h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I never felt like I belong in America. I have aching desire to go somewhere else, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the political situation.
I want to know why.

you could just have a urge to see more of the world

Is it only American who feel like this? I don't think so.

For me, where I live is not my 'home'. My home is in Cumbria, in the Lake District, and I go there once a year. I have no family there, no connection to the area at all but when I'm there I get this feeling of completeness that I have never got anywhere else. When I'm there I feel that the world is full and complete, and when I leave (Yes I have to leave, no way will I ever be able to afford a house there) a gap in my heart is made, and doesn't fill up until I return.

So why do we feel like this? I have no idea, and no scientific theories to back u my views but I do have an answer that is marginally better than nothing.

If (big if, here) you believe in reincarnation, you could argue that you lived there in a previous life and still long to go back there.

Or there could be a totally different, and scientifically approved reason. Or no reason at all. All I offer is my theory. Take it or leave it

AZB, where do your people come from originally (as far back as you know)?

Thinking about where you have come from geneologically and genetically can help to understand where you belong or don't belong. I don't mean that you belong where your ancestors came from necessarily (although you might), but that the process of understanding more deeply where we come from makes changes in us that help us understand our current sense of belongingness.

For years I had a sense of coming home, whenever I visited Cornwall. A few years ago I packed up and moved here. I wouldn't now want to live anywhere else. I have even found street names and places with our family name!

amercianzombiebasher!
Go live in Iraq its a much better place now. since your lot sorted all the problems out.

That was uncalled for!


Never treat others with scorn, We're only here 'cause we're born



(I read that in your personal space!!!)

Was a joke?
That paragrah (never treat others with scorn etc) comes from a song called love thy neighbour.

The Middle East was such a lovely place after the British and French Empires set it rights in the 20th century.

So far, the only places in Europe my ancestors came from are Ireland and Wales. My maternal grandma says her aunt, from Llangollen, said her family cleaned Queen Victoria's toilets. Her great-grandfather left Ireland for food. That's about all I know.
My paternal side is strangely silent about it, so I figure the flight from Europe on that end may have been less than ...ahem...on the up and up, as it were.

Aximili - (ACE)
We have recently moved to Cumbria, like you we have no connection, we just saw the house on the internet came up here and fell in love. When we have to go back for a visit I feel incomplete until I return. I love this place my only sadness is that I didn't find it before.

I am and I have never felt like this about anywhere before.