[NikT]

Hi all,

Since arriving in NZ do you now feel like it's home?

When we came for a look around back in 2003, within half an hour outside AKL I said to Caron; I feel like I've come home.
Strange feeling.
When we arrived here July 07 everything felt so right, and still does.

I feel more at home and settled here than I ever did in the UK!

Anyone else feel the same??

Nick.:cheers

[wilson182]

Hi all,


I feel more at home and settled here than I ever did in the UK!

Anyone else feel the same??

Nick.:cheers

That part in particular. I always felt like a round peg in a square hole in the UK, particularly the last, probably 3 -4 years.

[Carol]

Since arriving in NZ do you now feel like it's home?


Nick.:cheers


I don't think I should answer this - you will all think I'm mad.

[Mickstim]

Feels more like home to me than UK ever did, but that wouldn't be hard!!

Bx

[Moorf]

We both feel so much more at home here in NZ than we did in the U.K.. We will have been here for 4 yrs next month and it feels like we've lived here forever. :nice1

[thewoodies]

This is good to hear :clap:raebanana:cheers

[YouMeAndThree]

This is good to hear :clap:raebanana:cheers


I agree with that :)

My parents visited NZ a few years ago and I remember Mum saying at the time that she never felt one twinge of homesickness, unlike all the other holidays they've spent in Europe (and the UK!). She's always had the urge to get back home after 7 days, but she felt at ease in NZ.

Myself and OH have never been - despite the fact that OH is touching down to start our new life in just a few hours. Hope I get some positive feedback.

Lx

[mgbridges]

Sorry to be the first person to say otherwise but no NZ doesn't feel like 'home' to me yet and thats the important word - 'yet'.

We've just had our 12mth anniversary of arriving but I'm not totally settled and there are number of reasons why but I won't go into them here - it will give me a push to do a 12mth post.

Anneliese

[Carol]

I kind of eluded to it Annelise....
Home for me is Northumberland.
Where I am now - is also home - but because I have no family or roots here - it is more just like "the place where I live at the moment".
I doubt (after all this time) it will change now - and I've grown to accept that I need to go "home" every couple of years to keep me sane.
I think perhaps if we had had more money when we got here to be able to buy a different type of property from what we had to end up with - things may have been a little different for me - but we came with nothing. And its taken a huge effort to get back on track...

reality for us I'm afraid.
Still no regrets about raising our kids here though.... and it is certainly home for them.

[holland]

No, NZ does not feel like home to me yet either! Home is still good old Blackpool!

[Carol]

No, NZ does not feel like home to me yet either! Home is still good old Blackpool!
Ohh! I love Blackpool!

We once had an incredibly stressful holiday there though - involving a pair of long curtains in a cottage, a pair of scissors and my darling 4 year old son!
We can look back on it now and laugh...

[dharder]

I can relate to feeling 'at home' in a country other than the one of your origin, and I forever have problems explaining how that is possible.

So I don't think it odd that people who aren't from NZ should consider it home more than their country of origin. In my case, I feel most at home in London.

Daniela

[Familyofmonkeys]

NZ as a country feels very much like home for us, depite not being in our final destination yet. When OH visited the land we'd bought near Chrsitchurch he felt so 'right' being there he was really sad to leave. Don't think we'll properly have a 'home' though until we own our own again....I personally need my own 'nest' :)

I also find it hard when people ask where in UK i'm from as i've moved around a bit. Could be the area I was born (left when I was 8) or the area went to high school so have lots of friends (never moved back there though), where I lived and went to Uni, or the two other locations in UK we'd lived since then? Don't miss the UK as not spent long enough in any one area of UK for it to really be 'home' so that pull just isn't there for me??