Leaving Familiar Surroundings .

It surely is painful. We had an old house in my mother's hometown. It was her ancestral house and I used to go there in holidays. I had barely seen it for 12 years but I felt very bad when they had to sell it and move to another house.

I'm originally from the Dominican Republic (island in the Caribbean) but I live in Florida. I was too young when I moved to actually feel anything, I was just excited and happy that I would have new toys to play with and a new school and things like that, that my parents told me. Eventually though, I would randomly ask about old friends and old things from our old life in the DR. When I go back now it's always so hard to leave, I have so much family there! It's really such a beautiful place, I often wonder how my life would be like if we stayed there.

I would go crazy leaving were I have lived at for so long or at least the country or town that I had lived in for that many years. It would be a big difference.

More than 40 years OH my goodness NO I can not imagine. That would as the young people say, "That would suck". I had to leave my farm life having been raised by loving grandparents and my father to move accross provinces to live with my father two brothers and my mother who didn't want me. That was hard but I was 12 years old at the time.

From young we have been moving around. so it's okay for me to handle environmental change, cultural change,etc. In facts, i have been settle down here in a big industrial zone for 2 years, and i have alraedy bored of it and planning to move again.

Hi. when I was younger, i remembered having to leave to go and live in another town, which I found hard to adjust too... Never anything that you've been through, But i can imagine it, It would be a painful experience to leave your ancestral lands, the place you knew and felt as home, and the thought of it going to outsiders that will never know just how special that land was to the original family that owned it "you and your family" respected and cared for it... Sorry to hear this... Land has much more value then money itself, and in my family there will never be a price put on our land... My grand parents and family have been offered millions for our land, and always they turn it down, which makes me proud as a grandchild... I will do the same when its my turn...

yes its too painful to leave our ancestral household, well i almost completed 15yrs at my home.

I am not 40 years old. But I know ho whard it is to leave everything you know behind and move in a different area. Starting over not knowing anyone or who to trust. Finding the ways things run is alot different than the way you were taught growing up. That in order to fit in you have to change. Not nessacarily a bad thing...But change is always hard..whether it is good or bad.

Hey s794, I agree-as long as my Granny was alive I felt I had a home it was like her house was the anchor for my whole family all her children,grandchildren & great grandchildren came for visits no matter how far away we lived & now that she's passed away it feels like I have no home. +'s 2 U :)

When I think back, I left the house I was rasied in over 30 years ago. Since then I have lived in about a dozen different places. I have few ties to a permanent home. That is why I want to build my own and that will be my final place to live. I don't mind the changes of environment. It is more like an adventure to me.

I have never been sentamental about a place. I mean I liked the home I grew up in but it is just a house when the people are all gone. What makes it a home is the people and the love. My mom sold the house I was raised in but she has a new home and it is a home because we all congrigate there and there is love and family. My grandmother has passed on and her house is gone now but it is just a house because she is gone and the love is no longer there. I guess I feel home is where your heart is not where you are physically. Ok that is all I got to say I am getting to mushy even for me.

I have moved from New Zealand to Samoa and now to USA - three completely different countries and even though very scarey at the time, not knowing what to expect, and how to adapt to the culture and lifestyles, I think my husband and I have handled it well. It's always hard leaving home, where you're safe and comfortable and knowing your surroundings, and most of all being close to family. I think I have gotten use to it and look forward to possibly another move in the near future depending on my husbands job and circumstances. I quite enjoy the new experiences and learning as I go along :)

Yes it is correct, I have to change at least 10 places.

I have some friends who changes houses as a business . As far I am concerned, I can not do it, as I feel nostalgic to leave my ancestoral home