Even those people who never really experienced an ideal home environment could describe what that feeling would consist of for them – a place to be oneself, a place to really relax, a source of nourishment and spacious security. ‘Home’ was also conceived as an interaction, a moment when the individual and the environment ‘matched’ in specific and idiosyncratic ways, allowing the feeling of being ‘at home’. The participants often try to live in two different localities, never achieving ‘home’ in either but often assigning the term ‘home’ to the place where one is not rather than the place one
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