tell me how much you badly miss home

[charlwill]

For me nothing will ever compare to the Philippines. After having lived here in the UK for 16 years, i can honestly say that my life back home was happier than my life here. I live in Bacolod and people their are just a lot friendlier than here. I can remember going to our neighbours house in the afternoon for 'merienda' and a chat. Here I have to make an appointment to see friends. Here in Ipswich we live in a neighbourhood where we smile and nod when we see each other normally me driving out of our close and them doing something in their front gardens, but never made conversation. I think that we Filipinos in general are just friendly no pun intended to our brit husbands. I miss the weather, the food and most of all the people back home, although I never regretted coming here in the UK, i have been blessed with a husband that take such good care of me and a son that I adore. As the other girls said, we make UK our home coz our husbands are here, but my heart is still back home .

Hey, Maria. I'm glad that I found a kababayan here in the forum. Where abouts are you in Bacolod?

But, when I came home last year, it wasn't the same place I used to know...
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(but I terribly miss my mother)

I have to agree with Zobel in this. I feel the same each time I go back Philippines to visit my families. It seems that I don't know the place, anymore. Such a strange feeling.

Hey guys....i just want to know in behalf of you...something popping out my mind everytime am thinking about Philippines, a home that i could say that i can be proud of. Do you ever sometimes think that it is better enough to live there which ended you up to think that philippines is better than uk or any place wherever part you are in outside phils? Have you sometimes began to realize that no matter how good your lifestyle here but still there is a part of yourself that is missing about. Oh yeah I myself sometimes think of that way, ,although I am contended for what life brings me out in here, no matter how nice the environment or the places you've seen but still there is only one place that you wish to be with for life. I miss my homeplace, I miss every single steps of my way there, Cebu is where I came from. I am living with that place for 28 years and so as be with my family, friends,cousins, neighbors, relatives for same years, so hard to accept yet how far I am with them and everything change out in just one click.

Do you guys feel the same or you get used to it already?

Not that much. UK is my HOME now rather than the PHILIPPINES. But of course I do miss all my families and my real friends.