Comments on: Hometown http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=329 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: chris http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=329&cpage=1#comment-367 Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:48:41 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=329#comment-367 Must be some truth to ‘home is where the heart is’, but hearts are crazy fickle.

]]> By: Eeksy-Peeksy http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=329&cpage=1#comment-366 Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:31:02 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=329#comment-366 Most expatriates, or at least the ones who last longer than a year or two without going back, must be a bit like you, Mig, don’t you think?

I know plenty of people for whom moving just to the next county would be exile. A girl I knew well was excited about her marriage and new house on the other side of the country until she realized she would never be home. She cried a lot and blamed it on the new place, but I’m sure she wouldn’t have taken to any new place. Eventually she convinced her husband to quit his job and sell the house so they could move back to where she grew up.

And there were others who just couldn’t wait to get out of school and join the navy and get stationed in the Pacific, or to just get on a bus to the other end of the country and start again. No one they knew in their old hometown will ever, ever see them again. But they must be somewhere.

What’s become of Waring?

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]]> By: cindy http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=329&cpage=1#comment-365 Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:13:29 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=329#comment-365 Yes, “displaced American” is a term I am trying to stop using- as my history ” layers” here in this Dutch town, more with each passing year.
The exotic-ness, of The Displaced Yankee has worn away now…

]]> By: deb http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=329&cpage=1#comment-364 Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:51:43 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=329#comment-364 Mig, your experience mirrors mine quite alot. Growing up, I always wanted to get as far away from small-town Maine as I could. Can’t get much further away than NZ. But I have never felt truly “at home” anywhere. Always this sense of displacement.

]]> By: Mig http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=329&cpage=1#comment-363 Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:57:18 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=329#comment-363 Yes and no. I don’t feel exotic, but I suppose most people who know where I’m from view me through the filter of what they expect an American to be. I recently heard a rumor that I’m a professional musician, I guess because I carry a cello around and wear a suit.

The village we live in is so small that almost anyone who’s not a farmer is exotic.

]]> By: Anita Rowland http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=329&cpage=1#comment-362 Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:48:17 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=329#comment-362 do you think you still seem exotic to the other people who live there? Well-known to them, but still an American.

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