Homesickness

[Miss Chicken]

Do you get homesick? If you do how far/long away from your home/town/city/state/country do you have to be before you get homesick?

Me, I get homesick for my city after about a week away. The longest I have been away from Hobart is 23 days.

 

[RoJoHen]

I just moved back home. I get homesick for where I was just living.

 

[D Man]

I got back home just before Christmas from a 7-month long trip through Asia, and I never really felt homesick the whole time. Maybe a little bit the last week just from the anticipation of the trip finally being over. Now that I've been home for about 3 weeks, I feel the opposite of homesickness, which I'd call "sick of being home." My trip of course took up all my money, so I'm stuck at my parents' place until I can rebuild my savings and move out again.

 

[The Sneeze Police]

I never got homesick as a kid, teenager, or young adult going to school, camp or first jobs.

A couple of years ago, I had to work one summer away from home leaving my husband and cats. I was about a 5 hour drive away and gone for 3-1/2 months. It was awful.

 

[Miss Chicken]

When I am away I miss my cats far more than I miss my adult sons One cat I especially worry about because he is a real Mama's Boy.

 

[clever_username]

the longest i've been away from home is a year. the farthest is 9500 miles. or about as far as you can get before you start to come back.

 

[Miss Chicken]

the longest i've been away from home is a year. the farthest is 9500 miles. or about as far as you can get before you start to come back.

Did you get homesick at all?

 

[clever_username]

who wouldn't? i thought about being home every day i was there

 

[Yeoman Randi]

When I am away I miss my cats far more than I miss my adult sons One cat I especially worry about because he is a real Mama's Boy.

We don't get to go on vacation much but when we do, i find myself missing home (and my dogs) within a very short time. Sounds stupid, but for me, there really is no place like home.

 

[Shaytan]

Do you get homesick?

Yes, definitely.

If you do how far/long away from your home/town/city/state/country do you have to be before you get homesick?

I went to London last year with Eurostar. I began to regret it the moment the train left the train station in Paris
I don't feel at home outside of the region Ile-de-France (Paris+suburb), I spent 10 years in the country side and I litterally ran away.

 

[Sky]

I've lived abroad now 5 years. Sometimes I'm so homesick I close my eyes and picture my home country in my mind. I get to go home about twice a year now. It's not enough. I miss my parents and extended family a lot, but I also miss being able to speak my own language and seeing familiar things around me. I thought I would have made myself at home here by now; seems it's not going to happen.

 

[Starbreaker]

I live 100 miles away from my family. I get homesick some times, but after a couple of days of being at home I want to get back to my own apartment.

 

[Count Zero]

On longer trips (a week and longer), I tend to get homesick, but only in the first few days, then it's over. So, for me, it's mostly a question of adaptation.

 

[thestrangequark]

I get miserably homesick. And the problem is that I get homesick for both Seattle and New York. I'm like the boy in The Phantom Tollbooth, wherever I am, I want to be somewhere else. When I'm in NYC I long for my family in Seattle, when I'm in Seattle I can't wait to get back to New York.

 

[Marc]

been there had that - it's now just over 10months since I moved to Canada. Hopefully will make it back to Australia for Xmas this year.

One thing that gets rid of homesickness is seeing the weather from back home. So what it's if it's -15 outside - I can put a jacket, gloves etc on to keep warm - when down to shorts there's not much else I can take off in 40+ heat.

 

[Emher]

There are degrees I'd say. I always miss my bed when I go to sleep somewhere else, unless it's like a really comfy bed. Other then that it usually takes five days or so. Last time I went far away was in 2006 when I went to the US, but then I was having such a good time I didn't want to go home yet when the ten days where up.

 

[Warp Coil]

When I bought my own place and moved out of my parent's house for the first time in 25 years, I thought I'd get homesick. It didn't really happen. It was MINE and I was kinda excited about the idea of having a place of my own. No one else to share a space with. No one else to clean up after. It was about a 30-minute drive from where I grew up so it's not like I went far. So, surprisingly, I didn't miss home. Still don't.

I have gotten homesick on long trips. Both times I visited the UK, I eventually got homesick. I think it has to do with wanting to sleep in the comfort of my own bed. I don't typically sleep as well in a hotel (or at a friend's house, or wherever) as I do at home. I can handle a short vacation. I've taken trips in the last couple of years where I was gone for maybe 4 days and I never got homesick. But spending nearly two weeks in a foreign country was enough to make me miss my normal surroundings and routine. The thing is, I love the UK and want to go back. It's not like I didn't enjoy myself.

I'd like to go back to the UK again and see if I get homesick this time around. Perhaps I've grown out of it? Maybe I've now traveled enough that it won't hit me?

 

[trampledamage]

If I'm away from home I get homesick - I like my own comforts and my own bed. But when I move homes I don't, because I create my own comforts in the new home. So it's the home rather than the place I yearn for.

When we first moved to Canada and we were living in a rental apartment, my homesickness wasn't for Ireland, it was for the house we hadn't yet bought

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm prone to homesickness, though I haven't gone far away in a number of years.

I'm also homesick for the family house. My parents sold it and moved into a retirement community several months ago; I don't like the idea of that house being in the hands of strangers, even though I hadn't lived there since about 1982.

Of course, I still have a bit of homesickness for the house in Dorchester that we left in 1970. I'm a nostalgic kinda guy.