Do you get homesick from time-to-time? How do you deal with being away from loved ones and a familiar place?
Expat Chat: Homesickness
showkot40
15 May 2016 14:25:08
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Priscilla
16 May 2016 07:33:26
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Hi showkot40 and welcome to Expat.com 
Please note that i have moved your topic to the Expat Café - open discussions forum for more interaction with the members.
Thanks,
Priscilla
El_Jost
16 May 2016 12:34:59
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No, my house (my home) belongs to others now!
beppi
16 May 2016 14:39:42
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My solution is simple (although sometimes it takes time to implement it):
Make home the place you are in, familiarize yourself with the surroundings and people, make local friends - and don't waste time on nostalgic thoughts about the past or comparing then and now!
Gordon Barlow
17 May 2016 02:31:45
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I'm with Beppi again - the second time tonight! If your home is where you hang your hat, then you shouldn't ever be homesick. If you hanker after some other place, you really should get back there a.s.a.p.
El_Jost
17 May 2016 21:42:41
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Actually I agree with both of you. I am totally content where I am and have no wish to leave.
But in a way it's a matter of definition to me. In earlier days I've heard South Africans who were born in SA talking of 'home' and meaning England.
Words such as 'home country' and 'home town' even 'homesickness' to me imply or refer to the place where people grew up. Similarly in German.
Gordon Barlow
17 May 2016 23:10:01
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El_Jost wrote:In earlier days I've heard South Africans who were born in SA talking of 'home' and meaning England.
My grandmother, who was born in Australia of an English man and an Irish woman, always referred to England as "home". She encouraged me to go "home". It does depend on how one thinks. On a similar theme, my father's cousin in England, who was a devout Catholic, confused me once by talking of "our little church". I assumed she meant her local RC Church, but in fact she meant the C of E one - the parish church.
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