Comments on: Home is where the heart is – but where's your heart?

By: A Modern Mother

A Modern Mother — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:57:05 +0000

Hi Elisa! OK, I’m a bit slow. Nice post! I like that, home is where the heels are. We travel around a lot too (mainly between the US and UK) and I really feel like a hodge podge of cultures. Can’t believe you left Sardinia though
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By: Elisa

Elisa — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:04:55 +0000

I loved this post! I haven’t lived in so many places. I am from Berlin, have lived in Alicante and for the last 2 years in Philadelphia. My husband was born in Dresden but grew up in Moscow and his mother is from Kiev. We both love Philadelphia, but we are sure that we will leave at one point. Maybe next year. I want to go “home” for a while. And with home I mean Berlin. Mostly because I will have a daughter this summer and I picture her playing with my brother and my parents in my parent’s beautiful garden. But I know that my husband will not want to stay in Berlin for long and I know that our careers will take us to other places (his will probably take us to Russia or the Ukraine at some point). And I thought, will I be able to feel at home there? I feel I will be happy wherever I decide to be with my husband and my daughter. We will be a family and as long as we are happy, I will be happy no matter where we are (but I do hear you with the cold, so I am really afraid of Moscow!). So home is where the heart is and you take every place with you when you leave.

By: The Stiletto Mom

The Stiletto Mom — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:17:13 +0000

I would give anything to have called so many places home…you are so lucky! No matter how hard I try, I cannot get myself out of the Dallas area. It’s not pretty, it’s way too hot but it’s where my friends are and I can’t imagine being anywhere without them. They make whatever house I live in here feel like home.

By: jasmine

jasmine — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:36:09 +0000

Sounds like you’ve been to some lovely places!!

By: passions & soapboxes

passions & soapboxes — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:21:48 +0000

If nothing else at least they were beautiful places to live. I’ve never even thought of visiting Copenhagen, I may have to put it on my list after seeing that picture. Good luck in Zurich.

By: Loukia

Loukia — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:16:29 +0000

Great post, Elisa! You have lived in some incredible cities. I love Europe. I only lived in Patras, Greece for under 2 years, but I love going back to visit. I could never live there, though. As much as I complain about living in Canada, since having my children, I have totally started appreciating it more. I loved living in Bethesda, MD, though – I think, if my extended family came with us, I could move there! That picture of Stella is GORGEOUS!

By: AmyAnne

AmyAnne — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:29:19 +0000

Great Post Elisa!
For me home is where the people are. It used to be my sisters who made it feel like home. Then I had a family and now, no matter where we land, I feel like I can make it a home. I love the process of making a new place feel like home – meeting people, decorating, finding the right dry cleaner (would that be nesting?). The down side to this is that I sometimes feel a little wanderlust that my husband and kids decidedly do not feel. LOL. While husband has been looking for a job these last (exhausting) 8 weeks, I have been throwing out, “What about Georgia?” “How about looking in Europe?” and most recently, “OMG, you should look at anything in NYC!”

By: Keely

Keely — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:54:51 +0000

Hm, the only place I’ve ever felt at home was my parents home. Not even the one they have now. I guess I’m a nester.

I’ve lived other awesome & beautiful places, and loved living there, but they never felt like ‘home’.