[FORUM] What's home for you?
Feb. 14th, 2009 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldFor the two two decades of my life and then some, I felt at home in my birthplace in the canadian province of Prince Edward Island. It was where I was born, it was where nearly all the people I knew lived, it was the place with a geography that I knew reasonably well (and my three summers' work at a tourist counsellor had little to do with that). Really, I identified the Island as home by default. It was the territory that I knew best of all.
This changed in the early summer of 2004. I was driving with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
talktooloose and some others as we returned from a visit to upstate New York on the Queen Elizabeth Way highway. The Toronto skyline became visible--the CN Tower with the adjacent office towers of downtown--and my heart skipped a beat. Toronto, I knew, was the place that I wanted to be home the place that I was quickly coming to love, the place that I wanted. I certainly haven't been disappointed.
What do you call home? Is it something as large as a nation or as small as a neighbourhood? How did you come to this decision? Was your home something you chose or something that you were born into? What event sealed the decision for you?
This changed in the early summer of 2004. I was driving with
talktooloose and some others as we returned from a visit to upstate New York on the Queen Elizabeth Way highway. The Toronto skyline became visible--the CN Tower with the adjacent office towers of downtown--and my heart skipped a beat. Toronto, I knew, was the place that I wanted to be home the place that I was quickly coming to love, the place that I wanted. I certainly haven't been disappointed.What do you call home? Is it something as large as a nation or as small as a neighbourhood? How did you come to this decision? Was your home something you chose or something that you were born into? What event sealed the decision for you?
