No, I don't, but I want to back track a bit if I may.
spendius you wrote
Quote:Familiarity with scenery,roads,faces,characters,histories,truth.That sort of thing.Just feeling one belongs.Knowing everybody.One hardly ever thinks about it except when somebody brings it up.Mindless one might say.Respectful of order.A bit reactionary actually.
These things are all important to you individually,
to me they are not. The feeling to belong is exactly where
your family is, and I don't mean parents, we've surpassed
that stage in life, when we became adults and started our
own family. I don't need to know everybody in my town
to feel secure, on the contrary, I loathe a certain feeling of
independence, being invisible to most.
You have never experienced the other side (living abroad), yet you are judgemental about it, and think to know that
one must be unhappy and rely on media and other aspects
to continue living the pitiful life, one only can live abroad
or away from its roots.
Clearly your view is one sided and although I do value
your opinion, you have not made this experience yourself,
like some of us have and can give you both sides more
objectively. aiden is living abroad, I do, and Francis has
too, (I assume).
Don't you agree, that you can bring your own view to this
matter, but cannot make a statement for better luck of
experience?
