Popular Post i am bob Posted August 28, 2016 Popular Post Posted August 28, 2016 Yeah, I've reached that point that I'm just going to go home... And, at the present, that means here in Davao...! Yes, this is my home now and I'll probably die here... But not for another 30 or 40 years... Hehe! Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering how many others consider the Philippines as their home now... Or do you still have the old country listed first in your heart as your home..? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Popular Post scott h Posted August 28, 2016 Forum Support Popular Post Posted August 28, 2016 33 minutes ago, i am bob said: do you still have the old country listed first in your heart as your home..? Depends Bob. If I am at a function with my wife, listening to her and her batch mates babble for hours on end I ask, "can we go home now?" If I am driving down the road, and a car makes a left hand turn from the right lane all the way across traffic I always say "Back home that move would get you shot!!!" 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gratefuled Posted August 28, 2016 Posted August 28, 2016 (edited) Home is where the heart is. I left my heart in California. This here is Purgatory. I "still have my old country I consider as my home" Edited August 29, 2016 by Gratefuled 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysRt Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 1 hour ago, Gratefuled said: This here is HELL or Purgatory. So why are you here then? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
not so old china hand Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 That question made me think. I've been out of the UK for nearly 40 years so have long since ceased to regard that as home. Although I do go back to Blighty every year or two, to see my sisters and enjoy a pint or few of real beer, I find that a couple of weeks in England is long enough for me. The thirteen years I have lived here has been the longest I have lived in any city since I left my parent's home at 18. However I would certainly not call this home. I suppose I'm a latter-day nomad or more romantically I think of the whole world as my home. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hounddriver Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 4 hours ago, i am bob said: I'm wondering how many others consider the Philippines as their home now. I wonder if there are others who play little word games with themselves. I mean I consider this house in Philippines to be my home. I consider home to be anywhere I hang up my clothes for an indefinite time. There were hotel rooms in the past that I considered home. But I do not consider Philippines to be my country of residence. I have a home here but I do not feel I am a permanent resident. Apart from the fact that I am only here on a tourist visa, I like the feeling of being able to pull up stakes and move on a moments notice. Nomadic frame of mind perhaps? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virginprune Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 In the words of Captain Beefheart "my head is my only house unless it rains" saying that, I have built a house here and consider this place to be my final resting place. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert k Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 I think the best I have heard home described is "home is not a place, it's people". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hounddriver Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 17 minutes ago, robert k said: home is not a place, it's people Are you sure you are not just talking about homely people. (Click here for meaning if you don't get it) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Peterson Posted August 29, 2016 Posted August 29, 2016 Well G&G's seems to me, if you are happy "AT" home "Home" is where you should be happiest, When I ask where has the money gone? "In our Home" comes the answer, I am reminded of something I say a lot, "Home" is where your Heart is I will say now that Azon has stopped calling her family house as Home 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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