere).
Rocky mountain HI-IIIIIIGH (my lame attempt at singing John Denver through type).
Massachusetts
Suburban Philadelphia. Although in my county, we prefer to pretend that we are further away from the city than we actually are.
was born and grew up in central florida, but now williamsport PA is home.
Los -
I gave you a shout out on my blog today. Hopefully I can send some new readers your way.
Jon
WOOOO PIG SOOOOIIII!!!! Arkansas Girls Rock!
Little Rock, AR born and raised. Now I live in Memphis,TN.
I have lived in Wilmington, NC my whole life, with the exeception of a 3 month stay in Seattle, WA. While NC is my home (family, friends, church are all here), I am constantly homesick for Seattle.
home is and regardless of where i live in the future i reckon home always will be Kells (no not as in the book of Kells), Ballymena, Northern Ireland
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kells,+ballymena&ie=UTF8&z=15&iwloc=addr
Was Hyattsville, MD
Now Raleigh, NC
Home is currently Chicago,IL (suburbs of).
Looking to make a home in South Carolina where my husbands parents live. Cross your fingers!
Atlanta
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SoCal. No question.
Especially North Orange and South LA counties.
I never would have thought that I would ever want to call Nashville my home ever again. It’s mainly where I grew up and where a bulk of my family live, but I have been content here in Knoxville for the past 8 years. God recently called me back there and my husband there for the 1st time…and although it is a scary process for us both to leave our brand new house that we just finished and bought a year ago…as well as packing up our infant daughter…I am excited about the move and I really feel like Nashville has been mynhome all along.
Los,
How many pictures/videos do you take of yourself each day?
probably nashville. right now, though, it’s europe and then africa. :O)
Hmmm . . . I aspire to make the world a footstool(home) but so far GOD has me planted in SoCal.
29 years in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
7 in Atlanta, GA
They both feel like home… in that proportion.
Born in Cali
Moved to Colorado
Moved to NY
Moved back to Colorado…
So I represent Colorado..”God’s Country”
oahu. The only place I really feel like I “fit in”.
The LBC
2570 River Oak Drive in Decatur; my parents have lived there for almost 19 years. I think I’m one of the few people for whom home is a place. Kinda cool, really.
Roswell, New Mexico
Born and raised…home forever!
South Africa is in my blood. But when I get on US soil and hear people that sound a little like me…anywhere in the US can be called “home”…give me some Starbucks and I will sell you my soul, but just a little
*sniff* I miss CA!
Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.
Live in Southeast Florida (ocean side for those of you who I confused). LOL!
Anyway, home is FL now. Anytime I go anywhere else I cannot wait to get back to Florida.
for me, home is a fluid concept.
home is wherever i am.
im still not sure if that is a good thing or not…i just know that it was a long process to become comfortable with that idea.
the only place that gives me any sort of “home” feeling is portland, or.
33 years home was Chattanooga, TN – but my little town of Dacula, GA is definitely home now.
Currituck, North Carolina — population…not many! Closest major city…Norfolk, VA. Best feature…city to the north, beach to the east, farms in the middle…low taxes, open spaces, water all over the place.
I grew up an Army Brat, but after ten years I think I can start calling Atlanta home.
yay Nor Cal…
Yay for In’n'out
Sandals Church office, Riverside CA. After moving roughly 16 times in ten years (soon to be 17 this fall), houses don’t feel like home.
I am from the ATL but Asheville, NC is now home!
california….now and forevermore.
Sarasota, FL… my home is where you vacation