Weird question | TheaterFire

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Sleptwrong65@reddit

Whenever I see documentaries of England with landscape, Hadrianian’s Wall, sheep roaming around, I become homesick. I’ve never been there. I’m an 8th/9th generation American with Dutch and English ancestry but my closest English ancestors were the middle 1700s. When I see English countryside primarily I get that feeling and I’ve even cried. I don’t understand why.

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

My grandparents were first generation emigrants from England and Scotland. I love history so these are places that I have that feeling for as well.

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Wooden-Glove-2384@reddit

I don't have nostalgia for places I have been, so no

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

Not even wistfulness?

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Wooden-Glove-2384@reddit

Nope.

I avoid those feelings completely

It takes away from now and now is all that exists

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Historical_Pin2806@reddit

From watching a lot of US television shows growing up, I'm nostalgic for 70s/80s era New York and LA.

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

I’m from the US and I have this for many places around the world.

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WingZombie@reddit

There is a Welsh word, hiraeth. It's basically a wistfulness or longing for a place/time you've never experienced.

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

Thank you! I love this answer and I’m intrigued by Wales.

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kat2211@reddit

England - London in particular. I can just feel myself walking down the streets there; sometimes it's almost like an ache I want to "go back" so badly.

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

That’s a big one for me! Would love to go there.

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Comedywriter1@reddit

You should definitely come. I live in England now (am from the States) and it’s pretty fun. Kinda like a weird parallel universe. 😂

Love London. I haven’t been there for several months but used to be a semi regular at the British Film Institute.

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Comedywriter1@reddit

Manteo, North Carolina

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

I’ve been to the Outer Banks several times and always wanted to go there and Roanoke Island. Husband not so much

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LollipopGirl923@reddit

For me, it's always been Oregon. It's just so breathtakingly beautiful. 😊

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Comedywriter1@reddit

Same. I used to freelance for a company based there and the photos the manager emailed me were stunning.

Have you seen Old Joy?

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LollipopGirl923@reddit

No, I don't believe I have. I'm sure it's beautiful ❤️

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omibus@reddit

The Nordic countries. I see the towns, the mountains, the fjords…I want to be there.

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GoldenAgeGamer72@reddit

Weird answer: Not only have I had nostalgia for somewhere I've never been but the place also doesn't actually exist.

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These-Educator-1959@reddit

Although I’ve been to Las Vegas (the first time was about 1989) I feel nostalgia for old Vegas. I used to watch shows, both TV and movies, of Vegas in the 50’s-early 70’s long before I ever went or even was born. But I feel like I “miss the days” when people got dressed up and they rubbed elbows with the Rat Pack at the Desert Inn.

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Dont_Care_Meh@reddit

The World Trade Center.

I grew up about 90 miles out of NYC, so we'd go to the City from time to time. Never made it to the Twin Towers in our visits.

I can even see, say, an old Barney Miller episode that has them in the skyline and the regret fills me. It's not a matter of "someday" like lots of regrets can be attenuated or deferred. I know it's never.

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MyriVerse2@reddit

Yes, and here's a weird example:

In New Orleans, back in the 1970s, there was a restaurant with a notorious menu that included exotic wild game... including tiger and elephant. As a kid, I always wanted to go just to try it. But it closed when I was too young to afford it. I'm still nostalgic.

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RedditWidow@reddit

Boston, but I think that's mostly because of all the time I spent playing Fallout 4

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JLammert79@reddit

High schools in movies. I was homeschooled, I only showed up 10 days a year for tests or to pick up friends after i graduated at 14. The schools and cliques are things I viewed from the outside.

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NGJohn@reddit

More like a longing to visit, but I've wanted to see the Scottish highlands and countryside for almost 50 years.

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SubatomicGoblin@reddit

New York. I love movies and television shows set in gritty 70's Gotham.

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Unlucky_Profit_776@reddit

NY er here, there was nothing like NY in the 80s and 90s

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

New York City for me. I’ve been to New York and loved it but never at the holidays.

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Advanced_Nose_7738@reddit

I hear that. LA for me. Being a Midwest kid, LA was this fantasy place where there's no winter.

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Unlucky_Profit_776@reddit

Yeah, England, since 1983

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hunterglyph@reddit

Iceland. Somewhere in the back of my mind I’ve seen the northern lights and spent way too much on food since I don’t eat fish.

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lawstandaloan@reddit

I wish I had been able to have lunch at the Automat. When I see it now I old movies, it makes me a little sad.

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MaximumJones@reddit

Stonehenge. Apparently my ancestors used to sacrifice people there. 😎

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

Lol

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

This is a perfect description

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stormyanchor@reddit

I’m re-reading my favorite book from childhood as we speak. It’s Julie of the Wolves, set in the Arctic Circle. I’ve never been farther north than Ohio.

So yes. Absolutely.

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Frequent-Usual5697@reddit (OP)

I’m not familiar with that one but I’m going to look it up.

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