Do you consider to go back home? Or you want to make your curent location a home? And why?
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Nope. Leaving Australia/New Zealand is the best thing I’ve ever done.
Europe is amazing compared. (My 2c)
I’ve lived there in six countries. To which shall I compare. No desire to return.
I moved US -> Central Europe. Going back to the US soon. I found people here to be cold and unfriendly, there’s way too much cigarette smoke, and I miss US National Parks.
No comparison from a farm surrounded by cornfields with no city within 100 miles to a high rise flat in Dubai is about as stark a contrast as you can get.
I have always preferred Europe to the States. I love Nordic culture in particular. This is my home.
I moved from Southern Europe to different countries for over 20 years and I am currently living in Belgium. For some reasons I find hard to consider home the place where I live, it’s a place where to work. I go back home for long periods since the lock down and I really feel much happier there. I can’t move because of personal reasons.
Nah.
I love Italy, but with the salary level it’s just not a serious option if you are even slightly career minded.
A vacation home, sure. Going back there permanently, hell no.
As a gay man coming from Indonesia to the Netherlands, I am never going back. Best time of my life, close to zero stress. Planning to switch citizenship too.
In my case: US -> NL -> SG -> AU -> NZ -> US
I moved from New Zealand back to the US, to Texas. NZ is just incredible, Texas is just dogshit.
Then moved from Texas to Kentucky. Kentucky is a massive improvement and I generally love it here. Two Southern(-ish) states yet with a lot of differences.
That said, while I remain in the US for various reasons (finances, family, friends, etc.), I don’t love the direction that the US is going. Also, Southerners may be friendly and polite by US standards, but they’re not so much by world standards IMO. I’d love to leave the country permanently.
Unfortunately as the Netherlands have shown, Europe is going in a bad direction as well. A far right party getting the most votes in Netherlands is pretty scary. At least the US seems to be fighting that tide.
If I told you I love my 1822 house so much
that sometimes I actually kiss it
(the ancient wood beams)
you’d think I was nuts.And that´s AOK.
In CA as a kid, had a cool old brown shingle 1922 house, and my partner had a 1952 modernist USA house (with underfloor heating).
In the UK as a student had a room in a 1622 house, and all of these were great.
But the present 1822 one (in NL with underfloor heating!) is, for us, perfect in every way.
I constantly go back and forth between wanting to move back to the US or stay in Europe, Luxembourg specifically.
Find myself in Miami, Florida, not sure I want this to become home. It’s a shithole - an expensive shithole, but a shithole nevertheless. Sure, if you have money, you can cover it all up and live on a waterfront McMansion property with a boat, nice views, garden service, a swimming pool, generator for when a hurricane takes out the power, etc., but if you’re an ordinary person…
The roads are in a terrible state, the I-95 is full of crazed drivers; drainage systems have not kept pace with increase in inhabitants; everything is expensive, even cheap food at the grocer, and mediocre food at restaurants; people try constantly to scam you with hidden fees or ghost fees; people are never on time (“Oh, that’s just Miami time”); there is this weird, excessive politeness that is transparently fake; when I open my apartment windows on cool mornings, I just smell dog shit; the arrogance of many of the people of Cuban descent, especially the light-skinned ones, of which the elders are openly racist, and fervently in support of rightwing fascists like Desantis and Trump. Home insurance and auto insurance premiums have gone through the roof.
I could go on, but yeah, it’s a sunny place. For shady people. And I come from one of those countries derided as “shit hole countries” by Trump. Smh.
Left UK want to go back. Will settle on a small Indonesian island for retirement. Currently in Korea for the cash and pleasant enough country.
From Washington DC. Crime-infested and too expensive. Annoyingly “woke” and ladder-climbing. Never going back. Now I am sometimes in low-cost Europe sometimes, in Latin America sometimes.
Currently in Singapore and, no, this is home now, never going back (to NL). I’m open to other options, but I do think it will be difficult for me to find another place in the world which matches the quality of living I’ve become used to here.