Where is home, exactly?

Over the last year, we have become accustomed to the idea of working from home; but where is home exactly?

At one level, it's the place where my parents brought me up. However, that ended up being several locations in the UK with different cultures (No matter what those in Westminster like to think, regional differences are genuine). If I take that as my definition, then as William S.Sax describes it, "People and the places they reside are engaged in a continuing set of exchanges; they have determinate, mutual effects upon each other because they are part of a single system". No single home, just an evolving experience, which for me describes it accurately enough.

At another level, it's the people who have shaped me. When I left the place definition of home, I was lucky enough to meet remarkable people who have shaped my life ever since. From the large Yorkshire family I married into to those we met along the way in various parts of the world who though very different to us, not just ac…