1 post tagged “my home”

Where do you consider home?  Is it the place you grew up; the place you're currently living?  Why is it home?
Submitted by uncagedbird. 

 

I consider the place I live now to be my home, Santa Cruz, CA.  I grew up migrating all over the bayarea.  I was actually conceived and incubated in the Santa Cruz Mountains in a town called Felton.  A few yrs after I was born, my mom and dad moved to Antioch, CA and I lived there until I was about 6yrs old.  After that I moved to Sacramento, then to the Peninsula and primarily Redwood City, CA.  Although I have fond memories of what I consider my “Hometown” Redwood City, CA – I wouldn’t call it my home.  I only refer to it as my hometown because I spent the greater part of my childhood and adolescence there.

 

Once my Hubby and I moved in together, we tried a myriad of different places – Redwood City, Sparks NV and San Jose CA….all places we were somewhat happy living in – but none of the houses we lived in ever felt like home.  Not even the home we purchased in Sparks!  It wasn’t until we re-located to Santa Cruz last year for work that we finally felt like we found our home.  I don’t know exactly what it is about Santa Cruz that gives us this feeling, but we just feel like we have lived here our entire lives.  We absolutely adore our rental, we have a very good landlord, we have jobs that allow us to afford the high cost of Santa Cruz and all and all we have a sense of hometown pride!  I think “home” is definitely where your heart is and our hearts are in Santa Cruz!