As for yearning for your home country, I know what you mean. But also be ware that you’re comparing a traveling experience against being home. It’s comparing being on the road, ending up in smelly, warm places because you don’t know your way around, having to settle for a noisy hostel room because you are just tired after a day of walking, to preparing a home made meal in your own kitchen, drinking hot chocolate while reading a book and looking out the window onto the street you know, spending an impromptu evening with friends.

It’s perfectly possible to move to a different country, one with a totally different culture, and to internalize that ‘difference’; to make it your own, to make it part of yourself. That way, you’ll create a new ‘home’ for yourself.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But when it does, you create yet another place that you won’t want to leave again.

i had the same realization the first time i went to russia. i think being in another culture helps you understand your own better.