Have you ever been really homesick as an adult?

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I'm 25, and I've been independent and living on my own for 5 years..
... and for the last month or so I've been INCREDIBLY homesick...

I don't really understand it. I've known this city for 5 years and the first 3 years I was really, really happy and it definitely felt like my home. Then I moved into another flat that, for some reason, I didn't like as much. I think it was mainly the area. It caused me to feel distance to this entire city and sometimes I wondered why I was even still living here.

And now, I was on vacation with my mom for a week in the same place we always go to. It was great but since I've been back, and on my own again, I've just felt sad and homesick. I miss the village I grew up in for 17 years, the area around it. It's 2,5 driving hours from where I am now and it was very calm and small compared to where I am now (a metropolis-size city). Sometimes I think it's just that I am getting tired of city life. Anyway right now I feel like I just want to go 'home' and see my family again and all the places I spent so much time in, and I don't really care for where I am now anymore. It feels so silly! I never had major homesickness problems before this, and it seems like by now I should be too old for it..

Is this a thing? Like, have any of you ever felt like this as independent adults?

I don't miss the place where I grew up at all. It is so isolated and far away from everything. People have gushed over the natural scenic beauty of it, but they don't know what it's like living there without being able to own or drive a car. There's no bus, and a cab is too expensive. You can't even go to the grocery store. In fact you can't really go anywhere decent unless you have transportation no matter where you live in Nova Scotia, and even then it takes forever because everything is so far apart.

I don't mind spending the night over at my parent's house on weekends or holidays, but after two days I'm literally bored to tears.

Always.

I am in my 60s. The home that I am 'sick' for no longer exists.

Oh, the house is still there, still painted the same color, and I can still see my old bedroom window from the street.

But another family lives there, and I don't know them.

Just once, I would like to gather together Mom and all the remaining siblings there for one last Christmas party ... one last round of caroling ... one last tree-decorating session ... one last pile of brightly-wrapped gifts ... one last sleepless Christmas eve ... one last grand opening of the presents ... one last Christmas Day dinner ... one last hug from Mom ...

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Yes. The old house is still standing but was “renovated “ to look completely different. Both of my parents have been dead for twenty years. I would love to be able to go home again.

When visit my parents for a couple weeks in the summer, I get homesick for where I live now. Some of it is cuz I miss my girlfriend, miss my stuff like my computer, & my parents get on my nerves. Part of the issue is that we're cleaning the house so things are more stressful.